Last year, they were division champions but lost the regional championship. This year, the Western men’s baseball team aim to advance even further.
Both Vikings basketball teams finished their regular seasons Saturday, Feb. 25 with home wins on senior night. Now, the teams will be rolling into the Great Northwest Athletic Conference with first round byes while they prepare to take on their next challengers.
Western softball’s freshman pitcher Anna Kasner has arrived in style.
An up-and-down meet was highlighted by a first place individual finish for junior Anna Paradee in the pole vault at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Championships.
Rewrite the record books, because Western men’s basketball senior forward Jeffrey Parker has made history.
Senior Guard Taylor Stafford might’ve only had one season of eligibility for the Vikings, but that is all the time he needed to be named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player and Newcomer of the Year.
Junior pole vaulter Anna Paradee is the only Western athlete to qualify for the 2017 NCAA Division II Indoor Championship out of Western’s 90 track and field team members.
The women’s championship in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference proved to be a tough battle, with the Western women’s basketball team falling to University of Alaska Anchorage in the second half.
The Great Northwest Athletic Conference men’s championship game came down to the wire Saturday, March 4, at the Marcus Pavilion in Lacey.
Western men’s basketball fended off a ferocious comeback bid from Seattle Pacific University to secure an 89-87 win, and its first Greater Northwest Athletic Conference division title since 2014.
Western hockey is advancing to nationals after beating Eastern Washington University. The final score was 11-1 at the North Pacific Hockey Conference championship in Cheney Sunday, Feb. 19.
“I live up in the Ridge, so there’s [a tennis court] right there,” La said.
“I try to spend time with other people,” sophomore Ryan Thon said. “It gives me a chance to do nothing but sit and listen and sometimes, although I try not to, sit and talk. But that can also be relaxing and a way to get stuff off of my chest, which I think is self-love.”
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