The Official Newsletter for Washington State Athletics

Good Morning, Wazzu Fam. And Happy Labor Day!

We’ve got a holiday-shortened edition this morning, but we’re here to recap a busy weekend for the Cougs!

🏈 Grand Opening
👟 Off And Running
⚾️ Swingin’ It
🐶 And much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Grand Opening. 75 new faces and a whole new coaching staff made their Wazzu debut on Saturday night in front of an electric Pullman crowd.

Redshirt freshman Jack Stevens kicked a 32-yard field goal with three seconds left to lift the Cougs to a 13-10 win over Idaho at Gesa Field.

Making his first career start, WSU quarterback Jaxon Potter threw for 209 yards, completing 24 of 31 attempts, including six completions on the game-winning drive in the game’s final minutes.

🏈 The Full Game Recap

🎥 Coach Rogers Postgame

🔼 Off And Running. In the opening race of the 2025 season, sophomores Evans Kurui and Rosemary Longisa smashed event records for the Cougar cross country squads at the annual WSU Alumni Open on Friday.

Longisa won the women’s race in her first collegiate cross country race, crossing the line in 12:54.4, 15 seconds faster than the second place finisher.

On the men’s side, Kurui raced to an early lead and never looked back as he blazed his way to a 15-second win over second-place finisher Solomon Kipchoge. Kurui, who's time of 16:44.3 was 12-seconds faster than the previous record in this event, marked the second-consecutive year he has shattered the event record.

🔼 Battlin’ The Best. Once again, the WSU women’s soccer team showed that they can go toe-to-toe with the best.

Taking on #13 Georgia on Sunday afternoon, the Cougs earned a 1-1 draw after an early goal from Ava Ghoreishi got WSU on the board.

The Cougs earned a top-25 result against a ranked opponent for the second-consecutive season and earned a result at home against a top-15 team for the first time since October 24, 2021, drawing then-No. 8 UCLA.

🔼 Swingin’ It. He’s not done yet, folks.

Former WSU standout Kyle Manzardo isn’t done putting an exclamation point on a breakout year for the Cleveland Guardians. On Friday night, he walked it off for Cleveland and on Saturday, he launched his 23rd HR of the year to lift the Guardians to a series win over the Mariners.

🤔 COUGAR TRIVIA

Jack Stevens’ game-winning field goal on Saturday marked the first last-minute victory for the Cougs since when?

Got a guess?

Scroll down to see if you know your stuff!

📆 LOOKING AHEAD

*all times PT

Thursday, September 4th
⚽️ Women’s Soccer at Cal @ 3pm

Friday, September 5th
🏐 Volleyball vs. Northern Arizona @ 3pm (GCU Classic - Phoenix, Ariz.)

Saturday, September 6th
🏐 Volleyball at Grand Canyon @ 5pm
🏈 Football vs. San Diego State @ 7:15pm l Homecoming l Tickets

Sunday, September 7th
🏐 Volleyball vs. East Texas A&M @ 10am (GCU Classic - Phoenix, Ariz.)

🐶 Click here to see the full Washington State Athletics Calendar

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 2019 - Washington State 54, Oregon State 53

Max Borghi scored a TD with two seconds remaining to give the Cougs the victory

👏 Have a great Labor Day!