Sports & Outdoors

The Puget Sound men’s cross country team is having a strong season. The Northwest Conference championship season began on November 2 in Spokane where the Loggers placed in (insert results). The team started off their season with the Puget Sound Invitational where they placed first. Their last event was on October 19 at the Pioneer Invitational hosted by Lewis and Clark College at McIver Park where the team was ranked in fifth place out of 12 schools. The team saw their best overall performance at this invitational along with Willamette’s...

  Loggers suffered a hard loss Saturday in front of a stadium packed with students and parents. The Loggers were hoping to get a win over a struggling Whitworth team for homecoming and parent weekend.While the final score does not reflect the rest of the game, the Loggers were still unsuccessful, losing 33-14. The Loggers had the ball on the first drive, but quickly lost it with a fumble on the kickoff. From there Whitworth had a seven play 34-yard drive for the touchdown with 14 minutes left in the...

The women’s soccer team is well on their way to a conference title after securing a win against George Fox University on Sunday Oct. 27. The Loggers pulled off a 2-1 victory and continued a winning streak of nine games. The first period of the game was a standoff, with neither team scoring. Puget Sound made nine shots during the first half but no attempts were successful. The Loggers had an early possession of the ball and made their first attempt for a shot within the 2nd minute of the...

Two meets into the season, the Puget Sound men’s and women’s swim teams are one win and one loss in. The Loggers still have a long season ahead of them with multiple meets and invitational games to establish their status as a team. The women’s swim team this year has a good variety of members on the team with a somewhat equal mix of each grade as well as the events each swimmer participates in. While there are students from all grades, a major change in the team has been...

While the University of Puget Sound offers traditional college sports such as football, soccer, basketball and more, they also highly support unique sports such as women’s and men’s crew. Rowing is a very intricate sport with a variety of line-ups of a boat along with specific positions and techniques. A setup of a boat includes the coxswain and a number of rowers depending on the size of the boat or shell that the team races. At Puget Sound, the varsity men’s team races in three kinds of shells; 8+, the...

Students at Puget Sound are known for passion and having a variety of interests and involvements. This is especially evident in student athletes like senior Casey Thayer (Boulder, Colo). Thayer is known for her goalkeeping skills on the soccer team, but like many student athletes she has been involved on multiple teams at the University. Thayer has been playing soccer since she was four but was originally recruited to play basketball at the University. “At first I thought I would only be able to play basketball,” Thayer said. “But when...