UCRC’s Summer Basketball League tips off its seventh—and biggest—season June 29 at WV Wesleyan’s Rockefeller Center, backed by new sponsors St. Joseph’s Hospital and Camp Mahonegon Event Center.
West Virginia Wesleyan swept the Mountain East Conference tennis honors as Felipe Mioch and Dominique Jansen van Vuuren were named Men’s and Women’s Players of the Week. Both went undefeated at No.
West Virginia Wesleyan will suspend women’s lacrosse competition for the rest of the 2026 season due to insufficient participation. The six remaining MEC games will be recorded as forfeits, with no impact on the 2026 tournament field or the league’s NCAA AQ status.
Frostburg State’s Trey Simmons was voted MEC Player of the Year after leading the league at 23.9 points per game, while Concord’s Boubacar Djigo earned Defensive Player of the Year.
Concord’s Abbie Smith earned MEC Player of the Year, while Wheeling’s Kenzie Dalton repeated as Defensive Player of the Year and West Virginia Wesleyan’s Kilah Dandridge took Freshman of the Year.
West Virginia Wesleyan earned the No. 2 seed for next week’s MEC Women’s Basketball Tournament at WesBanco Arena, finishing 18-6 overall and 15-5 in league play. Regular-season champion Glenville State leads the field, with the 10-team, five-day tournament tipping off March 4.
Shawnee State University has been accepted into the NCAA Division II expedited provisional membership process and will begin competing in the Mountain East Conference in 2026-27.
WVSSAC has approved girls wrestling as a preliminary sanctioned sport starting in 2026-27, creating an official girls-only state championship with regional qualifiers separate from the boys tournament.
Charleston was picked No. 1 in the 2026 Mountain East Conference men’s tennis preseason poll, earning six first-place votes after a 21-4 season and MEC and NCAA Atlantic Regional titles.
Charleston is the preseason favorite in the 2026 MEC women’s tennis poll, earning six of seven first-place votes after a 21-5 season, a perfect 6-0 league mark, and MEC, Atlantic Regional and Sweet Sixteen runs. Fairmont State is second, with West Virginia Wesleyan picked third.
