Striving to succeed at UVU while living with a disability

October 5, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Being a student with a disability means that even when my hip dislocates at 4:00 in the morning, I still have to go to 8:30 a.m. class. For most of my life I’ve heard friends, family members and even doctors tell me that I didn’t look sick and that all the test results were normal. […]

Not watching sports is not an option

October 5, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jessica Allen | Assistant Sports Editor | @Jessdaleallen Sports column “I don’t watch sports” is becoming something I am hearing all too often. However even though I may have been the person saying that many many years ago, at this point in my life, I just can’t understand that statement. What do you mean you don’t watch […]

The coaching power of running

October 5, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU cross-country coach is happy with career achievements Jessica Allen | Assistant Sports Editor | @Jessdaleallen Coming from a town of less than 2,000 people, UVU cross-country head coach Scott Houle had a lot of opportunities to play many different sports in high school. He attended a school that was so small the students were […]

Striving to succeed at UVU while living with a disability

October 5, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jessica Allen | Assistant Sports Editor Being a student with a disability means that even when my hip dislocates at 4:00 in the morning, I still have to go to 8:30 a.m. class. For most of my life I’ve heard friends, family members and even doctors tell me that I didn’t look sick and that […]

Hard work and humility pay off

September 28, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Golf co-captain works hard to do well both on and off the course Jessica Allen | Assistant Sports Editor | @Jessdaleallen Photo courtesy of UVU Athletics By the time a student is playing any sport at the collegiate level, it is typically assumed they have been mastering their craft for years to get to that point. However, that […]

How analytics are used in the Athletic Department

September 21, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes The numbers are more important than ever before. Jessica Allen | Assistant Sports Editor | @Jessdaleallen Gabi Campbell | Photo editor | @gabicampbellphotos With technology advancing, there are constant changes with how society is viewing, playing and experiencing sports. Numbers are becoming increasingly more important. Coaches and staff track every possession of the ball, every pitch, every […]

Does playing on Sunday hurt UVU athletics?

September 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jessica Allen | Assistant sports editor | @Jessdaleallen Sports Column Utah County is a very peculiar melting pot of cultures. The overwhelming majority belong to the Mormon religion. However, the culture within the LDS church varies broadly in this small concentration of people. Since living in Utah County (a long 4 months) I have come to […]

UVU Cross Country team has their sight set on the 3-peat

September 2, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Return top six runners from last season Jessica Allen | Sports Writer | @Jessdaleallen Photos courtesy of UVU Athletics   With six returning runners from last years WAC Championship team, the Utah Valley University cross-country running team is ready and prepared to make a run at a 3-peat in the WAC and qualify for Nationals in 2015. The […]

UVU women are ready to hit the links

September 1, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Just two seniors return on young team Jessica Allen | Sports writer | @Jessdaleallen Photos courtesy of UVU Athletics   As the Utah Valley University women’s golf team prepares for the upcoming season, they do so with a roster that includes three redshirt freshmen and three true freshmen. There are many youth on the 2015-16 version of the […]

Success leads to opportunity

August 25, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes A player’s journey from LSU to Professional baseball Jessica Allen | Sports Writer | @Jessdaleallen   From playing in front of sell-out crowds of 10,000 dedicated fans at Alex Box Stadium on the campus of Louisiana State University to playing for an average of 2,200 Owlz fans per game at Brent Brown Ballpark, Jared Foster is […]