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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Markayla Lottie and Raziyah Thomas were both featured in the latest NAIA Women’s Wrestling individual rankings, the NAIA announced this week, making them the first two ranked women’s wrestlers in Avila Wrestling history. With the two ranked individual wrestlers also comes 11 team votes, meaning the Eagle women are now appearing in the NAIA’s team rankings for the first...

0.05. That was the point differential that separated first-place Pikeville and second-place Avila in the Traditional competition at last year’s Universal Cheerleaders’ Association (UCA) College Cheerleading National Championships. That was how close the Eagles were to the second national championship in program history. Just hours before Avila took second place in the Game Day competition with Sacred...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It is with great sadness that we announce that Avila University head baseball coach and assistant athletic director Daryl Cronk passed away at approximately 2 a.m., December 26, 2021. He was 46 years old. “This morning was hard,” said Avila University Director of Athletics Shawn Summe. “Daryl was a great and genuine man. His...

She’s had a killer start to her career in Kansas City, and after her best week of competition yet, Avila women’s basketball sophomore guard Ainsley Tolson has been named the KCAC Offensive Player of the Week for the week of November 22-28, the conference announced this week. The sophomore from Trenton, Missouri has been excellent in her first season...

The Avila University Department of Athletics announced Paul Wolf as the first head coach of the University’s newly-unveiled men’s and women’s bowling teams, which will begin competition in the 2021-22 school year. “We are excited about the addition of bowling,” Avila University Director of Athletics Shawn Summe said. “People who have never seen a collegiate...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Avila University Department of Athletics announced Graham Karwath as the first head coach of the department’s newly-unveiled men’s and women’s wrestling teams, which will begin competition in the 2021-22 school year. “I am really excited to welcome Graham to the Avila Athletics family,” said Avila University Director of Athletics Shawn...

A key piece of the defensive puzzle in a two more victories for Avila men’s basketball this past week, Hunter Hoggatt has been named the KCAC Defensive Player of the Week for the week of December 14-20, the conference announced Monday. The freshman guard from Sapulpa, Oklahoma has been one of the Eagles’ most consistent and most dynamic offensive...

After two career defensive outings in a pair of Eagle home games, Taniya Tease of Avila women’s basketball has been named the KCAC Defensive Player of the Week for the week of December 14-20, the conference announced Monday. An offensive mainstay since game, the first-year guard from Tulsa, Oklahoma was strong as usual on the offensive side of the...

The Avila University Department of Athletics unveiled Saturday, December 19, 2020, its plans to add men’s and women’s wrestling and men’s and women’s bowling as the newest Avila varsity programs, raising the school’s total to 16 varsity sports. All four teams will begin competition in the 2021-22 school year. “I’m really excited to announce the...

Avila University offensive lineman, senior Shabari Jones, has been named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American first-team for 2018. The AFCA has selected an All-America team since 1945 and currently selects teams in all five of its divisions. What makes these teams so unique is that they are the only awards chosen exclusively by the men who know the players the best — the coaches themselves....