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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Valley Sports Central has nominated three high school football teams for Team of the Week. The nominees are Mission Veterans, McAllen High and PSJA North. Here are some recent highlights of our nominees. Mission Veterans Starting with Mission Ve...
One UTRGV student says National Suicide Prevention Month means awareness, taking action, looking after friends who are struggling The post ‘You’re not alone’: UTRGV Counseling offers a variety of services for Vaqueros appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) —Sports Director Megan Murray, Brett Homes and Noah Gulley bring you Overtime, a new 30-minute show that dives into extended highlights and exclusive interviews with players and coaches. RELATED: Watch live high school football games on ValleyCent...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros beat the McNeese State Cowboys 27-10 in their Southland Conference home opener at the Robert and Janet Vackar Stadium in Edinburg Saturday night. Starting quarterback No. 13 Garret Rangel left t...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Valley Sports Team has chosen to highlight the PSJA North Raiders and the Weslaco High School Panthers for the Week 4 segment of Game Changers. Game Changers features our Valley Sports Team where they select two players that they think will...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In this edition of Mic'd Up, Photojournalist Diego Tijerina follows Rio Hondo Head Football Coach Rocky James as the Bobcats take on St. Joseph's Academy in their homecoming game at their newly renovated stadium. The Bobcats started off with two...
U TRGV announced that all operations and classes on the Edinburg campus are canceled for the remainder of the day due to an AEP power line serving the campus going down in the morning. The restoration efforts continue and the cancellation applies only to the Edinburg campus. No o...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — As we wrap up another work/school week, many of us will be focused on tonight's high school football games. Our Game of the Week is in Weslaco between the Panthers and the PSJA North Raiders. We are expecting partly cloudy skies and a temperatur...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced Friday that it canceled all Edinburg campus operations, including classes, due to a power outage. According to Melissa Vasquez, the UTRGV Director of External Communications and Media Relations...
T here will be acronyms. Rio Grande Valley Linking Economic and Academic Development (RGV LEAD) are teaming up with the Rio Grande Valley Builders Association (RGVBA) with a memorandum of agreement to establish the RGV LEAD Architecture and Construction Workforce Pipeline Initiat...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — ValleyCentral is partnering with school districts across the Rio Grande Valley to bring live high school football games to our viewers at the click of a button. ValleyCentral is the only news station in the region to bring you live broadcasts fr...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Rio Hondo community gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the newly renovated Bobcat Stadium. The Rio Hondo Independent School District broke ground on the $6 million sports complex renovation in June. "It's truly a blessing just to see th...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Week three of the high school football season featured some of the Rio Grande Valley's biggest upsets and showstopping performances. The performance from the Edinburg Vela senior quarterback and safety Caidyn Hoover landed him the honors of the...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District is continuing its efforts to connect with students who have not returned to school. The district will hold its 19th Annual Countdown to Zero Dropout Recovery Walk on Saturday, Sept. 19. The an...
E DINBURG — UTRGV head coach Travis Bush and the Vaqueros’ coaching staff break down the 12-game college football regular season into four quarters, with three games making up each quarter. In Year 1, the Vaqueros won all four quarters of their inaugural season, going 3-0 in the ...
The underrepresented faction of the engineering program has banded together to create a space to support all UTRGV The post Student org empowers women in engineering appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
UTRGV students have experienced longer drop-off times and wait times throughout the beginning of the fall semester as The post VOLT wait times concern students appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
The Vaqueros Clubs: Campus Takeover, an event part of Welcome Week, took place on Sept. 2 on the The post Clubs take over Brownsville appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
Los estudiantes de UTRGV han experimentado largos tiempos de espera y de recoger en el transcurso del semestre The post Los tiempos de espera de VOLT preocupan a los estudiantes appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
The UTRGV Men’s Tennis team is starting up their fall season this year with their first match of The post Tennis serves into new season appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
UTRGV’s Natalie Singleton, left, with a header against Concordia’s Sari Hernandez, right, during the 1st half of an NCAA women’s soccer game at UTRGV Soccer and Track & Field Complex Sunday Sept. 13, 2026 in Edinburg. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com) UTRGV’s Isabella Burtin...
UTRGV women’s soccer lost 2-1 Thursday against the University of Texas at El Paso at the Soccer and The post Women’s Soccer throws the towel against UTEP appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Donna Independent School District was awarded $3.12 million by the Texas A&M Forest Service Schoolyard program to build new outdoor classrooms, increase tree canopy and add nature-based learning spaces to eight district schools. According to...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDINBURG — Before there was a football team on campus, before seven sellout games in 2025, and before delivering the winningest inaugural season by a first-year FCS program, there was Nicholas Peace. The junior cornerback, Texas City native, and former ...
Special to RGVSports.com The UTRGV Vaqueros volleyball team opened their home slate Tuesday with a strong 3-0 (25-18, 28-26, 25-18) victory in front of a 1,208 fans at the UTRGV Fieldhouse. The Vaqueros (2-3) leaned on right side Ema Petkovic who delivered with her first-career d...
Dr. Veronica Kortan H ARLINGEN — After working nearly two years to rebuild the district’s financial standing, Superintendent Veronica Kortan is entering a contract running to 2029, paying a $260,100 salary, up from $255,000. In August, the school board conducted her job evaluatio...
SPECIAL TO RGVSPORTS.COM EDINBURG — In the last 11 years with head coach Todd Lowrey leading the UTRGV volleyball program, the Vaqueros have enjoyed plenty of success. The Vaqueros captured their fourth conference title in 2025, sharing the Southland Conference (SLC) regular seas...
The new UTRGV School of Optometry, which is set to open in Fall 2027, is designed to address The post Keep an eye on the Valley: School of Optometry works toward its Fall 2027 debut appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
UTRGV kicks off the fall semester with The Stomp, the biggest celebration of Welcome Week. Hundreds of students The post The Stomp shakes the ground appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
La nueva Escuela de Optometría en UTRGV, la cual se espera su apertura en el otoño del 2027, The post Ojo con el Valle: Escuela de Optometría se prepara a su debut en ontoño del 2027 appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
This spring, UTRGV, in collaboration with St. Mary’s University, began providing Rio Grande Valley residents with local resources The post New options for law school in the Valley appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
The UTRGV Football Team started off the season with a (1-0) lead by shutting out The University of The post Vaqueros open season with a W appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
If you are a new student at UTRGV, there are many things you will learn during your first The post The unwritten rules of being a UTRGV student appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
Q: Did you expect UTRGV to win this first game? A) Handy: “Yes.” A) Leal: “A hundred percent.” The post Vaquero Voice: Sept. 8, 2026 appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It's Week 2 of High School Football and ValleySportsCentral has nominated three high school football teams to claim the title of Team of the Week! The nominees for Week 2 are Harlingen High, Weslaco High and McAllen High. Here are some recent hi...
UTRGV’s Garrett Rangel, left, pushes off UTSA defender Darion White, right, during the first half of an NCAA college football a game at Alamodome Saturday Sept. 05, 2026 in San Antonio. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com) UTRGV’s Tavian Cord, right, misses a catch in front of ...
S AN ANTONIO — In just the 14th game in program history, the UTRGV Vaqueros lost their first-ever test against an FBS opponent, falling 45-16 against the UTSA Roadrunners on Saturday at the Alamodome. While the 29-point loss might sting as the largest defeat the Vaqueros have suf...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley football program fell to UT San Antonio 45-16 Saturday night in its first on-the-road game of the 2026 season. The Vaqueros started the game with fifth-year quarterback Garret Rangel, who led UTRGV into ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It's Week 2 of High School Football, and the ValleySportsCentral continues to feature some high-scoring games. Thursday's game included PSJA North taking it to Mission Vterans 56-14 in a top-10 matchup. The Patriots trailed 35-0 at the Half, and...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It’s week two of high school football in the Rio Grande Valley, and Valley Sports Central has your Thursday night highlights. Our high school football coverage continues Friday in Harlingen, where our Valley Sports Central team will be closely f...
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This past Thursday, Aug. 27 the Port Isabel Tarpons beat the La Joya Palmview Lobos in the season’s opener, 36-21. It wasn’t the prettiest of games, but the Tarpons did enough to secure the win in this first-ever meeting between th...
By: Dianté Marigny editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Summer may be winding down and school may be back in session, but September is anything but quiet along the Laguna Madre. South Padre Island and Port Isabel have a packed calendar this month, with Labor Day weekend celebrations, ...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDINBURG — When recruiting UTRGV’s first signing class in program history back in 2023, head coach Travis Bush and staff were tasked with painting a picture of what Vaqueros football would look like, because at the time, it didn’t exist. While on the re...
HARLINGEN, Texas (Valley Central) — Before an exciting week two of high school football unfolds, Valley Sports Central still has to pick the athlete of the week from week one. Hassan Woolery of the Harlingen Cardinals is our first athlete of the week for the 2026 season following...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Compudot, a local nonprofit, and Spectrum teamed up on Wednesday to distribute 50 laptops to Valley students in need. The giveaway follows Spectrum's $17,500 donation through its Spectrum Digital Education grant, a company initiative that suppor...
STAFF REPORT EDITOR’S NOTE: Coaches, don’t forget to send in your Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week nominations by 5 p.m. every Monday. Email valleysports@themonitor.com with complete game stats and a photo of the athlete. Week 1 of the Texas high school football season ...
E DINBURG — The UTRGV football team brought out a record crowd of 13,698 fans at Robert and Janet Vackar Stadium on Saturday, with students, alumni and fans from all over the Valley coming out for the Vaqueros 44-0 shutout victory. But before the cheering and celebrating at a res...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The McAllen Independent School District is partnering with Sames Auto Group for the third time to give a high school student with perfect attendance a brand-new car. On Tuesday, the district and dealership kicked off the Annual Drive Sames for E...
El Servicio de Inmigracion y Control de Aduanas (ICE) podría implementar el uso de guantes de descarga eléctrica The post Profesores, estudiantes de UTRGV reaccionan a planes de dar de descarga eléctrica a ICE appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDINBURG — A handshake, a head butt, and a sea of orange and white smoke. Dating back to last season, left guard Nick Hughes and left tackle Wes Thompson have been at the front of the pack, leading the Vaqueros as they run out of the Lozano Family Tunne...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — ValleyCentral's Game of the Week returns! In week two of high school football, the Valley Sports Central team will follow the cross-town rivalry game between Harlingen and Harlingen South, also known as Bird Bowl. The Harlingen Cardinals take on...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The McAllen Independent School District will soon offer free American Sign Language classes to the community. Classes will be presented by the Regional Day School Program for the Deaf, a campus coordinated through McAllen ISD that serves deaf or...
UTRGV continues its collaboration with the City of Brownsville for the Task Force of the Future with the The post The future looks bright in Brownsville appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
The lease between UTRGV and Texas Southmost College has officially come to an end, with today being its The post Cut the lease: UTRGV College of Fine Arts’ last few days in TSC building appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
After being chosen to finish second in the preseason poll on Aug. 14, the UTRGV Volleyball Team prepares The post Vaqueros volleyball back in action appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
Vaquero Roundup es la última etapa de la Orientación para Nuevos Estudiantes (New Student Orientation) en UTRGV. Es The post Roundup de 2026 appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
