After coming to the University of Montana to study integrative physiology to become a physical therapist, Rachel Porter soon found herself missing the rush and adrenaline she felt playing basketball and softball in high school. Now, she’s the University of Montana women’s rugby team’s longes…

In the University of Montana’s dance team’s competition, debut sophomore Madeline McKinnon slid to the front of the stage to jump down onto her knees as a part of their rehearsed routine. But this time, “something wasn’t right.” With tears in her eyes, McKinnon had just torn a major muscle i…

The University of Montana track and field team dominated the competition at the Montana Open on Friday and Saturday in a weekend full of personal bests and program records. The wind didn’t stop UM athletes from making big jumps in the Big Sky Conference rankings with less than three weeks un…

April marks the one-year anniversary of the University of Montana’s announcement of the new inflatable sports practice facility. Placed on top of the old fields adjacent to the Adams Center parking lot, the dome represents the future for Grizzly Athletics. But for intramural sports, clubs an…

On April 8, in the first round of the Bobcat Desert Classic, the University of Montana women’s golf team shot a four-player total of 288 to tie for both the par and the best round in program history. Kendall Hayward led the performance thanks to a great first nine holes that led her to shoot…

After a lackluster 2023 season, the Griz softball team is still struggling to make gains with a 14-23 overall record. However, the team is seeing some exciting potential in University of Montana freshman Riley Peschek.

Despite being a relatively new sport, few activities have become as popular in college recreation as roundnet, more commonly known as Spikeball because of the brand that helped revitalize the sport. The University of Montana is no exception to this with the Spikeball Club offering both casua…

In its first home meet of the season, the University of Montana Track and Field team vehemently defended home turf and broke a half century-old record in the process.

A batter tasked with hitting a baseball has roughly four-tenths of a second to react to a variety of pitches, which makes hitting a baseball one of the hardest things to do in sports. What is often overlooked is that D1 softball batters have the same or even less reaction time as their D1 ba…

On March 24, after two days of competition, Grizzly Orienteering gifted Missoula a rare achievement: a national championship. The team of four individually navigated, ran and bushwhacked their way through the exterior of Quincy, Washington, above the Columbia River Gorge to win the club’s fi…

The University of Montana proudly brags about its distinction as one of the nation’s premier wildlife biology schools. However, beneath this prestigious reputation lies a troubling contradiction within the University’s mascot history: For over 60 years, the University unethically used live b…

Both the Griz men’s basketball team and Lady Griz had successful regular seasons, but fell short in the Big Sky Conference Tournament held in Boise, Idaho, from March 9-13. 

The University of Montana men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, Smokejump, is back in full force this year after the team’s numbers were devastated in 2021 when 18 players graduated and the pandemic caused recruitment issues. At one point, the club’s numbers dwindled to single digits.   

At the Big Sky Indoor Championships on Feb. 23, Cooper Hewett crossed the finish line with a record time of 6.72 seconds in the 60-meter dash, crushing the 26-year-standing school record and setting a new personal record. The next day, he won the whole event, the first University of Montana …

During the Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championship from Feb. 22 to Feb. 24, Jason Upton earned points in all three events he competed in. This made him the University of Montana’s leading point scorer and contributed to the team’s better than expected fifth-place finish in one of the m…