Sports Recreation
Sports
Western Wellness: Gym Jams
By The Front | October 19Freshman Cordell Cummings, 18, business major
Sports
Volleyball team catches fire
By The Front | October 19Despite having six losses on the season, the Western volleyball team finds itself in a position to make a postseason run. Currently ranked number 20 in the country and riding a five game win streak, Western is one of two teams from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in the American Volleyball Coaches Association top 25 poll. The other is defending conference champion University of Alaska Anchorage.
Sports
Opinion: NBA sells out
By The Front | October 18The NBA is selling out to outside corporations?
Sports
Chasing a championship
By The Front | October 18The Western men’s cross country team has been putting together an impressive run. After finishing second overall at the Saint Martin’s Open last month, the team secured fourth place at the 43rd Annual WWU Classic on Saturday, Oct. 8. Junior Isaac Derline finished his last race at the front of the pack after bouncing back from multiple injuries he dealt with last year. Derline is now looking toward the next two weeks and preparing for a strong finish at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships.
Sports
Weekly round-up
By The Front | October 18Last Result: Men finished fourth in 10,000 meter race at WWU Classic Saturday, Oct. 8.
Arts & Music
Playlist of the week: Young, Wild and Free
By The Front | October 17This playlist consists of songs portraying a lighthearted and upbeat temperament, in spite of the dreary fall weather we’ve been having lately.
Sports
Blades of glory
By The Front | October 11Senior Billy Holbrook serves as club president and team captain, of the Western hockey team. As club president, he is in charge of most of the team's operations, including travel accommodations.
Sports
Western earns GNAC honors
By The Front | October 11Western took multiple Great Northwest Athletic Conference player of the week honors for Sep. 26-Oct. 2 and Oct. 3-Oct. 9.
Sports
Men's soccer battles SPU to draw
By The Front | October 5Looking to bounce back from a road loss at the hands of Saint Martin’s University, the Western men’s soccer team traveled back home to face rival Seattle Pacific University in a Saturday Sept. 24 matchup.
Sports
A winning tradition
By The Front | October 4In the last decade, rugby has wiggled its way into the realm of American sports. It has become increasingly competitive at the collegiate level with roughly 1.1 million participants in the United States, according to USA Rugby.
Sports
Opinion: athletes demand change
By The Front | October 4It has been over a month since San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, sat during the national anthem prior to a preseason game in September. What happened next has been nothing short of a movement that has ignited a conversation about police brutality and the killing of unarmed black people by police in the United States. The peaceful protests have spanned from Garfield High School in Seattle, where the Bulldogs all knelt as a team prior to a game, to everywhere in between, including the Seattle Seahawks and the team’s arm-linking display of unity.
Sports
In the net with Ashley Homer
By The Front | October 4Ashley Homer is the starting goalkeeper for the Western women’s soccer team. She is a junior and plans on majoring in sociology. Homer transferred from College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and went to high school in Puyallup. After redshirting last season, she has started in all 10 games this season and has tallied six shutouts. Homer has helped lead the Vikings to a 9-0-1 start.
