Cullowhee, N.C. – Excitement for the 2025 fall athletic seasons at Western Carolina University ramps up on Monday (Aug. 11) night time because the Catamount Sports Network hosts the 2025 Fall Sports Preview Show, introduced by Stanberry Insurance, dwell on location at Catamount Jaxe (114 Market St., Cullowhee), the brand new house for Catamount Football Weekly every Monday night time starting Aug. 25.
The on-line, interactive present begins at 6 p.m. and airs on the Catamount Athletics Facebook web page (fb.com/catamountsports). Fans can write in questions by the feedback part in the course of the present. New this 12 months, CSN seems to additionally simulcast the present on its official YouTube channel (youtube.com/@CatamountSports/streams).
Fans are inspired to go to Catamount Jaxe to participate within the coaches’ present live-on-location as part of the in-person viewers. Each of WCU’s 4 fall sport coaches will probably be scheduled company to debate the offseason since final fall, summer time entry, and preseason exercises forward of the 2025 common season.
Head coach of the two-time defending Southern Conference girls’s soccer champion Catamounts, Chad Miller, will be part of the present to focus on what has been happening along with his squad since claiming a second-straight ring. WCU’s longest tenured coach, volleyball head coach Karen Glover, joins the present to speak about her youthful 2025 delight of Catamounts.
One of the busiest coaches on campus, WCU observe & subject alum Jesse Norman, who continues to steer the Catamount observe & subject/cross nation groups, joins the present to speak about his distance occasion runners, together with a males’s aspect that’s driving consecutive runner-up finishes on the finish of the 2024 common season and convention championship.
Catamount fifth-year head soccer coach Kerwin Bell can even be on location for the 2025 preview present. Topics starting from spring ball, the switch portal, SoCon Media Day and preseason polls, fall camp, and a preview of the 2025 season and the seasonal present, Catamount Football Weekly, introduced by Stanberry Insurance. WCU enters the 12 months ranked 18th within the Stats Perform FCS Top 25, one in all two SoCon groups among the many 25 ranked squads and one in all 4 whole receiving votes.
Catamount Jaxe & Social House incorporates a rustic cabin-inspired area that features axe throwing lanes and a welcoming and comfy social hub and patio for unwinding and gathering with pals. In addition to internet hosting the Catamount Coaches Show, the weekly schedule by the autumn contains trivia nights and drink specials.
This coming week, the common season for Catamount girls’s soccer will get underway with a pair of house matches as WCU hosts archrival Appalachian State within the season-opener on Thursday, Aug. 14 (6 p.m.) and High Point on Sunday, Aug. 17 (1 p.m.). Catamount soccer holds its second preseason scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 16 (6 p.m.). The volleyball group holds its lone preseason exhibition on Friday, Aug. 22, internet hosting UNC Pembroke at 6 p.m. on Ingles Court within the Ramsey Center. Cross nation opens its 2025 season seeking to construct upon final 12 months’s pair of top-five finishes with the Covered Bridge Open, hosted by App State in Boone on Friday, Aug. 29.
Home admission for Western Carolina girls’s soccer on the Catamount Athletics Complex and Catamount volleyball on Ingles Court within the Ramsey Center are freed from cost by the 2025 season, courtesy of First Bank.
Both season and single-game tickets for the 5 house soccer dates in #CatamountNation stay on sale now by the WCU Athletics Ticket Office, situated on the primary flooring of the Ramsey Center, or by cellphone at (828) 227-2401. Fans may buy tickets and sport day parking upfront on-line at CatamountSports.com/BuyTickets. Season tickets stay the most effective wager for securing tickets to every of WCU’s highly-anticipated six house dates as preseason ticket gross sales stay brisk.
2025 Catamount Football Preseason Practice Schedule:
Mon., Aug. 11 – Practice #11 – 8:30 am – 11:00 am (full pads)
Mon., Aug. 11 – Kerwin Bell on 2025 Catamount Fall Sports Preview – Facebook LIVE
Tues., Aug. 12 – Practice #12 – 8:30 am – 11:00 am (uppers)
Wed., Aug. 13 – Practice #13 – 8:30 am – 11:00 am (full pads)
Thurs., Aug. 14 – No Practice (Off Day – Film)
Fri., Aug. 15 – Practice #14 – 8:30 am – 11:00 am (helmets solely)
Fri., Aug. 15 – WCU Freshman Student Convocation
Sat., Aug. 16 – Practice #15 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (scrimmage, full – scholar day)
Sun., Aug 17 – Athletics Welcome Back Event at Catamount Soccer – 12:30 pm
Sun. Aug. 17 – Catamount Football Team Building Event – 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Mon., Aug. 18 – First Day of Classes at WCU – No Practice (Off-Day)
Tues., Aug. 19 – Begins in-season apply schedule – 4:30 pm
Keep observe of all the pieces associated to Catamount soccer and WCU Athletics by its social media retailers on Facebook (FB.com/CatamountSports, FB.com/WesternCarolinaFootball), Twitter (@catamounts, @CatamountsFB), and Instagram (wcu_catamounts, catamountsfb).
Important Dates in Catamount Athletics & Catamount Football:
Mon., Aug. 11 – 2025 Catamount Fall Sports Preview Coaches Show – 6 p.m.
Thurs., Aug. 14 – Catamount Football Ladies Night – Whitmire Stadium – 5 p.m.
Thurs., Aug. 14 – Catamount Soccer vs. Appalachian State (Season Opener, E+) – 6 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 17 – Catamount Soccer vs. High Point – 1 p.m.
Fri., Aug. 22 – Catamount Volleyball vs. UNC Pembroke (Exhibition) – 6 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 30 – Catamount Football vs. Gardner-Webb – 6 p.m. (Postgame Fireworks)
Sun., Aug. 31 – Catamount Soccer vs. Tennessee (First Bank Beach Night) – 6 p.m.
Tues., Sept. 9 – Catamount Volleyball vs. UNC Asheville (First Bank Beach Night) – 6 p.m.
Fri., Sept. 12 – The Bob Waters Memorial Golf Tournament – Sequoyah National in Cherokee, N.C.
Sat., Sept. 13 – Catamount Football vs. Elon – 2:30 p.m. (White Out Whitmire! Wear White!)
