Midway through its 11-game schedule, the Western Kentucky football team isn’t happy with where it’s at.
Monday, October 19, 2020
The Western Kentucky men's golf team finished the first and second rounds of Georgia Southern’s Bash in the Boro on Monday afternoon.
The Western Kentucky women's golf team was led by its upperclassmen Monday at the Callaway Gardens Invitational hosted by South Alabama.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Western Kentucky couldn’t get things going offensively in the second half of Saturday’s 37-14 loss to UAB at Legion Field.
The Western Kentucky women's tennis team completed two full days of competition at the MTSU Tournament this weekend in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For the fourth time in five games to open the 2020 season, the Western Kentucky football team came away on the losing side.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Western Kentucky’s cross country squads earned top-five finishes as they wrapped up the regular season at the Blazer Classic in Hoover, Ala., on Friday.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Questions surrounding who will start at quarterback for Western Kentucky have been circling since Kevaris Thomas came in during the third quarter of Saturday’s loss to Marshall and sparked the offense to its only two touchdowns in the game.
Western Kentucky graduate senior Mary Joiner collected her eighth career Conference USA Golfer of the Week award, the conference announced Thursday. She holds the second-most weekly awards in C-USA history, just one shy of Abby Bools of East Carolina who won nine between 2006 and 2010.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Conference USA Commissioner Judy MacLeod announced Wednesday the date of the 2020 Ryan C-USA Football Championship has been changed to Friday, Dec. 18. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT and the game will be televised by CBS Sports Network.
South Warren junior QB Caden Veltkamp talks about the Spartans' win over Greenwood on Friday.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Western Kentucky redshirt senior center Seth Joest has been named to the 2020 Rimington Trophy watch list, the organization announced Wednesday.
Western Kentucky’s defense didn’t get off to a good start Saturday against Marshall.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Gaej Walker burst onto the scene at Western Kentucky last year as the team’s signature running back after making the transition from the defensive side of the ball.
The Western Kentucky women’s golf team finished fifth at Arkansas State’s Lady Red Wolves Classic after improving by four strokes and shooting 3-over 291 on Tuesday. The Lady Toppers carded a 22-over 886 at the 54-hole tournament.
Western Kentucky redshirt senior Tom Bevington birdied three of his final four holes Tuesday for an even-par 72 and WKU’s low score of the Intercollegiate at The Grove.
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Monday, October 12, 2020
Western Kentucky started the 2019 season 1-2 but finished 9-4.
Western Kentucky's women's golf team improved by five strokes from the first to second round on Monday to move up the leaderboard and tie for fifth at the Lady Red Wolves Classic in Jonesboro, Ark.
Western Kentucky men’s golf co-captains Tom Bevington and Christian Tooley led the squad in the first round of the Intercollegiate at The Grove on Monday afternoon in College Grove, Tenn.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Western Kentucky head coach Tyson Helton said his team’s 38-14 loss to Marshall at Houchens-Smith Stadium on Saturday “was a pretty bad performance as a team overall” and that the Thundering Herd are “a very talented team, but that’s no excuse for the poor execution that we made, particularl…
Friday, October 09, 2020
Davidson transfer Luke Frampton has received a waiver from the NCAA and is eligible to play for Western Kentucky in the upcoming 2020-21 season, WKU confirmed to the Daily News on Friday.
Thursday, October 08, 2020
Western Kentucky head coach Tyson Helton said after Saturday’s 20-17 win at Middle Tennessee – WKU’s first win of the season – that the performance reconfirmed what the Hilltoppers were defensively a season ago.
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Western Kentucky faced three dual-threat quarterbacks in its first three games with Louisville’s Micale Cunningham, Liberty’s Malik Willis and Middle Tennessee’s Asher O’Hara.
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
When Western Kentucky needed a spark Saturday at Middle Tennessee, Jakairi Moses was there.
Monday, October 05, 2020
While Tyson Helton said the week leading up to Saturday’s game at Middle Tennessee that the result – win or lose – wouldn’t make or break Western Kentucky’s season, there was no doubt the importance of a victory.
Monday, October 05, 2020
Western Kentucky quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome and kicker Brayden Narveson were each named Conference USA Players of the Week, the league announced Monday, after the Hilltoppers’ 20-17 victory at Middle Tennessee on Saturday.
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Western Kentucky head coach Tyson Helton and offensive coordinator Bryan Ellis were optimistic about the team’s depth at receiver as the team made its way through fall camp.
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Western Kentucky's men's and women's squads both placed sixth in their second meet of the season Saturday at the Live in Lou Classic in Louisville.
Friday, October 02, 2020
Western Kentucky won't open the 2020-21 volleyball season as scheduled.
Thursday, October 01, 2020
Tyson Helton started rivalry week telling the media he didn’t believe Saturday’s game at Middle Tennessee would make or break the season.
Western Kentucky senior Steven Witchoskey has been named a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation Campbell Trophy, the organization announced Thursday.
The last time Western Kentucky played a volleyball match, it was in front of a record 5,023 fans at E.A. Diddle Arena.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Middle Tennessee trailed Western Kentucky 31-20 when it got the ball back with 3:24 to play in last year’s 100 Miles of Hate rivalry game at Houchens-Smith Stadium.
The Cayman Islands Classic, which Western Kentucky’s men’s basketball team was scheduled to play in this season, has been canceled, tournament organizers announced Wednesday.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Western Kentucky relied heavily on its stout defense, which had the best scoring average in Conference USA, to finish 9-4 last season.
Monday, September 28, 2020
Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee’s destinies were almost set when the two met last November at Houchens-Smith Stadium – the Blue Raiders were playing their final game, while the Hilltoppers knew they would be going bowling, although they didn’t yet know where.
Western Kentucky added a piece to its 2021 recruiting class Monday.
Saturday, September 26, 2020
For the 19th straight season, Western Kentucky’s women’s soccer team has earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award with a team GPA of 3.69 for the 2019-20 academic year.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Western Kentucky’s defense hasn’t put up the numbers it expected through its first two games.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Western Kentucky’s defense has struggled to slow Louisville and Liberty in its 0-2 start, but the staff knows the offense needs to improve as well.
With one meet already in the books, Western Kentucky has announced its full cross country schedule for the remainder of the 2020 season.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Western Kentucky’s coaches were confident in the team’s depth at receiver entering fall camp, saying they thought it was a group deeper than on last year’s 9-4, bowl-game-winning team.
Western Kentucky’s women’s golf team wrapped up the Hoover Invitational on Tuesday afternoon, finishing second at the event in Hoover, Ala.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Despite losses in the first two games of the season, Western Kentucky football coach Tyson Helton said his team’s mindset hasn’t changed as it heads into an open week.
Jahcour Pearson is no longer part of Western Kentucky’s football program, head coach Tyson Helton announced Monday in his weekly Zoom conference.
It’s been a while since Charles Bassey stepped on the basketball court for a game, but national pundits haven’t forgotten what he can do.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Western Kentucky didn’t get the football season started the way it expected with a number of players returning in all phases of the game from last year’s 9-4 team.
Western Kentucky’s women’s golf team is headed back to Alabama following its team victory at the USA Intercollegiate. The Lady Tops are set to play in the Hoover Invitational hosted by UAB in Hoover, Ala., beginning Monday.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Liberty burned Western Kentucky’s defense with its rushing attack Saturday.
It had been nearly three years since Dalvin Smith’s last touchdown reception at Glasgow High School.
BOONE, N.C. – Rory O’Connor and Clint Sherman led their respective squads as Western Kentucky’s cross country team closed out competition in the Mountains to Sea Open on Friday at State Farm Fields in Boone, N.C.
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Louisville faced third-and-18 from its own 17-yard line on the first series of Saturday’s season opener against Western Kentucky, and Eli Brown knew what to expect.
In her debut as a Lady Topper and collegiate golfer, Western Kentucky freshman Rylea Marcum finished second at the USA Intercollegiate and was named the first Female Golfer of the Week in the 2020-21 season, Conference USA announced Thursday.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Western Kentucky’s 2020 signing class included seven players from junior colleges, and the experienced roster the Hilltoppers had returning took notice of the work those players were putting in early in camp.
Brooks LeCompte is used to planning workouts for his athletes, but his run as Western Kentucky’s head cross country coach, which started in late January, is one that nobody could have been ready for.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Western Kentucky put up three touchdowns in Saturday’s season-opening loss to Louisville, but two of those were on possessions that started inside the Cardinals’ 5-yard line because of special teams’ plays from Omari Alexander.
Western Kentucky senior John Haggerty was named the Ray Guy Award Punter of the Week for his performance against Louisville, the organization announced Tuesday.
The Hilltopper Athletic Foundation (HAF) announced Tuesday the launch of a new athletics emergency support fund designated to offset departmental COVID-19 related economic challenges.
Western Kentucky's men’s golf team finished its first event of the season on Tuesday as it completed the third and final round of the Jim Rivers Invitational in Choudrant, La.
Monday, September 14, 2020
Jahcour Pearson caught a long pass from Tyrrell Pigrome with less than six minutes to play in the first quarter at Cardinal Stadium on Saturday, and it looked like momentum was swinging in Western Kentucky’s direction.
Western Kentucky men’s golf senior Caleb O’Toole led the Hilltoppers in scoring Monday for the second round of the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate hosted by Louisiana Tech. The Tops shot 7-over 295 at the par-72, 7,105-yard Squire Creek Country Club and sit in sixth headed into the final round.
Sunday, September 13, 2020
LOUISVILLE – Western Kentucky had excitement building for its offense leading into Saturday’s season opener at Louisville.
Western Kentucky men’s golf senior Caleb O’Toole led the Hilltoppers in scoring in their first round of the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate hosted by Louisiana Tech. WKU sits in fifth after shooting 1-under 287 for the first 18 holes. The Hilltoppers are just three shots out of the top three and …
Friday, September 11, 2020
When the ball left Cory Munson’s foot on an untimed down at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in what ended up being Western Kentucky’s final play of the 2019 season, he knew it was going through the upright.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Western Kentucky’s meeting with Louisville last year was essentially over before it even reached halftime.