Sports

Summer is a time for fun, which for many college students involves sleeping in and relaxing. However, there are some who define fun as waking up at six in the morning and working tirelessly in the hot August sun. The UC Davis football program recently completed its first week of practice, in a season that […]

Sure, UC Davis is now an NCAA Division I school, but it doesn’t produce athletes of the same caliber as the top athletic programs right? Not so fast. A couple of UC Davis alumni went to London to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games. Swimmer Scott Weltz, a UC Davis graduate in the class of […]

It has been a long road. But the search is finally over. On July 5, Terrance J. “Terry” Tumey was announced as the next Athletics Director for UC Davis. Tumey travels from Dominican University of California, which is in San Rafael, after a three-year stint there. As the Aggies put the finishing touches on their […]

Tyler Raber, the Aggie golf sensation, has been all work and no play this summer. The UC Davis red-shirt senior’s phenomenal performances in the four amateur tournaments held these past two months is a reflection of the hard work and countless hours he spends on the green every day. Raber’s awe-inspiring summer journey began with […]

Kayleigh Foley has dominated the lanes of Schaal Aquatics Center during her four years as a member of the UC Davis women’s swimming and diving team. Foley has never ended a season without claiming at least one Conference Championship title. As a freshman she anchored the 800-yard freestyle relay squad that earned the Big West […]

Senior Betsy Sedlak will go down as one of the greatest players in UC Davis volleyball history. As one of just two seniors on a team that went 21-10 this season, Sedlak was hailed by her coach and her teammates as a vital team leader. In just three years as an Aggie after transferring from […]

Demi Runas performed the way she was expected to this season. Which is to say, she was exceptional. The junior has been the most consistent performer for the UC Davis women’s golf team in her three years here. It is no coincidence that the Aggies have won the Big West Conference Championship each of her […]

In a program with as rich a history as the UC Davis women’s basketball team, it is difficult to accomplish anything that hasn’t been done before. Yet senior Samantha Meggison had a career with the Aggies that can truly be described as unprecedented. Meggison came to UC Davis in the midst of the transition from […]

Coming off a Big West Conference title and the loss of two key seniors in 2010-11, the Aggies did not miss a beat as they entered the 2011-12 season. UC Davis opened its season with a first-place finish in the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic in September, and followed that up with second place at the […]

After four seasons as the starter, senior Kevin Peat departs UC Davis men’s water polo as arguably the best goalkeeper in history. The Walnut Creek, Calif. native saved his best season for last, finishing the year with a school-record 335 saves. He became just the third Aggie to surpass the 1,000-save milestone, amassing 1,011 stops […]

It is rare for an athlete to take conference titles in multiple sports during the course of a single school year, but that is just what Sarah Sumpter did. The junior distance runner anchored both the women’s cross country team and the women’s track and field team as they both won Big West Conference championships. […]

UC Davis’s sports are improving, but what business do they have playing with perennial powerhouses like UCLA? We may have witnessed the beginning of the end of statements like this one. The UC Davis men’s soccer program pulled out one of the biggest upsets in school history, possibly in any sport, when it took down […]