It's called a sophomore slump. A player has a really good rookie year in the pros and gets everyone's expectations up, then has a bad second year. It has happened to even the best rookies out there - except for Alex Carpenter. With four wins, his freshman year was almost too good to believe. This fall he has three wins in the four matches he has ... [Read More…]

With West Texas A&M's volleyball program having what appears to be a down year with a lot of crucial non-conference losses, another program has a chance to step up and take control of the LSC. That team seems to be the Wildcats. This year, both the Wildcats and Lady Buffs have identical 10-0 conference records, but the real difference is the ... [Read More…]

The Wildcats will have to travel to one of the most unforgiving environments in the Lone Star Conference when they head to Blackwater Draw in Portales, N.M., to take on the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds. With a rowdy home crowd and team coming off its worst loss of the year, the Wildcats will have to tread lightly. Last Saturday the Greyhounds ... [Read More…]

Thursday was a wake-up call. That's what Coach Mock is calling it, and that is what her team is calling it. "We realized every team is gunning for us," said senior setter Ijeoma Moronu. "It was a reminder that every game we play has to be the only thing that's on our mind. The Wildcats almost suffered their first conference loss of the season ... [Read More…]

The Wildcat golf team returned from the Oklahoma Collegiate tournament in Lawton with their first win of the season, with Alex Carpenter bringing home an individual title. "It was probably the best tournament we have ever played as a team," said Carpenter Carpenter, a sophomore, led the Wildcats to the team title by two strokes over the ... [Read More…]

Two more conference wins are in the books for the ACU Wildcat volleyball team. A couple of tough road wins now put the Wildcats at 10-2 with a perfect 4-0 conference record. Thursday's match was unexpectedly tight against a tough Texas Womens' squad. The Pioneers played better than their 3-8 record showed as the Wildcats put them away in four ... [Read More…]

The first law of thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. But science did not take into account the ACU Wildcats volleyball team, which seems to be riding energy and momentum manufactured out of nowhere - and I, for one, am thrilled. The Wildcats are 10 games into the season, have had only one home game and ... [Read More…]