Besides Mark Henry, other Olympic weightlifters with connections to Austin Community College competed and made names for themselves and their school. In late 1992, several ACC and UT- Austin students formed a weightlifters’ club called ACC/Longhorn. Team members worked out together in the weight room on the ACC Northridge campus. One of their coaches was veteran Bulgaria’s Olympic coach Angel Spassov. Another Bulgarian, Emelian Iankov, taught weightlifting classes at ACC supervised by kinesiology instructor Jamee Stewart. One of ACC/Longhorn star lifters, Ursula Garza, aimed at competing in the 1996 summer Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, as did another ACC student. The problem, however, was that the Olympic games did not include female competition. Ursula Garza hoped to change that, as did Tracey Ruiz, originally from Cuero, Texas. ACC/Longhorn Weightlifters Shine
Source: Austin American-Statesman, December 31, 1992