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===Achievements=== In a football game against Linfield University on October 21, 2023, linebacker Lily Godwin became the first woman to record an unassisted tackle in the history of the NCAA. Godwin shared her tackle and her history with football in a live TV interview with King5 News.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jake García |title=Lily Godwin makes history with tackle in NCAA football game |url=https://www.king5.com/article/sports/football/puget-sounds-lily-godwin-first-woman-solo-tackle-ncaa-football-game/281-7f49bed5-a40c-4e0c-bd72-9bb855e9ea30 |website=King5 |access-date=10 January 2024}}</ref> Several sports teams have achieved some degree of success in recent years: *The men's basketball team won three straight Northwest Conference championships beginning in 2004, with an average .826 winning percentage over the 2004, 2005, and 2006 seasons. In 2005, the [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] Loggers defeated the [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] Highlanders of the [[University of California, Riverside]], making it their first Division I defeat since the 1970s. In the 2009 regular season, the Loggers went an undefeated 16-0 in Northwest Conference play, becoming the first team in conference history to do so, capturing the conference title in the process.<ref>[http://www.ups.edu/mbasketball.xml University of Puget Sound :: Basketball (M)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502170129/http://www.ups.edu/mbasketball.xml |date=2006-05-02 }}</ref> *From 1992 to 1995 the Puget Sound women's Cross-Country team were national champions. This tremendous 4-year run earned coach Sam Ring coach of the year honors in 1993.<ref>[[NAIA national women's cross country championship|NAIA Women's Cross-Country Records Page]]</ref> *The women's soccer team took second place in the nation in 2004 and ended the 2005 season ranked fifth nationally.<ref>[http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/w_soccer_RB/2008/wsoc%20DIII%202008.pdf Division 3 Women's Records, page 14]</ref> *The women's swim team won the Northwest Conference championship for eleven consecutive years, from 1997 through 2007, before finally finishing second to [[Whitworth University]] in 2008. This remains a Northwest Conference record.<ref>[http://www.ups.edu/wswimming.xml University of Puget Sound Women's Swimming] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126155740/http://www.ups.edu/wswimming.xml |date=2006-11-26 }}</ref> The Logger women reclaimed their title in 2009. *The women's basketball team made the [[NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship|Division III Elite 8]] in the 2007 season after upsetting #12 ranked [[McMurry University]] and #2 ranked [[Howard Payne University]]. They finished #10 overall.<ref>[http://www.ups.edu/wbasketball.xml University of Puget Sound Women's Basketball] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303234130/http://www.ups.edu/wbasketball.xml |date=2007-03-03 }}</ref> *The women's crew has earned a bid to compete at the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship|Division III Rowing Championship]] every year since 2003. The team placed second overall in 2003 and third in 2008, as well as fourth in 2004, 2005, and 2007.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150709080353/http://loggerathletics.com/sports/crew/2014-15/releases/201505113hv9am Brief history of Puget Sound in the NCAA Championship Regatta]</ref>
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