The WashU softball team opened its season with four consecutive wins on Feb. 22 and 23, including three mercy-rule victories. The Bears defeated St. Catherine University 9-0 and 9-3, then defeated Coe College 10-2 and 12-0.

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.

In both matches, the Bears showed their resilience, bouncing back to defeat Trine 8-1 — the team’s largest margin of victory in a season opener since 2013 — and besting Centre 2-1, opening their season with two decisive wins on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1.

As the fall semester gets into full swing, WashU sports made their return to competition this weekend. Though football, cross country, and women’s golf wait until next weekend for their 2024 debuts, WashU’s soccer teams and volleyball kicked off their season over the weekend. 

Fantasy football owners might want to consider picking up some members of the Washington University football team from the waiver wire.

Junior Kelsey Neal made sure that the Washington University softball team got off to a perfect start to its 2013 season. Neal pitched a complete game and hit a two-run home run to help herself out in the season-opening 3-2 win over Rhodes College Saturday in Memphis, Tenn., at the Lynx Classic.

The Washington University men’s tennis team’s first match of the spring season ended in a bit of a setback as the Bears lost a 5-4 contest to Division II Drury University on Saturday evening at the Creve Coeur Racquet Club. It was the Bears’ first home loss in nearly two years with the last being a 5-4 loss to the University of Chicago on April 2, 2011.

Kicking off the season with high hopes to win the University Athletic Association title and make it to the playoffs, the Washington University football team prepares for the season opener against No. 1 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The team will make its first appearance on Friday at 8:30 p.m.

En route to sharing its first University Athletic Association championship since 1999 and first postseason win since 2007, the 2011 Washington University men’s soccer team scored 40 goals. Of those 40 goals, just three of them were scored by players who will be in the lineup for Friday night’s season opener in Birmingham, Ala.

Eight starters and three all-region players return from a record-setting 2011 women’s soccer team, which kicks off its 2012 season Friday at home against Alma College.