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Tanner Overby ('28) goes up for a basket against Puget Sound on Jan. 10, 2026 in Cone Field House. Photo courtesy of the Willamette Athletics Department. The 2025-26 season has been nothing short of historic for Willamette men’s basketball. The team’s regular season record finished at 15-10, their best since at least the 2006-07 season. Last week, they secured a place in the conference tournament for the first time since 2015. They finished the regular season at No. 3 in the

Men's Rugby Club member Braden Gutierrez ('27) tosses the ball to a teammate while drilling on the Quad on Jan. 27, 2026. Photo by Patricia Krepel. A decade ago, Willamette University Men’s Rugby Club was ranked among the 50 best small-school teams in the country . But in recent years, the team has struggled with ongoing funding challenges that threaten their ability to compete, recruit and exist as a standalone program, said club President Jack Godsil (’28). Now, the team is

Willamette cheer at a Bearcat Basketball game on Nov. 23, 2024. Photo by Keenan Yoshizawa. In the fall of 2023, the Willamette cheer team disaffiliated from varsity sports, in part due to the university being unable to pay the insurance to be able to do certain stunts, said cheer cocaptain Brooke Busby (’27). Despite the challenges that came with disaffiliation, club leaders say the team has since found a new identity as a club by being able to do more stunts and recruit more