COMING UP: Season Complete
 
LOOKING BACK AT 2025: The Hustlin' Owls finished the 2025 season with a 7-6-5 record, qualifying for the postseason for the ninth-straight year (including eight trips to the CCC Tournament), losing to Carroll in the Cascade Conference quarterfinals. OIT began the season with a 7-match unbeaten streak (4-0-3) – including a road win at Arizona Christian and a home draw vs. Benedictine Mesa. In all, the Owls allowed one goal or fewer in 14 of the 18 games – including seven shutouts – with three of the losses coming by 1-0 margins (all to playoff teams). Keeper Harvey Bolland finished with a 1.00 goals against average, earning second-team All-CCC honors, while defenders Patrick Chan and Reece Fletcher were named honorable mention picks. Offense was a struggle at times for the team, scoring just 21 goals on the year – with Fletcher leading the team with four goals.
 
CCC IN THE POSTSEASON: As the No. 4 seed in the CCC Tournament, Warner Pacific won three-straight matches, including an overtime win over Carroll in the title game, to win the league's second automatic bid to the NAIA Tournament (Eastern Oregon claimed the first bid as regular-season champ). A record four CCC teams advanced to the national tourney – with both Carroll and Rocky Mountain dropping multi-goal games in the first-round, while EOU was turned back in the first-round in a penalty kick shootout. WPU posted three-straight stunning wins – topping defending champ, Dalton State, followed by No. 3-ranked Keiser, to win the West Palm Beach Opening Round bracket. At the final site in Alabama, the Knights stunned LSU-Shreveport in penalties, before losing to Cumberlands in the national quarterfinals – the furthest a CCC team has advanced since 2018 (Rocky Mountain).
 
RECORD BOOK: One school record was established during the season, as Cooper Hunt started for the 73rd in the CCC Tournament, breaking the all-time starts record. Hunt, who started all 73 games he played in an OIT kit, ranks No. 4 on the games played list. Keeper Harvey Bolland posted the No. 3 single-season mark for shutouts with seven, with his 49 saves on the year pushing him to No. 11 on the career list. Junior Dalton Rideout moved to No. 19 in the career goals scored category with nine.
 
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARDS: Eight players were honored as NAIA Scholar-Athletes (3.50+ cumulative GPA, at least a sophomore in academic standing, while attending OIT for at least one full term) – Andrew George, Ben Bradshaw, Cooper Hunt, Grayson Barker, Jonathan Laitinen, Lucas Kay-Wong, Merrick Tambio, Sylver Schweiger – with the eight athletes, along with Tidus Paet-Vegas, named to the CCC All-Academic Team (3.20+ cumulative GPA, at least a sophomore in academic standing, while attending OIT for at least one full term).
 
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026: The Owls will have to replace four senior starters in the defensive third – centerbacks Cooper Hunt and Bridger Meyer, along with outside backs Sylver Schweiger and Patrick Chan – but return the rest of their squad. Top scorers Reece Fletcher (4 goals), Merrick Tambio (3 goals), Eric McGuire (3 goals) and Moises Lopez Carillo (2 goals, 2 assists) will return, as will returning starters Cash Cota, Elias Castro, Anthony Aguiar-Casillas and Christian Sanchez. Forward Dalton Rideout and keeper Harvey Bolland will add to an experienced side.