FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Utah Valley softball will open the 2024 season at the prestigious Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as part of the first of two sessions hosted by Triple Crown Sports at Nancy Almaraz Stadium.
The Wolverines will play four games in three days from Feb. 8-10 against some of the best teams in the nation. Utah Valley will open the season on Feb. 8 against three-time defending national champions Oklahoma before facing off against Iowa State later that afternoon.
The Wolverines will then play single games on Feb. 9 and 10 against perennial powers Washington and Nebraska. All games will be streamed live on FloSoftball.
"We're excited for the opportunity to open the 2024 season at the Puerto Vallarta Challenge," said head coach Cody Thomson. "When we signed up, we knew it would be a challenge, but we're excited to play some very good teams, especially the defending national champs."
This will be the eighth edition of the Puerto Vallarta Challenge, and the second one that Utah Valley has participated in. The Wolverines traveled to Mexico in 2020 and had a successful 3-1 weekend with wins over George Washington, Nevada, and Long Beach State. Redshirt junior Laynee Betancur, the lone Wolverine remaining from that team, got her first career start that weekend against Oregon and scored her first career run against Nevada.
More information about tickets, travel info, and lodging can be found at PVCollegeChallenge.com.
The full 2024 Utah Valley Softball schedule will be released in the coming weeks.
About Triple Crown Sports
Based in Fort Collins, CO., Triple Crown Sports has been producing youth, high school and college events for more than 40 years. TCS runs both the preseason and postseason WNIT basketball events and produces the men's and women's DI Cancun Challenge tournaments in November. Triple Crown is also powering "WNIT" concept events in D-I softball (NISC) and volleyball (NIVC), with those two events debuting in 2017. Triple Crown's PV College Challenge features more than 10 of the top D-I college softball teams in the country each year in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Anchored by the 1,100-team Colorado 4th of July event, TCS fastpitch tournaments draw the nation's finest club programs, and hundreds of college coaches attend TCS events for recruiting purposes. TCS produces one of the largest youth baseball events in the world with the 650-team Omaha SlumpBuster during the College World Series. The Triple Crown Volleyball NIT has become the top-recruited club volleyball event in the country each February when 550 teams compete in Kansas City, MO.
