Coach Bob Huggins has announced the signing of Emmitt Matthews Jr. to a grant-in-aid for the 2022-23 academic year. Matthews, a 6-foot-7, 215-pound forward from Tacoma, Washington, will return to West Virginia after spending last season at Washington. He spent the first three years of his collegiate career at WVU.
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Kaitlin Sweeney, WVU's assistant athletics director of strength and conditioning for Olympic Sports, is overseeing the new Athletics Performance Center. She is part of Mike Joseph's strength and conditioning team tasked with the vital role of developing Mountaineer student-athletes.
Faculty, staff and the Morgantown community are encouraged to join the National Bike to Work Day events scheduled throughout the day Friday, May 20. Morgantown’s Bike to Work Day, part of the League of American Bicyclists Bike to Work Week, is co-organized by WVU’s Brad and Alys Smith Outdoor Economic Development Collaborative, Adventure WV and the Office of Sustainability.
The West Virginia Collegiate Initiative to Advance Healthy Campus Communities and WVU will sponsor a free two-day, online Mental Health First Aid training from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 1 and 2. This two-part session is open to faculty, staff and students from WVCIA member institutions and partner organizations.
Jessie Barclay has been named the assistant director of professional development at the WVU Career Services Center. Barclay will be responsible for all student-centered career and professional development activities, including career counseling appointments, campus-wide presentations and for-credit career courses.
Originally from Kanawha County, Crystal Good took many twists and turns in life. Over the years, Good has been an entrepreneur, a marketer, a model, a recognized poet, a performing artist, a filmmaker, an author, a WVU alumna, a mom and an advocate, but she admits everything has led her to where she is now. Today, she is the publisher of Black by God The West Virginian.