A week after picking up their 1st series sweep of the season, Western got swept in a battle of the projected top 2 teams in the conference. Two of the three games over the March 23rd-25th series were decided in the last at-bat for the home team, which resulted in […]

Although their postseason was cut short in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament to Virginia Tech, the Lady Catamount basketball team has plenty of reason to be proud of the effort they put forth and of the season that they had.In the program’s 42-year history, the 2006-2007 […]

After losing their two opening conference matches to Davidson and Wofford, the Catamount women’s tennis team returned to action on March 24 and 25 to battle with conference foes UNC-G and Georgia Southern. The Catamounts would lose the battles to The Spartans and the Eagles. UNC-G defeated WCU 7-0, while […]

On March 21, just three days after being crowned the champions of the Best Western Catamount Classic, the Catamounts headed to Boiling Springs, NC, for a double header against Gardner-Webb. The first game of the double header would not go according to plan for Western, as they were blanked by […]

When most students come to college, they have musical preferences they’ve picked up from back home. Indeed, favorite bands are often a local occurrence influenced by years of listening to the hometown radio stations and going to the same live concerts. But in college, many students expand their musical tastes […]

Only three decades ago, public displays of affection between two people of the same sex was considered taboo and could end in the alienation of the people involved. Today however, homosexuality and even those just being affectionate towards one another is generally accepted. There are still people who believe whole […]

One commonality that strongly characterizes our generation is body modification by way of tattoos and skin piercing. Since I am fully fascinated with the concept that every other twenty-something-year-old has changed their body with ink or metal, I further investigated. After calling the three main tattoo parlors in Sylva, I […]

What was originally supposed to be a double header for Western ended up to be just a single game. However, the Catamounts emerged victorious in that one game against Winston Salem State with a 9-0 win. In the second game, the Catamounts were ahead 5-0 when a downpour occurred with […]

Played in Charlotte, the First Pitch Classic would be the Catamount softball team’s first tournament of the season. In the tournament, however, the Catamounts would not fare as well as they’d hoped. The Catamounts played four games in two days and only got one win out of the deal. In […]

Western Carolina Baseball started off its 1st home series of the year with a bang. Western defeated the Connecticut Huskies twice over the weekend of February 23-25. Despite losing the 2nd game of the series, the Catamounts scored 29 runs over the 3 games to improve their record to 4-and-2 […]