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"Those who stay will be champions." It's a catchy phrase first coined by the late legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, who issued the challenge to his team after nearly half of a squad of 140 players left following a grueling camp instituted by the new Wolverines coach in 1969. Since then, coaches of all sports have used the famous saying as motivation for their programs, none more so than University of Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl. He plastered it on the doors of the Fargodome when he...
The University of Wyoming volleyball and cross-country teams face big weekends on the court and the course. The UW volleyball team is on the road for matches at 7:30 p.m. today at Nevada and at 7 p.m. Saturday at San Diego State. Wyoming begins the weekend one game behind co-Mountain West leaders Colorado State and Boise State for the conference title with five matches left in the regular season. The UW cross-country teams are in Logan, Utah, for the NCAA Mountain Regional meet Friday. The top...
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming cross-country coach Bryan Berryhill isn't shy about saying where he thinks his men's and women's teams are as the 2016 season begins this weekend. "I think they're two different teams," Berryhill said. "The women's team is one of the best groups I've been able to work with. I think there's got to be big expectations. The men's team is coming off a really good year, one of the best years in program history, but we lost three of our top five runners. We're going t...
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming volleyball players will likely be carrying a little something extra in their travels this weekend as they open the 2016 season at the Purdue Mortar Board Invitational. Each will likely be carrying a chip with them from a year ago. And they'll likely have that chip firmly on their shoulders throughout this fall. The Cowgirls put together one of the top seasons in UW history in 2015, going 23-7 overall and 13-5 in the Mountain West. Wyoming beat nationally ranked O...
The University of Wyoming football team walked off War Memorial on Saturday exactly two weeks from the start of the regular season. Where the Cowboys are in terms of improvement following last year's 2-10 season still remains a question mark with the home opener looming at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 against Northern Illinois. "Until you get in the middle of the first half of the first game you don't get to see where you're at," Cowboys coach Craig Bohl said. "We're encouraged with more guys and more...
LARAMIE – David Hearn has always been able to control his emotions on and off the golf course. That has helped the former University of Wyoming standout become a regular member of the PGA Tour since 2011. He has amassed over $7.2 million in career earnings. But something happened two weeks ago during the Canadian Open that made the normally cool golfer choke up a little. Hearn – along with fellow Canadian Graham Delaet – were presented their Team Canada jackets for Rio Olympics, which start...
LARAMIE – Sekoya Romero and Lexi Pulley have been playing soccer together for as long as they can remember. That run will continue for some time to come. The Laramie High standouts – who led the Lady Plainsmen to the Class 4A state soccer title in May as sophomores – committed to the University of Wyoming to play soccer when their high school careers are finished. They both announced their commitments on Twitter. Romero’s pledge came Sunday and Pulley followed Monday. “I’m super excited because I’ve played soccer with (Romero) since we were aro...
University of Wyoming sophomore wrestler Bryce Meredith was asked on wrestling inside iconic Madison Square Garden prior to the NCAA Wrestling Championships. Meredith felt it would be an amazing experience and closed with this: “There’s always this little burning desire in me that I want to be famous.” Five matches later, the former Cheyenne Central standout left Madison Square Garden well on his path to that dream. The Wyoming 141-pounder won four straight matches to reach the finals before falling 3-2 to top-seeded Dean Heil of Oklah...
The overall numbers might not be what the University of Wyoming wrestling program expects for the national tournament, but there’s still plenty of excitement and anticipation as Wyoming will have three wrestlers competing today during the opening day of the 2016 NCAA National Championships in New York City. Senior Tanner Harms, junior Drew Templeman and sophomore Bryce Meredith will represent the Cowboys during the three-day tournament at iconic Madison Square Garden. It’s the smallest group of Cowboys to wrestle in the national meet since 200...
Eddie Yarbrough came to the University of Wyoming as a linebacker and he may leave as one as well. Yarbrough — along with eight other Cowboys — took part in Wyoming’s annual pro day on Thursday inside the Wyoming Indoor Practice Facility. Scouts from 10 different NFL teams — including the Denver Broncos — were on hand to test the Cowboys in the basic drills of the 40-yard dash, cone drill, broad jump and 225-pound weight lifts as well as position drills. For Yarbrough, it was his first chance to show the scouts what he’s been working on...
LARAMIE - There isn't a single person involved with the University of Wyoming women's basketball program that will forget Dec. 30 and the ramifications of that night at home against San Diego State. Late in the third quarter, Cowgirls senior Jordan Kelley went down with a knee injury that turned out to be a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament tear. Kelley's time with the Cowgirls was over, and going along with her was any realistic chances of UW competing for a conference title. Wyoming (12...
LARAMIE – If you like point-guard play, then today’s one-time-only matchup in Logan, Utah, is for you. University of Wyoming senior Marquelle Dent and Utah State sophomore Funda Nakkasoglu will go head to head for the only time this regular season due to the Mountain West’s unbalanced schedule at 2 p.m. at the Dee Glenn Smith Spectrum. This point-guard duel will not only be the best in the MW this season, but one of the best in the country. Nakkasoglu leads the conference in scoring (21.0 ppg) and free-throw shooting (84.5 percent) and is fo...
LARAMIE - The symmetry of what's happened to the University of Wyoming Cowgirls basketball program is both telling and not unexpected. Wyoming went 7-3 in the first 10 games of the season and 3-7 over its last 10. The difference? Having 5-foot-9 senior Jordan Kelley as opposed to not. Or as UW coach Joe Legerski might say, having your glue player in the lineup and not. With Kelley, the Cowgirls were positioning themselves to be one of the top three or four teams in the Mountain West. Without...
LARAMIE — University of Wyoming women’s basketball coach Joe Legerski says his players rarely peak too far ahead on the schedule. He and his staff constantly preach on never looking past the next opponent. “That’s for the coaches and you guys (the media) to do,” Legerski said last week. Seven days ago, Wyoming’s task for this week looked down-right daunting. Two close road losses later, the outlook is the same — but with added weight of the Cowgirls now having lost four of their last five games. Wyoming (10-8 overall, 3-5 Mountain West...
LARAMIE - Maybe some players are simply born to start. It's in their DNA. That certainly appears to be the case for University of Wyoming sophomore forward Natalie Baker. As a freshman, Baker played in 16 games off the bench for Wyoming before her season ended with a wrist injury. In those 16 games, Baker averaged 2.2 points and 1.4 rebounds. This year Baker - again coming off the bench - averaged 2.6 points and 1.6 rebounds in the first eight games of the season. Then came the news that...
Over the past few seasons, the University of Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team took more of a “let’s try to outscore the opposition” approach rather than “let’s try to stop the opposition” stance. Having two of the most prolific scorers and 3-point shooters in program history, that approach made sense. The 2015-16 Cowgirls have been built a little differently. More attention has been paid to the defensive side of the ball this season, and it’s in part helped the Cowgirls to a 5-3 start to the season. And it’s not necessarily that Wyoming’s defen...
It's Finals Week for all University of Wyoming students. It's that time of year when the days (and nights) of studying are long, the tests are hard and the nerves of students are about on their last legs. As everyone finishes up their classes for the fall semester, it's also a good time to look at how Wyoming's athletic teams did during the fall semester as well. Some had a good semester ... some did not. And some head home for the holidays knowing there is a lot of work to be done when classes...
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming sophomore guard Liv Roberts loves to play defense. How much? So much that UW women's basketball coach Joe Legerski said he has had to curtail some of Roberts' practice minutes because she competes so hard it wears her out for games. That's unconditional love. "If I got to choose playing one (offense or defense), it would be playing defense," Roberts said. "I enjoy the physicality of it, and probably sometimes too much right now with the fouls lately. "I put a lot...
LARAMIE — Maybe it wasn’t set up this way, but the University of Wyoming women’s basketball program will definitely get a taste of what an extended road trip will feel like this week when it travels to Gonzaga on Thursday and Idaho on Saturday. With multiple two-game Mountain West road trips on the docket in the first month of the conference season, this week will give the Cowgirls (3-1) something of a crash course in life on the road. And waiting for them will be arguably two of the top teams on the Cowgirls’ schedule all season. Wyoming...
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming volleyball team returned from Boise, Idaho, on Oct. 24 a bit of a defeated program. The 3-1 loss to the Broncos left the Cowgirls 16-6 overall and 6-4 in Mountain West play. It also left Wyoming with almost no margin for error for a possible NCAA tournament bid. “After our match with Boise, we basically felt like we needed to win them all,” UW coach Chad Callahan said. “We kind of painted ourselves into a corner a little bit. It’s been interesting because this team’s been pretty good in those types of si...
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming women's basketball coach Joe Legerski remembers last Thanksgiving, sitting in the St. Mary's gym, watching the Gaels beat Iowa State. He also remembers looking at the St. Mary's roster and seeing that just about every one of the Gaels' starters were underclassmen. And he knew St. Mary's would be coming to Laramie next winter in a return trip for the Cowgirls playing in the Gaels' Thanksgiving Classic. That return trip is tonight, when the Cowgirls host the G...
LARAMIE – Derek Cooke Jr. has gone outside the United States once in his life. That was to Canada as part of a University of Wyoming men's basketball summer tour two years ago. His second trip outside the country will be a much bigger step for the Washington, D.C., product. Cooke signed a professional basketball contract with the Rethymno Aegean Basketball Club of Greece on Wednesday. Cooke will report to Crete, Greece, in late August, with the regular season beginning in October. From W...