After losing their two opening conference matches to Davidson and Wofford, the Catamount women’s tennis team returned to action on March 24 and 25 to battle with conference foes UNC-G and Georgia Southern. The Catamounts would lose the battles to The Spartans and the Eagles. UNC-G defeated WCU 7-0, while […]

On March 21, just three days after being crowned the champions of the Best Western Catamount Classic, the Catamounts headed to Boiling Springs, NC, for a double header against Gardner-Webb. The first game of the double header would not go according to plan for Western, as they were blanked by […]

When most students come to college, they have musical preferences they’ve picked up from back home. Indeed, favorite bands are often a local occurrence influenced by years of listening to the hometown radio stations and going to the same live concerts. But in college, many students expand their musical tastes […]

Only three decades ago, public displays of affection between two people of the same sex was considered taboo and could end in the alienation of the people involved. Today however, homosexuality and even those just being affectionate towards one another is generally accepted. There are still people who believe whole […]

One commonality that strongly characterizes our generation is body modification by way of tattoos and skin piercing. Since I am fully fascinated with the concept that every other twenty-something-year-old has changed their body with ink or metal, I further investigated. After calling the three main tattoo parlors in Sylva, I […]

What was originally supposed to be a double header for Western ended up to be just a single game. However, the Catamounts emerged victorious in that one game against Winston Salem State with a 9-0 win. In the second game, the Catamounts were ahead 5-0 when a downpour occurred with […]

Played in Charlotte, the First Pitch Classic would be the Catamount softball team’s first tournament of the season. In the tournament, however, the Catamounts would not fare as well as they’d hoped. The Catamounts played four games in two days and only got one win out of the deal. In […]

Western Carolina Baseball started off its 1st home series of the year with a bang. Western defeated the Connecticut Huskies twice over the weekend of February 23-25. Despite losing the 2nd game of the series, the Catamounts scored 29 runs over the 3 games to improve their record to 4-and-2 […]

On back-to-back days, Western Carolina took on a pair of teams with the same mascot-the Bulldogs. The Catamounts went down to SEC country and defeated the University of Georgia but would fall to UNC-Asheville the next day. With these two games, Western goes to 10-and-6 on the season. Western Carolina […]

Despite dropping a pair of close games over the weekend of March 2-4, Western Carolina did knock off their 2nd Atlantic Cost Conference opponent in the span of 4 days as they defeated the 20th ranked North Carolina State Wolfpack at the 4th Annual Keith LeClair Classic on the campus […]