Sports
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‘She wanted more’: Olivia Haga’s soccer journey beyond Oxy
Olivia Haga ‘23 played for the Occidental women’s soccer team and has played professionally overseas since graduating. Haga said her path to the pros...
Sports
Men’s soccer kicks off as favorite in SCIAC preseason poll
The Occidental men’s soccer team was voted No. 1 in the SCIAC Preseason Poll. The 2025 SCIAC regular season and tournament champions, who exited...
Sports
Larry Layne bestows gift upon Oxy rugby
As of April 23, the Larry Layne Trust has pledged more than $9 million to Occidental in support of its academic mission and the...
Sports
Athletes of the week Nicholas Karamian, Melanie Rodriguez dive into 2026 season
Nicholas Karamian Nicholas Karamian (sophomore) scored 9 goals and 10 points in the first four games of the season for the men’s water polo team....
Sports
The grass is always greener with Occidental’s health and wellness research team
Exercise is medicine, kinesiology professor Marcella Raney '01 said. For the past 12 years, Raney has led student-research teams to investigate the intersections between kinesiology...
Sports
The NBA has gotten soft, and it’s time for that to change
Soccer players are constantly dragged by athletes and fans of other sports for diving — I was called a "grass fairy" often when I...
Sports
US-China relations play out in NBA controversy
Hiayi Zhao (senior), a student from mainland China, spoke about the relationship between the NBA and U.S.-China international relations during a talk in Choi...
Basketball
Occidental winter sports prepare for 2019-2020 competition
The fall sports season is coming to an end, but winter sports teams have been preparing since the early fall for their fast approaching...
Players Of The Week
Nugent, Meeker blitz the field as The Occidental’s Athletes of the Week
Jack Meeker Jack Meeker (junior) won SCIAC Offensive Player of the Week honors this week, scoring Occidental’s lone goal in their 1–0 win over California...
Sports
Behind the scenes: Recruiters & athletes make Occidental home for prospective athletes
According to the NCAA website, Division III schools strive to create a recruiting environment that emphasizes the student-athlete's well-being. The student's interests are the...
Sports
MLB should improve domestic violence policy
The longest season in American sports has come to an end, but that doesn't mean the headlines have. Some are speculative: one, for example,...
Cross Country
From gym to JSTOR, student-athlete-researchers make the most of their college careers
This October, the Council on Undergraduate Research awarded Occidental the 2019 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) in recognition of the college's vast number of...
