OSU notebook
Oregon State football player Obum Gwacham won the high jump at the Oregon Preview track meet on Sunday. The WR leaped 6 feet, 11 inches. Malcolm Marable, Brandin Cooks, Markus Wheaton and Keynan Parker ran the 400 relay and finished second with a time of 41.78 seconds. If you didn’t see it over the weekend,...
O’Brien headed to swim nationals
Oregon State junior Rachel O’Brien will compete in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday-Saturday in Auburn, Ala. This is the second year in a row O’Brien qualified for the NCAA Championships. She is the only OSU swimmer qualified this season. O’Brien finished in 37th place in the preliminaries of the 100-yard butterfly and...
Academic honors
The Oregon State volleyball team made it six straight terms leading the department with a 3.55 winter GPA, just below its cumulative 3.56 GPA. Four other teams reached the 3.0 winter GPA with women’s soccer (3.21), women’s crew (3.18), women’s cross country/track (3.08) and men’s soccer (3.08). There were 23 athletes with a 4.0 for...
Pink Out Friday, swimming
The No. 7-ranked Oregon State gymnastics team holds its sixth annual Pink Out meet that benefits breast and cervical cancer Friday night. More than 6,000 attended last year against inferior opponents. At least that should be there in Gill Coliseum against No. 9 UCLA. The Bruins were last year’s national champion, and beat the Beavers...
