The UNLV women’s basketball team signed point guard Kavionnia Brown and center Krista Jackman to national letters of intent to play for the Lady Rebels starting in the fall of 2017-18.
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The UNLV women’s soccer team is headed to the first round of the NCAA Soccer Tournament this week where they will first face the BYU Cougars.
The senior scored a single-season record 34 points for the Rebels after playing in one game as a sophomore and scoring one goal as a junior.
UNLV senior Jakob Amilon was ousted from the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships when he lost his first consolation match Friday in Flushing, New York.
Dakota Blazak and Lily Sender scored in the opening 15 minutes to lead top-seeded UNLV to a 2-1 win over Utah State in a semifinal of the Mountain West women’s soccer tournament Thursday in San Diego.
Jakob Amilon became just the second player in program history to win an ITA Regional.
Lily Sender scored three goals Friday to help UNLV clinch the Mountain West women’s soccer regular-season title with a 4-2 win over UNR in Reno.
Alex Roldan and Nathan Aune scored on headers 7:12 apart on either side of halftime Friday to power host Seattle to a 4-1 victory over UNLV in a Western Athletic Conference soccer match.
The team, which has an exceptionally large senior class, is 14-3-2 after going 11-10 a season ago.
The Baylor women’s golf team won the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City by eight strokes over host UNLV.
UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy will step down at the end of the academic year. She then will move to the UNLV Foundation.
UNLV senior Jakob Amilon did not lose a set while soaring to the singles crown in the ITA Mountain Region Championships at Darling Tennis Center.
Danny Musovski had two goals and an assist to lead UNLV to a 3-2 victory over Air Force in a Mountain West men’s soccer match Friday at Johann Memorial Field.
Bree Hammel had 13 kills and 12 digs to lead UNLV to a 3-0 victory over Air Force in a Mountain West volleyball match Thursday in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Charley Hoffman, a former UNLV All-American and member of the 1998 national championship team, has missed the cut in Las Vegas the past two years but did finish fourth in 2014.