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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Cross country shakes up competition at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble

Select members of Occidental cross country competed against several nationally ranked teams at the Oberlin College Inter-Regional Rumble Oct. 10 in Oberlin, Ohio. The Occidental...

Joey Schwartz and Lydia Montgomery speed to victory as The Occidental’s Athletes of the Week

Joey Schwartz Joey Schwartz (first year) of men’s soccer won SCIAC Offensive Athlete of the Week for scoring both of Occidental’s goals against California Lutheran University Oct. 19. According...

Archiving the “blood, sweat and tears” of the Womxn’s Rugby Team

Last spring, Hope Fowler (senior) went to Special Collections hoping to find old documents and photos to archive the history of the Occidental womxn's rugby team. She found one...

Behind-the-scenes: games management student employees set the stage for Occidental athletics

Students who earn their work study awards by working in games management are often the ones who set up and run sports games at...