Juniors Christine Tao and Michelle Bobonski have been selected as team co-captains for the 2010 UC Davis women's gymnastics season, it was announced by head coach John Lavallee at the team's year-end banquet Sunday. Additionally, four student-athletes were granted "Major Contribution" awards to commemorate their seasons. More
Senior Andi Dolinsky and sophomore Ashley Lachman led a group of six UC Davis student-athletes named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic squad for women's gymnastics, it was announced by the conference office on Tuesday.
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UC Davis senior Andi Dolinsky earned a share of Gymnast of the Year honors while head coach John Lavallee took home Coach of the Year distinction as the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation announced its year-end awards on Monday. Additionally, nine Aggies claimed a total of 13 All-MPSF honors, inc...
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Sophomore Stacey Nicolini scored a season-high 9.800 to share first place in the individual vault standings as UC Davis compiled a third-place 191.425 team score at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation women's gymnastics championships at Cadet West Gym Friday evening. Alaska Anchorage won the t...
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Appropriate to the university's week of final examinations, the UC Davis gymnasts face a tough test as they look to defend their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title. The Aggies will take on meet host Air Force, two-time champion Seattle Pacific, and red-hot Alaska Anchorage in a tough four-w...
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Senior Andi Dolinsky scored a team-high 9.800 on floor exercise then four different Aggies each turned in 9.700 marks on vault to help UC Davis recover to a 191.800 team score, good for third place in a four-team women's collegiate gymnastics meet at the Hornets' Nest Friday night.
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UC Davis senior Adee Schoffman was selected as Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week, it was announced by the league office Tuesday. She joins Tanya Ho as one of two Aggies to capture such honors in 2009. The team co-captain tied for third on floor (9.775) to help UC Davis compil...
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Following what head coach John Lavallee considered a watershed day for the UC Davis women's gymnastics program, the Aggies take the short trip up the Yolo Causeway on Friday to face Sacramento State for the third time this season. Also at the meet will be California and MPSF rival Seattle Pacific.
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Senior team captains Adee Schoffman and Andi Dolinsky tied for third place on floor exercise to lift UC Davis to a season-best 192.950 in a four-team collegiate women's gymnastics meet at the Pavilion Sunday afternoon. Sacramento State won the team title, also hitting a season high of 194.625. Ne...
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Members of the 1999 UC Davis women's gymnastics team will celebrate the 10th-year anniversary of capturing the team title at the USAG Collegiate National Championships in New Haven, Conn. The reunion will be part of Sunday's quadrangular meet with Sacramento State, Bowling Green State and New Ham...
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UC Davis concludes its three-meet homestand with a quadrangular involving one very familiar foe (Sacramento State) and two first-time opponents (Bowling Green State and New Hampshire). The Aggies have improved their team score in every week this season, but still look to break the 193-point barri...
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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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