The following are recaps from App State athletic teams for the week of Aug. 4 to Aug. 10.

Aug. 4

• IRVING, Texas – The College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee has appointed App State Director of Athletics Doug Gillin to the CFP Selection Committee, it was announced Tuesday by Rich Clark, executive director of the CFP.

“We are pleased to welcome Doug to the selection committee,” Clark said. “He is a highly respected leader who brings tremendous experience, sound judgment and a deep commitment to college football and student-athletes. We look forward to the contributions he will make as a member of the committee.”

Entering his 12th year in Boone, Gillin has overseen the rise of App State Athletics as a nationally recognized program at the highest level of college sports, highlighted by App State football’s multiple conference championships and a top 25 final CFP ranking in 2019 since ascending to the FBS level.

Gillin was hired as the school’s Director of Athletics in February 2015, during the early stages of App State’s transition from the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the Sun Belt Conference at the FBS level. He was named one of four national Under Armour Athletics Directors of the Year in 2019-20 and served on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee from 2020-23.

App State was the first college football program to win bowl games in each of its first six eligible FBS seasons (2015-20), and the program’s 98 wins since 2015 rank in the top 15 nationally. The Mountaineers won four straight Sun Belt championships from 2016-19, and the 2019 squad that went 13-1 became the first Sun Belt or North Carolina FBS school to win 13 games. Between winning Sun Belt division titles in 2021 and 2023, the Mountaineers followed a 17-14 win at No. 6 Texas A&M in 2022 by hosting ESPN’s College GameDay for the first time.

Gillin, who served on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee from 2020-23, was previously the deputy director of athletics at Missouri from 2012-15. He also spent time early in his career on college campuses at Lehigh, New Mexico, and Syracuse, while holding senior leadership positions at ISP Sports/IMG College from 2002-12.

The Binghamton, N.Y., native was a four-year letterman in ice hockey at SUNY Cortland. He graduated from SUNY Cortland in 1991 with a B.S. in physical education and earned a master’s degree in physical education from Ohio University.

The CFP selection committee is responsible for ranking the top 25 teams. The committee meets in-person beginning in early November and produces a ranking of the top 25 teams each week leading up to its final selections.

Gillin replaces Dr. Bryan Maggard, who recently became the deputy athletics director/COO at the University of Missouri after serving as Louisiana’s athletic director.

About the College Football Playoff

The College Football Playoff (CFP) is the competition that crowns the true national champion in college football. The format of the CFP is built on a 12-team bracket. The 12 participating schools are the conference champions from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Southeastern Conference and the highest-ranked team from the American, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West, Pac-12 Conference or Sun Belt Conference, along with the next seven highest-ranked teams. The University of Notre Dame will be included in the playoff if it is ranked among the top 12 teams in the final CFP rankings. Four CFP First-Round games are played on host campuses, followed by the CFP Quarterfinals and CFP Semifinals, which rotate annually among six bowl games – the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The CFP National Championship will be on Monday, January 25, 2027, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. For additional information on the CFP, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com.

• BOONE — App State Men’s Golf student-athletes Rob Bergevin, Cole Bergheim, Max Cranford and Herman Huus have been named 2025-26 Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars for NCAA Division I, the GCAA announced this week.

To be eligible, an individual had to be a sophomore, junior or senior both academically and athletically during the 2025-26 season. In addition, they must have participated in 50 percent of their team’s competitive rounds, posted a stroke average under 76.0 and maintained a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2. Recipients must also be of high moral character and be in good standing at their college or university.

Aug. 6

• BOONE — App State Women’s Basketball has announced its complete schedule for the 2026-27 season, in conjunction with the Sun Belt Conference’s release Thursday of league matchups for the upcoming season.

Directed by head coach Alaura Sharp, the Mountaineers will host 15 games at the Holmes Convocation Center and face three Power 4 opponents on the road in nonconference action.

Game times and ticket information will be released at a later date.

“We are excited for this season and are looking forward to a competitive nonconference schedule,” Sharp said. “We have compiled a challenging road schedule and will host several top programs at home. The goal was to have a difficult schedule to learn about our team in November to prepare for a tough Sun Belt Conference.”

The Mountaineers will open the season Nov. 2 on the road in Ypsilanti, Mich., in the first game of the MAC-SBC Challenge, taking on Eastern Michigan for the first time in program history.

Following that road matchup, the Mountaineers will return to the High Country for their home opener against Montreat College on Nov. 4 before hitting the road for the next four games.

The four-game stretch kicks off Nov. 11 against Davidson, a team that is coming off its first 20-win season since the 2012-13 season. The Mountaineers will then travel to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., for the Greenbrier Classic on Nov. 14, when they will take on Northwestern, marking the first matchup between the Mountaineers and Wildcats.

The Mountaineers will then take on their first of two ACC opponents in Wake Forest on Nov. 19 in Winston-Salem, marking the first intrastate matchup between the Mountaineers and Demon Deacons since the 2017-18 season. Wake Forest made an appearance in the WNIT last season.

To close out the road stretch, the Mountaineers will face Norfolk State on Nov. 23 before returning to the High Country for a round-robin tournament featuring UNCA and Western Carolina on Nov. 27 and 28, respectively.

To open December, the Mountaineers will take on another in-state foe in Elon on Dec. 2 before facing Virginia Tech on Dec. 9 in the first installment of a three-game series. The Hokies are coming off their second 20-plus-win season in three years, making the 2026 NCAA Tournament before falling to Oregon in the opening round.

In the second of three home games in December, the Mountaineers for the first time in program history will host Florida Gulf Coast University for Luau Day on Dec. 12.

App State will open Sun Belt Conference play against Marshall in Huntington, W. Va., on Dec. 16 before returning to Boone for two straight games, hosting new Sun Belt member Louisiana Tech on Dec. 19 with Basketball Bingo before closing out the initial nonconference slate against Carolina University on Dec. 22. To close out the 2026 calendar year, the Mountaineers return to conference play to take on Southern Miss on the road in Hattiesburg, Miss., in a New Year’s Eve matchup. The Mountaineers defeated the Golden Eagles during the 2025-26 campaign by an 82-59 count in Boone.

To open 2027, the Mountaineers remain on the road to take on South Alabama on Jan. 2 before returning to the High Country for a four-game homestand. Starting Jan. 7, App State will take on ULM on Jan. 7 for Education Day, Arkansas State on Jan. 9 for Heroes Day and Old Dominion on Jan. 14 for Y2K Night before closing the homestand against Georgia State for Alumni Day.

After making a stop in Troy, Ala., for a Jan. 23 matchup against Troy, the Mountaineers will then return to Boone for the next two games, facing off against Georgia Southern for Student Org Night on Jan. 28 before having the Pink Game in the second matchup against Marshall on Jan. 30.

Following a road trip to Conway, S.C., to take on Coastal Carolina on Feb. 3, the Mountaineers will play their last three home games, beginning with the second leg of the MAC-SBC Challenge with an opponent to be announced at a later date. The Black & Gold will play their first matchup against JMU on Feb. 10 for the Blackout Game before closing out the home slate on Feb. 13 against Coastal Carolina for Senior Day.

The Mountaineers will spend the last four games of the season on the road in second matchups against Sun Belt opponents from the eastern side: at Georgia State on Feb. 17, at Old Dominion on Feb. 20, at Georgia Southern on Feb. 23 and the regular season finale at JMU on Feb. 26.

The 2027 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Championship will take place from March 2-8 in Pensacola, Fla., with all 14 teams eligible for the tournament and the winner earning an NCAA Tournament berth.

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• NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference and App State Men’s Basketball announced the 2026-27 conference schedule Thursday. The 18-game league slate features nine games at the Holmes Convocation Center.

The Mountaineers own a league-best 76-49 record (.608 winning percentage) in Sun Belt play over Dustin Kerns’ seven seasons. App State has finished among the top two teams in the conference three times while winning a Sun Belt regular season title in 2023-24 and a Sun Belt tournament championship in 2020-21.

App State will open league play on the road against Louisiana Tech on Dec. 19. This matchup will mark the first league home game for the Bulldogs as a Sun Belt member and serve as the first meeting between the two programs.

The Mountaineers’ home opener in league play will be a New Year’s Eve contest against Troy. App State posted a dominant 66-44 win at Trojan Arena last season, holding the eventual Sun Belt Champions to their lowest scoring output at home since 2019. The Mountaineers will cap the homestand by facing South Alabama on Jan 2.

App State’s lone multi-stop road trip of Sun Belt play takes place the following week when the Mountaineers visit Arkansas State (Jan. 7) and ULM (Jan. 9).

App State’s first divisional matchup takes place in Norfolk, Va., where the Mountaineers will visit Old Dominion on Jan. 13. App State will then return home for a matchup against Georgia State on Jan. 16.

The team will remain home for a midweek clash with Coastal Carolina on Jan. 20 before hitting the road to face Georgia Southern in Statesboro on Jan. 23.

The Black and Gold will cap their home-and-home series with Old Dominion at the Holmes Center on Jan. 27 before closing out the month against Marshall in Huntington, W. Va. on Jan. 31.

The final West Division matchup of the regular season will feature a home showdown against Southern Miss on Feb. 6. The last time the Golden Eagles paid a visit to the Holmes Center, Myles Tate found CJ Huntley for a dramatic buzzer-beating dunk in a 60-58 win on Feb. 5, 2025.

League play heats up with a visit to James Madison on Feb. 10, before App State returns home to cap the week against Georgia Southern on Feb. 13.

The Mountaineers will remain home for a midweek matchup against Marshall on Feb. 18, before traveling to Georgia State to close out the week on Feb. 20.

The final week of the regular season will feature a Tuesday night road visit to Conway, S.C., to face Coastal Carolina on Feb. 23. App State will close out the regular season with a Friday night home tilt against James Madison on Feb 26.

App State enters the 2026-27 season having won double digit conference games in three consecutive seasons, doing so for the first time since 1997-2000. Overall, the Mountaineers have posted a .500 record or better in all seven seasons under Kerns, the only time that has been accomplished in the program’s Division I era.

The complete 2026-27 schedule will be announced at a later date.

Sport-specific giving allows you to directly support App State student-athletes and help provide them the resources they need to be successful. Click here to contribute to the Men’s Basketball support fund.

Keep up with App State Men’s Basketball wherever you go by following the Mountaineers on social media. Follow @AppStateMBB on X, Instagram and Facebook. Download the App State Athletics App for iOS or Android to keep the Mountaineers at your fingertips.

Aug. 7

• The App State Track and Field and Cross Country program has welcomed eight more newcomers to the program, bringing the total to 19 signees for the 2026-27 season.

The latest group of eight signees includes four freshmen and four transfer students, made up of five distance athletes, one sprinter, one pole vaulter, and one jumper.

Romeo Brown | Sprints | Newberry, S.C. | Spartanburg Methodist College

Brown spent his first three seasons at SMC, where he had a dominant 2026 season. Highlighted by a season-best 10.16 in the 100 meters at the AAC Outdoor Conference Championships, Brown posted a career-high nine first-place finishes in the 2026 outdoor and indoor seasons, including three in the 100 meters. He capped off his outdoor season with a fifth-place finish in the 200 meters at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Tess Dickhans | Distance | Blacksburg, Va. | Blacksburg HS

In her senior season, Dickhans ran a season-best 2:17.43 in the 800 meters at the Carolina Distance Carnival. She was part of multiple relay teams during her senior year, helping win a state title at the 4A championships as part of a sub-four-minute time in the 4×400 meters, breaking the school record.

Madeline Entwistle | Pole Vault | Bradenton, Fla. | IMG Academy

Entwistle had a strong senior year campaign as she captured five first-place finishes in six appearances and a fourth-place finish in her other appearance, where she set her personal best clearance of 3.92m/12′-10.25″, a mark that would be top five in App State history. She had four different appearances in 2026 with clearances over 12 feet and improved her best every meet of the season.

Ignacio Llorens | Distance | Bainbridge Island, Wash. | Bainbridge HS

Llorens had a decorated 2026 season, setting six new personal bests, highlighted by a time of 1:52.50 in the 800 meters at the WIAA 2A State Championships. In his first attempt in the 1500 meters at the Nike Outdoor U20 Championships, he ran a stellar time of 4:02.82.

Lamine Sall | Jumps | Fishers, Ind. | Texas State/WKU

Leaping his way up the mountain, Sall attended Texas State for his first two years of college before transferring to WKU, where he did not compete in the 2026 season. In his freshman year at Texas State, he jumped to a career-best 7.14m in the long jump.

Ethan Stovall | Distance | Edmond, Okla. | Oklahoma State

Stovall spent his first two collegiate years at Oklahoma State before transferring to App State. In his final appearance as a Cowboy, he ran a 3:47.39 in the 1500 meters at the Arkansas Twilight, setting his personal best. In the meet prior, he set his personal best in the 5000 meters with a time of 14:13.69 at the Oregon Team Invitational, grabbing a third-place finish.

Gemma Tolputt | Distance | Somerset, England | Millfield School

Tolputt travels across the ocean to join the Mountaineers after having a career year in 2026. In January, she ran an impressive time of 2:18.95 in the 800 meters and nearly broke her personal record in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:49.97.

Baylor Wolfe | Distance | Denver, Colo. | Kentucky

The former Wildcat brings endurance talent to the Mountaineers. In her first two years at Kentucky, she set her standards with a time just north of 10 minutes in the 3000 meters during indoor season at the Rod McCravy Memorial in January of 2026 and set her personal best mile time of 5:04.84 at the same event a year prior.

Of the 19 signees for 2026-27, the group includes 10 distance runners, three jumpers, two throwers, two sprinters, one pole vaulter and one hurdles competitor.

Winter additions to the 2026-27 class | Previously announced on Jan. 29th, 2026

Hannah Dadie | Sprints | Charlotte, N.C. | Independence

Alexis Geiwitz | Throws | New Castle, Pa. | Laurel

Chase McCullough | Throws | Harrisburg, N.C. | Hickory Ridge

Sebla Miracle | Jumps | Asheville, N.C. | Asheville

Beason Tuck | Distance | Greenville, S.C. | Greer Middle College Charter

Jackson Tuck | Distance | Greenville, S.C. | Greer Middle College Charter

Fall additions to the 2026-27 class | Previously announced on Nov. 12th, 2025

Samone Arrington | Hurdles | Durham, N.C. | JD Clement Early College

Ashley Casas | Jumps | Lewisville, N.C. | Ronald W. Reagan HS

Lucas Johnson | Distance | Augusta, Ga. | Westminster Schools of Augusta

Hunter Riffey | Distance | Greensboro, N.C. | Caldwell Academy

Sadie Wortman | Distance | Cary, N.C. | Green Level HS

Sport-specific giving allows you to directly support App State student-athletes and help provide them the resources they need to be successful. Click here to contribute to the Track and Field and Cross Country support fund.

Keep up with App State Track and Field and Cross Country wherever you go by following the Mountaineers on social media. Follow @appstate_tf_xc on X and Instagram. Download the App State Athletics App for iOS or Android to keep the Mountaineers at your fingertips.