Following its most successful season in seven years and one of the largest spring game crowds ever, WVU football is set to play this fall in one of the most electrifying atmospheres in college football at Milan Puskar Stadium. Excitement is reaching new heights as the Mountaineers return key playmakers and carry momentum from a strong recruiting season.
Athletics
The Mountaineers will depart from Morgantown on Wednesday, July 31, for Italy. WVU will be in Portofino from Aug. 1-3, in Florence from Aug. 4-6, and in Rome from Aug. 7-9.
The baseball team saw its season — the last under head coach Randy Mazey — come to a close Saturday (June 8) as the Mountaineers fell to UNC, 2-1, in game two of the NCAA Super Regionals. WVU finishes its season with a 36-24 overall record.
Sean Covich secured his first Coach of the Year honor for leading WVU to its second NCAA Championship appearance and its second NCAA Regional appearance after being named head coach when the program was reinstated in 2014. The Mountaineers ended the season recording a program-best 28th place finish at the NCAA Championship.
Six members of the rowing team have been honored by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association as 2023 CRCA Scholar-Athletes.
The baseball team is set to play North Carolina in the NCAA Super Regional at Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. The best-of-three series gets started at 6 p.m. tonight (June 7). Saturday's game (June 8) will be at 8 p.m. while Sunday's (June 9) game, if necessary, will start at 3 p.m.