West Virginia Sports(1)
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Charleston Charlies
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This Class AAA baseball team, then based in West Virginia's capital city, won an International League title in 1977.
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Washington and Jefferson College
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In November 1891, West Virginia University played its first football game, a 72-0 loss to this Pennsylvania college.
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University of Virginia
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On March 26, 1992, the WVU women's basketball team lost 103-83 to this No. 1 ranked team.
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Bill Stewart
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This man was named head football coach at WVU in January 2008.
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Mike Vanderjagt
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This placekicker for the Indianapolis Colts, who set an NFL record for consecutive field goals, played college football for West Virginia University.
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Wilbur Cooper
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This lefthander, who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1912 to 1924 and was co-National League wins champion in 1921, was born in Tyler County.
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Marc Bulger
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This former West Virginia University star became the starting quarterback for the St. Louis Rams.
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Bill Mazeroski
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This former second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who hit a game-winning home run in the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, was born in Wheeling.
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Clair Bee
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This Grafton native has the highest winning percentage of all NCAA Division I basketball coaches.
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John McKay
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This West Virginia native was the first head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Bill Karr
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This Ripley native played for the Chicago Bears from 1933 to 1938.
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O. J. Mayo
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This Huntington native was the third overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft.
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Glenn Davis
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This track and field star, who won the Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles in 1956 and 1960, was born in Wellsburg.
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Rick Reed
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This Huntington native was the starting pitcher for the New York Mets in Game 3 of the 2000 World Series.
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Lou Holtz
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This Follansbee native is the second-winningest coach in Notre Dame history and coached the Fighting Irish to a national championship in 1988.
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Jerry West
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What NBA Hall of Famer was initially known as "Zeke from Cabin Creek?"
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George King
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In 1950, this Morris Harvey College basketball player became the first college player in the nation to average more than 30 points a game in one season.
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snow sport
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On January 7, 2010, Gov. Manchin declared January as the month to learn this.
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Nick Saban
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This coach of the 2010 national-championship-winning Alabama Crimson Tide football team is a native of Fairmont.
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Troy Brown
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This former New England Patriots wide receiver lives in Huntington
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Samuel Wesley Lynch
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He was the first white cheerleader at West Virginia State College (now University).
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Hot Rod Hundley's
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In 2010, this former WVU basketball player's uniform No. 33 was retired.
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Chad Pennington
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This former Marshall University quarterback was named the AP 2008 NFL Comeback Player of the Year.
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Alexis Hornbuckle
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This Charleston native played college basketball for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols before being drafted by the WNBA's Detroit Shock.
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Bob Pruett
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This Beckley native was named Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year in 1998.
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Deron Williams
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This Wood County native was a member of the U.S. men's basketball team playing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Mike D'Antoni
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In May 2008, this Mullens native was announced as the New York Knicks new head coach. (Now, Los Angeles Lakers)
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Fairmont State College
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The parents of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps attended this West Virginia college in the early 1970s.
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John Wesley "Pebbly Jack" Glasscock
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This shortstop who led the National League in hits in 1889 and 1890 was born in Wheeling in 1859.
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Rose Gacioch
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This Wheeling native was a pitcher for the Rockford Peaches, of the All-American Girls Baseball League, from 1945 to 1954.
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Earl Lloyd
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This former West Virginia State basketball star became the first African American to play in an NBA game on October 31, 1950.
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Appalachian Power Park
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This new ballpark replaced Watt Powell Park in Charleston in 2005.
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Charles Town
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In 1969, Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman jockey to win a thoroughbred horse race on a U.S. track when she rode Cohesion to victory on the track in this town.
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Frank Gatski
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This Farmington native who played offense for the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s was inducted into the pro-football Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Steve Slaton
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This former West Virginia University star led all NFL rookie running backs in rushing in 2008.
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O. J. Mayo
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This athlete was named West Virginia's boys basketball player of the year for 2007 by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
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Jerome Van Meter
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This man coached Beckley's Woodrow Wilson High School basketball team to six state championships between 1946 and 1957 and the football team to three state championships during the same period
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Phil Pfister
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This Charlestonian won the World's Strongest Man title on September 23, 2006
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Jesse Burkett
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This Wheeling native was the first West Virginian inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame.
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Jack Warhop
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What West Virginia native gave up Babe Ruth's first two major league home runs?
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Curt Warner
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This former Seattle Seahawks running back won the 1978 Kennedy Award, given to the West Virginia Sports Writers Association choice for best high school football player in the state.
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Jim Grobe
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This Huntington native was named the 2006 college football Coach of the Year by the Associated Press.
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Jason Williams
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This native of Belle, who played college basketball at Marshall and Florida, played professional ball for the Miami Heat from 2005 to 2008.
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Hack Wilson
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This baseball Hall of Famer, who holds the single season RBI record, is buried in Martinsburg.
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Jerry West
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On March 24, 1956, this future NBA star scored 39 points to lead East Bank to the state high school basketball championship.
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Gino Marchetti
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This Smithers native was named the top defensive end of the NFL's first 50 years.
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Mary Lou Retton
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What West Virginian won a gold medal in gymnastics during the 1984 Olympics?
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Randy Moss
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This pro football wide receiver was named West Virginia high school basketball player of the year in 1994 and 1995.
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Frank Loria
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This member of Marshall University's coaching staff killed in the 1970 Marshall plane crash was a native of Clarksburg and had been a two-time All-American while playing at VPI.
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Natalie Tennant
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This woman became WVU's first woman mountaineer mascot in 1990.
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The University of Charleston's
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This women's college basketball team won the 2006 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) championship.
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The World Rafting Championships
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This international whitewater competition was held September 22-25, 2001, on the Gauley and New rivers in West Virginia, the first time the event was held in North America.
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Gino Marchetti
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This National Football League Hall of Famer, who played thirteen seasons with the Baltimore Colts and was named the top defensive end of the NFL's first fifty years, was born in Smithers on January 2, 1927.
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Jay Randolph
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This son of a former United States senator from West Virginia was the first television play-by-play announcer of the Florida Marlins.
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Jerry West
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This West Virginia native was named 2004 NBA Executive of the Year by the Sporting News.
