Pomona-Pitzer Baseball Claims First SCIAC Tournament Championship

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s baseball team gathers on the field for a group photo while holding up the SCIAC sign.

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team earned the first SCIAC Tournament Championship in program history with their 11–6 win over CMS on May 11 at the University of La Verne’s Ben Hines Field. The Sagehens won the SCIAC Postseason Tournament as the No. 2 seed with three straight wins to improve to 32–11 overall and earned the [Read More...]

May 15, 2024

Press Releases

Student Projects Honoring Indigenous Learning and Memory Receive Projects for Peace Awards

Taeya Boi-Doku’s ’24 work on Afroecology and an oral history project developed by Jansikwe Medina-Tayac ’25 and Alexander Rodriguez ’24 have been awarded 2024 Projects for Peace awards in recognition of their efforts to promote peace and understanding. Each award includes $10,000 in support of their efforts to implement and complete the projects. The Projects [Read More...]

May 15, 2024

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Napier Award Winner Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 Centers Afroecology in Gardening

Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 has shoulder-length black hair locs and wears brown hoop earrings and a blue and green top.

A garden means much more than a plot of soil to Taeya Boi-Doku ’24. For her, gardens can be a site of Afroecology, indigenous knowledge, hands-on learning, and sustainable food growth. Now, Boi-Doku has received a 2024 Napier Initiative Award to develop her passion for these practices with like-minded organizations in Ghana. The award provides [Read More...]

May 13, 2024

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Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Tennis Wins SCIAC Tournament Championship

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team gathers on the court for a group photo. The team raises their fingers in a number one gesture and hold up signs for the SCIAC tournament championship.

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team upset the No. 1 ranked CMS Athenas 5–3 to claim the SCIAC Tournament Championship on May 4 at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center at Claremont McKenna College. The Sagehens claimed the SCIAC Tournament Championship for the first time since 2011 with their fifth SCIAC Tournament Championship in program history. The [Read More...]

May 9, 2024

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Pomona-Pitzer Lacrosse Wins SCIAC Championships

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse team gathers for a group photo on the field and raises their fingers in a number one gesture. The team wears white uniforms with Pomona Pitzer and their individual numbers on the front in blue and orange font.

The Pomona-Pitzer lacrosse team earned a 24–2 victory over California Lutheran to claim the SCIAC Regular Season Championship on April 27. The Sagehens soon followed with a dominant 18–8 victory over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to win their third straight SCIAC Tournament Championship title on May 4. SCIAC Regular Season Championship The Sagehens celebrated senior day in the [Read More...]

May 9, 2024

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Carly Sullivan ’24 Named SCIAC Defensive Athlete of the Year in Lacrosse

Carly Sullivan runs under a tunnel of lacrosse sticks held aloft by her teammates on her left and right. Sullivan has blond hair pulled back and wears the white lacrosse uniform with Pomona Pitzer 14 across the top.

The Pomona-Pitzer lacrosse team has earned nine All-SCIAC honors including the selection of Carly Sullivan ’24 as SCIAC Defensive Athlete of the Year. Sullivan led the conference’s best defense, which allowed just 4.2 goals per game for a SCIAC-best goal difference of 187. The Sagehens paced the league in caused turnovers with a whopping 14.8 [Read More...]

May 7, 2024

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Women’s Water Polo Three-Peats as SCIAC Tournament and Division III National Champions

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo gather for a group photo while holding up a sign that reads 2024 Women’s Water Polo SCIAC Tournament Champions.

The No. 1 Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team completed their SCIAC Tournament Championship three-peat with an 11–10 win over No. 2 CMS on April 28 at Haldeman Pool on Pomona’s campus. The team then defeated CMS again in a 15–10 win on May 5 to capture their third consecutive USA Water Polo Division III National [Read More...]

May 5, 2024

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Namlhun Jachung ’24 Named SCIAC Offensive Athlete of the Year

An action shot of Namlhun Jachung in the pool. Another player attempts to block Jachung as Jachung holds up the yellow ball.

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team came away with four All-SCIAC athletes highlighted by Offensive Athlete of the Year Namlhun Jachung ’24 and Coaching Staff of the Year led by Alex La. Jachung picked up her third major SCIAC award of her career with her second consecutive SCIAC Athlete of the Year selection. She was [Read More...]

May 3, 2024

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Watson Fellow Tommy Shenoi ’24 Explores Mycology Globally

Tommy Shenoi holds up a large native oyster mushroom while standing in a lab. Shenoi has medium-length black hair and wears a backpack and a blue jacket.

Are mushrooms key to community well-being, regenerative food systems, and climate resilience? Tommy Shenoi ’24 has received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to find out. Shenoi is embarking on a globetrotting expedition to six countries to study mushrooms through the lens of agriculture, art, entrepreneurship, and science. The $40,000 one-year Watson Fellowship is awarded to [Read More...]

May 1, 2024

Spotlights

Native Scholar in Residence Meranda Roberts Discusses Curation and Heritage

Meranda Roberts stands in the middle of a ring of Cahuilla baskets sitting on curved tables. In the background are installations of a basket made of cans and a scenic photograph of a desertscape.

Meet Meranda Roberts, a curator and Native Scholar in Residence at Pitzer College’s Community Engagement Center (CEC) this semester. Roberts is a citizen of the Yerington Paiute Tribe and Chicana. She has a PhD in Native American History and an MA in Public History from the University of California, Riverside. Roberts guest-curated the exhibition, “Continuity: [Read More...]

April 25, 2024