Sports
Sports
Athletes of the Week Kent Ortiz and Sloane Shoop shut down the competition
Sloane Shoop Sloane Shoop (sophomore) made four blocks against Willamette University during the Whittier - La Verne Invitational Sept. 11, leading the Occidental volleyball team to their fourth...
Sports
Baseball and volleyball set standard of academic excellence
Occidental baseball and volleyball earned the 2025-26 American Baseball Coaches Associations' (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award and American Volleyball Coaches Associations' (AVCA) Team Academic...
Sports
‘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...
Football
Coach Cushman bring the basics back to Occidental
This August, Occidental's football team hired a new head coach after previous coach, Doug Semones, retired. Rob Cushman, entering his 39th year in the...
Sports
Concussions not just an issue for athletes
Sports are all fun and games until someone gets a head injury. When that happens, they are very, very serious — so serious they...
Sports
For boxing, racism leads to more money
The entertainment value of Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor was off the charts this past August. It was a boxer versus a martial artist,...
Sports
Jaime Hoffman, Occidental athletic director
Athletic Director Jaime Hoffman has gone from being an athlete, to leading athletes as a coach, to leading a team of coaches. Since June...
Sports
Conlon twins: The secret weapons of Occidental athletics
If you’ve attended a sporting event at Occidental this year, you’ve likely seen seniors Anya and Greta Conlon shouting statistics at each other, setting...
Sports
Occidental spring sports draw to a close
As the spring semester draws to a close, so do the sports seasons for a number of Occidental athletic teams. Another year of competition,...
Lacrosse
No hardware for Reese, Tigers as they bow out of SCIAC tournament
A solid regular season earned the Occidental women's lacrosse team (11-6) a berth in the four-team SCIAC playoff tournament. In a six-team conference, Occidental...
Sports
From the editors: Why our coverage of DIII matters
This semester, we, the sports editors at the Weekly, have tried to focus our coverage of Occidental's division III sports teams on the players...
