Tag: athletics

Lifestyle Sports

Intramural Sports: A way to foster growth and build community

In Fall 2023 TJ Earle, sports management major, stood on the Ramsey field celebrating his team’s victory in winning the intramural championship in flag football.   Earle played sports throughout his childhood into high school, forming a love for football. He started working for the sports department his freshman year at […]

Lifestyle Sports

Catamounts gear up for fall athletics

Catamount athletics are in full swing this fall with football, soccer, volleyball, cross country and golf all fighting for a spot in the SoCon championship.   FOOTBALL   The Catamounts and Wolfpack traded blows at the season opener in Raleigh Aug. 29. Though the team couldn’t take home the win, they showed […]

Sports

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 […]