Whitman WBB

We are excited Bridget is staying close to home. Welcome to Whitman and the Whitman WBB family #WhitmanWBB #GoBlues

We are excited to have Hailey commit to Whitman and join our basketball family! #whitmanwbb #GoBlues

Wayne Tinkle took out a half-page ad in the Sunday Oregonian, thanking Oregon State fans for the experience and wishing incoming MBB coach Justin Joyner good luck. Class to the end.

🚨 JUST IN: One of the American airmen who lost his life in the KC-135 crash in Iraq has been identified as Maj. Alex Klinner Klinner leaves behind a wife, a 2-year-old, and 7 month old twins Absolutely heartbreaking. Pray for the Klinner family 💔🙏🏻

Allie Jenkin BALLED OUT for her late father ❤️ Jenkin finished the game with a career-high 41 points in the Colfax victory 👏 #SCTop10 (via @andrewquinny)

NWC TOURNAMENT CHAMPS 🏴‍☠️👊 Pirates punch their ticket to the NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament with their 17th NWC Tournament championship! The Tournament field will be announced on Monday at 10:00 am. #scobucs

💜Unreal. On the day their father died of cancer, Reece Jenkins' kids combined for 75 points in a pair of 2B State Tournament wins for the Colfax girls and boys. Freshman Allie Jenkin scored 41, while senior Adrik Jenkin scored 34. Truly awe inspiring stuff. 💜

For the first time since 2019, the @VandalsWBB squad is your @BigSkyConf champions!!!!!

Folks you simply cannot script sports. On the day her father Reece passed away, Allie Jenkin has scored every single point for the Colfax girls team. She had 29 first half points and the Bulldogs lead 29-26 at the half. How can you not get emotional???? Unbelievable scene.

2026 Northwest Conference Tournament Champions ⁦@d3hoops⁩

👑 CHAMPIONS 👑 Whitman captures the 2026 Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament title with a 67-51 victory. The Blues are headed to the NCAA Division III Tournament! @WhitmanSports @WhitmanWBB nwcsports.com/news/2026/3/1/…

Woman moved to America and says our food is poison “I grew up in Switzerland and no one believes me when I say the American food system is rigged... I used to eat pasta, pizza, everything — and I was skinny and fit and I looked great. Okay then I moved to America. Became so active, I became a runner, I started eating gluten free, I literally counted my calories and I gained 30 pounds. It is not the European lifestyle, it is the food itself. Food in Europe is just nutritious. Like you'll eat pizza and it's actually nutritious for you because of the grains. But then you come here to America and you have flour and it's just literally bleach. You're eating bleach.” We shouldn’t have to live like this

The US Ladies played 7 games in Milan. This was their final stat sheet: • 7-0 • 33 Goals For • 2 Goals Against • +31 Goal Differential • 2 wins over arch rival Canada A generational Olympic run by the ladies

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable. But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love. She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022. Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said: “Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.” One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment. But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense. It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!” Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there. She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport. And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it. Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring. But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard. What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

Good luck to our WaHi Boys & Girls Wrestling as they make their way to Tacoma for the WIAA State Wrestling Tournament!

Another Class 2030 commit is guard Kassie Koski from Raymond HS. Welcome to Whitman! #WhitmanWBB #GoBlues

I’ve never wanted to hug a stranger so bad before. USA’s Maxim Naumov competed in his first Olympics 1 year after losing both parents in the DC plane crash. He fell twice in his men’s final skate, but most people wouldn’t even be there in those circumstances. I hope he’s proud 🥹

From Skyline High School comes the next member of the Class of 2030. Forward Cassie Miller is headed to Whitman College and Whitman Women’s Basketball. #WhitmanWBB #GoBlues

“My definition of dicipiline - Do what has to be done, when it needs to be done, as well as it can be done, and do it that way all the time” - Bob Knight (Via @coachajkings 🎥)