Utah State’s sports season will officially begin when its soccer team travels to Pullman, Washington for the season opener of the reigning Mountain West champion Aggies. The team is coming off a historic season in which it had a 18-1-5 record, reached No. 7 in the United Soccer Coaches Poll, won a second consecutive conference tournament title, and hosted an NCAA Tournament game. Unsurprisingly, the program that is coming off back-to-back victories in the Mountain West Tournament was selected to win it all this year in the preseason poll. Utah State garnered six of the 13 first-place votes. Behind them are Boise State, which got three first-place votes with Colorado State and San Diego State in third and fourth, respectively, each getting one top vote. New Mexico received two first-place votes but were seventh in the poll. The 2025 Mountain West Women’s Soccer Preseason Poll There’s clearly a lot Utah State has to live up to, but it’s a task that Manny Martins, who agreed to a contract extension last summer, is set to tackle. And the fifth-year head coach of the Aggies joined the Full Court Press on 106.9 The FAN last Friday to discuss the team’s offseason and