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Elyssa Coleman is a redshirt freshman from Houston, Texas. She transferred to UTSA after signing and attending UT Austin out of Atascocita high school. Coleman was ranked as the #12 forward in the 2020 high school class (ESPN). She had an impressive first year with UTSA. Her breakout game came…

The Runners Rising Project is happy to have Jonathan as our very first official Runners Rising Athlete! Jonathan is a San Antonio native and attended O’Connor High School in Helotes. He choose to stay home and attend UTSA while majoring in Kinesiology. He batted .295 in 2021 with 24 RBIs…

This week we were lucky enough to get a Runners Rising favorite to join our Executive Director Eddie for a 1-on-1 conversation. UTSA Baseball pitcher Luke Malone was one of our original NIL agreements when we launched the website. After his dominant start to this season we felt it was…

Last week the Runners Rising Project hit an exciting milestone as we recorded our first interview with a UTSA student-athlete. Our volunteer staff approached UTSA wide receiver JT Clark to engage in an NIL agreement with him to produce an interview in exchange for a cash payment. We were blown…

Signing an NIL contract with UTSA Soccer’s Kendall Kloza helped make our launch day a huge success on Instagram.

Jared Sackett, Kicker for UTSA’s Football team, shares his story on why he chose to return home to San Antonio and UTSA.

The age of NIL is upon us! The Runners Rising Project is the NIL Collective and Lobby dedicated to furthering opportunities for UTSA’s Student Athletes and rallying the city of San Antonio behind their cause.