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New Director Seeks Many Perspectives On SMU Athletics

Read a Q-and-A with Rick Hart, who joined SMU in July as its 13th director of athletics. Before coming to SMU, Hart served for six years as athletics director at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Continue reading

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Petrucelli Helms Women’s Soccer

Two-time National Coach of the Year and 1995 NCAA Championship coach Chris Petrucelli has been named SMU’s head women’s soccer coach. In 22 years as a head coach, Petrucelli has compiled a 340-110-36 record. His career win total and winning … Continue reading

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Sports Shorts: Tennis, Olympics And Grid Iron News

A round up of some of the top news in Mustang sports this fall. Continue reading

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Hall Of Fame Coach Larry Brown To Head Men’s Basketball

Larry Brown has been named the head men’s basketball coach at SMU. He arrives on the Hilltop as the only head coach to win both an NCAA title and an NBA Championship. Brown was elected to the Basketball Hall of … Continue reading

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Moody Coliseum Prepares To Enter New Era For SMU Athletics

By Chris Dell ’11 When it was built 56 years ago, SMU Coliseum, renamed Moody Coliseum in 1965, may have been the brightest gem on the Dallas sports landscape. In the past half-century, the historic arena, home to the men’s and … Continue reading

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Sports Shorts: Golf, Tennis, Mustangs Mobile App And More

Kraft Wins U.S. Amateur SMU golfer Kelly Kraft ’11 concluded a scorching summer on the links by taking the 111th U.S. Men’s Amateur Championship in August, becoming the third SMU golfer since 1998 to accomplish the feat. Kraft defeated UCLA’s … Continue reading

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Parents Make Mustang Sports A Family Affair

The SMU football team’s buses and airplanes aren’t the only vehicles racking up travel miles on cross-country journeys during the season. Arriving at the game site a couple of days early is a Yukon XL, ferrying some of the Mustangs’ most … Continue reading

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Athletic Trainers Keep Students On Their Feet And In The Game

Whenever SMU coach Rhonda Rompola ’83 pushes her women’s basketball team to the brink of giving up, she always says the same thing: “Just fight through it!” Just fighting through it, however, becomes an entirely different challenge after an athlete … Continue reading

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Sports Shorts

Celebrating 100 Years Of Mustangs Sports As SMU celebrates the centennial of its founding in 1911 and opening in 1915, the University also is marking 100 years of achievements in athletics through a recently released book, In Honor of the … Continue reading

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Students Bring An International Flair To Mustang Athletics

Forty-two international student-athletes attend SMU from 27 countries ranging from Argentina to Uzbekistan. The students compete on more than half of SMU’s 17 teams, with women’s swimming hosting the most international athletes.
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