Reading Time: 3 minutes Orem scores early and often in first game of three-game set Kyle McDonald | Sports writer | @kylesportsbias Photo credit: Gabi Campbell | Art Director | @gabicampbellphotos OREM, Utah — The Orem Owlz pounded out fourteen hits and scored in six of eight at-bats to defeat the Missoula Osprey 11-3 on Monday evening at Brent […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wolverines join Big 12 Conference Kyle McDonald | Sports Editor | @kylesportsbias The Utah Valley University wrestling team announced Wednesday that they would be one of five schools moving to the Big 12 Conference beginning in the 2015-16 academic year. “We’re really excited,” UVU head coach Greg Williams said. “It’s a higher level of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Collegiate summer leagues offer experience and exposure Kyle McDonald | Sports editor | @kylesportsbias For many collegiate baseball players the season doesn’t end in late May and early June. Some players are drafted in the Major League Baseball draft and others continue to play in one of the many summer collegiate baseball leagues around the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Men’s basketball Coach Mark Pope brings in mix of new coaches and players in first year Kyle McDonald | Sports editor | @kylesportsbias Photo credit: Gabi Campbell | Art Director | @gabicampbellphotos In his first summer as head coach of the Utah Valley University men’s basketball program, Mark Pope has been aggressive in recruiting a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes MLB Playoff races heating up Kyle McDonald | Sports Editor | @kylesportsbias As the Major League Baseball season moves into August, the race is on to make the 2015 playoffs. The St. Louis Cardinals have the best record in baseball at 65-37 and sit atop the National League Central. Veteran right-hander John Lackey has anchored […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kyle McDonald |Sports Writer | @kylesportsbias Photo credit: Gabi Campbell | Art Director | @gabicampbellphotos In July 2014, sophomore Hayes Garrity tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a summer practice for the Utah Valley University men’s basketball team. Garrity was on a fastbreak during a two-on-two drill and didn’t think […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mark Pope: The Road Less Traveled Kyle McDonald | Sports Writer | @kylesportsbias Photo Credit: Gabi Campbell, Photo Editor, @gabicampbellphotos On March 31, 2015, Utah Valley University athletic director Vince Otoupal introduced Mark Pope as the new men’s basketball head coach. The charisma and energy that Pope showed throughout his speech and day plus the fact […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes How coaches manage it Kyle McDonald | Sports Writer | @kylesportsbias Photo Credit: Ben Hammond, Staff Photographer BYU isn’t the only school in Utah County that has to deal with their student-athletes choosing to go on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Head coaches from Utah Valley University also have to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Smith, Rauser, and Tolbert Head Wrestling Team Kyle McDonald | Sports Writer | @kylesportsbias Photo’s courtesy of UVU Athletics and Gabi Campbell, Photo Editor, @gabicampbellphotos Utah Valley University wrestlers Chasen Tolbert, Jade Rauser, and Ethan Smith had one goal at the beginning of the season: get to nationals. On Saturday March 7 in Fargo, ND they […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kyle McDonald, Sports Writer, @kylesportsbias Bellevue, Wash. – Kade Andrus went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles, an RBI and two runs scored to help UVU defeat Seattle University 5-2 on Saturday at Bannerwood Park. Andrus scored the first run of the game for UVU (5-17) after walking, stealing second, and scored on a Mark Krueger […]