The Olympics are the pinnacle of an athletic career. It is what athletes all over the world grow up dreaming about accomplishing. This summer, London will host the Olympic Games, and welcome thousands of athletes from all around the world. The University of Wyoming has already qualified one wrestler… [more]

Sometimes, life leaves us with difficult questions that go unanswered. Almost a year ago, on May 6, 2011, the University of Wyoming, the UW athletic department, and the UW swimming and diving team experienced one of life’s most unfair questions. David Schmitt, then senior swimmer for the Cowboys, … [more]

University of Wyoming Wrestling Assistant Coach Chris Pendleton and three UW students competed in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa. Pendleton finished the day with a 2–1 record, taking second in the challenge portion of the event. The efforts of Pendleton qualified him f… [more]

The University of Wyoming Cowboy football team kicked off its spring drills on March 15. The Cowboys have had two scrimmages, on April 4 and 11, and will host their third scrimmage on Saturday, April 21, which is open to the public and the media. The Cowboys, along with 2011 Mountain West Coach of t… [more]

It is a brutal game. People flying around, hitting each other as hard as they can while your team tries to score the ball in the end zone.  Yet this is not football; football players need pads. This is rugby, the game for the tough-skinned and hardheaded—a game the University of Wyoming Women’s… [more]

This weekend,the University of Wyoming track and field team hosted the Snowball Open in Laramie where they won 21 events. Freshman Holly Page and sophomore Andrea Klimowski finished first and second in the 1,500-meter run with times of 4:51.71 and 4:51.99, respectively. In the 400-meter hurdles, sop… [more]

The University of Wyoming women’s tennis team is being well represented this season by sophomore Veronica Popovici and junior Simona Synkova, who have graced Laramie with their presence coming all the way from Romania and Slovakia, respectively. In singles play this season Popivici is sporting a 1… [more]

On Tuesday the University of Wyoming Cowboy golf team finished their host event, the Cowboy Classic hosted by Talking Stick Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., in a tie for 13th place. “We didn’t play as well today as we did in the second round,” Wyoming Director of Golf Joe Jensen said after the … [more]