Wyoming

Cowgirls prepare to take on South Dakota

Published

2 hours ago

December 14, 2024

Cowgirls prepare to take on South Dakota

LARAMIE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team will continue its month-long road trip on Sunday when they face South Dakota at noon.

Wyoming will be coming off a nine-day stretch in between games and a 62-50 loss at Missouri State on Dec. 6. The Cowgirls had four players in double figures that game, as Allyson Fertig led UW with 15 points and 10 rebounds, Tess Barnes and Emily Mellema had 11 points each and Malene Pedersen added 10. Barnes,

So far this season, Fertig ranks in the top three in the Mountain West in 12 statistical categories. She is second in the league in scoring with 18.1 points per game, while her 11.1 rebounds a contest leads the MW and ranks fifth in the nation. Fertig’s five offensive rebounds per game ranks seventh-best in the country. Fertig also leads the league with a 57% field goal percentage, and is second in field goals made.

Mellema and Pedersen enter Sunday scoring in double figures this season, averaging 12.6 and 11.2 points per game, respectively.

South Dakota is led by its do-it-all guard Grace Larkins, who leads the Coyotes in points, rebounds, assists and steals. She averages 22.8 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 5.7 apg and 1.6 spg. USD has two other athletes, both scoring 12.5 points per game, in Carley Duffney and Alexi Hempe. Hempe has a team-high 27 made 3-pointers on the year while shooting 37.5% from beyond the arc.

The Coyotes are scoring at a clip of 70.6 points per contest while allowing 76.7 a game. South Dakota shoots 41.6% from the field.

Source link

Wyoming

High wind warning in effect today through Sunday in central Wyoming

Published

10 hours ago

December 14, 2024

Press Room

High wind warning in effect today through Sunday in central Wyoming

CASPER, Wyo. — A high wind warning was issued just after midnight on Saturday by the National Weather Service in Riverton. The warning is in effect until Sunday evening.

According to the NWS in Riverton, some areas of Natrona County — including Outer Drive in Casper — could see gusts of up to 70 mph.

According to the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Outer Drive is closed to high-profile vehicles due to extreme blowover risk as of 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

Interstate 25 and U.S. Highway 87 between Chugwater and Wheatland are currently closed to high-profile vehicles, as are I-80, U.S. 287 and U.S. 30 between Rawlins and Laramie.

A winter storm is expected to impact western Wyoming, with up to 8 inches of snowfall in the Yellowstone area, according to the NWS in Riverton. Casper has only a slight chance of light snow overnight on Sunday.

Source link

Wyoming

How to Watch, Stream Penn State Wrestling Vs. Wyoming

Published

18 hours ago

December 14, 2024

Press Room

How to Watch, Stream Penn State Wrestling Vs. Wyoming

The top-ranked Penn State wrestling team gets a bonus match at the Bryce Jordan Center this season. Penn State shifted Sunday’s match against Wyoming from Rec Hall to the Bryce Jordan Center because the Penn State women’s volleyball team is hosting an NCAA Tournament regional at Rec Hall this weekend.

Penn State (2-0) won its 59th consecutive match last Sunday at Allentown’s PPL Center, defeating Lehigh 36-3. The Nittany Lions proved dominant, winning nine of 10 bouts and finishing with a 21-1 advantage in takedowns. Penn State scored 10 bonus points through a pin by Levi Haines, technical falls by Mitchell Mesenbrink and Greg Kerkvliet and major decisions from Shayne Van Ness, Carter Starocci and Josh Barr.

This is Penn State’s last home dual of 2024. Here’s what and how to watch.

How to watch, stream the Penn State vs. Wyoming wrestling match

Tickets are available for the match at the Bryce Jordan Center. Though the match will not be televised, BIG+ will stream the Penn State-Wyoming match beginning at 1 p.m. ET.

What to watch when Penn State wrestles Wyoming

The Nittany Lions seek their 59th consecutive dual-meet victory dating to 2020. Wyoming (2-2) is ranked 26th and has five wrestlers ranked by InterMat: Jore Volk (7th at 125), Cole Brooks (28th at 141), Gabe Willochell (20nd at 149), Jared Hill (19th at 157) and Joey Novak (13th at 197). However, Wyoming said that its top two wrestlers, Volk and Novak, are injured and will not make the trip. The Cowboys also are entirely new to Plenn State. No Wyoming wrestler has competed against any Nittany Lion.

Penn State’s primary lineup is 53-1 so far this season, and the Nittany Lions have an 18-2 dual-match record. Penn State has outscored its dual-match opponents, Drexel and Lehigh, by a combined score of 77-6.

The Nittany Lions could roll out different lineup combinations for their last home dual of the season, but here’s the expected starting lineup. All rankings are according to InterMat:

Penn State wrestling notes

Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson is pursuing his fifth consecutive unbeaten dual-meet season with the Nittany Lions. Sanderson’s teams have won 59 consecutive duals since the 2019-2020 season. Penn State has lost just one Big Ten dual in the past nine seasons.

Against Lehigh, redshirt freshman Josh Barr (197) scored three takedowns in an 11-3 decision over formerly unbeaten Michael Beard. Barr moved up to No. 7 in the InterMat rankings with the win.

Penn State wrestlers are a combined 82-17 so far this season. That includes 64 bonus-point victories with 21 falls.

Up next

Penn State will compete in the Journeymen Collegiate Duals on Dec. 22 in Nashville. The Nittany Lions are scheduled to wrestle three matches against Binghamton, Arkansas-Little Rock and No. 15 Missouri.

More Penn State Wrestling

Carter Starocci scores statement win in NWCA All-Star Classic

What to know about Penn State wrestling’s 2024-25 season

Cael Sanderson says the “best years are still ahead for Penn State wrestling”

Source link

Wyoming

Superintendent Degenfelder defends parents' lawsuit against Cheyenne school closures

Published

1 day ago

December 13, 2024

Press Room

Superintendent Degenfelder defends parents' lawsuit against Cheyenne school closures

Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder testified for a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Education & the Workforce on Oct. 19, 2023. (Screenshot courtesy of U.S. House subcommittee stream)

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two Cheyenne parents recently filed a petition against the Wyoming School Facilities Commission for approving a controversial recommendation to close eight historic neighborhood schools. Members of the commission jeered at the lawsuit at a meeting Tuesday, but the state’s chief education official doesn’t think it’s a laughing matter.

On Friday, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder released a statement backing up the lawsuit filed in Laramie County District Court.

“I ran for State Superintendent because I was tired of the rights of parents being stifled,” Degenfelder said in the news release. “Parents have a fundamental and constitutional right to direct their child’s education and we must stop treating the concerns of parents as a laughing matter.”

Degenfelder added that the commissioners’ response to the court filing showed a lack of empathy to the plights of local parents.

“These Cheyenne parents are concerned because their neighborhood schools are being taken from them,” the superintendent said. “They have every right to seek legal redress in court and should be taken seriously by state leaders. I am disappointed in the lack of professionalism and empathy displayed at the School Facilities Commission.”

The lawsuit was filed by Cheyenne parents Katie Dijkstal and Franz Fuchs, who are also members of the Cheyenne Parent Alliance, a community organization that’s opposed the state’s recommendation to close eight Cheyenne schools. This past fall, CPA collected more than 1,000 signatures from residents standing against the LCSD1 most-cost-effective study, or MCER, which proposes closing a third of Cheyenne elementary schools. Members of the organization presented these signatures to the commission at its Nov. 6 meeting.

The Wyoming School Facilities Commission is an independent entity from the Department of Education. Degenfelder has no influence on the SFC.

Back

Source link