Strickenberger Named Scholar-Athlete of the Week – West Virginia College Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After defeating two ranked opponents, senior Jett Strickenberger of the West Virginia College wrestling workforce has been named the WVU Scholar-Athlete of the Week, introduced by College Flats.
 
Strickenberger elevated his successful streak over ranked opponents to 4 after he beat No. 20 Oklahoma’s No. 23 Antonio Lorenzo by main resolution, 11-2, and pinned No. 3 Oklahoma State’s No. 4 Troy Spratley for his highest-ranked win of the season on
 
Strickenberger’s victory towards Lorenzo helped the Mountaineers win their first match towards the Sooners since 2018. It additionally marked West Virginia’s first win towards a ranked opponent since 2023.
 
West Virginia will face No. 24 Missouri on Sunday, Jan. 26, on the Mizzou Middle in Columbia, Missouri. The match begins at 2 p.m. ET on UFC Battle Move.
 
This Week in Ladies’s Basketball: The Mountaineers are set for 2 street contests this week … WVU opens play on Wednesday, Jan. 22, towards Arizona State … tipoff is ready for 8:30 p.m. ET and might be broadcast on ESPN+ … the Mountaineers then tackle Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 25 …tipoff is ready for 8:30 p.m. ET and might be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
Final Week in Ladies’s Basketball: The Mountaineers moved to 15-3 on the season and 5-2 in Large 12 Convention play after gathering two house wins … WVU opened the week with a 73-46 win over Colorado … Sydney Shaw and JJ Quinerly completed with a game-high 19 factors as Jordan Harrison managed seven rebounds and 4 assists … WVU then defeated Iowa State 82-68 on Sunday… Harrison and Quinerly led WVU with 20 factors … Kyah Watson completed together with her sixth profession double-double with 12 factors and 11 rebounds … Harrison added a career-high seven steals and added six assists.
 
Notes: WVU returns eight student-athletes to the ground this season, together with 4 of 5 starters from an NCAA Match workforce a season in the past … All-Large 12 First Staff and Defensive Staff choice JJ Quinerly highlights the returners … she was additionally named to the Preseason All-Large 12 workforce and was named to the Naismith School Ladies’s Basketball Participant of the 12 months, the 2025 Ann Meyers Drysdale Taking pictures Guard of the 12 months Watchlist and the Wood Award Preseason Prime 50 Watchlist … Jordan Harrison was named to the Nancy Lieberman Level Guard of the 12 months watchlist … Quinerly has eclipsed 1,500 factors in her profession this season as Harrison and Zya Nugent have damaged the 1,000-point mark … the Mountaineers completed the nonconference schedule a 10-1 … JJ Quinerly is fourth on the applications all-time steals record … WVU is an ideal 11-0 when enjoying video games contained in the WVU Coliseum.
 
This Week in Wrestling: No. 22 West Virginia is on the street to face No. 24 Missouri on Sunday, Jan. 26.
 
Final Week in Wrestling: The Mountaineers defeated No. 20 Oklahoma, 22-12, and misplaced to No. 3 Oklahoma State, 30-12 … West Virginia’s win over Oklahoma was its first towards the Sooners since 2018 and the workforce’s first ranked win since 2023.
 
Notes: Fifth-year No. 3 Peyton Corridor picked up two wins over the weekend, defeating Oklahoma State’s No. 6 Cameron Amine by resolution, 5-1 … Corridor leads the Mountaineers at 22-0 on the yr … senior No. 13 Jett Strickenberger earned two wins for West Virginia, extending his win streak over ranked opponents to 4 … Strickenberger picked up his highest-ranked win of the season when he pinned Oklahoma State’s No. 4 Troy Spratley.
 
This Week in Gymnastics: West Virginia heads again on the street and prepares to open the Large 12 Convention portion of its schedule, touring to tackle No. 16 Denver on Sunday, Jan. 26 … competitors inside Magness Area in Denver, Colorado, is ready for 4 p.m. ET.
 
Final Week in Gymnastics: WVU dropped its home-opening meet towards Kent State, 193.775-192.325, contained in the WVU Coliseum on Jan. 16 … West Virginia tallied scores of 48.2 on vault, 48.75 on the uneven bars, 46.65 on stability beam and 48.725 on ground train … within the last occasion outcomes, senior Brook Alban and freshmen Karliegh DiCello and Sophia Rice tied for second place with matching 9.675 scores on vault … senior Anna Leigh and fifth-year senior Trinity Macy tied for first place on bars with a pair of 9.825’s … Leigh additionally added a second-place end on ground (9.825).
 
Notes: The Mountaineers’ complete on uneven bars marked a season-best on the occasion … on this week’s Highway to Nationals rankings, West Virginia is ranked No. 30nationally on ground train and No. 53 general … elsewhere, WVU ranks No. 59 on vault, No. 40 on bars and No. 67 on beam … individually, Leigh ranks No. 5 within the Large 12, No. 11 within the southeast area and No. 50 nationally with a 9.858 common on ground thus far this season.
 
This Week in Swimming and Diving: West Virginia hosts Villanova and Duquesne (ladies solely) on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m. at The Peak Well being Aquatic Middle at Mylan Park … the meet will function senior day as 14 Mountaineers might be honored for his or her contributions to WVU swimming and diving.
 
Final Week in Swimming and Diving: West Virginia didn’t compete.
 
This Week in Rifle: The No. 1-ranked West Virginia College rifle workforce collected its ninth straight win of the season and its first in 2025 with a 4754-4720 consequence over No. 7 Navy on Saturday contained in the WVU Shell Constructing on the WVU Rifle Vary … it marks the sixth-ranked opponent the Mountaineers have defeated this season … West Virginia claimed each smallbore and air rifle with marks of 2363 and 2391, respectively … Navy fired marks of 2346 in smallbore and 2374 in air rifle … all three of West Virginia’s marks within the match had been new season highs.
 
Final Week in Rifle: The Mountaineers have received 22 straight common season matches … Jon Hammond collected his 2 hundredth profession win towards No. 5 Georgia Southern … West Virginia’s 4740.2 mixture rating is the most effective within the nation … the 2355.1 mark in smallbore can be the most effective whereas the 2385.1 in air rifle sits second… sophomore Griffin Lake is averaging a team-leading 1186.2 mixture common which is the sixth greatest within the nation… Senior Natalie Perrin averages a 596.5 in air rifle, the eighth greatest mark within the nation … Lake’s 590.3 in smallbore is the fifth greatest common this season.  
 
Notes: Gavin Barnick completed first on the general leaderboard towards No. 7 Navy as his marks in smallbore and air rifle additionally topped the rostrum … he produced an mixture rating of 1191 with a 593 in smallbore and a 598 in air rifle … his rating in smallbore tied a career-high whereas his mixture rating and air rifle mark had been a season excessive.
 
This Week in Tennis: West Virginia hits the street for the primary time this season to face Xavier on Saturday, Jan. 25, and Michigan State on Sunday, Jan. 26 … each matches will happen in East Lansing, Michigan.
 
Final Week in Tennis: The Mountaineers opened the 2025 season with a doubleheader at house towards Duquesne and Morgan State … WVU defeated Duquesne, 4-3, and Morgan State, 7-0 … Morgantown native, freshman Lyla Byers, earned two singles victories and two doubles victories in her Mountaineer debut … senior Mille Haagensen picked up proper the place she left off within the fall, successful each singles and doubles matches for WVU.
 
Notes: Byers was considered one of three Mountaineers to select up wins of their Mountaineer debuts as graduate pupil Julie Bousseau defeated Morgan State’s Lauryn Corridor, 7-6 (1), 6-3, and freshman Susannah Su beat Morgan State’s Roua Limem, 6-1, 6-4.
 
This week in Monitor and Area: West Virginia will stay off till Jan. 31 – Feb. 1 after they return to College Park, Pennsylvania for the Penn State Nationwide Open on the Multi-Sport Facility & Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Monitor.
 
Final week in Monitor and Area: The Mountaineers had a formidable exhibiting on the YSU Collegiate Invitational on Jan. 17 in Youngstown, Ohio … 4 of WVU’s pupil athletes earned first place finishes of their respect occasions … sophomore Izayah Everett earned the primary gold medal of the day after posting a private greatest time of 25.26 within the ladies’s 200 meters … then, graduate pupil Madison Trippett claimed first within the 800 meters, ending with a time of two:10. 25 … the subsequent gold medal got here from sophomore Kishay Rowe, who took the win within the 400 meters with a time of 56.63 … sophomore Eva Rinker rounded out West Virginia’s first place finishes as she received the mile with a profession greatest time of 5:02.28.