While most Whitman students dress in flannels, Birkenstocks, and Patagonia jackets, Whitman athletes can be found proudly wearing other symbols of athletic wear.
Over the past weekend the Whitman women's tennis team was hard at work at the USTA/ ITA Fall Regional Tournament, their first major tournament of the season. The stakes at this competition are high, as every participant competes for the few available positions in the USTA/ITA Fall National tournament in Mobile, Alabama, and All-American recognition.
Whitman tennis pulled off an NWC championship tournament double this past weekend, as both the men's and women's teams capped off fantastic seasons with conference tournament titles and automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament.
In this week's Sports Blog wrap-up, Whitman baseball closes out its home schedule while the tennis and golf teams wrap up successful spring seasons as they gear up for a weekend of conference championship tournament.
In this week's wrap-up: women's tennis maintains second place, baseball drops its weekend series to first-place Pacific and men's tennis sweeps a pair of matches to come within one victory of its sixth consecutive NWC regular season title.
In only their first year of collegiate tennis, twins Courtney and Morgan Lawless have already established a Texas-sized competitive spirit on the Whitman campus.
