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Utah Athletics | 2018-19 Accomplishments
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Baseball
- Mitch Wishnowsky, football (2nd team AP, AFCA, Walter Camp)
- Matt Gay, football (2nd team FWAA, 3rd team AP)
- Chase Hansen, football (2nd team FWAA, Sporting News)
- MaKenna Merrell-Giles, gymnastics
- MyKayla Skinner, gymnastics
- Mark Engel, skiingÂ
- Eirin Engeset, skiing
- Roni Remme, skiing
- Maximilian Bie, skiing
- Ola Jordheim, skiing
- Guro Jordheim, skiing
- Karianne Moe, skiing
- Julia Richter, skiing
- Kyler Dunkle, golf
- Sarah Feeny, indoor track & field
- Dani Drews, volleyball (2nd Team)
- Oliver Dunn, baseball (3rd Team Collegiate Baseball)
- Mitch Wishnowsky, football (Ray Guy Award)
- Skiing, RMISA Championship
- JJ Johnson, RMISA Alpine Coach of the Year (skiing)
- Julia Richter, RMISA Female Nordic Athlete of the Year (skiing)
- Dre’Una Edwards, Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (WBB)
- Julia Richter, 5k freestyle (skiing)
- Football, Holiday Bowl … fifth consecutive season in a bowl game, 14th in last 16 (12-2)
- Gymnastics, NCAA Semifinals .... 44th consecutive national championship appearance
- Skiing, NCAA Champions … 12th NCAA title in its history, 13th overall national title … Julia Richter won the women’s 5-km freestyle NCAA title
- Swimming and Diving … eight Utes went to the NCAA Championships, the largest contingent since 2014
- Golf … Kyler Dunkle became the first golfer since 2006 to compete at the NCAA Championships (finished t28th)
- Volleyball, NCAA Tournament Second Round … 15th tournament appearance in Beth Launiere’s tenure
- Julie Mohagen, skiing (first-team at-large)
- Shannon McNatt, gymnastics (third-team at-large)
- Britain Covey, football
- Julie Mohagen, skiing
- Shannon McNatt, gymnastics
- Ally Dickman, softball
- Hailey Skolmoski, soccer
- Cara Woolnough, track & field/cross country
- Highest one-year student-athlete GPA of 3.25 for 2018-19
- 26th consecutive semester with student-athlete collective GPA above 3.0
- Fall 2018 GPA of 3.3 highest single-semester GPA in Utah Athletics history
- Brianna Chisholm (WTEN) was named Pac-12 Women’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
- Men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams earned CSCAA Academic Awards; 29 swimmers and divers were named to Pac-12 All-Academic Teams
- Softball set a new program standard with 10 Pac-12 All-Academic honorees
- Soccer paced the Pac-12 with 12 student-athletes on the Pac-12 All-Academic teams
- Skiing had 15 named to the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team
- Track & Field totaled 21 athletes named to MPSF All-Academic team and 12 athletes named to Pac-12 All-Academic team
- Gymnastics had 10 athletes named WCGA Scholastic All-Americans
- Volleyball had three named to Pac-12 All-Academic team
- Baseball had four named to Pac-12 All-Academic Team
Baseball
- Collegiate Baseball All-American Oliver Dunn was drafted by the New York Yankees
- Team had four Pac-12 academic honorees
- Head Coach Bill Kinneberg won his 600th game
- Dunn named ABCA/Rawlings West All-Region and All-Pac-12
- Sedrick Barefield was named NABC All-District
- Jayce Johnson and Parker Van Dyke earned Pac-12 All-Academic honors
- First 20-win season since 2012-13 and the first in the Lynne Roberts era.
- Ranked in the Top 25 for the first time since 2008, reaching as high as No. 14 in the AP Poll.
- Won nine Pac-12 games and finished sixth in regular season standings, the highest finish and most wins since joining the Pac-12.
- Set a Pac-12 record for Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors at nine. The Utes ended up having three players earn Pac-12 All-Freshman team honors (Dre’Una Edwards & Dru Gylten – first team; Andrea Torres – honorable mention).
- Won Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (Dre’Una Edwards), the first player of the year award the Utes have won since joining the conference.
- Defeated Stanford for the first time in program history, beating the No. 6-ranked Cardinal which ties for the highest ranked win in program history.
- Megan Huff became just the third player in program history to score 1,000 points in just two seasons. She became Utah’s second player in program history to earn back-to-back Pac-12 All-Conference first-team honors. Huff was also drafted 26th overall in the third round of the WNBA Draft to the New York Liberty, Utah’s first draft pick since 2014 and the program’s sixth overall.
- Kyler Dunkle became the first golfer since 2006 to compete at the NCAA Championships, finishing tied for 28th. He was named to the Division I PING All-America team and also earned All-Region West honors.
- Dunkle earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors, the first to earn all-league honors since Utah joined the league. He finished second at the Pac-12 Championships for Utah's best individual finish ever at the event.
- Utah finished tied for fifth as a team at the Pac-12 Championships, its best finish since joining the league.
- Utah won the Showdown in the Rockies and the Bandon Dunes Championship.
- Kyler Dunkle won the Showdown in the Rockies and the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational.
- Blake Tomlinson won the Bandon Dunes Championship.
- Jordan Costello was named honorable mention All-Pac-12 Academic.Â
- Won the Pac-12 South Division for the first time and played in the Holiday Bowl (also for the first time).
- Finished No. 17 in the final College Football Playoff Ranking
- Mitch Wishnowsky, Chase Hansen and Matt Gay earned All-America status
- Wishnowsky became the only three-time Ray Guy Award finalist in NCAA history
- Five NFL Draft picks (Marquise Blair, Cody Barton, Mitch Wishnowsky, Matt Gay, Jackson Barton)
- Team registered a perfect single year APR score of 1000 and received public recognition from the NCAA for posting a multi-year APR (989) in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country.Â
- Team qualified for NCAA Semifinals after making it to the first eight-team NCAA Championships field in history (reduced from 12 teams), to extend national record for consecutive national championship appearances to 44, including all 38 NCAA Championships.
- MyKayla Skinner and MaKenna Merrell-Giles won first-team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships and during the regular season.
- Shannon McNatt was named CoSIDA Academic All-District
- Skinner was the Pac-12 champion on vault and floor (10.0) and the NCAA Regional all-around and floor champion.
- Skinner set an NCAA record for most consecutive hit routines (161 from 2017-19).
- Team registered perfect single year and multi-year (2014-18) APR score of 1000 and received public recognition from the NCAA for posting a multi-year APR in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country. Tied with Utah volleyball for the top multi-year APR score in the Pac-12.
- Ten athletes were named WCGA Scholastic All-Americans.Â
- 5-10 in their inaugural season.
- Jimmy Perkins scored the first goal in Utah history against Vermont.
- Earned first program win against Mercer.
- James Sexton scored 13 points against Detroit Mercy with five goals and eight assists, which was the highest single-game point total in the nation.
- Samuel Cambere was named to the College Crosse All-Freshman second team.Â
- Won the NCAA Championship, its 12th NCAA title in history, by 54.5 points over second-place Vermont.
- Julia Richter won the women's 5-km freestyle NCAA title and was named the RMISA Female Nordic Athlete of the Year.
- Eight skiers combined for 12 All-America honors: Mark Engel, Eirin Engeset and Roni Remme in alpine and Maximilian Bie, Ola Jordheim, Guro Jordheim, Karianne Moe and Julia Richter.
- JJ Johnson was named the RMISA Alpine Coach of the Year.
- Won four of the five meets held during the regular season including the NCAA West Regional/RMISA Championship.
- Roni Remme finished second in alpine combined on the World Cup circuit at Crans-Montana.
- Julie Mohagen earned first-team Academic All-America honors.Â
- After being selected ninth in the Pac-12's preseason poll, the Utes finished fourth, their second-best finish since joining the conference in 2011
- Hailey Skolmoski, Paola van der Veen and Hailey Stodden won Pac-12 postseason awards
- Skolmoski and Van der Veen were named All-Pacific Region and All-West Region Scholars by the United Soccer Coaches
- Skolmoski was also named CoSIDA Academic All-District and finished fifth all-time in Utah history with 26 career goals
- Utah paced the Pac-12 with 12 student-athletes on the all-academic teams; Skolmoski, Max Flom and Natalie Kump were named to the First Team
- Team registered a perfect single year APR score of 1000 and improved their multi-year rate to 983
- Alyssa Barrera, Ally Dickman and Julia Noskin won Pac-12 postseason awards
- Barrera, Noskin and Hailey Hilburn were named NFCA All-Region
- Dickman was also named CoSIDA Academic All-District and the toughest at-bat in the Pac-12 (1 K per 18.4 AB’s)
- Utah paced the Pac-12 with a program record 10 student-athletes on all-academic teams; Dickman and Katie Faulk were named to the First Team
- For the fourth straight season, Utah played one of the 20 toughest schedules in the nation; over half of its opponents made the NCAA Tournament and from Mar. 31 - Apr. 28 it played 11 games against teams ranked in the top five nationally
- Austin Phillips (50, 100 free), Liam O'Haimhirgin (50, 100, 200 free), Rodolfo Moreira (relays), Daniel McArthur (relays), Andrew Britton (relays), Clay Stoddard (relays) Tony Chen (1m, 3m diving) and Jordan Anderson (200, 400 IM, 200 fly) competed at the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championships, Utah’s largest contingent since 2014.
- Utah set 11 school records this season - (Audrey Reimer – 200 back; Aryanna Fernandes – 200 IM; Austin Phillips - 100, 200 free; Daniel McArthur - 200 back and IM; Andrew Britton - 100 breast; women’s 200 medley; men’s 200 medley, 200 and 400 free relays)
- Nineteen women named to Pac-12 All-Academic Teams with Marah Smith and Samantha Kraus on the First Team; men had 10 honorees with Daniel Theriault, Matteo Sogne, David Fridlander and Robert King on the First Team
- The Utah women had a 3.41 grade point average during the spring to earn their 13th straight CSCAA team academic award. The men's team had a 3.15 GPA during the fall and picked up its 12th CSCAA academic award over the last 13 semesters.
- The women’s team registered a perfect single year APR score of 1000 and had the biggest multi-year increase of any team to 984
- Qualified for its second straight NCAA Championships appearance.
- Finished the season with 17 dual wins, the fourth straight year with 17-or-more victories.
- Ranked as high as No. 41 in the ITA Rankings.
- Beat four top-40 ranked teams this season, including a big upset over No. 12 Stanford at home for senior day.
- Team tied for the second highest multi-year score in the Pac-12.
- Dan Little eclipsed the 90-career wins mark in singles play.
- Dan Little and David Micevski earned all-conference honors with Little earning second-team and Micevski landing on the honorable mention squad.
- Dan Little qualified for the NCAA Singles Championships, the first time the Utes will be represented since 2007.
- Dan Little was named the ITA Mountain Region Senior Player of the Year.
- Roeland Brateanu was named the Wilson/ITA Mountain Region Coach of the Year.
- The Utes earned a No. 42 final ITA ranking, the third time in the last four seasons that the Utes have landed in the final poll. Utah also earned a No. 1 rank in the final Mountain Region poll with Dan Little being ranked No. 1 in the final singles poll.
- Ranked as high as No. 38 nationally, its first top-40 ranking since 2014.
- Finished the season with 13 dual wins, including three in Pac-12 play with three true freshmen playing in the lineup.
- Defeated No. 28 Washington State to start the Pac-12 season.
- Brianna Chisholm earned Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Utah’s first scholar-athlete of the year award since joining the conference.
- Brianna Chisholm earned Pac-12 All-Conference honorable mention.
- Team registered a perfect single-year APR score of 1000.
- Had three student-athletes earn Pac-12 All-Academic with Brianna Chisholm earning her third straight first-team selection. Whitney Hekking was named to the second-team with Leah Heimuli earning honorable mention.
- Madison Tattini was named the ITA Mountain Region Freshman of the Year.
- Eight Utes traveled to the NCAA Track and Field Championships and Cara Woolnough earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors
- Sarah Feeny set three new school records (indoor 3K; outdoor 1500m and 5K)Â
- Taylor Watson set school records in indoor 55m and 60m dashes
- Kolbi Sims set school record in heptathlon, a record that had not been touched in 12 years
- Utah finished the season 19-14 and in a tie for sixth in the Pac-12 with a 10-10 record.
- Finished the season in the round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament after beating Denver in the first round
- All-Americans Dani Drews and Kenzie Koerber
- Dani Drews became the second underclassmen in program history to be named a Second Team All-American
- Had three players (Dani Drews, Kenzie Koerber and Saige Ka’aha’aina-Torres) go to Japan with the US Collegiate National team.
- The volleyball team earned a perfect single-year and multi-year APR score for the sixth consecutive year. They received public recognition from the NCAA for posting a multi-year APR in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country. Tied with Utah gymnastics for the top multi-year APR score in the Pac-12.
- Dani Drews was named All-Pac-12
- Four Utes picked up Pac-12 All-Academic honors
- Matched program record for wins with five
- Hosted first beach volleyball tournament on campus
- April 13, 2019--Largest donation in Utah Athletics history, $17.5 million, announced to create the Ken Garff Performance Zone, as part of the $80 million stadium expansion project.
- Nov. 14, 2018--Rice-Eccles Stadium expansion project announced; $80 million project to replace south end zone structure and enclose stadium bowl, increasing capacity to 51,444.