Cal athletics

Situated at the foot of the Claremont hills, the gleaming white Claremont Club & Spa overlooks the City of Berkeley and provides unobstructed views of Oakland and San Francisco. Now it has been bought by Ohana Real Estate Investors, changing hands for the 11th time.

While Cal basketball has been making waves in the transfer portal, Cal football has also been reeling in commits as of late, with several big additions to the team this week.

Former members of Cal women’s swim and dive filed a lawsuit against the University of California over alleged negligence surrounding former Cal women’s swim coach Teri McKeever.

The County of Alameda’s recent legal ruling has blocked the proposed construction of beach volleyball courts for the UC Berkeley women’s beach volleyball team. 

UC Berkeley has allegedly started a formal investigation into Cal’s athletic director, or AD, Jim Knowlton and associate AD Jennifer Simon-O’Neill over the response to abuse allegations made against former women’s swim and dive coach Teri Mckeever, according to reporting by SCNG Thursday.

UC Berkeley announced that the Anthropology Library would be closing along with two others in a campuswide email Feb. 23 due to a lack of funding. The decision was met with student protest immediately after.

This weekend will serve as a great opportunity to assess Cal’s strengths and weaknesses that can potentially define the 2023 season.

For a coach to have created an atmosphere where athletes developed depressive thoughts and experienced significant misconduct is utterly unacceptable.

Tuesday afternoon, athletic director Jim Knowlton addressed the team and announced that the University would be parting ways with McKeever.

UC Berkeley is continuing their plan to demolish Clark Kerr Campus’s building 21. Chancellor Carol Christ announced a plan to build a beach volleyball facility next to the currently existing facility in 2018 as part of an effort to address issues surrounding gender equity in sports.