Winning through to fame & glory

Morehead State University has a long and storied history of national and conference championships won by its athletic teams. This past academic year, that proud tradition continued with these outstanding team and individual performances.

• MSU Cheer once again dominated the Universal Cheer Association Nationals in Orlando, Florida, earning a trio of national championships, which pushes its total national title number to 53.

• MSU Men’s Basketball won its first outright Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) regular season championship in 39 years. Coach Preston Spradlin has led the Eagles to three consecutive 20-win seasons.

• Beach Volleyball’s Trinity Miller and Anya Reinhard earned a bid to the firstever Fall NCAA Pairs Beach Volleyball Championship. As a team, the Eagles finished runner-up in the OVC tournament with Olivia Lohmeier named MSU’s NCAA 2022 Woman of the Year nominee.

• Volleyball’s Bridget Bessler became the third Eagle to record 4,000 career assists while Irene Wogenstahl set a single-match blocks record (13) vs. Southeast Missouri. Also, Kyrsten Becker-McBride (Class of 2015) was named head coach of the indoor volleyball program, taking over for Dr. Jaime Gordon (Class of 1996, 2021), who recorded 360 career victories, the most of any head coach in any sport in MSU history. Dr. Gordon is focusing on his duties as full-time director of athletics.

• MSU Baseball finished in the top three in the OVC for the second consecutive season while extending its longest active conference tournament qualification streak (8). The team had three First Team All-OVC selections (Jackson Feltner, Nick Gooden, and John Bakke). Feltner was named Player of the Year in the Appalachian Summer League.

• Women’s Basketball had the most wins at home since the 2018-19 season. Coach Cayla Petree’s team improved its win total by nine games over last season, the third biggest turnaround in Division I.

• MSU Rifle had seven members named to the All-OVC teams with the Eagles finishing second in the league. The team set program records in Air Rifle average (2358.62) and Smallbore average (756.46).

• Cross County’s Kyle Embry was the first Morehead State runner since 2017 to win OVC Runner of the Week honors after posting the fastest 5K time for the Eagles in five years.

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• MSU Soccer had its best season since 2015 with the fewest goals allowed in program history (21). In her freshman season, Erin Gibbs set a program record in Goals Against Average (0.75).

• Eagle Football had eight players earn All-Pioneer Football League honors and led all of Football Championship Subdivision in blocked kicks.

• MSU Track’s Toby Cook won the 800m men’s race at Marshall.

• MSU Men’s Golf standout Joe Muschong claimed medalist honors at the OVC Championship last spring and advanced to the NCAA Regionals.

• MSU Women’s Golf has earned a leaguehigh nine OVC Golfer of the Week honors since the Spring of 2022.

• Megan Griffith was hired as the Eagles’ new head softball coach in the summer of 2022.