Good Morning, Bronco Nation! Boise State's Allyson Alden was named the Southland Conference Beach Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Year. The honor marks the second consecutive season a Bronco has earned the accolade after Sierra Land took home the award a season ago.

Six Broncos were also named to the SLC All-Academic Team, the most honorees that have been named from a single team in the history of the conference. Alden joined Avery Allen, Emilia Guerra-Acuña, Sharli O'Neil, Abbie Wolf and Elli Wolthuis on the 12-person team.  Guerra-Acuña, O'Neil, Wolf and Wolthuis all received the recognition for the second time in their respective careers.

What else is mixed into today’s Brew? Scroll down below to find out!

🎾 Many regional accolades for men’s and women’s tennis
🗣 Coaching additions made to softball, women’s golf
🔷 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Women’s Tennis Accolades Roll Deep. Boise State women's tennis head coach Beck Roghaar was named the 2025 Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Mountain Region Head Coach of the Year, the ITA announced. This marks Roghaar's second major coaching accolade of the season, having been named the 2024-25 Mountain West Coach of the Year in May.

Additionally, assistant coach Errol Smith earned Assistant Coach of the Year honors. Bhakti Shah received the Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award, and the team was recognized with the ITA Community Service Award for a second consecutive season.

🏆 : MORE ON THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

🔼 Courting Success. Boise State men's tennis had two members, Lukas Velik and Daniel Hangstefer, honored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) with postseason regional awards.
 
Velik has been named the ITA Mountain Region Rookie of the Year after his debut season in the Blue and Orange. Velik is the seventh Bronco all-time to earn the ITA Rookie of the Year recognition and the first since Kyle Butters in 2016. Hangstefer, the associate head coach, has been named the ITA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He helped guide Boise State to a 21-6 record this season and a perfect 6-0 Mountain West mark on the way to a second straight regular season championship and berth in the NCAA tournament.

🔼 The One-Two Punch of Boise State MBB. Man, we’re gonna miss this duo, as they worked together like a well-oiled machine.

🔼 Heavy Hitters. The Boise State softball program added Mariah Lopez and Tegan Cortelletti as assistant coaches, as announced by head coach Justin Shults.

Lopez comes to Boise State from Cal Baptist, and will serve as the Bronco pitching coach. As a collegiate pitcher, Lopez was 51-2 in three years at Oklahoma (2017-19) and 20-5 in two seasons at Arizona (2020-21). She was the winning pitcher for the Sooners in the 2017 Women's College World Series.

Cortelletti played five seasons as an outfielder at Ohio State (2019-23). As a fifth-year student-athlete, she led the Buckeyes with a .394 batting average. She began her coaching career at Bowling Green and spent the 2025 season with the Falcons.

🔼 Go For Gomez. Boise State women's golf head coach Kailin Downs announced the addition of Chayse Gomez as the team's assistant coach. Gomez joins the Broncos after helping Cal State Fullerton to the NCAA Championships and a Big West title in 2024-25. She played five seasons at Oregon State, concluding her career with a 73.62 scoring average, second-best in school history.

⛳️ : MORE ON COACH GOMEZ

📱 FROM THE A.D.

🤔 BLUE TURF TRIVIA

Success Beckons. How many women’s tennis coaches in Boise State history have earned the region’s top coaching honor before Beck Roghaar just did so?

Think you know the answer? Scroll to the bottom to find out!

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🗓 LOOKING AHEAD

*All times in MT unless otherwise listed

Wednesday, June 11-Saturday, June 14
👟 Track & Field @ NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon

Thursday, August 21
⚽️ Women’s Soccer Opener @ Southern Utah in Cedar City, Utah @ 4 p.m.

Thursday, August 28
🏈 Football Opener @ Southern Florida in Tampa Florida @ 3:30 p.m. TV: ESPN Radio: Bronco Radio Network

Saturday, August 30
🏐 Women’s Volleyball Opener @ Utah Valley in Orem, Utah @ 3 p.m.

🔷 Go here to view the entire Boise State Athletics Calendar

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: One!

Beck Roghaar is only the second head coach in Boise State history to earn the region's top coaching honor and the first in 15 years. Mark Tichenor won the award twice, in 2006 and 2010.

🔷 Happy Wednesday, Bronco Nation!