Nathan Forest nforest@uwyo.edu The Wyoming track and field team finished up an impressive weekend with its performance at the Colorado University Invite hosted in Boulder, Colorado. Several Cowboys put up wins and the team continued its assault on the UW record boards. Jordan Charles came out with a win in the 110-hurdles and came in…
Thomas Garvie tgarvie@uwyo.edu Better Wyoming, a nonprofit advocacy group in Laramie, launched a petition to prevent Governor Matt Mead from using rainy day funds for UW athletics Nov. 4; however, this appears to be controversial as to whether this was ever the Governor’s intent. “It’s not right, both the state and the university could use…
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…
Kendyll Ferrall Kferral1@uwyo.edu Playing collegiate golf was never Gabrielle Gibson’s plan. The Temecula, California native only saw golf as a leisurely activity enjoyed by her father, and basically fathers everywhere, but she never imagined an 18-hole future. That is, until she failed to make the varsity soccer team her freshman year of high school. “I…
By: Alec Schaffer and Jordan Bishop While the Tour of France takes place, the media coverage of the event is buzzing with scandal of cyclists using performance-enhancing drugs, leading a person to question the occurrence of doping at the collegiate level. Team Sky leader Chris Froome has dominated the early stages of this year’s…
Fresh off four all-time top-10 performances on Friday in Albuquerque, the University of Wyoming men’s and women’s track and field teams added three more historic marks on Saturday at the Colorado Invite at Potts Field. “Our kids performed extremely well across the board. Every event area did a very good job. We put them under…
The University of Wyoming men finished seventh in the 4×800-meter relay on Friday night in Des Moines, Iowa at the famous Drake Relays. The Cowboys were in fifth through the first leg, but lost the baton in the first exchange en route to a final time of 7:33.15 which placed them seventh overall out of…
University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman announced Wednesday he is in negotiations for a contract extension with head men’s basketball coach Larry Shyatt. Details of the extension should be finalized in the near future. Shyatt recently completed his fifth season at Wyoming. He has guided UW to postseason berths in each of his first…
Cowgirl tennis closed out its regular season Saturday with a perfect conference 5-0 record, defeating the CSU Rams 4-0. Wyoming tied for first in the Mountain West conference with a 13-5 overall record, making school history in conference rankings and an undefeated conference play. “In my ten years of coaching I have not had more…
From the beginning of the NCAA there have been two sports that have wildly dominated the spotlight, basketball and football. Although these two sports are deserving of their popularity, these two sports usually overshadow most of the other sports a college has. This misfortune comes at the price of more successful sport franchises that slip…
The Wyoming tennis team will have their final home match of the season against CSU, where they will honor four girls. Seniors Alma Espinosa, Christa Gecheva, Jessica Parizher and Silviya Zhelyazkova will all play their last matches at UW. Head women’s tennis coach Dean Clower has been there since these girls began playing at Wyoming…
After some recent, should I say, backlash this week I would like to clear the air about something. First of all, shut up. Just shut your trap about the High Altitude Training Facility. I am no pawn for the Wyoming Athletic Department but I am in full support of the $44 million new training facility….
