All in all, the past year has been an exceptionally successful season for Cal athletics. Over the past five weeks, Daily Cal sports have put together a top-10 list of all Cal’s 27 varsity sports based on the performance from last season. No. 10: Men’s gymnastics “The rankings can be Read More…
Considering that the Cal men’s tennis team started its season plagued with injuries, the squad’s No. 17 overall finish is pretty impressive. So it’s no surprise that the squad made The Daily Californian’s list of the top 10 Cal sports teams ranked at No. 8. I mean, they were good Read More…
The NCAA released the Academic Progress Rate scores for 2011-12 on Tuesday, and though Cal has shown some improvement, there is still more work to be done. Many of Cal’s sports excelled. The men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s gymnastics teams earned perfect multiyear APR scores of 1,000. Those multiyear Read More…
Last weekend, I ended my yearlong stint as the men’s tennis beat writer. I was actually pretty sad to see the year go — I had a lot of fun watching those weekend matches at Hellman and analyzing how I could bring the intense back-and-forth action to life on paper. Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team compiled a season full of what-ifs and could-have-beens. What if the Bears hadn’t lost senior co-captain Riki McLachlan at the beginning of the year to a nearly season-ending knee injury? What if they weren’t forced to produce three different doubles tandems to make up for Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team failed to take home even one win from the NCAA singles and doubles championships this past week. But the Bears did not leave Urbana, Ill., feeling discouraged. With Cal’s season now over, the Bears are left instead with a bittersweet feeling. Although Cal concluded its Read More…
The top three players on the Cal men’s tennis team will join the ranks of the nation’s best at the NCAA championships this week. The Bears will send two singles players — juniors Ben McLachlan and Campbell Johnson — and one doubles tandem — the Cal pair of Johnson and Read More…
No matter what situation this weekend threw at the Cal men’s tennis team, the Bears managed to handle it. And they handled it well. For the third year in a row, the Bears clinched their round-of-32 match to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16. But for the first time in Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team seems to have Lady Luck on its side this year. Out of all the first- and second-round brackets the Bears could have been placed in for the NCAA team championships, the Cal squad was selected to compete in a bracket where it had already defeated Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team got lucky this year. The last time the Bears failed to earn the NCAA Championships home court advantage was in 2010, where Cal had to travel to Los Angeles in Southern California. Although the Bears easily swept UC Irvine in the first round, they were Read More…
