The Bears came back to win their season opener in convincing fashion on Sept. 7. Under the lights in Memphis, WashU defeated the Rhodes College Lynx 44-20, exploding for 34 points in the second half.
The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) has revoked the Washington University football team’s associate membership, a CCIW spokesman confirmed to Student Life Friday, Sep. 6. WashU will remain an associate member of the conference until the 2025 season concludes.
In 2024, the Bears have a new coach, new tactics, and one objective: to make it back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2021. They came out of the gate flying, sweeping a weekend doubleheader to start the season 2-0.
While they will need to overcome some adversity to get there, Bears football has every reason to be optimistic about the upcoming season.
In 2021, WashU’s pitching ace turned down a software engineering job to play minor league baseball. Three years later, he’s beginning to reap the rewards of the decision to chase his dream.
Baseball embraced their “road warrior” mentality this past weekend and swept a crucial four-game series against the last-place Brandeis University Judges from April 19-21. The sweep comes at a critical time of the season and bolsters WashU’s tournament resume with one weekend remaining in the regular season.
Here’s everything you need to know about Bears’ athletics from the week of April 8-14.
The team’s tournament run ended abruptly in the first round, however, as they fell to the University of Wisconsin-Stout Blue Devils 71-61 on Mar. 1.
“Winning 1,000 games is really special for the team and the coaches. This team has shown it is very capable of winning — we’re going to be a problem down the road.”
Baseball is a streaky and superstitious sport – sometimes, all a team needs to improve off of a previous season’s results is a chip on their shoulder. While WashU missed the postseason last year, the building blocks for a sustainable winning future seemed to be in place. WashU baseball is young and hungry this season.
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