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SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Falconz earned a spot in the Women’s National Football Conference playoffs and will enter the postseason with a rookie quarterback taking her first starting snap. The Falconz will open the WNFC playoffs hosting the San Diego Rebellions in the first round on...

Utah’s rodeo kids are on another level when it comes to competing in national and world arenas. The High School Rodeo Association is gearing up for its 2023 Finals which will be held on July 17-24. This year the National High School Finals Rodeo will be in Gillette, WY. It’s the largest rodeo world according to the NHSRA website.

Hunter Gledhill was struggling the first day at state. Wind was howling and she was nervous, wanting so badly to play so well that every bad shot felt even worse. But the junior golfer from Riverton High School ended her first round of the 6A state championship on a high. She birdied the final hole of the day and thought, “If I do really good tomorrow, it will balance out.”

Nobody under the age of 17 had ever won the Salt Lake City Amateur golf tournament, at least in the last half century, but Sunday afternoon at Bonneville Golf Course, three 16-year-olds battled it out before Sean Lampropoulos emerged with a one-stroke victory. The East High junior-to-be shot a 6-under-par...

SANDY — For years, the pathway in club and high school volleyball has been clear, both in Utah and across the country: earn a scholarship, get an education — and then move on from the sport. Sure, a handful of players every year signed to play professionally overseas,...

From modest beginnings to extraordinary achievements, Utah resident Michael McKnight has emerged victorious in a 250-mile ultramarathon in Arizona, stamping his name on the annals of endurance running.

When Thurl Bailey makes his nightly walk from the court to the broadcast booth at Vivint Arena (to-be Delta Center), he knows he needs to leave earlier than expected. Always dressed impeccably in matching suits and Jordan’s, Bailey sticks out in a crowd of diehard basketball fans. Everyone calls out his nickname, “Big T,” during the walk, hoping to get a glance and wave from one of Utah’s best-known former players. Even those brave enough to approach and ask for a photo, Bailey is almost always accommodating, squeezing his 6-foot-11 figure into the frame.

SANDY — There were a pair of firsts at the Coaches Legacy Invitational Golf Tournament on Monday. The event, which benefits the National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho (NKFUI), has featured a golfing duel between the head football coaches of BYU and Utah since 1989, when LaVell Edwards took on Jim Fassel.

After dropping its opening-round game to Florida State on Thursday night, the Oklahoma State Cowgirls are facing elimination from here on out, unless it can work its way into the Championship series. Unable to crack the code that is Kathryn Sandercock, the Cowgirls’ offense was held scoreless for the first...

If you ask Bingham head coach Eric Jones, Bingham football may have the toughest road to hoe in Utah high school football. Or blast through, as the case may be for a Miners team coming off one of the most successful seasons in years. “We play arguably one of the...

PROFESSIONAL DIVISION (Full Ballpark Next Results) Tessa Arneson & Team: "SHE PLAYS HERE. WE THRIVE HERE." This one is a multi-purpose venue focused on women athletes. Here's Arneson's introductory statement about the project:. "By re-imagining Salt Lake City’s ballpark as a multi-use hub and home for women athletes and their...

This is the second year that Bingham lacrosse has been placed into the same Class 6A Region 3 league as all of the other sports at the school. In years past while lacrosse was in the process of being sanctioned by the UHSAA, the Miners were placed in either Division A, B, or C depending on the number of players and skill level in the program on both the boys and girls sides.

SALT LAKE CITY – Here is how the local players performed during the eighth week of the 2023 USFL season:. Brian Allen – Cornerback – Birmingham Stallions* (6-2) The former Utah defensive back had two total tackles and one solo tackle in Birmingham’s 27-24 win over the Philadelphia Stars on Saturday, June 3.

SALT LAKE CITY – We have officially reached the summer “break” for Utah Athletics, but the Utes Bulletin will continue on with reviews of what happened the week before and points of interest in the weeks ahead. This week’s Utes Bulletin features the end of the 2023...

SALT LAKE CITY – It’s been 29 years since Utah softball made it to the World Series and their first game didn’t go the way they would have wanted between the weather delay and the loss to Washington. However, head coach Amy Hogue says she has been...

SEATTLE — Traveling to take on the Seattle Seawolves is rarely an easy task, and Sunday night proved as much for the Utah Warriors in taking a tough 27-20 loss. Too many missed opportunities, an unfortunate yellow card issued early in the second half and some early scores yielded conspired in Utah gaining just one point as it battles to make the postseason.

When Juan Diego Catholic High School senior Hauroa “Roa” Morgant arrived on U.S. soil from Tahiti two years ago, he simply wanted to play soccer, the game he had played all his life in his homeland. He hasn’t just been able to be on the field for the Soaring Eagle squad, but he has imprinted his name here as he broke the Utah state record for goals in a season—of 43 by American Leadership Academy’s Mahonry “Titi” Chichia. On May 3, during the team’s second round game in the 3A state tournament—a 9-0 win over Grantsville—he scored five goals to end that game with 44 goals on the year with still more to play.

SALT LAKE CITY – Former Utah football punter Hank Mondaca is working to give being “Ute Proud” a much deeper meaning for Utah Athletics with the help of his charitable organization, Athletes For Life. This summer, Mondaca, along with other former Utah Athletics stars Dave Cullity, Jeff...

Lindsay Lopez came out of the bullpen for Washington and salvaged a 4-1 win over Utah for a key victory in the Women’s College World Series earlier this week. Lopez pitched 3.2 innings after coming in during the fourth inning. She surrendered just one hit, issued one walk and struck out two. But she came […] The post Lindsay Lopez says escaping fourth inning vs. Utah gave her ‘a lot of confidence’ appeared first on On3.