Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU’s rugby team is gearing up for another great season, adding to their staff some of the most successful coaches in the history of the game. In mid-July, coaches David Smyth and Wayne Tarawhiti, previously the head and assistant coaches of BYU’s rugby team, announced they would be parting ways to coach the Wolverines. During […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 7, UVU men’s basketball coach Mark Pope signed a new six-year contract extension that will take him through the 2023-2024 season. Last November, Coach Pope spoke with Vince Otoupal, Associate Vice President and director of athletics, about the possibility of a contract extension. During a two and a half month period, Pope was […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up all I wanted to do was play baseball. I started when I was three years old and never looked back. If you were to ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up, without hesitation I would say that I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Unfortunately, that did not […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Women and men’s soccer will begin their season on August 13 with exhibition games; Volleyball will begin August 18 with an exhibition match against cross-town rival BYU. Men and women’s soccer and volleyball will continue to play through the following weeks as regular season starts. During the summer, free activities such as spikeball, pickleball, volleyball, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The men’s and women’s soccer seasons kick off beginning fall semester in August. Both teams have reason to be excited to start their respective seasons. The men had a down year by their standard and the women finished with a bang, going 6-1-1 in their final seven matches before falling to the eventual national champions […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the past 5 seasons, 19 players have left the program Photo by Mykah Heaton At the end of her freshman season with the Utah Valley women’s basketball team in the spring of 2015, Brooke Wheeler had a meeting with head coach Cathy Nixon who informed her she would not be offered a scholarship for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Mykah Heaton The clock ran out on the Wolverines’ season in March 2018. The men’s basketball team couldn’t seem to put a stop to San Francisco and dropped the game 73-78 in the second round of the CBI. Looking back on the season, UVU can hold their heads high as they accomplished many […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Mike Smith/ Courtesy of Matshots Taylor LaMont was one win shy of an All-American finish at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, March 15-17. Demetrius Romero and Kimball Bastian followed LaMont, making it to the second day of competition. LaMont started off the tournament as the highest ranked wrestler that UVU has […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute UVU’s baseball team took on BYU March 13 in their first game back in Utah. After a hot start and a few early leads, the Wolverines could not hold on and lost 9-3. Kaden Schmitt started on the mound for the Wolverines and gave them a strong five innings of work. He struck out three […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Cameron Hunsinger UVU’s College Basketball Invitational first round game was expected to be a close one because the team faced an Eastern Washington team that has won 17 of their last 23 games. UVU needed to recover from their semi-final WAC tournament loss from the week before, so there was no question things […]