Integration through Soccer
Jose Guerrero Coronado, Staff Reporter
April 12, 2018
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As the Uruguayan national soccer squad walked to the pitch, there was one man that caught the attention of many. On a team composed almost exclusively of players of European descent - like José Nasazzi and Héctor Scarone - José Leandro Andrade was the only black player on the field. With his speed...
Whitman’s Two-Sport Athlete
Jordan O’Roy, Staff Reporter
April 12, 2018
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Two-sport varsity athletes are few and far between at the collegiate level. At Whitman, we have only one two-sport varsity athlete out of 255 varsity athletes. Sophomore Jimmy Jacobson represents Whitman College as an athlete participating on both the varsity men’s soccer team and varsity men’s golf...
Baseball Pushes Towards Postseason
Jordan O'Roy, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2018
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Whitman baseball began its winning streak this spring break and eventually extended the streak to five games for the Blues (15-16, 10-8 NWC) who began by taking three wins at George Fox University. Whitworth University fell to 10-12 overall and 5-6 in the league after suffering two losses to the Blues....
Women’s Golf Climbs the Rankings
Susanna Williams, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2018
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On March 16 to 18, the women’s golf team travelled across the country to compete in the Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational. Hosted by Oglethorpe University, the tournament took place at the Indian Mounds Golf Course in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Shiyang Fan and Phoebe Nguyen both performed well; Nguyen...
Onionfest: The Ultimate Costume Party
Emily Solomon, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2018
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Onionfest, the annual Ultimate Frisbee tournament, was hosted by Whitman’s Men’s and Women’s Sweets this past weekend. This tournament brought many club and college Ultimate Frisbee teams to campus from all around the Northwest. Onionfest is a non-sanctioned event, so teams include players from a...
Swimming Solo in Indianapolis
Jordan O'Roy, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2018
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This year the NCAA 2018 Division III Swimming and Diving Championship meet was hosted in Indianapolis at the famed Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI) Natatorium. Making her second straight appearance at the national meet, sophomore Mara Selznick was invited to represent Whitm...
March Madness
Susanna Williams, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2018
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On March 17, 1939 the first NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament began; only eight teams competed, with the University of Oregon reigning victorious over Ohio State. Every year since, fans have gathered in stadiums across the country and around their televisions to see a now 68-team field duke...
War Torn Sports
Jose Guerrero Coronado, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2018
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When he was young, Oscar Figueroa hated gold. Mining gold was a tough job. It involved being in the sun for hours, wet and covered in mud, using plates to filter the millimetric gold particles from the Nechi river in Colombia. At the Rio Olympics in 2016, Oscar could not contain the tears when he...
The Division 3 Referees
Jose Guerrero Coronado, Staff Reporter
March 8, 2018
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Whitman basketball lost the Northwest Conference Championship Game to Whitworth and out of all the plays and points scored in the game, the crowd could only think about the call at the end. For some, the shot came after the buzzer, and for others, right before it, but the only opinion that mattered in...
Are Athletes Missing Out on Social Life?
John Lyon, Staff Reporter
March 8, 2018
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The average weekday for an in-season athlete at Whitman might consist of a morning workout, followed by class, a quick lunch with teammates, practice for 3 or more hours, dinner at Reid and then a study session in the library (again with teammates). On the weekends, athletes are either busy with competi...
The F.B.I. Cracks Down on College Athletics
Jordan O'Roy, Staff Reporter
March 8, 2018
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As some may now know, there has been a recent discovery of scandals amongst the NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams. This scandal has been mainly targeted around the University of Arizona, where the FBI was able to gather evidence to uncover the basketball scandal that has been going on for years....
Photos: Men’s BB Top Schreiner in NCAA Round 1
Ridley Eastland-Fruit, Web Editor
March 3, 2018
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The 27-1 Whitman Blues men's basketball team glided past visiting Schreiner University 87-77 in NCAA Round 1 action Friday night. The Blues, ranked #1 all season in the D3hoops.com rankings, will face Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the second round of the national tournament Saturday night. Earlier Friday, CMS ended Whitworth's season in dramatic fashion with an 83-82 edge. The Whitworth Pirates had entered the tournament ranked #2 on D3hoops.com, having seized the NWC Tournament title from Whitman in a buzzer beater last weekend. Whitman's women's basketball team earned an NCAA at-large bid last week but...
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