The Texas Longhorns women's track and field program is coached by

Edrick Floréal Edrick Bertholan Floréal (born October 5, 1966 in Gonaïves, Haiti) is a track and field coach for the Texas Longhorns men's track and field and women's track and field program and retired long and triple jumper from Canada. Career Athleti ...

. Other notable coaches have included

Beverly Kearney Beverly Kearney (born 25 February 1958) is an American former college track and field coach. From 1993 to 2013, Kearney was the head coach of the Texas Longhorns women's track and field and cross country teams at The University of Texas at Austin ...

, who has guided the Lady Longhorns to six

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Championships: Indoor Championships in 1998, 1999, and 2006, and Outdoor Championships in 1998, 1999, and 2005; and Terry Crawford, whose teams won Indoor Championships in 1986, 1988, and 1990, and Outdoor Championships in 1982 and 1986. Crawford's athletes also won the 1986 Women's Cross Country Championship. The program's first title was the 1982

AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Interc ...

outdoor track and field championship. In the summer of 2013 the men's and women's programs were combined under one head coach. The Longhorn track and field programs have produced numerous Olympians for various nations. Female Olympic medalists have included

Michelle Carter (athlete) Michelle Denee Carter (born October 12, 1985) is an American shot putter. She is the current American record holder in the event with a distance of set at the 2016 Olympic Games. She was inducted into the Texas Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2 ...

(USA, shot put, 2016),

Sanya Richards-Ross Sanya Richards-Ross (née Richards; born February 26, 1985) is a retired Jamaican-American track and field athlete, who competed internationally for the United States in the 400-meter sprint. Her notable accolades in this event include being th ...

(2012: USA, gold, 400 meters and 4 x 400 meter relay; 2008, bronze, 400 meters and gold, 4 x 400 meter relay, 2008), Moushami Robinson (USA, gold, 4 × 400 meter relay, 2004),

Sandie Richards Angella ("Sandie") Richards (born 6 November 1968 in Clarendon Park) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Career She was a world junior represent ...

(

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, silver, 4 × 400 m relay, 2000 and 2004),

Merlene Frazer Merlene Frazer (born 27 December 1973, Trelawny, Jamaica) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica who specialized in the 200 metres. In the 4 x 100 metres relay, she won a World Championship gold medal in 1991 and ...

(Jamaica, silver, 4 × 100 m relay, 2000),

Nanceen Perry Nanceen Lavern Perry (born April 19, 1977 in Fairfield, Texas) is a former sprinter from the United States. She competed in the 4x100 meters relay in Sydney 2000, but her bronze medal was stripped after confessions of steroid doping by teamma ...

(USA, bronze, 4 × 100 m relay, 2000),

Carlette Guidry Carlette Denise Guidry-Falkquay (formerly Guidry-White, née Guidry; born September 4, 1968) is an American former Sprint (running), sprinter who won gold medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Barc ...

(USA, gold, 4 × 100 m relay, 1992 and 1996),

Juliet Cuthbert Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn (born 9 April 1964) is a Jamaican politician and retired track and field sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. As an athlete, Cuthbert-Flynn competed at four Olympic Games, winning two silver medals at ...

(Jamaica, silver, 100m and 200m, 1992 and bronze, 4 × 100 m relay, 1996), and

Nikole Mitchell Nikole Alangia Mitchell (also spelled ''Nicole;'' born 5 June 1974) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. She also competed on the successful Jamaican team in the 4 x 100 metres relay, winning an Olympic bronze medal ...

(Jamaica, bronze, 4 × 100 m relay, 1996).

Courtney Okolo Courtney Okolo (born March 15, 1994) is an American track and field sprinter who usually competes in the 400 metres. She starred at Carrollton (Texas) Newman Smith High School where she won multiple individual state championships. In college, ...

became the first Longhorn to win

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, an award that honors collegiate track & field's most outstanding athlete of the year. In 2016, she became the first female collegian to run sub-50 seconds in the

400 meters The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is on ...

, in turn lowering her own collegiate record to 49.71. Her senior season also included an undefeated record against collegians and four NCAA titles (two individual, two relay).

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, the Big 12 Outdoor and NCAA Championships were not held.

NCAA Individual Event Champions

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Conference Individual Event Champions

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