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The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Horizon Village will offer open-gendered housing for their four-bedroom suites starting next year.

Horizon Village to offer mixed-gendered housing

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor November 18, 2020

At UW Oshkosh, there are mixed-gender dorms, and even mixed-gender halls. However, there has never been an instance where an entire residence hall has allowed students of different genders to room together...

Intramural sports continue with precautions

Intramural sports continue with precautions

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor November 18, 2020

When the coronavirus rapidly spread across the country until it was classified as a pandemic, all of the spring sports athletes simultaneously had to face the bleak reality that their seasons were done...

Porath is currently a business major whose 3.65 cumulative GPA made her a member of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 WIAC Scholastic Honor Rolls. After three years as a Titan, Porath is averaging 10.5 points per game, is shooting 48.1% from the field and is shooting 36.7% from behind the 3-point line.

Porath uplifts teammates, terrifies opponents

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor November 11, 2020

From January to the beginning of March, star point guard and now senior Leah Porath was leading the UW Oshkosh women’s basketball team on an absolute tear as they entered round 16 of the Division III...

Athletes get day off to encourage voter participation

Athletes get day off to encourage voter participation

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor November 4, 2020

As athletes across the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sharpen their skills in what is an offseason from competition for everyone until further notice, none of them had practice on Nov. 3. Tuesday...

Carter Uslabar / Advance-Titan
Sophomore sprinter Jaylen Grant
currently holds the best Division
III 60m dash time at 6.88 seconds.
Grant was an indoor national qualifier last year, but the COVID-19
pandemic cancelled the event.

Prepping for a season of unknowns

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor October 28, 2020

As the UW Oshkosh track and field team prepares for indoor and outdoor seasons that may be filled with various unknowns, the team reflects on a year that was abruptly cut short by the rapid spread of COVID-19. The...

Courtesy of the Green Bay Packers

Major sports stadiums used as polling stations

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor October 21, 2020

Voting season has arrived, and this time it is under very unusual circumstances. Due to the rise of COVID-19 cases — more than 8.1 million cases nationwide as of Monday, according to the Centers for...

Ever since students had to leave the UWO campus in March due to the spread of
COVID-19, the team’s coaches have held weekly meetings with the players to discuss each step leading up to the new practice procedures that were implemented
for this fall.

Back to business, UWO Volleyball returns to practice

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor October 14, 2020

“We’re back.” Those were the two words that UW Oshkosh women’s volleyball coach Jonathan Ellmann said regarding the team’s future practice plans (according to Clash the Titan). The COVID-19...

Segment of the Wiouwash State Trail in Oshkosh near the Fox River on the UW Oshkosh campus.

Here are the best hiking trails near the UW Oshkosh Campus this fall

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor October 7, 2020

It’s officially Fall, and while the UW Oshkosh campus won’t have football, women’s soccer, women’s tennis or many other sports for students to gather for outdoors, that doesn’t mean that everyone...

The last time an NFL game was cancelled was on July 22, 2011, when the first preseason game of the year (the Pro Football Hall of Fame game) didn’t happen due an ongoing lockout that had been occurring that year.

Dear Roger Goodell, I am sorry I doubted you

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor September 30, 2020

As an avid football fan, I wanted nothing more than for this horrific year to be punctuated by another football season of big plays and crowds of thousands exploding in the enthusiastic chants many other...

Appleton West went 6-4 in the last 10 games of their season, and their final game was a loss to Kimberly, who had the third best conference record (14-4).

UWO alumna gets Appleton West Coaching Job

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor September 30, 2020

Basketball season is something of a routine at Appleton West High School, bringing about the familiar sound of squeaky basketball shoes abruptly stopping on hardwood as someone hits a pull-up jumper or...

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