First WAC Titles since Rejoining

 April 16 was a milestone for the UT Arlington Athletic Department as both tennis teams won their final regular season matches to claim a conference championship, the first of any team in the UTA Athletic Department this year. As this was the first year the Mavericks were back in the WAC, it marks two important championships.

The women's team is no stranger to winning titles. They are now back-to-back-to-back champs, with the prior two coming in their last two years in the Sun Belt Conference. But for the men, it's the first regular season title since 2010. Now, in 2016, they were near the top of the SBC, but the seedings weren't based on conference matches as the SBC didn't play a round-robin schedule. But outside of that, their tenure in the SBC wasn't one of winning. Only three of nine seasons saw them finish in the top half. 

The WAC (re)tenure started with a bang for both teams.

April Quick Hits

A roadblock I have with this blog: I recognize some great things have happened with the Athletic Department, yet I don't know how to say much more than good job or this occured. And as I mentioned in the early days of this blog, I am not a source of news, but rather commentary about the UTA Mavs.

So with commentary as the goal, how do you talk about something that may not have great strategy moments and would be saying this happened, making it essentially a news post?

I have done this blog for a couple of months shy of three athletic seasons. Something that surprised me initially, but has been the rule - I write more in the fall than I do in the spring, despite the relative lack of fall activity at UTA compared to the spring.

As I was pondering this, and feeling a bit guilty for not getting into the many deserving sports that have had success, I came up with an idea, one so original that it has been in use since the beginning of media. So today marks the debut of Maverick Quick Hits.