Muldrow Named Student-Athlete of the Week

March 26, 2018 01:51 PM | Baseball, General, Golf, Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Basketball, Gymnastics, Rowing, Women's Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field

Varsity Sports Report

By: WVU Athletic Communications

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Following her career-high 33 points in a 76-62 win over St. John's in the Postseason WNIT Quarterfinals on Sunday, senior Teana Muldrow of the women's basketball team has been named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by University Apartments.

Muldrow's performance set a new WVU postseason record, as she tallied her second 30-point game of the season. The East Orange, New Jersey, native made 9-of-12 shots from the field and made 10 straight free throws, finishing 14-of-15 at the line. Muldrow averaged 21 points and 8.5 rebounds per game as the Mountaineers went 2-0 last week.

West Virginia is set to take on Virginia Tech in the Postseason WNIT Semifinals on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

This Week in Women's Basketball: West Virginia hosts rival Virginia Tech in the 2018 Postseason WNIT Semifinals on Wednesday, March 28 … tipoff is set for 7 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

Last Week in Women's Basketball: The Mountaineers went 2-0 in the 2018 Postseason WNIT last week … on Friday, WVU downed James Madison in the third round of WNIT action in Morgantown … senior forward Kristina King had a team-high 17 points, followed by junior guard Katrina Pardee with 16 in the win as four Mountaineers finished in double figures … WVU shot 40.4 percent from the field and 80 percent at the free-throw line … senior forward Teana Muldrow had a career-high 33 points to lead the Mountaineers past St. John's in the WNIT Quarterfinals on Sunday in Morgantown … Pardee added 15 points and junior guard/forward Naomi Davenport added 12 as WVU shot 50 percent from the field.

Notes: Teana Muldrow set a WVU WNIT single-game record with a career-high 33 points again St. John's, surpassing Meg Bulger's record of 31 set in 2005 against Kentucky … it is a new WVU postseason single-game record, passing teammate Tynice Martin's record of 32 points in the 2017 Big 12 Championship title game … Muldrow's 14 free throws were also a WVU WNIT single-game record, surpassing Yolanda Paige's 12 against St. John's in 2005 … her 14 made free throws tied for fifth-most in a single game at WVU… Muldrow now has 679 points on the season, moving her past Tynice Martin and Meg Bulger and into fifth place on WVU's single-season scoring list … WVU's 305 points in the 2018 WNIT ranks third in the Mountaineer record books for team points in the WNIT.

This Week in Gymnastics: The Mountaineers will learn their seed and region for the 2018 NCAA Regional Championships on Monday, March 26, when the NCAA Selection Show streams at 4 p.m. on NCAA.com.

Last Week in Gymnastics: WVU (13-13, 0-6) finished fourth at the 2018 Big 12 Gymnastics Championship on March 24, at Iowa State's Hilton Coliseum … WVU finished with a 195.626 team score, its second-best mark earned at a championship away from Morgantown … the Mountaineers finished as high as third on uneven bars with a 49.025 … WVU also placed fourth on vault (49.05), floor (49.025) and balance beam (48.525) … senior Zaakira Muhammad paced the team on bars and finished ninth overall with a 9.875 … senior Jordan Gillette and junior Carly Galpin finished a team-best 10th on beam with 9.775s … junior Kirah Koshinski scored 9.875 on floor, the second-best mark awarded, and tied for sixth place … Koshinski also paced on vault with a 9.875 score and finished in fifth place.

Notes: No. 1-ranked Oklahoma claimed its seventh consecutive Big 12 title with a 197.775 score, while No. 13 Denver finished in second (197.075) and Iowa State placed third (195.65) … sophomore Abby Kaufman scored a career-high 9.75 on bars … sophomore Chloe Cluchey matched her season high on vault with a 9.75.

This Week in Track and Field: The Mountaineers travel to a pair of meets from March 30-31 … WVU competes at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, North Carolina, while select members of the team head to the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, California.

Last Week in Track and Field: WVU was off last week.

Notes: The Mountaineers are set to make their second straight trip to the Tar Heel State this weekend … WVU opened the 2018 outdoor season at the 49er Classic in Charlotte from March 16-17 … senior Sara Finfrock won the women's pole vault competition at the event, earning a mark of 3.90 meters (12 feet, 9.50 inches) … WVU finished with three top-10 finishes on the weekend … WVU competed in the Raleigh Relays and Stanford Invitational last season … at NC State, Danique Bryan won the women's long jump with a mark of 5.86 meters, before Shamoya McNeil won the women's triple jump with a then-career-high mark of 12.80 meters … the Mountaineers finished with eight top-10 finishes at the Raleigh Relays in 2017 … additionally, Maggie Drazba competed at the Stanford Invitational, finishing 10th in the women's 10,000-meter run in 34:04.26.

This Week in Rowing: West Virginia is off this week.

Last Week in Rowing: The Mountaineers opened the spring season at the Cooper Sprints in Cherry Hill, New Jersey … four boats - the varsity four, varsity eight, second varsity eight and third varsity eight - competed for WVU … the varsity eight placed fourth in their heat and went on to pick up a second place finish in the Petite Final with a time of 8:04.07 … in the second varsity eight competition, the Mountaineers placed fourth, which sent them to the Petite Final … in the final, WVU finished third with a time of 8:11.33 … in the varsity four race, the Mountaineers clocked a time of 9:09.13 in the 2,000-meter course, sending them to the Petite Final … WVU closed the competition with the third varsity eight race … the crew finished the first heat with a time of 8:20.40, before taking fifth in the Grand Final with a time of 8:24.07.

Coach Jimmy King after Sunday's race at the Cooper Sprints: "There are probably more positive than negative takeaways from our first racing of the season, but those negatives weigh heavily on boat speed. In short, we need to take gains made on land and apply them better on the water."

This Week in Baseball: This week, WVU hosts the Backyard Brawl on Tuesday before continuing Big 12 play at No. 9 Texas Tech from March 29-31 … the Backyard Brawl against rival Pitt is set for Tuesday, March 27, at 6:30 p.m. ET … the first 200 fans will receive a free fleece blanket, and all fans can play Baseball Bingo … tickets are available at WVUGAME.com, by calling 1-800-WVU GAME or at the Mountaineer Ticket Office at the WVU Coliseum or on game day at Monongalia County Ballpark … two days later, West Virginia begins a weekend series at No. 9 Texas Tech on Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET … the series continues on Friday night, also at 7:30, and concludes Saturday at 3 p.m. … Thursday night's game will air on Fox Sports Southwest, Friday's will be broadcast nationally on FS1, and Saturday's contest is slated for a Fox Sports Southwest Plus telecast.

Last Week in Baseball: Last week, West Virginia opened Big 12 action with a three-game series at Oklahoma … WVU lost the opener, 19-6 on March 23, as nine different Mountaineers accounted for the team's nine hits and Marques Inman had two RBIs as part of a four-run sixth for West Virginia … playing a doubleheader to close the series the following day, WVU suffered a 10-2 loss in the day's first game, as the Mountaineers scored two in the fourth but gave up seven runs, five unearned, in the bottom half … in the final game of the series, West Virginia was edge by Oklahoma, 2-1, as Darius Hill recorded a pair of hits … West Virginia suffered a weekend series sweep for the first time since March 18-20, 2016, in a three-game series at No. 7 TCU.

Notes: West Virginia (9-12, 0-3 Big 12) faces Pitt in the Backyard Brawl for the 195th time on Tuesday … WVU is 106-88 all-time against Pitt, and has won three in a row and nine of the last 13 meetings … the Backyard Brawl is West Virginia's oldest and most-played rivalry … the Mountaineers' series at No. 9 Texas Tech is their first games against a ranked opponent this season … West Virginia was swept in a three-game series last weekend for the first time since March 18-20, 2016, at No. 7 TCU … WVU played its first true doubleheader of the season on Saturday … Nick Denicola recorded his first career hit and RBI with an eighth-inning double on Friday … Ivan Gonzalez had two hits in Saturday's first game, his team-high-tying sixth multi-hit game of the season and 39th of his career … Sam Kessler pitched a scoreless 2.0 innings in relief in Saturday's finale, and has not allowed a run on just four hits in 8.2 innings to start the 2018 season … Braden Zarbnisky failed to reach base in his two at-bats on Friday, snapping his career-long and team-leading reached-base streak at 14 consecutive games, a stretch that began at the end of the 2017 season.

This Week in Swimming and Diving: The Mountaineers' 2017-18 season has concluded.

Last Week in Swimming and Diving: Junior Jake Armstrong, redshirt junior Tristen Di Sibio and freshman David Dixon represented the Mountaineers at the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, from March 21-24, in Minneapolis, Minnesota … Armstrong earned honorable mention All-America honors with a 14th-place finish in the 100 breaststroke (52.69); he also took 46th place in the 200 breaststroke (1:58.66) … Di Sibio finished in 36th place in the 100 breast (53.71) and 41st in the 200 breast (1:57.50) … Dixon competed in three events, finishing 22nd in the 200 butterfly (1:43.02), 41st in the 400 IM (3:52.21) and 200 IM (1:46.44).

Notes: Armstrong became WVU's 15th men's All-American in program history with his performance in the 100 breast … Armstrong joined sophomore Morgan Bullock from the WVU women's team as honorable mention All-Americans this season, marking the first time since 1986 in which a member of both teams secured the honor in the same year … the Mountaineer men's trio was WVU's first NCAA Men's Championship qualifiers since Andrew Marsh in 2016 … the group joined Bullock and junior Emma Harris, who competed at the NCAA Women's Championships, from March 14-17, in Columbus, Ohio, as 2018 national qualifiers … WVU finished the 2017-18 campaign with five total NCAA qualifiers, two honorable mention All-Americans, two Big 12 individual champions, a pair of second-place teams finishes at the Big 12 Championship and a total of 15 school-record times/scores, among other accomplishments throughout the year.

This Week in Tennis: Up next, the Mountaineers head to Huntington, West Virginia, to take on in-state rival Marshall on Saturday, March 31 … the match is slated to begin at noon at the Huntington Tennis Club.

Last Week in Tennis: West Virginia (6-7, 1-2 Big 12) won a pair of matches over the weekend, including its first Big 12 Conference win in program history … on Friday, WVU started fast, claiming the doubles point and three singles matches to roll past Duquesne, 4-2 … the Mountaineers picked up wins on courts No. 2 and No. 3 in doubles play to earn the doubles point over the Dukes … senior Lyn Yuen Choo would use a dominating performance to win in two sets, 6-0 and 6-2, to give WVU the 2-0 lead … freshman Giovanna Caputo made the score 3-1 with a 6-0, 6-2 win at the No. 4 slot … junior Paula Goetz clinched the match for WVU, when she topped Duquesne's Aishwarya Kona, 6-1 and 6-4 … on Saturday, the Mountaineers captured the doubles point as well as three singles victories on the first three courts to power past the Cyclones … WVU began doubles play by dropping the match on court one, as Christina Jordan and Sofía Duran fell to Maty Cancini and Regina Espindola, 6-3 … however, Caputo and Anne-Sophie Courteau won in a dramatic tiebreak, 7-6 (5), over Margarita Timakova and Ekaterina Repina on court three to even the doubles point at one apiece … all eyes then turned to court No. 2, as Goetz and Choo were trailing ISU's Annabella Bonnadonna and Erin Freeman early on … with the doubles point in their hands, Goetz and Choo rallied back to force a tie-breaking set … in the tiebreaker, the two teams battled back and forth, until the WVU tandem capitalized on a match point to win the tiebreaker, 10-8 … in singles play, Choo led the Mountaineers once again, giving WVU its first singles win of the day, when she topped ISU's Erin Freeman, 6-1 and 6-0 … Iowa State secured its first point of the day, as Duran fell to Repina in straight sets at No. 4 to cut the lead to 2-1 … on court two, Courteau won the first set, 6-0, but fell in the second-set, 3-6 ... despite being down early in the third-set, she powered her way to a 6-3 win to put WVU ahead of the Cyclones, 3-1 … Jordan then played hero for the Mountaineers, after battling to a three-set win over ISU's Cancini, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, to clinch the match for WVU ... the match-clinching victory marked Jordan's second of the season.

Notes: The Mountaineers will face the Thundering Herd for the 40th time on Saturday, a series that goes back to WVU's inaugural season of 1973 … WVU holds a 22-17 advantage over Marshall … Choo and Goetz each closed the weekend with a perfect 4-0 record in both singles and doubles play … Caputo leads the Mountaineers with an 8-3 record in singles play this season, while Choo is currently second with a 7-3 record … the doubles pair of Choo and Goetz pace the Mountaineers with seven wins in doubles action.

This Week in Golf: The team is off until the Irish Creek Collegiate on April 7-8 in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Last Week in Golf: The West Virginia golf team traveled south for a pair of tournaments … on March 18-19, WVU played in The John Hayt Invitational at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida … Max Sear, Matthew Sharpstene, Etienne Papineau, Tristan Nicholls and Mark Goetz represented the Mountaineers … WVU struggled in Florida, tying for 14th place overall with a score of 296-298-298=892 for 28 over par … Sharpstene was the team's top finisher, tying for 31st with a score of 73-73-75=220 for four over … the Mountaineers rebounded with a runner-up finish at the Furman Intercollegiate from March 23-25, at the Furman University Golf Course, in Greenville, South Carolina … Papineau led the way, shooting 71-69-72=212 to tie for third at four under … Sear also finished in the top-10, shooting 71-70-72=213 for a sixth-place finish at three under.

Notes: Max Sear continues to lead the team with a scoring average of 72.56 … Papineau ranks second at 73.16, while Sharpstene boasts a stroke average of 73.24 … with his sixth-place finish at Furman, Sear now has four top-10 finishes in eight tournaments this year as well as six top-20 finishes … Papineau's third-place finish was his second best of the season, as he previously tied for runner-up at the 2017 Health Plan Mountaineer Invitational in October … he has three top-20 finishes on his resume this season.

Coach Sean Covich following the Furman Intercollegiate: "I'm really proud of the guys this week. They displayed good attitudes and positive mindsets all week. I think we learned a lot from our mistakes at North Florida's event last week, at least I know I did as their coach. It was great to see them bounce back and claim second place. If we can keep the right mindset the rest of the spring, some good golf will be ahead of us."