Denver women’s lacrosse (2-1) returned to Peter Barton Stadium and faced The Ohio State Buckeyes on a sun-drenched Friday afternoon. DU raced out to a 4-1 first-quarter, an 8-1 edge at halftime and coasted to a 14-5 win against the OSU Buckeyes. Continue reading DU Women’s Lax Blasts Ohio State, 15-5
Category Archives: Women’s Sports
Update: DU Men’s Soccer Impacts Conference Realignment Options
College soccer season is still nearly seven months away but the Summit League and University of Denver have several key decisions that will need to be considered and made by this summer.
DU men’s soccer, a marquee sport for the University of Denver, continues to look vulnerable with the loss of former Summit League member school Western Illinois to the Ohio Valley Conference. Jeff Colpack of The Mitchell Republic cited the outlook as ‘bleak’ to replace the Leathernecks with a sixth team for the Summit League membership and an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament. Ironically, Denver men’s soccer may be the spark to drive DU to seriously examine other conference options. All this while the NCAA is facing extinction as impatient power-conference members are at the precipice of a break-away as the gulf between the haves and have-nots looks irreconcilable. Continue reading Update: DU Men’s Soccer Impacts Conference Realignment Options
West Coast Conference Accepts Oregon State & Washington State for Two Seasons
As usual, we are keeping readers up to date on conference realignment and how it might affect DU. The West Coast Conference, which we’ve long touted as a better fit for the Pioneers than the Dakota-centric Summit League, has announced the addition of Oregon State University and Washington State University as affiliate members across 12 sports for a two-year term, beginning with the 2024-25 academic year. OSU and Washington State are moving football to the Mountain West for the same two-year period and will pay the league $14 million as part of the scheduling agreement. Continue reading West Coast Conference Accepts Oregon State & Washington State for Two Seasons
DU Gymnastics Wins Season Opener at Super 16 in Las Vegas
The 2024 gymnastics season has officially started! Sixteen teams traveled to Las Vegas last weekend for the “Mean Girls” Super 16 Gymnastics Championships. This is the second annual Super 16 season opener in Las Vegas and the first time DU was in attendance. It was a great way to start the season, competing on the podium at the Orleans Arena. Most of the top teams were there, and they looked ready for the season. The teams were divided into four sessions of four schools each. DU competed in the first session on January 5th, going head to head with Washington, Illinois, and San Jose State. The meet was live-streamed on YouTube @super16gym. Continue reading DU Gymnastics Wins Season Opener at Super 16 in Las Vegas
A Look at Six of Our Most-Read Articles of 2023
2023 was a good year for DU Athletics and we enjoyed covering every minute of it – and we hope you did, too. Here are the links to some of our most-read articles of the year. If you missed them, we have included the links. Continue reading A Look at Six of Our Most-Read Articles of 2023
End of Year Postcard
NCAA President Charlie Baker Engineering DI Demise
NCAA President, Charlie Baker, is proposing the development of a DI super-subdivision that would allow the wealthiest athletic programs, a mix of the current/new Big 10, Big XII, ACC and SEC members, to directly compensate athletes through the use of “educational trust funds,” manage and fund NIL payments & revenue sharing, and allow for a separate set of governance rules for the super-subdivision. All this from Baker while trying to maintain the current NCAA national championship model across all existing Division I sports, except FBS football, which runs and manages the College Football Playoff. Continue reading NCAA President Charlie Baker Engineering DI Demise
DU Women’s Lacrosse is In it to Win it All
Denver women’s Head lacrosse coach Liza Kelly and her team are all-in for a serious run at a national championship this spring. The team is returning four All-Americans along with experience across the board with the addition of some exceptional graduate transfers. The roster upgrades started soon after DU’s otherwise-perfect 22-0 last season ended on May 26, when DU finally fell to #1 Northwestern in Cary, North Carolina in the NCAA semifinals, the high water mark for DU’s history in the women’s game. Since that time, it has been clear that the program is doing everything in its power to return to Cary this spring to bring about a different result – a national title. Continue reading DU Women’s Lacrosse is In it to Win it All
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Overachieving Fall Sports Come to a Close
An over-performing, cobbled-together volleyball team finished with a share of the regular season Summit League Title with three other teams. They traveled to Vermillion, S.D. for the Summit League Tournament, won the first round, advanced to the semifinal and fell Monday to the Omaha Mavericks in five sets (21-25, 21-25, 25-20, 25-15, 14-16). The Pioneers battled back from a two-game deficit and lost in extra points. The team started 1-7 in non-conference play with a new coach and the loss of key players. Continue reading Overachieving Fall Sports Come to a Close