MONMOUTH – The Western Oregon University baseball team earned a doubleheader victory at their home field on Saturday against the Concordia Cavaliers, clinching a 7-2 victory for their first game and posting their first shutout of the season to close out the evening 11-0.
SAN DIEGO — The Western Oregon men’s basketball season came to an end on Friday night when they fell to the Point Loma Sea Lions, 70-58 at Golden Gymnasium in the first round of the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball West Regional Championships.
PITTSBURG—Engaged in a multi-team battle to dethrone the two-time national champs, the Western Oregon University men’s distance medley relay team placed ninth overall while competing at the NCAA DII Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday.
PITTSBURG—Closing out her indoor career at the NCAA DII National Championships, Western Oregon University senior Olivia Woods placed fifth overall in the 800-meter run to earn her sixth career All-American honor.
MONMOUTH — The men’s distance medley relay team from Western Oregon University’s indoor track and field team is going to nationals this year for another shot at repeating All-American performances.
MONMOUTH — Olivia Woods will be the lone Wolf on Western Oregon University’s women’s indoor track and field team to be heading to the NCAA DII Indoor Track and Field Championships in Pittsburg, Kansas, on March 8-9, where she will compete in the 800-meters race.
PORTLAND — The Great Northwest Athletic Conference and the Lone Star Conference announced a non-conference scheduling alliance covering the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
PORTLAND—Closing out his indoor season with a runner-up result in Seattle, Western Oregon’s Max Carmona was named the GNAC Indoor Track & Field Runner of the Week, the league announced on Monday.
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Grabbing 41 votes, the Western Oregon University softball team was picked to repeat its finish in the conference standings by taking third in the GNAC Coaches’ Preseason Poll, the league announced on Thursday.
With Western Oregon University head baseball coach Kellen Walker back in action from taking time off last season, the Wolves baseball team is gearing up for another successful spring.
Western Oregon University’s softball team will be hit hard from the get-go with three big series, but head coach Lonny Sargent said he’s feeling good about where the team is at as it edges closer to the start of the season, Feb. 1.
Highlighted by four tournaments in four different states, the Western Oregon University softball team announced its 2019 schedule.
Western Oregon University women’s basketball Head Coach Holli Howard-Carpenter announced today the signing of high school standout Ahdra Klingler to a National Letter of Intent to attend WOU and play basketball starting in the fall of 2019.
The Western Oregon athletics department has announced Kacey Bingham as the next head coach of the Wolves’ women’s soccer program.
The Western Oregon athletics department has announced the hiring of Stacy Metro as the head coach of the Wolves’ volleyball team.
Quick hits for Dec. 19
Playing on their home court for the first time all season, the Western Oregon University women’s basketball team made sure their home debut was a solid performance by taking a 79-62 win over Northwest Christian Beacons.
Seniors Dustin Nading and Tyler Jones have crossed the finish line on their collegiate cross-country careers at Western Oregon University.
With a slow start to open up Great Northwest Athletic Conference play against Simon Frasier, the Western Oregon University Wolves eventually found the basket to secure a 72-58 victory on their home court Thursday night.
Sports roundups for Nov. 28
Western Oregon University men’s basketball team may have graduated one of the team’s key players, Tanner Omlid, as well as all but two seniors, but this season’s Wolves are making sure they keep to what they believe are the two main ingredients to be a successful team: culture and hard work.
Western Oregon University head women’s basketball coach Holli Howard-Carpenter announced on Wednesday Nevada Union’s Meadow Aragon as the team’s first signing for the program’s 2019 recruiting class.
Growth will be the theme for this year’s group of women, many of them newcomers, that make up the roster of the Western Oregon University women’s basketball team.
The Western Oregon Wolves opened their regular season on Nov. 15 with an 80-65 win, pulling away late from the Warner Pacific Knights at their home gym.
Roundups for Nov. 14
If Western Oregon University’s men’s basketball team was supposed to be over matched against No. 14 Oregon Ducks in Thursday’s exhibition game at Matthew Knight Arena, the guys on the WOU roster didn’t get the message.
Quick hits for Nov. 7
If there were to be a poster child of what any coach would want as a model cross-country runner, Rachel Bayly would be it.
Spend five minutes with Dr. Emily Vala-Haynes, an assistant professor of community health education at Western Oregon University, as well as a volunteer assistant cross-country and track and field coach, and it’s obvious why she was chosen to receive the 2017-18 Faculty Mentor Award, presented by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Western Oregon University’s volleyball team dropped a frustrating and hard-fought five-set match against Saint Martin’s at home on Thursday night.
The Wolves (5-12 overall, 2-8 GNAC) were no match for Western Washington University (15-3 overall, 10-0 GNAC) on Saturday night as they lost in a 3-0 sweep on their home court at Western Oregon University.
Sports briefs for Oct. 10
The Wolves lost their GNAC home opener on Saturday against Central Washington 50-17, with the Wildcats outscoring the Wolves in each quarter and starting the first off with a 12-3 lead.
Thursday, the Wolves opened the first match of the Concordia Tournament with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-17) loss against Northern State.
Coming off a rough season last year, the Wolves volleyball team is already shaping up to be in a better spot now than they were throughout last year.
The Western Oregon University baseball and softball fields are receiving a substantial makeover this summer.
Fall sports are just around the corner, and the Wolves women’s soccer team participated in a scrimmage against Chemeketa Community College on Thursday to get the preseason started.
Western Oregon University is looking to expand support for its student-athlete population in a new fundraising campaign titled “Drive for 325.”
Friday, the GNAC Track and Field championships saw 12 Western Oregon University athletes advance onto Saturday’s finals, scoring in five events and crowning a meet champion for the first day of the meet, held at McArthur Field in Monmouth.
Friday, seven Wolves were named to the Academic All-GNAC list.
Wolves get three more players for 2018 season
There are only a handful of women in the nation who are collegiate directors of sports performance.
Friday, the Wolves (15-13, 15-10, GNAC) started their weekend off against Concordia (13-22, 12-13 GNAC) with a win at Porter Park in Portland.
WOU roundups
With last week’s strong performance at the Stanford Invitational, the men’s track team breaks into the No. 19 position in the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association poll.
With near perfect weather conditions to buffer the enthusiasm, Western Oregon University’s track and field team set more than 30 personal records on Friday at the John Knight Twilight event at MacArthur field in Monmouth.
Sports schedule for April 4
If you watch David Ribich and Dustin Nading, mid-distance runners on Western Oregon’s Track and Field team, interact with one another off the track, you would never know that they both nabbed national championship and All-American titles this past indoor track season; they’re guys who like to poke fun at each other and set up Dungeons and Dragons campaigns with their friends.
One run was enough in Friday’s opening game of Western Oregon baseball team’s four-game series with Northwest Nazarene University.
Western Oregon University won a double-header Saturday and split two games on Sunday in a four-game series against Concordia on their opponent’s home field.
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