With the regular season over, the men’s and women’s basketball teams are turning their eyes ahead to the Southern Conference (SOCON) tournament. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic place in the March Madness tournament. Both the men’s and women’s tournaments are being played in Asheville, North Carolina at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center. The […]
WCU alum returns to head important athletics position
November 16, 2021 by
In November 2020, Tyler Pope was self-employed and 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 of Burlington, N.C., was hired in September 2021. A WCU graduate […]
Western Carolina athletics takes on COVID-19
April 13, 2021 by
Western Carolina University Athletics is trying hard to have the busy spring season happen in a safe way keeping its athletes, coaches and staff healthy. This task increases in difficulty when, this semester, there are 11 sport seasons. Western has cancelled meets and games due to COVID-19 infections, forcing the entire teams to go in […]
Alex Gary: From student athlete to Athletic Director
February 3, 2021 by
Western Carolina University’s athletic director, Alex Gary, has already had his fair share of tribulations less than a year into the role. Gary has had to deal with a global pandemic, athletic cancellations and postponements, racial issues and protests on campus. Despite these challenges, student athletes, coaches and colleagues are thrilled with his performance and […]
WCU Athletics moves forward with restart amid COVID-19 pandemic
August 7, 2020 by
Despite concerns over how the COVID-19 pandemic, with cases continuing to rise, could affect those in and around Western Carolina University, Catamount Athletics and new Director Alex Gary remain in “business as usual” mode. On Friday, May 29th, Chancellor Kelli R. Brown announced the outline for students to return to campus in the fall, with […]
A new era of WCU men’s basketball
April 23, 2018 by
Western Carolina University enters a new era with the hiring of former Winthrop University associate head coach Mark Prosser. Prosser was announced as the head basketball coach for WCU on March 27, nearly three weeks after former head coach Larry Hunter stepped down. The Western Carolina Athletic Department immediately began the search to fill the head […]
