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Booze bill allowing sale of liquor on Sundays heads to governor’s desk

Campus carry bill advances with $11.6 million price tag

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR The booze bill passed the state Senate on Monday and is now headed to Gov. Jim Justice’s desk for approval.

HB 2481 will permit the retail sale of liquor on Sundays after 1 p.m., except on Easter Sunday, and if Christmas were to fall on a Sunday, if the bill is signed into law.

The final version of the booze bill, which was amended multiple times, passed overwhelmingly in both the Senate (29-4), and the House of Delegates (86-12).

Justice has not indicated if or when he will take the bill up.

After a bill is signed into law, the normal effective date, or date the law goes into effect, is 90 days.

Ninety days from Thursday would be May 21, just two weeks after WVU’s 2019 graduation.

The original version of the bill allowed for the retail sale of liquor after 10 a.m., but was amended in committee.

Currently in West Virginia, only beer and wine can be sold after 1 p.m. In 2016, West Virginia passed a brunch bill, allowing for the retail sale of liquor in restaurants before 1 p.m.

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Ashebrooke Liquor Outlet would benefit from the passage of HB 2481.

Sunday liquor laws in surrounding states • Kentucky: Can buy from 1 p.m. and 2 a.m.

• Pennsylvania: Can only buy from state-run stores between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

• Maryland: No restrictions, other than in Baltimore and Garrett Counties • Virginia: Can buy from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• Ohio: No restrictions

The campus carry bill narrowly passed the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, but the legislation now faces an estimated $11.6 million cost to implement if it becomes law.

House Judiciary voted 12-11 to pass HB 2519, or “The Campus Self Defense Act,” along party lines, aside from Chairman John Shott, R-Mercer, who voted against it.

But instead of going to the House floor for a full vote, which was originally the case, the bill now must also pass the House Finance Committee.

A fiscal note, or a cost estimate, submitted by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (HEPC) estimates that $11.6 million will be needed to enact the campus carry bill if it becomes law.

The note says that West Virginia’s colleges and universities will not only be billed high amounts for increased police equipment, but some institutions believe their enrollment will drop if the bill becomes law.

“The estimated costs include expenditures for additional police officers, security guards and other staff, protective gear, weapons, metal detectors, vehicles, body cams, lockers, security cameras, door locks, emergency dispatch equipment and training,” the note says. “Some institutions also anticipate a decrease in enrollment resulting from the enact-

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ment of this legislation.”

The HEPC anticipates the initial cost of the bill being $10.3 million, with the additional $1.3 million being needed some time in the future.

The bill, if passed in its current form, would only exempt a few places on campus from concealed carry, such as sports stadiums, day care facilities and most residence halls.

The bill allows anyone who is 21 years old or older who has a concealed carry permit from West Virginia, or one of the 34 states whose permits West Virginia recognizes, to carry a concealed weapon on campus.

It allows anyone from 18 to 20 years old who has a provisional permit in West Virginia to carry a concealed weapon. WVU does not recognize provisional permits from any state other than West Virginia.

A classroom or building on campus would not be exempt under the current bill, but Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Rob Alsop said the WVU Board of Governors could mark an area like the Mountainlair ballrooms as a restricted area due to its seating capacity. But the downstairs of the Mountainlair wouldn’t be exempt.

Faculty members are not allowed to ban guns from their classrooms, but they can choose to either allow or not allow guns in their office, if it’s a single person office.

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Don Knotts’ Watch This watch was presented to Morgantown native son Don Knotts in 1965 at the end of his fifth season on The Andy Griffith Show. Knotts, who played the bumbling deputy Barney Fife won five Emmys for the role that the Museum of Broadcast Communications describes as “self-important, romantic and almost always wrong.”

Knotts was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa while at WVU, but he took a break from his education to serve in World War II. He spent the majority of his three years in the Army entertaining troops in the Pacific Islands.

After graduating in 1948 with a B.A. in Speech, Knotts set out for New York where he landed his first big break in 1953 on Search for Tomorrow, a soap opera. In 1960, he joined Andy Griffith and the good people of Mayberry, N.C. Originally, Griffith was set to play the comedic lead with Knotts as the straight man but as Griffith noted in a later interview, “By the second episode, I knew that Don should be

funny and I should play straight.”

The watch, on view on the 6th floor in the West Virginia & Regional History Center, was given to Knotts when he left the show to appear in a series of films for Universal Studios including The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) and The Shakiest Gun in the West.

Knotts, who died in 2006 at age 81, is buried in Los Angeles, but his talent and influence were celebrated in Morgantown in July 2016 with a statue in front of The Metropolitan Theatre on High Street.

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Teachers strike continued into Wednesday, House declines to revive education bill

BY GABRIELLA BROWN STAFF WRITER

Teachers and service personnel across West Virginia continued their strike into Wednesday, just in case the state Legislature revived the omnibus education bill.

According to state code, a bill that has been indefinitely suspended can be put back into consideration if a motion to revive the bill is passed by the end of the next day.

However, the House of Delegates did not make such a motion, effectively killing the omnibus Senate education bill.

On Tuesday, teachers and service personnel across the state hit the picket lines and swarmed the Capitol to protest against Senate Bill 451.

Only one county’s superintendent did not call off school.

SB 451 had multiple controversial provisions, including putting charter schools in the state. It passed the Senate on Monday evening.

The West Virginia House of Delegates voted on Tuesday to postpone Senate Bill 451 indefinitely.

“The Senate has been putting out a lot of smoke and mirrors,” said Meghan Straface, a teacher at Skyview Elementary, who was protesting on University Avenue on

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Protesters on University Avenue on Tuesday.

Tuesday.

“The omnibus bill had about five or six good things on it, thinking we wouldn’t read the rest of the bill,” Straface said in an interview before the House vote.

Straface said the House was looking to work together with the public school systems in order to make a compromise. The Senate, how-

ever, had different plans in mind for the bill.

“The Senate pushed it through in 10 minutes with all these amendments that didn’t match the House’s compromises,” Straface said.

“The Senate completely disregarded the work they did, and that’s why we are here today.”

Straface said although more students will have fund-

ing to attend charter schools, transportation may not be available to them considering these schools are not required to provide it.

“In a place like West Virginia, kids have to be on a bus to get to school,” Straface said. “If you’re asking kids that don’t have a lot of money to go to these charter schools, they have no way of

getting there.”

Lorri Lipscomb, an itinerant teacher in Monongalia County, believes one problem that accompanies the establishment of charter schools is that it takes funding from public schools and redistributes it to charter schools that are for profit.

“We are here to kill the bill,” Lipscomb said before the House vote. “Senate Bill 451, as it stands now with the amendments, is not good for public education.”

Senate President Mitch

Carmichael tweeted his condemnation of the strike on Monday and Tuesday.

“Locking our students out of schools because the teachers union bosses have lost is an embarrassment for our state,” he wrote. “Thousands of families across the state had their fundamental right to educational freedom usurped by the will of those who cling so desperately to the status quo and the empty promises by those who pressure them to defend it.”

Speaker shares story of depression, encourages mental health treatment

BY ALAYNA FULLER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Mental health is equally as important as physical health, said the CEO and creative director of The i’Mpossible Project, Josh Rivedal.

“You see a kidney professional, a heart professional, why not one for your brain?”

Rivedal said. “It’s your body.

It’s not mental health and physical health; it’s health.”

Rivedal spoke about his depression and recovery, as well as tips on how to live mentally well to a crowd of 70 people in the Mountainlair Ballroom on Monday.

Rivedal first shared his past with this father, who took his own life. He explained that after his father’s death, he struggled with his own mental health and almost killed himself, as well.

From there, Rivedal transitioned to speaking of the signs and symptoms of depression.

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Josh Rivedal and family, feeling hopeless, feeling rage, acting reckless, giving away prized possessions and feeling trapped like there’s no way out were some of the signs he mentioned that a person with depression may express.

Rivedal said suicide is often labeled as a sin, and in some states a crime. Some people fear asking for help because they believe they are a

bad person and don’t deserve help.

“When we change that stigmatizing language, we encourage more people to seek help,” Rivedal said.

Intervention and reaching out to someone who shows signs of depression could save their life, he said. Being an active listener and reminding the person that they have someone to talk to is important.

“Now, we’re listening for clues as to how or as to what might make them feel grounded [or] that they’re important [or] that they matter [and] that there’s a reason at least for the next 24 hours to keep their feet planted on this earth,” Rivedal said.

Seeking professional help by contacting the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, visiting the WVU Carruth Center or going to see a psychologist are also some important steps to take for anyone experiencing mental health problems.

“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not smart enough, talented enough, big enough, great enough, tall enough, anything other than you’re more than enough,” Rivedal said. “You are enough for showing up.”

If you or someone you know needs help, contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1800-273-8255 or visit the WVU Carruth Center, free to all students, or contact them at 304-293-4431.

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Mountaineer finalists feel confident post cheer-off

BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

The exhilaration of wearing the buckskins is a privilege granted only to a select group of people throughout history, and on Monday night four more WVU students got that opportunity.

Brooke Ashby, Connor Capron, Thaiddeus Dillie and Timmy Eads took turns hyping up the crowd at Monday’s night men’s basketball game against Kansas State.

Despite the loss to Kansas, all four finalists were pleased with their performance interacting with fans. Each finalist had experiences that were particularly meaningful to them and had things that made them stick out from their competition.

Ashby, a pre-occupational therapy student and the only woman in the final four, would be the third female Mountaineer in history.

The first female Mountaineer, Natalie Tennant, graduated

“I would hope that if I did get the position people would look at me and think I am proud to have her representing me.”

-Brooke Ashby, Mountaineer finalist from the same high school as Ashby.

Ashby said her favorite moment of Monday night was when a little girl came up to her and told her that she didn’t know girls could be the Mountaineer, and Ashby responded, “You can be anything you want to be.”

Ashby said she feels she deserves the title because she is passionate and hardworking.

“I would hope that if I did get the position people would look at me and think I am proud to have her representing me,” Ashby said.

Capron, a member of the Pride of West Virginia majoring in music therapy, wants to incorporate music into the position. Capron is just a freshman, but being the youngest finalist did not de-

ter him.

“I went into it thinking, ‘I’ve got what it takes’,” Capron said.

Capron said the most meaningful experience of the night was when a man in the top row handed Capron a baby and asked for a picture.

Capron said holding this position would mean everything to him, and he plans on applying for it until he gets it or graduates.

Dillie, a biochemistry student who hopes to go to med ical school, is a first-generation college student. Dillie described how excited he was after putting on the buckskins for the first time. He was encouraged to apply after growing a beard in high school.

Dillie said the whole process for him has been exhil-

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Current alternate Mountaineer, Timothy Eads, raises the musket and cheers during the cheer-off Monday night. arating. He said it was fun interacting with the other finalists and getting to see everyone’s different personalities shine.

“What’s actually interesting is getting to see everyone’s personality and everyone’s differences,” Dillie said.

“We’re all still from West Vir-

ginia, so you can see that, deep down, we still share some things that go pretty far.”

Dillie hopes he can be an inspiration to other first-generation college students, and he said that he is incredibly grateful to his parents.

Eads, who currently serves

as the alternate Mountaineer, brings a year’s worth of experience to the position. Eads said this year he felt more comfortable at the cheer off.

“I went into this year not wanting to take anything for granted,” Eads said.

Eads said if he does not receive the title this year, he would keep applying until he did.

“Anytime I can [put] a smile on people’s face, that’s awesome to me,” Eads said.

Eads said the thing he looks forward to the most if he is named the Mountaineer would be to represent the great people of the state.

“These people are some of the greatest people you’ll ever meet, so to have the chance to kind of be the face of all that, that’s so meaningful,” Eads said.

It is evident that all four finalists are equally qualified for the job and that each of them will bring something special to the Mountaineer.

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Mountaineer stars ready to burn up the dance floor

BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR

Friendly, p e r f o rmance-based competition will soon return to WVU’s campus as the eighth season of Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars is fast approaching.

Based off of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars features leaders and mentors, students and staff from around campus to compete in a one-night dancing competition where the top-three finishers take home the coveted mirror ball trophies.

Program Director Brittany Osteen said that Dancing with the Mountaineer Stars is similar to the Fall’s Mountaineer Idol competition, but condensed into one night. This year the competition will be held at 7:30 p.m. on March 2 in the Mountainlair Ballroom.

“Rather than have competitions every weekend, the dancers practice for two months and then have one night to show the audience and judges their moves,” Osteen said via email. “This is personally one of my favorite events because everyone gets really into it. Between the intro videos and the dances, it

is so much fun to see what everyone comes up with.”

Along with trophies for the top three pairings, Osteen, a senior strategic communications student, said they will also be giving away a People’s Choice award and a Most Humorous Dance award.

This year’s contestants come from all over campus and Osteen said many should be recognizable to the audience.

“We always ask students who are involved around campus,” Osteen said. “In the past, we usually see around 300 to 400 students and community members at the event. It is a pretty big deal.”

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WVU stars competing include Mountaineer Mascot Trevor Kiess, SGA president and vice president Isaac Obioma and Abbi Yachini, Hip Hop Dance Team member Anderson Small, former Dance Team member Sierra Davis, University Relations Social Media Editor Geoff Coyle and Truman Scholar Emma Harrison.

The competition is free and open to the public and promises to be a fun time for students, staff and community members alike.

Contestant Pairs Kallie Nealis/Geoff Coyle Sierra Davis/Anderson Small Cristin Dolan/Jay Ta Shirley Robinson/Doug Ernest Jr. Graeson Baker/Anthony Kist Abbi Yachini/Isaac Obioma Madeline Samsell/Andrew Walker Brielle Thompson/Chase Riggs Kayley Morrow/Eric Murphy Mia Antinone/Deron Jackson Marra Sigler/Alex Calvert Hunter Trowbridge/Trevor Kiess Emma Harrison/Damien Clement Mikalaa Martin/Kienan Battin Ashton Marra/Jake Slewett

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WVU professor gives insight on social media use

BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

A recent study conducted on WVU students showed that social media has more negative effects than positive.

The study, which was featured in a Jan. 22 Science Mag article, studied 1,178 WVU students ages 18 to 30 about their social media use.

According to the article, the lead author of the study was Brian Primack, director of Pitt’s Pitt’s Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health and dean

of Pitt’s Honors College. Additional authors on this research included Sabrina A. Karim and Ariel Shensa, both of Pitt; and Nicholas Bowman and Jennifer Knight, both of West Virginia University.

Bob Britten, an associate professor at WVU, teaches a social media journalism class. Britten did not work on the study but offered insight on the way people interact on social media.

In addition to social media journalism, Britten also teaches editing and curation and media design.

Britten said the results of

the study did not surprise him.

“We’ve got the idea of a lot of social media, and maybe not intentionally, is based on that idea of a feed and keeping yourself fed,” Britten said.

“We’d expect seeing positive things would make us feel more positive, but really seeing more positive things just maintains our state.”

It is because of this that it may be wise to occasionally take breaks from social media. Britten noted how he had recently stopped using Facebook for a month.

“It is very easy to get into

an echo chamber and start spiraling and realizing that maybe you’re talking to the same people over and over again and hearing the same things over and over again,” Britten said.

“There is definitely value to taking periods and stepping away, just like you might step away from carbohydrates or watching too much television,” Britten said.

However, not everything about social media is bad.

Britten said there are positive aspects of social media, as well.

Social media has the

power to create ties between others, but they are weaker than those ties you would make offline.

“It’s a positive thing that we have them, but we shouldn’t overstate how strong that positive is,” Britten said.

Britten explained that while social media is not a necessity to live, it is necessary to help others get connected.

“You are now lacking access to communication that others in your community have,” Britten said. Britten explained that social media

is a way of being seen and those who do not have it are at a disadvantage.

There is a happy medium between going completely dark on social media and being overly obsessed with social media.

Britten said that people with addictive personalities may have more difficulty with walking away from social media.

“Absolutely there is a happy medium, as with all things it can be taken in moderation,” Britten said.

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Twitter universe takes on campus carry bill Earlier this week, the Daily Athenaeum published a story about the strong possibility a campus carry bill has to pass in the state Legislature.

Here is what people said about the story when they shared it on Twitter. The majority of comments are negative about campus carry. The wording of these comments have not been modified.

“Before y’all start freaking out, please make note that in the article it states ‘The bill allows anyone who is 21 years old or older who has a concealed carry permit from West Virginia, or one of the 34 states.’ So no, random untrained students will NOT be carrying guns around.”

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“Picture this: a bunch of drunken 20-yr-old frat boys who think they’re drug dealers bc they sell dime bags & cut up baby laxatives get to have GUNS ON CAMPUS”

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“y’all are telling me you want to willingly arm a bunch of crazy drunk white men....?”

“This bill is being pushed thr ough even though there is overwh elming student, faculty, staff, and campus police opposition to it. It’s a shame that those who have to live with the rep rocusions of this bill will have the least say.”

“As an employee ving of the lair, the idea of ha le op pe nk dru to worry about res sca s pu cam on ns with gu s thi ve me enough to lea l” oo sch d an job

“Do y’all realiz e that not just anybody can h a concealed ca ave rry? They have to undergo a le process to obta gal in this permit including back checks, recom ground mendations, e tc .

Y o obtain a conce u can’t even aled carry unle ss you are 21.” ddamn praise the I tra tran ra sferred then bcLord ZOiN w will always love u gold K a blue, stay safe my and mountaineer friends ! revolt !

“When you ta amendment ke the unlimited 2nd n noise out of onsense and lobbying the equatio n, data show that allowin s gg make it a m uns on our campus will ore dangero us pla will be wors e off if this b ce. WVU ill passes. #campuscarr y W VU ”

“The replies to uneducated peop this tweet proves how le are. Multi firearms in Mor gantown which ple people have is would only lift the ban of carryi perfectly legal. This ng property, which a isn’t even enforc firearm on WVU ed anyway seen people carr y on campus.” as I’ve

“If this passed then I’m out. Swear yall are all nuts”

“This is so dangerous especially considering we had a student last semester say he ‘felt like going home to get his gun to kill everybody.’ WHICH by the way the school didn’t notify us about at all. Now we wanna allow kids like this to bring their weapons on campus??? Smh”

“I’m no fortune teller but there is a 100% chance this ends very badly.”

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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Assistant Editors: Cole McClanahan Jared Serre

League’s top offensive rebounders clash in Waco

BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

MEN’S BASKETBALL After back-to-back games against ranked teams, and losses in both, the West Virginia men’s basketball team only plays one more team currently ranked in the AP Poll this season.

That game isn’t until March 6 at home against Iowa State, and the Mountaineers (10-16, 2-11 Big 12) have three games before it, beginning with a meeting at Baylor on Saturday.

The Bears (17-9, 8-5) are also coming off back-to-back games against ranked opponents, but they were able to split the games and go 1-1, with the win at No. 19 Iowa State and the loss on the road to then-No. 15 Texas Tech.

The Saturday matchup between West Virginia and Baylor will be the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The first was on Jan. 21 in Morgantown and ended in an 85-73 Baylor victory.

The Bears’ senior guard Makai Mason scored 29 points in 38 minutes of action during the game and is Baylor’s leading scorer on the season at 15.5 points per game.

“He was really good when we let him play at his pace,” WVU head coach Bob Huggins said of Mason after the game on Jan. 21.

The 29-point performance against WVU was one of four games this season where Mason scored more than 20 points, highlighted by a 40-point effort against TCU on Feb. 2.

Mason is shooting 42.4 percent from the field this season after transferring from Yale in the offseason and is also the team-leader in assists per game at 3.2.

Complementing Mason on the wing is Baylor’s leading rebounder, redshirt sophomore guard and forward Mark Vital.

Vital averages 6.8 rebounds per game and anchors the

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Freshman forward Derek Culver making his was down the court after making a layup.

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Forward Emmit Matthews Jr. holding onto the rim after preforming a dunk

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Jermaine Haley and Logan Routt defending the hoop from K-State player.

Bears’ rebounding efforts, which rank first in the Big 12 in rebounding margin per game.

The Bears average 6.3 more rebounds per game than their opponents to rank first and are just ahead of the Mountaineers, who rank second with 4.3 more rebounds per game than their opponents.

Not only are Baylor and West Virginia first and second in the Big 12 in rebounding margin, but the two teams are first and second in offensive rebounds, too.

WVU is first with 14 offensive rebounds per game, and Baylor comes in second with 13.5 per game.

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The Flying WV making its way through the basketball hoop.

To lead the Bears’ and Mountaineers’ offensive rebounding performances are the Big 12’s top two offensive rebounders per game, in Vital and WVU freshman forward Derek Culver.

Vital is first in the league in offensive rebounds with 3.5 per game and Culver is second,

pulling down 3.3 offensive rebounds per game.

In addition to ranking second in the league in offensive rebounding, Culver is second in the Big 12 in total rebounds per game, averaging 9.2 per game.

With West Virginia ranking last in the league in field

goal percentage and threepoint field goal percentage, rebounds will be up for grabs and will decide the game when the Mountaineers travel to Waco, Texas on Saturday.

Tipoff between WVU and Baylor is set for 2 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPNU.

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Double-meet weekend for WVU Gymnastics

BY SHYLA PARSONS STAFF WRITER

GYMNASTICS The West Virginia gymnastics team will travel to Pittsburgh to face Pitt and Ball State in a tri-meet this Friday, then return home to face top-ranked Oklahoma on Sunday.

The Mountaineers will face Pitt again, after topping them this past Sunday. Pitt earned a 195.1 score behind West Virginia’s 195.575, giving Pitt and WVU both their second highest score of the season. Pitt currently holds a high score of 195.175 after beating George Washington on Jan. 26.

West Virginia will also compete against Ball State, who recently fell to NIU. While facing NIU, Ball State won two events, vault and bars. NIU performed better on beam and floor, giving them the winning team score, 195.700-194.700.

“That Backyard Brawl, we’re always ready for it,” said junior Abby Kaufman. “We usually don’t like to think about the

other teams, we like to put on our own Mountaineer show, so I think that’s what we are looking forward to—cleaning up some of the details and moving forward.”

While hosting the quad meet this past Sunday, the Mountaineers were able to obtain 11 career highs. Three of those were earned by Kaufman on floor, bars, and vault.

Senior Kirah Koshinski earned Big 12 Conference CoEvent Specialist of the Week after obtaining a career-high 9.975 for her floor routine. She earned a 10.0 score from one of the judges.

After battling against Pitt and Ball State in the tri-meet on Friday, the Mountaineers will return home to face No. 1 Oklahoma. The Sooners currently hold a season-high score of 198.325, and the No. 1 spot for the seventh consecutive week.

The Friday meet is set to begin at 7 p.m. while the Sunday meet begins at 2 p.m. On Sunday, the Mountaineers will wear pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

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Senior Kirah Koshinski celebrating after a great performance on the vault.

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Junior Abby Kaufman lined up with team to honor the flag.

The WVU club lacrosse team has come a long way in a little over a year

BY JOHN LOWE SPORTS EDITOR

MEN’S LACROSSE After naming University High School head coach Brian Houk as the top man, the Mountaineers have clinched back-to-back Big 12 Classic titles and now has their first appearance in the Under Armour MCLA Coaches Poll in seven years.

“The Big 12 Classic is a great event to start the year with quality non-conference competition and a chance to build some buzz around lacrosse at the Power 5 schools,” Houk said. “The West Coast teams have a similar Pac-12 shootout to start the year as well.”

While the Mountaineers (30) have now won the Big 12 Classic two years running, they did not sweep the tournament in 2018. After losing to Oklahoma, 15-6, in the final game, Houk and company took home the trophy via tiebreaker.

A trophy is a trophy, but

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Long stick midfielder Carter Smith chases down a Central Michigan attackman during WVU’s 14-12 loss on Apr. 6, 2018.

Houk and his team didn’t want to leave anything to chance this season. West Virginia went to Texas looking to prove that the best Big 12 team in the coun-

try resides in Morgantown.”

We were hungry to go back out and prove that we are the best lacrosse team among the Big 12 schools,” Houk said. “Our

players came out with energy and focus and took care of business all three days, which is very challenging to do for three games in a row, so I must

commend our athletes for their teamwork, composure and mental toughness.”

WVU avenged that loss to Oklahoma right away, opening with them in the Big 12 Classic this season. The Sooners came in as the de facto favorite, being the only participating team in the classic to receive votes in the MCLA Coaches Poll.

A hot offensive first half led the Mountaineers to a 10-2 halftime lead over OU, and all they had to do was cruise to finish the game with the win.

The Sooners took seven shots in the fourth quarter, only finding the back of the net on one of them. Attackman Jake Klein led WVU with three goals and goalie Evan Measures made 11 saves in the 13-8 win. “[The] game against OU was very cold and windy, but we practice in that weather all the time so I knew we were built to succeed in that situation,” Houk said.

Blowout wins over Baylor and Oklahoma State led to West Virginia taking home the undisputed champions of the

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Big 12 Classic. The three-win weekend also gave the Mountaineers six votes in the MCLA Coaches Poll, their first such honor since 2012.

“We’re thrilled with the poll votes, and we’re exactly where we want to be at this point in the year, but our work is far from done,” Houk said. “[It’s a] long season ahead and we must continue to improve if we want to succeed in the [conference].”

Houk and WVU will now head to Blacksburg, Virginia, to take on Southeastern Lacrosse Conference rival and No. 7 Virginia Tech on Friday.

A win over the Hokies would almost certainly propel the Mountaineers into the national rankings for the first time in program history. Virginia Tech beat WVU 20-4 in Knoxville last season.

Following the Black Diamond rivalry, West Virginia will stay in Blacksburg and play NC State. The Mountaineers are 0-3 all-time against the Wolfpack.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Gardner earns conference honor

BY DAN MCGUIRE CORRESPONDENT

TRACK AND FIELD Through the successes and struggles of the West Virginia track and field team, Madelin Gardner has left her mark on the field and in the classroom.

Gardner is a redshirt senior and is making her last season as a Mountaineer one to remember.

After beating her own school record in the women’s pole vault, Gardner was recognized by being named Big 12 Track and Field Women’s Athlete of the Week.

The two-time All-American

is currently ranked seventh in the nation and first in the Big 12 in pole vault.

The Williamson, West Virginia native broke the WVU indoor pole vault record at the Penn State Tune-Up on Feb. 16.

“I was very happy to see Maddy [Gardner] solidify her national ranking. We’ve been going to Penn State for many, many years, and for her to leave there as the facility’s alltime record holder is a tremendous feat,” WVU head coach Sean Cleary said, showing his enthusiasm for Gardner.

This accomplishment earned her a first-place mark of 4.38 meters. The WVU pole vault record was previously held by Gardner when she

reached a jump of 4.37 meters during her junior season.

“Maddy [Gardner] continues to vault at a national-class level,” Cleary said after Gardner took home another first place finish at a meet earlier in the indoor season. “Consistency has been her greatest asset this winter. One of these days, she’ll smash through to an entirely new level.”

Gardner has been owning the pole vault for her team as more than the top six finishes in the vault for the Mountaineers have been owned by Gardner.

Last season, Gardner was joined by Amy Cashin to participate in the national meet at College Station, Texas. She finished that weekend taking

home a ninth-place finish in the women’s pole vault, leading to All-American Second Team honors.

Gardner and her teammate had a successful 2017-18 outdoor season as well, capturing All-American First Team honors.

During her fifth season on campus, Gardner will look to rally her teammates for the final stretch of her WVU career.

Her final outdoor season consists of heading to the Penn Relays, the Mountaineer Open, the Big 12 Outdoor Championship and finally the NCAA Outdoor Championships in early June.

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