By JARED SERRE For The Intelligencer It’s not often that a walk-on sees extensive playing time for a Power 5 football program. As things currently stand, the West Virginia Mountaineers’ football roster features more than 90 players, with more set to join come the fall. Those on ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK — Kysre Gondrezick of West Virginia went fourth in Thursday’s WNBA Draft to Indiana. Gondrezick led the team with 19.5 points a game last year for the Mountaineers, while shooting .421 from the field and .775 from the free-throw ...
After announcing he was transferring out of West Virginia, former Mountaineers’ cornerback Tykee Smith has joined the Georgia Bulldogs. Smith was a third team All-American in 2020 and still has two years left of eligibility remaining. Last season for WVU, Smith accumulated 61 tackles, eight for a loss and two interceptions. He joins former WVU defensive backs coach Jahmile Addae in Georgia, who joined the Bulldogs in January.
Martha Thorn, who coached tennis at West Virginia from 1973-2000 died on Sunday following months of declining health. She was 83 years old. Thorn began the women’s tennis program at WVU in 1973, just one year after the Title IX legislation was enacted. Thorn won 315 matches during her 27 years at West Virginia and was only the fourth coach in school history to capture 300 career victories in any sport back in 1999. West Virginia renamed its fall women’s tennis tournament The Martha Thorn Invitational in her honor and in 1997, a team award was established in her name to ...
Doug Nester is no stranger to the Mountain State, but he is a stranger to West Virginia. Luckily for him, his reputation as one of the state’s best high school football players in the class of 2019 follows him to Morgantown, and his prior experience makes him a key addition to the WVU ...
From STAFF REPORTS West Virginia standout Miles McBride took to Twitter on Friday to announce that he is declaring for the 2021 NBA Draft, with an option to return to school next year as reported by ESPN. In the statement he wrote, “First off I would like to thank God because without him ...
