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Fifth-place Western Washington University trails leader Chico State by nine strokes heading into Tuesday's final round at the Grand Canyon University Men's Golf Spring Invitational being held at the Palm Valley Golf Course.
Western Washington University women's basketball guard Amanda Dunbar was named a Division II Bulletin second-team All-American in an announcement by the school on Monday, March 28.
During her senior season, Dunbar, who received honorable mention last year, averaged 13.1 points and 4.0 assists, second in the GNAC, in helping the Vikings to a 26-4 record, first-place in the GNAC regular-season standings, and the first round of the NCAA Division II West Regional.
The Western Washington University women's basketball team will welcome forward Sarah Hill, a transfer from NCAA Division I University of Maryland-Baltimore County, to its roster starting this fall.
Three Western Washington University athletes were honored by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference on Monday, March 28.
Distance runner Jordan Welling was named GNAC Outdoor Track and Field Male Athlete of the Week for March 20-27 after running the second-fastest men's 5,000 meter in GNAC history at the Stanford Invitational.
Anyone who cares about Lake Whatcom or clean drinking water has to be discouraged by the findings in the 2010 Lake Whatcom Monitoring Program.
The annual report compiled by scientists at Western Washington University has documented significant problems in the lake for more than two decades. Thirteen years ago, in 1998, the lake was listed as an "impaired waterbody" under the Clean Water Act because of a lack of oxygen.
Pasco High graduate Alison Luhrs desperately wanted to make her father, the late Kurt Luhrs, proud by taking up gymnastics as a kid.
But it was not for her.
"My dad tried so hard to get me into gymnastics, but I was never flexible enough," she explained. "I love the sport, but I'm lousy at it myself."
Instead, she found her mojo in comedy while attending Western Washington University in Bellingham. She joined the university's Dead Parrots Society, an improv comedy troupe.
The Western Washington University women's rowing team opened the 2011 season by easily winning all four events it competed in Saturday, March 26, at the Daffodil Cup Regatta on American Lake in Tacoma.
Western Washington University's Erika Quint pitched a five-hit shutout in the opener and picked up two wins overall on the mound as the Vikings swept Central Washington University in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader Sunday at Frederick Field.
Western Washington University's Ryan Brown was a NCAA Division II provisional national qualifier in winning the men's pole vault on Saturday, March 26, at the Club Northwest Spring Break Open Track and Field meet held at King's High School.
Western Washington University's Jordan Welling broke his own school record in the men's 5,000 meters with a NCAA Division II provisional national qualifying time of 14 minutes, 10.43 seconds on Friday, March 25, at the 37th annual Stanford University Track and Field Invitational at Palo Alto, Calif.