Myla Norvell

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7 p.m. start time against 7-3 Oregon Tech. This will be the first conference match of the season.

Posted on September 4th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: myla norvell, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball in Ashland tonight

Ellie and Ellie at Kellogg Beach

Posted on September 2nd, 2019 under nature, outside of ashland, people. Tags: beach, ellie, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X 116 Pro DX Autofocus Lens for Nikon, volleyball. Comments Off on Seven years ago today…

I went to bed at this point:

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And woke up to this news.

Elliot Cook and Taylor Ristvedt with the block

Posted on August 24th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: elli cook, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, Taylor Ristvedt, volleyball. Comments Off on Morning surprise

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The #6-ranked Southern Oregon University volleyball team did what was expected during their first two contests of the 2019 campaign. They will remain in Ashland for four more this coming Friday and Saturday–including two against ranked opponents. Massey Ratings also has the Raiders at #6 and thinks the coaches’ #20 Jamestown (#12 on Massey) will be more of a challenge than #18 Vanguard (#20 on Massey).

Posted on August 18th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, kylie ristvedt, Nikon D500, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Raiders win first two, will go against tougher opponents this week

Hannah Bogatin

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Details here.

Posted on August 16th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: hannah bogatin, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball in Ashland today

Emma Gasman

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Posted on August 9th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Emma Gasman, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Emma Gasman!

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @EmmaRyan_4

Posted on May 22nd, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: emma ryan, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Emma Ryan!

Dani Johnson

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Posted on March 5th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Dani Johnson, Raider Athletics, volleyball. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Dani Johnson!

Men’s soccer earned SOU 53 points with a 9th place finish

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Details here.

Volleyball earned SOU 73 points with a 5th place finish

Unfortunately, SOU has little chance of ever winning the NAIA Directors’ Cup for an entire year given the way the points are calculated. Standings are based on a school’s best 13 teams. The points are not weighted for things like number of sports or number of teams competing in a given sport. Therefore, schools with more teams and more teams in lower-participation sports (golf, tennis, swimming, cheer, dance, etc.) will score higher when all is said and done. If proper weighting was done (more points for higher-participation sports like softball and volleyball–there are over 220 volleyball teams in the NAIA but only 29 schools participating in swimming so if a school comes in 5th place in volleyball (like SOU did) they’ll score only half as many points as a school that comes in 5th place in both men’s and women’s swimming) and final points were divided by the number of teams that competed, Southern Oregon probably would have come in at #1 in each of the past four or five years. No team that has ranked higher than SOU in the final standings has only 13 teams (like SOU does). Most have 17 or more teams so they get to drop their lowest four or more teams a year. Last year’s winner, for instance, had 17 teams. The runner up had 22 teams!

Posted on December 22nd, 2018 under only in ashland. Tags: elli cook, emma ryan, kiley barcroft, luis aguilar, nila lukens, Raider Athletics, soccer, sports photography, Taylor Ristvedt, volleyball. Comments Off on Raiders rank #1 in NAIA after fall