A football team wearing orange and black played at John F. Wiley Stadium this past Friday. However, it wasn’t the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets. It was the Jefferson Morgan Rockets, who are having renovations done to their stadium. The Rockets and Bentworth Bearcats each headed into the game with only one win, both against … Continue reading
Dan Verhovsek is one of the rare Waynesburg University athletes to reach All-PAC honors for football and wrestling. The senior’s accolades this year include an all-conference honorable mention for football as a linebacker and a Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship at the 184-pound weight class for wrestling. Verhovsek decided to play tennis this spring until the … Continue reading
Senior wrestler Dillion Charlton isn’t a typical senior athlete in the aspect of just playing one sport his whole college career. Charlton never even wanted to wrestle in college and was glad to be done after graduating from high school. “If you would have asked me in high school if I was going to wrestle … Continue reading
Move over Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is next for Waynesburg University’s freshman Rocky McGeary. The heavyweight phenom needed to finish at least third at the southeast regionals to qualify for nationals. He did better. McGeary, the top-seeded wrestler at 285, battled and won every one of his matches en route to a spot at … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University wrestling team looks to put a disappointing finish at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships behind them at the NCAA Division III Southeast Regional Championships this Friday and Saturday at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The road to the D- III National tournament begins and ends for many wrestlers at regionals. For a … Continue reading
Matt Lascola is a 29-year-old college athlete. That’s just one unusual aspect of his journey. Lascola graduated from the no longer existent Langley High School in Pittsburgh in 2008. He then decided to attend Slippery Rock, but it didn’t work out as planned for him. “I didn’t really pay attention in high school or get … Continue reading
Heading into the 2019-2020 season, there were a lot of concerns if the Waynesburg University wrestling team would be able to replace former Division III National Champion Jake Evans. The Yellow Jackets wrestling team would’ve been happy to just make up for half of Evans’ production. Knowing whose boots he was filling, freshman heavyweight Rocky … Continue reading
In October, the Presidents’ Athletic Conference released a preseason poll which had Waynesburg University projected to finish dead last. Fast forward to February, and the Jackets have slayed both Thiel and Washington & Jefferson, while dealing with a lot of adversities en route to a 2-0 PAC dual meet record. The Yellow Jackets had to … Continue reading
Throughout history, business markets, like everything else, have changed. One of the adaptations employees have to deal with today is the constant improvement of technology and analytics. One of the challenges for Gordon McClung, chairperson for the Department of Business Administration, is making sure that business students at Waynesburg University are staying up to date with modern trends. “We’re trying to forget about what we did in the past,” McClung said. “We are thinking more about … Continue reading
Caleb Baxter had a promising freshman season as a Yellow Jackets wrestler with a 27-11 record, which resulted in him finishing third on the team in wins and second in pins. Baxter also capped his freshman season with a second place finish at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships. Baxter dealt with an ACL tear at … Continue reading
