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Topic: Athletics

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  • Trailblazing athletes: App State honors 50th anniversary of women's varsity sports
    Trailblazing athletes: App State honors 50th anniversary of women's varsity sports
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 26, 2018

    In recognizing the thousands of women who played varsity sports over the years, Appalachian honored the trailblazers of women’s intercollegiate varsity sports with a ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21. The ceremony was for the current and former student-athletes in women’s field hockey, track and field, cross country, volleyball, soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, softball, cheer and the discontinued varsity sports of gymnastics, swimming and rifle.

  • Carol Almond set early standards for App State women's basketball
    Carol Almond set early standards for App State women's basketball
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 22, 2018

    Appalachian State’s athletic department celebrated 50 years of women’s athletics at the university on Sept. 21 with the Appalachian Trailblazers dinner. The first program founded was the field hockey team, but the team did not grab all of the early milestones. Carol Almond can attest to that.

  • App State marks half-century of women’s athletics
    App State marks half-century of women’s athletics
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 21, 2018

    This year, Appalachian State University is celebrating 50 years of women’s varsity sports. Appalachian student newspapers from the time show that the university had impressive and competitive female club and intramural teams for quite a few years before the women’s field hockey team in 1968 became the first-ever women’s intercollegiate sport in Black and Gold history.

  • App State-Southern Miss Football Game Will Not Be Played Saturday
    App State-Southern Miss Football Game Will Not Be Played Saturday
    Sep. 12, 2018

    Appalachian State's home football game scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, against Southern Miss will not be played this weekend in Boone due to increasing concerns associated with Hurricane Florence.

  • App State Athletics Monitoring Weather Conditions
    App State Athletics Monitoring Weather Conditions
    Sep. 11, 2018

    As we move forward with hosting our first home football game of the season on Saturday, we are in close communication with Southern Miss Athletics, as well as the National Weather Service and our campus emergency management team, regarding the storm track of Hurricane Florence.

  • App State AD Gillin on the football gameday experience, projects and beyond
    App State AD Gillin on the football gameday experience, projects and beyond
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Aug. 4, 2018

    Appalachian State athletics is enveloped in change right now. Some of those changes are coming right away, and some will start to form in the near future. The waves of development require athletics director Doug Gillin to view progress through many different scopes.

  • John Weaver Endowed Scholarship to benefit Appalachian Athletics programs
    John Weaver Endowed Scholarship to benefit Appalachian Athletics programs
    June 20, 2018

    The scholarship is named in honor of John Weaver — the 1971 Appalachian alumnus who capped his 47-year coaching career at the university following the conclusion of the 2018 outdoor track and field season.

  • Appalachian alumnus Wayne York makes ‘A Mountaineer Impact’ toward wrestling facility improvements
    Appalachian alumnus Wayne York makes ‘A Mountaineer Impact’ toward wrestling facility improvements
    May 17, 2018

    Wayne York ’51, Appalachian alumnus and wrestling Hall of Famer, makes ‘A Mountaineer Impact’ by contributing $85,000 toward improvements for the university’s wrestling facility.

  • Appalachian State Athletics Complex Named for Alum Mark Ricks
    Appalachian State Athletics Complex Named for Alum Mark Ricks
    April 16, 2018

    Appalachian State University has named its on-campus athletics complex the Mark E. Ricks Athletics Complex, in recognition of the 1989 alum's $10 million commitment to the university's A Mountaineer Impact initiative. The commitment, announced in November 2017, represents the university's largest outright gift to date.

  • Maine Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Appalachian’s Barbara Krause
    Maine Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Appalachian’s Barbara Krause
    Feb. 21, 2018

    Barbara Krause, former Duke University basketball star and deputy general counsel at Appalachian, is one of 22 inductees welcomed into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018.

  • Appalachian student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom
    Appalachian student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom
    Feb. 5, 2018

    Mountaineer student-athletes are among the 10,740 Appalachian undergraduate students who achieved a 3.0 or higher GPA for fall 2017.

  • App State stands alone as only college with an NBA, NFL head coach
    App State stands alone as only college with an NBA, NFL head coach
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Jan. 23, 2018

    Current New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry and recently-hired Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks give Appalachian an impressive distinction.

  • App State Student-Athletes Continue to Excel in the Classroom
    App State Student-Athletes Continue to Excel in the Classroom
    Jan. 22, 2018

    Last fall, Appalachian State Athletics posted its 11th consecutive semester with a grade point average above 3.0 for Mountaineer student-athletes. The 2017 fall semester GPA was a 3.07 for all of athletics, contributing to a cumulative GPA of 3.10 for App State student-athletes.

  • A small-town NC college football team drew larger crowds than an NFL team in 2017
    A small-town NC college football team drew larger crowds than an NFL team in 2017
    The News & Observer
    Jan. 11, 2018

    Appalachian State University notes in a press release that its Kidd Brewer Stadium had higher average home attendance in 2017 than the Los Angeles Chargers did in the StubHub Center.

  • Veteran NBA coach carries lessons learned from the late Appalachian coach Press Maravich
    Veteran NBA coach carries lessons learned from the late Appalachian coach Press Maravich
    Jan. 11, 2018

    As head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans, Alvin Gentry ’77 draws upon his experience — both athletic and academic — at Appalachian State University to manage and mold his NBA squad.

  • Dollar General Bowl players give back while in Mobile
    Dollar General Bowl players give back while in Mobile
    WBRC FOX6 News
    Dec. 20, 2017

    This is Dollar General Bowl week and weekend in Mobile. But before the big game Saturday, players and coaches from both Appalachian State University and the University of Toledo visited children at the University of South Alabama's Children's and Women's Hospital.

  • He’s back! Armanti Edwards ’09 receives his due in Canadian Football League
    He’s back! Armanti Edwards ’09 receives his due in Canadian Football League
    Dec. 14, 2017

    Mountaineer football icon Armanti Edwards ’09 helps the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts win the 2017 Grey Cup.

  • Trustees approve end zone project
    Trustees approve end zone project
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 8, 2017

    Appalachian’s $38.2 million north end zone project is moving down the field with approval by the university’s board of trustees on Friday. The trustees unanimously voted to endorse the 87,400-square-foot mixed-use development that will replace the Owens Field House, which was built in 1972 and which leaders say has “significant deferred maintenance issues.”

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