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three wildcats honored by nwc

Tennis star Taryn Fujimori, golf team captain Raegan Barr and track standout Jerrica Pachl are Student-Athletes of the Week

Three Linfield Wildcats were recently honored as StudentAthletes of the Week in their re-spective sports. Taryn Fujimori (women’s tennis), Raegan Barr (women’s golf) and Jerrica Pachl (women’s track and field) each received their first career conference citations.

Fujimori, a junior from Mililani, Hawaii, won both of her No. 1 singles matches last week and was part of a duo that took both No. 1 doubles matches.

Fujimori and teammate Lexie Matsunaga blanked Willamette’s Richelle Suzuki and Anika Groener on Saturday by a score of 8-0. Fujimori took down Suzuki 6-0, 6-0 in No. 1 singles to lead the Wildcats to a 9-0 win in Salem.

In Sunday’s 8-1 home win against rival George Fox, Fujimori and Matsunaga defeated the Bruins’ Danielle Brown and Olivia Morris, 8-1. Fujimori beat Brown 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 in No. 1 singles.

Barr was named the NWC Women’s Golf Student-Athlete of the Week after she led Lin-field women’s golf to the team title at the Spring Trilogy 3, hosted by Willamette on Saturday at the McNary Golf Club. She earned medalist honors, finishing in first place with a single-round score of 13-over-par 85, five strokes ahead of second-place Olivia Weaver of Lewis & Clark. The Wildcats finished atop the team leaderboard by 41 strokes with a final score of 385 in their first tournament in 18 days.

Pachl was the clear winner of the weekly track award in the high jump at Linfield’s Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational. Her leap of 5 feet, 6 inches was a personal best and edged out the next closest competitor by 3¾ inches. Pachl also ran the second leg on the Wildcats’ winning 4x400-meter relay team that finished nearly nine seconds ahead of runner-up Whitworth at 4:05.22.

WOMEN’S SPORTS HISTORY SOUGHT

Did you participate in women’s sports while at Linfield? Dr. Laura Kenow, professor in Health, Human Performance, and Athletics, is heading efforts to create a more complete historical record of women’s sports at Linfield. Help is needed from those who participated prior to 1990, but all stories are welcome. Please complete this short survey to share your Linfield women’s sport experiences and help build our historical knowledge.

Throughout the spring and fall of ’22 there will be a variety of events celebrating Linfield Women’s Athletics as part of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. If you have questions about the survey, sharing your story, or the upcoming events, please contact alumni@linfield.edu.