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| Athletics Review 2003-04 (Fall 2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From the Athletics Directors Dear Friends,
The 2003-04 season was no exception. We won eight Big 12 Conference titles and finished in the top 10 nationally in 10 sports. More importantly, the performance of our student-athletes in the classroom continued at a level of excellence. This annual review contains stories that chronicle all of these accomplishments. Your support of our 600-plus men and women student-athletes is a major reason for this success. Your support is evident in many ways: sold-out games, refurbished facilities, scholarship endowments and attendance at alumni events across the country. We are rightfully proud of our success on the playing fields, and we realize that our fans enjoy following winning Longhorns teams. However, our young people are on campus first as students and second as athletes. The vast majority of student-athletes will go on to something other than athletics when they leave college. That is why we are even more proud of the recent academic achievements. Since 1987, UT Athletics has an 87 percent graduation rate for those student-athletes who completed their athletic eligibility. Many of those who depart without a degree later decide to return to campus and finish their degree requirements. Your participation in the Longhorn Foundation, the Longhorn Legacy scholarship endowment program, our capital campaigns for improved facilities, and in our season ticket program allows us to provide the very best academic and athletics experience for our student-athletes. It also allows us to recruit the very best coaches, administrators and staff members who work so hard behind the scenes on behalf of these student-athletes. We also are grateful for the support of Larry Faulkner, UT President; Patricia Ohlendorf, Vice President for Institutional and Legal Affairs; and the members of our Men's Athletics Council and Women's Athletics Council. We hope you will take a few minutes with this annual review to enjoy the success of the past season while looking forward to more good things in the coming year. Hook 'em, Horns! DeLoss Dodds, Men's Athletics Director Chris Plonsky, Women's Athletics Director |
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| Longhorns in 2003-04: Another season of achievement | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The student-athletes who represented The University of Texas in 2003-04 had a couple of tough acts to follow. Sports Illustrated had tabbed Texas as the best overall athletics program in the country for the 2001-02 season. The 2002-03 Longhorns followed that accolade by compiling what some thought to be the best overall athletics season in UT history. Like so many who competed before them, the UT student-athletes of 2003-04 simply went about taking care of business, and in so doing managed to uphold the UT tradition of athletics success. The Big 12 Conference is one of the most competitive in the nation in every sport, and eight of UT's 19 programs claimed a league title: Men—baseball, golf, swimming and diving; Women—basketball (co-champions), golf, swimming and diving, tennis and outdoor track and field. Ten Longhorns teams finished in the top 10 nationally, and five others advanced to NCAA postseason competition. Individually, 59 Longhorns student-athletes accounted for 97 All-America honors in 12 sports, and 11 garnered individual NCAA titles. Texas' overall excellence earned the Longhorns 10th place in the 2003-04 Sports Academy Directors Cup Division I standings, the national all-sports competition that ranks the top programs in the country. It marked the eighth time in the 11 years of the Cup standings that Texas ranked in the top 10, despite not fielding teams in 12 of the 32 sports that are counted in a school's point total. There was much for Longhorns fans to brag about in 2003-04. Here are a few of the highlights: Men  Baseball team qualified for the College World Series for the third year in a row and finished second in the nationBasketball team reached the NCAA Sweet 16 for a school-record third year in a rowFootball team finished in the top 12 in the nation for the fourth year in a row, UT’s best in that ranking since 1961-64 Golf team won third consecutive Big 12 Conference titleSwimming and diving team won 25th consecutive league title and finished in the NCAA top three for the 22nd time in Eddie Reese’s 26 years at UTFourth place at the NCAA Indoor championship was best ever by track and field teamWomen Basketball team made third consecutive appearance in NCAA Sweet 16Golf team won Big 12 title for first time since 1997, the first season of the Big 12 ConferenceSoccer team made third consecutive appearance in the NCAA TournamentSwimming and diving team won sixth straight Big 12 Conference titleTennis team posted a perfect 11-0 record in winning the Big 12 Conference regular season titleTrack and field team posted two national top 10 finishes—seventh indoors and fourth outdoors |
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