MW Summer Update – 8/5/16
The Mountain West is well-represented at the Rio Summer Olympic Games, a pair of MW football players earn preseason All-America nods, and Colorado State’s on-campus stadium celebrates its halfway point.
The Mountain West is comprised of elite American destinations and football teams who strive for greatness on and off the field. The excitement of a new season kicks off on August 26th.
The Mountain West is well-represented at the Rio Summer Olympic Games, a pair of MW football players earn preseason All-America nods, and Colorado State’s on-campus stadium celebrates its halfway point.
Mountain West football players take on their rendition of “Bad Lip Reading”
Student-athletes from the West Division at 2016 #MWFB Media Days show their competitive chops with a game of Pie Face!
Nevada head coach Brian Polian joins Campus Insiders' Jordan Cornette at Mountain West Media Days to discuss the Wolf Pack's main areas of improvement for the 2016 season.
New Mexico’s Courtney Frerichs is honored as both the 2015-16 Female Athlete and Scholar-Athete of the Year, while Air Force’s Patrick Corona is named the Male Athlete of the Year and Nevada’s Jordan Dobrich earns Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award honors.
SDSU’s Donnel Pumphrey, Damontae Kazee and Rashaad Penny have been selected as the preseason players of the year.
Three Mountain West men’s golfers qualify for the 2016 U.S. Amateur, New Mexico’s Heather Dyche is headed to Rio to assist the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team and Mountain West Football Media Days are right around the corner!
Eight Mountain West football players are named to national award watch lists, a league-record number of student athletes earn Spring All-MW Academic Team honors and former Wyoming head men’s basketball coach Larry Shyatt joins the Dallas Mavericks staff.
A pair of UNLV men’s basketball standouts are selected in the NBA Draft, six Mountain West student-athletes are up for NCAA Woman of the Year and San Diego State’s Nahum Mendoza III is a PING All-American.
Two Mountain West baseball players earn ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors, New Mexico women’s Cross Country and Track & Field has its best-ever finish in the Program of the Year standings, and Nevada’s Krysta Palmer advances to the finals at the U.S. Diving Olympic Trials.
Campus Insiders’ Pete Fiutak reveals his Nevada Wolf Pack football 2016 predictions including how many games Brian Polian’s team will win, which key games could determine the outcome of the season, and which opponents could give the Wolf Pack the most trouble.
The Mountain West SAAC has its in-person meeting in Colorado Springs, a former SDSU men’s golfer wins his first professional tournament and four MW individuals are honored by the USTFCCCA.
In honor of the upcoming College World Series, Stormy Buonantony takes a look at the defining moments from the 2016 Mountain West Baseball Tournament in Albuquerque.
Nevada tops Air Force 12-1 in Game 10 of the 2016 Mountain West Baseball Tournament to head to the Championship Game against No. 2 seed New Mexico.