Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to quantify how far the UVU men’s basketball team fell in their semifinal loss to NJIT, but here’s an attempt: • They went from winning 13 games in a row to dropping two straight • They failed to win a game in the Great West Conference Tournament as the No. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Come Friday’s semifinal game against NJIT, the Utah Valley women’s basketball team try to do what they’ve managed just once in conference play. Beat a team for the second time. That team was Houston Baptist, an injury-riddled tragedy that ended at the hands of NJIT on Thursday. The Huskies ended the season 1-27 […]
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 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dreams mean nothing without work, even for a five-year-old. Competition brings out that sentiment better than anything, and it’s far too common that it comes from driven parents. Now step aside from the vision of two dads coming to blows over whose boy should be pitching, and imagine it’s the five-year-old telling his father to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s in a name? Apparently a lot. Great West Conference member and long-time institution University of North Dakota was forced to forfeit its mascot and name, the Fighting Sioux, this month as a result of protest from the NCAA and a local Native American tribe. No word yet on whether animal rights groups […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Colleges throughout the nation have mascots, bands and clubs to help support the school they are a part of. With all the support from these outlets, what really makes a student body care about their school? Many people grew up loving certain schools because of where their parents graduated from or the town they […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Non-conference rivalry? Despite having just a week and a half left in the regular season, the Wolverines volleyball team will host a rare non-conference game tonight against the Utah State Aggies. This will be the first game in any sport against USU since Utah Valley was denied admission to the Western Athletic Conference […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With their 4-0 win Saturday night over South Carolina State, Utah Valley University’s women’s soccer team won’t have to dress up as Great West conference champs come Halloween Monday night. S.C. State came into the night up one game on the Wolverines with a perfect 5-0 conference record and a head start in the race to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Head coach Sam Atoa didn’t want his team to take a step back against conference competition. Instead, the Wolverines have taken a leap forward, easily winning their first two Great West Conference matches behind a rejuvenated Chelsey Heaps. The senior outside hitter combined for 22 kills and 27 digs in wins over North Dakota […]