Teams
Utah Valley University currently sponsors seven men's and eight women's teams in NCAA sanctioned sports with men's soccer to be added by 2014:
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Men's Intercollegiate Sports
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Women's Intercollegiate Sports
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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.
UVU officially accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference in all sports (with the exception of wrestling) on October 9, 2012. They 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. The school's wrestling team will remain a member of the Western Wrestling Conference.
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