Calendar of Events

 

Sherwood Calendar

 

MP Gym Calendar

Hours of operation for Baker Ferguson Fitness Center and Sherwood Center

 

Mon-Thur: 6 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday: Noon - 10 p.m.

NWC Link



Whitman is a charter member of the Northwest Conference, one of the most competitive NCAA Division III alliances in the country. The nine private colleges and universities situated throughout Oregon and Washington are nationally competitive in a broad spectrum of sports.

The NWC has continually reinvented itself throughout the past eight decades. Formed in 1926, the conference is one of the oldest athletic alliances in the western United States.
 
Whitman is one of six charter members of the NWC. Others include the University of Puget Sound in Washington and Linfield College, Pacific University and Willamette University in Oregon. The College of Idaho, the sixth charter member, dropped out of the conference in 1978.
 
Other current NWC members are Pacific Lutheran University and Whitworth University in Washington and George Fox University and Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. Lewis & Clark joined in 1931 when it was known as Albany College. It remained for seven years, departed, and returned in 1949 using its present name. Pacific Lutheran was added in 1965 and Whitworth became a member in 1970. Whitworth left the NWC in 1984 but returned in 1988.
 
The NWC, which for years sponsored athletic competition exclusively for men’s sports, joined forces with the Women’s Conference of Independent Colleges in 1984 to become the Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges. The name was shortened back to Northwest Conference in 1998.
 
In 1998-99, all nine conference institutions shifted national affiliation from the NAIA to the NCAA. Leaving behind years of success at the NAIA level, the conference embraced the move as one that would foster equity, sportsmanship and genuine concern for the student-athlete in all endeavors of competition.
 
Colleges and universities in NCAA Division III place the highest priority on the overall quality of the education experience and on the successful completion of all students' academic programs. They seek to establish and maintain an environment in which a student-athlete's sports activities are conducted as an integral part of his or her educational experience.

Division III institutions also seek to establish and maintain an environment that values cultural diversity and gender equity among their student-athletes and athletic staff.