Paul Coro

Phoenix

Senior Writer and Web Editor at Grand Canyon Athletics

Lopes Insider for Grand Canyon University. https://t.co/oDqZmL05la writer/editor. @GCU_MBB radio analyst. Proud pop. In west Phoenix, born and raised, on the playground...

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Colangelo event pairs GCU-Oklahoma State, UA-OU

1 week ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

Just as Jerry Colangelo is synonymous with quality basketball and downtown Phoenix, Grand Canyon is a staple for a high-profile nonconference event in the heart of Phoenix. In the Lopes' eighth trip to downtown PHX Arena over nine seasons, the Jerry Colangelo Classic is creating an Arizona-Oklahoma interstate doubleheader with GCU facing Oklahoma State and Arizona playing Oklahoma on Dec. 6 at the Phoenix Suns and Mercury venue.
Season of high moments ends with 2-loss day

2 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

MESA, Ariz. – This season's Grand Canyon baseball team that upset three top-25 teams and went 14-9 against top-100 RPI opponents lost seven of its last eight games. The Lopes team that ranked among the nation's top 35 for ERA through the first 30 games at 4.15 gave up 10.9 runs per game in that 1-7, season-ending stretch.
3-homer inning keeps GCU alive at Tucosn Regional

3 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

TUCSON, Ariz. – Trailing 2-0 in the fourth inning, Grand Canyon needed a charge in a must-win Tucson Regional game. The Lopes electrified Hillenbrand Stadium with a three-homer fourth inning that wiped out the lead on the way to No. 24 GCU;s 9-4 Saturday victory that eliminated WCC champion Santa Clara. At 7:50 p.,m. Saturday, GCU (47-7) plays another elimination game on ESPN against No. 13 host Arizona (46-12), the regional's top seed that lost 10-8 to Ole Miss earlier Saturday.
Title game peek preceded Smith move to GCU

3 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

After his UC Riverside team was eliminated in the Big West Championship, Kaleb Smith remained in Las Vegas and still had a March Madness-sized appetite for basketball. Unknowingly, Smith took a peek into his basketball future when he watched Grand Canyon defeat Utah Valley in the WAC Tournament championship at a purple-blanketed Orleans Arena. Less than two months later, Smith is a Lope.
Diehl ties for 7th at NCAA Reno Regional

3 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

RENO, Nev. – A two-day stretch of inclement weather broke Wednesday, but the Grand Canyon men's golfers could not get breaks. Entering the final round four strokes from the final NCAA Championship spot at the Reno Regional, GCU retreated to an 11th-place finish in a pack of six teams (sixth through 11th) separated by seven strokes in the three-round tournament at Montreux Golf and Country Club.
Surge puts Lopes in final-day mix for national spot

3 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

RENO, Nev. – The NCAA Reno Regional drew the desert dwellars from Grand Canyon into a seemingly unfitting setting. After GCU golfers faced Monday's gusty winds, Tuesday brought morning frost with snow blowing off nearby Mount Rose and afternoon drizzle and near-freezing temperatures as they wrapped a 25-hole day. All the Lopes did with the elements was rise as temperatures dropped.
Tucson Regional pits No. 24 GCU, No. 21 Ole Miss

3 weeks ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

The ladder of the Grand Canyon softball program stepped into its first NCAA Division I regional in 2022, recorded its first regional win in 2023 by beating No. 2 UCLA and reached a regional final in 2024. The next rung awaits 120 miles south from GCU in Tucson this weekend, when 24th-ranked GCU (46-6) will be the regional's No. 3 seed and face No. 2 seed Ole Miss (37-17).
Staff effort, edge put GCU 1st in nation for ERA

1 month ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

The Grand Canyon pitching rotation that is posting college softball's lowest ERA this season includes hurlers from three Oklahoma towns with less than 10,000 people combined and a third-year Lope who was raised in the Phoenix area but first played on a sub-.500 team elsewhere. GCU enters this week's WAC Tournament in Riverside, California, with the nation's second-best record (43-6) in large part due to its pitchers' 1.79 ERA, the lowest by a WAC team in 13 years.
Owusu-Anane fortifies frontline for GCU

1 month ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

Winners attract winners. After averaging 27 wins to reach the past three NCAA Tournaments, Grand Canyon landed one of the premier talents in the portal transfer because Brown 6-foot-8 power forward Nana Owusu-Anane wanted to join a winner. The Lopes also are getting one of the hungrier basketball players in the nation. Owusu-Anane missed last season after suffering a partially torn left shoulder labrum on Brown's first day of practice last year.
Young Lopes test Texas in NCAA tourney loss

1 month ago | gculopes.com | Paul Coro

AUSTIN, Texas – The NCAA Tournament seeding gave Grand Canyon women's tennis about as much chance of emerging Friday as the sunshine had at Texas Tennis Center. Under an overcast sky and with play halted once for rain and once for nearby lightning, the bright future of GCU flickered during a season-ending, 4-0 loss to 14th-ranked host Texas. Four of the Lopes' six lineup players are in their first year at GCU, as is head coach Dané Vorster.