Sports

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 […]

UC Davis’ men and women’s track and field coach, Drew Wartenburg, captured the 2011-12 season “Coach of the Year” award for leading the team to the Big West Championships. In 2009, UC Davis’ first season in the Division 1, Wartenburg was honored as the league’s Men’s Coach of the Year. In only his first year […]

Freshman Matt Wiesenfarth didn’t get chosen to participate in the U.S. Under-20 National Training Camp for nothing. The Sacramento native was one of the standouts for the young roster of the UC Davis men’s soccer program. The 2011 Big West Freshman of the Year was named such for his offensive prowess, as his 18 shots […]

In her first season as an Aggie, Justine Vela was the epitome of dominance. With 272 strikeouts, 15th most in the country and fifth most ever in Big West Conference history, the Bakersfield native led UC Davis to an impressive third-place league finish — just two games behind champion Long Beach State. After holding opposing […]

Junior Elizabeth Datino had one of the most memorable seasons in UC Davis lacrosse history. In the midst of the first round of the NCAA tournament, Datino shared the lead for total points in all of the country. Her 54 goals and school record 47 assists racked up to 101 total points in the season. […]

Football has taken hold in the high schools and colleges in the U.S., but lacks popularity beyond our borders. For UC Davis athletes of the late 1990s, though, European shores were a landing place for those who could not make it in the NFL. Football with the Mermaids After graduating from UC Davis in 1998 […]

Elizabeth Landry has won the Freshman of the Quarter Award from The Aggie for her exemplary contribution to the women’s lacrosse team. Landry, who made the All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation first team, also collected the league’s Newcomer of the Year award. “I think that staying motivated and committed to getting better throughout the whole year […]

While it seemed that the women’s track and field team was stealing the headlines every week, one of the Aggies’ most impressive contributors this year was from the men’s team. Junior pole vaulter Ethan Ostrom had a 2012 season that will go down in UC Davis history. After becoming just the third Aggie in history […]

Junior Paul Politi’s season ended with a 10-game hitting streak intact, topped off with an All-Big West Conference second team selection. The Los Gatos native manned the hot corner all year for UC Davis, and was the only Aggie to start all 57 games. The third baseman hit a team-leading .345 for the season – […]

Junior Katie Yamamura has been positively stellar for UC Davis’ women’s gymnastics team this year. This season, Yamamura was named MPSF Gymnast of the Week six times. Those honors led to All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honors in all four individual events and the all-around, including conference titles in the vault and uneven bars. Her amazing […]