OREM, Utah-Wednesday, Utah Valley Wrestling hosts its annual intrasquad match with a former Wasatch High School star athlete having a chance to show his stuff. Redshirt sophomore Spencer Heywood, who started half of the season in 2018-19 for Wolverines head coach Greg Williams at 157 pounds, will compete against fellow […]
LAS VEGAS-Utah Valley redshirt freshman wrestler Jake Discher, a former Wasatch High star, is slated to compete for the #22 Wolverines this weekend at the 37th annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. Discher will be competing in the 157-pound division. The 6-0 Discher was a two-time high school state champion […]
LARAMIE, Wyo.-Saturday, a pair of former Wasatch High star wrestlers will compete at the Cowboy Open at Laramie, Wyo. for Utah Valley University. Competing at 157 pounds is redshirt freshman Jakob Discher, a 2017 graduate of Wasatch High who was a high-school All-American for the Wasps. Additionally, he won two […]
FORTALEZA, Brazil-Per a Monday report, incoming Utah Valley University freshman wrestler Dylan Gregerson won a pair of gold medals while competing for Team USA at the Junior Pan American Championships this past weekend at Fortaleza, Brazil. The freshman out of Riverton, Utah and Riverton High School, won freestyle and Greco-Roman […]
OREM, Utah-Thursday, Utah Valley University head wrestling coach Greg Williams announced his team’s 2018-19 schedule. This features a highly competitive slate featuring 12 duels against Top-25 ranked programs. The Wolverines will also host West Virginia, Wyoming, Northern Iowa, Fresno State, Cal State Bakersfield and Western Wyoming. Among Utah Valley’s foes […]
ATLANTA-Utah Valley University star wrestler, sophomore Taylor Lamont, qualified for his unprecedented sixth straight U.S. age-group Greco-Roman world team Saturday as part of a special wrestle-off for the 60-kilogram spot at the Georgia World Congress Center of Atlanta. This commemorates Lamont’s third consecutive appearance on the Junior World Team after […]
TULSA, Okla.-Friday, Utah Valley University wrestling standout freshman heavyweight Tate Orndorff earned a place on the U.S. National Greco-Roman team as he placed third at the 2018 Senior Greco-Roman World Team trials Thursday and Friday at Tulsa, Okla. Orndorff, a 6’0″ 285-pounder out of Spokane, Wash. earned a second-place finish […]
OREM, Utah-Friday, the Utah Valley University wrestling program finalized its massive recruiting class, which consists of 16 student-athletes. Although the Wolverines have the distinction of being Utah’s only collegiate wrestling program, the recruits hail from nine states in this class. Head Coach Greg Williams stated he is proud of this […]
AKRON, Ohio-This past weekend, a pair of Utah Valley wrestlers excelled at the 2018 UWW Cadet and U-23 nationals. Both placing on the podium for the Wolverines were Tate Orndorff and Kimball Bastian. Orndorff, a freshman out of Spokane, Wash., led the way by wrestling his way to a pair […]
