The Bears went 2-1, winning the doubleheader on Saturday and dropping the game on Sunday. With these games, the Bears are now 5-1 in regular season play as they continue to ramp up their season. 

The WashU softball team split its second weekend of play, losing 4-3 and winning 5-3 against No.11 Central College and falling 3-1 to No. 20 Calvin University on Feb. 28 and Mar 1. 

In 2020 and 2021, many NCAA athletes’ seasons were disrupted, if not completely canceled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the NCAA announced that all student-athletes would receive an extra year of eligibility. Five years later, the last class of student-athletes with this extra “COVID year” are graduating from their respective institutions, including many Division III schools like WashU.

With winter sports nearing the post season, Student Life broke down each team’s seasons so far by the numbers to fill you in on what to expected as the Bears enter championship season.

The No. 1 women’s and men’s WashU track and field team notched seven top-three finishes against Division I and Division II competition at the 2025 Missouri Bob Teel Invitational on Jan. 25.

Junior Jasmine Wright has entered her third track season at WashU with a bang. Wright was recently named University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week and just took first at the John Croft Invitational with a time of 7.71 seconds in the 60 meter dash. Wright sat down with Student Life to discuss how her team pushes her to do better, her goals for the future, and what songs she’s bumping before a meet. 

The WashU track and field teams kicked off the second half of their season with a strong performance at the John Craft Invitational, hosted by Eastern Illinois University on Jan. 18. Competing against a mix of Division I and II programs, the Bears showcased their depth and talent across track and field events. 

If we want to send the administration a message that we want them to care more about sports, we first need to show them that we, as a student body, actually care about sports. 

Coming off an OT thriller against the University of Rochester where the Bears barely escaped with a win, it seemed now that the engine pushing their late-game heroics had run out of fuel as WashU headed East for a two game trip against the New York University Violets and Brandeis University Judges.

Division III, for the most part, does not have any of the pretensions of professionalism that ruin Division I. That’s not to say the people who run Wash. U. sports aren’t professional—everyone employed by the athletic department is incredibly good at their job—but there is so much less money at stake that so many of the things that ruin college sports in general are more or less gone at the Division III level.