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App State’s Henry Pearson has been named to the watch list for the John Mackey Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s best college tight end. The award is named after NFL Hall of Fame member John Mackey, who is considered to be the best tight end in football history. Pearson had four touchdown catches in his final five games of an injury-interrupted 2021 season. He finished the year with 16 catches for 180 yards in nine games, capping the season with touchdown catches of 22 and ...

App State Track and Field Athletes Earn Academic Awards Maya Hanks (L) and Peighton Simmons. photos courtesy of Appalachian State Athletics App State Track and Field Athletes Earn Academic Awards July 22, 2021 App State track & field saw two individuals earn All-Academic Athlete honors and both men’s and women’s programs earn All-Academic Team honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Thursday. Both Maya Hanks and Peighton Simmons were honored ...

On Monday, Hennigan received another label: Academic All-American. Hennigan, a native of Greensboro, N.C., is one of two second-team wide receivers among the 51 student-athletes named to the 2020-21 Academic All-America® Division I football teams selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He is one of two student-athletes from North Carolina schools (along with Charlotte’s Tyriq Harris) and one of four representatives of Sun Belt Conference schools (along with ...

App State track & field head coach Damion McLean and associate track & field coach/cross country head coach Michael Curcio have announced the addition o

Louisiana lost an 11-inning thriller 3-2 to Georgia Southern in the Sun Belt Tournament semifinals to have their season come to an end.

App State women's basketball graduate student Lainey Gosnell (Demorest, Ga./Habersham Central) was named to the 2020-21 Academic All-America Division I women's

The Louisiana Ragin Cajuns headed into Thursday night’s contest in a must-win situation against the App State Mountaineers. They secured a spot in the Sun Belt Conference Semifinals on Saturday with a 7-2 win that was highlighted by a late grand slam. HOW IT HAPPENED After Connor Cooke sat the M ...

App State’s David and Christy Cook, both U.S. Air Force veterans, were selected by Chancellor Sheri Everts to lay a wreath at App State’s Veterans Memorial to commemorate Memorial Day.

Louisiana's pitching staff held App State to two runs, and an eighth-inning grand slam by Ben Fitzgerald helped lift them to a 7-2 win in an elimination game.

Read stories of Appalachian State University staff, faculty and alumni veterans as well as a poem by N.C. Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti.