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Athletes of the Week

Riley Buese smiles in front of a green backdrop

Riley Buese

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    6/2/2025
  • Sport
    Track and Field
  • Bio
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Senior Riley Buese became the first Pioneer student-athlete to win the Lois Smithwick Athlete of the Year award three times. She then closed out her time at Lewis & Clark on the national stage, single-handedly outscoring the rest of the women’s teams from the West Region with 14 points at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Buese collected her eighth career All-American honor by finishing second in the 10,000 meters (34:20.14) and third in the 5,000 meters with a school-record time of 16:30.64. At the Northwest Conference Championships, she swept the 5K and 10K for the third straight year, becoming the first woman in conference history to achieve that triple sweep and the first to win four career conference titles in the 5K. Buese ended her senior season ranked No. 1 in the West Region in both events and broke the regional 10K record with a time of 34:16.33 at the Stanford Invitational.



Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
1/18/2023 Nikko Echalas Men's Basketball
1/18/2023 Zach Martin Swimming and Diving
1/11/2023 Tyler McFarland Men's Basketball
1/11/2023 Tatiana Rebanal Women's Basketball
12/21/2022 Aniqah Gaffoor Swimming and Diving
12/21/2022 Michael Spicer Swimming and Diving
12/7/2022 Jack Henderson Men's Basketball
12/7/2022 Piper Curry Women's Basketball
11/30/2022 Charlotte Carroll Women's Basketball
11/30/2022 Jonathan Green Men's Basketball
11/23/2022 TJ Muhammad Men's Basketball
11/23/2022 Aniqah Gaffoor Swimming and Diving
11/16/2022 Max Aldrich Cross Country
11/16/2022 Riley Buese Cross Country
11/8/2022 Kate Milne Swimming and Diving
11/8/2022 Alexa Myers Women's Soccer
11/2/2022 Izzy Willis Women's Volleyball
11/2/2022 Max Aldrich Cross Country
10/25/2022 Dyontae Navarrete Football
10/25/2022 Katie Shimaura Women's Volleyball
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