UTEP celebrated El Paso native Kayla Thornton during the UTEP women’s basketball game at the Don Haskins Center on Sunday ...

The El Paso native and former UTEP Miner saw her number become the first women's basketball jersey to be hang from the rafters inside of the Don Haskins Center on Sunday. Thornton played at UTEP from ...

A two-time WNBA champion as a player, Smith has coached with the Liberty, the Detroit Shock and was most recently an ...

Under Thornton's watch, the Miner women earned their first-ever conference tournament victory in 2012. Two seasons later, Thornton pushed the team to the WNIT championship game where they ironically ...