Great Win, Girls

It’s been a while since the Linfield women’s soccer team has experienced the joy of a Northwest Conference victory.
You have to go all the way back to Oct. 24, 2007 to find their last win, a 2-1 overtime result over Pacific highlighted by Kate Franklin’s game-clincher in Forest Grove. The conference losing slide had reached [...]

Game Day

It’s been a while since my last stream of consciousness, but the lack of submissions has not been for a lack of desire. I’ve been on a full sprint since returning from Texas following the Hardin-Simmons game two weeks ago.
Most folks probably can’t fathom the myriad of details that go into hosting a college football [...]

Photo Time

It’s that time of the fall sports season when we pause long enough from practices and games to take each team’s group photo. Usually the process goes pretty quickly. Unless we’re talking about Linfield’s 130+ player football team.
Tuesday, a professional agency showed up on campus to take the Wildcats’ team photo, and it took at [...]

The Grassy Knoll

November 22, 1963
The day U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas, Texas. I was six months old. As a child of the 1960s, this major event that shook the nation to its core and has always held a special interest to me.
As such, I’ve always had a desire to make a pilgrimage [...]

Not-So-Perfect Storm

Hardin-Simmons 29, Linfield 22.
A football game the Wildcats let slip through their fingers in the final two minutes. An 80-yard, clock-consuming drive that the Cowboys used to salt away their foes from the Northwest Conference.
Consider for a moment the difference in experience at quarterback. A year ago, HSU’s Justin Feaster was just establshing himself as [...]

Heading into Battle

People, preparation and performance.
Coined by former Linfield coaches Paul Durham and Ad Rutschman, these three components of success often spell the difference between victory and defeat. Sports teams must have all three working in their favor in order to reach their stated goals.
Football coach Joseph Smith reminded his squad of the “Three Ps,” saying, [...]

Leaving on a Jet Plane

PDX Airport, 12:40 p.m.
Well the plane taking the Linfield football team to Dallas for this weekend’s football game at Hardin-Simmons is running a little behind schedule. Thus all 52 players, plus coaches and others such as me Dave Hansen and Scott Carnahan are camped out at Gate C11 biding our time.
PDX is one of the [...]

Time Flies When You’re Working Hard

Where does the time go? Why don’t I ever seem to have enough of it?
Since the fall sports athletes reported to campus on Aug. 21, it’s been one big wind sprint getting things operational. Morning, nights, weekends – anytime I could find an extra 15 minutes to work on Linfield athletics I did.
Rosters had to [...]

Winds of Change

And now, for something completely different: A fundamental change in the way the Linfield athletics department markets its people and programs.
With support of the college’s director of athletics, coaching staff, director of enrollment services and college webmaster, the time has come to modernize the means of communicating the good news about Linfield athletics.
We are moving [...]