Sports & Outdoors

It was an eventful weekend for the Logger swim team. On Jan. 28, the Loggers headed East to face Whitworth and Whitman in a double dual. The women’s team has been undefeated all season and the men’s team received their first loss of the season the previous weekend against cross-town rivals Pacific Lutheran. This weekend, both Logger teams fought hard against Whitworth and Whitman, but sadly lost their respective meets. Freshman Melissa Norrish (Denver, Colo.) led the Logger women with wins in the 200 fly and 100 fly. Norrish gave...

I have been questioned, many times, as to why I am the sports editor of The Trail.  I am five feet and four inches tall and when people look at me, my appearance does not scream sports aficionado or even athlete.  To be fair, I am not a sports aficionado. I watch the Super Bowl for the funny commercials and the half time show and never even mention the World Series.  However, I am an athlete. I was a high school athlete.  I played tennis for three years and was...

Swimming talent runs in the Kitson family, as the siblings came out big in their meet against Linfield. “We don’t compete that much just because boys are a lot faster than girls. We have always both swum backstroke, but I lost the ability to beat him when he hit puberty,” Kenzie Kitson said. Her younger brother, sophomore Teale Kitson (Durango, Colo.), won three events while his sister senior, Kenzie Kitson (Durango, Colo.), won two. “Swimming with my brother on the team has actually felt pretty normal. We get along well...

Ultimate Frisbee is a popular and growing sport on the Puget Sound campus.  The Ultimate Frisbee team is one club sport that deserves recognition for their talent and their overall campus involvement. The sport of Ultimate Frisbee combines aspects of different sports, such as football’s end zone and soccer’s style of passing. The sport is played with a flying disc, and the overall object is for the game is to score points by passing the disc to players in the opponent’s end zone. Ultimate frisbee gains popularity every year. One...