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The Whitworth football team hopes all reasons for high expectations will be on display Saturday when the Pirates make their regular-season home debut.

ORANGE, Calif. – Luis Salgado and Austin Ewing scored rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter, as Whitworth scored 14 unanswered points to beat Chapman in a nonconference game on Saturday.

Storylines to watch, strength and weaknesses for the Pirates' upcoming season. 

Game by game analysis and predictions for the Whitworth Pirates 2023 season.

The Whitworth Pirates kicked off their 2023 season with the first day of fall camp on Thursday.

In an ever-more competitive Northwest Conference, Whitworth’s football team fell short of its own on-field expectations last year, finishing 6-4 overall and in fourth place (4-3) in the eight-team conference.

Putting maximum effort into her academics and athletics resulted in Whitworth University swimmer Carly Hoff being named the Northwest Conference Athlete of the Year and nominated as an NCAA Woman of the Year.

The first Whitworth University softball player to earn Academic All-American honors since 2017, Mattea Nelson has been nothing short of impressive.

SWARTHMORE, Penn. – For a moment, it appeared the Whitworth Pirates might pull off a huge comeback Friday in their NCAA Division III Tournament men’s basketball opener.

After playing his first three Division III NCAA Tournament games in Texas, Jerry Twenge said he’s happy that the Whitworth Pirates are finally getting a taste of the East Coast.

The Division III NCAA Tournament selection committee either has a sense of irony or history – or perhaps both. That’s because on Monday it opted to send the Whitworth men’s basketball team to a pod with Swarthmore College, the team the Pirates were slated to face in the Round of 16 three years ago, when the sports world shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.