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...
Baseball
Athletics burgled again; investigation ensues
The Athletics department's burglary saga continues after thieves struck Spencer Fieldhouse during the Tiger baseball games against Willamette University Feb. 13. This theft, which...
Baseball
Athletes of the Week
Devon DeRaad* In the final game of the three game series against Chapman University Saturday, outfielder and pitcher Devon DeRaad (junior) went 2 for 3...
Golf
Bubba Watson wins again in the Pacific Palisades
For the second time in three years, 37-year-old Bubba Watson won the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. The victory...
Baseball
Sport houses create community, memories
Team houses are more than just the places where current and former members of Occidental’s athletic teams live together. They are where groups of...
Men's Tennis
Under Godfree, tennis enters spring season optimistic
Reeling from last season’s losing records, the men's and women’s tennis teams face uncertain futures as they approach the spring season with a new...
Softball
Revamped softball squad victorious in thriller
The Occidental women’s softball team (1-1) split a pair of knock-down drag-out games at Bell Field in their season opener against the Lewis and...
Golf
Golf teams look to improve on successful fall seasons
Prior to the start of the fall semester, Occidental Athletics announced that men's and women's golf head coach Andrew Larkin would be leaving the...
Sports
First family of drag racing builds on legacy
The John Force Racing team, which includes 16-time Funny Car champion John Force, his daughters Brittany, Courtney and Ashley and son-in-law Robert Hight, has...
