Nevada athletic director Cary Groth announced her retirement effective at the end of the 2012-13 academic year.
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Nevada athletic director Cary Groth announced she will retire at the end of the 2012-13 academic year.
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The Nevada Wolf Pack officially joined the Mountain West Conference, leaving behind a crumbling Western Athletic Conference.
Colin Kaepernick, who had so many memorable moments as Nevada's starting quarterback, found Rishard Matthews on a 7-yard TD pass with 13 seconds left, Boise State kicker Kyle Brotzman missed a last-second chip-shot field goal, and the Wolf Pack defeated the Broncos, 34-31, in overtime on a 34-yard Anthony Martinez field goal that sent a chilled Mackay Stadium crowd into a frenzy.
Nevada will leave the WAC and join the Mountain West Conference in 2011, several sources told the RGJ in 2010.
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Nevada was placed on three years probation in March 2010 for major violations following a 28-month NCAA investigation.The Wolf Pack also was hit with scholarship reductions in men's and women's golf. The violations committed within the golf program included multiple extra benefit violations, unethical conduct and a failure to promote rules compliance by former men's golf coach Rich Merritt, who resigned on May 14, 2008. The investigation stemmed from a whistle-blower complaint filed by former soccer coach Terri Patraw in September 2007 alleging improper conduct by Merritt.
Nevada athletic director Cary Groth was inducted into the Northern Illinois Hall of Fame. Groth worked for the Huskies for 23 years, first as a coach, then administrator before serving as NIU's athletic director from 1994-2004.
Nevada men's basketball coach Mark Fox accepts the head coaching position at Georgia after a five-year tenure as the Wolf Pack's coach. David Carter was named as his replacement.
The NCAA launched an investigation into Nevada following a whistleblower complaint by soccer coach Terri Patraw, who was fired earlier that year. The claims included a lack of institutional control and gambling issues on campus.
The low point of a two-year stretch of Wolf Pack basketball players getting in trouble came on the Saturday before Halloween 2007, when Tyrone Hanson was beaten and robbed at a party at which three other party-goers were shot and killed. Hanson was dismissed from the team for a second rules violation and later played at Arkansas-Fort Smith and Jackson State.
Nevada was listed as one of the top athletics departments in the nation in providing opportunities for women in sports for four consecutive years in the national Gender Equity Scorecard study, including two years as the country's best in 2006 and 2007.
Fueled by the men's basketball championship as well as men's golf and women's swimming and soccer, Nevada was honored as the top overall athletic program in the Western Athletic Conference for 2006-07.
Nevada basketball players Nick Fazekas received one of the top honors in his career when he was named to The Associated Press All-America second team.
Nevada finished its best season in school history with a disappointing 2-1 loss against Stanford in the first round of the tournament.
Nevada was listed as one of the top athletics departments in the nation in providing opportunities for women in sports for four consecutive years in the national Gender Equity Scorecard study, including two years as the country's best in 2006 and 2007.
The Wolf Pack softball team was fourth in regular season, first in WAC Tournament and made remarkable run in WAC Tournament to make first-ever NCAA Regional appearance.
Nevada has also been recognized by the Laboratory for Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University for its accomplishments in the areas of diversity and was one of only 10 universities in the country to win the group's Diversity in Athletics Award in 2005-06.
The Nevada football team won a share of the Western Athletic Conference title and went to its first bowl game in nine years -- the Hawaii Bowl, where it beat Central Florida, 49-48, in overtime.
The Nevada men's basketball team entered the Associated Press' Top 25 poll for the first time.
Longtime Wolf Pack men's basketball assistant coach Mark Fox is named head coach.
Nevada men's basketball coach Trent Johnson leaves the Wolf Pack to take the head coaching job at Stanford.
The University of Nevada athletic department hires Cary Groth, the first female AD in the school's history, to replace Chris Ault.
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