Briefs: ‘Decade of Dominance’ program at UM Sept. 12

by Daily Inter Lake
| August 21, 2025 4:30 PM

Montana Grizzly Players Association and Grizzly Athletics invites all former players and fans to attend “A Decade of Dominance,” an event on Sept. 12 celebrating the rise of Montana football and the legacy of legendary head coach Don Read.

This event will recognize the Montana Grizzly Football program from 1986-95, with 2025 marking the 30th anniversary of the 1995 National Championship. Hear from former players, coaches, and staff as they give you a behind the scenes look into each of Coach Read’s 10 seasons.

Enjoy a social hour, meet and greet, plated dinner, door prizes, auction, and much more.

The event will be at the Adams Center starting at 5 p.m. Tickets are $150 per person. All proceeds from this event will support the football program in honor of Coach Read.

Seelhoff lands Big Sky honor

Montana senior Chloe Seelhoff, who spent last Thursday evening terrorizing Southern Utah’s defense, has been named the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.

Seelhoff scored the Grizzlies’ second and third goals in their 3-0 shutout of the Thunderbirds in Montana’s season opener, the second two-goal performance of her two-year Griz career.

It’s the second career Big Sky Offensive Player of the Week award for Seelhoff, who also on Tuesday made the honorable mention list on Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week.

Bobcats poll second in cross country

The Big Sky Conference released the results of its 2025 men’s and women’s cross country preseason coaches’ polls on Tuesday, and MSU is No. 2 in both.

Last fall the Bobcat men and women were runners up at the league championships in Pocatello, Idaho. Sam Ells of Glacier and Flathead High product Ben Perrin return after earning all-Big Sky honors in 2024.

Northern Arizona’s women are unanimous favorites to win a seventh straight Big Sky titles. The Lumberjack men have won four straight.

Montana was picked seventh among the men’s teams and ninth out of the 10 women’s Big Sky teams.

Tech, Western Frontier football favorites

HELENA — Montana Tech is the favorite in the Frontier Conference East Division, in a poll of the league’s football coaches released Monday.

Montana Tech collected 34 points and four of the seven first-place nods in the poll, narrowly edging Frontier newcomer Dickinson State for the top spot.

There are two divisions in the conference, which expanded to 14 schools with the addition of North Star Athletic Association institutions Dakota State, Dickinson State, Mayville State, and Valley City State along with Simpson of California. Each division winner gets an automatic bid to the NAIA’s football playoffs.

The Orediggers, coached for former Flathead High mentor Kyle Samson, kick off the season Aug. 28 at home against Western Division favorite Montana Western.

2025 Frontier Conference Coaches Poll

East Division

Rk. Team Pts

1. Montana Tech (4) 34

2. Dickinson State (3) 33

3. Rocky Mountain 25

4. Dakota State 21

5. Mayville State 14

6. Valley City State 13

7. MSU-Northern 7

West Division

1. Montana Western (5) 35

2. Southern Oregon (1) 30

3. College of Idaho 26

4. Carroll (1) 23

5. Eastern Oregon 16

6. Arizona Christian 11

7. Simpson 6