Despite the quarterfinals loss to UAB in the C-USA Tournament, the future looks promising for head coach Kevin Baker and his UTEP women's basketball team.
Tamara Seda scored 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as UTEP defeated Southern Miss 72-67 in the opening round of the C-USA Women's Basketball Tournament.
Earlier today, the UTEP women's basketball team was picked 5th in Conference USA by the league's 14 head coaches. In addition, Miner seniors Jenzel Nash and Sparkle Taylor were both named to the 2016-17 C-USA Preseason Team.
Nash and Taylor will be looked upon to lead the Miners after both received All C-USA honors last season...
It started with a list of 517 college student athletes nominated by their schools for the NCAA Woman of the Year. The list was then trimmed to 142 conference nominees and then to 30. Now only nine finalists remain for the honor, and one of them is former UTEP women's basketball star Cameasha Turner...