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 Himmelberger, who has also earned Big West Conference All-A... More
It was announced Friday by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) that the UC Davis women's cross country team has been named a 2008 All-Academic Team. It marks the second consecutive season that the Aggies have been honored with the accolade.
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UC Davis senior cross country runner Kaitlin Gregg was named to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Women's All-Academic Team, it was announced Monday. It marks the first USTFCCCA academic honors for Gregg.
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A contingent of 15 UC Davis student-athletes from five teams earned 2008 Big West Fall Academic All-Conference honors, the league office announced on Wednesday. In all, 122 student-athletes from nine member institutions were honored in the conference's five fall sports: women's volleyball, men's...
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UC Davis seniors Kim Conley and Kaitlin Gregg earned 80th- and 118-place finishes, respectively, in the women's six-kilometer race at the 2008 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships Monday morning at the Vern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course.
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UC Davis senior cross country runners Kim Conley and Kaitlin Gregg have both officially earned at-large berths into the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, it was announced Sunday afternoon. The seniors become the first-ever Aggie cross country runners to receive berths into the D-I cham...
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Seniors Kaitlin Gregg and Kim Conley earned all-region honors for UC Davis with top-25 finishes in the women's six-kilometer race and K.C. Cody paced the men's team in the 10K race during the NCAA Division I West Region Championships at the Stanford Golf Course Saturday afternoon. Both Aggie team...
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UC Davis will compete in its second NCAA Division I West Region Championships this Saturday at the Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto, Calif. The day begins with the women's six-kilometer race at 11:00 a.m. and will be followed by the men's 10K race at 12 p.m... Admission to the event is free.
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Senior K.C. Cody finished eighth to lead the UC Davis men's cross country team to a runner up finish in the eight-kilometer race, while seniors Kaitlin Gregg and Kim Conley placed sixth and seventh, respectively, to pace the women to third place in the 6K race during the 2008 Big West Conference ...
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UC Davis will compete in its second Big West Conference Championships this Saturday at the UCR Agricultural Operations Course, beginning at 8:30 a.m with the women's 6K race. The men's 8K race is scheduled to begin an hour later at 9:30 a.m.
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UC Davis senior cross country runner Kim Conley was named the women's Co-Big West Conference Athlete of the Week, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon. Conley earns the first weekly honors of her career and becomes the first Aggie to recieve the conference's weekly accolade.
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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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