Topic: Athletics

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App State Wins First Sun Belt Title Game
Appalachian State Mountaineers
Dec. 1, 2018
Hosting the first Sun Belt Conference Championship Game, App State won 30-19 against Louisiana to claim its third straight league title and earn an automatic bid to face a Conference USA team in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 15.
Awards for Thomas, Satterfield Headline All-Sun Belt Honors
Nov. 29, 2018
Highlighted by quarterback Zac Thomas being named Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year, Scott Satterfield being named Sun Belt Coach of the Year and the program's 16 all-conference selections including six All-Sun Belt first-team picks, Appalachian State fared well as the league announced its 2018 awards Thursday.
Sun Belt Football Champion Headed to New Orleans Bowl
Appalachian State Mountaineers
Nov. 16, 2018
The winner of the inaugural Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game will be headed to New Orleans, as the league announced Friday that the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl will host the winning team for its game on Dec. 15.
Women’s athletics at Appalachian — 50 years strong, the heart beats on
Nov. 8, 2018
Many things have evolved with Appalachian women’s athletics over the years, but the passions of the athletes haven’t changed.
Finding the strike zone: data analytics in the classroom and on the field
Nov. 2, 2018
An academic–athletic partnership at Appalachian State University brings TrackMan Baseball technology to Appalachian’s Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium.
App State becomes ranked in AP Top 25 for first time in program history
Winston-Salem Journal
Oct. 22, 2018
Five years ago, Appalachian State was initiating its transition to the FBS level. Now, as of this week, the Mountaineers (5-1, 3-0 Sun Belt Conference) are among the top teams in Division-I football.
Whistle while you work
Winston-Salem native Tim Nestor retires from 22-year ACC basketball officiating career
Winston-Salem Journal
Oct. 13, 2018
What started as a way for Tim Nestor to make some extra cash while he was a student, active in intramural sports at Appalachian State, turned into a 30-year career — most of which has run congruently with another career.
Appalachian student teams up with staff to deliver bottled water for hurricane relief
Oct. 9, 2018
A collaboration between Appalachian’s Physical Plant, Mountaineer Athletics and the Marching Mountaineers helped sophomore Cam Hunter deliver bottled water to Wallace and Elizabethtown — areas hit hard by Hurricane Florence.
Trailblazing athletes: App State honors 50th anniversary of women's varsity sports
Watauga Democrat
Sept. 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
Watauga Democrat
Sept. 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
Watauga Democrat
Sept. 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
Sept. 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
Sept. 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
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
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
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
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
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.