The bill will provide incentives to construct data centers and mega data centers, according to a press release from his office.

HB002 would exempt sales or leases from the excise tax for a party purchasing “qualifying computer equipment, including computers, servers, monitors, keyboards, storage devices, prewritten and other computer software, and other peripherals, racking systems, cabling and trays that are necessary for the operation of a data processing services center,” according to the bill.

In order to qualify for the exemption, a minimum of $2 million worth of equipment must be purchased.

“This is a tool for creating real economic diversification in Wyoming, and I am glad the legislature sent this bill to me so quickly,” Gov. Mead said.

“We have existing opportunities to attract data centers and affiliated jobs soon and so the incentive comes at just the right time. We know that we are competing with every other state in the country for these data centers, and so laying out the infrastructure for these facilities is appropriate.”

The decision comes from an interest by Verizon Wireless to build a data center in Wyoming.

Jerry Hamann, UW Computer Science department head, said that the incentive is a very positive step toward providing opportunities for the students at the university.

“More than half the students leave the state for job opportunities,” he said.

The emigration of graduates from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is something that is a rather common occurrence across all programs, Hamann said.

“I would expect more frustration than what I actually hear. “

Whether a new Verizon Wireless data center could actually provide for jobs for UW graduates depends on the application of the data center, he said.

“There are a lot of aspects of data centers themselves that allow, what I describe, the technical staff to be remote, so there may well be people working around the world at a particular data center,” Hamann said. “But the ability to kind of work at a ground floor with design and implementation of things makes it nice to have it within our region.”

While the center would be a positive step, the trend of data centers coming to Wyoming is not a new one, he said.

“We actually do have some data centers in the state of Wyoming right now and with the Business Incubator space here in Laramie adjacent to the university, we do have some businesses already doing this and have been doing this for a few years, so I don’t think this is actually a brand new introduction to the state, but more people demonstrating that it increases the likelihood that more will come,” Hamann said.

One example of a data center in Wyoming is Greenhouse Data located in Cheyenne.

“They actually positioned it in Cheyenne, because they were able to take advantage of a large amount of renewable energy as the electrical base of power that they use for their data center,” Hamann said.

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EPSCoR is a federal and state matching grant program, which enables Wyoming to continue to be nationally competitive in science and technology.

UW cites four key goals of the EPSCoR program. 

These goals are to improve the research accomplishments of targeted faculty, making them capable of competing successfully for federal research dollars. 

The program also seeks to strengthen departmental and multidisciplinary research groups and work to introduce long-term improvements to the state’s science and engineering infrastructure. 

Finally, the program offers improvements in the state’s opportunities to strengthen technology-based economic initiatives. 

EPSCoR funding and state matching appropriations are utilized to build science and engineering in higher education and a technology-based economy for the future.

“This meeting is a national meeting of all the EPSCoR states. We are going to meet to chat about some of the plans for the upcoming conference next fall,” Turner said. 

Core programs funded by the EPSCoR program include undergrad research fellowships and the Summer Research Apprentice Program.

Undergraduate fellowships give students stipends to perform research with faculty members around campus, and SRAP invites top high school students in the region to come to UW during the summer to participate in a seven week paid internship program.

Turner noted that the UW EPSCoR program has worked to expand educational opportunities through the use of grants and stipends to give to student populations who have traditionally faced institutional barriers. 

She explained that while it is not the mandate of EPSCoR to focus on supporting traditionally marginalized students, it is how the program has evolved.

Turner went on to say that this evolution of the program has given many more woman and minority students the opportunity to participate in many cutting edge areas of research.

According to Turner, the UW EPSCoR program is currently running off of bridge funding, because the last grant proposed by the program was denied. 

However, Turner said she feels optimistic about the current grant her program is working on which will focus on water ecology, evaporation rates, and more related topics.

One upcoming project Turner highlighted that the UW EPSCoR program is focused on is the 2011 SRAP reunion, which will take place this upcoming May. 

At the May 2011 reunion, students who have attended SRAP in the past will be invited to come and discuss past and future projects in their fields of study.

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Fourteen black football players were dismissed from the football team for planning to protest a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints practice regarding black priests. After UW’s head coach Lloyd Eaton told these players that they could not protest during the game against BYU, the nation’s attitudes toward college athletes changed forever.

Kevin McKinney, senior associate athletic director of external affairs at the University of Wyoming, and radio announcer for Cowboy basketball, was working for UW Athletics during the Black 14 incident and, in the 41 years since, has seen the entire landscape of college athletics more forward.

“At the time, players were not only barred from protesting but from any self-expression. It was not explicitly a matter of race. Athletes couldn’t have earrings or tattoos at the time let alone protest,” McKinney said. “It wasn’t right, but it was what it was.”

For McKinney, the change was one that was ready to happen. The Black 14 represented the token moment in which the culture of college athletics changed.

“It has to start somewhere. The first person who went to an all-white school or this [the Black 14 protest] had to happen to accelerate the change to where we are now,” McKinney said.

That change was one that pushed the nation towards a sports culture more aware of individuals and of differences in identity.

“I think the value of it was that it made coaches more aware that every player has value,” McKinney said.

The current athletics program is now the most diverse place on campus, according to athletics director Tom Burman.

“The whole point to me of college athletics is to bring these diverse people together and make them play as one and feel as one. That [being diverse] is what college is all about. Bringing together people from everywhere. Then [1969], we had 14 black athletes. Now we have French kids playing with kids from Cody, Wyoming,” McKinney said.

The Black 14 represented a monumental change for UW and for sports in general. The freedom for athletes to protest now seems commonplace and individuality in sports is higher than ever. For McKinney, the change that Wyoming went through was important for all of college sports.

“It was a bad thing for Wyoming at the time. No doubt. But it was a good thing for accelerating the change,” he said.

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According to 2009 U.S. census data, Wyoming’s population is 93.5 percent white. Only 2.3 percent of Wyoming’s population is foreign-born, while the black population makes up an estimated 1.4 percent of the 544,270 people in Wyoming.

Athletics director Tom Burman has been a strong advocate for diversity in Wyoming Athletics, be it nationally or internationally throughout his time at Wyoming.

“I think it’s really, really important in an institution of higher education, that we try to be as diverse as possible whether it be racially diverse or culturally. We need to provide to the University of Wyoming, the city of Laramie and most importantly to the students a learning opportunity through diversity,” Burman said.

According to associate athletic director for media relations Tim Harkins, the men’s and women’s basketball teams lead the way for the number of international athletes.

Harkins said that the track, volleyball and women’s soccer programs are also strong in international diversity within the athletics department as well as women’s tennis, which is coached by Hungary native Kati Gyulai.

There are eleven international students participating in men’s athletics at Wyoming and 20 international students in women’s athletics, according to Wyoming Athletics.

Francisco Cruz is one of four members of the Cowboy basketball team who was born outside of the U.S.

Cruz, a native of Nogales, Mexico, moved to the U.S. prior to his junior year of high school and is proud to have the chance to play at the Division I level.

“It’s really cool being from Mexico. I mean, not many people from Mexico have a chance to play at the NCAA level,” Cruz said. “I think it’s pretty cool that people from France, Africa and all over the world get the chance to play basketball here [at UW].”

Burman echoed Cruz’s sentiments, pointing out the best parts about the most diverse team in Wyoming Athletics.

“You look at a basketball program like our men’s side…it’s a pretty neat mix of people. You’ve got a kid from Cody, Wyoming [Adam Waddell] playing next to Djibril Thiam from Senegal, with another French kid on the floor at the same time, a kid from Mexico and … a kid from a rough part of Ohio. You merge all those kids together and they learn how to respect each other and how to get along. When they become teammates, and it takes a little while, then it’s an incredible bond,” he said.

Burman has noticed that the department’s move towards diversity has not been entirely accepted.

“We often have African-American young men from the inner-city standing shoulder to shoulder with players from Buffalo, Wyoming [Chris Prosinski], and I think that’s great … but not everyone does. I get a lot of emails and correspondence from people in Wyoming that think that [recruiting other nationalities and ethnicities] is a waste of state resources,” Burman said.

The athletics department strives for diversity in their coaching staff as well. Burman said that while the department has no rules regarding minority hiring, they do emphasize global thinking during hiring and they advise coaches to maintain coaching staffs that match the diversity of their teams.

“There’s no place on campus that’s more diverse than our coaching staff,” Burman said. “We’ve still got a ways to go but we’ve hired more minorities in the last four or five years than we have ever.”

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From Wednesday to next Monday, the group will perform in Glenrock, Afton, Lander and Cody in front of the towns’ high school students.

The Singing Statesmen will be finishing their tour in Cody, where the Wyoming All-State Music Groups will be meeting.

“We will perform for all of the students who auditioned into the Wyoming All-State Band, Orchestra and Choir, as well as music educators from across the state, and family of the All-State students,” said Lamartine.

The group was chosen based on their involvement and dedication to UW’s fine arts program, specifically the local musical scene.

“The UW Singing Statesmen are a high-profile men’s choir that focuses on fine choral literature representative of various style periods and vocal traditions from the western choral tradition, specifically cowboy and western songs associated with the state of Wyoming,” Nicole Lamartine, director of choral activities for UW and conductor of The Singing Statesmen, said.

This group is comprised of 50 to 60 male students from UW and is a non-audition choir. All students interested are excepted.

“This ensemble is available to both music majors and non- music majors and represents a community of musically interested students from across campus,” Lamartine said.

In 2008, Lamartine came into the position of choral activities director.

Along with teaching music education curriculum, conducting and applied voice, Lamartine conducts the Singing Statesmen, the Collegiate Chorale and advises the male the a capella group, Happy Jacks.

The Singing Statesmen’s tour of Wyoming specific goal is to address and encourage singing potential in Wyoming.

“The ensemble has toured Wyoming with the objective to promote male singing to students at the high school and community college level,” Lamartine said.

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The nightmare got a little more terrifying after Moss’ latest performance on Wednesday night in Fort Worth.

The junior TCU guard ravaged the Cowboys with 27 points and 10 rebounds–both season highs–helping the Horned Frogs cruise to a commanding 78-60 win.

TCU (10-8, 1-2 MWC) used a 12-2 run at the conclusion of the first half to break open a tight contest, allowing the Horned Frogs to take what would prove to be an indomitable 39-23 lead into the break.

Moss had a Texas-sized hand in the Horned Frogs’ overwhelming performance.

A premier performer against the Cowboys throughout his career–Moss had scored in double figures in three of his previous four contests against Wyoming, playing a crucial role in each of TCU’s 3 victories during that span – Moss took things to another level on Wednesday.

Moss poured on the points, shooting 9-17 from the field and knocking down six shots from beyond the arc, and the 6’2” guard showcased every bit of his athleticism against the Cowboys, creating matchup problems all over the court and concluding the evening as the game’s leading rebounder.

When the Ronnie Moss highlight show wasn’t dazzling the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, it was a slew of other Horned Frogs who stepped up to pave the way.

Forward Carlon Green dropped 16 points in his best conference performance to date, and Nikola Cerina, Amric Fields, and Greg Hill all were in double figures with 10 points each.

It was a disappointing performance from the Cowboys (8-9, 1-1 MWC), who were coming off their biggest victory of the season – a 67-66 thriller over New Mexico after Francisco Cruz’s buzzer beater nipped the Lobos.

There would be no heroics this time, as a dismal outside shooting performance doomed Wyoming.

The Cowboys hit just four of 18 attempts from beyond the three-point arc, compared to the Horned Frogs’ sharpshooting 10-21 performance.

Cruz led Wyoming with 16 points, and Amath M’Baye added 13, but Wyoming simply could not establish any offensive rhythm against TCU–a poor showing which was due in part to the injury bug which has plagued Wyoming all season.

Senior forward Djibril Thiam did not make the trip due to a nagging turf toe injury, and junior guard JayDee Luster did not travel either as a result of a hip pointer injury he aggravated in practice this week.

Junior forward Adam Waddell, who has been hampered all season with an Achilles injury, showed signs of brilliance against New Mexico on Saturday, scoring 16 points and pulling down eight rebounds in just 23 minutes of play.

Waddell’s effectiveness was limited against the Horned Frogs, though, as the ankle flared up again during the week and slowed the Cowboys’ big man down.

Wyoming took perhaps an even more disheartening shot on Wednesday when it learned that junior guard Afam Muojeke will miss the remainder of the season due to severe knee injury which also ended his 2009-10 campaign and has lingered ever sence.

Muojeke had been severely slowed by the injury whenever he was able to make it onto the court this season, but he apparently reinjured the same knee

Sources indicated that Muojeke will likely undergo surgery next week.

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Sunshine grabs a football and throws it 60-some yards and hits the formerly-racist-but-now-accepting-of-his-black-teammates linebacker Gerry Bertier in the shoulder pads.

I hear this is how Austyn Carta-Samuels’ brief two-year career began at the University of Wyoming. That’s of course leaving out the fact that we already had a quarterback, because all we had was Dax Crum. Also, Carta-Samuels best attribute as a signal-caller was not his arm; it was his ability to use his legs. I won’t go as far as to say he throws like a girl, because that’s a third grade insult, but I will say that he throws like he’s from California. (Nor am I suggesting that the Cowboys had any sort of racial divide like in that movie, just to clear that up)

I guess the only thing that makes sense about this analogy is the blond haired kid from California.

Last year I saw an absolutely poignant photo of the football star someone caught while shooting a basketball game. Carta-Samuels, sporting a tight, white polo shirt with the collar popped up ever so stylishly, wearing a backwards LA Dodgers hat with his arm around some young lady right in the front row of the AA – like he thought he was LeBron or something.

I guess I’m not surprised he left, I’m just surprised there wasn’t a one-hour special on The Mtn., where he proclaimed that he was “Taking his talents to South Beach.”

The first way our program is going to get any better is if Christensen can build a recruiting base over a few years. In the months since the Cowboys finished their season, that hasn’t exactly happened.

Strong safety Shamiel Gary, kicker Ian Watts, wide receiver David Tooley, and, of course, the ‘Magna’ Carta-Samuels have all left the program.

Aside from “Remember the Titans” analogies, perhaps the other thing that the exit of Carta-Samuels brings to mind is similar exits of players from the Cowboy basketball team during the past few years. Scholarship players have bolted from the hoops team like it was going out of style in the years since Heath Schroyer has been coach.

Apparently, it’s becoming an epidemic in the likes of overrated athletic programs on this campus, i.e. football and basketball.

I understand the desire to leave a place like Laramie, especially in mid-January. California sounds really nice this time of year. On top of the ruthless, frigid weather, I couldn’t imagine playing for the Cowboys, it’s hard enough to watch them.

Not that anyone cares, but I also don’t believe he can be viewed as a highly desired prospect. There are deceiving statistics that might make teams think so, but all you have to do is watch him play.

He threw for 3,655 yards and 19 touchdowns with only 13 interceptions in two seasons, and he rushed for 758 yards and six touchdowns. The Cowboys won nine games and lost 13 that he started.

I don’t see him as a quarterback that can sustain drives, and I don’t believe that he’s anything more than a high school-style, running quarterback that is entirely too hesitant to throw the football sometimes.

Yes, he played a tough schedule both years that he was here. Yes, his receiving core and offensive line wasn’t outstanding. But the one thing I always wanted to see, and never did, was a big upset win from the guy.

In the past two years, Wyoming played No. 2 Texas (eventual BCS national runner up), BYU, TCU and Utah in 2009 when they were all very good teams, No. 3 Boise State this year, and another run against TCU and Utah this year. TCU won the Rose Bowl and Utah was ranked all season.

There’s no question that this schedule was quite formidable, but here are a few more stats that stick out to me.

Of his nine wins, not one came against a ranked opponent, and the combined record of the teams that the Cowboys defeated in the last two years with Carta-Samuels under center (all but two) is 43-66. Six of those points came from 1-AA Independent Southern Utah, which Wyoming beat 28-20 this year at home, and Wyoming’s combined margin of victory in seven of Carta-Samuels’ nine wins was 26 points. It’s largest margin of victory in that stretch was eight points.

The two wins not included in that stretch were against CSU this year when the Cowboys won 44-0, and their 2009 win over New Mexico 37-13. By the way, New Mexico has had two straight 1-11 seasons, with it’s one win this year coming against Carta-Samuels and the Cowboys.

It’s not that he didn’t do some good things as a true freshman, but that bowl run still seems to me as six wins against teams the Cowboys were supposed to beat. It was the same story this year. Three wins against teams we were supposed to beat – and not a single other win for that matter.

Did you ever notice how NFL teams switch quarterbacks after three losses even if it’s not the quarterback’s fault sometimes? I think Cowboy fans can view this as that sort of shift – even if it wasn’t a decision made by the coaching staff.

Sure, it’s obviously harsh to blame all this on one kid from California, but I’ll be the first to say I’m not devastated by his departure.

Later bro’, hang ten.

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Joe Riis graduated from UW with a degree in Wildlife Biology and Environment & Natural Resources.

Presenting a series of wildlife photographs from across Wyoming, Riis retraced his two-year project that led him through the Grand Teton National Park to the Red Desert in order to track, study and document the Wyoming Pronghorn migration. Initially, former UW grad Emilene Ostlind wrote essays on the Pronghorn migration but eventually asked Riis to help assist her on the project known as “Pronghorn Passage.” Coming only into contact with each other throughout the winter and spring seasons in order to share collected data, Riis describes his approach to discovering the pronghorn migration route.

“I walked the migration twice and that’s how, more or less, I figured out exactly where they were going. I was either following footprints or actively watching them, and after that I went to cameras,” Riis said.

Never wanting to disturb the animals in their natural habitat, Riis refrained from using flash at all times and instead resorted to what he calls “camera traps.”

“Essentially it is a just a normal, nice camera with a really wide-angle lens hooked up to an infrared-V and when the beam is broken it tells the camera when to take the picture,” he said.

Besides the rare occasion of having a black bear devour one of his cameras, Riis was able to gather images that depict the enduring hardships and dangerous conditions these animals are forced to overcome. Rapid-flowing rivers and busy highways serve as just two examples Riis presented as barriers to the pronghorn’s natural progression to the southern part of the state.

“One of the other issues with antelope is that they go under fences and if the wire is not at least 12 to 16 inches, they cannot go under and sometimes become caught in the fence because they are forced to jump,” he said.

Efforts are being made to improve the fences in order to allow easier, safer access to pronghorn.

Riis hopes that the Wyoming Pronghorn migration will also become the first national migration corridor and that, with time, other parts of the migration route will be designated as a protected area within Wyoming as well.

“All we’re trying to do is bring awareness to animal migrations, animal movements and try to help people realize that these animals need to move as temperatures change and as this planet shifts,” Riis said. “So we focused on the antelope but more of our goal was to help people visualize animals in their own backyard.”

Though his initial intentions for attending UW may have been for the opportunity to rock climb and snowboard, Riis’ passion for the outdoors has led him into the backcountry of Wyoming as a wildlife photojournalist as well as across the globe to parts of Asia and Africa with National Geographic to address current environmental issues and take pictures of large, meat-eating felines.

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Three floor levels

114 seat lecture hall

36 seat teaching laboratory

Public meeting areas

Seminar rooms

Offices

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Program in Ecology (PiE) administrative offices

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Three UW core research facilities: the Stable Isotope Facility (SIF), the Nucleic Acid Exploration Facility (NAEF), and the Macromolecular Core Equipment Facility (MCEF).

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Gov. Matt Mead spoke to the 61st Legislative session about jobs and economy, connectivity, infrastructure, assisting communities, streamlining government, education and dealing with federal issues.

Jobs and economy

Regarding jobs and economy, Mead said Wyoming needed to diversify its economy and focus its efforts toward Wyoming’s “natural advantages,” such as energy and tourism.

Mead also encouraged the manufacturing of wind turbines in Wyoming to promote job growth. Mead promoted “natural gas-fired turbines.” These turbines use natural gas to provide power when wind is not optimal.

“I am skeptical about man-made global warming without more and better science.”

However, he said he supported carbon injection technology and enhanced oil recovery.

Connectivity

Mead addressed increasing technology improvements to enrich personal lives and improve state government as well as other aspects of technology improvements. He proposed enhancing and adding more fiber optics to Wyoming rural communities.

Infrastructure

Mead called for improvements to be made toward the state’s infrastructure to enhance tourism and business. He said he supported additional supplemental appropriations for highways.

He said, “the recommended $52 million in supplemental funding this year makes reasonable progress on highway construction.”

Assisting communities

Mead emphasized the importance of financially supporting local communities.

Mead said, “specifically, I support diverting one half of one percent of the statutory severance tax on minerals and splitting it into thirds—one-third to local governments, one-third to highways and one-third to the state’s rainy day fund.”

Streamlining government

Mead addressed streamlining state government by reiterating his support for legislation that would consolidate the Department of Workforce Services and the Department of Employment.

Mead asked for the authority to allow him to appoint the head of the Health Care Financing Unit.

Education

Mead described the Wyoming education funding as “spending on a Cadillac education plan and not getting Cadillac results.”

Mead called for more rigorous testing to measure both student and teacher progress. Mead said he was interested in having charter schools move forward in Wyoming. He said he felt they could provide new ideas toward education.

Dealing with federal issues

Speaking about federal issues concerning Wyoming, Mead said the federal health care bill was bad policy and costly. He said he felt the law would significantly raise Medicaid rolls.

Mead said the cost of the lawsuit would be approximately $1,000.

However, the state Senate Minority Floor Leader John Hastert and House Minority Whip Mary Throne said the litigation fund created would be around $2 million dollars in a press release after the address.

Mead said he did support state healthcare solutions such as the expansion of healthcare. He added he felt the expansion of the program would allow for more data to develop more effective and less costly healthcare options.

Additionally, Mead also said he wanted a “balanced approach” when dealing with Wyoming minerals.

After the main points, Mead said misuse of prescription drug use was an issue as it exceeded “all other illegal drug and drunk-driving deaths combined.”

The state democratic response to the address said Mead addressed vital issues to Wyoming. However, the democrats felt Mead called for legislation that gave Wyoming contractors preference over state workers.

The state democrats also endorsed funding the Healthy Frontiers program.

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Unfortunately for the Cowgirls, the Horned Frogs were too much to handle Wednesday night, giving Wyoming arguably their toughest loss of the season, going down 68-47 to an impressive TCU team.

Senior guard Aubrey Vandiver gave Wyoming their first lead at 7-6 with a fade away jumper on the baseline before TCU went on a 7-0 run to make the score 13-7. The Cowgirls would take the lead again at 18-17 after a crowd-rousing layup from senior forward Hillary Carlson.

TCU would eventually end the first half with a 27-24 lead after a last second lay-in by sophomore forward Starr Crawford.

Crawford led the way for the Horned Frogs in the first half with six points and seven rebounds in just 14 minutes of play.

Vandiver was the star of the first half for Wyoming going 5-8 for 11 points while Carlson added six points and four rebounds.

Wyoming got off to a sluggish start in the second half allowing TCU to expand their lead to 38-26 at the 15:54 mark. TCU’s largest lead of the game was 22 points at the 1:18 mark.

The Cowgirls shot a meager 36.5% from the field and senior forward Hillary Carlson had one of her worst outings of the season, going scoreless in the first half.

Sophomore forward Chaundra Sewell was tops for the Cowgirls in points and rebounds with 18 and 9. Vandiver added 16 points for the Cowgirls.

Head coach Joe Legerski said in his postgame conference that TCU was the best team they’ve played all season and there’s a reason why they won the conference last season. He emphasized the fact that TCU has a very balanced team, seven players had between 6 and 11 points, and is hard to guard collectively.

“You don’t come into this place and think you are going to have a game like this. They have an excellent team and we were fortunate to play really well,” TCU coach Jeff Mittie said after the game. “You know how tough it is to come up here and leave with a win because [Wyoming] has such a quality team… it feels good.”

The Cowgirls head to Salt Lake City to take on Utah squad on Wednesday, January 19th at 3 p.m.

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