All Northwest Conference games, meets suspended until 2021
UPDATED: 6:46 p.m.
No games in sight, but masked-up Whitworth athletes stay focused on goals
UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 23, 2020
Members of the offensive line trotted out to the practice field behind the Whitworth Fieldhouse, their masks on as they began their first practice in a fall. They did so with no certain plans to play a football game anytime soon.
Sports talk from The Spokesman-Review, featuring Larry Weir.
No games in sight, but masked-up Whitworth athletes stay focused on goals
UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 23, 2020
Members of the offensive line trotted out to the practice field behind the Whitworth Fieldhouse, their masks on as they began their first practice in a fall. They did so with no certain plans to play a football game anytime soon.
Opening of Whitworth Athletic Leadership Team Center a bright spot for Pirates
UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020
In a season of social distancing, there is irony in the Whitworth athletics department celebrating the fact that nearly all their coaches can now – after years spent in five different buildings – be together under the same roof.
Whitworth athletics preps for busy spring slate, even with NCAA championships canceled for traditional fall sports
UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 5, 2020
For as much as spring sports were disrupted when NCAA Division III sports shut down in March, fall sports weren’t spared, either.
20 for 20: Ranking Whitworth’s top 20 athletes since 2000
Sun., Aug. 2, 2020
With 21 varsity sports offered, the Whitworth athletic department has produced no shortage of decorated athletes in the past 20 years.
Northwest Conference postpones start of high-contact fall sports until spring of 2021
UPDATED: Wed., July 22, 2020
Many winter and spring athletes at Whitworth had their seasons cut short earlier this year due to the pandemic, but there was hope that come fall, a return to normalcy would be possible.
‘You’re trying to make contingency plans for everything’ Whitworth’s fall sports face uncertainty due to schedule changes
UPDATED: Tue., July 14, 2020
As Division I conferences have made moves toward a conference-only football season this fall, Division III programs like Whitworth face uncertainty of their own.
Unbeaten Whitworth learns it will host Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in first round of D-III playoffs
Sun., Nov. 11, 2018
Whitworth will host thClaremont-Mudd-Scripps at noon Saturday, its first playoff home game since 2006.
Whitworth blanks Willamette for fifth undefeated regular season in school football history
UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 10, 2018
The Whitworth Pirates put an exclamation point on their undefeated regular season Saturday.
Whitworth looks to finish unblemished regular season against one-win Willamette
UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 9, 2018
Coach Rod Sandberg told his Whitworth Pirates football team this week that their season is half over.
Leif Ericksen, Garrett McKay help Whitworth rally past Lewis & Clark to remain unbeaten
UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 3, 2018
On an afternoon when he wasn’t great, Whitworth quarterback Leif Ericksen made the throws he had to. And when he had to, he looked for Garrett McKay.
Whitworth not overlooking Lewis & Clark with Northwest Conference title on the line
UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 2, 2018
The 12th-ranked Whitworth football team will take the field at the Pine Bowl on Saturday in need of one more win to claim the Northwest Conference championship and a spot in the playoffs.
One win away from clinching a conference title, Whitworth has no plans of slowing down after the regular season ends
UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 31, 2018
All that stands between Whitworth (7-0) and a playoff appearance is a win against either of the bottom two teams in the NWC standings: Lewis & Clark on Saturday, or Willamette the week after. One win clinches one of the 26 automatic playoff bids awarded to conference champions.