Coming off their best year since 2013, UVU’s softball team is gearing up for another great season. In 2016, the Wolverines finished with an abysmal 9-43 record, and failed to win a single game on their home field. UVU subsequently hired head coach TJ Hubbard to turn the team around, and he was able to […]
Photo credit: Scrap Yard Fast Pitch Utah Valley softball staff has been seeing some changes recently. With seniors leaving, and new recruits arriving, they also have new coaching staff members to look forward to. One of the newest members of the staff is Michael Steuerwald. Steuerwald lived in a few different states before arriving in […]
Anissa Urtez, Mexican National Team member, as well as professional Scrap Yard Dawg of the National Pro Fastpitch League, joins the Utah Valley University softball coaching staff. Urtez is originally from Long Beach, California, and is the oldest of three. Both younger siblings have, surprisingly, also chosen to pursue sports. However, it was who […]
Photo Courtesy of Dale Garvey UVU softball finally returned to its home field after being on the road the entire season. The two games on the home opener schedule were against the Utah State Aggies and Idaho State Bengals. This season, the Wolverines are currently 8-16, while last year, it was 16-24 by the end […]
Photo by Julie Ostler Softball’s Vansway, Frailey earn All-WAC honors For the third year in a row, senior third baseman Brittney Vansway was named to the All-WAC first team following the 2017 season. Joining her in the postseason conference honors was junior pitcher Lauren Frailey, who was named the WAC pitcher of the year. The […]
Photo by Sarah Sanchez On the surface, the 2017 UVU softball season might not look like much. Finishing with a 16-24 overall record and a 7-8 record in the WAC, the Wolverines weren’t quite able to play .500 ball this season. However, when placed in the context of the previous three seasons, in which UVU […]
Photo by Brigham Berthold Conference play is underway for the UVU baseball team, and it will be hosting the first WAC home series of the season this week with Sacramento State University coming to campus. The softball team will begin its WAC play this week on the road against New Mexico State University. The baseball […]
Photo courtesy Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Utah Valley University filled its softball team’s coaching vacancy Tuesday with the announcement of the hiring of T.J. Hubbard. Before his arrival at UVU, Hubbard began his Division I coaching career in 2004 and includes stops at North Texas, Louisiana and, most recently, Kansas. Hubbard brings experience to UVU coaching […]
As usual, we’ll recap the weekend in UVU sports and preview the coming week. Our guest is new UVU softball head coach T.J. Hubbard. https://soundcloud.com/uvu-review-sports/wolverine-sports-world-podcast-106
There are times a coach leaves their post for greener pastures, but other times there just needs to be a change. News broke the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 6 that former Utah Valley University softball head coach Nikki Palmer was leaving UVU for a coaching position at University of California-Riverside. In this case, a shake-up […]