Campus & Community

WashU women’s soccer players and coaches have received numerous honors after the team won its second-straight NCAA championship in December.

The No. 1 WashU women’s soccer team won its second-straight national championship Dec. 6 with a 2-1 win over rival Emory University at Roanoke College in Salem, Va.

How head coach Paige Madara, herself a former Bears’ tennis player, helped the WashU women win its first national tennis title last spring.

Both the WashU women’s and men’s soccer teams are headed to the NCAA Division III Tournament this weekend after outstanding seasons. 

Led by members of the women’s tennis team, the WashU chapter of Second Serves hosts tennis clinics for the local community and provides donated rackets and covers, shoes and tennis bags for children.

WashU graduate and women’s track and field standout Emma Kelley has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. 

For the first time in program history, the Washington University in St. Louis women’s tennis team won the national championship, defeating Pomona-Pitzer 4-3 May 23 in Claremont, Calif. The title marks the 27th in WashU Athletics history and the second for the 2024-25 school year.

Gaelen Clayton has spent a large part of her four years at WashU thinking about goals — setting them academically and scoring them as a midfielder for the women’s soccer team, which just won the Division III national championship. 

In “Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” WashU’s Gerald Early explores how Black Americans have shaped the game since its emergence during Reconstruction, from the formation of the Negro Leagues, through Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier and into the present day.

Fifth-year student Kyle Wolford won the national title in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:44.15 March 22 in Greensboro, N.C. He is the 27th student-athlete to win an individual national title.