Wichita State’s athletic trainers are braced for player injuries, head to toe, all season long.
“Because of our aggressive style of play and practice,” Todd Fagan, athletic trainer for men’s...
Having the chance to be apart of a team was not the only reason senior guard Hannah Mortimer decided to come to Wichita State.
Mortimer knew she wanted to go into coaching when her playing career concludes,...
Wichita State women’s basketball assistant coach Bridgette Gordon has implemented what she was taught during her hall of fame playing career to educate current Shocker players.
After a historic playing...
Former Wichita State men’s basketball player Evan Wessel is keeping to his roots.
Wessel decided to stay in Wichita after graduating to become a business development specialist at Stoutheart Financial...
Shocker basketball has seen great success in recent years. From going to the Final Four to being undefeated in the 2013-14 season.
But for seniors Zach Bush and JR Simon, it’s been so much more.
Bush...
Entering his 29th year as Missouri Valley Conference commissioner, Doug Elgin is the longest serving commissioner in the conference’s 110 years of existence.
Elgin and his staff have lifted the MVC...
Each will agree expectations are high.
Last season, Wichita State junior guard Zach Brown shared with his coach, Gregg Marshall, his aspirations.
His dream: Missouri Valley Conference Player of the...
Through the tunnel, he leads his teammates. They follow, patting his scrawny shoulders, chanting, “73! 73!”
To an outsider, the praise might not make much sense.
“He catches a lot of people...
Students, professors, faculty, fans, and community members are all brought in and unified by Wichita State men’s basketball. With that being said, this means a crazy amount of all of those people go...
In the classroom, she’s the quiet one. Little do her classmates know she has one of the best smiles — one of the brightest smiles. Little do they know she likes to laugh and sees herself as a silly...
Family is first in Landry Shamet’s life.
Melanie Shamet raised Landry, a redshirt freshman point guard, as a single mother. With no father and no supporting income, Melanie needed all the help she...
Junior center Shaquille Morris is a goofy, hoverboard-riding guy.
He’s had the same hoverboard for more than a year, despite wear and tear.
“It was raining one day, but I thought the hoverboard...