In front of approximately 550 UTEP fans, Coach Dana Dimel and staff put the upcoming season’s team on display for the loyal fans. The annual orange-blue spring game is now a thing of the past replaced with what is just the last practice of the year to celebrate spring preparation.
The key to spring is getting players familiarized with the playbook, honing their skills and staying injury free. With few exceptions, they accomplished this goal. Much of this can be attributed to no tackling for the whole spring practice as a concerted effort to reduce injuries.
Injury wise, the team did lose starting running back senior Quadraiz Wadley about halfway through the spring practice to an ankle injury and were down to their fourth-string center.