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Athletic leadership team ushers in new era
Trio of top administrators in the athletic department are new in 2024-25 Fans following Linfield’s athletic programs over the past couple of decades probably know of Scott Brosius ’01. He’s arguably the best-known professional athlete among Linfield alumni – 11 years in Major League Baseball, more than 1,000 hits, three World Series titles and a…
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Cheer and dance add 21 new students this fall
Chants from the sidelines sound a little louder this fall thanks to a stellar recruiting season for the Linfield cheer and dance programs. The teams, now at 50 squad members, accounted for 21 new first-year students this fall. Gina Regalado, in her sixth year as dance coach, is joined by first-year cheer coach (and daughter-in-law)…
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Class of 2024 inducted into Athletics Hall of Fame
The Linfield community celebrated the induction of the newest class of Wildcat greats into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26. The Class of 2024 includes:
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The Streak extends to 68 winning seasons
With a win over the University of Puget Sound on Oct. 26, the Wildcat football team secured its 68th consecutive winning season, the longest in college football history. No other college or university at any level is within 24 years of that record. Linfield’s Archives and Special Collections has an oral history project featuring interviews…
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Home events for winter sports begin in November
As the fall sports seasons move into post-season, things are heating up indoors with Linfield’s winter sports. After hosting exhibition games in October, the women’s basketball team competes in away matchups in early November. The men’s basketball team also starts with a string of road games. Both teams return to McMinnville for a doubleheader on…
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Night at the Museum returns Jan. 24
The men’s and women’s wrestling teams once again host the annual Night at the Museum wrestling event on Friday, Jan. 26, 2025, at the Evergreen Air and Space Museum. At last year’s inaugural event, Linfield split a dual match with Umpqua Community College. Fans in attendance were treated to a series of intense matches, with…
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1984 NAIA Championship team honored at homecoming
Members of Linfield’s 1984 NAIA championship football team celebrated the 40th anniversary of their historic season at the Oct. 12 football game against Lewis & Clark. The 1984 Wildcat football team clinched the NAIA Division II football national championship after coming back from a 22-point second-half deficit to beat Northwestern (Iowa) 36-22. During the season,…
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New head coaches join Linfield Athletics
“Our new coaches are strong additions to the Wildcat Athletics team,” athletics director Scott Brosius ’01 said. “Each brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to the athletic, academic and social development of our student-athletes.” LACEY BELL, VOLLEYBALL: Bell brings 15 years of professional and semi-professional international playing experience to her position, most…
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Checking every box
Kaili Saathoff ’25 is a force on the field, in the classroom and the community Since arriving at Linfield, Kaili Saathoff ’25 has compiled a rare resume of all-around accomplishment. The list starts with Saathoff receiving what is considered the highest scholarly honor for an NCAA Division III softball student-athlete last spring. That’s when she…
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An unforgettable season
Linfield softball returned to the NCAA Division III championship, finishing with a 50-4 record and ranking No. 3 in the nation.
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WildX encourages crucial conversation
By Maddie Loverich ’22 Only days after the death of George Floyd and a subsequent protest movement that began to sweep the country in May 2020, staff members in Linfield’s athletic department came together to create a way for students to process and discuss what was going on in the world. With that, WildXchange, or…
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Swanson selected as CoSIDA Academic All-American
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) named Linfield defensive lineman Travis Swanson ’21 to the Academic All-America Division III Football team. Swanson is among 51 honorees, and the only one from a Division III college or university on the West Coast. Swanson earned a GPA of 3.88. A native of Hailey, Idaho, and…
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Track and field athletes place in national championships
Meg Angier ’21 and Matt Metcalf ’22 earned All-America honors by being top finishers at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May. Angier, an environmental policy major from Beaverton, placed fourth overall in the women’s pole vault with a jump of 12 feet, 3½ inches. She is the fourth NCAA All-American…
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177 named NWC Scholar-Athletes
The Northwest Conference announced its Scholar-Athletes in July, among them 177 Wildcats, up from 163 a year ago. To be eligible, a student-athlete must have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher at the end of the 2020-21 academic year and must have participated throughout the entire varsity season.
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Soccer and lacrosse teams break in new turf
When men’s and women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams returned to campus in January, they were welcomed back with 10,000 square feet of new FieldTurf™. It marked the most significant upgrade in the history of the Linfield soccer/lacrosse field. The improvements to the field – including updating the drainage, adding storage facilities and installing the…
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Seeing the big picture
Six buses. Forty-two king-size beds. Four two-car garages. A Starbucks. A lot, it turns out, can fit into 1,800 square feet, the footprint of Linfield’s new digital display board at Maxwell Field. The screen, measuring 60 feet by 30 feet, is the second largest in NCAA Division III athletics. Located at the northeast corner of…
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Hooping it up
It was a season for the ages for the Linfield men’s basketball team. Whitman dealt the Wildcats a 85-70 loss in the Northwest Conference Tournament semifinals at Ted Wilson Gymnasium in late February, but it hardly dampened all that the team accomplished. Linfield finished with a 20-6 record, the most successful season in almost two…
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Two new faces join Linfield’s coaching community
In January, Haley Doerfler was tapped to lead the women’s volleyball program, becoming the first woman to guide the Wildcats since Robin Vealey led Linfield to a 30-7 record and the Northwest Conference championship in 1979. Doerfler comes to McMinnville following a season as an assistant coach at Seattle Pacific University and another at the…
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A great football game, even in defeat
According to ESPN.com, Linfield was involved in one of college football’s greatest games of the 2019 season. It was No. 83 on ESPN’s list, to be exact, and it was the Wildcats’ final game of the year — the 68-65 triple-overtime loss at Chapman in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. Need…
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Informal focus group
Students share Gen Z insights with Major League Baseball executives By Travis McGuire Engaging with younger audiences is a whole new ball game for professional sports leagues and franchises, and Generation Z is a key demographic for Major League Baseball. To continue MLB’s goal of connecting with young people, league marketing executives invited Linfield students…