UC Davis freshman Brock Bennett finished 12th in the javelin Sunday at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the University of Oregon with a mark of 191 feet, 6 inches, his second-best throw of the year. More
UC Davis standout Alex Wilright finished sixth in his semifinal heat of the 400-meter hurdles in 50.73 seconds Saturday at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the University of Oregon, facing an elite field of hurdlers vying for berths to the IAAF World Championships.
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UC Davis' Alex Wilright finished fourth in his preliminary race of the 400-meter hurdles at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the University of Oregon on Friday afternoon, qualifying for Saturday's semifinals. His semifinal race is scheduled to be shown on ESPN at 5:24 p.m.
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A total of 24 UC Davis student-athletes have earned Big West Academic All-Conference honors for the 2009 spring season, it was announced Friday by the conference office.
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UC Davis' Ethan Ostrom cleared 15 feet, 11 inches in the pole vault on Thursday afternoon, tying for seventh at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.
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Five members of the UC Davis men's track and field team, including hurdlers Jazz Trice and Polly Gnepa who advanced to the NCAA Division I Championships earlier this month, will participate this weekend at the prestigious USA Outdoor Championships and USA Junior Outdoor Championships at the Unive...
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Polly Gnepa's run at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships at the University of Arkansas came to an end on Friday evening after the standout junior from UC Davis finished ninth in his semifinal heat of the 110-meter high hurdles.
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UC Davis junior Polly Gnepa finished third in his preliminary heat of the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.04 seconds on Thursday afternoon at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships at the University of Arkansas, automatically qualifying for Friday's nationally televised semifinals, while ...
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Juniors Jazz Trice and Polly Gnepa will open competition at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships on Thursday afternoon when the UC Davis standouts race in the first round of the 110-meter high hurdles at the University of Arkansas.
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It was announced Thursday by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) that UC Davis distance runner Scott Himmelberger has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 8 second team for cross country and track and field. It is the first all-district honor for Himm...
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Jazz Trice and Polly Gnepa became the first two UC Davis track and field athletes to qualify for the NCAA Championship finals since the program move to Division I last year, advancing in the 110-meter high hurdles at the West Regional at the University of Oregon on Saturday.
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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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