A total of 13 UC Davis student-athletes have earned 2008-09 Academic All-Big West Conference honors for the winter season, it was announced Tuesday by the conference office. The Aggie women's and men's swimming and diving teams had the most student-athletes honored with six apiece while men's basketball honored one. More
In a similar performance to his opening-day efforts, UC Davis junior Scott Weltz finished 13th in the preliminaries of the 200-yard breaststroke and placed 16th overall to earn his second honorable mention All-American honors during the final day of the NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving C...
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Junior Scott Weltz represented UC Davis in the 400-yard individual medley during the second day of the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, finishing 29th overall Thursday afternoon at the Student Rec Center Natatorium. The championships are being hosted by Texas A&M.
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UC Davis junior Scott Weltz set a school record during the preliminary swims in the 200-yard individual medley and finished 15th overall to gain honorable mention All-America honors during the first day of the NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships at the Student Rec Center Natat...
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UC Davis junior Heidi Kucera continued her improvement at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships during the final day of competition as she finished 18th in the 200-yard breaststroke at Texas A&M's Student Rec Center Natatorium.
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UC Davis junior Heidi Kucera went 1:00.99 in the prelims of the 100-yard breaststroke to finish 24th overall during the second day of the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at the Student Rec Center Natatorium on the campus of Texas A&M.
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Junior Heidi Kucera swam the prelims of the 200-yard individual medley and became the first UC Davis swimmer to compete at the NCAA Division I Championships during the opening day of the event at the Student Rec Center Natatorium on the campus of Texas A&M.
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UC Davis will send two swimmers to the NCAA Division I Championships in College Station, Texas during the next two weeks. Junior Heidi Kucera will be the first Aggie to make the D-I championships when she heads down this weekend to compete in three events. Fellow junior Scott Weltz will become th...
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Men's swimmer Adam Borchard and women's tennis player Randi Schuler have been selected as the UC Davis recipients of the 2008-09 Big West Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards. Both student-athletes will be honored on Thursday, March 12 during a 9:00 a.m. breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Ana...
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The UC Davis men's and women's swimming and diving teams rewrote the record books during their recent trip to the Big West Conference Championships. The Aggies earned second-place finishes in both men's and women's competitions in only their fifth year of competition at the conference championshi...
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Following its' best showing at the Big West Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, UC Davis was honored with three of the six major conference honors. It was announced Wednesday that juniors Heidi Kucera and Scott Weltz were named Men's and Women's Athlete of the Year, while coach Pete Mot...
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Sam Paneno Gives Back More Than He Lost
Sam Paneno doesn't do self-pity.
"Why me?" never crossed his lips.
Or his mind.
"I was always taught to look at life from different perspectives," the former UC Davis running back says, "and that you have a choice on how you react to things."
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Spotlight Aggie: Heidi Kucera
Balancing a varsity sport and a full schedule of classes is a challenging task for any student-athlete. Adding a second varsity sport to that mix makes things even more hectic. But UC Davis junior Heidi Kucera finds a way to excel in water polo and swimming, using complementing skills to help contribute in both.
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Spotlight Aggie: Austin Graham
The numbers - 86 and 63 - make more sense as the high-low temperatures on a typical fall day in Davis than they do as back-to-back rounds of golf.
But there they were, seemingly polar-opposite figures, staring up from Austin Graham's first-day scorecard on Oct. 13 at The Prestige at PGA WEST, co-hosted by UC Davis and Stanford.
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Spotlight Aggie: Renee Ibekwe
UC Davis has long held a belief that athletics plays an integral role in the educational process. A student-athlete, as the term suggests, is a student first. A coach is a teacher. Playing a sport - even at the highest collegiate levels - remains at its core a learning experience.
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