Skip to content
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinions
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Culture
  • E-Version
  • About Us
  • Mesa Legend Podcast
  • Newsletter
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Youtube

Mesa Legend

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinions
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Culture
  • E-Version
  • About Us
  • Mesa Legend Podcast
  • Newsletter

Latest News

Gas prices advertised at a Quiktrip location in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. (Photo: Jak Holdcraft)

MCC says ongoing fuel crisis has changed their spending habits

Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center's 27th Annual Community Breakfast presenting the new Arizona Support Autism license plate. From left to right : Daniel Openden, President and CEO of SARRC; Joe Bradley, Support Autism license plate artist; Arizona state senator Flavio Bravo (D) District 26; and Denis Resnik, founder, president and CEO of First Place AZ hold their own personalized license plates. The event was held in the Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom at the Arizona Biltmore Resort on April 17, 2025. (Photo Courtesy of SARRC)

Pride in plain sight: the story of the Arizona Support Autism license plate and the autism-self-advocate artist who brought it to life

Gas prices at a Circle K location in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. Standard fuel has up to a 10% ethanol blend, labeled 'octane 87.'

Live in the Phoenix-metro area? You probably won’t have access to E15 gas 

Vaughan (right) teaches his students about the history of Clonmacnoise, a 6th century monastic community, during the Study Abroad Ireland 2022 trip. There were no cities in Ireland until the 9th century, so communities like these were the only representations of advanced knowledge in early Medieval Ireland. (Photo: Barry Vaughan)

MCC’s Study Abroad program returns next summer

Gas prices at a Quiktrip station in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. Arizona's statewide average is $4.57 per gallon as of April 21, according to AAA, over one dollar more than the statewide average in 2025. (Photo: Angel Marcos)

Arizona political leaders encourage EPA to issue emergency fuel waiver

Brian spends hours a day on the field carefully supervising and mentoring the Thunderbirds men's soccer team. (Photo: Erick Romero)

Thunderbirds men’s soccer coach reflects on his career at MCC

Gas pump fueling up a car

MCC students share how the fuel crisis has affected them

Final day for students to vote for next leaders of the Associated Students of Mesa Community College

Voters waiting in line outside of the SRP headquarters in Tempe on April 7, 2025, the last day to drop off ballots. (Photo: Gwendolyn Owen/The Legend)

SRP election saw high turnout, Turning Point loses majority

Cesar Chavez (center) on march from Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California. (Photo: John Malmin/Los Angeles Times)

Mesa removes Cesar Chavez honorary plaque, street signs

Thursday, May 07, 2026

Category: Sports

Cody Tucker Leads MCC Baseball
Sports

Cody Tucker Leads MCC Baseball

Aaron Decker 02/06/2020

Cody Tucker can play an assortment of instruments, grew up a basketball fan, and had no intention of going to college. Despite this, he finds himself as the leader on … Read More

athleticsbaseballfeatureThunderbirds
Esports has Entered the MCC Arena
Sports

Esports has Entered the MCC Arena

Nienke Onneweer 02/03/2020

MCC is the second Maricopa Community College with an esports club. Those with a keen eye passing through the Student Center may already have caught on: an esports club has … Read More

ClubCompetitionEsportsNavajo RoomTournament
Women’s Basketball Coach: Kori Stephenson
Sports

Women’s Basketball Coach: Kori Stephenson

Nienke Onneweer 11/06/2019

Last year, Mesa Thunderbirds head women’s basketball coach Kori Stephenson was named the Region I – ACCAC Coach of the Year, but you’d never hear it from her. Despite leading … Read More

BasketballCoachWomen’s
Sports

Campus hosts Special Olympics

Brock Blasdell 11/06/2019

Special Olympics Arizona (SOAZ) hosted the bocce ball section of the Arizona special olympics at the Southern and Dobson campus on Saturday, Oct. 5. Over 100 athletes signed up to … Read More

Bocce BallSpecial Olympics
Sports

Thunderbirds Take It To Overtime

Brock Blasdell 11/06/2019

Mesa Community College’s (MCC) men’s soccer team competed against Phoenix College last Saturday in a home game that marked the eleventh game of the season. The Thunderbirds lost five minutes … Read More

Sports

MCC’s Unique Sports Shop

Allison Cripe 11/06/2019

Mesa Community College (MCC) is the only two-year college in the Maricopa county to have an online sports store. This idea was a collaboration between Director of Athletics, John Mulhern … Read More

Featured Athlete: Kennadee Coplen
Sports

Featured Athlete: Kennadee Coplen

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

Kennadee Coplen has been playing volleyball since eight years old. At first she wasn’t as skilled as she is now. “Starting out was kind of rough,” Coplen said. “I would … Read More

Featured Athlete: Flynn Fuhrmann
Sports

Featured Athlete: Flynn Fuhrmann

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

In Flynn Fuhrmann’s family, you pick a sport and continue with it through high school. For his brother and sister, it was baseball and soccer respectively, but Fuhrmann decided to … Read More

Featured Athlete: Caitlyn Waller
Sports

Featured Athlete: Caitlyn Waller

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

Caitlyn Waller has grown up around soccer players her whole life. Her father, mother, older and younger brother were all soccer players at one point. Now her father coaches and … Read More

Sports

Feature Athlete: Colton Root

Robert Steiner 04/03/2019

Rob Steiner MesaCC Legend Colton Root, a sophomore, is a thrower for the Mesa Community College (MCC) Track and field team who has overcome challenges in his life. A track … Read More

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent Posts

  • MCC says ongoing fuel crisis has changed their spending habits
  • Pride in plain sight: the story of the Arizona Support Autism license plate and the autism-self-advocate artist who brought it to life
  • Live in the Phoenix-metro area? You probably won’t have access to E15 gas 
  • MCC’s Study Abroad program returns next summer
  • Arizona political leaders encourage EPA to issue emergency fuel waiver
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: TimesNews | By Theme Freesia.