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May 21, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney |Oliver Smith
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Oliver Smith (So., San Jose, CA/Pioneer HS) from the Willamette University men's golf team has been chosen for the NCAA Division III PING All-Region 7 Team for the 2023-24 season by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). The All-Region 7 Team included 15 golfers from the West Coast and Texas. Smith was one of just two golfers from the Northwest Conference who earned All-Region 7 honors.
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May 21, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney |Lily Bachiochi
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Willamette University junior attacker Lily Bachiochi (Henderson, NV/Coronado HS) has been named Second Team All-West Region by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) for the 2024 season. The All-West Region Team included 32 players with 16 players on the First Team and 16 players on the Second Team.
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May 20, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney |Seth Beach |Camdin Dirnberger
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- The Willamette University football team has seven seniors or graduate students whose academic success has qualified them for the Hampshire Honor Society Class of 2024.
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May 14, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Willamette University women's track and field student-athlete Tenley Grant (Jr., Longview, WA/Kelso HS) attended the 2024 NCAA Inclusion Forum in Indianapolis, Indiana, from April 24-26 as a participant and a panelist. The four-day event provided significant programming organized and led by the NCAA office of inclusion.
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May 3, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Executive Board has been elected at Willamette University for the 2024-25 athletic year. Each fall and spring at Willamette, the SAAC Executive Board features six student-athletes who lead the SAAC during meetings and oversee projects throughout the fall, winter, and spring athletic seasons.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- The Willamette University Division of Student Affairs announced its annual Honors and Awards last week, and seven Bearcats competing in athletics were among the recipients.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Willamette University student-athletes Tenley Grant from women's track and field and Abbey Staniec (So., Stockton, CA/Lincoln HS) from women's triathlon and women's swimming have been elected to the 2024-25 Northwest Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Executive Board. The NWC SAAC provides a connection between student-athletes in the conference and the NWC Office, coaching groups, and the NCAA.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney |Carolyn Y. Ho |Ashley Wren Collins |Kaitlin Imai
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- The Willamette University Bearcats have been selected for the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament and will open the 64-team bracket by playing Millikin University (Illinois) in the first round on Friday, March 1 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Willamette, the Northwest Conference regular season champion, is 17-9 on the season and 12-3 in the last 15 games.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Aric Williams has been hired as the head football coach at Willamette University and will begin his duties immediately. Williams, who played cornerback at Oregon State University and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, has been an assistant coach at several NCAA Division I universities, and was most recently the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the past two seasons at Montana Tech.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
wubearcats.com | Robert McKinney
By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, CommunicationsSALEM, Ore. -- Willamette University junior forward Elyse Waldal (Snohomish, WA/Glacier Peak HS/Linfield University) has been chosen as the Northwest Conference Women's Basketball Student-Athlete of the Week for her efforts in victories on the road against Whitworth University on Friday, Dec. 1 and at Whitman College on Saturday, Dec. 2. The Bearcats defeated Whitworth 77-71 and downed #17-ranked Whitman 66-61.
