UTEP Miners and Lady Miners

UTEP Miners and Lady Miners is the name given to the sports teams of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Informally, the UTEP Miners have also been referred to as the Miners, UTEP, or Texas–El Paso. UTEP was a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 1967 to 2005, when they joined Rice, Tulsa, and SMU in leaving the WAC for Conference USA. The UTEP Miners are best known as the only team in Texas to win a NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. UTEP's colors are orange and blue and the mascot is a miner named Paydirt Pete. The athletic director for the Miners is Bob Stull.

Athletics

A member of Conference USA, UTEP sponsors teams in six men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports:

Football

Playing their first game in 1914, the UTEP Miners football team currently competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The team plays its games in the Sun Bowl Stadium, and head coach Mike Price recently retired from his 9th and final season at UTEP in 2012.