Less than one month after Oklahoma and Texas announced their intentions to join the Southeastern Conference, three of the biggest conferences in college athletics pushed back with an announcement of their own.

An action-packed spring season capped off a hectic year for UW Athletics, where 17 teams navigated sport seasons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are The Daily sports staff’s picks for best athletes, performances, and moments from the past year. 

Following the NCAA Division I Board of Directors' guidance approval to allow student-athletes to compensate on their name, image, and likeness (NIL), the UW Athletic Department unveiled plans to support its student-athletes in business endeavors.

With one swing of the bat, Will Simpson had put the Washington baseball team back in the game. 

Tyson Guerrero hasn’t received much run support. 

For the first five innings, Logan Gerling was almost untouchable. 

With two outs in the top of the seventh inning and runners on first and second, the Washington baseball team held a rapidly diminishing one-run lead. Utah’s redshirt junior third baseman Rykker Tom drilled a liner past the outstretched glove of UW senior shortstop Ramon Bramasco for a hit.

Davis Delorefice was 180 feet away from disaster. 

In a perfect world, Lindsay Meggs wants his pitchers to have a strikeout-to-walk ratio somewhere around 2.0.