WCU Men’s Basketball 2023 season recap

The college basketball season is over and we are into March Madness season. WCU Catamounts first game in the SOCON tournament is March 4 at 2:30 p.m. at Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville against the 5th seeded East Tennessee State University.   Coming into the season the Western Carolina university men’s basketball team was projected […]

Transfer portal is a chance for WCU athletes

Story co-written/produced with Charles Gadie Beginning in 2018, the NCAA instituted the transfer portal, a digital database where college athletes enter themselves in order to transfer to another college.  The Transfer Portal took recruiting to another level in college athletics.   Instead of solely relying on recruiting high school players, colleges can now search other colleges for […]

Pinnacle Park’s new therapy trail; destressor for students

On March 11, 2022 Sylva’s Pinnacle Park welcomed a new trail to it’s trail system. The first of it’s kind in North Carolina, Pinnacle Park’s therapy trail is more than a hiking trail. It is for relieving stress and getting in-touch with nature. The trail models a Japanese form of therapy called “shinrin-yoku” or “forest […]

WCU track twins turn to football in the fall

The Western Carolina football team looks to build on their 2021 success with the addition of their newest recruiting class. However, this pair of athletes bring striking similarities to the football field. Javell and Javon Brown, sophomore jumpers on the WCU Track Team, will turn in their track uniforms for shoulder pads and helmets this […]

Around 1,800 pounds of trash picked up at Tuck River Cleanup

Base Camp Cullowhee had the 27th annual Tuck River Cleanup. Volunteers rafted down the river and stopped along the way to pick up trash along the side. Once they reached the end of the river, staff would take the bags of trash and use a scale to see how much the trash weighed. Around 1,800 […]

Extra innings proves fruitless for the Catamounts

In a four-hour, 10-inning game, the WCU Catamount baseball team was defeated by the Presbyterian Blue Hose by a score of 11-8, on April 27. With a crowd of over 300 people in attendance at Hennon Stadium. “It was nerve-wracking, to say the least,” Wade Raines, a Catamounts fan, said. “It was a tough game […]