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  • Headshot of Asha Evans

    Young alumni: Asha Evans tells stories of student-athletes at NCAA

    Cam Adams
    March 24

    Wherever Asha Evans’ career has taken her, her love for words has followed. The Ðǿմ«Ã½ alumna has told stories of student-athletes at small private colleges to Division I powerhouses — and now she’s sharing them at a national level.

  • Stefanie Conley (right) and partner Russell McConnell enjoy game day in E.J. Whitmire Stadium from Paws Porch.

    Former Ðǿմ«Ã½ athletics staffer makes gift to athletics facilities, baseball program

    Bill Studenc
    March 20

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ alumna Stefanie Conley, a Franklin native and longtime supporter of the Catamount athletics program, readily admits that she did not become a fan of the university’s intercollegiate sports teams during her years as a student in Cullowhee.

  • Alumnus Ray Davis (center) reconnects with his mentor, former athletic trainer and interim athletics director Fred Cantler (left), and ex-Catamount quarterback Jeff Gilbert.

    Former athletic training student establishes scholarship fund at Ðǿմ«Ã½

    Bill Studenc
    March 18

    An acclaimed athletic trainer whose professional career began as a student on the sidelines at Ðǿմ«Ã½ has established an endowed scholarship fund that will help future students follow in his footsteps.

  • Former Ðǿմ«Ã½ softball coach Betty Peele breaks a huddle.

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ to name softball field in honor of program founder Betty Peele

    Bill Studenc
    March 13

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ is naming its softball field in honor of the late Betty Peele, leader of a core group of female faculty members who guided the early development of women’s intercollegiate athletics at the university.

  • Sadler Miller holding two of her prints.

    Dual-sport student-athlete Sadler Miller shows love for Ðǿմ«Ã½ on canvas

    Cam Adams
    February 26

    Behind each stroke on Sadler Miller’s canvas is a moment ingrained in her memory. Every swipe is a chime from the Alumni Tower hitting her ears, and every trace is the rush of a gameday at E.J. Whitmire Stadium.

  • Drew Hollifield shoots a mid-range jumper.

    Ðǿմ«Ã½â€™s Drew Hollifield takes talents from gridiron to hardwood, makes a difference

    Cam Adams
    February 13

    There aren’t a lot of Division I arenas in America where the gym is still rattling with the home team up by 51 on a D-III school. Inside the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center, Drew Hollifield commanded a presence that did just that in October.

  • Steve White broadcasting

    Former Ðǿմ«Ã½ Academic All-American pays homage to retired sports communicator

    Bill Studenc
    February 4

    Former Catamount football player and two-time Academic All-American Mike Wade leads a growing list of Ðǿմ«Ã½ alumni and friends adding their support to an initiative to name the university's new football stadium media center in honor of a legendary sports information director.

  • Steve White

    Ðǿմ«Ã½â€™s retired SID Steve White to be honored with naming of new media center

    Bill Studenc
    January 16

    Longtime Ðǿմ«Ã½ supporters and friends have come together to honor the legacy and dedication of the university’s former sports information director, Steve White, a man many affectionately refer to as “the walking encyclopedia of Catamount athletics.â€

  • Betty Westmoreland Suhre

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ names renovated women’s basketball locker room in honor of program matriarch

    Bill Studenc
    December 22

    Three former members of the Ðǿմ«Ã½ women’s basketball team stepped up to the line to tip off the process of raising enough philanthropic support to name the current Catamount squad’s locker room after the founder of the program.

  • Nas and his father

    King of the hills: Ðǿմ«Ã½ freshman Nassor Ashenafi, father go viral, persevere

    Cam Adams
    December 12

    Amenemhet Ashenafi uncrinkled the packaging his son’s king chess piece came in just before dropping him off at college. He looked at the new family heirloom, turned to his son and started reciting the speech he had in mind when this moment would come.

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