Last Week in Rifle: The Mountaineers did not compete last week due to winter storm Jonas … the team’s Jan. 23 match at No. 14-ranked Navy was postponed until a further date.
This week in Track and Field: The Mountaineers return to State College, Pennsylvania, to compete at the Penn State National Invitational, Jan. 29-30, at the Ashenfelter III Indoor Track ... events are set to begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, and at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30.
Last week in Track and Field: Due to the snow storm in Morgantown, the Jan. 23 Marty Pushkin Classic, hosted WVU was canceled ... the meet will not be rescheduled.
Notes: The last time West Virginia competed at the two-day PSU National Invitational was in 2014 ... at the meet the team recorded a victory in the 4 x 800-meter relay and recorded a personal-best mark in the high jump.
This Week in Swimming and Diving: The Mountaineers will compete in a pair of meets this weekend, starting first with their final home meet of the season with Senior Night on Friday, Jan. 29, at the WVU Natatorium at 5 p.m. ... the WVU men and women will take on Villanova, while the women will also face Big 12 foe Iowa State ... the team will then travel to compete against Ohio State, Michigan and Buffalo in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 1 p.m.
Last Week in Swimming and Diving: The Mountaineers were idel in competition last week ... Senior Max Spencer was named to the Big 12 Men’s Swimmer of the Week by the Big 12 Conference, after having outstanding performances against Pitt and TCU in back-to-back weekends ... Spencer won all four individual races and swept the breaststroke events against Pitt and TCU to help his team to a pair of wins ... the victories, along with a first-place finish in the 200 medley relay vs. Pitt, helped the Mountaineers down the Panthers in the annual Backyard Brawl on Jan. 9, before a Big 12 road win at TCU on Jan. 16 ... at TCU, Spencer bested the previous week’s times with two wins, a 55.10 in the 100 breaststroke and a 1:59.32 in the 200 breaststroke, which gave WVU valuable points in a close Big 12 win ... the award is the first of Spencer’s career and the third for the Mountaineers this season.
Notes: At Friday’s Senior Night, WVU will honor its 15 seniors: Morgan Emter, Kelsey Frantz, Aidan Fumagalli, Jaimee Gillmore, Ross Glegg, Jay Hickey, Jake Iotte, Natalie Johnsen, Emma Luigard, Andrew Marsh, Courtney Miller, Katie Murto, Lindsay Schmidt, Max Spencer and Chase Williams.
This Week in Wrestling: West Virginia will take on a pair of top-10 foes … the Mountaineers head to Blacksburg, Virginia, on Friday for a 7 p.m. match at No. 10 Virginia Tech … the team returns to Morgantown for a 1 p.m. dual with No. 3 N.C. State on Sunday at the WVU Coliseum.
Last Week in Wrestling: The Mountaineers dropped a pair of matches in Tempe, Arizona, on Saturday … Keegan Moore won by tech. fall while four other Mountaineers earned decision wins as WVU tied Arizona State, 17-17 … the Sun Devils took the match, 18-17, on match-point criteria … Moore, Zeke Moisey, Dylan Cottrell and Jacob A. Smith each picked up their second win of the day in West Virginia’s 20-15 loss to Stanford.
Coach Sammie Henson after Saturday’s matches: “We had some good wins and some bad wins. We need to capitalize on bonus points. We had opportunities in some matches, and we just didn’t make it happen. We have to believe in the system and keep grinding. All in all, it was a tough weekend with some missed opportunities.”
This Week in Rowing: The West Virginia University rowing team is idle until the start of its spring season.
Last Week in Rowing: The Mountaineers were idle last week.
Notes: The rowing novice team swept Duquesne, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon to conclude the fall season on Saturday, Nov. 7, on the Allegheny River … the novice 8 ‘A’ boat raced to a first-place finish with a time of 11:11.86, five seconds ahead of Pitt … the Novice 8 ‘B’ boat also won, finishing in front of Pitt with a time of 10:37.8 on a course approximately 200 meters shorter than the first novice 8 competition … in the last two races of the day, West Virginia finished first with a time of 11:40.8 in the Novice 4 ‘A’ race, followed by another first-place finish in the Novice 4 ‘B’ race … the Head of the Occoquan was the first regatta of the season for the novice team on Saturday, Oct. 31 … eight of the Mountaineers’ 10 boats posted top-10 finishes on the Occoquan Reservoir … WVU’s four medals came with first-and second-place finishes in the Women’s Collegiate Novice 4+, a bronze-medal finish in the Women’s Collegiate Novice 8 and a fifth-place finish in the Women’s Championship 4+ … the WVU rowing team also had a strong showing in its fall season opener at the Head of the Ohio, on Saturday, Oct. 3 … the Mountaineers placed first and third in the Women’s Open 4+ and second in the Women’s Open 8 … to open the day, West Virginia finished second in the Women’s Open 8, as it faced 12 boats to take a silver medal back home to Morgantown.
