Anthony Avila, assistant athletic director for the University of La Verne, will receive the College Sports Communicators Bud Nangle award in June for donating part of his liver to his mother during the summer of 2025 while keeping up with his responsibilities for the ULV Athletics Department.
The baseball and softball teams both saw their seasons end last weekend in their respective Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference postseason tournaments.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association – in compliance with the Trump Administration’s dubious executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” – updated its rules on transgender student-athletes earlier this year.
The baseball team was unable to hold onto first place in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and now find themselves in the No. 2 seed of the conference postseason tournament after they were swept by the Chapman Panthers in their final series of the regular season.