Viking 360

This episode features 2 long bombs. Lady Viking Lauren Roush sank a mid-court shot on her Senior Night game. Viking Luke Johnson swished a buzzer-beater to lift Ripley to a 3-point win over Point Pleasant.

In other basketball news, we'll hear from former Viking coach Evan Faulkner on his new role at the University of Pikeville. RMS coach Aaron Rose talks about the upcoming Vikings.

Ripley grad Tori Stanford helped her Stanford cross country team win the PAC-12 championship as we hear from Cardinal coach J.J. Clark.

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Viking sports are coming out blazing this weekend.

Wrestler Brett Haskins talks about the Viking matches on Friday and Saturday. Coach Derek Mullins comments about Viking basketball's season opening games. Sophomore McKennan Hall put up impressive numbers in the Lady Vikes' opener.

Principal Jimmy Frashier brings the COVID 19 situation into perspective as it relates to RHS athletics.

On the collegiate level, we'll here from West Liberty wrestling coach Danny Irwin and Fairmont State soccer coach Brandon Heembrock about former Viking standouts Chase Morgan and Taylor Kennedy.

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Game time is here for the winter sports teams at Ripley High.

We have updates from Viking wrestling coach Matt Smith, Viking basketball coach Luke Parsons and Lady Viking basketball coach John Kennedy.

Former Ripley slugger Anthony Jarvis talks about his baseball season at Alice Lloyd College.

Swiftees' Ripley Vikings Collection will soon be joining the 360 team as podcast sponsors along with Mountain Top Media. Former Viking great Jeff McCoy of MTM provides the deatils.

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Former Ripley football and tennis standout J.J. Mahan has had an unusual college career. His most recent project is a 9-song album.

Luke Layhew is still an athlete at the University of Pikeville, but now he's trying his hand at baseball.

Recent Ripley grad Carter Casto talks about his just-completed season playing JV basketball for the Midway University Bears.

Luke Parsons wrestled with Ripley High's Class of 2010. He's back again this season to lead the Ripley Middle grapplers.

Cole Waybright was a basketball and golf standout for the Vikings. He now makes his living not far from the massive Disney theme park in Florida.

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Former Viking standout Parker Deem helped Ripley win the 2004 state baseball title and is an inductee in the Viking Football Hall of Fame. He talks about his remarkable senior year transition from basketball to wrestling.

Matthew Moore II hopes to follow-up an outstanding football season with another trip to the Class AAA State Wrestling Tournament.

Lexi Miller has looked at basketball from the perspective of a Lady Viking player, an official and now the head coach at Ripley Middle.

Shane Bumpus provides an insight on how his senior basketball season is shaping up.

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This week's episode is perhaps the most varied of our 75 podcasts.

Davis Haynes signed a golf scholarship with WV Wesleyan, but first he's preparing for his senior season on the Viking pitching mound.

In basketball, we talk with Kym Randolph. She was the Lady Viking team captain in 1977 and is now a leader in WV's education efforts. Isaac Putnam is a 2019 grad with the rare double major of chemistry and bluegrass at Glenville State.

In wrestling, 1981 grad Chuck Jordan comes from one of the Vikings' most talented grappling families. Senior Andrew Manley is gunning for a return trip to the state wrestling tournament.

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Niki Randolph, one of the all-time Lady Viking basketball greats, joins us on the podcast. 

Wrestling season gets underway with a March 3 home match. We had a conversation with Viking senior Luke Miller.

Diamonds are forever. We talk college baseball with recent grad Broedy Boyce and high school baseball with Viking skipper Shane Casto.

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Looking at football, hear an update from former Viking Caydan Keeler about his career as a WVU Mountaineer. Senior Kadin Hall has made his college choice on the gridiron.

Making some basketball points, hear from Lady Viking point guard Lauren Roush and Viking point guard Kaeden Profitt.

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This week we will take a stroll down memory lane as we relive some of the big moments in the Viking boys and girls basketball history. Rube chats with Todd Thompson and John Kennedy as they relive the 1996 trip to the Charleston Civic Center. While I had a sit down with long time Lady Viking Head Coach Steve Hunt as well as Cara (Waybright) Cohen to talk about the 2003 trip for the Lady Vikes. Also we visit with Viking Alum and stand out wrestler on the collegiate level Chance Morgan.

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It's good to be back and to welcome five guests to the podcast.

We'll hear from college basketball players Jamison Hunt and Ty Johnson and college wrestler Chase Morgan. 

Ripley native Doug Hammack talks about his role in preparing athletes to compete at the next level and RHS AD Steve Lough talks about scheduling around a pandemic.

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