Heston Altenbach and Laurence Calcagno celebrate Altenbach’s defensive touchdown
caused by Calcagno’s tipped pass while Alex Stork and Joseph Lealofi join the party

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @JP_Daytona

Fun fact: No football team in the NAIA will finish the 2014 season with fewer than two losses. However, if SOU defeats Marian next week in the National Championship Game, they will be the only team to have a non-losing record against each and every one of their opponents. Southern Oregon University was 2-1 against Carroll College and 1-1 against Eastern Oregon University.

Posted on December 11th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, Heston Altenbach, JOSEPH LEALOFI, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 8 days to Daytona

2014 SOU football team and Coach Howard

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @racetodaytona

December is a time for advent calendars. My “Christmas” is coming early this year. So with just 10 days to go until the NAIA National Championship Game in Daytona Beach, Florida it’s time to start the countdown.

I’ll post a photo a day from last week’s semifinal win in Chicago until the big day. Enjoy!

Posted on December 9th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Raider Athletics, Ryan Retzlaff, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Countdown to Daytona

SOU volleyball – Tyana Andrews (2014 NAIA Volleyball Scholar-Athlete)

SOU volleyball – Brookelynn Cole (2014 NAIA Volleyball Scholar-Athlete)

SOU volleyball – Motade Atanda (2014 NAIA Volleyball All-American Honorable Mention)

Posted on December 9th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: brookelyn cole, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, tyana andrews, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball awards

SOU football – Dylan Young (Raider record holder for most TD catches)

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @DY_Lee11 @Play_NAIA

Once again, Hensley Ratings showed that they know more about which teams are better than the coaches. The NAIA Championship Game in Florida next week (12/19/14) looks, on paper (based on the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), like a surprising #8 seed (SOU) vs. a surprising #7 seed (Marian). However, when the final computer rankings came out a few weeks ago, the Raiders were #2 and Marian was #3. As I mentioned before, the Carroll vs. SOU quarterfinal game pitted the top two teams against each other and SOU came out on top.

So don’t be surprised that Southern Oregon University and Marian University Indianapolis made it to the finals. Be surprised that they weren’t awarded home games for the quarter and semifinals.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: dylan young, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Computer rankings > coaches rankings

SOU football – Austin Dodge and Sean Tow in yesterday’s road victory over Chicago’s St. Xavier University (ranked #3 in the nation)

@Seantow17 @SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Details here. More photos coming here soon.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: austin dodge, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sean tow, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Raiders will be playing in National Championship Game

SOU Volleyball’s Paulla Pinheiro and Mona Goudarzian

Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.

The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland with the photo or link to the photo.

If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. You can also make photo books or do whatever you like with the pictures. My email is on this page.

To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
football (includes some AHS and other football photos too)
basketball
softball (includes some non-SOU softball as well)
volleyball (includes some AHS and club volleball photos too)
soccer (includes some AHS and SOU Men’s Club soccer photos too)
wrestling

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Raider Photos

Former SOU women’s basketball player Allison Gida gets a hug and flowers from softball players during tribute to her father Stan

@AllisonGida @SOURaiders @SOU_WBB

I’m on a plane for Chicago today. Tomorrow is a big game for the SOU football program.

Today’s photos are from the previously mentioned halftime memorial for Stan Gida a few weeks ago.

SOU’s basketball teams are on a bus headed north on I-5. They have some big road games to open their CCC season tonight (Concordia) and tomorrow (Warner Pacific).

Posted on December 5th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Basketball road trip

SOU volleyball – 2013 team

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @paulla_op

My random, desktop image of the day happened to be this one. A bit coincidental, since the Raiders are currently playing in the national tournament. However, this photo isn’t exactly of this year’s team.

A win today against Vanguard University (11 a.m. PST) and the Raiders will make the final, single-elimination portion of the NAIA tournament reserved for the top 12 teams.

Posted on December 4th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on SOU volleyball

SOU volleyball – Emma Gasman

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @tadeatanda @emmagassy

The Southern Oregon University volleyball team took down #8 Columbia in pool play today at the national tournament. A win tomorrow against #4-ranked Texas Brownsville or on Thursday against #21 Vanguard should move them on to the next round, a single-elimination affair with the other best 11 teams in the country.

Emma Gasman and Tade Atanda were the key players in today’s victory, a 3-1 result. More details can be found here.

Posted on December 2nd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Emma Gasman, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Raiders beat #8 in pool play