Baseball struggling early and often on road

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes This road trip for UVU has been a bumpy one, but it is only the beginning of a long stretch. The Wolverines started their season in Seattle, dropping two of the three games they played against the Redhawks.   The first of the three-game set saw Jeremy Glendlek take the mound and give up an […]

Latest Casper family product forges own path.

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes For Mason Casper, golf has always been a part of him. Growing up having a former professional golfer as a father and hall of fame golf legend Billy Casper as a grandfather, it wasn’t as if Mason wanted to become anything other than a notable golfer himself.   “I was always around golf with my […]

Perimeter players step up in recent wins

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Too much of one thing can be a bad thing, a case the UVU women’s basketball team experienced for themselves for much of the middle portion of this season.   The Wolverines were forced to rely often on the production of post players Sammie Jensen and Erika Newbold, even as the perimeter players struggled to […]

WWC gets 17 spots for nationals

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA announced on Thursday that the NCAA West Regional Tournament/Western Wrestling Conference Championships has been allocated 17 automatic qualifier spots for the 2012 Division I Wrestling Championships. Only members of the WWC earn bids to the NCAA Tournament at that event.   The NCAA also released that the WWC had 22 wrestlers […]

Campus sports defy sexual stereotypes

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wolverines’ track and field star Megan Burr has done a little bit of everything. Track. Soccer. Football.   No, really. That’s not a typo. It’s a fact.   Burr was the starting kicker for her high school football team. Varsity. In Las Vegas. She was good, too, producing far more accurately than any of the […]

Former student Trevor Mellen stars in Showdown fights

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes What do a honey badger, UVU and MMA have in common?  Those attending Friday’s Showdown fights found that those three things have a lot in common when it comes to the Bantamweight (135-pounds) fighter Trever Mellen.   Mellen is a local fighter who attended UVU, whose nickname is “the honey badger.” He’s a fierce competitor […]

Wolverines prepare for Cal State Fullerton

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute Although UVU has been able to come home for a week after facing Nevada, they hit the road again this week to take on another nationally ranked team in California State Fullerton on March 2.   This will be the first time the Wolverines will face off against the Titans. This will also mark the […]

Long break doesn’t stop nation’s 4th-longest win streak

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Some questions are asked more for entertainment than enlightenment, and some have answers that are completely impossible to prove one way or another. Philosophies not only vary from team to team, but player to coach as well.   The effects of having extended time off between games is a question that adds relevant information while […]

Softball wins three, loses three to start season

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Following a four-game series against Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., the UVU women’s softball team is still trying to find their groove with a young team as they sat at 3-3 heading into the North Carolina A&T Tournament (Feb. 24-26).   The Wolverines headed to St. George, Utah, two weeks ago to kick […]

Sophomores Aird, Hunsaker step up production for UVU men’s basketball

February 20, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Entering the 2011-12 campaign, seniors Isiah Williams and Geddes Robinson were the headliners garnering all the attention.   Williams was the returning All-American Honorable Mention, a scorer capable of 20-plus points on any given night. Robinson brought an elite level of defense and rebounding, heightened after a rigid offseason workout regime.   With the media […]