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WVU DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS MISSION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The mission of the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is to provide the means to empower student-athletes to develop as leaders and achieve their full potential academically, athletically and personally. As an integral part of WVU, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is committed to supporting the broader mission of the University through the integration of athletics in the academic community.
Message from Director of Athletics Shane Lyons......................... 2 2021-22 Athletics Year in Review................................................ 3 Coaching Awards and Recognition............................................. 4 Conference Major Award Winners.............................................. 4 Conference Scholar-Athlete Award............................................. 4 Co-SIDA Academic All-Americans............................................... 4 All-Americans............................................................................. 5 Drafts Picks and Signings........................................................... 6 National Awards and Recognition............................................... 6 NCAA Individual Qualifiers......................................................... 6 Honorable Mention and Freshman All-Americans....................... 7 All-Conference Selections........................................................... 7 Academic All-Conference............................................................ 9 WVU Achieves Record-High APR............................................... 11 Olympic Sports Athletics Performance Center Opens................. 12 Harris and Talley Immortalized With Number Retirements......... 14 Baseball................................................................................... 16 Cross Country........................................................................... 18 Football.................................................................................... 20 Golf.......................................................................................... 22 Gymnastics............................................................................... 24 Men’s Basketball...................................................................... 26 Men’s Soccer............................................................................ 28 Rifle.......................................................................................... 30 Rowing..................................................................................... 32 Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving.............................. 34 Tennis....................................................................................... 38 Track and Field......................................................................... 40 Volleyball................................................................................. 42 Women’s Basketball................................................................. 44 Women’s Soccer....................................................................... 46 Wrestling.................................................................................. 58 Staff Listing.............................................................................. 50
In achieving this mission, the defining principles are reflected in Mountaineer P.R.I.D.E.:
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PEOPLE – WE WILL RECOGNIZE THAT THE FOUNDATION OF WVU ATHLETICS IS THE PEOPLE – STUDENT-ATHLETES, COACHES, STAFF AND THE GREATER MOUNTAINEER COMMUNITY. RESPECT – WE WILL REPRESENT AND EMBRACE THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, SPORTSMANSHIP AND FAIRNESS. INTEGRITY – WE WILL OPERATE WITH COMMITMENT TO FISCAL INTEGRITY, PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE RULES, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES OF RESPECTIVE GOVERNING BODIES.
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DEDICATION – WE WILL DEDICATE RESOURCES TO PROMOTE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACADEMIC, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING OF STUDENT-ATHLETES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF COACHES AND STAFF.
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EXCELLENCE – WE WILL COMMIT TO COMPREHENSIVE EXCELLENCE BY POSITIONING SPORT PROGRAMS TO COMPETE WITH DISTINCTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS ACADEMICALLY AND ATHLETICALLY.
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S IC ET HL AT OF OR CT RE DI OM FR GE SA A MES
SHANE LYONS
College athletics certainly faces challenging times as we continue to navigate conference realignment, name image and likeness (NIL) and the transformation of the NCAA and its future as the governing body. With everything that’s going on in college athletics, I must tell you how proud I am of MAJOR HARRIS, SHANE LYONS AND DARRYL TALLEY our student-athletes, coaches and staff. They train, practice, compete and work at a high level and take great pride in wearing the West Virginia wordmark or Flying WV logo. They know how important it is to represent the state’s flagship University, and I thank them for their commitment. In the past year, we opened our new Athletics Performance Center. The renovation of the old Natatorium was made possible with a gift from the Hazel Ruby McQuain Trust and has opened a whole new world for our Olympic Sports teams. Now, all 18 varsity teams have first-class weight rooms, training rooms and locker room facilities. This building is a game changer for our department. I can’t even begin to tell you how far behind we were in facilities for our Olympic Sports, but the new APC has closed the gap. We also have continued to invest in the well-being of our student-athletes. In 2022, we increased our financial commitment to the student-athlete experience through enhanced nutrition, conditioning, academics and mental health. By way of the Alston decision, we also have invested monetary assistance to our student-athletes when certain academic criteria are met. In this annual report, make sure you check out the men’s soccer team and its exciting run to the final eight. Read about volleyball’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament and cross country’s impressive third-place finish in the Big 12 and 21st-place finish at the NCAA Championships.
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Track and cross country star Ceili McCabe is well on her way to becoming one of the best runners in the nation, and the highlight of the year is we added another Hall of Famer. Join me in congratulating men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins on his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. What a great and deserving honor for Coach Huggins. Our department finished the athletic season with 20 All-Americans and 72 AllConference performers. Five teams made the NCAA tournament and another 15 individuals qualified for NCAA championships. In the classroom, we won 41 individual academic honors, produced 321 Academic All-Conference selections and had the highest Academic Progress Rate (APR) in our history. And congrats to football’s Sean Mahone who was a National Football Foundation National Scholar Athlete, and rifle’s Verena Zaisberger and men’s soccer’s Kevin Morris were First-Team Academic All-Americans. All of our accomplishments are detailed in the pages to come but rest assured that our success in competition and in the classroom is a direct reflection of your support for Mountaineer athletics. I again thank you for everything you have done for our department, and none of our success stories would be possible without your contributions to the Mountaineer Athletic Club. I can assure you that your participation with the MAC is making a difference in the lives of our more than 450 Mountaineer student-athletes. In the coming year, I will continue my work on the NCAA Transformation Committee, as we continue to reshape the future of college athletics. I will keep you updated on key developments as they happen along the way. Stay safe and be well. Sincerely,
Shane Lyons Director of Athletics/Associate Vice President West Virginia University
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT
YEAR IN REVIEW DAVID DIXON
BASEBALL: 33-22, 14-10 Big 12; 6th in Big 12
MEN’S BASKETBALL: 16-17, 4-14 Big 12; 10th in Big 12
MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING: 3-1, 0-0 Big 12; 3rd at Big 12 Championships
CROSS COUNTRY: 3rd at
Big 12 Championship; 21st at NCAA Championships
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: 15-15, 7-11 Big 12; 7th in Big 12
FOOTBALL: 6-7, 4-5 Big 12;
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING: 2-3, 0-1 Big 12; 4th at Big 12 Championships
Tied for 5th in Big 12
WOMEN’S TENNIS: 7-17, 0-9 Big GOLF: 10th at Big 12 Championship GYMNASTICS: 13-5, 0-2 Big 12; 3rd at Big 12 Championship; NCAA Regional Championships (Norman)
ROWING: 7th at Big 12 Championship
RIFLE: 12-1, 7-1 GARC; GARC Regular Season Co-Champions; Runner-Up at GARC Championships; 6th at NCAA Championships
12; 10th in Big 12
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD: 10th at Big 12 Indoor
Championships; 9th at Big 12 Outdoor Championships
VOLLEYBALL: 19-10, 8-8 Big 12; 3rd in Big 12; NCAA First Round
WRESTLING: 6-8, 1-6 Big 12; 10th in Big 12; 7th at Big 12 Championship; 32nd at NCAA Championships
MEN’S SOCCER: 12-3-6, 4-1-1
MAC; 2nd in MAC; NCAA Quarterfinals
WOMEN’S SOCCER: 10-5-5, CEILI MCCABE
NCAA TEAM QUALIFIERS Cross Country Gymnastics Rifle Men’s Soccer Volleyball RANKINGS (FINAL) Gymnastics............................ 33 (Road to Nationals) Rifle.........................................6 (CRCA) Men’s Soccer............................ 8 (United Soccer Coaches)
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS Ceili McCabe, Cross Country/Track Big 12 Cross Country Individual Champion Big 12 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Champion David Dixon, Men’s Swimming Big 12 Swimming Champion (200 Butterfly) Killian Cardinale, Wrestling Big 12 Wrestling Champion (125 pounds)
3-3-3 Big 12; 6th in Big 12
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& AWARDS HONORS COACHING AWARDS AND HONORS
Bob Huggins Men’s Basketball Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022
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Sean Cleary Cross Country NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Coach of the Year
Jordan Lesley Football Broyles Award Nominee
Travis Doak Gymnastics WCGA Region 6 Co-Assistant Coach of the Year
Zaakira Muhammad Gymnastics WCGA Region 6 Co-Assistant Coach of the Year
GARC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION SCHOLARATHLETE TEAM
Verena Zaisberger Rifle
Sean Mahone Football
CONFERENCE MAJOR AWARD WINNERS
COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS
Gabe Osabuohien Men’s Basketball Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year
Verena Zaisberger Rifle First Team
Ceili McCabe Cross Country Big 12 Women’s Runner of the Year Women’s Track & Field Big 12 Outstanding Freshman
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Natalie Perrin Rifle GARC Rookie of the Year
Kevin Morris Men’s Soccer First Team
Aaron Denk Gracia Men’s Soccer Third Team
Lacey Zerwas Volleyball Third Team
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FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICANS
SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICANS
Ceili McCabe Cross Country/Indoor Track/Outdoor Track NCAA
Zach Frazier Football AFCA, Walter Camp
Peyton Hall Wrestling NCAA
Malori Brown Rifle CRCA – Smallbore
Jared Eddy Rifle CRCA – Smallbore
Tal Engler Rifle CRCA – Smallbore, Air Rifle
Akihito Shimizu Rifle CRCA – Smallbore, Air Rifle
Verena Zaisberger Rifle CRCA – Smallbore
THIRD TEAM ALL-AMERICANS PEYTON HALL
Trey Braithwaite Baseball NCBWA
Bjarne Thiesen Men’s Soccer United Soccer Coaches, TopDrawerSoccer Best XI
Jordan Brewster Women’s Soccer United Soccer Coaches
Tal Engler Rifle CRCA – Aggregate
Akihito Shimizu Rifle CRCA – Aggregate
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NATIONAL AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Trey Braithwaite, Baseball, Cincinnati Reds (MLB Draft – Round 16, Pick 483) Victor Scott II, Baseball, St. Louis Cardinals (MLB Draft – Round 5, Pick 157) Jacob Watters, Baseball, Oakland Athletics (MLB Draft – Round 4, Pick 124) Leddie Brown, Football, Los Angeles Chargers (Undrafted Free Agent) Sean Mahone, Football, Jacksonville Jaguars (Undrafted Free Agent)
Trey Braithwaite, Baseball, NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List Noach Short, Baseball, NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List Jacob Watters, Baseball, NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List Esmery Martinez, Women’s Basketball, Katrina McClain Award Watch List, Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s Watch List
Kari Niblack, Women’s Basketball, Katrina McClain Award Watch List Taijh Alston, Football, Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Semifinalist Casey Legg, Football, Lou Groza Award Semifinalist Mark Goetz, Golf, Stroke-Play Medalist at 121st U.S. Amateur Championship, Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate Champion Max Green, Golf, ECU Intercollegiate Co-Champion Steven Tekesky, Men’s Soccer, Senior CLASS Award Candidate Jordan Brewster, Women’s Soccer, MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, Senior CLASS Award Candidate Dilary Heredia-Beltran. Women’s Soccer, TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI Second Team Killian Cardinale, Wrestling, 2022 Southern Scuffle Runner-Up (125) Peyton Hall, Wrestling, 2022 Big 12 Championship Runner-Up (165), 2022 Southern Scuffle Runner-Up (165)
REGIONAL & STATE AWARDS & RECOGNITION
MARK GOETZ
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Trey Braithwaite, Baseball, ABCA/Rawlings East All-Region Team Katherine Dowie, Cross Country, NCAA AllMid-Atlantic Region Hayley Jackson, Cross Country, NCAA AllMid-Atlantic Region
Mikaela Lucki, Cross Country, NCAA AllMid-Atlantic Region Ceili McCabe, Cross Country, NCAA AllMid-Atlantic Region, NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year Sylvia Russell, Cross Country, NCAA All-MidAtlantic Region Ryan Baer, Men’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Third Team Kevin Morris, Men’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Third Team Bjarne Thiesen, Men’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches All-North Region First Team Jordan Brewster, Women’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region First Team Dilary Heredia-Beltran, Women’s Soccer United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team Nicole Payne, Women’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Second Team Adrian Ell, Volleyball, AVCA All-Midwest Region Briana Lynch, Volleyball, AVCA All-Midwest Region Lacey Zerwas, Volleyball, AVCA All-Midwest Region
NCAA INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS Kendra Combs, Gymnastics Abbie Pierson, Gymnastics David Dixon, Men’s Swimming & Diving PJ Lenz, Men’s Swimming & Diving Tessa Constantine, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Katherine Dowie, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Hayley Jackson, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor)
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT Jo-Lauren Keane, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Ceili McCabe, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Sylvia Russell, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Cassandra Williamson, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Killian Cardinale, Wrestling Peyton Hall, Wrestling Dennis Robin, Wrestling Michael Wolfgram, Wrestling
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICANS Molly McGhin, Rifle, CRCA – Aggregate, Smallbore, Air Rifle Natalie Perrin, CRCA – Air Rifle Calista Smoyer, CRCA – Air Rifle Verena Zaisberger, CRCA – Aggregate
FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICANS Wyatt Milum, Football, FWAA, The Athletic, On3 Dilary Heredia-Beltran, Women’s Soccer, TopDrawer Soccer Best XI Frederik Jorgensen, Men’s Soccer, TopDrawerSoccer Best XI
ALL-CONFERENCE (LEAGUE ONLY) First Team Austin Davis, Baseball Trey Braithwaite, Baseball Mikaela Lucki, Cross Country Ceili McCabe, Cross Country Sylvia Russell, Cross Country Dante Stills, Football Kendra Combs, Gymnastics Tal Engler, Rifle (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) Calista Smoyer, Rifle (Air Rifle)
Lydia Nicolai, Rowing Luke McCormick, Men’s Soccer Jordan Brewster, Women’s Soccer Nick Cover, Men’s Swimming & Diving David Dixon, Men’s Swimming & Diving Justin Heimes, Men’s Swimming & Diving P.J. Lenz, Men’s Swimming & Diving William Mullen, Men’s Swimming & Diving Paige Dressel, Women’s Swimming & Diving Emily Knorr, Women’s Swimming & Diving Mia Walters, Women’s Swimming & Diving Ana Zortea, Women’s Swimming & Diving Tessa Constantine, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor) Katherine Dowie, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Hayley Jackson, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor, Outdoor) Maria Kaylor, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Jo-Lauren Keane, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor, Outdoor) Michaela Lucki, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor) Ceili McCabe, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor, Outdoor) Sylvia Russell, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Mikenna Vanderheyden, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Cassandra Williamson, Women’s Track & Field (Outdoor) Charlotte Wood, Women’s Track & Field (Indoor, Outdoor) Adrian Ell, Volleyball Briana Lynch, Volleyball Second Team McGwire Holbrook, Baseball Taz Sherman, Men’s Basketball Esmery Martinez, Women’s Basketball Zach Frazier, Football Malori Brown, Rifle (Smallbore)
Molly McGhin, Rifle (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) Natalie Perrin, Rifle (Air Rifle) Akihito Shimizu, Rifle (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) Verena Zaisberger, Rifle (Smallbore, Combined) Ciro Bourlot Jaeggi, Men’s Soccer Kevin Morris, Men’s Soccer Steven Tekesky, Men’s Soccer Kayza Massey, Women’s Soccer Nicole Payne, Women’s Soccer Nick Cover, Men’s Swimming & Diving David Dixon, Men’s Swimming & Diving Glenn Eloriaga, Men’s Swimming & Diving Max Gustafson, Men’s Swimming & Diving Josh Harlan, Men’s Swimming & Diving Fausto Huerta, Men’s Swimming & Diving Zhenya Ingram, Men’s Swimming & Diving Owen Johns, Men’s Swimming & Diving Reilly Keaney, Men’s Swimming & Diving PJ Lenz, Men’s Swimming & Diving William Mullen, Men’s Swimming & Diving Joe Schaefer, Men’s Swimming & Diving Roanoke Shirk, Men’s Swimming & Diving Brendan Williams, Men’s Swimming & Diving Jake Young, Men’s Swimming & Diving Miranda Kirtley, Women’s Swimming & Diving Emily Knorr, Women’s Swimming & Diving Sarah Krusinski, Women’s Swimming & Diving Jacqueline McCutchan, Women’s Swimming & Diving Harna Minezawa, Women’s Swimming & Diving Lauren Musbach, Women’s Swimming & Diving Abby Reardon, Women’s Swimming & Diving Marian Tiemeier, Women’s Swimming & Diving Ana Zortea, Women’s Swimming & Diving Lacey Zerwas, Volleyball WVUAthletics
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All-Freshman Team Chris Sleeper, Baseball JJ Wetherholt, Baseball JJ Quinerly, Women’s Basketball Dilary Heredia-Beltran, Women’s Soccer Honorable Mention Ben Hampton, Baseball Noah Short, Baseball Jacob Watters, Baseball JJ Wetherholt, Baseball Sean McNeil, Men’s Basketball KK Deans, Women’s Basketball Kari Niblack, Women’s Basketball Madisen Smith, Women’s Basketball Alonzo Addae, Football Leddie Brown, Football Josh Chandler-Semedo, Football Bryce Ford-Wheaton, Football James Gmiter, Football Casey Legg, Football Akheem Mesidor, Football Wyatt Milum, Football Tyler Sumpter, Football Winston Wright Jr., Football Malori Brown, Rifle (Combined) Jared Eddy, Rifle (Combined) Natalie Perrin, Rifle (Smallbore, Combined) Matt Sanchez, Rifle (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) Calista Smoyer, Rifle (Combined) Verena Zaisberger, Rifle (Air Rifle)
BIG 12 SPECIALITY TEAM Gabe Osabuohien, Men’s Basketball (AllDefensive Team
ALL-TOURNAMENT PERFORMERS McGwire Holbrook, Baseball, Cambria College Classic
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Taz Sherman, Men’s Basketball, Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic KK Deans, Women’s Basketball, St. Pete Showcase Esmery Martinez, Women’s Basketball, West Palm Beach Invitational Rachel Hornung, Gymnastics, All-Big 12 Championship Team Dilary Heredia-Beltran, Women’s Soccer, Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team Briana Lynch, Volleyball, WNY Invitational, Old Dominion Invitational Skye Stokes, Volleyball, Old Dominion Invitational Lacey Zerwas, Volleyball, Mountaineer Invitationall, Old Dominion Invitational
GABE OSABUOHIEN
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION HAMPSHIRE HONOR SOCIETY Sean Mahone, Football Evan Staley, Football
COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT Nathan Blasick, Baseball Braden Barry, Baseball Sean Mahone, Football Verena Zaisberger, Rifle Aaron Denk Gracia, Men’s Soccer Pau Jimenez Albelda, Men’s Soccer Kevin Morris, Men’s Soccer Jordan Brewster, Women’s Soccer Lilly McCarthy, Women’s Soccer Julianne Vallerand, Women’s Soccer Sada Wright, Women’s Track & Field Adrian Ell, Volleyball Alexa Hasting, Volleyball Lacey Zerwas, Volleyball
INTERCOLLEGIATE TENNIS ACCOCIATION SCHOLAR-ATHLETES Camilla Bossi Anastasiia Bovolskaia Pei-Ju Hsieh Michaela Kucharova Momoko Nagato Catherine Wassick
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS Jeffrey Boyd Killian Cardinale Peyton Hall
COLLEGE RIFLE COACHES ASSOCIATION (CRCA) SCHOLASTIC ALL-AMERICANS Malori Brown Jared Eddy Tal Engler Becca Lamb Molly McGhin Natalie Perrin Calista Smoyer Verena Zaisberger
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COLLEGIATE ROWING COACHES ASSOCIATION (CRCA) SCHOLAR-ATHLETES Emily DeGlopper Ashley Dibling Nicole Dibling Anna Gall Kileigh Lade Kaira Lay, Lydia Nicolai Megan Present Emma Toy Sydney VanAuken Ryleigh Williams
COLLEGE SWIMMING AND DIVING COACHES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (CSCAA) SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS Camille Burt David Dixon Justin Heimes Sarah Krusinski PJ Lenz Marian Tiemeier
DR. GERALD LAGE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Tim Wynia, Baseball Peyton Kukura, Cross Country & Track Malina Mitchell, Cross Country & Track Casey Legg, Football Kurtis Grant, Golf Verena Zaisberger, Rifle Megan Casner, Rowing Megan Present, Rowing
Emma Toy, Rowing Aaron Denk Gracia, Men’s Soccer Stephanie Chmiel, Women’s Soccer PJ Lenz, Men’s Swimming & Diving Josh Madzy, Men’s Swimming & Diving Conrad Molinaro, Men’s Swimming & Diving Camille Burt, Women’s Swimming & Diving Abigail Riggs, Women’s Swimming & Diving Tessa Constantine, Track & Field Kristin Lux, Volleyball Tucker Nadeau, Wrestling
Jayla Hemingway, Women’s Basketball Kari Niblack, Women’s Basketball Madisen Smith, Women’s Basketball Katherine Dowie, Cross Country Samantha Hatcher, Cross Country Maria Kaylor, Cross Country Ceili McCabe, Cross Country Malina Mitchell, Cross Country Bree Warren, Cross Country Megan Weaver, Cross Country Charlotte Wood, Cross Country Austin Brinkman, Football Jarret Doege, Football DR. PRENTICE GAUTT Zach Frazier, Football POSTGRADUATE Garrett Greene, Football SCHOLARSHIP Casey Legg, Football Sean Mahone, Football Noah Short, Baseball Graeson Malashevich, Football Verena Zaisberger, Rifle Sean Martin, Football Reese Smith, Football WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Evan Staley, Football Winston Wright Jr., Football OUTSTANDING SENIORS Kurtis Grant, Golf Ashley Dibling, Rowing Logan Perkins, Golf Nicole Dibling, Rowing Will Stakel, Golf Trent Tipton, Golf ACADEMIC Esperanza Abarca, Gymnastics Chloe Asper, Gymnastics ALL-CONFERENCE Kendra Combs, Gymnastics First Team Agatha Handono, Gymnastics Nathan Blasick, Baaseball Emily Holmes-Hackerd, Gymnastics Austin Davis, Baseball Rachel Hornung, Gymnastics Ben Hampton, Baseball Kiana Lewis, Gymnastics Vince Ippoliti, Baseball Abbie Pierson, Gymnastics MIkey Kluska, Baseball Kianna Yancey, Gymnastics Beau Lowery, Baseball Laurna Atkins, Rowing Victor Scott II, Baseball Katherine Capitan, Rowing Noah Short, Baseball Emily DeGlopper, Rowing Tyler Strechay, Baseball Ashley Dibling, Rowing Tevin Tucker, Baseball Nicole Dibling, Rowing Sean McNeil, Men’s Basketball Amber Drysdale, Rowing KK Deans, Women’s Basketball Alexandra Farron, Rowing Blessing Ejiofor, Women’s Basketball
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Ally Fisher, Rowing Anna Gall, Rowing Maura Harkins, Rowing Kileigh Lade, Rowing Kaira Lay, Rowing Katherine McMullen, Rowing Kathleen Meldrum, Rowing Lydia Nicolai, Rowing Megan Present, Rowing Michaela Pulick, Rowing Emma Toy, Rowing Sydney VanAuken, Rowing Ryleigh Williams, Rowing Ryan Baer, Men’s Soccer Ciro Bourlot Jaeggi, Men’s Soccer Aaron Denk Gracia, Men’s Soccer Dyon Dromers, Men’s Soccer Pau Jimenez Albelda, Men’s Soccer Kyle Lehnert, Men’s Soccer Kevin Morris, Men’s Soccer Ike Swiger, Men’s Soccer Steven Tekesky, Men’s Soccer Chloe Adler, Women’s Soccer Jordan Brewster, Women’s Soccer Stephanie Chmiel, Women’s Soccer Maya Ladhani, Women’s Soccer Juliana Lynch, Women’s Soccer Kayza Massey, Women’s Soccer Lilly McCarthy, Women’s Soccer KRISTIN LUX
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Nicole Payne, Women’s Soccer Gabrielle Robinson, Women’s Soccer Lauren Segalla, Women’s Soccer Grace Smith, Women’s Soccer Alina Stahl, Women’s Soccer Julianne Vallerand, Women’s Soccer Jonathan Bennett, Men’s Swimming & Diving Zach Boley, Men’s Swimming & Diving Josh Harlan, Men’s Swimming & Diving Justin Heimes, Men’s Swimming & Diving Fausto Huerta, Men’s Swimming & Diving Josh Madzy, Men’s Swimming & Diving Dylan Melin, Men’s Swimming & Diving Conrad Molinaro, Men’s Swimming & Diving William Mullen, Men’s Swimming & Diving Joe Schaefer, Men’s Swimming & Diving David Snider, Men’s Swimming & Diving Roberts Zemturis, Men’s Swimming & Diving Kate Beckish, Women’s Swimming & Diving Lauren Beckish, Women’s Swimming & Diving Meredith Bolinger, Women’s Swimming & Diving Camille Burt, Women’s Swimming & Diving Shelby Gerving, Women’s Swimming & Diving Ginger Hansen, Women’s Swimming & Diving Kaelyn McClain, Women’s Swimming & Diving Jacqueline McCutchan, Women’s Swimming & Diving Harna Minezawa, Women’s Swimming & Diving Tatum Peyerl, Women’s Swimming & Diving Abby Reardon, Women’s Swimming & Diving Abigail Riggs, Women’s Swimming & Diving Marian Tiemeier, Women’s Swimming & Diving
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Anne-Elaine Tiller, Women’s Swimming & Diving Sarah Young, Women’s Swimming & Diving Megan Zartman, Women’s Swimming & Diving Anastasiia Bovolskaia, Women’s Tennis Momoko Nagato, Women’s Tennis Katelyn Caccamo, Women’s Track & Field Tessa Constantine, Women’s Track & Field Lynsie Curtis, Women’s Track & Field Amber Dombrowski, Women’s Track & Field Katherine Dowie, Women’s Track & Field Ellie Gardner, Women’s Track & Field Samantha Hatcher, Women’s Track & Field Jo-Lauren Keane, Women’s Track & Field Peyton Kukura, Women’s Track & Field Ceili McCabe, Women’s Track & Field Peter-Gay McKenzie, Women’s Track & Field Malina Mitchell, Women’s Track & Field Abigail Mullings, Women’s Track & Field Myesha Nott, Women’s Track & Field McKenna Smith, Women’s Track & Field Sarah Stair, Women’s Track & Field Mikenna Vanderheyden, Women’s Track & Field Cassandra Williamson, Women’s Track & Field Sada Wright, Women’s Track & Field Alexa Hasting, Volleyball Kristin Lux, Volleyball Emmy Ogogor, Volleyball Marielena Somoza, Volleyball Alison Thomas, Volleyball Lacey Zerwas, Volleyball Jeffrey Boyd, Wrestling Killian Cardinale, Wrestling Anthony Carman, Wrestling Peyton Hall, Wrestling Scott Joll, Wrestling Tucker Nadeau, Wrestling Caleb Rea, Wrestling
Second Team Ben Abernathy, Basaeball McGwire Holbrook, Baseball Zach Ottinger, Baseball Carlson Reed, BAseball Jalen Bridges, Men’s Basketball Leddie Brown, Football Nicktroy Fortune, Football Ja’Quay Hubbard, Football John Hughes, Football Jordan Jefferson, Football Tony Mathis Jr., Football Akheem Mesidor, Football Mike O’Laughlin, Football Daryl Porter Jr., Football Malachi Ruffin, Football Taurus Simmons, Football Olivier Ménard, Golf Aaliyah Scott, Women’s Soccer Isabella Sibley, Women’s Soccer David Dixon, Men’s Swimming & Diving Logan McFadden, Men’s Swimming & Diving Hannah Cech, Women’s Swimming & Diving Paige Dressel, Women’s Swimming & Diving Mathilde Kaelbel, Women’s Swimming & Diving Emma Longley, Women’s Swimming & Diving Briana Lynch, Volleyball Natali Petrova, Volleyball Natalie Winter, Volleyball Alex Hornfeck, Wrestling Dennis Robin, Wrestling
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG 12 AT-LARGE First Team Malori Brown, Rifle Jared Eddy, Rifle Tal Engler, Rifle Becca Lamb, Rifle Molly McGhin, Rifle Calista Smoyer, Rifle Verena Zaisberger, Rifle Ryan Baer, Men’s Soccer Ciro Bourlot Jaeggi, Men’s Soccer Ryan Crooks, Men’s Soccer Aaron Denk Gracia, Men’s Soccer Dyon Dromers, Men’s Soccer Pau Jimenez Albelda, Men’s Soccer Kyle Lehnert, Men’s Soccer Kevin Morris, Men’s Soccer Ike Swiger, Men’s Soccer Steven Tekesky, Men’s Soccer Bjarne Thiesen, Men’s Soccer Second Team Luke McCormick, Men’s Soccer Sergio Ors Navarro, Men’s Soccer
ACADEMIC TEAM AWARDS Baseball, ABCA Academic Excellence Award Men’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award Women’s Soccer, United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award Men’s Swimming & Diving, CSCAA Scholar All-America Team Women’s Swimming & Diving, CSCAA Scholar All-America Team Women’s Tennis, ITA All-Academic Team Volleyball, AVCA Team Academic Award
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WVU ACHIEVES RECORD-HIGH APR West Virginia University’s varsity athletic teams have a combined Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 989 according to data released by the NCAA. The 989 score is WVU’s highest score for the 18 years of the NCAA Academic Performance Program WVU’s average APR score of 989 is five points higher than the NCAA’s overall four-year APR average score of 984. WVU’s score has improved four points from two years ago and 15 points from seven years ago.
The APR is based upon eligibility and retention of student-athletes on a semester-by-semester basis and is an assessment of real-time academic success. The results of the fall and spring semesters, in a given year, are calculated as that year’s APR score and averaged with the respective scores from the previous three years to provide a four-year (multi-year) snapshot of academic achievement. Any student-athlete receiving athletic aid in a varsity sport can
earn up to four points per year for being academically eligible and remaining enrolled in the institution. A team’s APR is the total points earned on the roster divided by that squad’s total possible points, multiplied by 1,000. Teams must achieve a 930 multiyear APR to avoid immediate penalties (involving the possible reduction of practice time and access to postseason competition). Those elements of the NCAA Division I APR remain suspended through spring 2023. The current multi-year APR scores for WVU’s varsity teams (2017-18 to 202021): baseball 973; men’s basketball 990; women’s basketball 991; cross country 996; football 974; golf 993; gymnastics WVUAthletics
995; rifle 1,000; rowing 996; men’s soccer 992; women’s soccer 988; men’s swimming and diving 990; women’s swimming and diving 993; tennis 991; track and field 993; volleyball 994; and wrestling 964. “We are proud of the high level of academic success with our studentathletes, and our scores continue to climb and be well above the national average,” Director of Athletics Shane Lyons said. “This record-high 989 score for West Virginia University is a testament to our student-athletes, our coaching staffs and our academic student-athlete development unit. I would like to congratulate the rifle team for its perfect four-year score.” @WVUSports
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OLYMPIC SPORTS ATHLETICS PERFORMANCE CENTER OPENS A critical component to the success of West Virginia University’s Olympic sports student-athletes is now fully functional and operational. The $10 million Athletics Performance Center, made possible through a gift from the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust, is a 36,000+-square-foot sports performance center that is being utilized on a daily basis by the vast majority of WVU student-athletes. With the exception of football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball, which have their own training areas, between 300 and 400 student-athletes are now taking advantage of this facility every day. The new center was built in the old WVU Natatorium, which was utilized by West Virginia University’s swimming and diving teams from 1975 until November 2019, when the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park officially opened. Roughly 1,850 cubic yards of concrete, requiring 185 concrete trucks, were needed to fill it in. The convoy of trucks lined up to pour the fill was an impressive site to behold. Great care was taken to preserve as much of the original structure as possible, including the Natatorium’s iconic wooden ceiling. All that was needed was a light pressure wash to restore its original finish. Lyons said it was important for the performance center to be within close proximity of the training table and academic support center in the Coliseum. Some of the facility’s specifics: • 36,500 square feet of training space, including an additional mezzanine area with 6,500 square feet of room for ERG (ergometer) training for the rowing team where the diving well was once located, and a cardiovascular area in the former seating area • 1,400 square feet of glass in the front to provide natural lighting • 9,000 square feet for the sports medicine staff, including a 1,500-square foot hydrotherapy area and a $50,000 BOD POD body composition tracking system to measure body-fat percentages SHANE LYONS
• 2,800 square feet of additional men’s and women’s locker room areas for student-athletes • Indoor golf training facility with Trackman technology and putting greens
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• 1,200 square feet nutrition area and fueling station with a fully functional kitchen This is the culmination of more than five years of planning, going back to when Lyons first toured the campus when he was considering the athletics director post in January, 2015. “When I came on as athletic director, one of my main focuses was upgrading our facilities, especially for Olympic sports, which I felt were very below par in terms of the strength and conditioning and medical areas,” Lyons said. “We had teams that never had their own locker room space in its entire history. When we re-did this building, it was important to look at which teams didn’t have locker rooms and address that.” Previously, WVU’s Olympic sports teams either had to use the antiquated weight and training room located in a small space between the
Natatorium and the Shell Building, the small Coliseum weight room located courtside, or reserve time over at Milan Puskar Stadium or in the Basketball Practice Facility. Obviously, it was a less-than ideal situation and Olympic sports coaches either showed recruits the Milan Puskar Center or Basketball Practice facilities, or skipped over the weight room entirely. “In all of our projects, we are looking at effectiveness and efficiency for our student-athletes,” Lyons concluded. This new Athletics Performance Center certainly accomplishes that, and much, much more. The architectural firm used for this project was Omni Architects of Fairmont, and the general contractor and construction manager was March Westin of Morgantown.
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D E Z LI TA R O M IM Y E LL TA D N A IS HARR WITH NUMBER RETIREMENTS West Virginia University football legends Major Harris and Darryl Talley joined the pantheon of Mountaineer football greats this past fall with the retirement of their numbers, becoming just the fourth and fifth Mountaineer gridders (No. 75 Sam Huff, No. 21 Ira Errett Rodgers and No. 77 Bruce Bosley) to be so honored.
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Talley, who wore No. 90, was a four-year starter who culminated his career with consensus All-America honors in 1982. That was just part of a magnificent career for the East Cleveland, Ohio, native who had five tackles for loss against Penn State in 1980, was Sports Illustrated’s National Player of the Week after a win against
Boston College in 1982 and finished his career as WVU’s career tackles leader with 484 (282 solo) with 35 tackles for loss, 19 sacks, five interceptions and five fumble recoveries. More importantly though, he was a big part of the foundation on which Don Nehlen rebuilt the Mountaineer football program. The Buffalo Bills drafted him in the second round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and he blossomed into a star for the Bills, playing 12 seasons as the team’s starting outside linebacker from 198394, never missing a game and starting in four straight Super Bowls. At the conclusion of his career, Talley was the Bills’ all-time leading tackler with 1,137. He also recorded 38½ sacks, 12 interceptions, 14 fumble recoveries and three touchdowns for his career as a Bill, averaging 120 tackles, 3½ sacks and 6.2 takeaways per season. Aside from the Super Bowls, he was selected twice to the Pro Bowl and was voted All-Pro in 1990 and 1991. He concluded his career by playing one season each with the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings to total 14 years in the NFL. Talley’s overall career honors are vast. He is a member of WVU’s All-
Time Football Team, was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, won the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Distinguished Service Award in 2000, which is named after the Bills’ legendary owner, became the 20th member of the Buffalo Bills’ Wall of Fame, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011, the Mountaineer Legends Society in 2016 and named one of the 26 greatest players in Buffalo Bills history as part of the team’s 50th Anniversary, joining teammates Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Cornelius Bennett and Andre Reed among others. Harris, a native of Pittsburgh, wore No. 9 for three of the most exciting seasons in school history. His wrongway touchdown run that served as a catalyst in a 51-30 beating of Penn State in 1988 was THE highlight in a career full of them from 1987-89. The trailblazing Harris was one of college football’s most exciting performers in the late 1980s, but not only was he a remarkable athlete with futuristic skills on the football field, he also possessed an effervescent and magnetic personality off it, and he arrived at the same time ESPN was transforming college football into one
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of America’s most popular sports. It could easily be said that his style of play was ahead of its time and paved the way for future quarterbacks such as Michael Vick, Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and many stars of today to shine in the NFL. How popular was Major? Consider this: the ONLY two seasons West Virginia football has ever averaged more than 60,000 fans per game occurred during Major’s sophomore and junior seasons in 1988 and 1989. And five of the 17 largest crowds in Mountaineer Field history still involve games in which Harris played. Arriving in Morgantown at a time when West Virginia was coming off two straight seasons without going to a bowl game, Harris ignited a flame in the Mountaineer grid program that led to the doorstep of a national championship and turned the Mountaineers from a regional football program into a national one after the first unbeaten, untied regular season in school history (1988). He had a pair of top-five Heisman Trophy finishes (5th in 1988 and 3rd in 1989), became the first quarterback in NCAA history to rush for 2,000 yards and pass for 5,000, received write-in votes for governor of the state of West Virginia (1988), was a First Team Kodak AllAmerican (1989) and two-time ECAC Player of the Year (1988 and ’89), was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame (1999), the College Football Hall of Fame (2010) and Mountaineer Legends Society (2016). WVUAthletics
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• West Virginia finished 33-22 overall, including 14-10 in Big 12 action, during coach Randy Mazey’s 10th season at the helm • The 14 conference wins were the most in the program’s Big 12 era • WVU has now won 30 or more games in five of Mazey’s nine full seasons in charge • Mazey coached in his 500th game at WVU on April 9, against Baylor • WVU swept two Big 12 series (Baylor, Kansas State) for the first time in one season in program history • The Mountaineers were the only squad in the Big 12 without a three-game losing streak. In all, West Virginia finished 15-6 following a loss • West Virginia appeared in the national polls twice during the year, reaching as high as No. 24 by Collegiate Baseball • WVU finished 17-6 at home in 2022. The club has never had a losing home record in the history of Wagener Field at Monongalia County Ballpark, which opened in 2015. • West Virginia finished No. 2 nationally in stolen bases, with 156, which was good for the most in single-season program history • Individually, junior outfielder Victor Scott II swiped 38 bases, good for No. 1 in singleseason Mountaineer history • Fifth-year senior right-handed pitcher Trey Braithwaite was named an All-America Third Team selection by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), becoming the 24th All-American in program history • Eight Mountaineers earned a spot on one of the All-Big 12 Teams, led by first-team honorees Braithwaite and senior outfielder Austin Davis • Additionally, sophomore catcher McGwire Holbrook earned second-team honors, while redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Noah Short, junior right-hander Jacob Watters, sophomore left-hander Ben Hampton and freshman infielder JJ Wetherholt were Honorable Mention selections. Freshman right-hander Chris Sleeper joined Wetherholt on the All-Big 12 Freshman Team • Sophomore outfielder Braden Barry and sophomore infielder Nathan Blasick earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, becoming the first WVU duo to be named to the team in the same year since 2003 (Lee Fritz and Zac Cline) • A program-record 15 Mountaineers were named to the Academic All-Big 12 Team. The squad’s 11 first-team honorees also were an all-time team high
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BEN ABERNATHY
MCGWIRE HOLBROOK
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NATHAN BLASICK CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • • • • • • • •
Drafted in the 16th round (483rd overall) by the Cincinnati Reds NCBWA All-America Third Team ABCA/Rawlings East All-Region Team All-Big 12 First Team NCBWA Stopper of the Year Midseason Watch List Big 12 Newcomer of the Week - April 4 WVU Student-Athlete of the Week April 4 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watch List
All-Big 12 Second Team Academic All-Big 12 Second Team Cambria College Classic All-Tournament Team
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NOAH SHORT
JJ WETHERHOLT
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ZACH OTTINGER •
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CARLSON REED
AUSTIN DAVIS
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All-Big 12 First Team Academic All-Big 12 First Team WVU Student-Athlete of the Week April 25 • Big 12 Player of the Week - April 11 • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week April 11
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Drafted in the fifth round (157th overall) by the St. Louis Cardinals • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week April 18
Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship recipient • All-Big 12 Honorable Mention • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watch List
CHRIS SLEEPER •
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TIM WYNIA • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award
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TEVIN TUCKER • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JACOB WATTERS • Drafted in the fourth round (124th overall) by the Oakland Athletics • All-Big 12 Honorable Mention • One of Collegiate Baseball Newspaper’s National Players of the Week - May 9 • NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team • NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watch List
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CROSS COUNTRY • The Mountaineers saw action in four regular-season meets, along with the Big 12 Championship, NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional and NCAA Championships • WVU finished third at the 2021 Big 12 Championship in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where Ceili McCabe was the first Mountaineer in program history to win the Big 12 individual title • McCabe, fifth-year senior Sylvia Russell and redshirt senior Mikaela Lucki finished inside the top-15 at the conference meet to earn All-Big 12 honors; the honor was the third for McCabe and first for Russell and Lucki • At the Mid-Atlantic Regional in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the squad earned an automatic bid to Nationals after finishing in second • McCabe took first at regionals and was one of five Mountaineers to finish inside the top 25 to collect All-Mid-Atlantic Region honors, along with Russell, Lucki, redshirt junior Katherine Dowie and fifth-year senior Hayley Jackson • The Mountaineers finished in 21st at the NCAA Championships in Tallahassee, Fla. • McCabe placed third at Nationals and earned All-America honors. Her finish was the highest by a Mountaineer at Nationals • McCabe was named the National Athlete of the Week and was the first Mountaineer to be named since 2013. She was then named the Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year and Big 12 Women’s Runner of the Year • Coach Sean Cleary was named the Mid-Atlantic Regional Coach of the Year for the sixth time in his career • Eight members of the squad were awarded Academic All-Big 12 First Team honor • The team was ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) weekly rankings (Oct. 19)
AUBRIE CUSTER • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
KATHERINE DOWIE • All-Mid-Atlantic Region • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll CEILI MCCABE
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HAYLEY JACKSON • All-Mid-Atlantic Region • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
MARIA KAYLOR • Academic All-Big First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
JO-LAUREN KEANE • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
KATHERINE DOWIE
All-American Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year Big 12 Women’s Runner of the Year All-Mid-Atlantic Region All-Big 12 First Team Academic All-Big 12 First Team Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll National Athlete of the Week (Oct. 19) Big 12 Runner of the Week (Oct. 5) WVU Student Athlete of the Week (Oct. 4, Nov. 1, Nov. 22 and Dec. 6)
MALINA MITCHEL
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Academic All-Big First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
MIKAELA LUCKI
PETAL PALMER
SYLVIA RUSSELL
MEGAN WEAVER
• All-Mid-Atlantic Region • All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• All-Mid-Atlantic Region • All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
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KASE TORCHIA • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
MIKENNA VANDERHEYDEN • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
CASSANDRA WILLIAMSON • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
CHARLOTTE WOOD • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
ZARA ZERVOS • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
BREE WARREN • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
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• The Mountaineers won four of their last six regular-season games to finish the regular season 6-6 and earn the 39th bowl trip in program history • WVU’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl appearance marked the 18th time in the past 20 years that the Mountaineers have been selected for a postseason bowl game, one of 15 Power 5 schools to accomplish that • The Mountaineers defeated No. 15 Virginia Tech, marking the highest-ranked win of the Neal Brown era and also defeated No. 22 Iowa State to tie for the most wins against ranked teams in a season since 2007 • West Virginia was 6-0 in 2021 when rushing for at least 100 yards in a game and averaged 191.3 yards on the ground in those contests • Running back Leddie Brown rushed for 1,000 yards for the second year in a row, the first Mountaineer with back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons since Justin Crawford in 2016-17 and finished his WVU career with 2,888 yards on the ground • WVU has produced six 1,000-yard rushers since joining the Big 12 Conference in 2012, including Leddie Brown, who posted a 1,010-yard season in 2020 and had 1,065 yards in 2021 • The Mountaineer defense produced 10 10-plus tackle performers, including multiple double-digit stops in the same game twice. They tallied at least five tackles for loss in nine of 13 games, including 10 or more three times. They posted multiple sacks in eight games, including four or more twice • West Virginia had three players in the top 25 in the Big 12 in tackles: Josh ChandlerSemedo (No. 3 - 8.46), Sean Mahone (No. 16 - 6.23) and Alonzo Addae (No. 22 - 5.62) • Leddie Brown’s 13 rushing touchdowns in 2021 were tied for No. 10 in single-season school history • Jarret Doege’s 272 completions in 2021 ranked No. 5 in single-season program history, while his 3,048 yards were No. 9 • Dante Stills’ 15 tackles for loss in 2021 were tied for No. 10 in single-season team history, and he recorded at least one tackle for loss in 10 of 13 games in 2021. He finished at No. 4 in the Big 12 in tackles for loss (1.15) and ranked No. 10 in the Big 12 in sacks (0.54) • Safety Sean Mahone was a finalist for the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy, the academic Heisman • Mahone earned a spot on the National Football Foundation’s Scholar-Athlete Team, the program’s first since 2009 and seventh all time and earned CoSIDA Academic AllAmerica Second Team, honors, WVU’s 29th Football Academic All-American
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ZACH FRAZIER
TAIJH ALSTON
GARRETT GREENE
WYATT MILUM
• Mayo Clinic Comeback POTY Semifinalist
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JARED BARTLETT
JA’QUAY HUBBARD
• Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (vs. Virginia Tech) • Bronko Nagurski National Player of the Week (vs. Virginia Tech)
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
• FWAA Freshman All-America Team • The Athletic Freshman All-America Team • On3 True Freshman All-America Team
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
• All-Big 12 Conference Second Team (PFF College)
AUSTIN BRINKMAN
JORDAN JEFFERSON
MIKE O’LAUGHLIN
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • All-Big 12 Conference Third Team (PFF College)
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
CASEY LEGG
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
LEDDIE BROWN • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • All-Big 12 Conference Fourth Team (Phil Steele)
JOSH CHANDLER-SEMEDO • All-Big 12 Conference Third Team (Phil Steele) • All-Big 12 Conference HonorableMention (PFF College)
JARRET DOEGE • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Offensive Champion: Iowa State
JOHN HUGHES
• Lou Groza Award Semifinalist • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • All-Big 12 Conference Honorable Mention (PFF College)
DARYL PORTER JR. MALACHI RUFFIN • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
TAURUS SIMMONS • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
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DOUG NESTER
NFF Scholar-Athlete Team CoSIDA Academic All-District Academic All-Big 12 First Team All-Big 12 Conference Third Team (Phil Steele)
REESE SMITH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
EVAN STALEY • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
BRYCE FORD-WHEATON
GRAESON MALASHEVICH
DANTE STILLS
• All-Big 12 Conference Fourth Team (Phil Steele)
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• All-Big 12 Conference First Team (Coaches, AP, Phil Steele)
NICKTROY FORTUNE • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
ZACH FRAZIER • All-America Second Team (AFCA, Walter Camp) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • All-Big 12 Conference Second Team (PFF College) • All-Big 12 Conference Fourth Team (Phil Steele)
SEAN MARTIN • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
TONY MATHIS JR. • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
AKHEEM MESIDOR • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • All-Big 12 Conference Third Team (Phil Steele)
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CHARLES WOODS • All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (PFF College)
WINSTON WRIGHT JR. • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • All-Big 12 Conference First Team (KOR) (PFF College) • All-Big 12 Conference Second Team (WR) (PFF College, Phil Steele)
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GOLF • Finished 10th at the Big 12 Championship with two golfers finishing in the top 25 (Mark Goetz and Logan Perkins) for the first time since being in the Big 12 • Goetz won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and Mountaineer Invitational for his second and third collegiate tournament wins, the most in school history • Max Green was co-champion of the East Carolina Intercollegiate, becoming the third different Mountaineer to win a collegiate tournament • Team won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate with a 28-under-par tally, the lowest 54-hole, under-par score in school history • The 271 in the final round at Las Vegas tied the lowest round team total in school history • The 17-under-par tally in the final round at Las Vegas was the lowest round in school history in relation to par • Defeated Kansas State (4-2-0) and tied Kansas (3-3-0) at the Big 12 Match Play Championship • Tied the then-school record for 18 holes at the Mountaineer Invitational with a final round score of 13-under-par • Goetz was the stroke-play medalist out of 312 golfers at the 121st U.S. Amateur at Oakmont Country Club, shooting 8-under-par
JACKSON DAVENPORT • Big 12 Championship lineup • Recorded four rounds in the 60s and eight rounds of par or better • Was WVU’s top finisher at The Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, finishing 4-under-par (7267-73=212) for 16th place • Posted his best tournament as a Mountaineer at the Georgia State Invitational, finishing 7-under-par in fifth place with rounds of 74-68-67=209 • Posted WVU’s low round of the final day at the Gopher Invitational with a 71
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MARK GOETZ • Recorded 17 rounds of par or better, including nine rounds in the 60s • Average score was 71.37 for the season (-0.19 vs. par) • WVU Golf Most Outstanding Player • Was the stroke-play medalist out of 312 golfers at the 121st U.S. Amateur at Oakmont Country Club, shooting 8-under-par • Tied for 25th place at the Big 12 Championship with rounds of 75-7376=224 (+8) • Shot 1-over-par (72-67-78=217) at The Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate • Tied for ninth place at 4-under-par with rounds of 70-70-72=212 at the Schenkel Invitational • Won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate, shooting 15-under-par to set the school record for the lowest 54-hole total (65-6769=201), breaking his own record set in the fall at the Mountaineer Invitational • Broke his own record for score in relation to par in Vegas, besting his 14-under-par mark last fall at the Mountaineer Invitational • His Vegas win was the third of his career, the most in school history • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Gators Invitational with a 10th-place finish, recording rounds of 69-69-70=208 (2-under-par) • Won three matches at the Big 12 Match Play Championship against Kansas State, Kansas and Iowa State • Shot a career-low on the final day to win his second consecutive Mountaineer Invitational • Posted a career-low 63 in the final round, one shy of the school record • His 9-under-par day was the lowest round in school history in relation to par
• Three-day total of 202 (69-70-63=202) for 14-under-par was the then-lowest threeround total in school history • His 14-under-par score set the then-school record for a tournament in relation to par • Had 19 birdies and just five bogeys in the 54-hole event • Shot even par at the Gopher Invitational, tying for 18th place, with two rounds under par
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Academic All-Big 12 First Team Big 12 Championship lineup Played in every tournament Had 10 rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in 33rd place with rounds of 71-73-78=222 (6-over-par) • Captured a victory at the Big 12 Match Play Championship against Kansas State • Finished tied for a season-best 18th at the Mountaineer Invitational with rounds of 78-71-70=219 (+3)
MAX GREEN • Played in eight tournaments • Had six rounds of par or better, including two rounds in the 60s • Named WVU’s Athlete of the Week (March 28) for his performance at the ECU Intercollegiate • Was co-champion of the ECU Intercollegiate, shooting 5-under-par with rounds of 69-69-73=211 • Became the third different WVU golfer to win a collegiate tournament • Tied Logan McAllister of Oklahoma at the Big 12 Match Play Championship • Finished tied for 15th as an individual with rounds of 73-72-72=217 (+1) at the Mountaineer Invitational
OLIVIER MÉNARD • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • Traveled to the Big 12 Championship as a substitute • Recorded four rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • WVU’s top finisher at the Thomas Sharkey Individual Collegiate, finishing tied for 16th with rounds of 78-77-74=229 (+13) • Recorded a win in the Big 12 Match Play Championship against Kansas State • Shot even par and finished tied for 13th at the Mountaineer Invitational with rounds of 73-73-70=216 • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Minnesota Golf Classic, placing third at 8-under-par with rounds of 72-66-70=208 • His second round 66 at Minnesota tied for the eighth-lowest round in school history
LOGAN PERKINS • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Competed in every tournament • Had 11 rounds of par or better, including five rounds in the 60s • Tied for 25th place at the Big 12 Championship with rounds of 75-7475=224 (+8) • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Mason Rudolph Championship with rounds of 71-69-70=210 (-3) to tie for 16th place • Finished tied for 18th at the Schenkel Invitational with rounds of 72-68-76=216 to finish even par • Recorded a third-place finish and his best 54-hole total as a Mountaineer with rounds of 73-66-65=204 (12-under-par) at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate • His 204 score bested his previous-best 205, set at the 2020 Gators Invitational
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• Was bogey free in the final 36 holes at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate • Picked up three victories (Texas Tech, Kansas State and Kansas) in the Big 12 Match Play Championship
WILL STAKEL • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Golf Academic Achievement Award • Had two rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • Career-best finish by tying for 10th place at the Minnesota Golf Classic at 3-under-par with rounds of 72-73-68=213
TRENT TIPTON • • • •
Academic All-Big 12 First Team Big 12 Championship lineup Competed in every tournament Had seven rounds of par or better, including four rounds in the 60s • Recorded his best finish as a Mountaineer, tying for a career-best eighth place at 6-under-par (68-74-68=210) at the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate • His two rounds of 68 were his lowest rounds as a Mountaineer • Recorded victories over Texas Tech and Kansas in the Big 12 Match Play Championship
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• West Virginia qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships for the 42nd time in program history, including its seventh consecutive berth. • In the postseason, the Mountaineers reached a season-high 196.650 at the 2022 Big 12 Championship to finish in third place. It marked the squad’s highest finish at the conference meet since 2017, when it also finished third. • WVU’s total was its highest team score at the Big 12 Championship in program history, besting its previous program-best of 196.375, recorded in 2014. • Rachel Hornung competed in the all-around at Big 12s, earning a spot on the 2022 All-Big 12 Championship Team to become the first Mountaineer to be named to the all-championship team since 2017 and the first to earn the honors in the all-around since 2015. • WVU ended the year ranked No. 33 in the Road to Nationals Rankings with a National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 392.240. • The Mountaineers ranked inside the top 25 of the Road to Nationals rankings on floor exercise every week during the regular season, finishing the year at No. 19 with a 49.345 NQS. • WVU’s floor lineup debuted in the rankings at No. 4 on Jan. 17, marking the team’s highest since at least 1998 in the Road to Nationals rankings. The last time the Mountaineers appeared inside the organization’s top 10 was in the final rankings of the 2001 regular season, when the squad was ranked No. 8 nationally on floor • West Virginia’s 196.25-195.225 win over No. 22 North Carolina on Feb. 24, was its first win over a ranked opponent since March 17, 2019, when it bested No. 22 Ohio State and No. 24 Penn State. • At season’s end, Kendra Combs ranked inside the top 10 in the Big 12 on floor, tying for No. 4 overall with an NQS of 9.910. Abbie Pierson also tied for No. 7 in the league (9.895 NQS). • A pair of Mountaineers were named the Big 12 Gymnast of the Week, as Combs earned the honor on March 1, and Pierson on March 15. It marked the first time WVU has had multiple weekly conference awards in one season since 2016. • Combs also was honored on the All-Big 12 Team, becoming the first gymnast to earn all-conference honors on the all-around since 2014. She also was the first Mountaineer to be named to the All-Big 12 team on any event since 2019. • Eleven of the 14 Mountaineers who saw competitive time reached the podium, as WVU boasted 84 podium finishes on the year. Combs led the team with 21, including 11 event wins.
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT • Nine Mountaineers earned a spot on the 2021 Academic All-Big 12 Gymnastics First Team, including four gymnasts – Esperanza Abarca, Emily HolmesHackerd, Pierson and Kianna Yancey – who were recognized with 4.0 grade point averages. • Associate head coach Travis Doak and assistant coach Zaakira Muhammad were named the Region 6 Co-Assistant Coaches of the Year by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association,
marking the first WVU coaches to earn the honor since then-assistant Jason Butts in 2009 and 2010.
ESPERANZA ABARCA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
CHLOE ASPER • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KENDRA COMBS • NCAA Regional Championships Individual Event Specialist (floor) • All-Big 12 Team (all-around) • Big 12 Gymnast of the Week (March 1) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Surpassed 1,000 career points
RACHEL HORNUNG
AGATHA HANDONO
ABBIE PIERSON
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• NCAA Regional Championships Individual Event Specialist (beam, floor) • Big 12 Gymnast of the Week (March 15) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Jan. 17)
EMILY HOLMES-HACKERD • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Surpassed 500 career points
RACHEL HORNUNG • All-Big 12 Championship Team (allaround) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Surpassed 1,000 career points ABBIE PIERSON
KIANNA YANCEY • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KIANA LEWIS • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Surpassed 500 career points
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• Finished with the second-toughest strength of schedule in the final NCAA rankings • Played more regular season Quad I games (17) in the NET than any other Division I school • The Mountaineers own 1,827 all-time victories, ranking WVU 20th in wins among all Division I schools • WVU won its 11th game in Big 12 Championship history, defeating K-State in the opening round • Posted a winning, nonconference mark (11-2) for the 30th consecutive season • Defeated No. 15 UConn in the Big 12Big East Battle • Averaged 11,535 fans in the WVU Coliseum • Recorded the 100th all-time victory against Pitt • 14,100 fans watched the WVU-Pitt game, the most ever for a November basketball game at the WVU Coliseum • 72.39% from the free-throw line was the ninth-best percentage in a season in school history • 208 3-point field goals made was the 15th-most made in a season in school history
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COACH BOB HUGGINS
JALEN BRIDGES
• Selected to the 2022 class for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame • Moved past Bob Knight and Roy Williams on the NCAA career wins list • Now has 916 wins, the fourth-most wins among the NCAA’s all-time winningest coaches • Coached his 1,300th career game, the sixth-most games in college basketball history • Coached his 500th game at WVU • Became the 18th Division I head coach all-time to coach 40 or more years • Is now the second-winningest active Division I coach behind Jim Boeheim
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
GABE OSABUOHIEN
SEAN MCNEIL • All-Big 12 Conference Honorable Mention • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Player of the Week (Dec. 27)
GABE OSABUOHIEN • Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year • Big 12 Conference All-Defensive Team
TAZ SHERMAN • • • •
All-Big 12 Second Team Big 12 Player of the Week (Dec. 13) Big 12 Player of the Week (Nov. 22) Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic All-Tournament Team • Became WVU’s 55th 1,000-point scorer • Scored more than 500 points in a season, marking the 48th time a WVU player has scored 500 points in a season
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MEN’S SOCCER LUKE MCCORMICK
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• The Mountaineers reached the NCAA Quarterfinals for the second time in program history and first since 1981 • WVU earned the No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament, its highest national seed since 2007 • West Virginia finished at No. 8 in the final United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll, good for the highest finish in program history • The squad also finished at No. 7 in the TopDrawerSoccer poll, as well as No. 8 by College Soccer News • The squad reached as high as No. 3 in the United Soccer Coaches poll on Sept. 28, marking the highest ranking by the poll in program history • WVU finished 8-0-3 at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in 2021, the club’s first unbeaten, home campaign since 2007 • Redshirt sophomore defender Bjarne Thiesen was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team, while fifth-year senior defender Kevin Morris and sophomore midfielder Ryan Baer were all-region selections • Thiesen also was featured on TopDrawerSoccer’s Best XI Third Team. Additionally, freshman defender Frederick Jorgensen was named to the Freshman Best XI Second Team by TDS • For the second consecutive season, fifth-year senior defender Kevin Morris was placed on the Academic All-America First Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Senior defender Aaron Denk Gracia was selected to the third team • Four Mountaineers earned All-MAC recognition, as junior midfielder Luke McCormick was placed on the conference’s first team, while Morris, fifth-year senior goalkeeper Steven Tekesky and sophomore forward Ciro Bourlot Jaeggi were picked for the second team • The Mountaineers were recognized with the Team Academic Award by the United Soccer Coaches for the 14th straight year • WVU earned its 500th victory in program history with a 2-1 win over Georgia State on Oct. 28 • A program-best 14 different Mountaineers combined to score the club’s 34 goals • Morris became the program’s all-time leader in career matches played (92), career starts (83) and minutes played (8,140) • Additionally, Tekesky tied for WVU’s No. 1 mark in career wins (45), as well as career starts by a goalkeeper (81). He also ranks No. 1 in WVU history in career matches played by a goalkeeper (83) • The club’s season-opening unbeaten streak reached 10 games, good for its longest ever to begin a campaign.
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TEAM
AARON DENK GRACIA
• United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award • United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Third Team • Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
• CoSIDA Academic All-District Third Team • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team • Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Oct. 5)
CIRO BOURLOT JAEGGI
DYON DROMERS
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• Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
RYAN BAER
All-MAC Second Team Academic All-MAC Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team MAC Player of the Week (Nov. 1)
RYAN CROOKS • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
FREDERIK JORGENSEN • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI Second Team
KEVIN MORRIS
IKE SWIGER • Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Dec. 7)
• Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
• CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team • All-MAC Second Team • United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Third Team • CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team • Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Nov. 30)
LUKE MCCORMICK
OTTO OLLIKAINEN
• All-MAC First Team • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Second Team • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week Honorable Mention (Nov. 9) • United Soccer Coaches National Player of the Week (Sept. 8) • TopDrawerSoccer Player of the Week (Sept. 7) • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Sept. 7) • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Sept. 7) • MAC Player of the Week (Sept. 6)
• TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week Honorable Mention (Nov. 30) • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Nov. 29)
PAU JIMENEZ ALBELDA • CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team • Academic All-MAC • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
KYLE LEHNERT
BJARNE THIESEN
STEVEN TEKESKY
SERGIO ORS NAVARRO • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Second Team
YORAN POPOVIC • MAC Player of the Week (Sept. 27)
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STEVEN TEKESKY • • • •
All-MAC Second Team Academic All-MAC Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Nov. 30) • Senior CLASS Award Candidate
BJARNE THIESEN • United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team • TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Third Team • United Soccer Coaches All-North Region First Team • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week Honorable Mention (Dec. 7) • TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week Honorable Mention (Oct. 26)
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12-1/7-1 GREAT AMERICAN RIFLE CONFERENCE (T-1ST)
• West Virginia finished with a 12-1 record, including a 7-1 mark inside the Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) • The Mountaineers finished the season by capturing a share of the 2021-22 GARC regular-season title, along with Kentucky, marking the second consecutive season that WVU has brought home the regular-season crown • During the regular season, West Virginia defeated eight top-10 opponents, including two top-five teams • WVU also won 10 or more matches for the 12th time under coach Jon Hammond, who improved his career record to 169-17 (.908) • Against TCU on Nov. 6, sophomore Molly McGhin became the sixth shooter in program history to shoot a perfect 600 in air rifle. The mark also tied the school and NCAA record in the relay • The Mountaineers shot an NCAA Qualifying Score of 9441, which helped them earn their 14th consecutive bid to the NCAA Rifle Championships. WVU entered the field as the sixth-ranked team • At the 2022 GARC Championships, hosted by Army, West Virginia shot a 2345 smallbore and a 2387 in air rifle for a combined score of 4732 to finish second at this year’s championships • Prior to the GARC Championships, nine Mountaineer shooters earned a combined 25 honors on this year’s All-GARC teams • Of WVU’s 25 All-GARC honors, eight student-athletes made the smallbore team, seven made the air rifle team and eight were a part of the combined (smallbore and air rifle) team • Additionally, freshman Natalie Perrin was named the GARC’s Rookie of the Year, after averaging scores of 582.5 in smallbore, 593 in air rifle and 1175.5 overall in 2021-22 • The Coopersville, Michigan, native is the first Mountaineer to win GARC Rookie of the Year since Milica Babic in 2017 and the eighth in program history • Senior Verena Zaisberger represented West Virginia in the GARC’s Scholar-Athlete category for the second consecutive season • Zaisberger also received her second NCAA Elite 90 Award for Division I Rifle, the sport’s top academic honor, in 2021-22 • The Hohenems, Austria, native joins Elizabeth Gratz, who took home the honor in 2017 and 2018, as the second different shooter in program history to receive the Elite 90 Award twice
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• Zaisberger also was one of 19 Mountaineers and 168 Big 12 Conference student-athletes to be recognized with the 2022 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award – the Big 12’s highest academic honor • The Mountaineers concluded their season by shooting a 4700 at the 2022 NCAA Rifle Championships hosted by Air Force, and finished sixth at the event • WVU’s 2380 in air rifle at the NCAA Championships were good for second place in the discipline • Following the season, eight studentathletes took home 15 combined All-America honors from the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association, including sophomore Tal Engler, McGhin and junior Akihito Shimizu, who each made an appearance on all three teams • Seven student-athletes were selected to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team, including Zaisberger, who was one of three student-athletes on the conference-wide list to earn a 4.0 gradepoint average (GPA)
MALORI BROWN • CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore) • All-GARC Second Team (Smallbore) • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Combined) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
JARED EDDY • CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore) • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Smallbore) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
TAL ENGLER
NATALIE PERRIN
• CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore, Air Rifle) • CRCA All-America Third Team (Aggregate) • All-GARC First Team (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
BECCA LAMB • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
MOLLY MCGHIN • CRCA All-America Honorable Mention (Aggregate, Smallbore, Air Rifle) • All-GARC Second Team (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
NATALIE PERRIN • GARC Rookie of the Year • CRCA All-America Honorable Mention (Air Rifle) • All-GARC Second Team (Air Rifle) • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Smallbore, Combined)
MATT SANCHEZ • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined)
AKIHITO SHIMIZU • CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore, Air Rifle) • CRCA All-America Third Team (Aggregate) • All-GARC Second Team (Smallbore, Air Rifle, Combined)
CALISTA SMOYER • CRCA All-America Honorable Mention (Air Rifle) • All-GARC First Team (Air Rifle) • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Combined) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
VERENA ZAISBERGER
VERENA ZAISBERGER • NCAA Elite 90 Award • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • GARC Scholar-Athlete (WVU) • CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore) • CRCA All-America Honorable Mention (Aggregate) • All-GARC Second Team (Smallbore, Combined) • All-GARC Honorable Mention (Air Rifle) • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
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ROWING • Seniors Ashley Dibling and Nicole Dibling were named Outstanding Seniors by the WVU Foundation. The award honors WVU’s most distinguished graduating seniors • Season-opener at Murphy Cup Regatta in Philadelphia: The Second Varsity Four finished second among five crews in its morning heat to advance to the afternoon final, where it placed fifth out of six teams. The First Varsity Four that also placed second out of five boats in its morning heat and advanced to the afternoon final, where it placed fourth of six. The Second Varsity Eight won its morning heat in a tightly-contested race, in which the top three finished within one second of each other. The top two of five crews in the heat advanced to the afternoon final, where WVU placed sixth • At the Knecht Cup Regatta in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, despite facing much adversity throughout the weekend, had four of the five crews that raced in Saturday’s heats advance to their events’ medal final on Sunday, including three which boasted earning two silvers and one bronze medals • At George Mason Invitational: WVU had its most complete performance of the season, completing first-place finishes in the finals of the 1V4 and 2V4 races and had a second-place finish in the 2V8 competition • WVU earned 21 team points to finished seventh at the Big 12 Championship. The top showing was earned by its second four, finishing fourth with a time of 8:14.505 and defeated Kansas, Kansas State and Tennessee. The Mountaineers’ First Four finished fifth (8:09.664). Texas won the event (78:31.219), Alabama was second (7:54.922), Kansas State in third (8:02.905) and Oklahoma was fourth (8:08.840) • Junior Lydia Nicolia earned All-Big 12 Conference honors • For the second year in a row there were a school-record 11 student-athletes named to the 2022 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete team: seniors Ashley Dibling (mechanical engineering), Nicole Dibling (mechanical engineering), Kileigh Lade (landscape architecture), Megan Present (finance) and Emma Toy (criminology), juniors Kaira Lay (landscape architecture), Lydia Nicolai (environmental geoscience) and Sydney VanAuken (management information systems) and sophomores Emily DeGlopper (exercise physiology), Anna Gall (exercise physiology) and Ryleigh Williams (accounting) • Ashley and Nicole Dibling, Present and Toy earned a spot on the CRCA Scholar-Athlete team for the third consecutive year, and Lay, Nicolai and VanAuken were named to the team for the second straight year • There were 20 student-athletes named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Rowing Teams, including six earning 4.0 distinction, Kaira Lay, Katherine McMullen, Lydia Nicolia, Megan Present, Emma Toy and Ryleigh Williams
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2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT • There were 20 student-athletes on the first team: Laurna Atkins (intermedia/photography), Katherine Capitan (nursing), DeGlopper (exercise physiology), Ashley Dibling (mechanical engineering), Nicole Dibling (mechanical engineering), Amber Drysdale (animal and nutritional sciences), Alexandra Farron (exercise physiology), Ally Fisher (animal and nutritional sciences), Gall (exercise physiology), Maura Harkins (accounting), Lade (landscape architecture), Lay (landscape architecture), Katherine McMullen (general business), Kathleen Meldrum (economics), Lydia Nicolai (environmental geoscience), Present (finance), Michaela Pulick (general business), Toy (criminology), VanAuken (management information systems) and Williams (accounting)
LAURNA ATKINS • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU “The Hammer” Award (Varsity)
KATHERINE CAPITAN • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
EMILY DEGLOPPER • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ASHLEY DIBLING • WVU Outstanding Senior (WVU Foundation) • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
NICOLE DIBLING • WVU Outstanding Senior (WVU Foundation) • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
AMBER DRYSDALE • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
EMILY DUNFORD • WVU Most Valuable Award (Novice)
ALEXANDRA FALLON • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ALLY FISHER
KATHERINE MCMULLEN
ASHLYNN SKEBA
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA)
• WVU Flame Award (Novice)
ANNA GALL • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Most Improved (Varsity)
KATHLEEN MELDRUM
MAURA HARKINS
LYDIA NICOLAI
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• All-Big 12 Conference • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA) • WVU Most Valuable Award (Varsity)
JORDYN HUSSAIN • WVU “The Hammer” Award (Novice)
KILEIGH LADE • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KAIRA LAY • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA)
• National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
MEGAN PRESENT • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA)
EMMA TOY • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA) • WVU Flame Award (Varsity)
SYDNEY VANAUKEN • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
RYLEIGH WILLIAMS • National Scholar-Athlete (College Rowing Coaches Association) • Academic All-Big 12 (4.0 GPA)
SARAH WOJCIK • WVU Most Improved (Novice)
MICHAELA PULICK • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
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MEN: 3-1/0-0 BIG 12 WOMEN: 2-3/0-1 BIG 12
• West Virginia competed in its third season at the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park in 2022 • The men’s team earned a third-place finish at the 2022 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championship, while the women’s team finished in fourth place • In total, the Mountaineers combined to earn 13 medals at the conference meet, including one gold, four silver and eight bronze • Nine members of the team earned a spot on the All-Big 12 First Team, while 24 were recognized on the All-Big 12 Second Team • Seven divers qualified for the 2021 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships: Camille Burt, Marian Tiemeier, Sarah Krusinski, Nick Cover, PJ Lenz, Owen Johns and Glenn Eloriaga • Two Mountaineers qualified for the 2022 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships: swimmer Dixon and diver Lenz • Dixon earned a bid to the national meet for the fifth consecutive season, becoming the first Mountaineer in program history to do so. Lenz also qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. • Two program records were broken during the 2021-22 campaign, including William Mullen’s record-breaking performance at Big 12s in the 1650 freestyle (15.21.57); the record was previously set by Craig Cooper in 1983. Additionally, fifth-year Ana Zortea broke a program record in the women’s 100-yard backstroke, as she bested the previous school record of 53.50 – set by Amelie Currat in 2018 – with a time of 53.41. • The two squads were again named CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams in the fall and spring semesters • Lenz, Josh Madzy, Conrad Molinaro, Burt and Abigail Riggs were named recipients of the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor • Thirty-five Mountaineers were named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Swimming and Diving Team; of those, 29 were named to the first team and two student-athletes earned the honor with a 4.0 GPA, the most among other Big 12 schools • Thirteen were named to the Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team • Thirteen were named as CSCAA Scholar All-Americans • WVU sent 24 swimmers to the 2022 CSCAA National Invitational Championships for the first time in program history.
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MEN’S TEAM PJ LENZ
• CSCAA Scholar All-America
JONATHAN BENNETT • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • CSCAA National Invitational
ZACH BOLEY • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
NICK COVER • NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – men’s platform, 1-meter, 3-meter • First Team All-Big 12 - Platform • Second Team All-Big 12 - 1-meter springboard; 3-meter springboard
DAVID DIXON • NCAA Qualifier – 200 fly, 100 fly, 200 IM • Big 12 Champion – 200 Butterfly • First Team All-Big 12 - 200 butterfly (1st place); 100 butterfly (4th place) • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • Big 12 Swimmer of the Week – Nov. 24 • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week – • Feb. 28 • Second Team All-Big 12 - 200 IM
GLENN ELORIAGA • NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – men’s platform • Second Team All-Big 12 Platform
JUSTIN HEIMES
ZHENYA INGRAM
REILLY KEANEY
• Second Team All-Big 12 - 100 butterfly; 200 freestyle
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • First Team All-Big 12 - 100 backstroke (3rd place); 200 backstroke (3rd place) • CSCAA National Invitational
• Second Team All-Big 12 - 100 backstroke; 200 butterfly; 100 butterfly • CSCAA National Invitational
• Second Team All-Big 12 - 200 breaststroke • CSCAA National Invitational
JOSH HARLAN
FAUSTO HUERTA
OWEN JOHNS
PJ LENZ
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 200 backstroke; 200 IM; 400 IM
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 100 breaststroke; 200 breaststroke
• NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – 1-meter, 3-meter • Second Team All-Big 12 - Platform; 1-meter springboard
• Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipient • NCAA Qualifier – men’s platform and 1-meter springboard
MAX GUSTAFSON
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
• NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – men’s platform, 1-meter and 3-meter • First Team All-Big 12 - Platform (2nd place) • Second Team All-Big 12 - 3-meter
ROANOKE SHIRK
JOSH MADZY
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • CSCAA Qualifier
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipient
CONNER MCBETH • CSCAA National Invitational
LOGAN MCFADDEN
DAVID SNIDER
BRENDAN WILLIAMS • Second Team All-Big 12 - 1650 freestyle; 500 freestyle; 200 freestyle • CSCAA National Invitational
JAKE YOUNG
DYLAN MELIN
• Second Team All-Big 12 - 200 backstroke • CSCAANational Invitational
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ROBERTS ZEMTURIS
CONRAD MOLINARO
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team (4.0) • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award recipient • CSCAA National Invitational
WOMEN’S TEAM
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
WILLIAM MULLEN • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Program record: 1650 freestyle (15.21.57) • First Team All-Big 12 - 1650 freestyle • Second Team All-Big 12 - 500 freestyle • CSCAA National Invitational
BRADEN OSBORN • CSCAA National Invitational
JOE SCHAEFER • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 100 breaststroke; 200 breaststroke
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KATE BECKISH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
LAUREN BECKISH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
MEREDITH BOLINGER • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
CAMILLE BURT • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipient • NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – 1-meter
HANNAH CECH • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
PAIGE DRESSEL • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • First Team All-Big 12 - 200 backstroke (3rd place) • CSCAA National Invitational
SHELBY GERVING • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
MORGAN BURTON
GINGER HANSEN
• CSCAA National Invitational
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • CSCAA National Invitational
MATHILDE KAELBEL • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
MIRANDA KIRTLEY • Second Team All-Big 12 - 1650 freestyle • CSCAA Qualifier
EMILY KNORR • All-Big 12 First Team - 1650 free • All-Big 12 Second Team - 500 freestyle; 400 IM • CSCAA National Invitational
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SARAH KRUSINSKI
ABIGAIL RIGGS
• NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – 1-meter, 3-meter and platform • Second Team All-Big 12 - Platform
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipient
EMMA LONGLEY
MARIAN TIEMEIER
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team (4.0)
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Qualifier – 1-meter • Second Team All-Big 12 - 1-meter springboard
JACQUELINE MCCUTCHAN
ANNE-ELAINE TILLER
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 100 backstroke; 100 freestyle • CSCAA National Invitational
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
KAELYN MCCLAIN
HARNA MINEZAWA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 50 freestyle • CSCAA National Invitational
MIA WALTERS • First Team All-Big 12 - 200 butterfly (3rd place) • CSCAA National Invitational
SARAH YOUNG • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
LAUREN MUSBACH
MEGAN ZARTMAN
• Second Team All-Big 12 - 200 butterfly • CSCAA National Invitational
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
TATUM PEYERL • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • CSCAA Qualifier
ABBY REARDON • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Second Team All-Big 12 - 500 freestyle; 200 freestyle; 200 backstroke • CSCAA National Invitational
ANA ZORTEA • Program record: 100 backstroke (53.41) • First Team All-Big 12 - 100 backstroke (4th place) • Second Team All-Big 12 - 50 freestyle • CSCAA National Invitational CAMILLE BURT
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
TENNIS
7-17/0-9 BIG 12
• WVU was named an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic team for the ninth consecutive year • During the fall slate, sophomore Momoko Nagato and junior Penny Hsieh advanced to the quarterfinals at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) Atlantic Super Regionals. The duo’s appearance in the quarterfinals marked WVU’s first since Kat Lyman and Anne-Sophie Courteau in 2019 • At the 2021 Martha Thorn Invitational, the Mountaineers finished the weekend with 15 wins between doubles and singles play • WVU had two players finish with 20 or more wins, including freshmen Camilla Bossi and Tatiana Lipatova • Two Mountaineers appeared on the Academic All-Big 12 First Team, including senior Anastasiia Bovolskaia and Nagato • For the first time in program history, the doubles pair of Bossi and junior Ting-Pei Chang made their debut at No. 42 on the ITA doubles rankings. They went on to make four consecutive appearances on the double’s rankings • Tandem of Bossi and Chang topped No. 5-ranked pair from Baylor on March 20 • Bovolskaia finished her career with 83 total wins, tied for No. 33 in program history ANASTASIIA BOVOLSKAIA
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CAMILLA BOSSI • Teamed with Ting-Pei Chang as first doubles pair in program history to appear on the ITA doubles rankings, No. 42 debut • 20+ win season • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
ANASTASIIA BOVOLSKAIA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
TING-PEI CHANG • Teamed with Camille Bossi as first doubles pair in program history to appear on the ITA doubles rankings (No. 42 debut)
PEI-JU HSIEH • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
MICHAELA KUCHAROVA • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
MOMOKO NAGATO • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
CATHERINE WASSICK • Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
TRACK & FIELD
CEILI MCCABE
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• WVU finished 10th at the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship • Jo-Lauren Keane set a WVU school record at the Big 12 Indoor Championship in the 800-meter, with a time of 2:04.49, good for fourth place • The Mountaineers registered seven Big 12 honors at the Big 12 Indoor Championship • The distance medley relay team placed third at the conference championship. The team of Charlotte Wood, Tessa Constantine, Mikaela Lucki and Ceili McCabe finished in 11:21.26 • McCabe also placed third in the mile run and finished in a time of 4:38.99. Her time ranks fifth in program history • Additionally, Hayley Jackson placed fifth in the 1,000-meter and finished in a time of 2:50.42 to earn All-Big 12 Honors • McCabe placed eighth in the 3,000-meter run at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama. In her NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship debut, McCabe finished in a time of 9:05.09 to earn AllAmerica honors • McCabe broke the program record in the women’s 3,000-meter run at the Boston University Sharon Colyera-Danville Season Opener in Boston, Massachusetts, in a time of 8:52.52 to finish in first place • The DMR team of Cassandra Williamson, Jackson, Keane and McCabe participated in the JDL DMR race, finishing seventh in a time of 11:06.9. The time is good for second-best in program history • The Mountaineers hosted one indoor meet, the WVU Open and traveled to 10 regular season meets • WVU finished ninth at the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship with nine All-Big 12 performances • McCabe was the 3,000-meter steeplechase champion for the second consecutive year and finished in a time of 10:12.87 • Seven Mountaineers attended the 2022 NCAA East Regional Championship in Bloomington, Indiana • McCabe placed third in the 2022 NCAA Championships 3,000m steeplechase semifinal after finishing the race in a time of 9:41.10 to advance the finals. In the finals, McCabe earned All-America honors after completing the steeplechase in a WVU program-best time of 9:31.14 JO-LAUREN KEANE
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT • McCabe’s NCAA performance made her the sophomore national record holder, and she recorded the sixth-best steeplechase time in NCAA history • McCabe held on to the program’s best 3,000-meter steeplechase time after improving her previous record time at the Mountaineer Twilight. McCabe placed first with the record time of 9:32.01 • At the Mountaineer Twilight, Jackson placed first in the 800 meters in a time of 2:05.92. Her time is good for third alltime in program history • Keane also sits in fourth place in program history in the 800 meters after finishing in a time of 2:06.04 at the Big 12 Championship • Constantine now sits in fourth place in program history in the 400-meter hurdles after finishing in first place at the Mountaineer Twilight (59.31) • Sada Wright sits in third place alltime in the discus competition after tallying a distance of 48.54 meters at the Mountaineer Twilight and Stan Romanoski Open • The Mountaineers hosted five outdoor meets and attended four additional regular-season meets
KATELYN CACCAMO • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
TESSA CONSTANTINE • 2022 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • All-Big 12 Indoor First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
LYNSIE CURTIS
CEILI MCCABE
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• All-American First Team (Indoor and Outdoor) • All-Big 12 Indoor First Team (DMR and Mile) • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • NCAA Qualifier • Big 12 Outstanding Freshman
ELLIE GARDNER
PETER-GAY MCKENZIE
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
SAMANTHA HATCHER
MALINA MITCHELL
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• 2022 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
AMBER DOMBROWSKI • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KATHERINE DOWIE
HAYLEY JACKSON • All-Big 12 Indoor First Team • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round
MARIA KAYLOR • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team
JO-LAUREN KEANE • • • •
All-Big 12 Indoor First Team All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team Academic All-Big 12 First Team Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round
ABIGAIL MULLINGS • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
MYESHA NOTT • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
SYLVIA RUSSELL • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round
MCKENNA SMITH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
PEYTON KUKURA
SARAH STAIR
• 2022 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
MIKAELA LUCKI
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team
• All-Big 12 Indoor First Team
MIKENNA VANDERHEYDEN
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CASSANDRA WILLIAMSON • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Competed at the Outdoor East Preliminary Round
CHARLOTTE WOOD • All-Big 12 Indoor First Team • All-Big 12 Outdoor First Team
SADA WRIGHT • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • 2021-22 Academic All-District II Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Team
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VOLLEYBALL BRIANA LYNCH
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19-10/8-8 BIG 12
• Earned its first-ever at-large bid to the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship • The squad posted a program-best, 8-8 conference mark for the second consecutive year to finish third overall in the Big 12 • West Virginia was one of seven Big 12 schools to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, marking the second-most schools for a conference at the NCAA Tournament • The team opened the season 10-0 for the first time since 2017 • West Virginia swept No. 23 Michigan in a match on Sept. 3 • The team went on to tally its first win at Iowa State, as well as a season sweep over Oklahoma for the first time in program history • Coach Reed Sunahara tallied his 400th career win in a match against No. 23 Michigan on Sept. 3 • Six individuals finished the season in the top 10 of four Big 12 categories: Lacey Zerwas ranked second with 10.35 assists per set, Skye Stokes ranked second with .55 service aces per set, Alexa Hasting ranked fourth with 4.02 digs per set, Briana Lynch ranked fifth with a .345 hitting efficiency, Adrian Ell ranked seventh with 3.47 kills per set and Natali Petrova ranked eighth with .32 service aces per set • In the NCAA, two Mountaineers ranked in the top 50, including Stokes, who finished in seventh in service aces per set, and Zerwas, who finished 47th in assists per set • For the sixth straight year, WVU was named a recipient of the AVCA Team Academic Award • Zerwas was named to the 2021 Academic All-America Third Team for the first time in her career. She is the second Mountaineer all-time to garner the award • Three Mountaineers earned All-Midwest Region All-Big 12 honors, including Lynch, Ell and Zerwas • Ell, Hasting and Zerwas were named to the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 Volleyball First Team • Nine Mountaineers earned a spot on the 2021-22 Academic All-Big 12 Volleyball Teams, including six first-team members. Two Mountaineers earned their awards with a 4.0 grade point averages (Zerwas and Hasting)
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT
ALEXA HASTING • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll • CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team • Co-Captain
KRISTIN LUX • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
BRIANA LYNCH • • • • • •
ADRIAN ELL
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll Preseason All-Big 12 Team AVCA All-Midwest Region First Team All-Big 12 First Team WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Aug. 30) • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Sept. 13) • WNU Invitational All-Tournament Team • ODU Invitational All-Tournament Team MVP
EMMY OGOGOR
SKYE STOKES
LACEY ZERWAS
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• ODU Invitational All-Tournament Team
MADISON PAGE
ALISON THOMAS
ATHENA ARDILA
• Big 12 Rookie of the Week (Aug. 31) • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
NATALI PETROVA
ADRIAN ELL
NATALIE WINTER
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
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TEAM • AVCA Team Academic Award
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All-Big 12 First Team AVCA All-Midwest Region CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 28) • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Sept. 27)
Academic All-America Third Team Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team Co-Captain AVCA All-Midwest Region All-Big 12 Second Team Academic All-Big 12 First Team WVU Invitational All-Tournament Team ODU Invitational All-Tournament Team
MARIELENA SOMOZA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MADISEN SMITH
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15-15/7-11 BIG 12
• WVU made the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship as the No. 7 seed in Kansas City and defeated No. 10-seed TCU, 68-48, in the opening round on March 10 • The Mountaineers played 11 ranked opponents and finished the year with a NET Ranking of No. 62 • West Virginia began the season with four consecutive victories, marking the longest win streak of the season • WVU swept three Big 12 opponents – Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech • At TCU on Feb. 2, senior forward Kari Niblack finished the game with eight points to become the 38th 1,000-point scorer in program history. She also is the second Mountaineer in as many seasons to accomplish the feat • Freshman guard JJ Quinerly was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Week on Feb. 14, marking the first Mountaineer to win the weekly award since Madisen Smith on Feb. 18, 2019 • Quinerly also is the fourth different player in program history to be named Big 12 Freshman of the Week • West Virginia placed five players on the 2022 All-Big 12 teams. Junior forward Esmery Martinez was named to the second team, while Niblack, senior guard Madisen Smith and junior guard KK Deans earned honorable-mention status • Additionally, Quinerly was a unanimous selection to the All-Big 12 Freshman Team • WVU also placed five student-athletes on the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team, including fifth-year senior center Blessing Ejiofor, Niblack, Smith, Deans and junior guard Jayla Hemingway • Following the season, coach Mike Carey announced his retirement after 21 seasons leading the WVU women’s basketball program • Carey finished his career as the all-time winningest coach in WVU women’s basketball history with a 447-239 record (.652) and compiled an overall record of 735-341 (.683) in 34 seasons as a head coach
2021-22 ANNUAL REPORT
KK DEANS KARI NIBLACK
JJ QUINERLY
• 2021 St. Pete Showcase All-Tournament Team • 2022 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention • 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
BLESSING EJIOFOR • 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JAYLA HEMINGWAY • 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ESMERY MARTINEZ • 2021 Katrina McClain Award Watch List • 2021-22 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s Watch List • 2021 West Palm Beach Invitation AllTournament Team • 2022 All-Big 12 Second Team
KARI NIBLACK • 38th 1,000-point scorer in program history • 2021 Katrina McClain Award Watch List • 2022 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention • 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JJ QUINERLY • Big 12 Freshman of the Week (Feb. 14) • 2022 All-Big 12 Freshman Team (Unanimous Selection)
MADISEN SMITH • 2022 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention • 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
WOMEN’S SOCCER
10-5-5/3-3-3 BIG 12
• In its 26th season in program history, the Mountaineers finished 10-5-5 overall, along with 3-3-3 mark in Big 12 play • WVU extended its streak of at least 10 wins or more to 22 straight seasons. • The Mountaineers advanced to the semifinals of the Big 12 Championship for the seventh time since joining the conference in 2012 • West Virginia’s defense recorded 11 shutouts on the year, including a pair of clean sheets in the Big 12 Championship. WVU’s nine shutouts in the regular season marked the most since 2017 (11), while the squad’s 11 total clean sheets were the most since 2018 (12). • WVU was ranked as high as No. 9 throughout the season in the United Soccer Coaches National Poll. • Senior defender Jordan Brewster was tabbed an All-America Third Team selection by United Soccer Coaches, her second All-America honor in as many seasons. She is one of just 14 Mountaineers to earn a pair of All-America accolades in her career. • Brewster also was named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America First Team, WVU’s first honoree since 2018. • For the 11th consecutive season, a Mountaineer was featured on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, as Brewster earned the honor. • Brewster also was named a candidate for the 2021 Women’s Soccer Senior CLASS Award, the first honoree for WVU since 2018. • On the All-Big 12 Teams, Brewster led the way on the first team, while junior defender Nicole Payne and junior goalkeeper Kayza Massey landed on the second team. Freshman forward Dilary Heredia-Beltran was honored on the Big 12 All-Freshman Team. • Brewster, Payne and Heredia-Beltran were named to the United Soccer Coaches AllMidwest Region Team, with Brewster named to the first team, Payne to the second team and Heredia-Beltran to the third team. • Academically, Brewster, junior defender Julianne Vallerand and sophomore midfielder Lilly McCarthy were named Academic All-District selections by CoSIDA. Additionally, a program-best 15 student-athletes reached the Academic All-Big 12 Soccer Teams. DILARY HEREDIA-BELTRAN
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TEAM
STEPHANIE CHMIEL
LILLY MCCARTHY
• United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award
• Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
CHLOE ADLER • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JORDAN BREWSTER • United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team • United Soccer Coaches Scholar AllAmerica First Team • CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team • United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region First Team • United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region First Team • MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List • Senior CLASS Award Candidate • All-Big 12 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Aug. 31, Oct. 5) • TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Week (Sept. 14)
DILARY HEREDIA-BELTRAN • Big 12 All-Freshman Team • United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team • Big 12 All-Tournament Team • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI Second Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Sept. 20)
MAYA LADHANI • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JULIANA LYNCH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KAYZA MASSEY • All-Big 12 Second Team • United Soccer Coaches Division I National Player of the Week (Oct. 27) • Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week (Oct. 26) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Preseason All-Big 12 Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Oct. 25)
NICOLE PAYNE • United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Second Team • United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region Second Team • All-Big 12 Second Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
GABRIELLE ROBINSON • Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 14) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
AALIYAH SCOTT • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
LAUREN SEGALLA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ISABELLA SIBLEY • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Oct. 18)
GRACE SMITH • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
ALINA STAHL • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
JULIANNE VALLERAND • CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Aug. 24)
KAYZA MASSEY
JORDAN BREWSTER
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
WRESTLING
MICHAEL WOLFGRAM
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6-8/1-6 BIG 12
• West Virginia ranked 25th periodically in the Dual Meet Rankings by InterMat and remained in the top 40 in tournament rankings provided by FloWrestling, InterMat, and Win Magazine • WVU finished in a tie for seventh (62.5 points) at the 2022 Big 12 Wrestling Championship and 32nd (8.5 points) at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Its total points at the Big 12 Championship marked the most earned by the squad since 2016 • Four Mountaineer grapplers qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year and third year in which four or more wrestlers have qualified during coach Tim Flynn’s tenure. Redshirt senior Killian Cardinale (125), and sophomores Peyton Hall (165) and Dennis Robin (174) each earned automatic bids based on their performances at the conference championship, while redshirt sophomore Michael Wolfgram (HWT) received an at-large selection to punch his ticket; both Robin and Wolfgram made their NCAA tournament debuts • Hall earned All-America honors to highlight the Mountaineers’ run at this year’s tournament by defeating No. 19-seed Justin McCoy of Virginia to clinch his spot on the podium, before falling in the seventh-place match to No. 7-seed Carson Kharchla of Ohio State for eighth. The last Mountaineer grappler to finish eighth was Zeke Moisey at 125 pounds in 2018. • Hall became the first Mountaineer at 165 pounds, third in the Flynn era and sixth from the state of West Virginia, to garner All-America accolades • Like Hall, Cardinale advanced to the quarterfinals in his bracket at 125 pounds and ended up going 2-2 at the three-day tournament, just one win shy of earning AllAmerica status for the second consecutive year • Cardinale claimed the third Big 12 Championship in program history as the first Mountaineer to do it at 125 pounds • Overall, seven WVU wrestlers finished on the podium at the Big 12 Championship to match a program-best set by the 2016 team, including two finalists: Cardinale (champion) and Hall (runner-up) • The Mountaineers placed seventh at the 2022 Southern Scuffle, billed as the top in-season collegiate wrestling tournament in the country. Cardinale and Hall scored runner-up finishes and two other grapplers placed eighth at the event • WVU opened the season with a second-place finish (153.5 points) at the Clarion Open, while Hall won the 165-pound crown and eight others joined him in the top six of their respective weight classes • Nine Mountaineers earned a spot on the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Wrestling Teams to break the program record of eight set in 2021. All but two of the honorees landed on the Academic All-Big 12 First Team, which also is a program best
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JEFFREY BOYD
ANTHONY CARMAN
• Placed eighth in the 149-pound pool of the 2022 Big 12 Wrestling Championship • Placed eighth at the Southern Scuffle • Placed sixth at the Clarion Open • NWCA Scholar All-American • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Placed eighth in the 184-pound pool of the 2022 Big 12 Wrestling Championship • Placed sixth at the Clarion Open • Third on the team with 17 wins • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Jan. 10) • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
KILLIAN CARDINALE • Top-12 finisher at the NCAA Division I Championships • NCAA Qualifier at 125 pounds • Big 12 Champion • Southern Scuffle runner-up • Nationally ranked in the top 25 throughout the season • Led the team with 10 wins over ranked opponents • Second on the team with eight major decisions • Fourth on the team in wins with 16 • Team Captain • WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (March 7) • NWCA Scholar All-American • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
PEYTON HALL • U23 Men’s Freestyle All-American • Runner-up at the U23 World Team Trials (163 pounds - 74kg) • NCAA Qualifier at 165 pounds • NCAA All-American • Placed eighth at his second NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, with a 3-3 record • Big 12 Championship runner-up • Southern Scuffle runner-up • Nationally ranked in the top 25 throughout the season • Led the team with 28 wins, 15 bonuspoint victories, nine major decisions and five pins • Team Captain • Three-time WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Dec. 6, Dec. 13, March 21) • NWCA Scholar All-American • Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Champions for Life WVU representative (Marvel)
ALEX HORNFECK • Placed seventh in the 157-pound pool at the 2022 Big 12 Wrestling Championship • Placed eighth at the Southern Scuffle • Placed fourth at the Clarion Open • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
KILLIAN CARDINALE
SCOTT JOLL
DENNIS ROBIN
• U23 Greco-Roman All-American • Sixth-place finisher at the U23 World Team Trials (191 pounds – 87kg) • Placed third at the Clarion Open • Scored 16 wins for fifth among reserves, including four in duals • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• NCAA Qualifier at 174 pounds • Placed eighth in Big 12 Championship debut • Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
TUCKER NADEAU • Academic All-Big 12 First Team; one of nine on the list to earn a 4.0
CALEB REA • Academic All-Big 12 First Team
PEYTON HALL
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MICHAEL WOLFGRAM • NCAA Qualifier at Heavyweight • Placed seventh for the second straight year at the 2022 Big 12 Wrestling Championship • Placed sixth at the Clarion Open • Nationally ranked in the top 33 throughout the season • Led the team in dual takedowns with 35 • Second on the team with 20 wins, with five against ranked opponents • Team Captain
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
ATHLETICS STAFF Shane Lyons, Director of Athletics/Associate Vice President
ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION
Michael Fragale, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Communications Bryan Messerly, Associate Athletics Director/ Communications Mike Montoro, Assistant Athletics Director/ Football Communications John Antonik, Director of Athletics Content Grant Dovey, Director of Digital Media Joe Swan, Director of Athletics Publications Kristin Coldsnow, Lead Designer Tyler Schiefelbein, Athletics Graphics Designer Tanner Cain, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications Joe Mitchin, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications Olivia Sneed, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications Lisa Ammons, Business Manager Matthew Stainthorpe, Operations Coordinator Amy Prunty, Program Assistant
Keli Zinn, Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Athletics Director Steve Uryasz, Deputy Athletics Director Simon Dover, Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director/Business Operations/CFO Matt Wells, Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director/External Affairs Michael Fragale, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Communications Greg Featherston, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Governance & Compliance Patrick Gray, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Executive Director MAC April Messerly, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Capital Projects, Facilities & Event Management Cathy Martin, Director’s Office Administrator
BUSINESS OFFICE Simon Dover, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Business Operations/CFO Sam Morrone, Assistant Athletics Director/ Business Operations Graham Reger, Director of Business Operations Andrea Moran, Assistant Business Manager Tiffany McDowell, Accounting Assistant Kristina Reed, Accounting Assistant Jenna Huggins, Athletics Travel Coordinator
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ATHLETICS COMPLIANCE Greg Featherston, Associate Athletics Director/ Governance & Compliance Preston Wages, Assistant Athletics Director/ Governance & Compliance Jordan Blizzard, Director of Compliance Amanda Chastain, Associate Director of Compliance Samantha Warren, Associate Director of Compliance Cindy Smith, Administrative Assistant
CLINICAL AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGY Dr. Adrian Ferrera, Director of Clinical and Sport Psychology Dr. Sofia Espana Perez, Clinical and Sport Behavior Health Therapist
ATHLETICS MARKETING
EQUIPMENT
Matt Wells, Senior Associate Athletics Director/ External Affairs Nathaniel Zinn, Assistant Athletics Director/ Marketing David Simms, Assistant Director of Athletics Marketing Noah Smith, Assistant Director of Athletics Marketing
Dan Nehlen, Football Equipment Manager Conor McNamara, Equipment Manager Kyle Keesler, Assistant Equipment Manager Aaron Malik, Assistant Equipment Manager/ Football Judy O’Neill Assistant Equipment Manager Michael Stokes, Assistant Equipment Manager Ryan Schmitt, Assistant Equipment Manager
SPORTS MEDICINE
FACILITY OPERATIONS
Dr. A.J. Monseau, Medical Director/Head Team Physician Vincent Blankenship, Assistant Athletics Director/Head Athletic Trainer, Football Randy Meador, Assistant Athletics Director/ Head Athletic Trainer, Basketball Ethan Solger, Assistant Athletics Director/Head Athletic Trainer, Olympic Sports Travis Randolph, Clinical Director of Sports Medicine Zach Foster, Associate Director of Sports Medicine, Football Dillon Byrum, Athletic Trainer Ian Chennell, Athletic Trainer Mackenzie Castillo, Athletic Trainer AJ Garcia, Athletic Trainer Hunter Gross, Athletic Trainer Lauren Griffin, Physical Therapist/Athletic Trainer Kelly Kessler, Athletic Trainer Hailee Settle, Athletic Trainer Taylor Tedesky, Athletic Trainer
April Messerly, Associate Athletics Director for Facilities/Operations Zach Eckert, Assistant Athletics Director for Facilities/Operations Greg Iversen, Maintenance Supervisor Colin Braley, Director of Facilities/Operations Doug Himes, Director of IT Drew Pridemore, Associate Systems Administrator Ryan Guthrie, Electronic Media Technician Richard Williams, Electronic Media Technician Kevin Klunk, Assistant Turfgrass Manager Jeff Barnette, Athletics Maintenance Bill Brandt, Athletics Maintenance Tony Cavender, Athletics Maintenance Jim Ford, Athletics Maintenance Greg Ridgway, Athletics Maintenance Zackery Arnold, Trades Specialist/HVAC Rick McDonald, Trades Specialist/HVAC David Swisher, Trades Specialist David Isner, Trades Specialist Todd Wintermoyer, Athletics Maintenance Amy Hagedorn, Administrative Secretary Senior
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HUMAN RESOURCES Leslie Nguyen, Assistant Athletics Director for Strategic Managment Kim Thaler, Associate Director of Personnel Services
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING Mike Joseph, Assistant Athletics Director, Head Coach for Strength and Conditioning Kaitlin Sweeney, Assistant Athletics Director, Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports Shaun Brown, Strength and Conditioning Coach, Men’s Basketball Tanner Kolb, Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports Chris Allen, Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning for Football/Director of Speed Development Zack Allen, Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning Jarrod Burton, Strength Coach, Olympic Sports Nolan Harvath, Strength Coach, Baseball Alex Mitchell, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, Football Nick Meadows, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, Football Pat Shelby, Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports Chad Snodgrass, Strength Coach, Football
SPORTS NUTRITION Haley Bishop, Director of Sports Nutrition, Football LaReine Schock-Leonard, Director of Sports Nutrition, Olympic Sports
STUDENT-ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT Brittany O’Dell, Associate Athletics Director, Student-Athlete Development Tracy Keller, Assistant Athletics Director, Student-Athlete Development Stephanie White, Assistant Athletics Director, Student-Athlete Development Zach Seger, Associate Director, Student-Athlete Development Sandy Cole-DeMent, Assistant Director, Student-Athlete Development Gabrielle Lathrop, Assistant Director, StudentAthlete Development Fallon Morella, Assistant Director, StudentAthlete Development Lucy Mariani, Academic Counselor Raphaelle Greco, Academic Counselor Jeremy Lannon, Academic Counselor Kristen Thomas, Director of Learning Services Blake Barnes, Learning Specialist Patricia Harman, Assistant Learning Specialist Ann Griffin Mohammadi, Assistant Learning Specialist Victoria Hehli, Assistant Learning Specialist Joe Brown, Instructional Assistant Cyd Romito, Instructional Assistant
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Patrick Gray, Senior Associate Athletics Director/Executive Director MAC Brandon Cunningham, Associate Athletics Director/Major Gifts & Capital Campaigns Doug Wallace, Assistant Athletics Director/ Annual Fund Derek Gonzales, Major Gifts Officer Kirsten Barnicle, Director of Stewardship and Special Events Ty Brown, Director of Development Alex Boatman, Associate Director of Development Ryann Shaughness, Associate Director of Annual Giving Madison Clayton, Assistant Director of Development, Operatons and Special Events Kyle Poland, Assistant Director, Student-Athlete Alumni Engagement Dale Wolfley, Coordinator, WVU Varsity Club Lisa Thomas, Program Assistant
Bob Huggins, Head Coach Larry Harrison, Associate Head Coach Ron Everhart, Assistant Coach Erik Martin, Assistant Coach Josh Eilert, Director of Basketball Operations Jay Kuntz, Assistant to the Head Coach Ryan McIntyre, Video Coordinator Tyler Cheng, Athletic Data Statistician Debbie Williams, Senior Administrative Assistant
ATHLETICS VIDEO PRODUCTIONS Scott Bartlett, Director of Video Productions Chris Ostien, Senior Producer Sean Merinar, Producer
TICKET SALES
BASEBALL
Michael Honeywell, Assistant Athletics Director for Ticket Operations Nate Black, Director of Ticket Operations Gina Ezelle, Ticket Assistant Laura Beth Hatcher, Ticket Assistant Bryan Phillips, Ticket Assistant Aaron Ryan, Ticket Assistant
Randy Mazey, Head Coach Steve Sabins, Assistant Coach Mark Ginther, Assistant Coach Pat Crowe, Director of Baseball Operations Joey Cuomo, Director of Player Development
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Mike Carey, Head Coach Bett Shelby, Associate Head Coach Nitra Perry, Assistant Coach Craig Carey, Assistant Coach Meghan Bielich, Director of Basketball Operations/Assistant to the Head Coach Genevieve Rogers, Assistant Director, Creative Content Joey White, Video Coordinator Amy Fluharty, Administrative Associate
CHEERLEADING Christy Davis, Head Coach
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FOOTBALL Neal Brown, Head Coach Matt Moore, Assistant Coach (Offensive Line) Jordan Lesley, Assistant Coach (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers) Gerad Parker, Assistant Coach (Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers) ShaDon Brown, Assistant Coach (Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs) Chad Scott, Assistant Coach (Co-Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs) Jeff Koonz, Assistant Coach (Special Teams Coordinator/Inside Linebackers) Andrew Jackson, Assistant Coach (Defensive Line) Sean Reagan, Assistant Coach (Quarterbacks) Travis Trickett, Assistant Coach (Tight Ends/ Inside Receivers) Dontae Wright, Assistant Coach (Safeties) Coleman Barnes, Senior Associate Athletics Director for Football External Affairs Patrick Johnston, Assistant Athletics Director for Football Operations David Faulkner, Special Assistant to the Head Coach Freddie Little, Director of Player Relations Paige Diggs, Director of 5th Quarter Program Osman Kamara, Assistant Director of Players Relations/Transition Coordinator Scott Gasper, Director of Recruiting Trey Neyer, Associate Director of Recruiting Katie Giusto, Associate Director of Football Operations/On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator Clay Bollinger, Associate Director of Recruiting Strategy Teddy Hughes, Associate Director of Creative Design Connor Pyrc, Associate Director of Creative Video Shawn Walker, Associate Director of Coaches Video
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Alex Leveille, Assistant Director of Coaches Video Jeff Casteel, Senior Analyst (Defense) Kirk Coarrocca, Senior Analyst (Offense) Tony Thompson, Special Teams Analyst Ryan Nehlen, Offensive Analyst Casey Vance, Defensive Analyst Matt Jansen, Assistant Director of Scouting Lori Rice, Administrative Associate
GOLF Sean Covich Head Coach Clay Bounds, Assistant Coach
GYMNASTICS Jason Butts, Head Coach Travis Doak, Associate Head Coach Zaakira Muhammad, Assistant Coach
RIFLE Jon Hammond, Head Coach Soren Butler, Assistant Coach
ROWING Jimmy King, Head Coach Tina Griffith, Assistant Coach Mikie Sevick, Assistant Coach
MEN’S SOCCER Dan Stratford, Head Coach Andy Wright, Assistant Coach Nick Noble, Assistant Coach
WOMEN’S SOCCER Nikki Izzo-Brown, Head Coach Lisa Stoia, Associate Head Coach Marisa Kanela, Assistant Coach David Ratzer, Director of Operations
SWIMMING & DIVING
TRACK/CROSS COUNTRY
Vic Riggs, Head Coach Karla Helder, Diving Coach Daniel Dozier, Assistant Coach Liz Iliff, Assistant Coach Rick West, Assistant Coach
Sean Cleary, Head Coach Erin O’Reilly, Assistant Coach Shelly-Anne Gallimore, Assistant Coach
TENNIS Miha Lisac, Head Coach Jacob Eddins, Assistant Coach
VOLLEYBALL Reed Sunahara Head Coach Adriano de Souza, Assistant Coach Traci Plungas, Assistant Coach
WRESTLING Tim Flynn, Head Coach Cliff Moore, Assistant Head Coach Mitchell Port, Assistant Coach
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