The University of Wyoming women’s basketball team beat No. 1 in the Mountain West UNLV 69-56 at the Arena Auditorium in Laramie on Saturday afternoon. This win will put the Cowgirls at No. 1 in the Mountain West conference with just a handful of games left before the playoffs. The Cowgirls’ Liv Roberts scored 21…
The tenth ranked Cowboy wrestling team took down their second Big 12 opponent in a two day span after beating the University of Northern Colorado with a final duel score of 35-4. Saturday the 10, also held special significance as it was senior night for the wrestling team. For seniors Ronald Stevens, Luke Paine, Chaz…
Saturday, Jan. 27, the Wyoming Cowboys wrestling team (8-3) took on the Fresno State Bulldogs in the Dome of Doom. The Bulldogs are the Cowboys Big 12 division rivals. The matches started at 6pm and the first 200 students in attendance were greeted with free Qdoba burritos. The first match of the night featured Drake…
Branding Iron: How are you feeling mentally and physically now that the season is over? Bryce Meredith: Throughout the season it really is a grind. In wrestling you have weight cutting which brings that grind to a whole new level, and a lot of people don’t understand the struggles of missing meals. Even though I’m…
Junior Bryce Meredith placed the highest for the Cowboys at the Big XII tournament, coming in second place at 141 pounds, as the UW wrestling team took fifth place overall in the tournament. Meredith is the second finalist for UW in the two years it has been a member of the Big XII. Drew Templeman,…
In Gillette, Wyoming, sports are a sacred tradition. The town has a knack for producing some of the greatest athletes and high school teams ever to inhabit the state. Cody Kelley is cut from the same cloth. With great basketball talent and a toughness only Wyoming can produce, Cody has ventured from the North-East corner…
The University of Wyoming wrestling team dropped their last regular season dual to No. 25 North Dakota State this past Sunday. The Bison took the hard fought dual 24-16 on the Cowboys Senior Day, but not without a few tough UW victories. Kyle Pope got the Cowboys off to a nice start with a 10-5…
Despite good overall performances, the men’s wrestling team struggled against three ranked conference opponents this weekend. On Friday, Feb. 10, the Pokes traveled to Oklahoma to compete in a double-header dual against #17 Oklahoma and #1 Oklahoma State, where they fell 19-18 to OU and 32-3 to OSU. “I can’t imagine things going better than…
The UW wrestling team won seven of 10 matches on Feb. 4 to defeat the Air Force Academy by a score of 29-9. The win was the fifth straight for the Cowboys and the ninth straight victory over Air Force. The Cowboys opened the dual with an injury default victory by Brandon Tribble at 285….
Kendyll Ferrall Kferral1@uwyo.edu There’s no place like home, just ask Bryce Meredith. After an illustrious high school wrestling career that culminated with his fourth Wyoming state high school championship, making Meredith the 15th person in the tournament’s 69-year history to accomplish that feat, and a freshman year at North Carolina State that included a 15-7…
Thomas Garvie tgarvie@uwyo.edu In their first chance to impress in front of the home crowd, six Cowboys walked away from the War Memorial Field house with tournament victories. Coming off of a successful showing at the Northern Colorado Open, the Cowboy grapplers set out to do the same here in Laramie. The Pokes finished Saturday’s…
Thomas Garvie tgarvie@uwyo.edu For every athlete the beginning of a new season is exciting, but no more for anyone than seniors—like Cowboy wrestling’s Jace Jensen. “This is my last shot. I have worked throughout most of my life to wrestle and this is my final year to achieve my goals,” Jensen said. Seniors like Jensen…
