Cal women’s water polo player Ashley Young

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Huntington’s disease, which remains incurable, is a progressive brain disorder caused by a faulty gene that is passed down through families. Affecting one out of every 10,000 Americans, the symptoms for Huntington’s disease normally emerge in adults between the ages of 30 and 50. Huntington’s disease affects not only the Read More…

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50/50: Ashley Young’s resilience in face of Huntington’s disease

Despite a debilitating disease running through her family genes, Ashley Young is not deterred.

It might start with your pinky finger trembling or forgetting your computer password. The smallest things make you angry. You tell yourself this happens to many others, but it gets worse year by year. You become more and more forgetful until you start to lose your memory altogether. Your arms Read More…

Cal's season came to an abrupt end Sunday, as the Bears fell to USC in the MPSF third-place game. Cal fell to Stanford in the conference semifinal a day before.

Bears, postseason hopes fall in 3rd-place game

Forty-three seconds were left in the Cal women’s water polo consolation game against USC on Sunday, and the Bears were in the midst of their final timeout, the team’s postseason fate on the line. Cal needed to beat the third-seeded Trojans to earn a third-place finish in the MPSF tournament Read More…

Sophomore Ashley Young is tied with Elizabeth McLaren for second on the team with 24 goals this season. Breda Vosters has played two fewer games and leads the team with 44 goals.

Cal hopes to play MPSF Cinderella

The No. 4 Cal women’s water polo team is in dangerous waters. The Bears are seeded fifth in this weekend’s MPSF tournament, but only the winner earns the conference’s automatic bid. This year’s NCAA tournament field will only have two at-large bids, meaning Cal will have to win the conference tournament Read More…

The No. 5 Cal women's water polo team will face No. 2 Stanford for the second time this season on Saturday.

Cal looking for respect in Big Splash

After the No. 5 Cal women’s water polo team beat No. 1 UCLA last Saturday, coach Richard Corso finally felt his team was playing up to its potential. Apparently the rest of the water polo world didn’t think so. “I’m sick of people telling us it was an upset,” Corso Read More…

Bears to face No. 1 UCLA in home finale

The Cal and UCLA women’s water polo teams have met once this year in a game that catapulted them on divergent paths. On Feb. 4, the Bears were 10-0 on the season and ranked second in the country, close to making the jump to the top of the collegiate water Read More…

Cal to count on leaders during tough stretch

The Cal women’s water polo team is about to hit rough waters on its journey back to the NCAA championship. The success of the voyage will fall on the shoulders of the team’s four leaders, senior Elizabeth McLaren, juniors Breda Vosters and Dana Ocshner and sophomore Ashley Young. Although it Read More…

Vosters’ late goal seals Cal victory

Junior Breda Vosters never shies away from the opportunity to shoot. She didn’t this weekend in the Cal women’s water polo team’s 8-6 victory over No. 8 UC Irvine on Saturday. With 1:21 left in the contest at Spieker Aquatics Center, Vosters had the ball roughly nine meters from the Read More…