{"id":105121,"date":"2025-12-22T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:38:08","slug":"2025-year-in-review-for-fresno-state-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105121\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Year in Review for Fresno State Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The year 2025 for Fresno State Athletics saw the university make it through a men’s basketball gambling investigation unscathed, as well as multiple champions on campus.<\/p>\n

Triston “Murf” Gray lit Pete Beiden Field on fire with his 18 home runs and Mountain West Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n

He helped the baseball team win back-to-back conference championships and return to the NCAA Regionals.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Fresno State softball team came a win away from also winning the conference. Now there’s a new head coach (Charlotte Morgan) and a new-look roster.<\/p>\n

In the early summer, Cierra Jackson broke the NCAA championship meet record in the discus throw, becoming the school’s first National champion for outdoor track & field.<\/p>\n

[RELATED] Aliz Kalmar becomes Fresno State’s 1st NCAA swim finalist in quarter-century<\/a><\/p>\n

By the fall, first-year football head coach Matt Entz experienced ups and downs during an eventful season. <\/p>\n

Multiple quarterback changes, a dominant defense, and a win over eventual MW champion Boise State – those three things are likely what most fans will remember the 2025 season by.<\/p>\n

An 8-win campaign sent the Bulldogs to a 5th straight bowl game, which they play on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ryan McCarthy took over the women’s basketball program after winning 82% of his games over 13 years at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.<\/p>\n

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And of course, this is the last calendar year that Fresno State is a member of the Mountain West. The Bulldogs move to the PAC-12 conference halfway through 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The year 2025 for Fresno State Athletics saw the university make it through a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-105121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}