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On November 28, 2022, defensive coordinator Dale Jones left the program. [1]On January 13, 2023, the Mountaineers hired Scot Sloan to be their defensive coordinator. [2]On January 16 Appalachian State hired Frank Ponce to be their offensive coordinator after 2022 offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay left to become the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.
Appalachian State became the first Sun Belt Conference program to have three offensive linemen named to the all-conference first team (Colby Gossett, Beau Nunn, Victor Johnson). The 2018 team was 14th nationally in rushing yards per game (240.3) and 20th nationally with only 18 sacks allowed.
In the late 1950s Unsoeld was a leading climbing guide in the Grand Teton Mountains.He climbed Mt. Rainier over 200 times. [6]Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein ascended Everest's difficult West Ridge route in May 1963, on a National Geographic Society sponsored expedition while Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad followed Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s South Col route established during their 1953 climb.
Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season, and the fastest double summiter to do so within five days. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also the fastest double ascent of the tallest crest by a woman.
The Mountaineer was a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Norfolk, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois, via Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the first train to use the Norfolk and Western Railway 's tracks since the creation of Amtrak in 1971 [ 1 ] : 248 and followed the route of the Pocahontas , the N&W's last passenger train.
The West Virginia Mountaineers rifle team is a co-ed intercollegiate varsity sport of West Virginia University.The rifle team participates in NCAA Division I rifle competitions within the rifle-only Great America Rifle Conference.
Natalie E. Tennant (born December 25, 1967) [1] is an American politician who served as the Secretary of State of West Virginia from 2009 to 2017. [2] She is a member of the Democratic Party.
On December 3, 2023, an Appalachian State men's basketball game against Auburn University drew 7,037 fans. The Mountaineers won 69-64 against Bruce Pearl 's Auburn Tigers. This was the team's first-ever win over a high-major opponent in the Holmes Center and first home win against a high-major opponent since 1993 when they defeated Nebraska in ...