Sports

The Aggies look to build off hard-fought loss When the UC Davis women’s soccer team took the field on Friday, Sept. 15, it was hoping to put an end to its frustrations. Coming in with a 1-7 record, the Aggies hoped to gain some momentum before conference matches begin. Unfortunately, the Samford Bulldogs made the […]

UC Davis football rolls over San Diego in home opener It sure is nice to come home. Fresh off a 38-17 season opener loss at the hands of San Diego State, the UC Davis football team, led by Aggie-alum head coach Dan Hawkins, returned home on Sept. 9 to collect its first win of the […]

Men’s water polo defeats Cal Baptist University Lancers in its opening conference match 12-9 It was a beautiful day at Schaal Aquatics Center on Thursday, Sept. 14 as the UC Davis Aggies opened up their first Western Water Polo Association conference game of the year against the Cal Baptist University Lancers. The No. 9 NCAA […]

UC Davis football suffers road loss to San Diego State in season opener The Dan Hawkins era of UC Davis football got off to a rough start, as the Aggies fell to San Diego State, 38-17, in front of a crowd of over 45,000 at Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday night. UC Davis began the game […]

Local campers receive guidance from former, current UC Davis athletes With the majority of Davis’ 35,415 students currently on summer break, the sprawling 5,300-acre campus appears remarkably calm. That is, until you come across one of the many UC Davis sports camps taking place at the university. Cries of excitement from local kids replace the […]

Former UC Davis men’s soccer player leads successful double life It’s a spring evening in San Diego. UC Davis men’s soccer head coach Dwayne Shaffer sits in the stands overlooking the fields of the 2005 San Diego Nomads soccer club showcase tournament. The tournament is hosted by the Nomads, a powerhouse soccer club in Southern […]

Wrapping up another busy year of Aggie athletics As the impending doom of Spring Quarter finals is fast approaching, so is the end to another year of UC Davis athletics. This year in Aggie sports was marked by tremendous feats both on the team and individual level, as well as some less-than-stellar performances. With several […]

Track and Field sprinter Kierra Davis has a standout year, earns multiple honors In an overall impressive year from the UC Davis track and field team, earning second place at the Big West Championships, one sprinter in particular has caught the eye of many. Track and field sprinter Kierra Davis earned Big West Women’s Freshman […]

If you’ve ever watched the movie Moneyball, you’ve learned that the mainstream statistics in baseball, namely Home Runs (HR), Batting Average (BA), Runs Batted In (RBIs), Wins (Ws), Strikeouts (Ks) and Earned Run Average (ERA), do not tell the whole story of a player’s success. In this day and age, sabermetrics, a quantitative analysis of […]

Greek life and sports life collide for one-night charity event On Saturday, June 3, the doors of the ARC Pavilion opened up for a different kind of basketball game. A Frat Stars versus All Stars charity basketball event was organized by fourth-year mechanical engineering student Nicholas Aikawa, who first got the idea when talking to […]

Pacific conference champions fall to Penn State, Ohio State The UC Davis women’s club softball team played in the National Club Softball Association (NCSA) World Series in Columbus, Georgia from May 19 to 21. Arriving in Georgia as the Pacific Conference champions, the Aggies were seeded second for pool play. Once bracket games began on […]

UC Davis professor talks sports, opportunities athletics provides Ever wondered if any college professors once played collegiate athletics? This second article in a series of three continues to follow and question different UC Davis professors to talk about their collegiate athletic playing days and why they decided to take a different path from athletics to […]