WCU baseball looks to carry hot streak into upcoming series

The WCU Baseball team is currently on 6 game win streak that has seen them outscore their opponents by a wide margin of 67-25. After having their last few games cancelled and rescheduled, the Catamounts look to refocus on the task at hand in their March 26-27 series against The Citadel. The Catamounts have accumulated […]

Is the athletic fee costing students ‘an arm and a leg’?

Shouting “purple!”, “gold!” at the top of students’ lungs, stadiums full of nothing but purple shirts and painted faces. The tailgates and the catamount pride at Western Carolina University is all for the NCAA Division  athletics the university participates in. But this pride comes with a price that some students are not too happy with.  At WCU, students […]

Mixed results for Catamount baseball

High expectations sprung long before winter left Cullowhee, as preseason polls had the Catamount baseball team ranked 31st nationally. The Cats dazzled right out of the gate, traveling to Starkville to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, ranked second in the country. The Cats pulled out a Valentine’s Day heartbreaker by the final score of 3-2, […]

Cats bounce back from frustrating Whee-kend

  After a few tough outings against a struggling Furman team (13-23, 4-8 SoCon) during WCU’s Spring Fling Whee-kend, the Cats didn’t seem to mind getting away from the usually friendly confines of Hennon Stadium for a while. The Cats responded to dropping the three-game weekend series by defeating Winthrop yesterday in Rock Hill, S.C. […]

Washington Post: Legendary Lady Vols coach, Pat Summitt steps down

Eight months after disclosing her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Pat Summitt announce that she will step aside as the Tennessee women’s basketball coach, making way for longtime assistant Holly Warlick take over the Lady Vols. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday morning, Summitt said the decision to step aside after […]