Hall of Fame: Varsity Athletics

Hall of Fame: Varsity Athletics

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief Each athlete below was chosen for a number of different reasons, including their stats for this season, their stats for their entire career at Western and the records they made while here. Take a look at the trading cards below for the...

Hall of Fame: Club Sports

Hall of Fame: Club Sports

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This year proved to be a successful one for Club Sports — each team had something to be proud of, and each had players worth recognizing. The coaches of each sport were asked to nominate their top player and their top rookie of the year;...

Western Rugby All-Stars reigned victorious

Western Rugby All-Stars reigned victorious

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief On the weekend of May 25-27, three Western Oregon Rugby All-Stars headed to Houston, Texas to battle it out and see which regional team would come out on top. A week prior to this game, the men were already aware that seniors Alex Treat...

“The Motown Throwdown” follow-up

“The Motown Throwdown” follow-up

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief On April 26, 2017, The Western Journal published a story titled “The Motown Throwdown,” written by our then Sports Editor, Burke De Boer. The story delved into the tradition that occurred each Spring at Western, then called Oregon College...

Softball: A 2019 wrap-up

Softball: A 2019 wrap-up

Paul F. Davis | Managing Editor While most students were in class thinking about what they wanted to do the upcoming weekend instead of listening to their professors, Western Oregon’s Softball team was making history. The Wolves’s Softball team tied Western’s all-time...

Western hosts GNAC Track & Field Championships

Western hosts GNAC Track & Field Championships

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief In both the temperature and in events, records were ready to broken at the GNAC Track & Field Championships. On Friday, May 10, ten schools came together to be deemed champions, competing in 87-degree-weather. Western, Alaska...