Sports

Retired student-athletes Hulett and Jorsling stay involved in their sports

Elizabeth Hulett Elizabeth Hulett (senior), a former outside hitter on the volleyball team, said she became a student coach after competing with Occidental for three...

Tiger Talk puts the mic in athletes’ hands

Tiger Talk is a podcast run by Oxy Athletics that allows student-athletes to share their voices and personalities while promoting their teams across campus....

Competitiveness drives success for Athletes of the Week Wolak and Reyes-Sanchez

Owen Wolak The men’s golf team competed in The Clash, a tournament hosted by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Oct. 19-20. Owen Wolak (senior) tied for first against...

Shum and Gersch achieve SCIAC Athlete of the Week recognitions

Jasmine Shum Volleyball outside hitter Jasmine Shum (sophomore) earned SCIAC Offensive Athlete of the Week honors after leading Occidental to a 2-0 week with wins...

Lucido, Nagel create waves as The Occidental’s Athletes of the Week

Siena Lucido Siena Lucido (sophomore) of Occidental’s swim and dive team swam a personal best of 2:34:94 in the 200 breaststroke in the dual meet against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps...

Womxn’s rugby forfeits home opener following first half injuries

Over the weekend of Feb. 1, two Occidental womxn's rugby players were injured in a particularly violent game against California State University, Long Beach...

‘He was always kind of superhuman’: Occidental athletes react to Kobe Bryant’s death

Over quiet Marketplace breakfasts and late-morning practices on the field, iPhone news alerts and Twitter notifications lit up the screens of Occidental students across...

Maylene Hughes and Caleb Yellin-Flaherty score The Occidental’s Athlete of the Week

Caleb Yellin-Flaherty Occidental forward Caleb Yellin-Flaherty (senior) led the Occidental men's basketball team to an 87–73 win over Pomona-Pitzer Jan. 25. The game was a rematch of last...

The Kobe Dilemma: How should we remember the Mamba?

Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault In 2003, Kobe Bryant was charged with one count of felony sexual assault following an alleged rape of a 19-year-old hotel employee in...

EADA report gives insight into Occidental’s athletic budget

Between July 2018 and July 2019, Occidental spent over $3.7 million on the athletics program and received almost $4.2 million in revenue, according to the Equity...

Winter sports athletes take center stage as this week’s Athletes of the Week

Sydney Shipp Occidental men's basketball guard Sydney Shipp (first year) scored 15 points off the bench in Occidental’s 88–76 win over West Coast Baptist University...

Tough on and off the field, student athletes work and heal in the training room

When Kulaea Tulua (sophomore) is not busy in class, playing on Occidental's women's basketball team or running with the women's track and field team, she...