Brutus Hamilton was not Cal’s winningest coach, highest paid coach or even Cal’s manliest coach (that last award would clearly go to Jack Clark), but there’s a good reason that this past weekend Cal hosted a Brutus Hamilton Invitational Meet at Edwards Stadium. So let’s take a trip down memory Read More…
Although Cal only sent one player to the Pac-12 Multi-event Championships this weekend at USC, that player managed to put in the best performance by a Bear since 2004. Junior Jaci Powell, the only Cal athlete at the meet, was able to set three personal records on route to a Read More…
We know, no one really follows track and field all that closely. It’s not exactly a team sport, since the team scores are just the sum of the individual sports. But while track and field is a not a team sport, it is the epitome of athletic prowess. And Cal’s Read More…
Former Cal runner Alysia Montano ended her Olympic journey with an upsetting fifth place finish in the women’s 800 final on Saturday. After winning the U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials in the event earlier this year, Montano was the American most favored to win a medal, but she came up short. Read More…
Mann named to water polo squad for Olympics Former Cal water polo player John Mann was selected to the USA men’s water polo team on Monday, becoming the third Cal water polo player who will compete in the 2012 London Olympics. Mann, who played for Cal from 2003-06, had one Read More…
Although there were no personal records set this past week at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, three of the seven Bears who qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships placed in the top 10 of their events. Junior Deborah Maier completed her outstanding 2012 season with a third place finish, Read More…
The 118th Big Meet ended in the same fashion as the past five: with a victorious Cardinal. The Cal track and field team fell in a blowout loss to rival Stanford this Saturday at Edwards Stadium. The Bears came out strong, taking seven total events such as the pole vault, Read More…
Last weekend, the Cal track and field team travelled across the Bay to face rival Stanford at the Stanford Invitational. The meet did not count for scores and holds no value toward rankings, yet Stanford held the upper hand. This weekend the Bears will have another chance to face the Read More…
Chelsea Reilly kept her arms pumping, legs churning, breathing at a constant rate the final 200 meters of her 3000-meter race. She crosses the finish line, exulted but the holder of a new school record in the 3000 her first time ever running the event. The 3000 meter record has Read More…
Robert Thurman headlines Cal hoops’ European Tour Robert Thurman tallied three points all of last season. Don’t tell Europe that. The Cal men’s basketball power forward poured in 38 points in the final two games of the Bears’ European Tour. Cal defeated the Danish National Team, 81-73, on Saturday at Read More…