Football focused on 2010 season
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Sept. 1, 2010) – With a lot of new faces on the field as the 2010 season approaches, the objective remains the same: compete and succeed. Both are entirely achievable for the Black and Orange as a solid core of players returns to the gridiron, joined by an energetic and talented group of rookies. The ultimate goal is for the Occidental College football team to win a league title and return to the playoffs after posting a 7-2 overall record a year ago, finishing second in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (Sept. 1, 2010) – A few weeks ago the women’s cross country team was labeled as the No. 3 team in the West Region. Today, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released the National pre-season poll, which ranked the Tigers No. 33 among more than 400 schools across the country.
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. (Aug. 22, 2010) – The Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) announced the Division III preseason rankings last week and the Occidental College Tigers landed at number 10 in the nation entering their 2010 campaign.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Aug. 21, 2010) – Occidental College head football coach Dale Widolff will be suspended without pay from Sept. 1 to Oct. 10 for violation of NCAA rules and internal college policies, college officials announced today.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (Aug. 18, 2010) – Announced last week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) , the Occidental College men’s cross country team is ranked sixth in the Division III West Region pre-season poll.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (Aug. 18, 2010) – In the 2010 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll released last week, the Occidental College women’s cross country team landed as the third ranked team in the West Region entering the season.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (August 10, 2010) – Announced at the end of July by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), a trio of Occidental College athletes were named to the 2010 Division III All-Academic track & field team.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (August 9, 2010) – In late June the Occidental College women’s water polo team was recognized by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) for their accomplishments, not in the pool, but in the classrooms. With four individuals garnering Academic All-American recognition in 2010, the team compiled an overall 3.21 grade point average, placing them 10th among all teams, in all divisions, in the country.
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. (August 9, 2010) – Three Tigers from the Occidental College water polo team were named to Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Division III All-America teams, the most in the program's seven-year history. The two-meter tandem of junior Julie Monday and freshman Nanea Fijuyama were named to the First Team All-America while junior Karie Nickle earned Second Team recognition.
TORRINGTON, Conn. (July 20, 2010) – Oxy baseball is well represented on the east coast this summer, as Brooks Belter has found a home in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, a league made up hopeful future Major League Baseball prospects. Belter made a name for himself, not by just battling his way onto the Torrington Titans of the ACBL, but by becoming one of their most effective relief pitchers, sporting a 0.692 ERA with twenty strikeouts in just seven appearances so far this summer.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 4, 2010) – After leading the Tigers to an undefeated regular season in 2008, Justin Goltz was not ready to call it a career. His drive led him to the NFL, where in 2009 his passion landed him in training camp with the Detroit Lions. The newly resurrected United Football League will be where Goltz calls home in 2010. The 2008 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference offensive player of the year was the number one draft choice of the Sacramento Mountain Lions head coach Dennis Green.
BEREA, Ohio (May 27, 2010) – In her first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Track & Field Championships, Occidental junior Kelly Young, threw her way to All-American status with a seven-foot personal best in the javelin on day one of the 2010 Division III Championships.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (May 25, 2010) – Announced today by Occidental College Director of Athletics, Jaime Hoffman, Radames Lafaurie has been named the men’s soccer Head Coach beginning this fall.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (May 24, 2010) – Announced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Occidental College women’s track and field team will be sending junior thrower Kelly Young to the 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, May 26-28.
CLAREMONT, Calif. (May 15, 2010) – California State University, Los Angeles hosted a last chance meet, in which three Tiger student-athletes competed with the hopes of reaching season best marks in their respective events.
