The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) announced Thursday that UC Davis senior 165-pound wrestler Dustin Noack has earned a spot on its 2008-09 Division I All-Academic Team. Noack adds the NWCA honors to four straight Pac-10 Conference All-Academic accolades. More
UC Davis head wrestling coach Lennie Zalesky announced Tuesday that Poway High School's Conrad Snell has signed a National Letter of Intent during the spring signing period and is expected to enroll at UC Davis in the fall of 2009.
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UC Davis senior 165-pound wrestler Dustin Noack has been named to the Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic first team, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced Monday morning. It marks the second consecutive season that Noack has garnered first-team honors and the third academic conference honors of his c...
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Sophomore Brandon Low and senior Marcos Orozco were both eliminated in the wrestleback brackets to complete their run for UC Davis at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Friday afternoon at the Scottrade Center.
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Senior Marcos Orozco and sophomore Brandon Low won their wrestleback matches to advance to the second day and lead UC Davis during the opening day of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at the Scottrade Center Thursday.
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UC Davis will send three wrestlers down the NCAA Division I Championships at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. this weekend. Senior Marcos Orozco, and sophomores Brandon Low and Ricky Alcala will represent the Aggies... The tournament begins Thursday, March 19 and run through Saturday, March...
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It was announced today by the NCAA that sophomore 133-pounder Brandon Low will join teammates Ricky Alcala and Marcos Orozco at the 2009 Division I Championships in St. Louis, Mo. It marks the third straight trip for Orozco and the first for Alcala and Low.
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Senior Marcos Orozco (125 pounds) and sophomores Ricky Alcala (285) and Barrett Abel (149) each won both of their wrestleback matches to place third and lead UC Davis to a fourth-place finish at the Pacific-10 Conference Championships Monday night at Titan Gym.
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UC Davis won at least one match in nine of 10 weight classes and scored 70.5 points to sit fifth after the first day of the Pacific-10 Wrestling Championships at Titan Gymnasium Sunday. A total of eight Aggies are still in contention for third-place finishes heading into tomorrow's finale.
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The Pacific-10 Conference announced its seedings and brackets for its 2009 championships tournament Saturday. UC Davis was one of five schools to receive five or more seeds in the top four. According to the newly-established Coaches' Panel Rankings, the Pac-10 Conference will receive 20 automatic...
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It was announced today by the NCAA through the final Coaches' Panel Rankings and rating percentage index (RPI) that the Pacific-10 Conference will receive a total of 20 automatic allocations into the 2009 NCAA Division I Championships.
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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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