It was announced Monday by UC Davis head men's soccer coach Dwayne Shaffer that Brady Marshall has signed a grant-in-aid agreement during the spring signing period and will enroll at UC Davis this fall. More
UC Davis head men's soccer coach Dwayne Shaffer announced the Aggies' 2009 schedule Thursday afternoon. The schedule features four teams that made the 2008 NCAA Division I Championship Tournament and a number of other teams that have recently challenged for postseason spots.
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The UC Davis soccer camps are currently accepting registration for four camp options this summer. The Boys Soccer Academy is open to age levels ranging from 4 to 13. Camp dates are June 15-19 and June 22-26. In addition, the Residential Soccer Camp runs July 7-9 and July 21-23 and is intended for...
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The UC Davis men's soccer program will welcome back its alumni for a variety of weekend activities surrounding Picnic Day, head coach Dwayne Shaffer has announced. The highlight of the festivities will be the alumni game, which takes place at 2 p.m. on Apr. 18 at Aggie Soccer Stadium.
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UC Davis men's soccer coach Dwayne Shaffer has announced the signing of Riley Newport to a National Letter of Intent during the winter signing period. Newport attends Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and becomes the first international player to sign during...
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The San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer have signed former UC Davis men's soccer player Quincy Amarikwa to a contract, the club has announced. Amarikwa became the first Aggie to be drafted in the MLS SuperDraft when the Earthquakes took him in the third round last month.
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The UC Davis men's soccer team signed eight prospective student-athletes to National Letters of Intent during Wednesday's national signing day, head coach Dwayne Shaffer announced. The prospects, in alphabetical order, are Jacob Barron of La Habra High; Sam Del Gobbo of Terra Linda High; Michael ...
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UC Davis men's soccer player Quincy Amarikwa was taken with the 32nd pick by the San Jose Earthquakes in the third round of the 2009 Major League Soccer SuperDraft Thursday. Amarikwa becomes the first-ever Aggie to be chosen in the SuperDraft and the second player since Ryan Shaw in 2004 to be dr...
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The UC Davis men's soccer team continued to make a name for itself as a highly-competitive NCAA Division I program in 2008 with one of the most successful seasons in its history.
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The UC Davis' men's program is relatively new to NCAA Division I soccer, moving up from Division II in 2003. Someone forgot to tell the players that it takes time for a program to mature into a legitimate contender. The transition period accompanied by such a move ended after five years, thanks i...
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UC Davis seniors Quincy Amarikwa and Dylan Curtis have added another first for the Aggie men's soccer team as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) named the duo to their 2008 NCAA Division I NSCAA/Adidas All-America Teams. The achievement marks the first D-I All-Americans fo...
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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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