Facts About Whitworth University

Fast Facts
Founded: 1890
Religious affiliation: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Undergraduate enrollment: 2,628
Graduate enrollment: 258
Student-faculty ratio: 11:1
Classes with fewer than 30 students: 84 percent
Geographic representation: 37 states, 25 countries
Freshman-sophomore retention: 83.3 percent
Full-time faculty: 156
Total Whitworth alumni: 24,158

Mission

Whitworth, founded in 1890, is a private, residential, liberal arts institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Whitworth's mission is to provide its diverse student body an education of the mind and heart, equipping its graduates to honor God, follow Christ, and serve humanity. Whitworth's community of teacher-scholars is committed to rigorous and open intellectual inquiry and to the integration of Christian faith and learning.

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Students

• Undergraduate enrollment: 2,628
• Graduate enrollment: 258

Under-represented Ethnic Enrollment (2011-12)

• Undergraduate: 15 percent

Six-Year Graduation Rate (2005 First-Year Cohort)

• 80.3 percent of first-time, full-time students enrolled in fall 2005 graduated within six years.

Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention Rate (2009 Fall Cohort)

• 83.3 percent

Selected Recent Graduate School Placements

Azusa Pacific University
Baylor University School of Law
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Case Western Reserve University
Chaminade University
Charles University Seminary, Prague
Columbia University
Dominican University
Duke University Divinity School
Eastern Washington University
Fuller Theological Seminary
Harvard University Law School
Harvard University Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Old Dominion University
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon State University
The Pennsylvania State University
Princeton Theological Seminary
The Ohio State University
Seattle Pacific University
State University of New York at Stonybrook
University of Arizona
University of California/Berkeley
University of Colorado
University of Hawaii
University of Massachusetts
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center
University of Washington School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Western Washington University
Whitworth University

Class of 2015 profile

• Total freshman applications: 7,013
  
• Enrollment: 525 students
  
• Average SAT: 1804 (national average: 1510)
  (SAT/ACT not required for admission)
  
• Average GPA: 3.68
  
• Gender ratio: 59 percent female, 41 percent male
• Non-Caucasian enrollment: 19.6 percent
  
  

Fast Financial-Aid Facts for 2011-12

• Average gift aid for incoming freshmen receiving aid: $19,000.
• Percentage of incoming freshmen receiving financial aid: 98 percent
• Percentage of incoming freshmen receiving gift aid: 95 percent
• Average freshman financial aid award from all sources: $28,292
• Total amount of gift aid for matriculating day students= $36.3 million
• Total amount of Whitworth sponsored scholarships and grants for all types of students: $39.6 million
• Percent of matriculating day students receiving aid: 95 percent
• Average federal student loan debt for borrowers who graduated in four years: $21,242
• 70 percent of those who graduated in four years borrowed money through a student-loan program at some point while studying at Whitworth.
  

Undergraduate Majors and Programs

• Accounting (B.A.)
• American Studies (B.A.)
• Applied Physics (B.A.)
• Art (B.A.)
• Art, Three-Dimensional: Ceramics, Sculpture, Mixed Media
• Art, Two-Dimensional: Drawing/Painting & Printmaking
• Art Education
• Art History
• Arts Administration (B.A.)
• Athletic Coaching
• Athletic Training (B.S.)
• Biblical Languages
• Biochemistry
• Biology (B.A., B.S.)
• Biophysics (B.S.)
• Business Management (B.A.)
• Certification for Ministry
• Chemistry (B.A., B.S.)
• Communication
• Community Arts
• Community-Based Theatre
• Community Engagement and Transformation
• Computer Science (B.A., B.S.)
• Criminal Justice
• Cross-Cultural Studies, History Emphasis (B.A.)
• Cross-Cultural Studies, Political Science Emphasis (B.A.)
• Dance
• Economics (B.A.)
• Education (Elementary, Secondary, Special Education)
• Engineering (Dual Degree)
• Engineering Physics: Electrical, Mechanical, Management (B.S.)
• English (B.A.)
• English/Language Arts
• ELL (formerly ESL)
• French (B.A.)
• German
• Graphic Design
• Health Science (B.A., B.S.)
• History (B.A.)
• Information Technology
• Instrumental Performance
• International Business (B.A.)
• International Studies, History Emphasis (B.A.)
• International Studies, Political Science Emphasis (B.A.)
• Jazz Performance
• Journalism and Mass Communication (B.A.)
• Kinesiology (B.A.)
• Leadership Studies
• Literature
• Marketing (B.A.)
• Mathematical Economics (B.A.)
• Mathematics (B.A., B.S.)
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Military Science/ROTC
• Music (B.A.)
• Music Business
• Music Composition
• Music Education (B.A.)
• Music Ministry
• Nursing (B.S.)
• Peace Studies (B.A.)
• Performance Theatre
• Philosophy (B.A.)
• Physical Chemistry
• Physics (B.A., B.S.)
• Piano Pedagogy
• Piano Performance
• Political Science (B.A.)
• Pre-Chiropractic
• Pre-Dental
• Pre-Engineering
• Pre-Law
• Pre-Medical Technology
• Pre-Medicine
• Pre-Ministry
• Pre-Pharmacy
• Pre-Physical Therapy
• Pre-Veterinary
• Printmaking/Digital Art
• Psychology (B.A.)
• Public History
• Reading Instruction
• Social and Cultural Analysis
• Social Service and Community Action
• Sociology (B.A.)
• Spanish (B.A.)
• Speech Communication (B.A.)
• Study Abroad
• Technical Theatre
• Theatre (B.A.)
• Theology (B.A.)
• Visual Communication
• Voice Performance
• Women's and Gender Studies
• Writing

Student Life

• Whitworth's newest residence hall, currently known as East Hall, was dedicated in September 2009. The building is the academic-year home to 170 Whitworth students.
• Residence halls and/or on-campus houses/apartments: 31, accommodating 1,385 students. Whitworth has a two-year residency requirement.
• Student clubs and organizations: Whitworth has nearly 40 student clubs, ranging from Amnesty International to the Hawaiian Club.

Recent Student Highlights

• 2011 President's Cup winners (who maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout their college careers) are Pierre Biscaye, Kari Olson, and Kelsey Pagh.
  
  
• Four members of the Class of '11 -- Corey Dugan, Angela Hartley, James Mitsuyasu, and Kathryn Williams -- won Fulbright awards to study and teach English abroad. The four Fulbrights are a record for Whitworth, which was named a top producer of Fulbright scholars in 2007 (see below).
  
  
• Two members of the Class of '11 take first and second place in the Presbyterian Outlook annual essay competition. Heather Wallace wins the $1,000 first prize, and Sarah Glady wins the $200 second prize.
  
  
• Amy Erickson, '12, and Rachel Kelly, '11, win the 2011 Samuel Robinson Award. Erickson wins the top prize in thecompetition, marking the second consecutive year a Whitworth student has taken the top spot. The students received up to $5,000 based on a 2,000-word essay and their recitation of the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
  
  
• Philosophy major Benjameen Quarless, '12, is among 40 college students nationwide who have been selected for the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, a 10-day journey May 6-16 that will trace the route taken by the original freedom riders of 1961. Quarless was selected from among nearly 1,000 applicants representing a diverse cross-section of America. Selected students hail from 33 states and Washington, D.C., along with others who grew up in China, Tajikistan and Haiti.
  
  
• Whitworth students who were staffers for the 2009-10 edition of Whitworth's yearbook, The Natsihi, win a total of 17 Gold Circle Awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
  
  
• Sean McGuire, '10, a double major in mathematics and physics and a winner of Whitworth's 2010 President's Cup, receives a full-tuition scholarship and a stipend to conduct research in the Lasers and Applied Physics Doctorate Program at Princeton University. The award amounts to $65,000-70,000 per year for up to six years.
  
  
• 2010 graduates Gillian Goodrich and Blair Daly are awarded Fulbright assistantship grants to teach English as a foreign language in Argentina and Malaysia, respectively. Claire Swinford, '10, is named an alternate for a Fulbright grant to teach English in Belgium.
  
  
• In 2010, Whitworth's student-run newspaper, The Whitworthian, wins first place in its division at the 2009 National Mark of Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper wins Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper, beating out runners-up Abilene Christian University and the University of Arkansas. More than 3,600 entries for work produced during the 2009 calendar year were submitted from around the country to the national competition.
  
  
• In 2010, for the sixth time in the past 12 years, the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble is named Outstanding College Band at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Kurt Marcum, '10, is named outstanding trumpet soloist, and Noah Peller, '10, wins the award for outstanding bass soloist.
  
  
• Whitworth's Michelle Creek, '11, Tyler Whitney '11, Gillian Goodrich, '10, and Rashid Gabdulhkov, '09, are four of eight area college students selected for the Class of 2009 Nethercutt Fellows. The Nethercutt Fellowship Program gives college students a greater understanding of the importance of civic education and involvement through academic and hands-on experience in eastern Washington and in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Ben Spaun, '08, is selected from 1,110 top math, science and engineering students nationwide to receive a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2007-08. Spaun is among 317 Goldwater scholars selected on the basis of academic merit to receive one- and two-year scholarships of up to $7,500 per year. Spaun's one-year award will help pay his tuition during his senior year at Whitworth. He joins Ashley Gibbs, '07, and Caleb Hug, '04, who received the Goldwater Scholarship in 2005 and 2003, respectively.
  
  
• Tim Coughlin, '08, wins the top monetary prize in Gonzaga University's 2007-08 Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Business Plan Competition. Coughlin, a business-management and marketing major, wins $10,000 for his company, Buysellfix.com, a repair and refurbishing service for handheld electronics.
  
  
• Leah Hartanov and Travis Hartanov, both '08, win the Best Idea Prize at the University of Washington's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition. Their business, Krochet Kids International, employs African women to make crocheted hats and accessories for import to the U.S.
  
  
• Five Whitworth teams win more than half of the $42,500 total cash awards in Gonzaga University's 2007 Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Business Plan Competition. The competition is the largest of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Whitworth's Daniel Belko, '07, and Lewis Turner, '08, take home the $7,500 Avista Social Impact Award for their business plan for a nonprofit bike shop run by and for at-risk teenagers. In the social-enterprise category, Tim Coughlin and Sean Thompson, both '08, win $3,500 for second place. In the community-based category, second place ($3,500) goes to Darien Brown, '06, Brennen McQuerry, '07, and Margi Begalka (Gonzaga). And in the student-generated category, Emilie Olson, '08, and Dustin Smith, '08, win the $5,000 second prize.
  
  
• Leah Silvieus and Lindsey Kiehn, both '07, are selected to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, which places young Americans as English teachers in middle and high schools throughout Korea.
  
  
• Trombonist Greg Hoff, '07, earns a gold medal in the Young Artist Brass Division at the 2006 Musicfest Northwest competition at Gonzaga University. The festival, now in its 61st year, draws participants from throughout the country. Hoff, who plays lead trombone with the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, earns a Musicfest Northwest Scholarship and is invited to perform as a soloist with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra.
  
  
• In 2007, The Whitworthian, Whitworth's student newspaper, wins the top award in the Excellence in Journalism competition held by the Inland Northwest Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper places first in the general excellence category, competing with periodicals from Washington State University, Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, and North Idaho College. Whitworth also wins awards in arts criticism (Dani King, '10), investigative reporting (Jessica Davis, '08 ), government and politics (Davis and Jamie Evans, '06 ), features (Joy Bacon, '09 ), editorial cartooning (Diana Painter and Peter Smelser, both '07 ), and photo-page photography (Thomas Robinson, '09 ).
  
  
• Lisa Trefts and Sara Tanzi-Dunham, both '07 MIM, are selected for academic internships in the 2006 Graduate Study Programme at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. The students' appointments to the highly competitive program follow those of the Master of International Management Program's Randall Johanson, who participated in 2005, Jolene Piccolo, '04, and Mike Jazskowiak, '03.
  
  
• Bethany Monroe, '06, is honored with a scholarship from the Washington National Press Association Foundation. The Jim and Kay Flaherty Intern Scholarship includes a stipend and a summer internship at a WNPA-affiliated newspaper. A journalism/mass-communication major at Whitworth, Monroe is currently a part-time features reporter at Spokane's The Spokesman-Review. Her future plans include newspaper work as a feature or news reporter.

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Faculty

Full-Time Faculty: 156
Student-Faculty Ratio: 11:1

Recent Faculty Highlights

• In August 2011, President Emeritus Bill Robinson, who served as Whitworth's president from 1993 to 2010, was appointed by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire to the state's higher-education task force. Gov. Gregoire, who will chair the committee, invited Robinson to become a member because of his extensive higher-education experience and leadership ability.
  
  
• Whitworth President Beck A. Taylor was elected to the board of Washington's Thrive by Five. Taylor, who has conducted extensive research in early childhood development and is deeply committed to ensuring school readiness among the state's children, will be a key member of the organization, which is the state's nonprofit public-private partnership for early learning.
  
  
• Professor of English Laurie Lamon, '78, was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall as one of two new voices in poetry to receive 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowships. Newspaperman David Tucker was the other honoree. Hall awarded the prizes to Lamon and Tucker in March 2007 at the Library of Congress, and the two poets read from their works during the awards ceremony. Each received a $10,000 fellowship provided by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Lamon, whom Hall characterized as "an exquisite writer of lyrics, writing a musical poetry that is delicate and pure," recently published her debut poetry collection, The Fork Without Hunger (CavanKerryPress, 2005).
  
  
• Associate Professor of Kinesiology & Athletics Russ Richardson, who also directs Whitworth's Athletic Training Education Program, received the Washington State Athletic Trainers Association 2007 Excellence in Service Award, as well as the Northwest Athletic Trainers Association Outstanding Service Award. Richardson received the first award in recognition of his co-authoring a bill that would regulate the practice of athletic training and moving that bill through the Washington State Legislature. He was also recognized for his efforts to develop the Alaska Athletic Trainers Association and for his service to NATA District 10 through various leadership roles.
  
  
• Math and Computer Science Professor Susan Mabry has been awarded two National Science Foundation grants to research and develop intelligent software agents for complex medical environments and recently published a book titled Intelligent Agents for Patient Monitoring and Diagnostics.
  
  
• Is Jesus the Only Savior? (Eerdmans, 2005), by Whitworth Theology Professor James Edwards, '67, was selected Best Book of 2006 in the "Apologetics/Evangelism" category by Christianity Today magazine. Edwards, who serves as chair of the Whitworth Theology Department, is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the author of The Divine Intruder (NavPress, 2000) and commentaries on the biblical books of Hebrews, Romans, and the Gospel of Mark.
  
  
• The second edition of Whitworth Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Alan Mikkelson's book about the relationship between biology and communication was published by Thomson Learning in April 2007. Mikkelson co-authored the second edition of The Biology of Human Communication: Issues and Applications with Kory Floyd, of Arizona State University, and 2003 Whitworth alumnus and communication-studies major Colin Hesse, who is now a first-year Ph.D. student at Arizona State University.
  
  
• Associate Professor of Theology Keith Beebe received a 2006 Graves Award in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies. The award, presented for exemplary skill and enthusiasm in the classroom and for faculty research that enhances students' educational experience, allowed Beebe to travel to Scotland to work on the McCullough Manuscripts (1742), comprising 108 first-person conversion narratives from the Scottish Great Awakening.
  
  
• A recent $115,000 National Science Foundation grant is the ninth external grant that Associate Professor of Physics Richard Stevens has received to fund his research using laser spectroscopy to examine physical phenomenon related to spacecraft propulsion. Stevens is among a select group contracted under NASA's electric propulsion research program to study the new thruster technology.
  
  
• Whitworth Professor of Political Science Julia Stronks directs Whitworth's initiative to serve homeless youth in Spokane and the Lives of Commitment Program, funded by a $1 million grant from the M. J. Murdock Foundation. She is the author of the books Law, Religion and Public Policy: A Commentary on First Amendment Jurisprudence (Lexington Books, 2002) and Christian Teachers in Public Schools (Baker Books, 2000).
  
  
• Professor of Theology Gerald Sittser was named 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award winner for his book When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association awards the prize in recognition of Christian books that meet the association's highest criteria for excellence in content, literary, quality, design and significance. Sittser is the author of a number of popular Christian books, including The Will of God as a Way of Life, Loving Across Our Differences, and A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss.

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Academics

Whitworth is ranked ninth in U.S. News and World Report's 2012 rankings of 115 master's-level universities in the West and moved into second place from fifth) in its ranking of best values in the same category. This marks the 12th consecutive year in which Whitworth has appeared in U.S. News' Top 10 annual rankings.

Undergraduate Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
• Bachelor of Liberal Studies (B.L.S.)

Graduate Degrees

• Master of Arts in Teaching
• Master of Arts in Theology
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Education
• Master of International Management
• Master in Teaching

Academic departments and programs

• Art
  • Art: Drawing/Painting and Printmaking, Graphic Design or Three Dimensional (Ceramics, Sculpture, Mixed Media) track
  • Art History
  • Arts Administration
  • Community Arts
    
    
• Biology
  • Biology (B.A. and B.S.)
    
    
• Chemistry (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Chemistry: Biochemistry or Physical Chemistry track
    
    
• Communication Studies
  • Communication
  • Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Speech Communication
  • Visual Communication
    
    
• Education
  • Elementary Education
  • English as a Second Language
  • Secondary Education
  • Special Education
    
    
• English
  • English: Literature or Writing track
  • English/Language Arts
  • Medieval and Early Modern Studies
    
    
• Global Commerce & Management
  • Accounting
  • Business Management
  • Economics
  • General Business
  • International Business
  • Marketing
    
    
• History
  • American Studies
  • History: Liberal Arts and Professional Degrees or Teaching (History and Social Studies) track
  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • International Studies
  • Public History
    
    
• Kinesiology & Athletics
  • Athletic Coaching
  • Athletic Training
  • Health, Fitness, and Physical Education
  • Physical Education
    
    
• Leadership Studies
  
  
• Mathematics & Computer Science
  • Computer Science (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Mathematics (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Mathematical Economics
  • Information Technology
    
    
• Modern Languages
  • French: French and Francophone Studies or French Education track
  • German
  • Spanish: Language and Literature or Spanish Education Track
    
    
• Music
  • Arts Administration
  • Music: Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Performance, Music Business, Music Ministry, Piano Pedagogy, Piano Performance or Voice Performance track
  • Music Education: Choral and/or Instrumental track
    
    
• Nursing (B.S.)
  
  
• Physics (B.A. and B.S.)
  • Applied Physics
  • Biophysics (B.S.): Mathematical Methods or Biochemistry option
  • Dual Degree Pre-Engineering Transfer Program
  • Engineering Physics (B.S.)
    
    
• Political Science
  • Community Engagement in Transformation
  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • International Studies
  • Peace Studies
    
    
• Pre-Professional Programs
  • Pre-Dentistry
  • Pre-Law
  • Pre-Medicine
  • Pre-Med Tech
  • Pre-Pharmacy
  • Pre-Physical Therapy
  • Pre-Veterinary
    
    
• Psychology
  
  
• Sociology
  • Sociology: Social and Cultural Analysis, Social Service and Community Action or Criminal Justice track
    
    
• Theatre
  • Theatre: General, Community-Based Theatre, Performance, or Technical Theatre track
  • Theatre Dance
    
    
• Theology & Philosophy
  • Biblical Languages
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
    
    
• Women's Studies

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Alumni

Total Whitworth Alumni: 24,158

Notable Whitworth Alumni

• Evan Cate, '08, received a full scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies at the Duke University Divinity School.
  
  
• Ashley Gibbs, '07, who won a Goldwater Scholarship in 2005, is pursuing a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Harvard University.
  
  
• Caleb Hug, '04, also a Goldwater Scholarship winner (in 2003), recently earned his doctorate in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  
• Kristina Ruggles, '93, is volunteer coordinator for Spokane's Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, whose mission is to provide emergency respite care for children at risk for neglect and abuse, and to provide support for families.
  
  
• Matt Lockard, '00, was the sole 2000 recipient of highly competitive fellowships from both the Mellon Foundation and the Pew Foundation. The fellowships have supported Lockard through his master's-degree and  Ph.D. studies in philosophy at UCLA.  He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on the epistemology of perceptual belief.
  
  
• Sheila Maak, '97, is founder of the Junior Achievement Honduras Foundation. Maak spent eight years after her graduation from Whitworth in Honduras, the first three as an economic-development volunteer with the Peace Corps. With the assistance of more than 200 local volunteers and 18 prominent board members from the business community, Junior Achievement Honduras now reaches more than 3,000 Honduran students each year.
  
  
• Anna Schowengerdt, '93, has led humanitarian relief programs for Catholic Relief Services since 1998. She was first assigned to Liberia, where she managed the monitoring and evaluation unit for two years. She then went on to serve in Uganda and Iraq. In 2004, Schowengerdt joined members of other relief organizations in a humanitarian mission to Aceh, Indonesia, following the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged that country and its neighbors. She returned to Whitworth to deliver the commencement address in 2005 and was a Great Decisions lecturer on campus in 2011.
  
  
• Kyle Orwig, '90, is a professor and research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He leads a six-person research team studying adult male germline stem cells, which show promise in the restoration of fertility and in other biomedical applications.
  
  
• Steve Miller, '83, was named 2002 Inventor of the Year for Battelle, an international research and development firm. Miller developed a new optically stimulated luminescence technique that resulted in the first million-dollar royalty license for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Battelle subsidiary. He holds 13 U.S. patents and numerous foreign patents.
  
  
• Russell Working, '82, was the youngest writer ever to receive the Iowa Short Fiction Award, for his collection Resurrectionists. Working went on to become an award-winning reporter, both as a freelancer in Russia and as a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times and dozens of other newspapers and magazines around the globe, and his fiction has been published in venues such as The Atlantic Monthly and Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story. The title story of his second short story collection, The Irish Martyr, won a Pushcart Prize.
  
  
• Noel Castellanos, '82, is the associate executive director of the Christian Community Development Association and the president of Latino Leadership Foundation. A pastor in Chicago's La Villita neighborhood, Castellanos has worked in full-time ministry in the Latino community for the past 25 years.
  
  
• Peter Hunner, '76, is an internationally acclaimed glass artist in Ostermarie, Denmark, and is the director of Baltic Sea Glass.
  
  
• Ron Leighton, '73, was appointed U.S. District Court Judge for the Western district of Washington in 2002 after a successful career as an attorney and partner with Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson and Dayheim in Tacoma and Seattle.
  
  
• Ross H. Anderson, '69, shared the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his article in The Seattle Times on the Exxon Valdez accident. He is an editorial journalist with The Seattle Times.
  
  
• Charles (Chuck) Boppell, '65, longtime chair of the Whitworth University Board of Trustees, recently retired as president and CEO of Worldwide Restaurant Concepts.
  
  
• Phil Eaton, Ph.D., '65, is the president of Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Wash.
  
  
• Walt Oliver, '67, is vice president for human resources with General Dynamics Corporation. He also serves the university as a member of Whitworth's board of trustees.
  
  
• Marvin Sather, '67, was named Washington State's Teacher of the Year for 1999 for his 31 years of exceptional service teaching high-school English.
  
  
• Ray Washburn, '61, spent nine successful seasons as a pitcher with Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals.   He pitched one no-hitter and won a number of World Series games during his career.
  
  
• Saisuree Chutikul, Ph.D., '56, is the former advisor to the Office of the Permanent Secretary, one of three departments within Thailand's Office of Prime Minister. She was one of the first Thai women to earn a doctorate and is currently Secretary-General of the National Youth Bureau of Thailand.
  
  
• The late Maj. General Richard Carr, '49, served as Chief of Chaplains in the United States Air Force and established marriage and military family support programs at air bases worldwide. Ordained in the Church of Christ, Carr was an interim pastor at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where he helped establish the D.C. office of World Vision.

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Recent Whitworth Honors/Awards

• Whitworth is designated a "Best in the West" university in Princeton Review's 2011 Best Colleges guide and is also featured in the Center for Student Opportunity's 2011 College Access & Opportunity Guide, a comprehensive resource designed to help low-income high schoolers make their college dreams a reality. Whitworth was also a "Best in the West" school in Princeton Review's 2010 Best Colleges edition.
  
  
• Whitworth has been named a Christian College of Distinction for 2011-12, based on the university's "engaged students, great teaching, vibrant community and successful outcomes." See Whitworth's profile by clicking here.
  
  
• Whitworth moved from fifth (in 2011) to second place in U.S. News and World Report's 2012 rankings of best values among master's-level universities in the West, based upon both academic quality and average scholarship/financial aid award, and is ranked ninth in the magazine's rankings of the 115 best private colleges and universities in the region.
  
  
• Forbes places Whitworth among the top six private schools in the Pacific Northwest in its 2011 ranking of the top uundergraduate institutions in the U.S. The rankings are consumer-oriented and emphasize financial prudence, based on criteria such as quality of teaching and career prospects, graduation rates, and levels of debt upon graduation. The rankings are prepared exclusively for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
  
  
• In 2011, Whitworth is recognized among the top schools in the U.S. for its commitment to community service by the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This honor, awarded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Whitworth also earns this honor in 2009.
  
  
• In spring 2011, for the fourth year in a row, Whitworth earns the McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports Trophy for the best overall athletics program in the Northwest Conference. In one of the NCAA Div. III's toughest conferences, Whitworth has won the trophy five times in the past six years.
  
  
• In 2010, Whitworth is among the 10 highest-ranked schools in the Pacific Northwest in Forbes' 2009 America's Best Colleges rankings.
  
  
• Whitworth is ranked No. 10 on First Things' 2010 list of the "Best Seriously Protestant Schools in the United States."
  
  
• In 2010, for the fourth consecutive year, Kiplinger's magazine ranks Whitworth among its Top 100 private universities. Princeton tops Kiplinger's list of best university values, followed by Yale, CalTech, and Rice. West Coast schools joining Whitworth (No. 51) are Stanford (No. 12), U.S.C. (No. 28), Santa Clara (No. 43), and Gonzaga (No. 32) and Pepperdine (44). Click here to access the complete rankings. The rankings are based on academic quality and affordability, and the top colleges and universities are chosen from among 600 eligible private schools.
  
  
• In 2008, the Institute for International Education ranks Whitworth's study-abroad program 10th in the nation among master's-level universities. Just over 52 percent of Whitworth's undergraduate students studied abroad in the 2007-08 academic year.
  
  
• The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities names Whitworth the winner of its 2008 Robert and Susan Andringa Award for Advancing Racial Harmony.
  
  
• In the 2007 National Survey of Student Engagement, both first-year students and seniors rate Whitworth significantly higher than peer and national averages for level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, faculty-student interaction, enriching educational experiences and supportive campus environment.
  
  
• Whitworth is recognized in 2007 as a top producer of Fulbright scholars, with nine students and four faculty members selected for Fulbright scholarships and fellowships since 2000.

• In February 2009, Whitworth was named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The honor roll, which was launched in 2006, is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on factors such as scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

• For the third consecutive year, Kiplinger's magazine has ranked Whitworth in its top 50 private university values in the West. The magazine ranked Whitworth No. 39 in its 2009 ranking of the top 50 values. West Coast schools joining Whitworth rankings are Stanford (No. 10), U.S.C. (No. 30), Pepperdine (No. 35), Gonzaga (No. 37), and Santa Clara (No. 43). Northwest schools in the ranking of best liberal arts college values include Whitman (No. 27) and Reed (No. 44). To view the complete rankings, please click here.

• In April 2008, Whitworth University President Bill Robinson received the Charles Foreman Award for Innovation in Private Higher Education in recognition of his leadership in helping private colleges forge successful partnerships with public universities, the business community and under-represented minority populations. The award is presented each year by the Foundation for Independent Higher Education to an individual, institution or organization for extraordinary and innovative leadership reflecting collaborative effort and endeavor. Robinson received the award at FIHE's annual meeting in New Jersey.

• Whitworth was selected, along with Crichton College, of Memphis, to receive the 2008 Robert and Susan Andringa Award for Advancing Racial Harmony. The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities presented the award to Whitworth President Bill Robinson and Crichton President Larry Lloyd during the Presidents Conference in Washington, D.C. The award celebrates the achievements of CCCU campuses in making progress in the areas of diversity, racial harmony and reconciliation.
  
  
• The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dan Keberle, D.M.A., won first place at the 2008 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, at the University of Idaho. Whitworth, which has won first-place honors six times since 1996, competed with such schools as University of Washington, Washington State University, University of Utah, and Boston College. Nathanael Ankeny, '08, was named Outstanding Alto Sax Soloist, and Jared Hall, '08, earned Outstanding Trumpet Soloist honors.
  

• The American Association of Physics Teachers presented a 2006 AAPT Special Presidential Citation Award to the Whitworth Physics Department for the exemplary increase in its number of majors. The number of department majors has increased 600 percent in the past 10 years.
  
  
• In recognition of its achievement in changing the community through art, Whitworth Theatre was recently named the recipient of the 2006 City of Spokane Bold Strokes Award. The Spokane Arts Commission presented the award as part of the city's celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month.
  
  
• In summer 2007, Whitworth wrapped up a two-year, $109,000 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust program that funded science fellowships for 16 students to engage in student-faculty scholarship with Whitworth professors.
  
  
• U.S. News & World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges guide places Whitworth No. 6 in its ranking of 116 master's-level universities in the 17-state region of the West; Whitworth is No. 5 – its third consecutive year in the top five – in U.S. News' best-values rankings in the same category.
  
  
• The Whitworth Communication Studies Department was the winner of the 2005 Rex Mix Program of Excellence Award. This prestigious award, given by the National Communication Association, honors a department's overall excellence in comparison with other small-college programs across the country. Whitworth's  emphasis on ethics instruction and its strong internship program drew admiration from peers.
  
  
• Whitworth has twice been named the Best Christian Workplace among large higher-education institution, based on national surveys of employees at Christian businesses and nonprofit organizations. The surveys were sponsored by Christianity Today magazine.

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Athletics

Northwest Conference, NCAA Division III
20 varsity sports: 10 women's, 10 men's

Four Whitworthians have been approved by the Crimson Club to join the 71 individuals and seven teams enshrined in the Whitworth Heritage Gallery Hall of Fame:

Sky Blake, '01, a defensive end, starred on the Whitworth football team throughout his career and became the defensive MVP of the post-season Aztec Bowl all-star game in his senior year. Tiffany Speer, '05, graduated as the second all-time leading scorer in Whitworth women's basketball. She finished her career with 1,707 points and set Pirate records for most points in a single game, single season scoring average, and most free throws made in a career. Jerry Tighe, '70, was an NAIA cross country and track and field All-American at Whitworth. He won three consecutive NAIA District cross country championships and finished as high as 11th at the NAIA national cross country championships. Warren Friedrichs has served in a variety of key roles in the Whitworth athletics department, most notably as men's head basketball coach from 1986-2001. He is the winningest coach in school history with a career record of 251-195. His teams won or shared five Northwest Conference titles, and his 1996 team was national runner-up, losing in overtime of the NAIA Div. II championship game. Friedrichs is now Whitworth's golf coach, and he served as interim director of athletics from fall 2009 through spring 2011, during which time the Pirates claimed a pair of NWC McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports Trophies.

Recent Honors

2010-11: Whitworth brings home its fourth straight McIlroy-Lewis All Sports Trophy by winning or sharing seven NWC championships this year. Yet again, Whitworth finishes with the highest point total for any winning school since the scoring system was changed in 1999. The Pirates also won the trophy in 2005 and placed among the top three conference programs in 2006 and 2007.

In 2011, coming off another supremely successful year for Whitworth Athletics, five student-athletes stood out from among their peers, according to a vote of the Pirate Athletics Department. Michael Taylor, NCAA Div. III Men's Basketball Player of the Year, and Elizabeth Mattila, a perennial NWC All-Conference awardee in both track & field and soccer, were winners of the Dennis Spurlock Award, established to honor Whitworth student-athletes who exhibit modesty, poise, and leadership in addition to excellence in athletic performance. 2011 Senior Award Winners are Tonya Turner, who led Whitworth's women to the 2010 NCAA Div. III cross-country championship and who has set Pirate track & field records in two events this spring; Alex Hymel, who led the nation at the
Div. III level in the javelin and whose throws exceeded 65 meters four times this season; and Kalen Darling, who excelled on the cross-country course and on the swim team -- winning his second straight NWC Men's Outstanding Swimmer Award -- and who won the U.S. U-23 triathlon title in September.

• Baseball
  
  • 2011 Pitcher Nate Johnson, '11, signs with the Kansas City Royals, and outfielder Kevin Valerio, '12, was named a Rawlings Gold Glove winner for NCAA Div. III. Third baseman Landon Scott, '12, is named to the Capital One Academic All-District 8 College Division Baseball Team; he also receives All-Northwest Conference First Team and All-Region Second Team honors for the second straight year. The Pirates finish their season 20-20 overall and 13-11 in conference.
    
    
  • 2010 Third baseman and NWC batting champ (.465) Landon Scott is named First Team All-Northwest Conference and Second Team All-West Region, while designated hitter Kyle Krustangel is selected to the NWC's second team. Outfielders Kevin Valerio and Dan Belet receive honorable mentions. For the second time in his Whitworth career, Belet, an engineering physics major with a 3.97 GPA, is named to the Academic All-District Baseball Team by CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine.
    
    
  • 2008 First Team All-Northwest Conference: Chad Flett
    
    
  • 2008 Academic All-District VIII: Dan Belet
    
    
  • 2007 Second Team All-NWC: Chad Flett, Dan Ramsey
    
    
  • 2006 Academic All-District VIII: Todd Phillips
    
    
  • 2006 All-NWC: Steve Hare, Todd Phillips, Caleb Reaber, Jason Weatherman
    
    
    
• Men's Basketball
  
  • 2011 Michael Taylor is named National d3hoops.com Player of the Year and NABC Div. III Player of the Year after Whitworth earns the first No. 1 NCAA basketball ranking for any college or university in the Pacific Northwest, wins the Northwest Conference Championship, and advances to the national tournament for the fifth consecutive year, making it to the Elite 8 before losing to host College of Wooster (Ohio). The Pirates end the season with a 28-2 record. Post player Felix Friedt, '12, who holds a 3.96 GPA in international business, is named Third Team Academic All-America. After a mega-successful 10-year run, Head Coach Jim Hayford departs for Div. I Eastern Washington University, and Whitworth hires Matt Logie, associate head coach of the Div. I Lehigh University Mountain Hawks, to take over at the helm of the Bucs.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth, ranked No. 4 in the country, wins the NWC Tournament after an undefeated season in conference. Following a first-round bye in the NCAA Div. III tournament, the Pirates beat Chapman University (Calif.) to advance to the DIII Sweet Sixteen. At the sectional semifinals, in North Carolina, the Bucs lose to Eastern Mennonite University 71-74, ending Whitworth's 25-game win streak and the Pirates' run at the national title.Nate Montgomery, a D3hoops.com All-American, scores seven points in NABC All-Star Game at the DIII Final Four. Also, the National Association of Basketball Coaches selects Pirate coach Jim Hayford West District Division III Coach of the Year.
    
    
  • 2009 The Bucs earn their way into the NCAA Division III Playoffs and advance to the second round; they finish season ranked No. 24 in the nation. Whitworth wins the Northwest Conference Tournament, and players Ross Nakamura and David Riley are named to the NWC All-Conference First Team.
    
    
  • 2008, 2007 Whitworth is Northwest Conference champion, advancing to the NCAA D3 Sweet Sixteen.
    
    
  • 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006 In 2011, D3hoops.com names Michael Taylor its National Player of the Year. Taylor is also All-West Region Player of the Year and NWC Player of the Year. In 2010, Nate Montgomery is D3hoops All-West Region Player of the Year as well as NWC Player of the Year; Ryan Simes (2008), Bryan Williams (2007), and Lance Pecht (2006) are all Players of the Year in the Northwest Conference.
    
    
    
• Women's Basketball
  
  • 2011 Emily Guthrie, '13, is named Second Team All-NWC, leading the conference in three pointers per game, making 38.1% of her shots from beyond the arc. The Pirates (11-13 overall) finish out of the running for the NWC championship and postseason play.
    
    
  • 2010 Cassie Pilkinton is selected First Team All-NWC. Pilkinton is also named to the ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District Second Team.
    
    
  • 2008 Alida Bower is named First Team All Northwest Conference.
    
    
  • 2007 Alida Bower is a CoSIDA Academic All-District pick.
    
    
    
• Women's & Men's Cross Country
  • 2010 Whitworth's women take 17th place at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships. The men place 28th in the nation at the national event. Katie Williams, '11, earns the Elite 88 Award for embodying the essence of the student-athlete who has reached the pinnacle of his/her sport and achieved the highest academic standards, as well. Williams is Whitworth's first Elite 88 Award winner.
    
    
  • 2009 The Whitworth women win the NCAA Division III West Region title, with Dana Misterek, Joy Shufeldt and Tonya Turner leading the way. The Pirates finish sixth at the NCAA Division III Championships. Head Coach Toby Schwarz is named Women's NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
    
    
  • 2009 Whitworth's cross country teams excel not only on the course, but also in the classroom. Both teams and eight individual athletes are recognized for that academic success by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Athletes honored are Jo E. Mayer, '10, Dana Misterek, '12, Joy Shufedlt, '13, Tonya Turner, '12, Kathryn Williams, '10, Tyler Dudley, '12, Nick Gallagher, '11, and Collin Stewart, '10.
    
    
  • 2008 Men win conference championship; women tie for second. Nick Gallagher's win leads men to first place at NCAA regionals; team travels to Hanover College, in Indiana, for the 2008 NCAA Division III Cross Country National Championship Meet
    
    
  • 2007 NCAA Division III individual qualifiers are Nick Gallagher, Dusty Caseria.
    
    
  • 2007 All-NCAA West Region players are Nick Gallagher, Dusty Caseria, Jacob Dietz.
    
    
  • 2007 Men finish third at Northwest Conference championship; Nick Gallagher is named All-NWC.
    
    
  • 2006 Julie Lauterbach is named to the NCAA All-Region Team.
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  • 2006 Julie Lauterbach is an NCAA DIII championship qualifier.
    
    
    
• Football
  • 2010 Seven Whitworth footballers are named to the Academic All-District Football Team (five are repeaters from 2009): Travis Niles and Derek Stottlemyer, both '11; and Paul Werhane, Zac Richardson, Emilio Sulpizio, Robert Schaefer and Matt McDermott, all '12, make up nearly 1/3 of the regional team. Adam Anderson and Zack Clow, both '11, were named to the ALL-NWC First Team. For the third time in his Whitworth career, Anderson was also named to the Second Team All-West Region by D3football.com.
    
    
  • 2009 Whitworth finishes 5-5 for third place in the Northwest Conference. Brandon Martin is joined on the All-Northwest Conference First Team by Jeff Kintner and Zack Clow.
    
    
  • 2008 Bucs finish 6-3; third place in NWC.
    D3football.com 2008 All-West Region First Team: Adam Anderson. Anderson led the NCAA (all divisions) in all-purpose yards (243.8 per game) and scoring average (16.89 points per game) during the 2008 season.
    NWC Co-Offensive Player of the Year: Adam Anderson
    Academic All-District Football Team: Travis Niles, Dan Sanders, McLane Stone, Emilio Sulpizio
    
    
  • 2007 Northwest Conference champions
    NWC Coach of the Year: John Tully
    NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Adam Anderson
    D3.football.com All-America Second Team and NWC Co-Defensive
    Player of the Year: Jay Tully
    National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs select tight end Michael Allan in 7th round of NFL draft
    
    
  • 2006 Northwest Conference champions; advance to the second round of the NCAA Div. III national tournament
    NWC Coach of the Year: John Tully
    D3football.com, AFCA, AP First-Team All-America: Michael Allan
    NWC Offensive Player of the Year: Joel Clark;
    NWC Defensive Player of the Year: Casey Clifton
    CoSIDA Academic All-America: Steve Honeyman
    Preseason All-America: Michael Allan
    
    
    
• Men's Golf
  • 2011 The Whitworth men finish out the season with a second-place finish at the NWC Championship Golf Tournament, hosted by Whitman College. Team leaders for the season included Cameron Whittie, Ryan Young and Christian Boudreau and Jesse Salzwedel, who was named to the National Golf Coaches Association Div. III Ping All-Region 5/West Team.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth returns to the top of the Northwest Conference, winning the NWC Championship Golf Tournament. Ryan Young leads the Pirates to the team victory, earning medalist honors with a two-round score of 151. The men travel to the NCAA Div. III championship tourney for the second time.
    
    
  • 2008 Tied for first, NWC North Tournament
    
    
  • 2008 Second place, Northwest Conference
    
    
  • 2008 All NWC: Jordan Carter, Andrew Parrott, Conor McCracken
    
    
  • 2007 NWC champions, NCAA Division III tournament participants
    
    
  • 2007, 2006, 2005 Northwest Conference Coach of the Year: Warren Friedrichs
    
    
  • 2007 Third Team All-America: Andrew Parrott
    
    
  • 2007 NWC medalist: Steven Johnson
    
    
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Steven Johnson,
    Sean Thompson
    
    
  • 2006 NWC medalist: Andrew Parrott
    
    
  • 2006 NWC champions
    
    
    
• Women's Golf
  
  • 2011 The Pirates finish fourth at the Women's Northwest Conference Championship Tournament and earn third place in the final conference golf standings. Team leaders include Elizabeth Martin, Ashley Danforth, Katie O'Neill and Emily Guthrie, who was named to the National Golf Coaches Association Div. III All-Region 5/West Team.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth holds off nationally ranked George Fox University to claim the team title at the 2010 NWC Championship Tournament and to share the conference championship with the Bruins. Emily Guthrie earns medalist honors, as well as the NWC Player of the Year award. The women travel to the NCAA Div. III championship tourney for the first time, competing in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. Rachel Dubes, who graduates as the winner of one of Whitworth's President Cup awards (for a 4.0 average throughout her college career), is named to the 2010 ESPN THE Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team.
    
    
  • 2008 First place, NWC Fall Classic; second place, Northwest Conference;
    Kristal Pitkonen is all-NWC.
    
    
  • 2007 All-NWC: Alicia Bratlien
    
    
    
• Men's Soccer
  • 2010 Whitworth finishes fifth in the NWC, with an overall record of 11-6-2 and an NWC record of 7-5-2. Seven players are named to the All-NWC team: Travis Gutierrez, Justin Meyer, Cameron Bushey and Nate Spangler are First-Team NWC; Dion Coxe, Nic Shaw and Kekoa Mountcastle earn Second-Team recognition. Taylor Willi, '12, is named to the Academic All-District VIII team. Meyer, Spangler and Bushey are also honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America D3 All-West Region, with Meyer and Spangler being named to the Second Team and Bushey receiving Third Team honors.
    
    
  • 2009, 2008, 2007 Whitworth wins Northwest Conference Championships; defeats Chapman University in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Div. III championship tournament and beats Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in Round Two; the Pirates make it into the Elite Eight before losing to Hardin-Simmons (Texas).
    
    
  • 2009 Northwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year: Elly Bulega, leading a group of eight Whitworth players named to the 2009 All-Northwest Conference team. Bulega, Bryan Olson and Justin Meyer were all named First-Team All-NWC.
    
    
  • 2008 Academic All-District: Caleb Barnhill, Bryan Olson. Whitworth hosted Augsberg in first round of the 2008 tournament and advanced to the second round of the 2007 tournament.
    
    
  • 2007 First Team All-NWC: Scott Barnum, Brett Kagawa, Matt Friesen, Skye Henderson, Keith Kirsch; 2007, 2004, 2001 NWC Coach of the Year: Sean Bushéy
    
    
  • 2006 All-NWC: Ali Seyedali; NSCAA All-American: Ali Seyedal; Niko Varlamos becomes all-time Whitworth men's-soccer high scorer; CoSIDA Academic All-District: Kevin Bostock
    
    
    
• Women's Soccer
  • 2010: Whitworth finishes second in the NWC with a 14-5-1 overall record; 12-3-1 in the conference. Six Pirates are named to the All-NWC Team: Callie Bergstrom, '12, Anisa Babar, '12, Sidonia Davin, '11, and Sarah Berentson, '12, are First-Team honorees. Mackenzie Grow, '13, and Elizabeth Mattila, '11, are named to the Second Team. Berentson is also named to the National Soccer Coaches Association's DIII All-West Region Third Team, and Bergstrom recieves First-Team Academic All-District VIII honors; Grow and Cory Druffel, '12, make the Second Team. In the off-season, head coach Daman Hagerott and his assistant (and daughter), Jael Hagerott, '07, switch places, moving Hagerott-the-younger into the head coach's position.
    
    
  • 2009 17-2 record; 9-1 road record (best in Whitworth's history); second place in NWC behind UPS. Anisa Babar and Lindsey Oakes are named to the All-NWC First Team; Miranda Cosand is an NWC Third-Team honoree.
    
    
  • 2008 15-4-1 record; second place in NWC behind undefeated UPS
    
    
  • 2008 Academic All-District: Miranda Cosand, Penelope Crowe
    
    
  • 2007 17-2 record; played in first round of NCAA Div. III playoffs
    
    
  • 2007 Katelyn Plumb, Kelly Baker, Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau named First Team All-Northwest Conference
    
    
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Jael Hagerott
    
    
  • 2007 Academic All-District: Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau
    
    
  • 2007 NSCAA West Region Coach of the Year; NWC Coach of the Year: Sean Bushéy
    
    
  • 2006 All-NWC: Jael Hagerott, Greta Thibodeau
    
    
  • 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-American: Jael Hagerott
    
    
    
• Softball
  • 2011 Caty Lieseke, '11, is voted First Team All-Northwest Conference, Lieske and Sami Parr, '13, are recognized for excellence on the field and in the classroom, earning spots on the Capital One Academic All-District 8 Softball Team. Softball finishes the season 20-19 overall and 17-11 (for third place) in the NWC. Whitworth hires Cristal Brown, a very successful high-school coach and former star player, as its new head coach.
    
    
  • 2010 Heather Hesselgesser is named All-Region Second Team. Lacey Kerr is named to the All-NWC First Team; Hesselgesser, Sami Parr and Jessica Mangis are selected for the second team; and Jamie Brunner and Ashley Carey earn honorable mention.
    
    
  • 2008 First-Team All Northwest Conference: Halley Cey, Lacey Parry
    
    
  • 2008 Academic All-District: Amber Fowler
    
    
  • 2007: Set Whitworth record for victories in a season (30)
    
    
  • 2007 NCAA Division III All-Americans: Heather Case, Lindsay Davis, Halley Cey, Lacey Parry
    
    
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Lindsay Davis
    
    
  • 2006 NCAA DIII Tournament participants
    
    
  • 2006 NWC Pitcher of the Year: Jo Sonnett
    
    
    
• Men's Swimming
  • 2011 At nationals, junior Rory Buck breaks the NCAA DIII 200-yard breaststroke and 200 backstroke records and is named the 2011 Division III Men's Swimmer of the Year. The men's team broke two relay records at nationals after rolling to its ninth consecutive NWC championship, dominating swimmers from throughout the conference. Kalen Darling, '11, earns Men's Outstanding Swimmer of the conference meet (as he did in 2010); he wins three individual events during the meet: the 200-yard I.M., the 400-yard I.M., and the 200-yard backstroke. The Bucs are also the winners of 78 consecutive dual meets. Buck is top seed in the 100-yard breaststroke, and he and Darling lead eight swimmers to nationals, in Ohio. The men's team is recognized by the CSCAA for outstanding academic achievement, as well, and Rory Buck, Nathan Ranno, '13, and Aaron Vaccaro, '14, are singled out for individual honors.
    
    
  • 2010 Rory Buck, '12, finishes as national runner-up in the 200-yard breaststroke, and the men's team earns a Top-20 finish at the 2010 NCAA DIII Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center. Buck is also named to the 2010 ESPN THE Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team.
    
    
  • 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003: Pirates are NWC champions (and, as of March '10, winners of 71 consecutive NWC dual meets)
    
    
  • 2009 Michael Woodward ties for Outstanding Men's Swimmer of the Northwest Conference Championships
    
    
  • 2007 NWC Swimmer of the Year, NCAA DIII national qualifier and CoSIDA Academic All-District: David Dolphay
    
    
  • 2006 NWC Coach of the Year: Steve Schadt
    
    
  • 2006 NWC Swimmers of the Year: Loren Killgore, David Dolphay
    
    
    
• Women's Swimming
  
  • 2011 The women's swim team clinches its team title early in the NWC championship meet with 817 points, ahead of Puget Sound's 679. Kate Duvall, '14, sets an all-time NWC record and automatically qualifies for nationals.The Whitworth women have now won three of the last four NWC championships, as well as 35 consecutive dual meets. Duvall is singled out for individual honors as the women's team is recognized by the CSCAA for outstanding academic achievement among nationwide collegiate swimmers.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth's swimmin' women earn a Top-20 finish in the DIII Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center. Natalie Turner, '10, makes Northwest Conference history, becoming the NWC's first woman swimmer to score in 12 out of a possible 12 career events at the NCAA DIII championships. She finishes 5th in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
    
    
  • 2010, 2008 Women are NWC champions (and, as of March '10, winners of 28 consecutive NWC dual meets).
    
    
  • 2009 Whitworth is NWC runner-up and Natalie Turner is Outstanding Women's Swimmer of the Northwest Conference championships for the third straight season, sweeping the 200, 500 and 1,650-yard freestyles in NWC record time.
    
    
  • 2008 Whitworth women finish 10th at NCAA DIII championships; Natalie Turner, Samantha Kephart are named DIII All-America. Whitworth wins conference title, breaking UPS' 11-year stranglehold on the NWC championship, and Turner is named NWC Women's Swimmer of the Year. Kephart is named Third Team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American. Steve Schadt, '89, is named NWC Coach of the Year.
    
    
    
• Men's Tennis
  • 2011 Daniel Redfern, '12, is named to the All-Northwest Conference First Team; the Pirates finish the regular season in third place, going 11-9 overall, 8-4 in NWC play.
    
    
  • 2010 The Whitworth squad is selected as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team. Michael Shelton is named to the All-Northwest Conference First Team for the second consecutive season, and Joe Wales is honored as NWC Sportsman of the Year.
    
    
  • 2009 All-Northwest Conference First Team: Michael Shelton; All-NWC Second Team: Joe Wales
    
    
  • 2008 Second Team Academic All-America; Academic All-District: Scott Donnell
    
    
  • 2008 Second Team All-NWC: Josh Steele
    
    
    
• Women's Tennis
  • 2011 With a singles record of 15-3, Rachel Burns, '11, wins Northwest Conference Player of the Year honors and is joined on the All-NWC First Team by Alli Marshall, '12. Whitworth wins the NWC championship (for the third consecutive season) with a record of 16-2 overall, 12-0 in the NWC.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth's women's team defeats Willamette 6-3, clinching a second straight Northwest Conference title for the Pirates. The Pirates finish their regular season with a record of 17-4 overall, 15-1 NWC. Rachel Burns is named to the All-Northwest First Team and is voted the NWC's Sportswoman of the Year. The women also compete at the NCAA Div. III tournament for the second year in a row.
    
    
  • 2009 NWC champions, NCAA Div. III Regional Coach of the Year; NWC Coach of the Year: Jo Wagstaff; NWC All-Conference First Team: Rachel Burns,Alli Marshall
    
    
  • 2008 Second place in Northwest Conference; All-NWC: Rachel Burns, Lexy Harrington, Katie Staudinger
    
    
  • 2007 Second-Team All-NWC: Linh Aven, Rachael McCoola
    
    
  • 2006 All-NWC: Jamie Kneese
    
    
    
• Men's Indoor Track & Field
  
  • 2011 Whitworth wins seven of eight possible awards from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association: Toby Schwarz is named regional men's and women's Coach of the Year;Jeff Rahn is regional men's and women's Assistant Coach of the Year; Emmanuel Bofa, '10 (currently a graduate student), is named Men's Track Athlete of the Year for the third consecutive season; Tonya Turner, '12, is Women's Track Athlete of the Year, and Sam Wright, '14, is Field Athlete of the Year. Bofa, Turner and Jheri Gates, '14, qualified to compete at the NCAA Div. III Indor Track and Field Championships in Ohio. Bofa is a four-year qualifier for nationals; Turner and Gates are the first Whitworth women to compete at the meet.
    
    
  • 2010 Emmanuel Bofa, '10, is selected West Region Track Athlete of the Year, and Toby Schwarz is named Men's West Region Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
    
    
  • 2010 Cody Stelzer, '10 (high jump) and Jeff Kintner, '10 (shot put) finish 6th at NCAA Indoor Championships, earning All-America status.
    
    
  • The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association names Whitworth the 2009 Indoor Track and Field Scholar Team of the Year for the second year in a row.
    
    
  • 2009 USTFCCCAAA names Toby Schwarz Coach of the Year and Emmanuel Bofa (800 meters) and Cody Stelzer Track & Field Athletes of the Year
    
    
  • 2008 Division III Indoor Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year; second place, Div. III indoor nationals; 2007 DIII All-America: Cody Stelzer (high jump)
    
    
    
• Women's Indoor Track & Field
  • 2007 DIII Regional Coach of the Year: Toby Schwarz
    
    
    
• Men's Outdoor Track & Field
  • 2011 The Pirates win their second Northwest Conference title in the last three years and finish third at the NCAA Div. III West Region meet. Carter Comito helped Whitworth close out the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in dramatic fashion by winning the national discus title. Four Whitworth men are named to the USTFCCA All-Academic Teams: Brett Bajema, '14, javelin; Alex Couette, '11, hammer throw; Frank Lima, '13, high jump; and Jacob Pierce, '12, hammer throw. Lima finished 8th in this year's high jump at the NCAA meet.
    
    
  • 2010 After a dominating victory at the NWC championships, Whitworth sends 11 qualifiers to nationals and finishes 13th in the country. Emmanuel Bofa finishes second in the 800-m, and Cody Stelzer takes fourth in the high jump. As he was in 2008 and 2009, Cody Stelzer, '10 (high jump), is named to ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-America Men's Track and Field/Cross Country Second Team.
    
    
  • 2009 The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association names Whitworth the Outdoor Track and Field Scholar Team of the Year for the second year in a row. DIII national champion Emmanuel Bofa (800-meter dash) repeats his feat of 2008, breaking Whitworth's record as well as the record for Drumm Stadium, at Marietta College, in Ohio. Whitworth's men finish sixth in the nation. Bofa is West Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year, and Throws Coach Gary Baskett is the West Region Assistant Coach of the Year. ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII Men's Track & Field/Cross Country college division second-team honoree is Cody Stelzer (high jump; second consecutive year). Bofa, Jeff Kintner (shot put),Stelzer, Alex Hymel (javelin) and Joey VanHoomissen (javelin) earn All-America honors with strong performances at nationals. Finally, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association names Whitworth the Outdoor Track and Field Scholar Team of the Year for the second year in a row.
    
    
  • 2008 Third place, NCAA Division III national
    
    
  • 2008 Scholar Team of the Year, awarded by U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association
    
    
  • 2008 Northwest Conference champions
    
    
  • 2008 DIII national champion: Emmanuel Bofa
    (800-meter dash)
    
    
  • 2008 DIII national champion: Cody Stelzer (high jump)
    
    
  • 2008 DIII Regional Coach of the Year, NWC Coach of the Year: Toby Schwarz
    
    
  • 2008 NCAA All-Americans: Kory Kemp, Jeff Kintner, Alex Hymel
    
    
  • 2008 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-Americans: Ben Spaun (110/400 hurdles), Cody Stelzer (high jump)
    
    
  • 2008 NWC Men's Athlete of the Year: Ben Spaun
    
    
  • 2007 NCAA Division III All-Americans: Cody Stelzer (HJ), Emmanuel Bofa (800), Kory Kemp (javelin)
    
    
  • 2007 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Ben Spaun
    
    
    
• Women's Outdoor Track & Field
  
  • 2011 Whitworth runners Katie Williams, Tonya Turner and Elizabeth Mattila were all named to the 2011 CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII Women's College Division Track & Field/Cross Country Team. Mattila broke her own school record in the 400 hurdles in the national meet at Ohio Wesleyan University. Seven Pirate women are named to the USTFCCC All-Academic Teams: Erica Cox, '11, hammer and discus throws; Jheri Gates, '14, high jump, Elizabeth Mattila, '11, 400 hurdles; Dana Misterek, '11, 800 run, Cassidy Stevick, '14, javelin; and Tonya Turner, '11, 1500 run, 3000 steeplechase). Mattila and Turner both turned in All-American finishes at this year's NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
    
    
  • 2010 Whitworth finishes third at the NWC Conference Championships, with Amy Wyatt winning the shot put competition. Joy Shufeldt breaks an 18-year-old Whitworth record in the 5,000 meters at the Duane Hartman Open. Schufeldt and Erica Cox post qualifying marks for the national outdoor championships.
    
    
  • 2009 Elizabeth Mattila finishes fifth in the nation in 400-meter high hurdles and earns All-America status.
    
    
  • 2009 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII Women's Track & Field/Cross Country college division honors: Joanne Mayer (distance), Tonya Turner (pole vault, distance), Kathryn Williams (distance)
    
    
  • 2008 Women lead the nation in cumulative team GPA, per U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Kristen Dormaier and Elizabeth Mattila make the USTFCCCA Division III All-Academic Team as individuals.
    
    
  • 2008 Third place, Northwest Conference
    
    
  • 2006 NCAA All-American: Kristi Dickey
    
    
    
• Volleyball
  • 2010 Volleyball wins Northwest Conference Championship, advances to second round of NCAA DIII tourney after beating Concordia-Moorhead in opener. Steve Rupe is NWC Coach of the Year, and Sophomore Kaimi Rocha is NWC Player of the Year. Rocha was also voted to the AVCA All-West Region First Team.
    
    
  • 2009 Honorable Mention All-Northwest Conference: Tracy Schwada
    
    
  • 2009 ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District Third Team honoree: Randy Stephens
    
    
  • 2008 First Team All-NWC: Kaimi Rocha
    
    
  • 2008 Honorable Mntion All-NWC: Nikki Bardwell, Ka'ipo Rocha
    
    
  • 2007 Second-Team All-NWC: Sarah Rusch
    
    
  • 2006 2nd Team All-NWC: Cassie Moore
    
    
  • 2006 CoSIDA Academic All-District: Angie Florence, Nicole Vander Meulen

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Finances

• Tuition and fees: $31,830 (2011-12)
• Room and board: $8,918 (2011-12)
• Annual budget: $35.1 million (2009)
• Total gifts received: $7,226,660 (2009)
• Endowment: $73,191,195 (2009)
• Percent of students who receive aid: 95-plus percent (2009)
• Audited financial statements 2009-10 (PDF)

Campus

In addition to the $32 million William P. & Bonnie V. Robinson Science Hall, which is slated to open in fall 2011, Whitworth has invested more than $62 million in campus improvements in recent years, including the following projects:

• Hixson Union Building: $8 million
• Weyerhaeuser Hall Academic Building: $7.1 million
• Boppell Residence Hall: $4 million
• Residence Hall renovations: $4.5 million
• Technology/infrastructure upgrades: $3.7 million
• Dixon Hall Classroom Building renovation: $3 million
• Johnston Science Center renovation: $2.8 million
• Cowles Memorial Auditorium renovation: $2.2 million
• Softball/soccer/field-event complex: $1.5 million
• Pine Bowl/Boppell Track upgrades: $1.3 million
• Property acquisition: $3 million
• Scotford Tennis Center/pedestrian corridor: $1 million
• Duvall Residence Hall: $7.8 million
• Hawthorne Hall renovation: $1 million
• Lied Art Center: $7.1 million
• Omache Field: $700,000

Campus Size: 200 acres

Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library

• Print Volumes: 184,315
• Electronic Books: 3,343
• Print Periodical Subscriptions: 630
• Online Periodicals: 34,186 (plus 109 licensed electronic databases)
• Microfilm Units: 67,431 (volume-equivalents: 20,444)
• Audio-Visual Units: 6,970

Computer Facilities

• Network connections are available to every student in every residence-hall room
• Computers (including those in departmental labs) available to all Whitworth students: 292
• Individual classroom computers: 51
• Computers are accessible to students in the general labs in the library and in 23 satellite labs located in departments throughout the campus.
• Whitworth provides Internet access and lifetime e-mail accounts to all students.