MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Another year full of thrills, chills and surprises is in the books for West Virginia University intercollegiate athletics.
Big news happened as soon as the calendar flipped to January when Parkersburg native Shane Lyons answered the call to come home and lead the Mountaineers as the school’s 12th director of athletics. Lyons spent the past three years at Alabama as the Crimson Tide’s No. 2 administrator, working closely with athletic directors Mal Moore and Bill Battle in Tuscaloosa following previous stops at the Atlantic Coast Conference, Texas Tech, the NCAA and Big South Conference.