Return to Chicago

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes As the UVU men’s basketball team made their way  to the Great West Conference Tournament on Chicago State’s home floor, senior guards Isiah Williams and Kevin Woods remember other nearby courts they made their own.   Before the NCAA arenas, the Wolverine duo started on Chicago’s inner city playgrounds, each establishing a style and identity […]

Men’s rugby beats SUU, readies for playoffs

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week the rugby team continued with its winning ways against Southern Utah University. Currently the team is ranked fourth in the country. They are undefeated in league play and are currently getting ready for the playoffs.   Matt Lefrandt is in his second year playing for the school. When asked why the team has […]

Wolverines set to face No. 10 Arizona State

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the Utah Valley Baseball team, the time for a turnaround is now. After a three game series against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds, the Wolverines head south to take on the No. 10 Arizona State Sun Devils.   Utah Valley has struggled to begin the season, going 2-8 and currently having lost seven out of […]

Credit card spending on campus

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Through credit card may seem to solve problems they can also create problems of their own.   Credit cards use by students remains high despite economic uncertainty.   For poor college students, the thought of having access to money they don’t necessarily have sounds pretty nice. What they might overlook, however, is the hardships debt […]

UVU to wrap a Toyota Scion IQ in student competiton

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU Athletics and Brent Brown Toyota of Orem teamed up to create a unique opportunity for students to put their design skills to the test – a school-themed car wrap competition.   The competition was announced and kicked off Feb. 25 at the last UVU Men’s Basketball home game against the University of Texas-Pan American. […]

Wilson suffers broken nose, qualifies for nationals

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a long, hard and grueling season for the UVU wrestling team. For Josh Wilson (149 pounds) all of that hard work and dedication will pay off as he takes on the nations best in the 2012 NCAA wrestling nationals.   Wilson wrestled well in the 2012 NCAA West Regional tournament March 2-4, placing […]

In The Zone: A reminder that players are people, too

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The men’s basketball team seemed loose. Unworried. Heck, at times it looked like they’d forgotten the plane was taking them to their most important string of games of the season.   Isiah Williams and Kevin Woods were at the center of the plane and the fun, trying to find every conceivable way to cut a […]

Popular author returns for 71st commencement

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Erin Gruwell will once again grace the UCCU Center to speak at UVU’s 71st Commencement Ceremony on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Graduates and members of the community will recognize Gruwell as the author of “The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them,” […]

Women golf takes 10th at Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, AZ

March 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The UVU women’s golf team opened their season after a four-month break by competing this past weekend in the Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Ariz. The team was tied for sixth place after the first round and slipped a bit in the final round Sunday before finishing in 10th place overall, their best finish in […]