SOU ISA International Show

Posted on May 1st, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU’s International Show 2016

Due to the demolition of McNeal, this year’s Luau, annually sponsored by SOU’s Ho’opa’a Hawai’i Club, will be held at AHS. Tickets are still available to the general public.

P.S. There are also still tickets available for Thursday night’s scholarship dinner and auction.

Posted on April 18th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: luau, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Luau at Ashland High School this weekend

Raider Club Auction

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Tickets are still available for the annual Raider Club Scholarship Dinner and Auction.

The event will be held April 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Rogue River Room on the SOU Campus.

Tickets are $50 per person and tables can be purchased for $500. To purchase tickets, call 541-552-6824 or email Bobby Heiken at heikenb@sou.edu.

The Scholarship Dinner and Auction raises scholarship money for student-athletes at SOU. The event features a silent auction, a live auction, a scholarship ask and dinner provided by Beasy’s On The Creek.

Last year’s event brought in over $85,000 for the student-athletes of SOU.

The auctioneer and Bobby Heiken

Posted on April 4th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: campus, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on 2016 Raider Club Scholarship Dinner and Auction

McNeal Hall after demolition nearly complete (4/3/16)

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I took thousands of photos in what was this place. There were many good times within, but good riddance! The lighting was awful, and the place showed its age despite renovations in the past couple decades. I’m looking forward to the new venue in fall of 2017.

Posted on April 4th, 2016 under only in ashland, places. Tags: campus, Samsung SM-G900V Galaxy S5 cell phone camera, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on McNeal in ruins

SOU’s 2015 football team and 2015-16 women’s basketball team both came in 2nd place nationwide

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You can read about SOU’s 6th place standing in the Directors’ Cup here. Digging into the data a little deeper reveals that the schools in front of Southern in the rankings all have swim teams (SOU, and most NAIA schools, do not). If you back out the swim points, SOU is actually in first place!

With less than 30 teams competing in swimming at the NAIA level, why does swimming get equal rating with football (87 programs have football)? Or basketball (over 130 programs have basketball in NAIA DII)?

Posted on March 25th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University and the NAIA’s Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup

Joel Spear

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To make the 2016 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes list a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status.

Demi Sahlinger

Jordan West

Majerle Reeves

Justin Martin

Posted on March 16th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, demi sahlinger, joel spear, jordan west, justin martin, Majerle Reeves, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Basketball Scholar Athletes

University Field panorama

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Doubleheader in Ashland today against Indiana Wesleyan. First game starts at 11.

Posted on March 7th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, softball, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on First softball home games of 2016

Danny Miles shakes hands with his former player and current SOU women’s basketball coach Alex Carlson before his final game in Ashland

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Beginning with the 2016-17 season, the Cascade Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Trophy will be renamed the Danny Miles Trophy. More details here.

Danny Miles was a three-sport star in football, basketball, and baseball at Southern Oregon State College in the 1960s.

Posted on February 18th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: alex carlson, basketball, danny miles, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Danny Miles Trophy

#playlikeagirl @souashland @SOURaiders @souwbb @CarlyMeister34

Posted on February 2nd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Play Like a Girl