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Apr 26, 2024 | thedailycougar.com | Starns Leland

Standout offensive tackle Patrick Paul became the first UH player selected in the 2024 NFL Draft after being selected 55th overall by the Miami Dolphins Saturday night. Paul is the highest-drafted offensive player from Houston since wide receiver Donnie Avery was picked 33rd overall in 2008 as well as the highest-drafted offensive player from the Dana Holgorsen era.

Apr 22, 2024 | cooglife.com | Starns Leland

Photo by: Anh LeThe University of Houston finally became a power conference school in the summer of 2023, fulfilling a dream that was 27 years in the making. In 1996, the storied Southwest Conference, which housed the likes of UH, Baylor, Texas and Texas A&M, fell apart. In its wake, UH was kept from joining the newly-formed Big 12 which included members from the Big 8 Conference and four SWC schools, leaving Houston on the outside looking.

Apr 22, 2024 | thedailycougar.com | Starns Leland

Shortly after Houston’s spring football season ended, 11 players entered the transfer portal since its opening Tuesday, including senior wideout Samuel Brown, UH’s top receiver in 2023. This comes as the second wave of UH transfers since the end of the 2023 season after Willie Fritz was hired following the firing of former head coach Dana Holgorsen.

Apr 18, 2024 | thedailycougar.com | Starns Leland

UH tennis lost 4-0 to three-seed Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championships Wednesday, ending its season 2-19 overall and a winless 0-13 in the Big 12 play. 14-seed Houston fell behind early in doubles play before sophomores Sonya Kovalenko and Sophie Schouten defeated 20th-ranked duo Dana Guzman and Roisin Gilheany to tie things up. However, senior Blanca Cortijo Parreno and junior Elena Trencheva were unable to come back from a 5-1 deficit and OU took the doubles point.

Apr 16, 2024 | thedailycougar.com | Starns Leland

UH sprinter Shaun Maswanganyi was a forearm’s length away from winning the 100-meter NCAA national title in 2023. He had stepped onto the starting blocks supremely focused, and as the race progressed, he felt himself ahead of his nearby opponents. As he crossed the finish line, he looked up to the scoreboard almost sure he had just won it all. “I remember standing behind the blocks. I was in the zone, all I could hear were my thoughts and the starter,” Maswanganyi said.