PHILIPPI — After earning Class AA all-state first-team honors in both volleyball and basketball, Philip Barbour’s Izzy Knotts has been named the MaxPreps Female Athlete of the Year for the state of West Virginia. Knotts, a rising senior, recorded 644 kills, 492 digs and 163 blocks in ...
SHORT GAP — Lanson Orndorf thought he’d already written the perfect ending. The Frankfort senior closed his high school career by throwing complete-game victories in both the state quarterfinals against Lincoln and the Class AA championship game against Logan, powering the Falcons to their second state title in three years. Then came the curtain call. Orndorf was named the 2026 Lowery Award winner by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association, honoring him as the state’s top high school baseball player. The award puts a second exclamation point on a ...
MORGANTOWN — On Thursday morning the West Virginia women’s basketball team held an open practice session with the media in attendance, which in its own way represented an early summer’s New Year’s Day of its own for it symbolizes the beginning of the new school year’s athletic ...
MORGANTOWN — UCF senior transfer forward Khyala Ngodu had the reality dating show “Love Island” on her television the other night, but she wasn’t watching alone. The rest of the West Virginia women’s basketball team was there, too, laughing, smiling and talking about the show as ...
MORGANTOWN — How many times had Mark Kellogg done this before, stood there in the middle of a basketball court, running a women’s basketball team through its opening drills on a new season? So many that it should have been old hat with him as he got into workouts for West Virginia’s ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football scored a top Pennsylvania football prospect. 3-star wide receiver Chase Guers announced on social media that he’s committed to the Mountaineers. Guers is the consensus 25th-best player in the state. Guers picked WVU over multiple Power Four schools, including Illinois, Cincinnati, UConn and Syracuse. He recently took an official visit with the Bearcats on June 12, but he still decided to join Rich Rodriguez’s squad. Guers went on an official visit to Morgantown on June 5. The Schuylkill Haven native was a multi-sport athlete, running track ...
