Breakout Players: Richard Solomon | Anett Schutting | Kyle Porter | Ted Jones | Nick Andrews and Christoffer Konigsfeldt | Aleksa Saponjic By now, you probably recognize the hot-shot names in Cal athletics: Keenan Allen. Jorge Gutierrez. Tony Renda. Nathan Adrian. But with every new season comes a set of budding stars who are ready to make their mark. Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | M. Hoops | W. Hoops | Volleyball | Tennis | Swimming Cal water polo saw a pair of terrific seasons end bitterly in 2010-2011. The women set milestone after milestone during a banner campaign, capturing their first-ever MPSF tournament crown and making the program’s NCAA title game debut — only to lose to Stanford for the 31st Read More…
2012 is already a good year for the Cal baseball team. Because, win or lose, they’ll be on the field, playing. Their happy existence aside, the standard of Omaha has been set. They’re no longer an underdog, and they won’t be skimming under the radar. With the spotlight on Berkeley, Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | W. Hoops | Volleyball | Tennis | Swimming | Water Polo Cal was slated to finish near the bottom of the conference before Mike Montgomery took the Bears dancing in his first year. One season later, they stood atop the Pac-10 conference for the first time in half a century. After an overachieving 2010-2011 campaign, which Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | M. Hoops | W. Hoops | Volleyball | Swimming | Water Polo As the first player in Cal women’s tennis history to win both the NCAA Singles and Doubles titles, Jana Juricova can make her case as the best player to ever represent the Bears. Last season was by far the most productive of Juricova’s Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | M. Hoops | Volleyball | Tennis | Swimming | Water Polo If the Cal women’s basketball team plays to its potential, then first-year head coach Lindsay Gottlieb should be able to turn things around in one season. Getting the Bears to play to their potential has been the problem, though. Last season was a disappointment for Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | M. Hoops | W. Hoops | Volleyball | Tennis | Water Polo 2011 was a big year for Cal aquatics — specifically for the men’s and women’s swimming teams. Both squads conquered their respective swimming worlds, bringing national championships back to Berkeley. For the men, this was hardly surprising. Led by an unrivaled senior class, one Read More…
Other 2011-2012 Storylines: Baseball | M. Hoops | W. Hoops | Tennis | Swimming | Water Polo This past year in athletics was a wild one, to say the least. The Bears became swimming pool royalty — and nearly pulled off a similar sweep in water polo to rule aquatics altogether. Cal squads set notable milestones, both good (see: softball) and Read More…
It’s NBA Draft time, folks — that magical time of year when teams, after much deliberation, dramatically add some (very expensive) pieces to their roster puzzles. The event brought up this fun exercise: which Cal athletes would make for a killer starting five on the hardwood? The only rules are Read More…
OMAHA, Neb. — For a game unfurled quietly and quickly for the first four innings, Cal’s final 7-3 win to knock out Texas A&M Tuesday afternoon ended up becoming surprisingly lopsided. The Bears, as they were in the Houston Regional, were on the verge of elimination after losing their College Read More…
