Originally published in The Western Carolina Journalist. The catamount baseball team opened up their 2022 regular season with a four-game series against the Niagara Purple Eagles on Feb. 18 through Feb. 20. See the full story: The Cats collected an astounding amount of offense during the opening series. […]
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New football players sign with WCU for next season
Originally published in The Western Carolina Journalist. Western Carolina University football team is getting 30 new players hoping for an even better season than the 2021 season. The WCU Catamount Club and the Western Carolina Football coaching staff hosted a national signing day event via Zoom on Feb.3 and presented […]
WCU Baseball has new captains for the season
Originally published in The Western Carolina Journalist. Pitchers Zebby Matthews and Jacob Corn have been elected as team captains for the 2022 baseball season. Matthews, a junior right-handed starting pitcher, and Jackson County native, started in ten games last year, before an elbow injury sidelined him for the remainder of the season. In his […]
WCU beats Warren Wilson by 55 points
Originally published in The Western Carolina Journalist. The WCU Catamounts Men’s basketball team defeated the Warren Wilson College Owls by a 55-point difference, with a score of 102-47 on Dec. 1. Over 1500 people came to cheer for the Catamounts in the Ramsey Regional Center. This matchup against Warren Wilson […]
WCU alum returns to head important athletics position
First published in The Western Carolina Journalist. In November 2020, Tyler Pope was self-employed, producing a sports podcast with two of his friends from his undergraduate and graduate years. A year removed, he holds one of the most important positions in the Western Carolina University Athletic Department. Pope, a native […]
WCU basketball set to start anew in first game of season
WCU basketball lost a head coach and 12 players before the end of last season, leaving the team requiring an almost complete rebuild before the start of the 2021-2022 season. Head Coach Justin Gray, former professional basketball player and assistant coach at Winthrop University, joined the Catamount team in April […]
Catamount football suffers from losing streak
The Western Carolina Catamount football team has had a very disappointing start to the 2021 season. The Catamounts came into this year hopeful, with new head coach Kerwin Bell stepping into his first D1 head coaching job. However, the Catamounts have failed to live up to expectations, starting the season […]
WCU football community suffers heartbreaking loss
The WCU football community suffered an emotional loss at the beginning of this season. On Aug. 18, 2021, Western Carolina offensive line coach John Peacock unexpectedly died of COVID-19 complications at home. Peacock joined Western Carolina’s coaching staff in the spring of 2020 after the hiring of new head coach […]
Mamba, Out: The Loss of a Legacy
Students, coaches and audiences anxiously awaited the arrival of Bryant and all those aboard the helicopter to a youth basketball tournament, hosted at Kobe Bryant’s basketball academy. That was an arrival that would never happen. On Jan. 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. […]
New Year Woes: Catamounts return to losing ways
It all seemed so promising; until it didn’t. The pieces all seemed to fit perfectly; until they didn’t. The team looked poised for a deep run; until it didn’t. After an almost magical start to the 2019-20 College Basketball Season, the Western Carolina Catamounts have come down to earth a […]
