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.
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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.
The Mountaineers will play host to Iona on Wednesday, Nov. 20, and to Mercyhurst on Sunday, Dec. 22. It will be the first meeting for WVU against both schools.
Redshirt senior Mikenna Vanderheyden with the track and field team competed in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday (June 6). Vanderheyden ran for a personal best time of 9:59.90, claiming eighth place in the second heat of the event.