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Sports

Mind Game

How do you come back after a fall during a race? Rooks has an answer for that.

Tailey Rowley, national collegiate disc golf champion, prepares for a toss in the rain

Campus

Learning Curve

Tailey Rowley was named the national collegiate disc golf champion—just a year and a half after picking up the sport.

Sports

This Is Big

BYU has finally found its place—decades in the making—in big-time collegiate athletics. 

President and Peggy Worthen look on as Shane Reese addresses an audience in the Marriott Center.

Campus

A Worthen Successor

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland announces BYU's next president: C. Shane Reese, current academic vice president.

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