Mid-Season report on the Top 10 storylines

January 5, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutes Feature photo courtesy of Brooke Morrill With the coming of a new semester means we take a look at the Top 10 storylines in UVU athletics at the midway point of the year. 1. Men’s Cross Country 3-Peat.  Senior Jason Lynch crossed the finish line in a time of 23:58.86 to win the individual WAC […]

Calling all UVU students

January 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes This fall, fans of Utah Valley University soccer helped both the men’s and women’s teams reach the top 25 in attendance in the nation.  Both soccer teams had a great amount of success, each reaching their NCAA tournaments for the first time in program history. The UVU men’s and women’s basketball teams need the same […]

College-Student Athletes should not be paid

January 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes The debate as to whether student athletes should be paid or not has really heated up in recent years. With it being college football bowl season right now, it can be assumed the topic will again come up. While I respect the time, work and excitement college athletes bring this time of year, they should […]

New Years Resolutions for UVU athletic teams

January 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes With a new year, comes this idea and hope that we can all start new. We treat Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 as if there is a massive divide between the two and that one day is so much different than the last. Jan. 1 is the time to start unhealthy crash diets, get to […]

UVU top 10 sports moments of 2015

January 1, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Wolverines’ year in review Utah Valley has seen a lot of success with a lot of their athletic teams in 2015. As we start a new year, I would like to take some time to review the 10 biggest moments of the year for the Wolverines. Wrestling upsets no. 18 Oregon State Beavers UVU […]

It’s all about the family during the holidays for UVU student athletes

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Going to temple square, races highlight just a few traditions for two athletes While there are many different holidays around this time of year that people celebrate, the overwhelming majority celebrates Christmas whether it is in a spiritual or commercial sense. That is no exception for the Utah Valley University student-athletes. During this time of […]

Let’s have a WAC vs. Big Sky basketball challenge

December 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pac-12 Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the West Coast Conference are some of the top college basketball conferences in America, especially in the western United States. The other two are the WAC and the Big Sky. Here at UVU we’re in the WAC conference, where we play solid competition such as New Mexico […]

When rivalries go too far

December 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Rivalries are good but sometimes things go a little overboard Rivalries are a part of sport.  They create an intense atmosphere but also an exciting one.  Fans want the bragging rights.  They want the pride that comes from knowing their team defeated their rivals. Teams want to walk away content that they got the job […]

The investment in UVU student athletes is paying off

November 30, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Part 3 of 3 in a series regarding the finances for UVU athletics There are many people who might say that money should go to other places first before it goes into the athletic department. They might complain that the teams aren’t winning enough or that there are more important things that money could go […]

The Hierarchy of money within an athletic budget

November 4, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Part 2 of 3 in a series regarding the finances for UVU Athletics Kyle McDonald | Sports editor | @kylesportsbias Many fans would have you believe that whichever team in a university athletic department generates the most revenue or has the most fans would have the biggest budget.  At Utah Valley University, that just isn’t the case. […]