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;...

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...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This year, first-year lacrosse player Jonathan Williams, an exercise science major, was named 3rd Team All American under the MCLA. This is the first time since 2015 that a player has achieved an All-American ranking; a feat that Williams...

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...

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...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This spring, Haley Fabian, a senior business major, took her final year at Western as an opportunity to prove herself on the field as a fierce competitor. She earned First Team All-GNAC accolades, and she was a D2CCA All-West Region...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief For those looking to get active with low commitment, to get to know their community or simply wanting something to do two nights a week, the Independence Community Engagement Manager, Ramón Martínez, has the answer. He has spearheaded a...

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...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief Hannah Greene, a junior Spanish major, began playing soccer at 3-years-old. Right from the start, she fell in love with it. “There was no trying to get me to do other things,” said Greene. “They put me in ballet, and I got kicked out … I...

Lake Larsen | Former Sports Editor With both the NHL and NBA playoff races in full swing, whittling away teams to find the 2019 champions, something caught my eye. Maybe there is an “I” in team. By this, I mean that the whole of professional sports is seeming to drift...