Sports

Teams: UC Davis vs. Saint Mary’s; at Santa Clara; at USC; vs. Duke; at Washington; at Sacramento State; at Pacific Records: Aggies, 2-3 (0-0) When: Dec. 6 to Jan. 5 Who to Watch: You can dance or you can’t. You can paint or you can’t. You can shoot or you can’t. UC Davis senior shooting […]

The men’s soccer team’s solid defensive efforts for the entirety of the season would not have been as phenomenal if it hadn’t been for freshman defender Ryan Gross. In spite of being a freshman, Gross earned a starting position for the majority of the games and patrolled the backline for most of the Aggies’ playing […]

Senior Matt Vowell helped lead men’s water polo to a fourth-place finish at the Western Water Polo Association championship tournament this year. Vowell was a team captain for the 2012 season and he finished his UC Davis career as the most successful left-hander in program history. This year, Vowell played in all 29 games for […]

Looking to repeat as the Big West Champions, the women’s cross country team needed their top racer to perform as she did last year. Senior Sarah Sumpter led UC Davis in every race she ran last year, and would need to repeat similar results this year. Sumpter didn’t get the same results she did last […]

Just call her the iron horse of volleyball. This season, the Aggies’ senior outside hitter, Allison Whitson, cemented herself as one of the all-time great players to come through this UC Davis volleyball program. Among other things, Whitson earned the honor of being called “The Iron Horse” due to the fact that she never missed […]

Junior forward Alex Henry ended the season with an abundance of achievements on his soccer resume. Henry scored the game-winning goal to lead UC Davis to victory against their nemesis UC Santa Barbara. Subsequently, he was dubbed Big West Offensive Player of the Week, marking his first career Player of the Week honor. “It means […]

The men’s soccer team’s season ended on a solemn, yet encouraging note a couple of weeks ago at home. The team ended its season with a 1-0 loss to South Division Championships, Cal State Northridge. UC Davis finished with a 10-7-4 overall record and an 8-4 record in the Big West Conference. The team played […]

Many teams have and will suffer the same fate as the Aggies against Stanford, the best team in the country. In front of 2,612 fans — the ninth largest home attendance at UC Davis in history — the UC Davis women’s basketball team fell 87-38 to the Cardinal, a team that currently holds the No. […]

Two games and two late-game scoring sprees add up to two losses for the Aggies. UC Davis traveled to Reno, Nev. and Moscow, Idaho this weekend with hopes of improving to 3-1 on the season. Instead, they came home 1-4, largely due to deficits that forced them to play catch-up in the second half. It […]

As fall sports wrap up and winter sports usher in a new season, it is the season of giving useless things that people don’t want. With that spirit in mind, I’ll give my opinion on a couple of things from this past quarter. Here is another installment of awards that are hopefully more flattering than […]

This past weekend, the UC Davis swimming and diving team wrapped up their trip to Missouri with impressive results. The Aggies finished third out of nine teams with 575.5 points. On the first day of competition, junior Samantha Shellem shattered the UC Davis school record in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 4:48.59. […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Stanford Records: Aggies, 2-2; Cardinal, 6-0 Where: The Pavilion — Davis When: Friday at 7 p.m. Who to watch: Senior Blair Shinoda hasn’t put up the offensive numbers she is capable of this season. Not yet. Shinoda heads the UC Davis offense from the point guard position, and has the most […]