AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Track and Field head coach Edrick Floréal and freshman distance runner Yusuf Bizimana earned end-of-season accolades from the Big 12 Conference on Thursday. Floréal swept the league's Men's and Women's Indoor Coach of the Year honors, claiming the men's title for the first time and his third consecutive in as many years at UT on the women's side. Bizimana was named the Big 12 Men's Outstanding Freshman of the Year, the second-straight year a Longhorn has won the honor.
Floreal, in his third season as Texas' head coach, guided the Longhorns to their first sweep of the Big 12 Indoor titles since 2015.