Sports

Name it, she’s done it. From coaching volleyball for 10 years to being at the helm of the softball team for 26 years to building the women’s golf program from the ground up, Kathy DeYoung has accomplished it all as part of a rich UC Davis athletic tradition.

In the young world of intercollegiate kendo competition, other schools will have to watch out for the rising dragon of UC Davis. In just the third tournament appearance in program history,the Aggies took first place Apr.27 at the 12th Annual Harvard-Invitational Shoryuhai Intercollegiate Kendo Tournament, thenation’s most prestigious club kendo event.

Event:NCAA Division I West Region Championships Host: Sacramento State Where:Lincoln Hills Golf Club – Lincoln,Calif. When:Today,Friday and Saturday, all day

his plate. In addition to juggling his communication classes, handling a 12-man pitching staff, flirting with .400 and opening letters from major league baseball teams about the upcoming draft, the junior catcher also has to, well, clean his plate.

Teams:UC Davis vs.No.16California Records:Aggies,29-16; Golden Bears,29-14 Where:Evans Diamond– Berkeley When:Today at2:30p.m.

In its second to last Big West Conference series of the season, UC Davis (23-34, 8-10) squared off against Cal Poly (22-21, 10-8), looking to take its fourth consecutive conference series win.

Like the Aggies‘ very own Energizer bunny,Sirena Williams just keeps going and going. The sophomore had topped the school-recordtime in the100-meter hurdles for three straight weeks,including a time of13.80seconds at the Causeway Classic Dual last week,but unavailable wind readings kept her program mark at13.96.

Sharksandkiller whales step aside.After the pasttwo weekendperformances,the new queen ofthewater is the Aggie. After the UC Davis women’s water polo team won a conference titlelast weekend,the women’s rowing team followed the trend.

Trailing late into games has been a season-long habit the Aggies are trying to kick. This past weekend, UC Davis (29-16, 9-6) overcame two late deficits to take a crucial weekend series from No. 23 Long Beach State (27-17, 9-6) and stay in the contention for a postseason birth.

t was as difficult adefeat as any can be. In the conference title game last year,the UC Davis women’s water polo team fell in overtime toarchrival Loyola Marymount,6-5.

Located some 60 miles south of Davis, St. Mary’s High School in Stockton has developed quite the knack for churning out future Aggies on the court. Before highlighting UC Davis’ first Division I basketball season as the 2007-2008 Big West Conference Freshman of the Year, guard Mark Payne guided the Rams to a Sac-Joaquin Section title.

The UC Davis women’s lacrosse team took its fifth seed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation into last week’s conference championships to face the fourth-seeded Oregon Ducks. If UC Davis was to win,it would move on to face No.1seedDenver on Thursday in thesemi-finals.With a loss,it would have to settle for a rematch with St.Mary’s for the second time in12days to determine the fifth-place finisher.