Sports & Outdoors

As the Seattle Seahawks lined up on the 1 yard line with 26 seconds left in the Super Bowl a suffocating silence overcame my living room.  I was squatting down biting my blue and green beanie with nervousness; others were clasping sweaty palms together with eyes fixed on the TV, waiting to see what drama would unfold.  As Russell Wilson’s ill-fated pass fell into the hands of Patriots cornerback Malcom Butler it felt as if a gunshot went off.  The people in the room rooting against the Seahawks exploded with...

Despite having only three races under their collective belts this semester, the men’s and women’s track and field teams have gotten off to a bright start in 2015. Allanah Whitehall (Seattle, Wash.) put her mark on Puget Sound history in the first event of the year by grabbing a record in the indoor 60-meter dash. She broke the previous school record that she set at 8.14 seconds with a time of 7.79 seconds in the University of Washington indoor preview on Saturday Jan. 17. She went two-for-two at the University...

Continuing on the theme of sports teams here in the northwest, there has been a swarm of media attention around the National Basketball Association’s All-Star team selections. Damian Lillard of the Portland Trailblazers, former Rookie of the Year and two-time All-Star selection, is the focus of many arguments on the subject of who should be selected for the honor of being selected for one of the two All-Star teams. The NBA All-Star teams are selected by a group of coaches and community members who vote on the 12 players they...

  Ultimate Frisbee is a rapidly growing sport that combines elements of soccer, basketball and football and is represented by not one, but two teams here at Puget Sound. Ultimate Frisbee—commonly referred to as Ultimate—is a sport in which a Frisbee is moved around the field by passes thrown from player to player on a team. The object of Ultimate is to move the Frisbee starting from one end of the field to the end zone at the opposite end. A successful completion of a pass inside the end zone...

  The University of Puget Sound’s softball team dropped both games in their doubleheader against Northwestern University on Feb. 14. Puget Sound lost the first game with a score of 8-1 and lost the second game with a score of 10-3. The team’s record changes to 0-6 after the weekend. Softball’s doubleheader against Northwestern University is the last preseason series before the team starts conference play against Pacific at home on Feb. 28. Conference foe Linfield is ranked 17th in the nation. “Before going into conference play, our team needs...

The nationally ranked Puget Sound women’s basketball team (20-3 overall, 11-3 NWC) extended its winning streak to five games this weekend with two road wins, beating Linfield College 96-77 on Friday night and beating Lewis and Clark College 69-53 on Saturday night. The Loggers, ranked 22nd nationally (d3hoops.com), opened up the weekend with a historic offensive output, setting a program record with 96 points in its victory over Linfield (10-13 overall, 4-10 NWC). This effort was led by junior guard Emily Sheldon (Portland, Ore.) who scored 22 points along with...

The University of Puget Sound Women’s basketball team is ranked 22 in the nation with a 18-3 record with four games left in the season. In the previous week they beat Pacific Lutheran University, Pacific (Ore.) and Willamette all on the road.  The Logger’s finish their five game road trip with Linfield and Lewis & Clark on the Feb. 13 and Feb. 14 respectively. The last two games of the regular season are at home against Whitman on Feb. 20 and Whitworth on Feb. 21. Whitworth is responsible for one...

After a long and eventful offseason, the Logger baseball team opens up another season starting at Pomona-Pitzer on Feb.6. Coming off their best record since 2011 (17-19 overall, 14-10 NWC) and winning 10 of their last 12 games last year, the team entered the offseason with high expectations and optimism for the next year.  However, in June an unexpected change came to the program, as former head coach Brian Billings resigned from his position.  Billings was replaced by Jeff Halstead, a Puget Sound alumni and the offensive coordinator for the...