The WSU tennis team upset No. 39 Arizona, 6-1, on Saturday after dropping its match against Arizona State, 5-2, on Friday. The tennis team is now 8-5 on the season and 1-1 in the Pac-10. Against Arizona, all but one of the singles matches went to three sets…

The WSU tennis team lost to No. 49 Boise State on Sunday by a score of 6-1 in Idaho. Coming off a 6-1 victory in their Saturday match against New Mexico, the Cougars were unable to carry the momentum into the second match of the weekend. The team now stands at 7-4 on the season…

The WSU women’s tennis team was unable to continue its winning streak against Sacramento State on Sunday, losing 5-2. Sacramento State began the day by sweeping the doubles matches. At No. 1 doubles, Liudmila Vasilieva and Andjela Kankaras fell to Sacramento State’s Clarisse Baca and Katrina Zheltova…

WSU women’s tennis team returns to the court Friday after a bye week for a doubleheader against the University of the Pacific and Seattle University. The match against Pacific will start at 11 a.m., and the following match against Seattle University will begin at 5 p…

Liudmila Vasilieva is only a freshman, but she is quietly becoming one of the best tennis players at WSU. On a tennis team that features seven other freshmen, she is the No. 1 singles player and is on the No. 1 doubles team along with sophomore Elisabeth Fournier…

The WSU tennis team suffered its first losses of the season to BYU, 4-3, and Utah, 5-2, at Simmelink Tennis Courts in Hollingbery Fieldhouse. The Cougars are now 2-2 on the season. In the Saturday match, Utah won two of the three doubles matches for the opening point…

The tennis team won both of its games Friday afternoon at the Simmelink Tennis Courts in the Hollingbery Fieldhouse. The Cougars beat the Idaho Vandals 6-1 after winning their 2010 season opener 7-0 against Lewis-Clark State College. WSU started the match against Idaho by sweeping three doubles matches for a 1-0 lead…

The WSU tennis team opens its 2010 season today against Lewis-Clark State College and Idaho. The Cougars will face the Warriors at 9 a.m. and will then play the Vandals at 4 p.m. Both matches will be played at Simmelink Courts inside Hollinbery Fieldhouse…

Being a collegiate athlete is already a very difficult challenge to any individual. Long practices and experienced competition are a few of the challenges of being a college athlete. For some, getting good grades is an afterthought compared to other parts of the college life…

The WSU men’s basketball team (7-2) will host the Air Force Falcons (5-2) at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Spokane Arena in the first of three home games for WSU played away from Pullman. The Cougars will then host Portland State on Dec. 19 in Kennewick before the annual Cougar Hardwood Classic on Dec…

Redshirt senior center Kenny Alfred was named to the 2009 All-Pacific-10 Conference Football Second Team, the Pac-10 Office announced Monday. Alfred started all 12 games for WSU this season and started the final 29 games of his career. He was named the WSU Offensive Player of the Week seven times during the 2009 season…

WSU senior Lisa Egami finished her season on Nov. 23 with a 169th place finish at the NCAA Cross Country National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. Egami, who was the only Cougar competing, finished the 6,000m race with a time of 21.49.9 . The race was held at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course located at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center…

Patrick Simon originally committed to the WSU men’s basketball team as a 14-year-old freshman from Ephrata. At the time, this was the youngest-ever WSU verbal commitment. That year, the then 6-foot-7 freshman averaged 13.2 points per game at Ephrata Senior High School…

WSU senior captain Lisa Egami finished in 11th place to lead the WSU women’s cross country team at the NCAA Division I West Region Cross Country Meet at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Ore. Her time of 21:18 was good enough to secure an at-large bid for the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute…

The WSU cross country teams will head to Springfield, Ore., to compete in the NCAA West Regional Cross Country Meet Saturday. The races, hosted by the University of Oregon, will start at 9:45 a.m. with the men’s 10,000m race, while the women’s 6,000m race starts at 10:45 a…