Athletics
The school mascot is the Wolverine, and the colors are green and gold.
The Wolverines joined the Great West Conference in 2008. They have won the GWC Commissioner's Cup each year they have competed in the conference. Each year the Cup is awarded to the institution that performed best overall in GWC-sponsored sports.
The school competes in most major sports at various levels. The school's NCAA sports are men's and women's basketball, men's and women's track and field, men's and women's cross country, baseball, wrestling, softball, women's soccer, and women's volleyball. The school also fields several club teams including, men's soccer, men's volleyball, men's lacrosse, and men's and women's rugby. The UVU student section is called the Mighty Athletic Wolverine League, or MAWL, a name created by former executive vice president of student government Justin Davies.
The Wolverines play their home basketball games in the 8,500-seat Utah Community Credit Union Center. The men's basketball team finished the 2008-09 season with a 17-11 record, which capped off its 26th winning season in a row.
The baseball team plays at Brent Brown Ballpark, a 2,500-seat facility (3,000 additional fans can sit on a grass berm that wraps around third base and left field, bringing total capacity to 5,500) that opened on March 25, 2005. Brent Brown Ballpark is also the home of the Orem Owlz, a minor-league affiliate of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, that competes in the Pioneer Baseball League.
The school dropped its men's club ice hockey team in 2009, it competed in ACHA Division 2, and played its home games at the Peaks Ice Arena, a 2002 Winter Olympics hockey venue. A grassroots effort by the student body and the community is underway to start an NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey team, if successful it would be the first such program in the state of Utah. As college hockey continues to grow, especially with the addition of an NCAA Division I program at Penn State to begin play in the 2012-2013 season and the newly formed Big Ten Hockey Conference more and more schools out west are clamoring for exposure.
On October 9, 2012, UVU accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference in all sports except wrestling. UVU will become a full member on July 1, 2013 and will begin WAC play in the 2013-14 school year. With this move, UVU also announced that it will add men's soccer in 2014.
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