Sports

With the retirement of head coach Kathy DeYoung, Anne Walker takes the reigns of the UC Davis women’s golf team this campaign. Aside from that, not a whole lot has changed.

Building a women’s rowing program requires some outside-the-box thinking. Unlike traditional collegiate teams,where coaches have thousands of high school athletes to pool from in recruiting,Division I rowing programs are cast from a different mold.

UC Davis women’s soccer head coach MaryClaire Robinson paces up the sideline.She paces down it. Her heart rate lowers.It spikes back up.Now up even higher.Back down again.

First-year head coach Drew Wartenburg knows he has a pair of experienced seniors capable of leading the way, but he doesn’t want the UC Davis men’s cross country team to depend on either of them.

Cross country The UC Davis cross country teams couldn’t have asked for a better start to the season. Led by Patrick Parsel and Kim Conley, respectively, the men’s and women’s teams both finished in first place last Saturday at the Aggie Open. Parsel took first of 33 in the 8k, clocking in at 25:08.10. In […]

Teams: UC Davis vs. Portland State Records: Aggies, 0-2; Vikings, 1-0 Where: Aggie Stadium When: Saturday at 7 p.m. Who to watch: The UC Davis running game has struggled so far this season, totaling just 72 yards on 50 carries. With the team looking to establish itself on the ground, Joe Trombetta should see his […]

Four teams, four NCAA Tournament competitors from a season ago. That’s the reality that UC Davis faced at the TLC Plumbing and Utility Invitational at New Mexico last weekend. The Aggies (3-1-0, 0-0-0) lost their first game in overtime to Louisville, 1-0, but rebounded quickly to beat Michigan State, 4-2. Louisville finished the tournament 2-0, […]

Teams: No. 11 UC Davis vs. No. 6 UC Santa Barbara Records: Aggies, 2-2 (1-1); Gauchos, 2-2 (0-0) Where: Campus Pool – Santa Barbara, Calif. When: Friday at 3 p.m. Who to watch: When Paul Wilson hits the water for the Aggies on Friday, the senior will do so in front of a hometown crowd. […]

080911_sp_wvball.CHeadline: Aggies sweep Air Force InvitationalLayercake: Women’s volleyball riding six-match winning streakBy ADAM LOBERSTEINAggie Sports Editor The Jamie Holmes era is off with a bang. Following a 4-0 showing at the Air Force Invitational last weekend, the UC Davis women’s volleyball team is riding a six-match winning streak – its longest since 1999. The Aggies […]

Greg Denham gave J.T. O’Sullivan a tough act to follow. Hours before UC Davis’ all-time passing leader made his first career NFL start, Denham shined in his first start for the Aggies. The sophomore threw for 261 of his 296 yards and all three of his touchdowns in the second half, nearly rallying UC Davis past No. 22 Central Arkansas in a 24-21 road loss on Saturday.

Kyle Reed had been waiting years to prove himself at the college level. On Saturday, at the worst possible time for UC Davis, he did.

Simply put,San Jose State is supposed to beat UC Davis. The Spartans are a Bowl Championship Subdivision (known to most humans as “I-A“) team.The Aggies,who compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (a.k.a. “I-AA“),are in their second season on the Division I circuit.