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 […]

On back-to-back days, Western Carolina took on a pair of teams with the same mascot-the Bulldogs. The Catamounts went down to SEC country and defeated the University of Georgia but would fall to UNC-Asheville the next day. With these two games, Western goes to 10-and-6 on the season. Western Carolina […]

Despite dropping a pair of close games over the weekend of March 2-4, Western Carolina did knock off their 2nd Atlantic Cost Conference opponent in the span of 4 days as they defeated the 20th ranked North Carolina State Wolfpack at the 4th Annual Keith LeClair Classic on the campus […]

The Lady Catamount golf team started off the spring season with a 12th place finish out of 20 teams at the Lady Cougar Invitational at the Azalea City Golf course, hosted by the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Middle Tennessee State won the invitational with a 15 over […]

Western Carolina made a major statement in their trip down to ACC country to take on the 14th ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. That statement was a big lead early in the game and holding off a late charge from Georgia Tech to go on to the 10-7 victory over […]

The Western Carolina women’s tennis team continued their winning ways on Sunday, March 4, as they took down Mercer, 5-2, for their second straight match win. The win was their third of the season, and represents a vast improvement over last year when they only won three matches altogether. The […]

With most college students leaving campus for Spring Break, the Western Carolina tennis team was no different. The Catamounts would travel to Hilton Head, SC, and Savannah, Ga, over Spring Break and picked up a dominating win along the way. The first matchup for the Cats was in Hilton Head, […]