As the winter sports season at UVU came to and end, 2015-16 turned out to be an exciting time for fans of the Wolverines. With an All-American finish, amazing upsets, and heartbreaking losses, the UVU men and women’s basketball teams, as well as the UVU wrestling team, gave fans a bit of everything. Mark Pope […]
The match couldn’t have gone any worse for Jade Rauser. He was trailing 5-0 heading into the third and final period. His opponent, No. 6 George DiCamillo of Virginia, also had a two-minute advantage in riding time. Staring elimination in the face and the potential to come up short in his bid to achieve a […]
NEW YORK — Becoming an All-American has been the life-long goal for UVU senior Jade Rauser and for two periods on Friday night it looked like that goal wasn’t going to be accomplished. But what happened next might go down in UVU wrestling history as one of the greatest victories to date for the program. […]
NEW YORK — UVU senior Jade Rauser had had a goal of becoming an All-American since coming to UVU to wrestle. On Friday at Madison Square Garden, he faced an uphill task as he had to win three matches to accomplish that goal. Well he has won two the necessary three matches and will go […]
NEW YORK — Jade Rauser and Chasen Tolbert came to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Madison Square Garden with one goal: become an All-American. For Rauser, that goal can still happen. The senior from Townsend, Mont. lost his first match to No. 2 Cory Clark of Iowa but rebounded in his second match […]
For the fourth straight time, UVU wrestler Jade Rauser gets a chance to compete for the ultimate prize in collegiate wrestling: a national championship. Rauser and teammate Chasen Tolbert, who is going for the second straight time, will compete against the best the country has to offer in the NCAA wrestling championships at Madison Square […]
On Saturday morning, the UVU wrestling team began its quest for a Big 12 Conference wrestling title when competition opened up at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Seniors Chasen Tolbert and Jade Rauser along with sophomore Dustin Dennison led the way in the first session of the day as each earned a spot in […]
OREM — It didn’t take long for Jade Rauser to make it official that he was going back to the NCAA Wrestling Championships for a fourth straight time. In the third-place match, the UVU senior pinned 21st-ranked Gary Wayne Harding of Oklahoma State with 44 second left in the first period to place third at […]
The UVU wrestling team finished its regular season with a dominating performance at home against Grand Canyon University. UVU won every single match against GCU, winning the dual, 39-0. The night started with UVU’s Jarod Maynes at 141-pounds. Mayne ended up pulling off an unlikely victory with next to no time left when he escaped from his opponent, […]
Photos courtesy of Julie Ostler and UVU Athletics A trip to Colorado and Wyoming over the weekend for three Big 12 dual meets didn’t go quite as the UVU wrestling team would have liked. They dropped a 20-13 contest to Air Force on Thursday night and then a closely contested meet against Northern Colorado, 19-18 […]