Cats beat the Bulldogs

The Western Carolina University football team opened the season with a big victory against last year’s SoCon champion, Samford, with a score of 30-7. The Catamounts have won their first conference game of the 2023 season, and are looking to build off of this win and take their momentum into next week’s away game against […]

Football kickoff in Cullowhee

The long wait is over, and it is finally football season in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The Western Carolina Catamounts host the Samford Bulldogs for their season home opener on Saturday, Sept. 9, at 2:30 p.m. The last time the Catamounts defeated the Bulldogs was in September 2017 in a game that was decided in the […]

WCU spring football scrimmage sets tone for fall season

Story originally published in The Western Carolinian For the first time since November, the PA system could be heard throughout campus as the spring football game of the 2023 season kicked off. The game was played on Saturday, April 15, with wonderful weather that called for an even better match up between the purple and […]

Injury recovery for athletes during Spring training

Spring is a time for growth and healing and that’s no different for football. Western Carolina Football team is in spring training – time for new players to learn plays and older ones to hone their skills. But for some, it is a time to recover from injuries sustained from playing. See the video story […]

Changes in the MLB rules will impact college baseball

Baseball has forever been known as America’s favorite pastime. However, there has always been one lingering issue with baseball. That issue being how long a game takes.   During the 2022 MLB season the average game length was 3 hours and 3 minutes.   Many fans struggle to sit through such a long game and have voiced […]

WCU Men’s Basketball 2023 season recap

The college basketball season is over and we are into March Madness season. WCU Catamounts first game in the SOCON tournament is March 4 at 2:30 p.m. at Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville against the 5th seeded East Tennessee State University.   Coming into the season the Western Carolina university men’s basketball team was projected […]