Lady Jackets come up short at Westminster

Drop second game of season to Titans on road

After falling to the defending PAC champion Grove City Wolverines, the Waynesburg Lady Jackets traveled to Westminster and competed against the Titans at Memorial Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon. Waynesburg never managed to obtain a lead in this game. The Lady Jackets were trailing by as many as 21 points and cut the deficit down to as … Continue reading

Waynesburg Basketball Preview Saturday against Westminster

Men's team has home opener, Women's team playing second straight on road

By: Brock Owens For The Yellow Jacket Waynesburg University Men’s Basketball is almost here. The beginning of the season had to wait a few more days, but the team is set to tip-off its season at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon against Westminster in the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse. The original season opener was supposed to be … Continue reading

Lady Jackets fall to Grove City during first game in almost a year

Orlosky leads team with 18 points, pair of double-doubles for debuting players

The Waynesburg University women’s basketball season started with a 67-51 loss to Grove City College last night in the team’s first game in almost a year. Two key players from last season, junior center Brooke Fuller and junior guard Kacey Kastroll did not play.  The Lady Jackets nine player roster was down to just seven, … Continue reading

Lady Jackets feel good to be back

Ready for season opener at Grove City

The Waynesburg women’s basketball team hasn’t played in a game in over 11 months. The Lady Jackets normally would be in the middle of their Presidents’ Athletic Conference schedule, but the COVID-19 pandemic had other plans by delaying the season to the beginning of 2021. Instead of playing a 16-game conference schedule, Waynesburg will play … Continue reading

Waynesburg Winter Sports team plans

When student athletes will return to campus and workout details over break

By: Marley Wolf For the Yellow Jacket With the pandemic still affecting collegiate sports across the country, the plan for winter sports at Waynesburg University remains up in the air. The schedules for women’s and men’s basketball, along with wrestling will be different over winter break this year than in the past. Before these times … Continue reading

Why Choose WU? Athlete Spotlight Series

Sophomore women's basketball player ready for start of season and working to improve

By: Erin Onderko For the Yellow Jacket Every athlete is looking forward to the day that they can once again play the game they love. The idea of games or sports has been changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same holds true for women’s basketball sophomore point guard, Anika Dansby, who like any other … Continue reading

Waynesburg Basketball teams Update

Both teams testing, Men's team back to practicing

By: Chris Romano & Tyler Zeman  Staff Writers For the Yellow Jacket The Waynesburg University basketball teams are back to practice, even with all the uncertainty lingering around the restart of Division III college sports. Practices began on Oct. 1, which is a date they had been targeting for a while. Surprisingly, it comes two … Continue reading

Recruiting During A Pandemic

Modern challenges prompt coaches to embrace virtual meetings with open arms, or screens.

Over the last few months, the world was taken over by a respiratory virus called COVID-19. This virus has affected just under 30 million people worldwide and has killed 931,000 people. It has turned the world upside down and has turned normal life into something very different now. The virus hit the United States in … Continue reading

Senior Spotlight: Basketball sneakers and Army boots

Women's basketball player follows in brother's footsteps as member of United States Army

The military has been a part of Erin Joyce’s life for longer than she can remember. Her brother, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Joyce, has been in the U.S. Army since Erin was two years old. It wasn’t until she got to college, however, that Erin began to consider the military life herself. Until then … Continue reading