Sports & Outdoors

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee or SAAC as they are more commonly known is a committee made up of members from each NCAA sports team. SAAC committees are common throughout the Northwest Conference. SAAC member softball player Aryn Grause (Corvallis, Ore.)  explains, “Every NCAA school has a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and each one acts and performs a little differently than the next school. But here, SAAC is a committee that consists of two representatives from all 22 varsity teams on Campus. We meet biweekly. We vote on legislation (mostly rules)...

The Puget Sound baseball team is coming off a great year. In their previous season the team went 12-12 in conference play and 19-21 in the whole season, many of the returners earned honors. Sophomore Matt Robinson (Lafayette, Calif.) earned second team honors as a freshman pitcher and Senior Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash.), and juniors Casey Coberly (Boise, Id.), Matt Cox (Salem, Ore.), and Will Mentor (Seattle, Wash.) all earned Northwest Conference honorable mention last season. Senior Kainoa Correa (Hilo, Hawaii) is planning on making his last season a memorable...

The Logger track team has been gearing up for their 2011 season  since their return to campus a week early from Christmas break. Their first meet was Saturday, Feb. 5 in Nampa, Idaho, where a couple of school records were broken. Junior Andrea Leiken (Portland, Ore.) broke her own school record in the 400 meter with 1:01.17. She also broke the school’s three-year-old record in the 200 meter with a 26.81.  Leiken, along with freshmen Meg Gilbertson (Clackamas, Ore.), Brenda Seymour (Seattle, Wash.) and Alicia Burns (Spokane Valley, Wash.) broke...

The Husky Invitational was held in Federal Way on Dec. 3. The Loggers performed exceptionally well with both the men and women placing third at the Invite. It was a great day for many of the swimmers, with goals met and records broken. Freshman Derek Frenzel (Moscow, Idaho) had four top-5 finishes in addition to setting a Northwest Conference record in the 200 meter butterfly, recording a time of 1:51.90 in the even, earning a “B” cut. Throughout the three-day meet,  Frenzel placed second in the 100 back and the...

For the first time in history FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) chose Qatar, a small, oil-rich middle-eastern country, to host the 2022 World Cup. This is the first time that a Middle-Eastern country has been chosen to host this event, and it is the smallest country chosen since Uruguay in 1930. Qatar beat out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States. One problem that Qatar is faced with is being able to cool open-topped stadiums in their extreme desert conditions.  FIFA was worried that these extreme conditions would...