The UTRGV Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (UTRGV SAAC) on Monday, September 21, 2020, unveiled Vaqueros United, an initiative that utilizes the UTRGV Athletics platform to engage in meaningful conversations on racism and social injustice while promoting peace, equality, human rights and social justice. Vaqueros, which is the nickname for the UTRGV community, is used in reference to cowboys (in such as Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) where Spanish is spoken, Just as they were among the most accomplished of all horsemen, vaqueros were masters of the rope which they called reata. The Vaqueros United campaign starts with a ...