For the second straight year, Gary Stewart has completed an overseas trip with the United Service Organization (USO). The latest experience for the UC Davis head men's basketball coach was a tour in Afghanistan as part of the USO's Operation Hoop Talk: Talking With The Troops. More
UC Davis head men's basketball coach Gary Stewart will return to the Middle East for the second time in the past year when he travels Sunday on his way to the Persian Gulf as part of the United Service Organization's (USO) "Operation Hoop Talk."
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UC Davis head men's basketball coach Gary Stewart has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Ethics Coalition, an independent committee of current and former basketball coaches. The group will be charged with promoting ethical conduct through leadership, education and mentoring.
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A number of Aggies were honored on Sunday as UC Davis held its annual end-of-year banquet. Various individual awards were handed out as well as Big West post-season hardware. In all, five student-athletes were recognized in seven different categories at the event.
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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 bas...
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UC Davis head coach Gary Stewart was inducted into the University of La Verne Athletics Hall of Fame on March 21. The former Leopard student-athlete and head coach was one of six individuals in the 2009 induction class.
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Pacific fought off a UC Davis rally and went on to defeat the Aggies, 67-60, Thursday night in a Big West Tournament quarterfinal at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Tigers led by as much as 11 points, but the Aggies eventually tied the game with seven minutes to. A late surge by Pacific and 17...
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Mark Payne made two free throws with 8.2 seconds left to lift UC Davis to a 69-68 come-from-behind victory over UC Irvine Wednesday night in the first round of the Big West Tournament. The Aggies trailed by nine points with 9:40 remaining. Vince Oliver led UC Davis (13-18) with a game-high 20 poi...
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The UC Davis men's basketball team begins its quest for its first Big West Conference championship and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament when it faces UC Irvine in the first round of the Big West Tournament Wednesday night in Anaheim. The game tips at 6 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center an...
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The Big West Conference announced its men's basketball All-Conference honors Monday, and UC Davis had three players earn recognition. Vince Oliver has become the first Aggie to receive First Team All-Big West honors and is joined by teammates Joe Harden and Mark Payne on the Second Team. UC Davis...
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The UC Davis men's basketball team will take on UC Irvine next Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the first round of the Big West Tournament. Final seeding and first round match-ups were finally decided after the conclusion of Saturday night's action around the conference.
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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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