Grand Canyon Athletics

1 day 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.

1 day 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.

2 days 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.

5 days 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).

1 week 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.