Posts Tagged ‘Sammie Valentine’

Women’s bball picked 3rd in WVIAC

Women’s bball picked 3rd in WVIAC

By Sammie Valentine, Staff Writer The Hilltopper women’s basketball team will begin their season with a third-place ranking in the WVIAC’s annual women’s basketball preseason poll. Results of the coaches’ picks were announced on Nov. 1 with Fairmont State taking the lead with 218 points and 11 of the 15 first-place votes. Glenville State was [...]

Topper tennis teams still finding success

Topper tennis teams still finding success

By Sammie Valentine, Staff Writer The Hilltopper tennis teams saw success on the road this past week as the men participated in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Atlantic Region Championships at Mercyhurst University while the undefeated women traveled to Shepherd for their ninth match of the fall season. On the men’s side, Alex Hayden won three [...]

Hilltoppers compete in WJU invitational

Hilltoppers compete in WJU invitational

By Sammie Valentine & Kyle Lutz, Staff Writers The West Liberty volleyball team traveled to the bottom of the hill to Wheeling Jesuit University to take part in the Wheeling Jesuit Invitational. The team came back with a 2-1 record in the two-day event. In the first match of the event on Sept. 21, West [...]

West Liberty set to join Mountain East

By Sammie Valentine, Staff Writer West Liberty University joins 11 other institutions to form the newly created all-sports athletic conference named the Mountain East Conference. Fairmont State University, the University of Charleston, Glenville State College, Concord University, Shepherd University, West Liberty University, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia State University are [...]

Tennis team is victorious

tennis

By Sammie Valentine, Staff Writer The Hilltopper women’s tennis team kicked off their season ranked third in the WVIAC Coaches’ preseason poll, while a former player on the men’s team was honored as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s award winner. Former Hilltopper tennis standout Tyler McCullough received the honor as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s national award [...]

Shaw finishes runner-up at Nationals

By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer West Liberty senior wrestlers Jarrod Shaw and J.D. Ramsey earned All-American titles during the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship held on Saturday, March 10 on the Pueblo campus of Colorado State University. “It feels great [to be an All-American], it’s something I’ve been working toward since I started wrestling many [...]

Men’s tennis awarded academic team honors

By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has selected West Liberty’s men’s tennis team as a NCAA Division II All-Academic Team for the third season in a row. The team was one of 15 schools in the nation to receive the honor. The award is given to programs in which the team maintains [...]

XCers compete in championships

By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer West Liberty’s cross country teams placed in the Top 10 in the 2011 West Virginia Conference Cross Country Championships at Pipestem State Park. The Lady Hilltoppers placed sixth and had three runners place in the Top 30. Sherry Borsos was 25th at 24:50.50, and Chelsea East was right ahead of [...]

Soccer club kicks off season

By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer West Liberty introduces women’s club soccer, coached by Barry Christmas, to it’s athletics’ roster. “By NCAA rules, you have to have the same amount of girl’s teams as boy’s teams. They started a boy’s lacrosse team, so they had to start a soccer team,” said team member Jessica Safreed. Coach [...]

Baseball looks forward to the rest of the season

By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer The Hilltopper baseball team faced five away games this past week. They played a doubleheader against West Virginia Wesleyan on Thursday  and a doubleheader against Fairmont State University on Friday, followed by another game at Fairmont on Sunday. Against Wesleyan, the men had a split doubleheader by losing their first [...]