UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWS SOURCE | April 21, 2026

Author: Ryan Forsey

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Santa Gets Help from Local Softball Tournament

Southern Utah is well known for year-long softball play, attracting players and fans not only from Utah, but from surrounding states as well. Nothing showcases that more than the annual Toys for Kids Softball Tournament sponsored and run by the St. George City Recreation Department.   The rules of the tournament are simple; it is […]

Family Passion Brings New Venue for Outdoor Recreation

A kick of the leg and flick of the wrist revs the motor to life, accelerating the heart and increasing adrenaline levels– this is motocross. For 10 years, motocross enthusiasts in southern Utah have waited and wished for a local track to quench their thirst for speed, dirt and big air on two wheels. This […]

Desert Hills Football is All About Family

On a cold moonlit November night, the Desert Hills High School football team is hard at work preparing for this week’s state playoff game at Stansbury High School in Tooele County. The practice looks and sounds just like any other, but take a closer look at the players and what each one has on the […]

Region 9 Prep Football Regular Season Wrap-Up

With state playoffs beginning tonight, it’s time to recap the regular season and how Region 9 teams got to this point. The high school football season in Southern Utah started with a bang. Both the Hurricane Tigers and Dixie Flyers scored upsets over 5A teams, while Desert Hills and Pine View came up just short […]

Thriller Dance Production about Fun and Laughter, Not Scares and Screams

On any given night at the Tuacahn Amphitheater you can see large crowds of people entering the well-known venue to see a Broadway caliber show. However, on this particularly cool, star lit night, there is something strange and even undead making its presence known to the gathering crowd. Odyssey Dance Theater’s musical production of Thriller […]

Former Olympic Great Brought Unique Motivation to Senior Games Athletes

Each year hundreds of athletes from across the country and around the globe travel to St. George for the Huntsman World Senior Games. Each athlete arrives with a desire to compete in events they love, and they play in those respective events with an unbridled passion of competitive spirit and sportsmanship. This year’s opening ceremony […]

87-Year-Old Speeds Into Racquetball Competition

Racquetball is one of the more popular events at the World Huntsman Senior Games, and just like the games themselves, athletes come from across the nation and around the globe to the St. George Recreation Center to play the sport. However, very few of those racquetball athletes stand out like this one. Ghandi once said, […]

Last Year’s Marathon Winner Sets Sights on Olympics

Early Saturday morning, over 7,600 hundred runners descended on southern Utah for the 35th Annual St. George Marathon.  This year’s race would be a little different though, being run without last year’s hometown winner, Aaron Metler. Instead of defending his title, Metler has bigger plans and bigger goals to achieve. “The Olympic trials are something that […]

Meet a Jazz Player

Utah Jazz Forward Jeremy Evans made his away around Utah, including a stop in St. George to host a basketball camp for St. George youth.