After a nail biting first half, the Sagehens came back in true feathery form, securing the Sixth Street victory on their senior night with a final score of 12-5 on Saturday, April 20. Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) women’s water polo cemented their No. 1 SCIAC ranking with their win against the Athenas, going into the postseason with a perfect 12-0 record.
Author: Owen Kobett
‘Rugby is a hot girl sport’ — Caroline Bullock CM ’24 and her journey with the Claremont Foxes
Caroline Bullock CM ‘24, member of the Division I Claremont Foxes rugby team, traveled to the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center on March 24 to compete against the Canadian developmental sevens team in a five game series. Bullock only began playing rugby in college, when she signed up at the club fair.
Sagehens can fly, but they swim faster: P-P women’s swim and dive wins two first place trophies at NCAA national championship
The Hens swam all the way to Greensboro, North Carolina to compete in the Division III national championship from March 20 to 23, where they placed seventh overall. Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) took home two first place titles and seven All American honors in both relays and individual events over the intense four day competition.
Girls in Lifting and Fitness makes a safe space for women and gender nonconforming people out of the masculine wasteland of the gym
Say goodbye to intimidating gym bros and cardio-only workouts (unless you’re into that). Girls in Lifting and Fitness (GILFs) holds four weekly sessions for 5C women and gender nonconforming students to experience the positive side of exercise without the too-often seen negatives.
“Our main focus is kind of demystifying the gym as this space for men and masculine figures,” Sam Machin PO ’24 said. “And so we really just want to work on making the gym less intimidating, having more information about what each machine does, proper form and what that looks like, and how to work as a group.”
Sixth street basketball SCIAC semifinals
CMS stags basketball trample over the Sagehens’ hope of a postseason berth in a packed one shot game. The Stags earned a second half comeback by executing their game with great exigence and energy, and rode the momentum to a SCIAC league title, defeating California Lutheran in finals.
“We just studied the game plan and stayed aggressive and we just tried to attack them…we just tried to turn that up in the 2nd half and just continuing to take it play by play, we knew it was going to be a grind out game.” said Caelan Jones CGU ‘25.
Hens softball parlays with Pirates, split weekend double header versus Whitworth
Sagehens softball shut out the Whitworth Pirates 5-0 in the first game of their preseason double-header on Friday, Feb. 16 but couldn’t achieve the sweep and fell in the afternoon 4-2 at home. Though they kept the energy up through all seven innings, the Hens had a hard time converting this energy to runs in the batter’s box.
Rat Race on a whole other level; after leaving CMS and PP track three athletes compete for spots on Olympic Marathon team
5C Track and Field alumni enter in a different type of rat race at the olympic marathon trials; Jesse Joseph HM ‘17, Sara Passani CMC ‘15 and Maya Weigel PO ‘17 qualified for the olympic trials and race for an opportunity to represent the nation in the olympic marathon.
“I took a step away from competitive running for a few years as I settled into post grad life and was working an incredibly demanding job,” said Passani to CMS distance in the days leading up to the race. “I knew for a few years that my goal was to qualify for the Olympic trials in the marathon and in my first marathon back from taking time away, I did just that.”
Raw emotion, drama and photo finishes mark the glory of intramural dodgeball
Come to the CARW on a Tuesday night to see the closest thing to gladiator combat left in our society: Pomona-Pitzer Intramural Dodgeball. Teams of six do battle in order to stay fit and grow connections with their friends.