Sports & Outdoors

Puget Sound’s track and field team has been busy over the past two weeks, participating in two major events and producing good results in both. The team traveled to Parkland, Wash. on Tuesday, April 16 to represent Puget Sound in the NWC Multi Event Championships. The competition featured a traditional decathalon for the men and a heptathlon (seven events). Individuals gain points based on performance in the events, and whoever finishes the two-day event with the most overall points is crowned the winner. Only four Loggers attended this special event,...

Behind sophomore Adam Bean (Portland, Ore.) and junior Derek Wilson (Issaquah, Wash.) the men’s golf team placed third behind Whitworth and Linfield in the Northwest Conference Championship on April 21 in Woodburn, Ore. Bean finished his season shooting even par rounds both days for a total score of 144 and took third place alone.  He entered the second day one stroke behind the leader Adam Reuben, but the freshman from Linfield posted another 71 (-1) to take medalist honors. Wilson shot a 148 (+4), which put him in a tie...

Men’s lacrosse here at Puget Sound is one of more than 200 non-NCAA collegiate teams that compete within the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association. A member of the Division II South division of the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League, Puget Sound lacrosse competes with schools such as Gonzaga, Western Washington, Central Washington and Pacific Lutheran. The Loggers (2-2 PNCLL, 2-6 overall) are currently holding the third spot out of the five teams in their conference, below first place Gonzaga (3-0 PNCLL, 7-2 overall) and second place Western Washington (2-1 PNCLL, 3-7...

It was a busy and long weekend for the Puget Sound baseball team as they entered into the last half of the season. The team traveled south to Oregon on Saturday, April 13 to play a doubleheader against Lewis and Clark. The final game of the series was on Sunday, April 14. The Loggers had a slow start in the beginning of the series, losing the first game, but they managed to come back strong to take the final. During the first game the Loggers struggled to get on the...

The Logger women’s tennis team was riding quite a wave of momentum into their final week of the season. The team had not lost in over a month, winning 10 straight matches since their March 8 defeat at the hands of Lewis and Clark. And because of that success, they had played themselves into contention for the Northwest Conference Tournament, a postseason berth going to just the top four schools in the conference. The Loggers entered the weekend slotted comfortably in the third spot in the conference. But it would...

No one enjoys waking up at 4:30 every weekday to subject themselves to freezing water and brisk Puget Sound air, which makes up the so-called deathly morning practices for the men’s and women’s crew squads. But when this sacrifice leads to reaching a historic landmark in Puget Sound athletics, it makes grinding out each morning on the water feel so much sweeter. Both crew teams captured the Meyer-Lamberth Cups on Saturday, April 13 to complete the Drive for 125 victories across all varsity athletic sports, sweeping the feeble opponent that...

The red-hot Loggers continued their dominating season, steamrolling the Lutes from Pacific Lutheran on Friday, April 5 for their ninth consecutive win and improving to 12-3 overall and 6-3 in Northwest Conference competition. Puget Sound was able to inch its way closer to securing a conference playoff bid thanks in large part to senior Maddie Thiesse (Chanhassen, Minn.) and sophomore Alison Embernate (Kihei, Hawaii) who teamed up to win the #1 doubles match 8-3. Juniors Marissa Friedman (Novato, Calif.) and Logan Thompson (Decorah, Iowa) also won their singles matches in...

The University of Puget Sound does not merely play host to varsity athletics. Its fields are also home to a variety of club teams such as rugby, men’s lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee and soccer. The athletes that make up these teams are just as talented and skilled in their sport as the varsity athletes on this campus, if not, dare it be said, better. However, these teams do not receive the same recognition as the varsity sports on campus. Varsity sports are given priority in terms of field time yet this...