In The News: Intercollegiate Athletics
Lindy La Rocque doesn’t remember the days before Title IX became the law of the land — the UNLV women’s basketball coach hadn’t been born yet. Then again, that’s true of a lot of coaches working today.
UNLV plans to award the Dwaine Knight scholarship each year. They cite Knight's contributions, dedication to UNLV Athletics, and career successes, as reasons to name the scholarship in his honor.
In her second season as a collegiate head coach, La Rocque—daughter of legendary Las Vegas prep coach Al La Rocque—guided UNLV’s women’s basketball to the Mountain West Conference regular season and tournament titles, and to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 20 years. Her future couldn’t be brighter.
Name, image and likeness, or NIL, is changing college athletics, allowing some athletes to land endorsement deals in six and even seven figures.
The UNLV women’s basketball team is celebrating a successful 2021-22 season, capped off by a trip to the NCAA tournament for the first time in two decades. In doing so, the Lady Rebels helped add to the growing popularity of the women’s tournament, which also received the “March Madness” branding previously enjoyed only by the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Despite the loss by the Lady Rebels in Arizona, fans in the Las Vegas valley are proud of their efforts and believe the basketball team will help inspire valley girls to think about playing for UNLV.
Though they lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, UNLV is ready to capitalize on Las Vegas' growing love of women's basketball
Despite the loss by the Lady Rebels in Arizona, fans in the Las Vegas valley are proud of their efforts and believe the basketball team will help inspire valley girls to think about playing for UNLV.
It’s March and the NCAA Tournament is calling the Lady Rebels. UNLV is hosting a send-off for the women’s basketball team as they head to the tournament for the first time in 20 years.
Former UNLV sprinter Kaysha Love was named Monday to the U.S. Olympic bobsled team that will compete next month in the Winter Games in Beijing.
New UNLV AD Erick Harper will be "tasked with reinvigorating an increasingly tepid fan base amid a general lack of success within school’s two prominent revenue-generating programs: men’s basketball and football."
After a six-month national search, UNLV introduced one of its own to take over as the school’s new Athletic Director. That person is Erick Harper, and he says he has a mission of making the Rebels a championship brand.