Tait Named Student-Athlete of the Week
April 21, 2025 12:32 PM | Baseball, General, Golf, Rowing, Track & Field
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After notching a pair of program top-five times at the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 16 and 18, graduate student Sarah Tait has been named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by University Apartments.
Tait secured her first all-time performance of the week on Wednesday in Azusa, California after posting a personal best time of 9:37.62 in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase, earning second place. With the time, she ranks No. 9 globally, No. 6 nationally and No. 1 in the Big 12 conference in the event.
The graduate student went on to slate herself as No. 3 all-time in the 1,500 meters after taking first place with a career best time of 4:12.66. The time marks her as No. 25 nationally and No. 2 in the Big 12.
West Virginia will continue competition at the Penn Relays on April 24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The relays will be held at Franklin Field and can be viewed live on FloTrack.
This Week in Baseball: West Virginia plays four games this week, beginning with a road game at Penn State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. … the game will air on Big Ten Network … the Mountaineers continue their road trip with a three-game series at UCF, April 25-27 … firs pitch on Friday and Saturday is set for 6 p.m. while Sunday is set for 1 p.m.
Last Week in Baseball: The Mountaineers went 4-0 on the week, defeating Marshall, 5-4, in a midweek contest before sweeping Cincinnati … Against the Thundering Herd, redshirt junior Chase Swain scored three runs, including the game-winning run in the ninth inning on a straight steal of home … on Thursday, WVU defeated the Bearcats, 3-2 … senior Jace Rinehart had two RBI … sophomore Chase Meyer threw 3.1 scoreless innings in relief to earn his seventh win … the Mountaineers followed with a 6-4 win on Friday, getting home runs from Rinehart, senior Grant Hussey, and junior Logan Sauve … West Virginia completed the sweep with a 10-5 victory on Saturday … Sauve hit another home run while Swain and sophomore Spencer Barnett each drove in three RBI … graduate student Jack Kartsonas tossed 6.0 innings while allowing just one hit and one unearned run.
Notes: The Mountaineers are 34-4 overall this season and have won 14 straight games, the longest current streak in the nation … WVU currently has the best record in the nation with a .895 winning percentage … the Mountaineers are ranked No. 17 in the latest D1Baseball poll and are up to as high as No. 9 by Perfect Game … Sauve was named to the Buster Posey Award Watch List honoring the nation's top catcher while senior Brodie Kresser earned a spot on the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List which honors the nation's top shortstop … WVU has swept three straight Big 12 series, the first time in program history doing so … the Mountaineers have won 30 games in a season for the third straight year, the first time in program history … Sauve was named the Big 12 Player of the Week for the first time in his career.
This week in Track and Field: West Virginia will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the Penn Relays on April 24 … the relays will be held at Franklin Field and can be streamed live on FloTrack.
Last week in Track and Field: The Mountaineers competed at both the Bryan Clay Invitational and Mountaineer Twilight on April 16-19 … at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California, graduate student Sarah Tait notched two all-time performances in the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase and the 1,500 meters with personal best times of 9:37.62, and 4:12.66, respectively … additionally, redshirt junior Emily Bryce notched a personal best of 15:52.63 in the 5,000 meters while in California … the time marks her as No. 3 on WVU's all-time list … at the Mountaineer Twilight in Morgantown on Saturday, the Mountaineers won eight different event titles.
Notes: After finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Tait ranks No. 9 in the world, No. 6 in the nation and No. 1 in the Big 12 … the time was also good enough for No. 3 on the Scottish all-time list and marked a standard time for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasglow.
This Week in Rowing: West Virginia will travel to Ypsilanti, Michigan, on Saturday, April 26 to compete in the Ford Lake Cup hosted by Eastern Michigan.
Last Week in Rowing: WVU's Blue team won the Gold and Blue Regatta last weekend by a score of 125 to 77, marking the second straight win for the blue team in the intrasquad scrimmage.
This Week in Golf: The golf team will compete in the Big 12 Golf Championship from Tuesday to Thursday in Tulsa, Oklahoma … the Big 12 Championship will be contested at Southern Hills Country Club on the 7,481-yard, par-71 course … the format will consist of a total of 72 holes across three days with 36 holes scheduled on Tuesday, followed by 18 holes each on Wednesday and Thursday … pairings will consist of threesomes with play beginning off both the No. 1 and No. 10 tees each of the four rounds … West Virginia will be paired with Baylor, Cincinnati and UCF will tee off on No. 10 at 9:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday … round two will begin continuously as round one ends … seniors Todd Duncan and Max Green, juniors Carson Kammann, Westy McCabe and Kaleb Wilson and freshman Ryan Leach (substitute) make up the WVU lineup … Duncan, Green and Wilson will be making their third appearances, while McCabe will make his second appearances … Kammann traveled as a substitute last season.
Last Week in Golf: Senior Todd Duncan placed 11th and junior Kaleb Wilson finished 13th to lead the West Virginia University golf team in the 10th Mountaineer Invitational at Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, West Virginia … Duncan tied for 11th place with rounds of 76-72-75=223 (+7), while Wilson tied for 13th place with rounds of 77-74-73=224 (+8) … Max Green tied for 33rd place at +15 (79-73-79=231), Carson Kammann tied for 43rd place at +17 (82-74-77=233) and Westy McCabe tied for 68th place at +22 (74-81-83=238) … the Mountaineers finished in fourth place with rounds of 306-293-304=903 (+39). No. 4 Oklahoma State won the event by shooting Even par, followed by Kentucky (+24) and No. 28 Texas Tech (+34) in the 18-team field. WVU finished ahead of Marshall (+45), TCU (+46), Oral Roberts (+51), James Madison (+55), George Mason (+59), Western Kentucky (+61), Robert Morris (+64), Drexel (+68), Virginia Tech (+76), Villanova (+79), William & Mary (+80), Navy (+82), Tennessee Tech (+82) and Army West Point (+101) … Oklahoma State's Eric Lee won the individual title at -6, the only golfer under par in the field … competing as individuals for WVU, Pierce Grieve tied for 27th place at +13 (81-72-76=229), Ryan Leach tied for 33rd place at +15 (79-74-78=231), Nicholas Turowski tied for 43rd place at +17 (72-81-80=233) and Harrison Thompson tied for 57th place at +20 (74-81-81=236).
Tait secured her first all-time performance of the week on Wednesday in Azusa, California after posting a personal best time of 9:37.62 in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase, earning second place. With the time, she ranks No. 9 globally, No. 6 nationally and No. 1 in the Big 12 conference in the event.
The graduate student went on to slate herself as No. 3 all-time in the 1,500 meters after taking first place with a career best time of 4:12.66. The time marks her as No. 25 nationally and No. 2 in the Big 12.
West Virginia will continue competition at the Penn Relays on April 24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The relays will be held at Franklin Field and can be viewed live on FloTrack.
This Week in Baseball: West Virginia plays four games this week, beginning with a road game at Penn State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. … the game will air on Big Ten Network … the Mountaineers continue their road trip with a three-game series at UCF, April 25-27 … firs pitch on Friday and Saturday is set for 6 p.m. while Sunday is set for 1 p.m.
Last Week in Baseball: The Mountaineers went 4-0 on the week, defeating Marshall, 5-4, in a midweek contest before sweeping Cincinnati … Against the Thundering Herd, redshirt junior Chase Swain scored three runs, including the game-winning run in the ninth inning on a straight steal of home … on Thursday, WVU defeated the Bearcats, 3-2 … senior Jace Rinehart had two RBI … sophomore Chase Meyer threw 3.1 scoreless innings in relief to earn his seventh win … the Mountaineers followed with a 6-4 win on Friday, getting home runs from Rinehart, senior Grant Hussey, and junior Logan Sauve … West Virginia completed the sweep with a 10-5 victory on Saturday … Sauve hit another home run while Swain and sophomore Spencer Barnett each drove in three RBI … graduate student Jack Kartsonas tossed 6.0 innings while allowing just one hit and one unearned run.
Notes: The Mountaineers are 34-4 overall this season and have won 14 straight games, the longest current streak in the nation … WVU currently has the best record in the nation with a .895 winning percentage … the Mountaineers are ranked No. 17 in the latest D1Baseball poll and are up to as high as No. 9 by Perfect Game … Sauve was named to the Buster Posey Award Watch List honoring the nation's top catcher while senior Brodie Kresser earned a spot on the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List which honors the nation's top shortstop … WVU has swept three straight Big 12 series, the first time in program history doing so … the Mountaineers have won 30 games in a season for the third straight year, the first time in program history … Sauve was named the Big 12 Player of the Week for the first time in his career.
This week in Track and Field: West Virginia will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the Penn Relays on April 24 … the relays will be held at Franklin Field and can be streamed live on FloTrack.
Last week in Track and Field: The Mountaineers competed at both the Bryan Clay Invitational and Mountaineer Twilight on April 16-19 … at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California, graduate student Sarah Tait notched two all-time performances in the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase and the 1,500 meters with personal best times of 9:37.62, and 4:12.66, respectively … additionally, redshirt junior Emily Bryce notched a personal best of 15:52.63 in the 5,000 meters while in California … the time marks her as No. 3 on WVU's all-time list … at the Mountaineer Twilight in Morgantown on Saturday, the Mountaineers won eight different event titles.
Notes: After finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Tait ranks No. 9 in the world, No. 6 in the nation and No. 1 in the Big 12 … the time was also good enough for No. 3 on the Scottish all-time list and marked a standard time for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasglow.
This Week in Rowing: West Virginia will travel to Ypsilanti, Michigan, on Saturday, April 26 to compete in the Ford Lake Cup hosted by Eastern Michigan.
Last Week in Rowing: WVU's Blue team won the Gold and Blue Regatta last weekend by a score of 125 to 77, marking the second straight win for the blue team in the intrasquad scrimmage.
This Week in Golf: The golf team will compete in the Big 12 Golf Championship from Tuesday to Thursday in Tulsa, Oklahoma … the Big 12 Championship will be contested at Southern Hills Country Club on the 7,481-yard, par-71 course … the format will consist of a total of 72 holes across three days with 36 holes scheduled on Tuesday, followed by 18 holes each on Wednesday and Thursday … pairings will consist of threesomes with play beginning off both the No. 1 and No. 10 tees each of the four rounds … West Virginia will be paired with Baylor, Cincinnati and UCF will tee off on No. 10 at 9:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday … round two will begin continuously as round one ends … seniors Todd Duncan and Max Green, juniors Carson Kammann, Westy McCabe and Kaleb Wilson and freshman Ryan Leach (substitute) make up the WVU lineup … Duncan, Green and Wilson will be making their third appearances, while McCabe will make his second appearances … Kammann traveled as a substitute last season.
Last Week in Golf: Senior Todd Duncan placed 11th and junior Kaleb Wilson finished 13th to lead the West Virginia University golf team in the 10th Mountaineer Invitational at Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, West Virginia … Duncan tied for 11th place with rounds of 76-72-75=223 (+7), while Wilson tied for 13th place with rounds of 77-74-73=224 (+8) … Max Green tied for 33rd place at +15 (79-73-79=231), Carson Kammann tied for 43rd place at +17 (82-74-77=233) and Westy McCabe tied for 68th place at +22 (74-81-83=238) … the Mountaineers finished in fourth place with rounds of 306-293-304=903 (+39). No. 4 Oklahoma State won the event by shooting Even par, followed by Kentucky (+24) and No. 28 Texas Tech (+34) in the 18-team field. WVU finished ahead of Marshall (+45), TCU (+46), Oral Roberts (+51), James Madison (+55), George Mason (+59), Western Kentucky (+61), Robert Morris (+64), Drexel (+68), Virginia Tech (+76), Villanova (+79), William & Mary (+80), Navy (+82), Tennessee Tech (+82) and Army West Point (+101) … Oklahoma State's Eric Lee won the individual title at -6, the only golfer under par in the field … competing as individuals for WVU, Pierce Grieve tied for 27th place at +13 (81-72-76=229), Ryan Leach tied for 33rd place at +15 (79-74-78=231), Nicholas Turowski tied for 43rd place at +17 (72-81-80=233) and Harrison Thompson tied for 57th place at +20 (74-81-81=236).
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