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Western women fall to CWU in tourney title match

Playing for its first Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship since 2014, Western Washington’s conference-leading defense could not bail out the Vikings this time. 

A painful shooting performance, their second in three games, and record-setting rebounding from in-state rival…

2022-03-07
Western women turn back Saint Martin's upset bid

The top-seeded Western Washington University women escaped an upset by feisty Saint Martin’s University, beating the No. 9 seed, 60-54 in the quarterfinal round of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference tournament Thursday afternoon at Marcus Pavilion in Lacey.

It was the tournament…

2022-03-04
Western hoops squads begin tourney quests

Home sweet home is a nice concept, but the Western Washington University women’s basketball team’s greatest success this year has come when they’ve packed their toothbrushes.

That’s been more by necessity than design: the team (18-4 overall, 10-4 conference) has played just six games at…

2022-03-03
Western's Tatum Dow finds success on two fields

Western softball senior Tatum Dow didn't start playing the sport until she was in high school.

She also hated softball at first. 

Until her first year of high school, Dow had been a baseball player. 

Coming from a big baseball family, she started with T-ball, playing with…

2022-03-03
Top-seeded WWU hosts regional volleyball championships 2018-11-15
WWU Volleyball hosts regional tournament beginning Thursday

Competition begins at noon Thursday at Carver Gym on the WWU campus.  The Vikings open against Cal State East Bay at 7:30 PM.

2018-11-15
‘It was like he was in your car with you’: Popular Seattle DJ Norm Gregory dies at 74

Gregory was a local guy, through and through. A 1962 graduate of Roosevelt High School, he went to Western Washington University on a basketball scholarship (he stood 6-foot-7) and earned a degree in Education.

But he had been enthralled by radio since childhood,…

2018-09-26
Siaan Rojas to play for Colombian national team

Western Washington University men’s basketball player Siaan Rojas will play for the Colombian National Team in the upcoming South American Games that will be held May 26-June 8 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.“This will be a great opportunity for Siaan and I am very proud that he will be representing…

2018-05-24
WWU Athletics Inducts Five into Hall of Fame Class of 2018

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Five former student-athletes, all of whom helped their respective sports to national tournament success, made up the Class…

2018-05-21
Vikings selected for NCAA Rowing Championships

For the 17th time in the last 18 years, the Vikings will compete for the NCAA Division II national title at the 2018 NCAA Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida. 

2018-05-15
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