State’s Top Female Athlete
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 ...
Orndorf caps storybook career at Frankfort with Lowery Award
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 ...
WVU’s most influential athletes from the 2025-26 school year
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 ...
Despite almost an entirely new team, WVU women’s basketball is already ‘gelling’ this summer
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 ...
WVU is Gia Cooke’s team now
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 ...