Injury recovery for athletes during Spring training

Spring is a time for growth and healing and that’s no different for football. Western Carolina Football team is in spring training – time for new players to learn plays and older ones to hone their skills. But for some, it is a time to recover from injuries sustained from playing. See the video story […]

Changes in the MLB rules will impact college baseball

Baseball has forever been known as America’s favorite pastime. However, there has always been one lingering issue with baseball. That issue being how long a game takes.   During the 2022 MLB season the average game length was 3 hours and 3 minutes.   Many fans struggle to sit through such a long game and have voiced […]

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 […]