Winston-Salem State University
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Photo courtesy of wssurams.com Chip Vaughn Former NFL player Chip Vaughn has a Super Bowl ring. He’s now after more hardware, hoping to help lead the Winston-Salem State football team to CIAA titles and Division II national championships. Vaughn is entering his first season as safeties coach. He joined the […]
Brenda Allen is WSSU provost Brenda Allen is Winston- Salem State’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Prior to taking her position at WSSU, Allen served as associate provost and director of institutional diversity at Brown University where she worked under former chancellor, Donald Reaves. When Reaves became chancellor at […]
Caution students: do not go past four withdrawals. In 2013, the UNC System Board of Governors met with the Faculty Assembly and amended the Fostering Undergraduate Student Success policies. Colleges and universities were told to adopt the policies by the fall 2014 semester. Among the amendments is a new […]
Winston-Salem State is putting the "student" in student-athlete. Seventy-seven WSSU student-athletes finished the fall 2014 semester with a 3.0 GPA or higher and made the dean’s list. "That’s a third of our student-athletes, and we find that very respectable and very good," said Clifton Huff, chief academic adviser for […]
Winston-Salem State has a new head football coach, and his name is Kienus Boulware. Boulware is no stranger to the program after spending the past four seasons as defensive coordinator under former head coach Connell Maynor, who left to take the head-coaching job at Hampton University in December 2013. […]
Four in a row. The Winston-Salem State baseball team defeated Virginia State 9-5 on April 19 to win the program’s fourth straight CIAA championship. Head Coach Kevin Ritsche has been the man in charge since the program was brought back to WSSU in 2010. In four seasons as coach, he’s […]
Winston-Salem State softball player Chyna Riley may not be the biggest player on the field, but her enormous heart makes up for her lack of size. Riley, a 5-foot-4-inch freshman from West Columbia, S.C., was chosen by Head Coach Lataya Hilliard-Gray as the recipient of this issue’s “Game Ball.” […]
Who says that a walk-on athlete can’t have the same success as a recruited athlete? Winston-Salem State’s Tajanel McNeill wasn’t recruited to run track in college, but she tried out for the team during her freshman year at WSSU and made it. McNeill, now a junior, has been chosen by […]
Wes Helsabeck, junior starting pitcher, has been chosen by Head Baseball Coach Kevin Ritsche as this issue’s “Game Ball” recipient. Helsabeck is a local kid from Rural Hall and is in his first season at Winston- Salem State. He transferred to WSSU this past fall after spending the previous two […]
Michael Sam is a man that has gotten a lot of publicity over the past several weeks for something that, in my opinion, is not worthy of the recognition he has received. Sam, 24, is a former Missouri football player and current prospect for this May’s NFL draft. He was […]