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| American Ninja Warrior and WWU Track Athlete JoJo Grubesic Likes to Fly High | When met with a challenge, Western Washington University student JoJo Grubesic is the type of person who uses the obstacle as motivation to work harder. In some cases, the obstacle is a metaphor, and in other cases, like when she’s participating in American Ninja Warrior, these… |
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| Vikings cap historic 2025-26 season with national success, conference dominance and academic excellence | |||
| Western rower’s final push for a national title depends on relentless schedule | 4 a.m. on a Wednesday. While most students at Western Washington University are enjoying a few more hours of sleep, traffic is quiet and the sky remains dark, Janisa Cook wakes to her alarm and starts her day as coxswain for the women’s rowing team. |
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| WWU Spotlight: Calvin Gutierrez | Athletes talk about being “in the zone” — that rare, sublime experience where you are locked into the moment and time slows. You are hitting the sweet spot, your swing is perfect, the ball appears huge and accomplishment is close to effortless. Calvin Gutierrez, a Western… |
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| WWU women’s rowing sweeps podium to clinch GNAC title | Western Washington University women’s rowing team clinched the Great Northwest Athletic Conference title with a perfect team score of 30 after winning both Varsity 8+ and Varsity 4+ races Saturday, May 16 at Lake Natoma in Gold River, California. The No. 1 nationally… |
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| Western softball eliminated in NCAA West Regional | Western Washington’s softball season came to an end on Friday, May 15 as the Vikings dropped back-to-back games at the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships in Hayward, California. After a lengthy video review at the end of the first game that did not fall in… |
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| Longtime Ferndale coach, star safety at WWU dies at 76 | Vic Randall, who coached and taught at Ferndale High School for 43 years and was a standout safety at Western (then Western Washington State College), died Sunday, May 10 at age 76 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Randall, born Sept. 9, 1949, in Mount Vernon, was a star… |
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| Western softball sets sight on third straight conference title | Western Washington University’s softball team recently punched its ticket to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball championships, set for Ellensburg from May 7-9 after winning three of four games against Saint Martin’s. The Vikings season was a roller-coaster ride that consisted… |
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| Western softball grand slams through Northwest Nazarene in first round of GNAC tournament | Western Washington University’s Maleah Andrews added to her postseason resumé once again after hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning to give the Vikings an 11-2 mercy-rule victory over Northwest Nazarene in the opening round of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball… |
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| WWU track and field teams sweep GNAC Championships for fourth straight year | Western Washington University’s men’s and women’s track and field teams each captured team titles for the fourth consecutive year at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships, May 4–5 at Central Washington University. |