Sports & Outdoors

This past week on Sept. 13, the Puget Sound women’s soccer team had a dramatic and surprising game against local rivals, Pacific Lutheran University. The sun was bright and the fans in the stands were ecstatic as the game began. Within the first 15 minutes Lauren Larson of PLU took several quick opportunities to score, leaving the Logger ladies surprised but not discouraged with a score of 2-0. This score lasted for the rest of the first half, with many attempted scores by  Puget Sound. Every attempt to score in...

Senior Jocelyn Riordan (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) is an iconic Logger. I was especially excited to interview Jocelyn because, as the basketball manager, I was lucky enough to see her as a role model on and off the court. Since her sophomore year, she has been chosen for an All-NWC selection, along with being a NWC student athlete of the week for basketball. This season, in a game against Whitworth, Riordan became the seventh-highest scorer in school history. “It was really nice to be able to have milestones and show...

There has always been great emphasis placed the varsity sports teams on this campus, however this interest has been focused on just that: teams.  Football, soccer, baseball and volleyball (just to name a few) have been the sports of interest on the Puget Sound campus.  Whether or not that interest is for negative or positive reasons is left to the sports enthusiasts. However, the Puget Sound campus is home to more than just the fast-paced contact sports.  It is also home to a very talented group of individual athletes in...