The Utah Utes are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City. The athletic department is named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans. The men's basketball team is known as the Runnin' Utes; the women's gymnastics team is known as the Red Rocks.
The Utes at George C. Page Stadium in 2009
Jon M. Huntsman Center
Rice-Eccles Stadium
Swoop
University of Utah is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. The university received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. It is the flagship university of the Utah System of Higher Education.
University Hall in Salt Lake City, the first permanent home of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah)
The Block U has overlooked the university since 1907
The University of Utah campus in the early 1920s
A view of lower campus