{"id":148073,"date":"2026-02-02T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:23:09","slug":"uta-hosts-introductory-press-conference-to-introduce-flag-football-hc-melinda-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148073\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA Hosts Introductory Press Conference to Introduce Flag Football HC Melinda Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; UT Arlington&#8217;s Division of Intercollegiate Athletics officially introduced flag football head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/staff-directory\/melinda-nguyen\/3630\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3630\" target=\"_blank\">Melinda Nguyen<\/a> at a press conference on Monday at the College Park Center in Arlington. Nguyen and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Jon Fagg, took questions from media members in attendance, as well as some special guests.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UTA&#8217;s flag football program will play its games at Maverick Stadium in the spring of 2027\u00a0and recruiting efforts are underway for Nguyen&#8217;s initial roster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; #BuckEm \u2013<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJOIN THE MOVEMENT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans who would love to join the movement at UT Arlington can give to the UTA Women&#8217;s Flag Football program by donating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securelb.imodules.com\/s\/1909\/giving\/19\/form.aspx?sid=1909&amp;gid=2&amp;pgid=1779&amp;cid=4635&amp;appealcode=IMODWFF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more engaging and personal content, follow the women&#8217;s flag football program on X (formerly Twitter) (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UTAMavsFlagFB\" rel=\"nofollow\">@UTAMavsFlagFB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavsflagfb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@utamavsflagfb<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61575888076934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsFlagFB<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; UT Arlington&#8217;s Division of Intercollegiate Athletics officially introduced flag football head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-148073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}