Reading Time: 2 minutes According to a Be Ready Utah Earthquake scenario video, the Wasatch Fault has a major earthquake every 350-400 years. The last major earthquake in the area was 350 years ago. The four-minute video depicts a major earthquake happening and effecting 80 percent or 2.7 million Utahn’s who live and work in the region. In […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU assistant has travelled afar prior to coming to UVU Assistant men’s basketball coach Chris Burgess has been a great addition to the Utah Valley University basketball family. Burgess is a basketball lifer and played collegiately at Duke for legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski and then transferred to the University of Utah where he played for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On December 17, the Utah Valley University athletic department announced they had signed men’s soccer coach Greg Maas to a five-year contract extension. In his first two seasons, Maas has led the soccer team to an overall record of 23-13-4. Extending the contract of Greg Maas is the best thing that UVU could do for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, the sporting world recognized the one-year anniversary of the passing of longtime sports anchor Stuart Scott. In one of the most inspiring sports stories ever, Scott gave an emotional speech about his battle with cancer when he was given an award at the 2014 ESPY’s. The world of sports is littered with inspiring off […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2015 was a big year. War happened at home and abroad. Groundbreaking pieces of art and culture were made. Politics grew more turbulent, which I didn’t think was even possible. Though this end-of-year wrap-up is by no means an exhaustive list of everything that happened last year, I thought I’d share a few of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Utah Valley University is now the largest university in the state of Utah with close to 35,000 students attending. With the rise in attendance to our university Utah county has encountered a small problem: housing—or in better words, the lack of housing—available to students. To solve this problem, housing structures are being built, but in […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU guard sets school record for three pointers in rout of UTRGV OREM — Jaden Jackson scored a career-high 31 points and hit a school record nine three-pointers to help the Utah Valley University men’s basketball team defeat the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley 98-65 on Saturday night at the UCCU Center. “I think we […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes OREM — After getting out to a seven-point halftime lead, the Utah Valley men’s basketball team failed to hold the second-half lead and fell to the New Mexico State Aggies by a final of 78-66 in front of a season-high crowd of 3,155 at the UCCU Center Thursday night. The Wolverines jumped out to a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Las Cruces, N.M. — The Wolverine women opened WAC play Thursday with a 73-68 loss to New Mexico State. A slow start to the second half sunk UVU in what was a close game throughout as they were outscored 15-9 in the third quarter. Deijah Blanks led the Wolverines with 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including 2-of-3 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Mike Richardson Hours before the graduation of UVU’s Firefighter Recruit Candidate Academy spring class #71, the new graduates won the RCA’s traditional Fire Games, where they got to compete against RCA alumni in activities such as, pulling fire engines full of 500 gallons of water and breaching sheetrock walls. The event […]