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UP Rowing Open House

rowers copyAll faculty and staff are invited to join the athletics department at the UP Rowing Open House on Sunday, October 27, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Portland Boathouse at 1515 SE Water Avenue. All are welcome to join the UP rowing family at their last home race, the Portland Fall Classic Regatta. The UP teams will be racing throughout the morning, and coffee and refreshments will be available to all Pilot fans at their team tent. Boathouse tours will take place at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with coach Pasha Spencer.

Access the race site via the SE Water Avenue exit from I-5 northbound, or exit 300B from I-5 southbound. More information including course maps, parking, and more is available at http://tinyurl.com/n3n94hl.

Pilot Athletics News

_1aVolleyballVolleyball continues West Coast Conference action at home this week as the Pilots host Brigham Young and San Diego. The games kick off on Thursday night when BYU comes to the Chiles Center to play the Pilots at 7 p.m. The game is also Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) Night with free admission for all CYO kids and their families. To RSVP for CYO Night, please email Mcnaryro15@up.edu or call 7431. Then the games continue on Saturday at 1 p.m. when the Pilots take the court to play University of San Diego. For more information and tickets, please visit PortlandPilots.com or call 7525.

Make plans to join the women’s soccer team as they return home, after a 4-game road trip, to open West Coast Conference play versus rival Gonzaga. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. kickoff on Saturday. All fans are encouraged to invite friends to the game and help the Pilots maintain the NCAA attendance record for the ninth consecutive season. To claim a free ticket for you and your guest, please print out this article and bring it to the Pilot Box Office on the day of the game (Saturday, October 19). Limit two free tickets per person. For more information or for tickets, call the Pilot Box Office at 7525.

Merlo Madness is coming. Help the Pilots set an all-time record attendance at Merlo Field when the Pilots take on BYU on Saturday, October 26th at 7:00 p.m. All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the game and help the University of Portland pack the stadium to help do their part in being part of Merlo Madness and history. There will also be a push to get 2,000 students to the game, with a contingent plan to expand the student section to accommodate for overflow. To purchase your tickets in advance, please visit the Pilot Box Office or call 7525. For more information, visit PortlandPilots.com or call 7431.

 

Pilot Athletics News

_1aMensSoccerThe Pilots men’s soccer and volleyball teams return to action at home this week. The men’s soccer team kicks off the WCC action on Friday when they play San Diego at 7 p.m. Then the volleyball team will bring WCC action to the Chiles Center on Saturday, as they play Gonzaga at 1 p.m. The weekend is topped off when the men’s soccer team heads out to Merlo Field to play Loyola Marymount at 1 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, go to portlandpilots.com or call 7431. To purchase tickets, please visit the Pilots Box Office in the Chiles Center or call 7525.

Pilots Item Of The Week

1aPilots150The Pilot House bookstore is now featuring a special “Item of the Week” and will continue to feature a new item every Monday through fall semester. This week’s item is a Portland Pilots purple Camelbak water bottle, which can be purchased this week for 25% off the original price as long as you mention you saw it on any UP-related Facebook page. To see each week’s special item go to the University of Portland Bookstore Facebook page at www.facebook.com/UPbookstore. For more information, please call the bookstore at 7125.

Pilot Athletics News

1aPilotSoccerMen150The Pilot men’s and women’s soccer teams will host a doubleheader set of soccer matches on Friday, September 27, as part of Movie Night presented by Safeway. The busy night will kick off with the men taking on Denver, followed by the women’s team challenging Wyoming. The night will then be capped off with an outdoor movie on Joe Etzel Field, “Despicable Me 2,” free for all. Fans are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs for the movie, as seating will be on the grass of the baseball field. For more information, call Jon Brooks, athletics, at 7431.

UP Day at Merlo Field

1a1mensoccer150The athletics department will offer its first UP Day for a soccer game on Thursday, September 19, at the Pilot men’s game against Oregon State at 6 p.m. Much like UP Day at Etzel Field, the soccer event will feature free tickets for all staff and faculty and immediate family. Just show your UP ID at the box office. For more information contact Jon Brooks, athletics, at 7431 or brooksj@up.edu.

Pilot Athletics News

1soccerSept2The Pilots women’s soccer team returns to Merlo Field this weekend to host the Nike Portland Invitational. Portland will face Central Michigan on Friday, with a 7 p.m. kickoff. Members of the Portland Thorns professional women’s soccer team will make an appearance and be available for pre-game autographs. Fan are encouraged to arrive early if they are interested in meeting the Thorns players. Tournament action continues on Sunday as the Pilots take on Wake Forest at 2:30 p.m. Sunday will be the first ever “Green Day” at a Pilots Soccer game—fans are encouraged to ride their bicycles to the game and help reduce pollution. All fans that ride their bikeswill be given a free full-priced general admission ticket to the game. Bike racks will be provided. For more information on all teams in the Nike Invitational or general athletics information, please visit portlandpilots.com. For ticket information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Pilots Box Office in the Chiles Center or call 7525.

The Pilots volleyball team will return to the Chiles Center to host their own tournament, the Portland Nike Invite. The team is set to play three games, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The action kicks off at 12:30 p.m. as the Pilots take the court versus Fresno State. Later that day, the Pilots will face Wichita State at 7:30 p.m. They will also face Utah State on Saturday night at 7 p.m. Soccer fans are encouraged to attend the volleyball games and cheer on the Pilots: a soccer ticket stub from the weekend’s games will get you in to the volleyball games for free. For more information, please visit portlandpilots.com.

$150,000 RISE Gift

1Baseball stands150The development office has announced a RISE Campaign gift of $150,000 from Tom and Mary Herche, of Seattle, whose son Charlie ’09 played baseball for the Pilots. The gift will help finance improvements of Joe Etzel Field, formerly Pilot Stadium, which was completed prior to the 1988 baseball season. The stadium was renamed in the summer of 2004 in honor of former Portland athletic director and long-time head baseball coach Joe Etzel.

The first phase of the baseball stadium upgrade includes installing artificial turf, stadium lights, and outfield/perimeter fencing. Pending continued fundraising progress, the athletic department would like to begin construction on the first phase as early as the conclusion of the 2014 season with other phases to follow in subsequent years.

The Herche family gift is part of the RISE Campaign, which was announced in December 2010 and seeks to raise $175 million by 2014. The RISE Campaign, which has raised more than $162 million to date, is one of the largest development campaigns ever for a Pacific Northwest private college or university. For more information go to http://rise.up.edu/ or contact the development office at 7395.

Karen Peters Honored

1KarenPeters150Karen Peters, athletics, has been named a recipient of a 2013 Administrator of the Year Award by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA). The award recognizes the outstanding achievements and success of women working in athletics. A respected leader at the institutional, conference, and national levels, Peters also served as interim athletic director at UP from January to June 2012. For more information contact athletics at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.

Pilot Athletics News

1PilotSoccerMenThe men’s soccer team takes the field for the first time this year, at home on Friday, August 30 as they take on UC Davis at 7 p.m. As part of the Nike Portland Invitational, the Pilots will also host Cleveland State University on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. For more information, visit portlandpilots.com. For tickets, please visit the Pilots Box Office located in the Chiles Center or call 7525.

Pilot soccer phenom Amanda Frisbie is looking to follow in the footsteps of two other former great Pilots, Christine Sinclair and Shannon MacMillen, as she was named to the watch list for the MAC Hermann Trophy, the soccer equivalent to the Heisman Trophy in college football, given each year to the nation’s top male and female soccer players. For more information contact Jon Brooks at 7431 or brooksj@up.edu.