Pilots Cross Country

UP Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Watch Party, Nov. 15

November 8, 2019

Starter pistol for race

All faculty, staff, students, and the public are welcome to come watch the Pilot men’s and women’s cross country teams compete live in the West Regionals from Colfax, WA, in the Pilot House on Friday, November 15. The women will run at 11:30 a.m., and the men will take off a 12:30 p.m.

For more information contact athletics at x7117 or go to portlandpilots.com.

Pilots Cross County Ranked no. 3 in National Poll

October 20, 2017

The Portland Pilots men’s cross country team jumped 22 spots in the most recent USTFCCCA National Poll to No. 3 after their recent second place performance at the Nuttycombe Invitational. The No.3 ranking marks the highest ever in Pilots cross country program history, as the Pilots have reached the high ranking of No. 4 in 1993, 2008, and 2009. Portland also currently ranks at No.1 in the West Region, and at No.3 in the FloTrack rankings.

The Pilots will compete next at the WCC Championships on October 27 in Oakland, Calif. Conference opponents BYU and San Francisco also rank in the USTFCCCA Poll at No.2 and No.29, respectively.

Pilot Cross-Country Teams Make History

November 24, 2014

Portland’s Scott Fauble is an All-American for the third straight year and the Pilots made history on Saturday with a third-place finish at the NCAA Men’s Cross Country Championships, the best finish in Portland program history. In the women’s race, senior Tansey Lystad (pictured) finished in 15th place to earn All-America honors. It is the highest individual finish in Portland women’s cross country history.

The teams will be honored at the UP vs. Oregon State basketball game on Saturday, December 6, at 7 p.m., in the Chiles Center.

Fauble was solid on the 10k course as he remained near the head of the lead pack for the majority of the race. He cruised to the finish in a time of 30:34.4, good for 12th overall. The redshirt senior was 13th at the NCAA Championships as a junior a year ago.

Not far behind Fauble was teammate Reid Buchanan, a senior who finished 26th overall to also earn All-America status. Buchanan was with the lead pack for most of the race and he posted a time of 30:46.6.

For the men, the Pilots as a team were fourth at the 3000 meter split and eighth at 5000 meters before finishing strong. Portland combined for a team score of 175 to finish in the top three.

Colorado won its second straight national title with a score of 65, while Stanford was second with 98 points.

For more information contact athletics at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen has been selected by the steering committee of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development) to join the inter-institutional peer mentoring network of Administrators in the Northwest region. As a member of an Administrator Alliance, she will work with teams to evaluate how campus policies and practices impact professional advancement and leadership development of a diverse faculty in STEM fields. The goal of the program is to reduce institutional obstacles to advancement for women in STEM fields, create more equitable communities, and foster the retention and advancement of a diverse STEM faculty population.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, edited An Introduction to Undergraduate Research in Computational and Mathematical Biology: From Disease Dynamics to Big Data (with Carrie Diaz Eaton, Alex Capaldi), New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-33645-5, February 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, was cited in The Tablet, December 9, 2019: “Africans Warn Numerical Growth Has To Be Matched By ‘Tools of Liberation.'” See the article here. He was also elected as a member of the Board of Directors for a three years term at the College Theology Society in March 2020.

Elizabeth Lee, institutional research, has been elected to the Association for Institutional Research’s Board of Directors as a member-at-large. AIR is an organization that seeks to empower higher education professionals to utilize data, analytics, and evidence to make decisions and take actions that benefit students. Elizabeth has cycled off as treasurer for the Pacific Northwest regional organization for institutional researchers in time to serve at the national level. Full election results are available at this link.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Evaluation of agricultural byproducts as amendments in bioretention systems for metal and nutrient removal” (with Ben Guidice, Jacob Bib, and student coauthor Camille Morgan) to Journal of Environmental Engineering, 146: 04020029, March 2020.

Hillary Merk, Jacqueline Waggoner, James Carroll, Heidi Parrett, and Claire Tooley, education, presented one paper at the annual conference of the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Atlanta, GA, February 28-29, 2020. The paper was titled “From High School to Teaching: Developing a ‘Grow Your Own’: Pathway for A More Diverse Teaching Profession.”

Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Merk, Randy Hetherington, James Carroll, and Bruce Weitzel, education, presented at the annual conference of the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Atlanta, GA, February 28-29, 2020. The paper was titled “Trauma Informed Practices and Teacher Preparation.”

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