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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Conference play is here, and for the Catamount volleyball team that means that everything they have worked for in the opening tournaments has come down to this. Playing talented teams like South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Ole Miss, and Clemson has all been to prepare for the Southern Conference. In what is […]
On September 13, the executive committee of Western Carolina University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to a three-year contract extension with head football coach Kent Briggs. With this extension, Coach Briggs will get to keep building onto the Western football program and have a chance to prove that he can […]
With soccer season in full swing and beginning the meat of their conference schedule, the Western Carolinian was able to sit down with senior goalkeeper Alesha Row and get a little background information on one of last season’s most pivotal players and literally the Lady Catamounts last line of defense. […]
A new game has been sweeping the nation over the last couple of years; it is called disc golf. Disc golf combines the distance of golf with the accuracy and wind factor of playing Frisbee.On Sept. 29, Western Carolina University cut the ribbon on the university’s first disc golf course. […]
Crank can almost be called Transporter 3: The Crank as it stars the same actor (Jason Statham) as Transporter and Transporter 2. Statham plays the same type of character, an assassin. Not seeing Transporter or the 2nd one, this actor was unknown to me, but this was a good action […]
Two minutes are left in the game. The championship is on the line. Your team is down 24-21, and you’re the only who can steer the team down for that game-winning score. You are the quarterback of the team. This is a dream that countless kids who play football have. […]
In what was a tail of two halfs, the Western Carolina Catamounts upset #19 Eastern Kentucky, 20-17. Trailing 17-7 at halftime, it was hard to see anything that Western had done right. EKU held onto the ball for 21:07 in the first half, while the WCU only had the ball […]
Things are heating up in the Catamount athletic department with football season starting and basketball right around the corner. But, most don’t hear about our Catamount cross country team. The Western Carolinian recently sat in with Josh Thompson on Power 90.5’s “The Litter Box” to speak with Danny Williamson, Western’s […]
Both Catamount cross-country teams started out the season the way they started out last season: with strong finishes. The Ladies Cross Country team earned a 2nd place finish at the Clemson Cross Country Invitational, edging out Gardner-Webb by just a single point. The South Carolina Gamecocks won the event with […]
The Lady Catamount Soccer team returned to the .500 mark and won their first Southern Conference win of the season last week. Western started off the week against the 32nd-ranked Nebraska Cornhusker and took them to double-overtime before falling 1-0 in front of 352 fans at Nebraska Soccer field.Western Carolina […]
