The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has found that the University of Texas at El Paso committed violations within its softball program. The violations occurred between 2016-2019 under former Head Coach Tobin Echo-Hawk. The violations included providing additional practice time or individual workouts to student-athlete exceeding daily and weekly hour limitations, not providing a weekly day off for student-athletes as required by NCAA guidelines, and graduate assistants providing skills instruction to student-athletes during extra workout sessions, regular practices and occasional competitions resulting in the program exceeding its maximum number of coaches allowed. Among the penalties for UTEP were a year of probation, a $5,000 fine, and a one-year show-cause order for Echo-Hawk. It was also announced that Echo-Hawk, now an assistant coach at New Mexico State, will receive a four-week suspension from all coaching activities and from 15% of regular-season contests at any school that employs her moving forward.
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