Forty-eight UNLV athletes earned the 2012-2013 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Award, the league office announced Monday.
The conference had 623 athletes honored with the award.
For the second consecutive year, the women’s swimming and diving team was tops for UNLV, with 12 selections.
Mystik Dan, an 18-1 shot, edged Sierra Leone by a nose, with Forever Young another nose back in third on Saturday.
Toa Yokoyama will be the Rebels’ lone representative when the NCAA women’s golf regionals begin Monday at Spanish Trail Country Club.
The Review-Journal’s award-winning sports staff has added a new reporter to cover UNLV and the two-time defending WNBA champion Aces.
The UNLV men’s golf team will play on this season after earning a berth in an NCAA regional field Wednesday.
Alison Lee is in a precarious spot in her quest to play in Paris this summer. Collin Morikawa, Allisen Corpuz and Rose Zhang also have work to do to get there.
UNLV junior golfer Toa Yokoyama will play as an individual in the NCAA regional at Spanish Trail next month after a season that included four top-10 finishes.
Kevin Cory, the winningest coach in Mountain West history, is hanging up his racket for good once UNLV’s women’s tennis team finishes its season.
UNLV golfer McKenzi Hall received an exemption to play in the T-Mobile Match Play last week and she tried to soak in the entire experience.
A UNLV golfer birdied the first hole of a playoff to claim the individual title at the All-American Intercollegiate in Texas on Tuesday.
Fifth-seeded UNLV lost to Adrian College (Mich.) in the American Collegiate Hockey Association men’s Division I final on Tuesday in Maryland Heights, Missouri.
