The NAU Review — NAU’s logging sports, your guide to Homecoming 2023 and a special edition of Notes from the President

Oct. 19, 2023

NAU Logging Sports athletic captain Adeline Jones had been preparing with her teammates for the Choptober competition in Colorado for months. She was set to compete in five events—the pole climb, obstacle pole, single buck, Jack-and-Jill and horizontal chop—against athletes from throughout the western U.S. Then, just two weeks before the competition, she had a bouldering accident that left her with the temporary inability to use one of her arms. With nothing to lose, she decided to compete in the single buck event, sawing a wood cookie off a large log with a 5.5-foot saw, one-handed.

Homecoming is almost upon the Lumberjacks! From Oct. 23-28, join your fellow Lumberjacks—current and alumni—at the parade, the carnival, the football game and more fun events celebrating NAU’s long and storied history. There are dozens of free events, many geared directly to students, and all guaranteed to make you want to break out your blue-and-gold flannel.