Tait Named Pupil-Athlete of the Week – West Virginia College Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After changing into the second quickest Mountaineer in program historical past to complete the ladies’s mile, graduate pupil Sarah Tait has been named the WVU Pupil-Athlete of the Week, offered by College Flats.
 

The Edinburgh, Scotland, native boasted a private finest time of 4:33.91 within the occasion on Jan. 31 on the Penn State Nationwide Open in College Park, Pennsylvania on the Multi-Sport Facility & Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Monitor.
 
With the time, Tait earned a third-place end and surpassed alumnae Keri Bland in this system’s file e-book. The graduate pupil now sits behind classmate Ceili McCabe within the mile information, as McCabe holds a private and program finest time of 4:29.26.
 

The Mountaineers return to College Park, Pa. on Feb. 8 for the Sykes & Sabock Problem. Saturday’s meet shall be held on the Multi-Sport Facility & Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Monitor and might be considered stay on the B1G+ community.
 
This Week in Ladies’s Basketball: The Mountaineers are at residence on Wednesday after they tackle Kansas contained in the WVU Coliseum at 7 p.m. ET … WVU appears to gather their 14th straight win contained in the WVU Coliseum and their thirteenth this season… West Virginia then hits the street for a Saturday afternoon matchup with Houston contained in the Fertitta Heart in Houston … Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET.
 
Final Week in Ladies’s Basketball: The Mountaineers moved to 17-4 on the season and 7-3 in Large 12 Convention play after amassing the crew’s twelfth win on their residence ground this season … The Mountaineers defeated Oklahoma State, 54-37, in a win that marks the second fewest factors allowed in program historical past to an AP ranked crew … the win marks the third ranked opponent the Mountaineers have defeated beneath head coach Mark Kellogg.
 
Notes: WVU returns eight student-athletes to the ground this season, together with 4 of 5 starters from an NCAA Match crew a season in the past … All-Large 12 First Workforce and Defensive Workforce choice JJ Quinerly highlights the returners … She was additionally named to the Preseason All-Large 12 crew and was named to the Naismith School Ladies’s Basketball Participant of the 12 months, the 2025 Ann Meyers Drysdale Capturing Guard of the 12 months Watchlist and the Picket 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 third on this system’s all-time steals checklist and tenth within the Large 12 Convention all time standings … she additionally ranks sixth within the packages historical past forever factors scored … WVU is an ideal 12-0 when taking part in video games contained in the WVU Coliseum.
 
This Week in Wrestling: No. 21 West Virginia hits the street to face Utah Valley on Feb. 6, and Wyoming on Feb. 8 … this marks the ultimate street swing of the common season for the Mountaineers. 
 
Final Week in Wrestling: The Mountaineers misplaced to No. 5 Northern Iowa, 29-10, on Feb. 1, on the WVU Coliseum.
 
Notes: Within the loss, West Virginia had spectacular wins from senior No. 10 Jett Strickenberger (125), fifth-year No. 3 Peyton Corridor (165) and redshirt sophomore No. 30 Brody Conley (174) … every wrestler earned wins towards ranked opponents … this marked Strickenberger’s fifth consecutive win towards a ranked opponent … Corridor is now simply 4 wins from tying the all-time win file at WVU.
 
This Week in Gymnastics: West Virginia appears forward to a Large 12 Convention battle with Iowa State, because the Cyclones come to Morgantown on Sunday, Feb. 9 … competitors contained in the WVU Coliseum is tabbed for two p.m. ET, and it is the Mountaineers’ annual Pink Meet for breast most cancers consciousness … it additionally would be the first-ever WVU Greek Meet, in addition to the crew’s Black Historical past Month Celebration.
 
Final Week in Gymnastics: WVU recorded a season-high 195.475 in a tri-meet towards No. 2 Florida and No. 4 Utah contained in the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown on Feb. 2 … the Mountaineers used season-high totals of 49.225 on ground train and 49.0 on steadiness beam to file their first 195.0+ rating of the season. WVU additionally tallied scores of 48.575 on vault and 48.675 on the uneven bars … the No. 2-ranked Gators took first place within the meet, scoring a 197.575, whereas No. 4 Utah positioned second with a 197.425 … sophomore Jurnee Lane recorded her first-ever efficiency on the all-around on Sunday, reaching a 38.975 whole on all 4 occasions … the rating was good for sixth place out of seven opposing gymnasts additionally competing on the all-around … senior Anna Leigh tied for second place within the ultimate standings on ground with a 9.925.
 
Notes: The Mountaineers hit 24-of-24 routines for the primary time this yr on Sunday … a crowd of two,798 followers have been current to look at the Mountaineers tackle a pair of nationally ranked opponents, marking the eighth-highest attendance in WVU gymnastics historical past … the whole was this system’s second-best common season attendance, excluding the Magnificence & the Beast meets with the WVU wrestling crew … on this week’s Street to Nationals rankings, West Virginia is ranked No. 34 nationally on ground train and No. 50 total … elsewhere, WVU ranks No. 60 on vault, No. 40 on bars and No. 61 on beam.
 
This Week in Swimming and Diving: West Virginia doesn’t compete till the 2025 Large 12 Swimming and Diving Championships from Feb. 25-March 1, at Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Heart in Federal Means, Washington.
 
Final Week in Swimming and Diving: The Mountaineers misplaced to Penn State on Feb. 1 … the boys’s swimming and diving crew (1-4) misplaced, 193-90. The ladies’s swimming and diving crew (1-5) misplaced, 189-91.
 
Notes: Regardless of the shedding effort, the Mountaineers had some vibrant spots towards the Nittany Lions … sophomore Delaney Cox was the one Mountaineer to high the rostrum as she received the ladies’s 200-yard backstroke (2:01.38) … two Mountaineers posted high 10 occasions of their respective occasions for the ladies’s crew … in simply her third meet with WVU, redshirt junior Natasha Whittall posted the tenth quickest time within the girls’s 100-yard backstroke (54.81) … within the males’s 100 again, senior Justin Heimes beat his earlier finest with a ultimate time of 46.66 … he holds the fourth quickest time within the occasion in program historical past … redshirt senior Danny Berlitz touched the wall at 47.56, making it the sixth quickest time within the occasion … redshirt sophomore Sofia Deste positioned third whereas posting the ninth quickest time in program historical past within the girls’s 100-yard breaststroke … she touched the wall at 1:03.43 … within the males’s 400-yard particular person medley, freshman Joey Stebbins positioned second and set the tenth quickest time with a ultimate time of three:52.42 … within the diving nicely, sophomore Owen Recker positioned second on the boys’s 1-meter (338.70) and 3-meter (310.05) … Recker’s level whole for the 1-meter locations him fourth all-time in program historical past on the 1-meter.
 
This Week in Rifle: The Mountaineers are again on the road this weekend after they take to the street to compete towards No. 3 Kentucky … the match is about to start at 8 a.m. ET contained in the UK Rifle Vary … on the road is the Nice America Rifle Convention common season title … with a win, WVU will accumulate its second straight convention common season title and the packages sixteenth all time.
 
Final Week in Rifle: WVU didn’t compete.
 
Notes: The Mountaineers have received 25 straight common season matches … Jon Hammond collected his 2 hundredth profession win towards No. 5 Georgia Southern … West Virginia’s 4742.5 mixture rating is the perfect within the nation … the 2356.3 mark in smallbore can also be the perfect whereas the 2386.2 in air rifle sits additionally the perfect … senior Gavin Barnick leads WVU in mixture (1186.7), smallbore (589.9), and air rifle (596.5) … he ranks sixth, fifth and sixth within the nation in every class.
 
This Week in Tennis: West Virginia (2-4) hosts Cleveland State and Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Summit Tennis Academy in Morgantown … WVU will face Cleveland State at 9 a.m. and Mount St. Mary’s at 5 p.m.
 
Final Week in Tennis: West Virginia misplaced each of its matches on the street to VCU and William and Mary.
 
This week in Monitor and Discipline: West Virginia returns to College Park, Pennsylvania for the Sykes & Sabock Problem on Feb. 8, which shall be held on the Multi-Sport Facility & Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Monitor … Saturday’s meet might be considered stay within the B1G+ community.
 
Final week in Monitor and Discipline: 4 Mountaineers joined this system’ all-time checklist on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 on the Penn State Nationwide Open in College Park, Pa. … Friday’s competitors was highlighted by graduate pupil Sarah Tait who turned the second quickest Mountaineer in program historical past to run the ladies’s mile with a private finest time of 4:33.91 … redshirt sophomore Olivia Cress checked in a No. 5 all-time within the pentathlon, after amassing a rating of 3710 … on Saturday, graduate pupil Madison Trippett boasted a time of two:45.75 in her collegiate debut of the 1,000 meters, marking her as fourth quickest in WVU historical past … moreover, freshman Pleasure Naukot had her collegiate debut within the 3,000 meters and have become the third quickest Mountaineer in program historical past with a time of 8:59.10, incomes second place.
 
Notes: With Tait’s third place end within the mile, she surpassed alum Keri Bland who holds the excellence of getting earned essentially the most All-America honors of any pupil athlete at West Virginia.
 
This week in Golf: The golf crew is about to start its 2025 spring season on Monday and Tuesday on the Battle at Briar’s Creek in Johns Island, South Carolina … fourteen groups are scheduled to compete, together with the host School of Charleston … becoming a member of WVU and School of Charleston shall be Wake Forest, NC State, Excessive Level, Maryland, VCU, UAB, East Tennessee State, Clemson, Augusta, Chattanooga, Elon and Campbell … the Mountaineers will tee off Monday morning at 8:45 a.m. ET at The Golf Membership at Briar’s Creek … golfers will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday on the par 72, 7,175-yard course … seniors Todd Duncan, Max Inexperienced and Pierce Grieve together with juniors Carson Kammann and Kaleb Wilson will symbolize the Mountaineers on the occasion … the highest 4 scorers will rely in the direction of West Virginia’s total crew rating … two Mountaineers – Hugh Donegan and Ryan Leach – will compete as people at The Hyperlinks at Stono Ferry in Hollywood, South Carolina.