BYU cross country runner Erica Birk-Jarvis found out she was pregnant in 2017. After taking 20 months off running, Birk-Jarvis has made a remarkable comeback, making career best-times while balancing school, running and a family.
BYU is known for a variety of things such as its religious commitments, subsidized tuition, and athletic programs. Something that isn't often recognized about the university is the amount of Olympians who call BYU their alma mater.
BYU athletics participated in a five-day NCAA facilitated social media campaign to promote diversity and inclusion. The campaign ran Oct. 1–5 with the hashtag #NCAAInclusion. This hashtag was Twitter's eighth most trending topic in the nation the first day of the campaign, according to Yannick Kluch, a 2018–19 postgraduate intern in the NCAA Office of Inclusion. Each day of the campaign had a diversity and inclusion related theme.
For the first time since entering the West Coast Conference in 2010, BYU cross country will host the WCC Championship at the East Bay Golf Course on Oct. 27.
BYU women's cross country team is ranked No. 11 in the nation after taking first and sweeping nine of the top 10 spots at the Autumn Classic in Logan, Utah, on Sept. 15.
The women’s basketball team will have to alter their strategy this coming season as Shaylee Gonzales, one of the team's star players, recovers from an injury that occurred mid-July.
BYU football Head Coach Kalani Sitake started the More2Life foundation to give his players service opportunities outside of BYU athletics, and the charity has since sent BYU football players to Harlem, Compton and elsewhere to serve and mentor inner-city youth.
