Welcome to the Pioneer Athletics Staff Blog

This blog site that will feature posts by the various staff members of the Lewis & Clark College Department of Physical Education and Athletics. The Athletics staff will be sharing some of their experiences with the campus community, the Portland community, alumni, parents, fans, and other events that many people don’t ever hear about. This will be an opportunity for people to see what goes on in the world of Athletic Administration.

Out with the old, in with the new!

Seven years ago the Lewis & Clark Athletic Training facility was revamped.  Check out the pictures below to see what the training room was like before the facility nearly doubled in size!

Training room of old... the whirlpools are on the wall. What you see is what we had!

Taping Room. This is through the doorway to the left in the picture above this one.

Construction!

Voila! This is what the training room looks like today. We went from two whirlpools in the middle of the training room to 4 whirlpools in their own designated "hydrotherapy" area.

The taping table is now out in the main athletic training room and the treatment are is now where the old taping room was and where part of the locker room used to be.

Storm the dorms!

Ah there’s nothing better than the smell of a fresh baked pizza – especially when it’s free! The Pioneer student athletes had a productive night, hustling around campus and storming into all the dorms to hand out free Papa Johns pizza, schedule cards and pizza coupons. They came, the saw and they conquered several new Pioneer fans! The athletes pulled together to welcome the student body back to school and generate some buzz about the exciting year of Pioneer athletics that we have ahead of us.

If you missed the pizza party – don’t be distraught! We’re sure there will be plenty of opportunities to get some free food and other goodies at our upcoming home games (hint, hint – means you should show up and see what happens, cause one never knows what might go down).

We do apologize to all those students who were studying or sleeping while we were rolling through, but we’re just excited about this season and we wanted to share our enthusiasm!

The Pio Barbershop Is Officially Open For Business

Pioneer Athletics Director Clark Yeager lived out his life long fantasy of opening his own barbershop on Thursday, April 23, offering anyone interested a free haircut. But the catch was – there is only one kind of haircut. The buzz. That’s right – anyone who wanted to have their head shaved was welcome to meet up with the AD himself in the Hall of Champions in Pamplin. Several athletes took advantage of this offer, saying goodbye to their hair as it fell to the ground.

All we have to say: Clark has some serious haircutting skills. Jeff Carman looks great!

Look at that concentration.

Jeff Pre-Buzz

PioSportsExpedition Episode 3 – Dessert?

This weeks PioSportsExpedition takes you inside crews strong finish at conference, as well as Amalia Nilsson’s second consecutive Northwest Conference Player of the Year honor. There is also a reminder that the Student Athlete Dessert is fast approaching, which everyone knows means – Let them eat cake!

PioSportsExpedition Episode 2 – Mmmm Hot Dogs

These week was a crazy one for the Pioneers with a huge baseball upset over the 11th ranked program in Division III, women’s tennis earning a fourth place rank heading into the Northwest Conference Tournament, and hot dogs. Lots and lots of hot dogs (thanks SAAC and PAC!!!).