UVU at the National Ethics Bowl Competition
For the 6th year in a row UVU has represented Utah in the National Ethics Bowl Competition 2025. This year the competition was held in Norfolk Virginia with 36 six other schools across two days. During the qualifying rounds the UVU team won two rounds against the University of Iowa and Indiana University and lost two rounds against University of Central Florida and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Ultimately UVU team secured 16th place nationally.
UVU National Competing Team:
- Andrew Domyan
- Audrey Smith
- Matthew Dickie
- Leslie Larson
- Jessi Ferrin
- Kyle Grimes
For all six members of the competing team this was their first time competing at the national competition. Unfortunately, the night before we the trip, one team member became very ill and was unable to make the trip. Thankfully, a student from the support team was ready to make a last-minute substitution and preformed wonderfully.
UVU Support Team
- Ella Black
- Ali Vanderwel
- Jackson Saunders
- Calvin Packer
- Sabrina Larson
- Jaden Willis
- Nathan Bowser
- Ryan Booze
- Austin Skousen
- Alaina Sapp
- Emma Bybee
- Teasha Carson
- Aly Jones
- Calvin Suder
- Edwin Tierrablanca
Congratulations to Coach Jeff Neilson
Congratulations to Jeff Nielsen for receiving the Pat Croskery coaching award. The Pat Croskery Memorial Award is given to an ethics bowl coach, who exemplifies a dedication to students realizing the full value of the Ethics Bowl experience, which is not just about participating in an exciting competition, but about gaining respect for competing viewpoints, developing lifelong moral reasoning skills, and learning how to discuss complicated moral issues with those who hold different views in a way that serves to better society. In addition to coaching several teams through regionals and on to national rankings, Jeff has made constant contributions to ethics education at UVU and throughout Utah. He regularly organizes tabling events, ethics slams, and has even worked with the Utah Prison Education Programs (UPEP) to bring ethics bowl to inmates.
A thank you as well to our assistant coaches, Kaitlyn Russel and Rowan Hadlock. Both are ethics bowl alumni with multiple national rankings to show for it. As the UVU ethics bowl team continues to grow their volunteer work has been increasingly critical to the team’s success.
