ACADEMICS
The annual Academic Achievement Dinner is Monday. The event brings campus leaders to the Club in Reser Stadium to recognize the academic accomplishments of Beaver student-athletes. To date, 82 student-athletes have been named to the Pac-12 Academic Teams.
The top three majors for student-athletes are business, sociology and kinesiology. The 500-plus student-athlete population overall are in 61 different majors.
ALL-AMERICANS
GymnastsHalli Briscoe(Dallas, Texas), Mary Jacobsen(Puyallup, Wash.), Maela Lazaro(Aiea, Hawai’i) and Isis Lowery(Melbourne, Australia) each achieved All-America status through their performances at the NCAA Championships last week.
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Women’s Golf has qualified for the NCAA West Regional for the third consecutive season – the last time the program competed in postseason for three straight years was 1999-2001. OSU will travel to the Tumble Creek Golf Club in Cle Elum, Washington May 6-8. The team has seven top five finishes this season.
NATIONAL HONORS
Baseball -- Bryce Fehmel (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Jake Mulholland(Snohomish, Wash.) and Brandon Eisert(Beaverton) are on the watch list for the Pitcher of the Year award. Beau Philip(Sacramento) is a candidate forthe Brooks Wallace Award, which is given to the top shortstop annually.
PAC-12 HONOR
Women’s golfer Ellie Slama (Salem) is the first Beaver to ever be named to the Pac-12 Conference Women’s Golf First Team. She has a school record seven top 10 finishes to date.
TELEVISION
• A full look at upcoming OSU events on the Pac-12 Network can be found here. https://pac-12.com/oregon-state/schedule/network/all-pac12/20181001-20181007 Pay specific attention to the listing under the time for the actual distribution means.
RANKINGS (current)
• Baseball is as high as No. 2. (ranked for 45consecutive weeks)
• Women’s Basketball is No. 6 in the ESPN “Way-Too-Early Top-25” for 2019-20
• Women’s Rowing is No. 18
• Men’s Rowing is No. 18.
FOOTBALL
• Coaches on the recruiting trail now that spring football has concluded.
• Head Coach Jonathan Smith is meeting with every player on the team this week to set goals for the offseason.
• New this upcoming season is a clearer definition of targeting. There will not be an option for letting the call on the field "stand" during a targeting review -- it must either be confirmed or overturned.
• Another adjustment in the game this year in the overtime rule – once a game hits five overtimes, teams will just line up for alternating two-point conversion attempts from the 3-yard line, rather than lining up at the 25 and attempting conventional drives.
• Coach Smith was live with John Canzano on 750TheGame Tuesday. Listen at https://tinyurl.com/y6d7ptt4He will also be live Thursday morning at 8 a.m. on NBC Sports NW http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/baseball_2019/
GYMNASTICS
• Oregon State finished sixth at the NCAA Championships last weekend in Fort Worth, Texas.
• With that sixth-place finish, the Beavers were the second-ranked team in the Pac-12 behind only UCLA.
• Oregon State’s sixth place finish at nationals is the best placing under head coach Tanya Chaplin and is the Beavers’ best finish since 1996, when they were fifth.
• NCAA Championships marked the final meet for three seniors – Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (Oakville, Ontario, Canada), Mary Jacobsen (Puyallup, Wash.) and McKenna Singley (Bountiful, Utah) – the trio combined to ‘hit’ 306 out of 324 (94.4%) routines in their careers.
• Last week’s championships marked the 25th NCAA Championship appearance (eighth-most in NCAA Championships history) and 29th national championships appearance overall, including AIAW.
SOFTBALL
• Oregon State takes a 21-18 record into a three-game series this weekend at Oregon.
• As a team, OSU ranks in the Pac-12 in the following categories: 3. Stolen Bases (49), 3. Batters struck out looking (81) and 4. Batters struck out (259).
• Senior Shelby Weeks (Tracy, Calif.) set the OSU career record for most stolen bases last weekend with 58. Weeks leads the team with 15 this season to rank No. 4 in the Pac-12.
• Jessica Garcia (Hughson, Calif.) is currently tied for first in the Pac-12 for best fielding percentage this season (1.000) and is fifth in stolen bases with 14.
• Senior Kayleen Shafer (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and sophomore Missy Nunes (Livermore, Calif.) have both been nominated for CoSIDA All-Academic honors.
WOODCHIPS
• Former women’s soccer player Jodie Taylor(Merseyside, England, 2004-07) has been chosen to join the Lionesses of England on the 2019 Women’s World Cup 28-player training roster. The World Cup squad will be announced on May 8. Taylor last joined the England squad for the 2017 European Championships and was a member of the 2015 World Cup team.
• Men’s Soccer hosts Humboldt State Saturday at 1 p.m. in an exhibition game on OSU’s intramural fields.
• Track and Field hosts the Oregon State High Performance Meet Friday-Saturday at the Whyte Track and Field Center.
• Keely McLaughlin (Grove, Okla.) broke the school record in the shot put at the Beach Invite this past weekend at 50’ 2”; a mark that was previously set in 1985.
• A small contingent of wrestlers is headed to the U.S. Open this week to compete in the freestyle tournament.
The annual Academic Achievement Dinner is Monday. The event brings campus leaders to the Club in Reser Stadium to recognize the academic accomplishments of Beaver student-athletes. To date, 82 student-athletes have been named to the Pac-12 Academic Teams.
The top three majors for student-athletes are business, sociology and kinesiology. The 500-plus student-athlete population overall are in 61 different majors.
ALL-AMERICANS
GymnastsHalli Briscoe(Dallas, Texas), Mary Jacobsen(Puyallup, Wash.), Maela Lazaro(Aiea, Hawai’i) and Isis Lowery(Melbourne, Australia) each achieved All-America status through their performances at the NCAA Championships last week.
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Women’s Golf has qualified for the NCAA West Regional for the third consecutive season – the last time the program competed in postseason for three straight years was 1999-2001. OSU will travel to the Tumble Creek Golf Club in Cle Elum, Washington May 6-8. The team has seven top five finishes this season.
NATIONAL HONORS
Baseball -- Bryce Fehmel (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Jake Mulholland(Snohomish, Wash.) and Brandon Eisert(Beaverton) are on the watch list for the Pitcher of the Year award. Beau Philip(Sacramento) is a candidate forthe Brooks Wallace Award, which is given to the top shortstop annually.
PAC-12 HONOR
Women’s golfer Ellie Slama (Salem) is the first Beaver to ever be named to the Pac-12 Conference Women’s Golf First Team. She has a school record seven top 10 finishes to date.
TELEVISION
• A full look at upcoming OSU events on the Pac-12 Network can be found here. https://pac-12.com/oregon-state/schedule/network/all-pac12/20181001-20181007 Pay specific attention to the listing under the time for the actual distribution means.
RANKINGS (current)
• Baseball is as high as No. 2. (ranked for 45consecutive weeks)
• Women’s Basketball is No. 6 in the ESPN “Way-Too-Early Top-25” for 2019-20
• Women’s Rowing is No. 18
• Men’s Rowing is No. 18.
FOOTBALL
• Coaches on the recruiting trail now that spring football has concluded.
• Head Coach Jonathan Smith is meeting with every player on the team this week to set goals for the offseason.
• New this upcoming season is a clearer definition of targeting. There will not be an option for letting the call on the field "stand" during a targeting review -- it must either be confirmed or overturned.
• Another adjustment in the game this year in the overtime rule – once a game hits five overtimes, teams will just line up for alternating two-point conversion attempts from the 3-yard line, rather than lining up at the 25 and attempting conventional drives.
• Coach Smith was live with John Canzano on 750TheGame Tuesday. Listen at https://tinyurl.com/y6d7ptt4He will also be live Thursday morning at 8 a.m. on NBC Sports NW http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/baseball_2019/
GYMNASTICS
• Oregon State finished sixth at the NCAA Championships last weekend in Fort Worth, Texas.
• With that sixth-place finish, the Beavers were the second-ranked team in the Pac-12 behind only UCLA.
• Oregon State’s sixth place finish at nationals is the best placing under head coach Tanya Chaplin and is the Beavers’ best finish since 1996, when they were fifth.
• NCAA Championships marked the final meet for three seniors – Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (Oakville, Ontario, Canada), Mary Jacobsen (Puyallup, Wash.) and McKenna Singley (Bountiful, Utah) – the trio combined to ‘hit’ 306 out of 324 (94.4%) routines in their careers.
• Last week’s championships marked the 25th NCAA Championship appearance (eighth-most in NCAA Championships history) and 29th national championships appearance overall, including AIAW.
SOFTBALL
• Oregon State takes a 21-18 record into a three-game series this weekend at Oregon.
• As a team, OSU ranks in the Pac-12 in the following categories: 3. Stolen Bases (49), 3. Batters struck out looking (81) and 4. Batters struck out (259).
• Senior Shelby Weeks (Tracy, Calif.) set the OSU career record for most stolen bases last weekend with 58. Weeks leads the team with 15 this season to rank No. 4 in the Pac-12.
• Jessica Garcia (Hughson, Calif.) is currently tied for first in the Pac-12 for best fielding percentage this season (1.000) and is fifth in stolen bases with 14.
• Senior Kayleen Shafer (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and sophomore Missy Nunes (Livermore, Calif.) have both been nominated for CoSIDA All-Academic honors.
WOODCHIPS
• Former women’s soccer player Jodie Taylor(Merseyside, England, 2004-07) has been chosen to join the Lionesses of England on the 2019 Women’s World Cup 28-player training roster. The World Cup squad will be announced on May 8. Taylor last joined the England squad for the 2017 European Championships and was a member of the 2015 World Cup team.
• Men’s Soccer hosts Humboldt State Saturday at 1 p.m. in an exhibition game on OSU’s intramural fields.
• Track and Field hosts the Oregon State High Performance Meet Friday-Saturday at the Whyte Track and Field Center.
• Keely McLaughlin (Grove, Okla.) broke the school record in the shot put at the Beach Invite this past weekend at 50’ 2”; a mark that was previously set in 1985.
• A small contingent of wrestlers is headed to the U.S. Open this week to compete in the freestyle tournament.
