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Marting’s 6 seconds of effort rallies football
In her opening monologue from “The Blind Side,” Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) orates on the swift ferocity of football: “From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four...
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Berry College defense downs football Bears 20-13
The Washington University football team’s high-flying offense has been grounded. After averaging 515 total yards and 37 points per game in the first three weeks, the Bears were limited to a season-low...
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Women win, men tie as soccer squares off with Rochester
To kick off University Athletic Association play for the season, both the Washington University men’s and women’s soccer teams hosted the University of Rochester. Both Bears teams combined to outshoot...
View ArticleSeeing Double: Women’s tennis advance 2 pairs to final round
After battling through wind, low temperatures and some of the best athletes the Midwest had to offer, junior Rebecca Ho and senior Aly Coran captured the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central...
View ArticleMen’s soccer stifled, suffers 1-0 loss to Emory
The first time the Washington University men’s soccer team and Emory University squared off in 1986, the teams battled to a 0-0 stalemate. Twenty-nine years later, matchups between these two teams...
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Fall sports by the numbers
Now that we’re about halfway through the fall season, here are some of the best Bears stats, hand-picked and dissected for your pleasure. Student Life Archives Volleyball 1: The Bears’ national...
View ArticleFootball wins on the road for 1st time in 2 years, beats Sewanee 38 – 14
Utilizing their trademark up-tempo passing attack and opportunistic ground game, the Bears steamrollered Sewanee: The University of the South 38-14 on a Saturday afternoon game on enemy soil. The win...
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Sheredy, Dupont eclipse 1,000 kills as volleyball downs Westminster
For two careers that have paralleled each other in so many ways, it seems fitting that junior outside hitter Rexi Sheredy and junior middle hitter Caroline Dupont would notch their greatest milestone...
View ArticleAthletic Department details athlete compensation plan
Laid out end to end, the expenses pile high for an athlete. Equipment, personal lessons, travel expenses, road food and lodging and medical treatment all find their way onto the bill. These financial...
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Confessions of a teenage Mets fan
The memory is almost too vivid. I stood in the doorway to my parents’ room raptly watching the TV, hands on my head, too nervous to sit down. My mom dressed in her nightgown, working on her laptop. My...
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Football falls to Hendrix 51-54 in wild finish
Despite a record-shattering offensive day in Conway, Ark., the Washington University football team found itself on the Hendrix College 14-yard line with four seconds left in regulation and in need of...
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Women and men’s soccer gear up for pair of tournament runs
For the first time since 2012, the Washington University men’s and women’s soccer teams both find themselves in the NCAA tournament—albeit under different circumstances. The men enjoyed an overall...
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Men’s soccer loses 8-7 in penalty kicks to DePauw
By the time junior back Kevin Goon stared down the DePauw University goalkeeper from about 12 yards, eight other members of the Washington University men’s soccer team had assumed the same lonely...
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Football tops Chicago 37-23 in last regular season game
In the Washington University football team’s final game of the season, senior tailback Cody Ratermann rushed for 171 yards on 30 carried, both career highs, to lift the Bears to a comfortable 37-23...
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Senior departures clear way for Sanders, youth to take center stage
There are a plethora of youth movements happening in Missouri and the rest of the nation. This one happens to be on the Washington University Field House hardwood. On Saturday night, the Washington...
View ArticleWash. U. athletic director Josh Whitman reportedly hired by Illinois
Washington University’s athletic director Josh Whitman has been hired as the new athletic director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to reports from the Chicago Tribune....
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Wash. U. AD Josh Whitman hired by Illinois
Washington University’s athletic director Josh Whitman has been hired as the new athletic director of Division I University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His tenure begins March 21. Whitman departs...
View ArticleBehind intact pitching, softball sweeps opening weekend in dominant fashion
Every year senior ace Annie Pitkin has been on the Washington University softball pitching staff, she’s improved. As a freshman, she put together a 3.28 ERA in 111 innings. As a sophomore, it was 1.96...
View ArticleBasketball rolls past Brandeis and NYU, women secure UAA title
Traveling northeast for their penultimate regular season weekend, the Washington University men’s and women’s basketball teams arrived in Waltham, Mass., under very different circumstances. The No. 9...
View ArticleWomen falter early, earn 5th place at ITA indoors
The seventh-seeded Washington University women’s tennis team battled to a fifth-place finish in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Championship Friday through Saturday at DePauw University....
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