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ON THE COVER A Perfect Fit
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Sonny Dykes always daydreamed about landing at Cal someday, and not only because of the potential of its football program. A coach’s son, it would be easy to assume Dykes wakes up and goes to sleep with a playbook in his hand. But it turns out Dykes would like Berkeley even if there was no football at all.
FEATURES Pitch Perfect On a cool night around the 2011 Thanksgiving holiday, Grace Leer found the clarity she needed to pursue her lifelong passion. In an emotional singing performance at a vigil for a friend and fallen Marine, Leer realized how much music meant to her. Now a junior on the Golden Bear women’s soccer team, she intends follow her passion once her Cal career concludes.
Brother, Brother
Not long before coming to play for Cal’s men’s soccer program, Christian Dean put the beautiful game on hold for something much more important – spending time with his big brother, Josh Huestis, now a basketball player at Stanford. Well before they matriculated at their rival schools, the biological brothers grew up with separate adoptive parents.
Always Building Excellence
In the last of a series on the Builders of Berkeley, the de Grosz and Sandler families express their motivation for making Intercollegiate Athletics a prime recipient of their support. They share with devoted Bear Backers a recognition of their role and responsibility to maintain and move forward Cal’s mission to provide a world-class education and experience to its students.
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Driven to Be an All-American
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To achieve All-American status in the sport of cross country, competitors must be among the top 40 finishers in the NCAA Championships, representing the best of the best in collegiate running. Cal junior Kelsey Santisteban has one goal in mind and that is to achieve the prestigious honor while leading the Golden Bears to the national meet this fall.
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The next time you see Adrienne Gehan keep her cool on the volleyball court, you’ll have artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Johannes Vermeer to thank. Cal’s senior outside hitter has a way of keeping the peace in any situation, and much of that comes from spending a lot of her childhood in art museums all over the world.
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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS.................................. 2 SIDELINE REPORT............................................................................... 4 WHERE ARE THEY NOW?................................................................. 16 SEASON PREVIEWS.......................................................................... 18 FACES IN THE CROWD..................................................................... 27 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT............................................................... 34 HOME EVENTS CALENDAR.............................................................. 36
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LETTER
from Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour
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Dear Friend of Cal Athletics:
ith nearly 5,000 international students on campus in any given year and tens of thousands of alumni living abroad, Cal’s global impact can be seen far and wide across the globe. Closer to home, members of the international community who also happen to be Golden Bear student-athletes add to the diversity of our teams and truly help enrich our culture here in Berkeley.
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As anyone who has traveled internationally knows, greetings of “Go Bears!” are a common occurrence among those donning Blue and Gold. Our student-athletes are certainly adding to that experience with their growing success. Cal, it seems, can be found just about anywhere across the globe.
At the Olympic level, we are all familiar with the tremendous achievements we witnessed in both Beijing and London when Golden Bears collected a record 17 medals at both the 2008 and 2012 Games. The accolades kept pouring in this summer, particularly in swimming in which the likes of graduates Nathan Adrian, Natalie Coughlin and Dana Vollmer, as well as current students Rachel Bootsma, Elizabeth Pelton and Missy Franklin came home as medalists from the World Championships. Basketball, water polo, softball and rowing are just a few of the other sports that saw Bears competing on the world stage in 2013.
Naturally, we are excited to play a big role in the Pac-12’s new Globalization Initiative, which seeks to expand the conference’s reach well beyond the U.S. borders with a particular interest in China this year. One of our freshman volleyball players – Alyssa Jensen – took part in a tour of the country with a Pac-12 All-Star team, while men’s basketball associate head coach Travis DeCuire helped lead a conference-sponsored clinic in Shanghai. In August, I had the pleasure to accompany our women’s basketball team on its own goodwill trip to China. The experiences our student-athletes and coaches received will last a lifetime. Back in Berkeley, this universal approach applies to so many of our athletic programs, none more so than in football, in which Sonny Dykes’ “win everywhere” philosophy goes on full display this fall. While results on the field will garner the most public attention, this mindset extends to developing the total student-athlete in the classroom and in the local communities. In essence, someone who appreciates the opportunity to compete and learn at the highest levels and gains an understanding of the world around him. I look forward to seeing you back on campus this fall as our teams begin their championship quests, and as always, thank you for your support that makes it all possible – in Berkeley and around the world. Go Bears,
Sandy Barbour
Director of Athletics
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‘Inside the Locker Room’ Radio Show to Be Broadcast from Field Club
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al’s weekly coaches show – Inside the Locker Room presented by Weatherford BMW of Berkeley – has been given a new name and is moving to KGO Radio (810 AM) this year. The change means many more Golden Bear supporters will have the opportunity to listen. In addition, fans can stop by Memorial Stadium each week to watch in person from inside the Field Club. The program, hosted by Todd McKim, runs each Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. and will feature
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a wide variety of guests, including coaches and student-athletes from all 29 Cal teams, as well as regular appearances by Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour. Football coach Sonny Dykes will stop by to provide his thoughts on the Golden Bears every week, and he will be joined by players and assistant coaches, who will be able to give their unique perspectives on the team. Those who visit the Field Club for the show will have the chance to meet all of the guests, and food provided by Cal Dining will be available for purchase. Just enter through Gate 2 to find a front-row seat.
Get to Know Cal Football with ‘The Drive’
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ver wanted to know what happens inside the locker room or how coaches and players review game film or what life is like at training camp? Well, Golden Bear fans will get just that chance this fall through a new program on the Pac-12 Networks titled “The Drive.” The series starts Sept. 11 and will air for 14 consecutive Wednesdays at 7 p.m. with both Cal and Arizona State participating in the inaugural production. From the first whistle of training camp to their final game, Pac12 Networks film crews will be embedded in the inner workings The Drive will air weekly on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on the Pac-12 Networks, starting Sept. 11. of the two programs. Viewers can expect to see footage from practices, game days and road get to know our coaching staff and players, and will provide trips, as well as what life off the field is like for coaches, stu- a unique perspective on what happens with Cal football on a day-to-day basis. The more people know about the way we dent-athletes and staff. “We’re very proud of the way our student-athletes represent run our program, the more proud they are going to be of Cal Cal and everything the University stands for,” Cal coach Son- football. It’s a great opportunity for us to showcase everything ny Dykes said. “This show will be a great chance for people to associated with our program.”
More Programming to Watch on Pac-12 Networks
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n addition to The Drive and regular live action, the Pac-12 Networks will feature a host of new shows that will highlight all of the schools within the conference.
Among the programs to catch on a weekly basis this year are:
Games are More Fun with a Group
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here’s nothing like hearing the cannon fire, watching the band play and cheering Cal football onto victory at Memorial Stadium. Now you can make new memories and save money while you sit together with your group of friends, family or co-workers in Strawberry Canyon when the Golden Bears take to the field. The Cal football group tickets program is great for any event – alumni reunions, birthdays, anniversaries, church group and team outings, community organizations or employee get-togethers. Groups of 20 or more receive a discounted ticket price, a videoboard welcome and more. For pricing information and to book your group today, call Cal’s Gold Standard Sales and Service team at (800) GO BEARS (462-3277) and press 3, or visit CalBears.com/tickets.
Pac-12 Playbook – Sundays, 9 p.m. Hosts Mike Yam, Rick Neuheisel and Ashley Adamson take an inside look at each team’s weekly performance in a fast-paced format.
Pac-12 Sports Report – Mondays, 9 p.m. Hosts Ashley Adamson and Mike Yam provide a look around the conference by covering all sports in season.
Pac-12 Football Weekly – Wednesdays, 6 p.m. The latest in football news from hosts Mike Yam and Rick Neuheisel. Pac-12 Football Pre-Game – Fridays, time TBA An in-studio preview of all the upcoming football games.
Additional regular shows include Pac-12 Classics (TV broadcasts of historic games), Pac-12 Football in 60 (condensing games to just 60 minutes) and Timelines (great moments from the 2012-13 seasons). For more information on the Pac-12 Networks or how you can get it in your area, visit Pac-12.com/switch. Complete TV listings and a channel locator can also be found on CalBears. com under the Pac-12 logo in the upper right corner of the masthead. FALL 2013
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REPORT Bears Past and Present Star at World Championships
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his past summer saw world championship events contested in swimming, water polo, rowing and track & field, and Golden Bears were right there among the best the Missy Franklin won a record six gold medals at the World Championships. international fields had to offer. Among the Cal women’s swimmers who made the trip to the in the 400-free relay, while another former Cal standout, Damir World Championship meet in Barcelona were current Bears Dugonjic of Slovenia, was fourth in the 100 breaststroke. AdriElizabeth Pelton and Rachel Bootsma, alumnae Natalie Cough- an also picked up a bronze medal in the 100 free. lin, Dana Vollmer and Lauren Boyle, and incoming freshman The USA men’s water polo team featured graduate John Mann, Missy Franklin. Cal’s Teri McKeever served as an assistant who also played on the squad at last summer’s Olympics in Loncoach for the U.S. squad. don, while three incoming freshmen for the Cal women’s team Franklin led the way with a record six gold medals, with the saw action in water polo and secured medals for their home counCal women finishing with a total tries – Roser Tarrago (Spain), Dora Antal (Hungary) and Anna Illes of 14 medals, including addition- (Hungary). Spain took the gold, while Hungary won the bronze. al gold by Pelton, Vollmer and On the track, five-time USA champion Alysia Montaño came Coughlin. Boyle also claimed three up just short of becoming the first American woman to earn bronze medals in freestyle events a medal in the women’s 800 meters, finishing her final in for her native New Zealand. Moscow in 1:57.95 – 0.04 of a second out of third place. For the men, graduates NaStill in action at press time were several current and former than Adrian and Anthony members of the men’s and women’s crew programs who were Ervin, both Olympic gold medal- in the World Rowing Championships in South Korea through ists still training in Berkeley with the first week of September, including senior Kara Kohler Cal men’s coach David Durden, in the women’s 4x and former Bears Zach Vlahos and Nareg helped Team USA to a silver medal Guregian in the U.S. men’s 8+. John Mann
Mike White ‘Humbled’ to Receive Seaborg Award
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ike White has received many honors during his distinguished career, and there is no doubt the Glenn T. Seaborg Award holds a special place for him. The award, named after the former Cal chancellor and 1951 Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is presented annually to a former Cal football player for his career accomplishments who represents the honored Cal principles and traditions of excellence in academics, athletics, leadership and attitude. “I am humbled and extremely proud to receive this honor, especially to represent a great person like Glenn Seaborg, who I knew as a student-athlete and when I first started coaching at Cal,” said White, who served as head coach of the Golden Bears from 197277 and will be recognized during an on-field ceremony during the
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Cal-Washington State football game on Oct. 5. “Some of the past winners are some unbelievably famous people in the history of Cal football. I don’t deserve that status but am honored to have been acknowledged, and hope that I live up to the past Mike White, pictured at his Cal Hall of Fame induction, has been affiliated with the school off and on for nearly 60 years. winners.” White, who letto a Big Ten championship in 1983. tered in football, rugby and track & White concluded his coaching career field at Cal from 1955-58, entered the in the NFL, which included a stint coaching profession almost immedias head coach of the Raiders from ately after earning his bachelor’s de1995-96. gree in business administration. As a White continues to have strong ties head coach, he led Cal to a share of the with Cal and recently finished his 1975 Pac-8 title, while as head coach eighth summer managing the Blue at Illinois, he guided the Fighting Illini Camp at the Lair of the Bear.
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A Perfect Fit
Sonny Dykes and Cal Seem Made for Each Other By Jonathan Okanes
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he road to Berkeley isn’t typically preceded by stops in places such as Lubbock, Texas, and Ruston, La.
But Sonny Dykes always daydreamed about landing at Cal someday, and not only because of the potential of its football program. A son of the revered former Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes and a coach who has spent almost his entire career in the football-is-a-way-of-life South, it would be easy to assume Dykes wakes up and goes to sleep with a playbook in his hand. But it turns out Dykes would like Berkeley even if there was no football at all. “I’m kind of a curious person,” said Dykes, who makes his debut as Cal’s head coach on Aug. 31 against Northwestern at Memorial Stadium. “I have a lot of different interests besides football. I like the arts. I like to travel. There is just so much to do here and such a great vibe in the community. People are open-minded. It’s a cool place to be.”
It’s the kind of place you want to raise your kids.” Dykes is at ease talking with a variety of different people – a trait he says was handed down from his father. But while father and son have that in common, Dykes said he always had a yearning to get away and experience different things while his dad was perfectly content to remain in West Texas. But Dykes is very much like his father as a football coach, despite the fact that Dykes actually played baseball at Texas Tech. Dykes played first base for the Red Raiders and said he wore a San Francisco Giants cap almost every day in college because he idolized Will Clark, the former Mississippi State baseball star. “(Sonny) was just more mature than most players,” said former Texas Tech baseball coach Larry Hays, who led the Red Raiders program for 22 years before retiring in 2008. “He took in the whole college experience. He was what we call a true student-athlete.” Along with his parents – his mother, Sharon, passed away in 2010 due to Alzheimer’s disease – Dykes credits Hays and high school baseball coach John Dudley as the biggest influences on him both professionally and personally. Dudley said he saw Dykes’ potential in coaching when Dykes served as an instructor at a Coronado High School baseball camp a few years after he graduated. “I noticed he had a great rapport with the kids,” Dudley said. “He was able to engage them and teach them the game. He would make it so they thought they were special.” Most of Dykes’ 19 years in coaching have been spent in the South – he had stints at Northeast Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas Tech, among others. The farthest West he’s come so far was a three-year stint as the offensive coordinator at Arizona. Sonny Dykes and his family have embraced everything Berkeley and the Bay Area Recruiting Northern California and playing have to offer. against Cal while with the Wildcats got Dykes furSince taking the job in December, Dykes and wife, Kate, have ther familiarized with Berkeley, and the more he found out, the attended concerts at the Greek Theatre, strolled through art more he had designs of ending up in the Bay Area. galleries, taken their two young daughters, Ally and Charlotte, Plus, he and Kate loved vacationing in California. They had to the Lawrence Hall of Science and made numerous trips as a taken trips to Lake Tahoe, the wine country and Carmel while family to Tilden Park. living in the South. “From a family standpoint, this is kind of what we were look“This place is absolutely perfect for him,” Kate said. “The loning for,” Dykes said. “It just offered so many opportunities to ger we are here, the more people will see that. He is so comgrow as a person and experience things and see new things. pletely at home here.” 8
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Cal offensive coordinator Tony Franklin served in the same role under Dykes the past three seasons at Louisiana Tech and they also coached together at Kentucky. Franklin said Dykes’ curiosity and thirst for different experiences have always been there, and make him a perfect fit for Cal. “He’s very well-read,” Franklin said. “He always has been since I’ve known him. He’s engaging on a lot of topics. He has an opinion, which is sometimes unusual for people to express in this profession. “We had a discussion a couple of years ago and he said his dream job is Cal. I didn’t understand it at the time, but once you go to Berkeley, you understand what a unique place it is. To me, if you’re an open-minded person that really wants to learn and wants to explore, not just football but humanity, you can’t find a better place in the world to come.” Since his introductory press conference on Dec. 6, Dykes has said that he and Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour share a vision for the Cal football program. Much of that vision is predicated on embracing the academic culture of the university. Dykes negotiated his first recruiting season at Cal, making sure the program was focusing on the right kind of student-athlete. “Cal is not for everybody,” Dykes said. “Our players need to understand that if they’re not willing to pay the price to be successful here, then this isn’t the right school for them. The first question we ask kids when we go out and recruit is why are they interested in Cal? If academics aren’t at the top of the list, in a lot of ways this isn’t the right spot.”
“The first question we ask kids when we go out and recruit is why are they interested in Cal? If academics aren’t at the top of the list, in a lot of ways this isn’t the right spot.” – Sonny
Dykes is considered one of the brightest young offensive minds in the game – Louisiana Tech led the nation with an average of 51.50 points per game last season and ranked second in the country in total offense at 577.92 yards per game. But that doesn’t get to the core of Dykes’ philosophies as a coach. Dykes prefers a more global approach to coaching, encouraging his players to reach their potential in everything they do, not just on Saturdays. “We want our guys to do as well as they can do, whether it’s academics, whether it’s something on campus socially, whether it’s football – whatever it is, we want to teach them that you want to maximize your potential,” Dykes said. “When I walk into my Dykes physics class, I’m going to be the best guy in my physics class. When I walk into the weight room, I’m going to be the best guy in this workout. And when I line up against Ohio State, I’m going to be the best guy on the field. We expect them to try hard in everything that they do – try hard to be a good person, try hard to be a good teammate, try hard in school and try hard on the field.” fall 2013
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Pitch Perfect
Soccer’s Grace Leer Longs to Chase Her Goal to Sing
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By Mara Rudolph
On a cool night around the 2011 Thanksgiving holiday, Grace Leer tried to sing, but instead only a sob escaped from her. She stared out at the dozens of people standing before her, candlelight dancing across their faces as she searched desperately for the voice to honor her friend.
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As a front-line man for the Marines, marine gunner Josh Corral kept his squad safe by sweeping areas ahead for hidden bombs. He was 19, just a year removed from high school and two months into his service in Afghanistan when he was killed after stepping on an improvised explosive device (IED). Grace Leer On that November night, many in the tight-knit community of Danville gathered on the San Ramon Valley High School football field to pay their respects to the fallen hero. And on that night, for the first time in more than a decade of performing, Grace Leer stopped singing in the middle of a performance. After a pause, the music started again, and so did she. “You could have bowed out gracefully/But you didn’t …” Leer trailed off, unable to sing again as tears flooded her eyes. “I don’t know what was coming over me,” said Leer, now a junior for the Cal women’s soccer team. “The whole crowd was cheering me on. I was getting frustrated and also really emotional. I don’t know what it was – all the emotions made it so hard for me to sing in front of all those people.” A piece of paper printed with the lyrics found its way into her hands, and she was able to focus on the words in front of her. “I looked down and read the lyrics and I remember everything just sort of went away,” Leer recalled. “It became an unreal experience for me. I never sang like that before. To be singing music that was way more than it ever was before.” On that night, as Leer finally found the voice she needed to finish Rascal Flatts’ “Everyday,” she also found the clarity she needed to pursue her lifelong passion. “Ever since that point, music has just become something bigger,” Leer said. “It felt like the most perfect performance I’ve ever given because it was the most real and honest performance. It wasn’t perfect – I stopped and forgot and had to start over two times – but that was the experience I said to myself, ‘This is what I’m supposed to do.’ I needed to find it in myself Continued on page 13
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to give this to people and help them grieve for somebody that we all loved. That’s when I knew that it’s way more than just a performance or a routine or music.” Leer had long enjoyed performing in front of an audience before that vigil cemented her dream to become a singer. She entered her first talent show in the first grade, singing Selena’s “Dreaming of You.” After her “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” performance in third grade, Leer’s parents realized she had a knack for music and signed her up for voice lessons. By the time Leer was 11, her voice was developed Grace Leer enjoys singing the National Anthem at Cal sporting events - including her own. enough to land her a spot on “American Juniors,” the children’s spinoff of “American Idol” able to attend Cal and get a great education from the best uniin 2003. Leer was one among thousands of youngsters who au- versity in the world with a great soccer team.” A forward for the Golden Bears, Leer tallied four goals last ditioned to earn a coveted spot in the top 20 semifinal round. With Ryan Seacrest hosting and in front of judges including season, including a rare hat trick vs. San Jose State, and started Gladys Knight, Deborah Gibson and American Idol’s season in nine of her 17 appearances. Still, Leer finds plenty of time to sing while she’s on campus. one runner-up Justin Guarini, Leer sang her version of Lulu’s She has performed the National Anthem at many of Cal’s sport“To Sir with Love.” Though she didn’t make it past the semifinals, she learned a ing events, including before she takes the field at women’s soccer matches. She is also a three-time winner of the “Best Talent” award lot during her month-long stay in Los Angeles. “It was really good for me to get a sense of what it would be at the Oskis, Cal’s annual part-Oscars, part-ESPYs talent show. Despite her accolades, Leer is no bubblegum pop diva, like if I did choose that career path right then and there,” Leer said. “It was a blessing in disguise that it didn’t work out for applying much of what she’s learned from soccer to her musime. Of course, when I got eliminated I thought it was the end cal pursuits as well. “Being on time, looking the right way, giving 100 percent at of the world, but it wasn’t. I came back to Danville, and I got so practice, and making sure you’re practicing as hard as you’re many opportunities.” Her stint on “American Juniors” propelled her to Bay Area going to play – those things have definitely helped me in the singing gigs. Throughout the years, she has performed for music world,” she said. “To be able to take all those characterisnearly every Bay Area professional sports team, including the tics and apply them to singing and hold myself to the standard San Francisco Giants, Oakland A’s, San Jose Sharks, Golden that 20 other girls and my coaches hold me to every single day, I’ve learned the character and the decorum to carry myself to State Warriors, San Jose Stealth lacrosse and tennis events. “Anything I could to practice and showcase my voice in front the highest standard in both of those passions.” With just two years left at Cal, Leer knows it won’t be long of a crowd or an audience,” Leer said. “The best feeling in the world is to perform and have people feeling what I’m trying to before she can fully apply those skills to the pursuit of a music convey. I’ve sung the National Anthem countless times since I career. Though she doesn’t know whether she’d like to head was 12 or 13. It’s still so meaningful to me to take my version to Los Angeles or Nashville, Leer does know she’d like to beof it and share it and have people love it. It’s the feeling of being come a country music performer and emulate the “big voices able to use something I have within myself. It’s a voice and I get and beautiful lyrics” of artists such as Martina McBride, Faith Hill and Shania Twain. to share it.” “There’s always been a time for me to go after that dream As she got older, Leer eventually needed to make a choice: pursue music or her other passion, soccer. She chose to put her and it’s getting to be that time,” Leer said. “I’ve never really musical dreams on hold as she pursued a degree and joined been able to give 100 percent to music because I’ve always had other responsibilities. I’m just excited to see what I can do the Cal soccer team. “I decided I’d rather get a college education and play soccer, when I can give it 100 percent, like I’ve given 100 percent to which is another love of mine, and my plan has always been soccer. It’s gotten me to be a great player and come to a great to go after music when I graduate,” she said. “I have a timeline university with a great team. I’m excited to see what that will and a plan, which includes playing soccer. I love Cal and being turn into when I apply it to music.”
“The best feeling in the world is to perform and have people feeling what I’m trying to convey.” – Grace Leer
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Brother, Brother:
Family Comes First for Soccer’s Christian Dean
By Dean Caparaz ’90
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ot long before coming to play for Cal’s nationally recognized men’s soccer program, Christian Dean put the beautiful game on hold for something much more important – spending time with his big brother, Josh Huestis.
These days, Dean is a starting defender for the Golden Bears, while Huestis is a star forward for the Stanford men’s basketball team. But well before they maChristian Dean triculated at their rival schools, the biological brothers grew up with separate adoptive parents. Christian and Josh were born to the Lindsey family outside of Houston, Texas. But the Lindseys were unable to support their growing family – which included an older son, Holden – as well
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as their kids deserved. The Lindseys put the younger boys up for adoption, with Christian joining William and Elizabeth Brown-Dean in East Palo Alto, Calif., and Josh moving to Great Falls, Mont., with Bonnie Huestis and Gary Walsh. Due to having open adoptions, Christian and Josh continued to receive visits from the Lindseys, and all three families still occasionally meet for get-togethers. Christian first learned that he was adopted at age three or four during a three-family reunion in Alvin, and having brothers Josh and Holden around helped him deal with the news. “Seeing how Josh reacted and see-
ing how our oldest brother reacted – obviously I looked up to them because they’re my older brothers, and they took it really well – made it a lot easier on me,” Christian said. To this day, the brothers have stayed close to the Lindseys, as well as to each other’s families. “I pretty much have three sets of parents,” Christian said. Soccer entered Christian’s life around age four when he joined his first team, with his adoptive father, William, as coach. Though he also showed an interest in baseball, soccer became Christian’s focus when he became a fan of Arsenal, the popular English Premier League club, at age 10. It also helped that Christian earned a spot on his first travel team– an under-10 squad – when he was only seven.
He became a rising star in the Bay Area and a few years later was part of Santa Clara Sporting FC when it claimed a runner-up finish at the U.S. Club Soccer National Championship. As they grew up, Christian and Josh knew they wanted to reunite for more than just a few days before Josh entered college. That time came in January of 2010, and with the blessing of both the Dean and Huestis families, Christian moved to Great Falls for six months. “It was a now or never kind of thing,” Christian said. “We were talking and said we never had the opportunity to spend an elongated period of time together. He was obviously doing really well in basketball, and he didn’t really have the option to come down here. I kind of gave up soccer to go up there.” The boys lived together, went to school together and just appreciated the daily interaction that they had missed for most of their lives. Christian grew close to Josh’s family and was there to see him earn his second straight Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year award for Montana and win his second consecutive state basketball title with C.M. Russell High School. “It was one of the most enjoyable times that I’ve had,” Christian said. When their time together in Montana ended, the brothers knew they would see plenty of each other in the Bay Area, as Josh made his way to Stanford and Christian returned to East Palo Alto, just minutes away from the Farm. Christian had his own Cardinal connection, as the versatile athlete attended Stanford summer camps for soccer, basketball and baseball over the years “I was a huge Stanford fan growing up,” Christian admitted. “As I got older, I realized I wanted to experience something different, and now I’m here.” As Josh began his collegiate career, Christian resumed playing competitive soccer. He was a member of the
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While brothers Christian Dean and Josh Huestis remain close, they now compete for rival schools.
covery from a leg injury affected his performance. “This year is going to be a breakDeAnza Force with out year for Christian,” Casiple prefuture Cal teammates dicted. “We all expected a lot out of Stefano Bonomo and ourselves last year, but we didn’t Max Oldham and make the postseason. Christian put was a co-captain of it on himself this summer to get the Force’s under-18 better and make sure there are no team. In the summer doubts about his play. I’m expectof 2010, Christian ing big things from him this year.” earned an invitation Christian admits to being healthy to play for the West and raring to go in 2013. squad – along with “It puts him in position to be the Seth Casiple, another best player he can be,” Grimes said future Cal teammate – Christian of Christian’s good health. “We’ll be – in the New York pushing him to reach his potential, Red Bulls National Dean on because we know his potential is as High School Cup, and moving to good as we’ve seen here at Cal. He helped the team take really stepped up last spring and home the trophy. Montana for looked like the Christian we knew As a Cal freshman six months to he could be. That’s a great sign for in 2011, Christian the fall.” started 16 of Cal’s 17 live with his Besides socializing in their in games and emerged brother, their down time, they watch each as one of the top other play and root for each other young defenders in Josh Huestis even when Cal plays Stanford in the conference. He soccer and basketball. The dynamwas a member of a talented class that included Casiple – the ic can create awkward moments in the eventual Pac-12 Freshman of the Year – stands. “When Cal plays Stanford in basand Connor Hallisey, among others. The Bears benefited from Dean’s combina- ketball, he’s cheering for his brother,” tion of speed, skills and size, traits that Casiple said, “but we boo whenever No. run in the family – Christian stands an 24 touches the ball.” Still, family comes first. imposing 6-3, while Josh is 6-8. “I’m obviously going to root for my In the summer of 2012, Christian earned a place on the U.S. under-20 brother, so whenever he does something men’s national team for a trip to South well, I clap and kind of get a hard time America. He had a solid college season for that,” Christian said. “But it’s all fun that fall, starting all 18 matches, but re- and games.” fall 2013
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Candace Harper & Her Students Learn from Each Other By Herb Benenson Candace Harper (left), with her sister, Shannon
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andace Harper, now in her seventh year teaching first grade in the Oakland Unified School District, seems to have her routine set with an understanding of how best to manage a class of six-year-olds. But as comfortable as she has become in the classroom, there is one annual ritual that she doesn’t quite comprehend.
said. “I regretted it about 12:30. I wanted to leave so badly. But I thought, no, no, no, I’ve got this. I was able to really connect with them. They finally had someone consistent at that point in their lives. I felt like that meant a lot. I Each year, Harper’s principal has made her show thought I’m doing something important. There’s a highlights from Cal’s 2002 NCAA softball champi- lot of chaos in their lives. It’s nice to see them smile onship to her class. Harper, an All-American third and give you a hug and laugh with you.” Harper’s mother, Pam, somehow knew that her baseman who will be entering the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame later this fall, almost feels embarrassed by daughter would become a teacher one day, but Candace wasn’t so sure despite the fact she always loved the attention. “They weren’t even born! They don’t care!” Harper working with kids. “If there was one thing I rebelled against, that was said of her students. “They ask, Miss Harper, is that it,” Harper said. “And then you know what? My mom the ’80s? It wasn’t, but it feels like a long time ago.” Eleven years removed her from senior season, might be right. Basically, she’s always right, but I try Harper capped off her Golden Bear career by help- to ignore that.” Harper concentrated in sociology at Cal and took ing Cal to the national crown. Last year, pitcher Jocelyn Forest, who was named the Most Outstanding classes in education and family. Following graduaPlayer of the 2002 Women’s College World Series, tion, she went into coaching and massage therapy before earning her teaching credential. With Lakevalso earned induction into the Cal Hall of Fame. While Harper and her teammates achieved a high iew Elementary now closed, Harper is in her second level of success during each of her four seasons with year at Burckhalter Elementary, which is located off trips to the World Series every year, the confidence Interstate 580 near Edwards Avenue. The work ethic Harper displayed on the softball she displayed on the field did not initially accompadiamond can now be seen in her teaching, where ny her into the classroom. Harper joined the faculty at Lakeview Elementary she does whatever it takes to either get or keep her students involved. Someas a midyear replacement, taktimes that even means ing over a class that had been he Cal Athletic Hall of taking a student to an A’s subject to a series of substitute Fame Class of 2013 will game or an area science teachers from the beginning of be inducted at a dinner event. the term and had become adept ceremony on Friday, Oct. 18 at “At the end of the day, at running their teachers, inthe Greek Orthodox Church in as stressed and tired as stead of the other way around. Oakland. For more information, I can be,” Harper said, “their “I walked in and said, ‘I’m including how to purchase tickets, visit smile when they learn somehere the rest of the school year. BigCSociety.org. thing warms me up inside.” I’m not leaving you,’” Harper
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al returns four starters to a team that captured 21 wins, placed second in the Pac-12 and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament last season. The addition of a top-20 class, highlighted by McDonald’s All-American Jabari Bird, will ease the loss of three seniors as well as Pac-12 Player of the Year Allen Crabbe. Crabbe was selected with the 31st overall pick of the NBA Draft and signed with Portland. Senior Justin Cobbs, a two-time All-Pac-12 honoree, is the league’s active career leader in assists with 324. He is joined by three other returning starters in senior forward Richard Solomon, junior forward David Kravish and sophomore guard Tyrone Wallace. Cal will be tested early with a non-conference schedule highlighted by an appearance in the EA Sports Maui Invitational Nov. 25-27. Head coach Mike Montgomery enters his sixth season in Berkeley as the NCAA’s ninth winningest active Division I head coach with 656 victories.
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women's basketball al welcomes back an experienced group in 2013, including the addition of standout Collin Jarvis. The senior, who redshirted last fall, is expected to be a major contributor to the Bears’ lineup in the fall after having placed 11th at the Pac-12 Championships and 12th in the NCAA Regionals in 2011. Additional returnees Chris Walden, Jordan Locklear, Leland Later, J.P. Slater and Matt Carpowich have all seen considerable experience in the lineup and will look to build on their performances from last fall. The season opened on Saturday, Aug. 31 at the USF Invitational in Golden Gate Park as the Bears began their quest for the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 23. Cal will travel to Terre Haute on Oct. 7 in an important pre-nationals meet as the Bears eye a return to the NCAAs as a team in 2013.
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men's cross country he Golden Bears will be a young group with the absence of a senior on the squad and 13 of the 19 members on the overall 2013 roster in either their freshman or sophomore year of eligibility. Junior Kelsey Santisteban will headline the Bears as she looks to reach the NCAA Championships for the third time this fall after placing 70th at last year’s national meet. A standout for Cal in both cross country and track, Santisteban looks to become the Golden Bears’ 11th All-American in cross country since 1981. After missing last fall due to injury, junior Heather Cerney eyes a return to competition this season. After the departure of a strong senior group in 2011, the freshman class played a prominent role last fall and the group hopes to recover from some injuries last fall and spring to help Cal return the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., as a team on Nov. 23.
T women's cross country he Bears return eight starters from last year’s third-place NorPac Tournament squad, including heralded junior Lara Kruggel, who was the 2012 NorPac Offensive Player of the Year. Kruggel was also an NFHCA All-West first-team selection alongside second-team pick Shannon Elmitt, who will once again lead the midfield for the Bears. Cal’s incoming class features seven players from the state of California. Head coach Shellie Onstead’s team will make five appearances on the Pac-12 Networks, including a season-ending Thursday night rivalry match against Stanford at Maxwell Family Field.
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new era for Golden Bears begins in 2013 with the arrival of first-year head coach Sonny Dykes and the promise of a exciting brand of football. Although last season was one of the most difficult for the Golden Bears in more than a decade, Dykes is looking to build upon a Cal program that has an established foundation with eight bowl games appearances since 2003. Dykes brings with him an offense that led the nation in both scoring offense (51.5 ppg) and total offense (577.92 ypg) last season at Louisiana Tech, while ranking in the top 20 in every major team category. Seven of Cal’s players – Brendan Bigelow, Deandre Coleman, Vincenzo D’Amato, Nick Forbes, Chris Harper, Cole Leininger and Jordan Rigsbee – have been honored on at least one 2013 preseason All-Pac-12 squad. Bigelow, Coleman, D’Amato, Forbes, Harper and Richard Rodgers are on preseason national watch lists.
A football mong the departures and arrivals in the Cal men’s gymnastics team’s 2013 offseason, none was more significant than the arrival of Brett McClure to lead the program. The 1999-2006 member of the U.S. National Team and 2011 National Assistant Coach of the Year while he was at Stanford, McClure and 2013 Cal assistant coach JT Okada head up a much healthier 2014 squad and four new Bears. The team returns most of its roster, including last year’s 13 freshmen, who now bring loaded experience from the NCAA Championships. Both 2012 All-Americans, Takahiro Kawada and Jonathan Liu, will also make their return for the Blue and Gold, and though the team as a whole is young, the Golden Bears have worked hard in the offseason to develop a repertoire of advanced skills with high start values that will undoubtedly make a difference in upcoming competition.
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men's gymnastics est Region Coach of the Year and Pac-12 Coach of the Year Justin Howell heralded in a new chapter in Cal women’s gymnastics history in his first year as head coach, leading the Bears to their first team regional berth since 2007 while setting a slew of team and individual records along the way. Despite having lost nearly half of the 2013 squad to graduation, seven fresh faces join the Golden Bears in hopes of building upon last season’s success. Among the newcomers is senior international elite level gymnast Jessica Howe, who was coached by Valeri Liukin, father and coach of 2008 Olympic All-Around champion Nastia Liukin. In the mix of returners is Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Serena Leong and senior Alicia Asturias, who set career-high totals in every event last season and matched a program-record 9.95 on the vault.
W women's gymnastics he oldest intercollegiate sport at Cal continues to grow in the newest aspect of the program as rugby’s 132nd year begins with the fall 7s season, coming on the heels of the Bears’ first 7s national title in June at the Collegiate Rugby Championship 7s. Senior All-American Jake Anderson and a solid core of returning veterans are joined by a promising freshman class in the same format of the game slated for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where rugby will return after a 92-year absence following USA gold medals in 1920 and ‘24 with Cal players on those teams. The fall season is scheduled to culminate at the PAC Sevens Tournament Nov. 2-3 in Los Angeles at UCLA. The Rugby Bears’ all-time record in 7s, which features seven players competing on the same sized pitch as 15s in shorter matches played in a tournament format, stands at 45-11 (.803).
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rugby he Golden Bears will be back at Goldman Field with renewed optimism and a return to the postseason in their sights after compiling an 8-7-3 record in 2012. Junior midfielder Seth Casiple and senior defender Ryan Neil – both members of the All-Far West teams – and junior goalkeeper Kevin Peach – who joined Casiple and Neil on the All-Pac-12 teams – are among the talented returnees on head coach Kevin Grimes’ roster. Casiple led Cal in points (16), Neil added a career-high five assists, and Peach posted a 1.40 GAA in his first year as the full-time starter last season. The presence of fifth-year senior and former All-Pac-12 first-team defender Steve Birnbaum and junior Christian Dean will bolster the backline, while junior forward Stefan Bonomo (5 goals) – who along with Dean garnered All-Pac-12 honorable mention in 2012 – will anchor the frontline.
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al’s women’s soccer team brings back a battle-tested squad in 2013 as the Golden Bears look to earn their 10th consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. Seventh-year head coach Neil McGuire and his 10 seniors, including captains Emily Kruger, Emi Lawson and Rachel Mercik, offer up plenty of leadership, and combined with the return of Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Ifeoma Onumonu, plus a highly touted addition in incoming freshman Arielle Ship, the Bears will be primed to eclipse last year’s second-round tournament finish. The backline will be well protected with help from Kruger, who owns 56 career starts in goal, while the Bears will threaten with an explosive offense even with the departure of midfielder Betsy Hassett. In her place will be Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick, who scored five goals last season and is adept at setting up quality scoring chances. Onumonu is fresh off a stint with the U.S. U-20 Women’s National Team and is a candidate for the Hermann Award.
C women's soccer avid Durden’s Cal men’s swimming & diving team will again vie for an NCAA crown in 2014 after winning national championships in 2011 and 2012 and finishing as the runner-up in 2013. Leading the Golden Bears will be two individual champions from 2012 – senior Marcin Tarczynski (200 individual medley) and junior Will Hamilton (200 butterfly) – plus four members (senior Shayne Fleming, juniors Seth Stubblefield and Fabio Gimondi, sophomore Tyler Messerschmidt) of title-winning relays. Additionally, Cal features standout sophomores Josh Prenot (2013 Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year, 400 IM conference champ) and Jacob Pebley (third in the NCAAs in the 200 backstroke), plus star recruit Ryan Murphy, one of the nation’s top young backstrokers who was third in the 200 back at the this summer’s U.S. national championships.
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volleyball al features five returning All-Americans for the 2013 season – first-team selection Collin Smith (senior attacker), second-team pick Aleksa Saponjic (junior attacker), and honorable mentions Hunter Gettelfinger (senior attacker), Jon Sibley (junior goalie) and Colin Mulcahy (sophomore attacker). Smith led the Golden Bears (17-8, MPSF Tournament finalists) in scoring last year with 61 goals, twice earning MPSF Player of the Week honors. Saponjic was second on the team in scoring in 2012 with 45 goals after helping Serbia capture a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in London. Gettelfinger notched 20 goals and was a top defender with a team-high 46 steals. Sibley had 110 saves in 12 matches, including 12 saves in his first collegiate match against top-ranked USC, while Mulcahy tallied 25 goals in 25 matches and was second on the squad with 29 ejections earned as a redshirt freshman.
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Always Building Excellence
University Support Is Fundamental for Fred de Grosz, Richard Sandler and All the Builders of Berkeley
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he Builders of Berkeley are an esteemed group of donors whose support for the University of California has surpassed the $1 million mark over the course of their giving histories. While their level of support may set them apart from donors whose financial means do not cross that seven-figure mark, many of these individuals and families have made Intercollegiate Athletics a prime recipient of their support, sharing with all devoted Bear Backers a recognition of their role and responsibility to maintain and move forward Cal’s mission to provide a world-class education and experience to its students. Fred and Kathi de Grosz became Builders of Berkeley in 2007, 43 years after Fred received his degree in business administration. Like all the Builders of Berkeley, they have made it their mission to support the University’s mission, and Mr. de Grosz specially credited the Office of Athletics Development for the strides its staff has made to activate alumni and other donors to support the department. “As an alumnus and person involved in trying to help the school financially, the Athletic Department has truly improved their ability to raise funds,” Fred said. “It really is a high-quality group of people,” continued Fred in reference to the development staff led by Phil Esten. “The semi-collapse our economy suffered in 2008-09 made it almost impossible for that unit to hit its original goals. But today, I’m very optimistic about the future and feel that the University still can improve in their fundraising compared to our competitive peers.” Mr. de Grosz described an evolving cultural paradigm in which “giving is becoming indoctrinated. Students are indoctrinated from the first day they are on campus.” Among student-athletes in particular, he said, “we are working to get a larger number of athletes involved in giving back. The University is looking to them for leadership in that endeavor if they are successful, and rightly so.” 22
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While the current student body is becoming more aware of its present, rather than future, responsibility to support their University, efforts by the Office of Athletic Development have also raised the number of donors who include Cal in their estate planning, enabling them to make a positive impact in the future. “It can be easier for someone to give as part of their estate planning than it is to write a check right now, while they’re still here,” Fred said. The de Groszs’ two children both hold Cal degrees and their grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 to 16 years old, have entered the stage of their lives in which their futures as undergraduates and graduates are already upon them. As a stalwart Cal Bear, Fred has his hopes to see them in blue and gold, but, he said, “I don’t want to influence them. They go to football and basketball games and they see the spirit of the Cal fans. The energy they have experienced will stay with them, wherever they go.” Fred de Grosz still identifies Cal as an important investment. “There’s no question about it,” he said. “A strong UC system, especially a strong Berkeley, is absolutely critical for the future of California. I’m proud that we have a school like Berkeley. The name, throughout the world, is recognized as a bastion of excellence.” Fred also proud that Kathi and his names are etched in stone outside of Doe Library along with those of all the Builders of Berkeley. “That is a wonderful thing, a way to reconnect with the University,” he said. “I think all of us know the school desperately needs our support.”
The de Groszs, who have six season tickets to men’s basketLike Mr. de Grosz, Mr. Sandler harbors no resentment toward ball in addition to their six seats to football through the Endow- any perception that Cal is seeking out-of-state dollars to help ment Seating Program, are just as excited for the next season of fund its mission. “First,” Richard said, “you have an obligation Bears basketball in Haas Pavilion as they are for the fall football to the state and your other constituencies to maintain excelseason under new head coach Sonny Dykes. “Mike Montgom- lence; second, you’re not going to maintain excellence unless ery had an excellent recruiting class,” said Fred. “Jabari Bird is you can fund what you need to fund, because the state’s not a sensational young man. Similar to football, they’ve got some going to fund it anymore. The vast majority of students are still very talented young guys.” from the state of California.” The de Grosz family has shown Mr. Sandler expressed fondunwavering support for Cal Athness for the notion that a rising letics, and although success is tide raises all ships and its appli“A strong UC system, most easily defined by wins and cability to the world-class excelespecially a strong Berkeley, is absolutely losses, Mr. de Grosz does not inlence of the University: “The tocritical for the futend to fold up his tent when the tality of that excellence includes ture of California. I’m next wave of adversity washes people from in the state, out proud that we have a over the campus community. of state and out of the country, school like Berkeley. The name, throughout “Cal fans know that our devotion both among the students and the world, is recogcomes with a lot of excitement within the faculty,” he said. “It’s nized as a bastion of and a lot of anticipation, and hisa balance.” excellence.” torically, yes, there’s also been disAmong the balances that Mr. - Fred de Grosz appointment,” he said. “It’s part Sandler maintains is his exciteof being a Bear – we are not to be ment for the football program deterred.” under Dykes, whom he called When Richard and Ellen San“very knowledgeable, very expe“Athletics is a very dler became Builders of Berkeley rienced and someone who thinks important part of the is December of 2006, it marked an well on his feet.” Even more excitstudent experience and the alumni experience. It important milestone, the road to ing to Mr. Sandler is the balance brings people to the which had been paved with supthat student-athletes successUniversity. It creates port not just to the Department of fully strike to achieve in their pride and it gives the Intercollegiate Athletics, but also athletic endeavors and academic opportunity to those who are participating in to the Haas School of Business pursuits. While he admires their athletics to learn about and the Chancellor’s Discretiondegrees across the board, he is time management, teamary Fund, among other areas. particularly awed by those who work, discipline and a In fact, according to Mr. manage to gain admittance to the lot of other areas.” - Richard Sandler Sandler, another California naHaas School of Business amidst tive who received his BS in busitheir rigorous commitments to ness administration cum laude in their teams. 1970, Intercollegiate Athletics was not the gateway through “It’s a big deal for any of the athletes to get a degree from Cal which the Sandlers’ support for Cal got started, nor was hav- in any area,” Mr. Sandler said. “Whether they get a degree in ing their names etched in stone among fellow seven-figure do- business or economics, engineering or the social sciences, it’s nors an impetus for their giving. “We’re proud to be designated impressive.” Builders of Berkeley and receive that recognition, but that was That achievement is at the heart of the Sandlers’ not the reason,” Richard said. support for the University. “Cal is much more important to “If you look at the list, we all share a commitment to a world- me as an outstanding academic institution than as an athletic class University that has benefitted us and we’re all very for- institution,” Richard said. “I believe it benefits everybody if tunate that we’re in a position to try to help sustain that excel- you can achieve in both areas, and it’s a real tribute to our lence so that others can benefit the same way we did.” student-athletes when they become true students and succeed. Obviously, a seven-figure commitment is not required to Athletics is a very important part of the student experience and support Cal Athletics or any other area of the University. The the alumni experience. It brings people to the University. It crelevel sustainable in each individual’s case is the core principle ates pride and it gives the opportunity to those who are particiin a culture of giving, and Mr. Sandler has seen the hallmarks of pating in athletics to learn about time management, teamwork, that culture in the Office of Athletic Development and through- discipline and a lot of other areas, so I consider athletics out the University. important for a number of reasons.” “Looking at the giving numbers the last 10 to 15 years, how As we conclude our series of articles to celebrate the Buildthey’ve grown and how they compare to both public and pri- ers of Berkeley, everyone in Intercollegiate Athletics continues vate universities, clearly the University and the community forward with gratitude and inspiration from supporters in all have done an outstanding job of overcoming that perception areas of campus life, with particular appreciation for those that the state owes us something,” Mr. Sandler said. “The idea who have identified the student-athlete experience and its of giving back and maintaining excellence has been well com- power to raise spirits and activate the entire community to municated, both to alums and non-alums.” keep our University’s excellence intact and evolving. fall 2013
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unning through the bedrock of support for the University are the Builders of Berkeley, who have in each case donated $1 million or more to Cal. Many of these generous donors support Cal athletics in a significant way. Listed below are those who have given at least $50,000 of their University lifetime contributions to Intercollegiate Athletics. Across the board, these individuals and families recognize the importance of the student-athlete experience for the well-rounded individual, the merits of Athletics as a pillar in pursuit of excellence and the vital role Intercollegiate Athletics plays in the spirit of the University of California. We thank these donors, listed here alphabetically, for their vital support and apologize for the incomplete list that accompanied Part I of this three-part story in the spring issue of Cal Sports Quarterly.
CALIFORNIA ATHLETICS BUILDERS OF BERKELEY
The Ralph E. and Marla H. Andersen Family Trudy L. and William F. Ausfahl Mel and Vera Bacharach Barbara and Gerson Bakar Dado and Maria Banatao Dwight and Nancy Barker Kathy and Frank Baxter Richard H. and Carolyn P. Beahrs Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Kenneth E. and Patricia R. Behring Robert B. Beim and Nancy C. Beim Richard C. Blum and Dianne Feinstein William E. Brown and Sharon Bonner-Brown Robert L. and Alice M. Bridges Barbara Burnham Bryan Cameron Beverly B. and Arlington C. Charter Alice V. and Michael N. Chetkovich Natalie Cohen John E. Cook Jr. and Sandra G. Cook Kathleen G. Correia and Stephen A. Evans Paul and Judith Cortese Janet M. and William F. Cronk Frithjof Jon and Ellen Giusti Dale Milt and Carol David Frederick J. and Kathi De Grosz The J. DeBenedetti Family Wiiliam S. and Mary Jane Detwiler Patricia L. and James W. Dieterich Jr. James K. and Jean S. Dobey Shannon M. Drew and Marilyn Shehan Drew Roger C. Dunn and Lou Curtice Dunn Marji and Phil Dunn David R. Eckles and Allene H. Wong David J. and Jane Epstein Robert J. and Christine Feibusch Doris and Donald G. Fisher The William S. Floyd Jr. Family William F. and Grace H. Ford Donna and Gary Freedman David A. Friedman and Paulette J. Meyer Phyllis K. and Howard A. Friedman John Burdette Gage and Linda Schacht Gage Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe Douglas E. and Lisa M. Goldman
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Richard N. and Rhoda H. Goldman John L. and Margaret B. Gompertz Elizabeth Marsteller Gordon Stuart M. Gordon Frederick L. and Roberta O. Greenlee Glenn and Robin W. Gulvin Evelyn D. and Walter A. Haas Jr. Peter E. and Mimi Haas Colleen and Robert D. Haas Elise S. and Walter A. Haas Michelle and Cyrus Hadidi The William W. Halford Jr. Family Jean H. and Will C. Hall The Harry and Betsy Hathaway Family Clarence E. Heller The Hellman Family The Leo and Florence Helzel Family William A. and Sally M. Hewlett Clifford H. and Judith D. Higgerson Ken and Jean Hofmann Russell D. and Lydia P. Hogan Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday Preston B. and Maurine M. Hotchkis James V. and Betty R. Huhn Grant and Suanne Inman Judith Woolsey Isaac Stacy and Paul Jacobs Jeffrey A. and Deni D. Jacobs The Stephen F. Keller and Sarah Mage Keller Family Dolorous and Kenneth C. Knight Mary Dee Artal Karp Daniel E. and Yvonne C. Koshland James M. and Catherine P. Koshland The Marian E. and Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Family Robert J. Lalanne and Millicent C. Lalanne Doris S. and Theodore B. Lee Georgia Lee Edward H. and Lynn B. Little Irving and Shirley Loube William and Iona Main Ora Main-Geyer Brian L. and Jennifer A. Maxwell Ross and Irma G. McCollum Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Janet A. McKinley George A. Miller Laurie Cockburn Morrison
Richard H. Morrison Clara B. and Daniel B. Mulholland Noel W. and Penelope B. Nellis S. Victor and Leta H. Nelson Kent and Patricia Newmark Robert G. and Sue Douthit O’donnell David H. and Phyrne M. Osborne Lisle and Roslyn Payne Lawrence E. and Mary Peirano The Edward H. and Barbara B. Peterson Family William V. Power Kenneth B. Rawlings Linda Erickson Rawlings David L. Redo and Judy L. Redo In Sik and Isabel Rhee The Tahir Family Helen Wills Roark T. Gary and Kathleen Rogers Richard V. and Ellen Sandler Frank J. and Mary Schlessinger Betty H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons Barclay and Sharon Simpson Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Barbara C. and Larry W. Sonsini Carol and Warren E. Spieker Jr. Catherine and Tod Spieker Richard and Lisa Steiny Paul H. Stephens and Elle Mcadam Stephens John P. Stock Cleo C. and Robert A. Stoker The Katharine Wallace Thompson Family John L. and Margaret P. Tormey Michael and Nancy Torres Charles N. and Elizabeth H. Travers Charles T. and Louise H. Travers Catherine M. and Eugene E. Trefethen Jr. Tomas S. Vanasek Paul and Linda White Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Robert W. Witter and Marilyn A. Witter The Witter Family Douglas H. and Jane E. Wolf
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partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in San Francisco, where he focuses on matters related to patent and intellectual property law, Daniel Johnson received his Bachelor of Arts with honors in political science from the University in 1970, after which his earned his Juris Doctor from Yale in 1973. One of Johnson’s favorite moments in Cal history occurred on Jan. 25, 1986, in Harmon Gymnasium, where the men’s basketball team beat UCLA, 75-67, to end a 52-game losing streak against the Bruins. Twenty-six months earlier, on Nov. 20, 1982, Johnson witnessed The Play at Memorial Stadium, where the sound of the cannon after the miraculous touchdown sequence finished by Kevin Moen, and the screams of joy that followed, endure as two more unforgettable memories. Today, Johnson continues to enjoy football games from a pair of Field Club seats secured through the Endowment Seat Program at the renovated Memorial Stadium, where, he said, “The seating and amenities are great. I’m always excited by the new season and hope that ‘Bear Raid’ rules the Pac 12 this year.”
Johnson cites Cal Athletics for its ability “to allow generations of Bears to connect and retain a shared feeling of excitement and enthusiasm,” two emotions that can become very high-strung in the Johnson household, which includes two Southern California graduates and another from UC Santa Barbara among his children. “My greatest humiliation was being forced to wear a Trojan hat after Cal lost at SC in 2004,” Johnson recalled of football’s six-point defeat at the hands of USC that season. That punishment came one year after another of his favorite moments against the Trojans in 2003. “My children refused to return my phone call after the triple overtime victory at Cal,” he said.
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Driven to Be an All-American
Kelsey Santisteban Leads Cal Cross Country into 2013 Season By Doug Drabik
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o achieve All-American status in the sport of cross country, competitors must be among the top 40 finishers in the NCAA Championships, representing the best of the best in collegiate running. Cal junior Kelsey Santisteban has one goal in mind and that is to achieve the prestigious honor while leading the Golden Bears to the national meet this fall.
In two decorated seasons so far in Berkeley, Santisteban has been among the finest in school history and has reached the prestigious NCAA meet both years. Santisteban’s emergence as a standout on the national level, coupled with the absence of a senior on the 2013 roster, has elevated the junior into a leadership role for the Bears this fall. Now, she has targeted becoming the 11th Golden Bear All-American in the sport since 1981. “We are looking for her to lead the younger athletes,” director of track & field and head cross country coach Tony Sandoval said. “She made a great transition from her freshman to her sophomore year, and she was a great role model for the freshmen last season to push them to come in and compete to reach the next level.”
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Santisteban finished among the top-10 in each of her races leading up to the NCAA Championships last season, including an eighth-place performance in the NCAA Regionals to earn a berth in the national meet. It was a top-10 performance at the prestigious Wisconsin adidas Invitational last October that really set the stage for the Golden Bear’s breakout season. “After the Wisconsin race last year, I really felt like I could run with all the top girls from around the country,” Santisteban explained. “I remember going there as a freshman and the coaches saying this meet is like nationals, it is the best of the best. I came out of that meet with a lot confidence that I can be a top competitor nationally.” While a 70th-place finish at last year’s NCAA
meet in Louisville, Ky., wasn’t indicative of her season last fall, she looks back on it as a learning experience. “It was different than the previous year because I was competing as an individual last year,” Santisteban said. “It was good to get experience as both an individual and with a team at nationals so I know what to change and how I want to do things this year.” Santisteban’s overall experience in the world of competitive running began in eighth grade as her career in soccer, ironically, came to an abrupt end. Growing up in nearby Castro Valley, her father had competed in several marathons and running was an important part of his daily routine. Her older sister took up the sport in high school and enjoyed success as part of the Castro Valley High School cross country and track & field squads. At the time, Kelsey Santisteban had played soccer with the same group for several years and competitive running had yet to enter the picture. “I was always a soccer player and didn’t care about running early on,” Santisteban said. “Then, in eighth grade, the soccer team broke up so I decided to join the cross country and track team and follow my sister on the team.” Santisteban enjoyed immediate success in the sport, placing fifth in the state in the 5,000 meters and winning several meets along the way in high school before qualifying for the Nike national meet as a senior. Located less than 20 miles from their home in Castro Valley, the Cal campus was Santisteban’s first stop on her college recruiting tour. It was also her last. “There was something about Cal … the people, the team,” Santisteban said. “They were so welcoming and I liked the environment from the beginning. I really felt like I fit in here. The academics were a big part of my decision as well, and I knew Cal was the place for me.” The now junior is majoring in integrative biology and is eyeing a career in sports medicine down the road. For now, however, it is her own health that is paramount, and she has developed a routine along with her coaches to maintain a good balance of running along with a proper rest and recovery period. Her summer schedule included a morning run and a late afternoon/early evening run each day – an adventure she would enjoy with her father most of the time near Lake Chabot. “I would wake up and run, come back and eat and relax, then run in the evening right before dinner,” Santisteban said. “It was important to space my runs at least four hours apart. For my long runs, my dad biked with me which was great. He provided great motivation each time.”
The only break in her routine included one day off every two weeks. The junior is quick to point out one of her favorite cravings post run or on her day away is Yogurt Park in Berkeley. “Don’t let her tiny figure fool you,” assistant head coach Shayla Houlihan said with a laugh. “She has been known to take down one of those huge Yogurt Park treats.” Houlihan also noted, however, Santisteban has become a role model and followed in the footsteps of former Cal standout Deborah Maier, a twotime All-American in 2010 and ’11. “She takes her running very seriously, but she has developed a good balance outside of running similar to Deborah,” Houlihan added. “Kelsey was already a mature student-athlete, but after having a summer away from her, I have noticed a new sense of determination from her. In the past, she maybe worked too hard sometimes and wouldn’t recover as much as she needed to do. She went from killing herself to knowing what recovery period is good and is now becoming that team leader.” Sandoval credits her consistency as her strongest asset on the course. “If we look historically, I don’t think anyone has – Cross Country been as consistent this young in their career,” Sandoval said. “She is very focused and very disciplined. She is a self-starter and in many ways she is pretty easy to coach.” As the Bears begin their 2013 campaign, it is Santisteban who is expected to lead the way and reach new heights. “She is such a driven individual,” Houlihan said. “To do anything less than her best is not an option in her head. She is running for some big things.” When asked in July what her expectations were for herself for the upcoming season, Santisteban had a simple answer, “All-American, I want that so bad.”
“If we look historically, I don’t think anyone has been as consistent this young in their career. She is very focused and very disciplined. She is a self-starter and in many ways she is pretty easy to coach.” Coach
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The Fine Art of Volleyball Adrienne Gehan Provides a Unique Perspective to Her Leadership Role By Jonathan Okanes
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he next time you see Adrienne Gehan keep her cool after an opponent has reeled off a few points in a row, you’ll haveartists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Johannes Vermeer to thank.
Cal’s senior outside hitter has a way of keeping the peace in any situation on and off the volleyball court, and much of that comes from spending a lot of her childhood in art museums all over the world. Gehan’s mother, Caroline, was born in Holland and lived there until age 13. As Adrienne and her brother and sister were growing up, the Gehan family took month-long summer trips to visit Holland and other countries throughout Europe. Gehan learned to love the serenity of art museums. Evaluating a painting for extended periods of time also instilled her with a tremendous dose of patience. “It was always funny to see Adrienne just staring at things while her brother and sister would just run from painting to painting,” Caroline said. “She loved art at a very young age.” Caroline said that as early as age 8, Adrienne could spend an entire day in an art museum and be perfectly content. Adrienne says she can easily spend 30-60 minutes just staring at a painting. “I think I’ve appreciated that you really do start to see new things the longer you stand in front of something,” said Gehan, who is double-majoring in art history and history. “You really do notice things that you didn’t notice in the first 10 minutes. I think I’m a very patient person.” As Gehan moves into a leadership role this season – she’s the only player left from Cal’s 2010 team that advanced to the NCAA title match – her calm nature should pay dividends. While Gehan may not be the fieriest player, there is something to be said for keeping a level head in any situation. “I think it’s big for a team leader,” Cal coach Rich Feller said. “If someone makes a mistake, she doesn’t put more pressure on them by her look or her attitude or even by her words. Adrienne is like that with herself. She doesn’t show her own frustrations very clearly. When she is playing well, it looks very similar to when she is not playing well.” While Gehan was drawing pictures of flowers at a young age, at times it didn’t appear she had the athletic acumen as well. Caroline saved boxes of Adrienne’s artwork because she truly believed her daughter would become a successful artist someday. But a successful athlete? Not so much when she was younger. At around age 9, Gehan expressed an interest in taking tennis lessons. But after three days, all the instructor could do with her was have her bounce the ball on the ground and catch it over and over again.
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“He said, ‘I can’t do anything with her,’” Caroline said. “She had zero hand-eye coordination. He said it probably sounds like it’s wasting our time and money, but she had to first learn how to bounce the ball and catch it.” As Gehan and her older sister, Lindsay, grew tall, volleyball became an intriguing option as a sport. Lindsay went on to play at the University of Georgia while Adrienne came to Cal as one of the top recruits in the country. “I was super-uncoordinated,” Gehan said. “My mom always told everyone that my brother and sister were the athletic children and I was the artistic one. I’m good at volleyball, but that’s about it.” It was apparent immediately at Cal just how good Gehan is at her chosen sport. She became a starter as a freshman and was a big factor “I really feel like I in the Bears’ run through the NCAA haven’t even come Tournament. She was selected to close to reaching the Pac-10 All-Freshman team. my potential as a But all that promise has been vollåeyball player. stunted during the past two years You go into the because of injuries. She suffered office every day a dislocated ankle early on during and you see all of her sophomore season and missed a substantial chunk of time on the those people up sideline. Last season, Gehan missed on the wall, all three matches and played sparingly the All-Americans in four others with a knee injury. and the pictures. “There’s been a lot of frustration,” There’s nothing I Caroline said. “It’s been very tough want more than the past two years for her.” to have my picture After her freshman season, it up there.” looked as though Gehan was on – Adrienne track to become the next on an imGehan pressive list of All-American outside hitters who have played at Cal, such as Mia Jerkov, Angie Pressey, Hana Cutura and Tarah Murrey. Former Cal assistant coach Sam Crosson thought the same thing. “Sam pulled me into his office after freshman season and said, ‘That’s going to be you,’” Gehan said. “I think I was heading toward that before I dislocated my ankle. But things happen.” As one of just two seniors on this year’s roster – and the only one who has been at Cal for four years – Gehan enters the season as the Bears’ undisputed leader and featured player. Gehan yearns to have her picture up on the wall of Cal’s volleyball office along with the program’s greatest players.
Art has always been a big part of Adrienne Gehan’s life, whether it be the paintings she drew as a child or visiting museums in such places as Italy and France.
“I really feel like I haven’t even come close to reaching my full potential as a volleyball player,” Gehan said. “You go into the office every day and you see all of those people up on the wall, all the All-Americans and the pictures. There’s nothing I want more than to have my picture up there. I know I can be like those players. I know I can do better than I have been the past three years.” And Gehan knows her success won’t just be measured with her play. Having reached college volleyball’s biggest stage in 2010, she feels the responsibility to impart the wisdom she gained from that experience on her teammates. “I’ve never been on a more disciplined team,” Gehan said. “I know exactly what it takes to make it that far. It was an incredible experience. I could tell you exactly what it took that year.” When they hang that picture on the wall after she leaves Cal, Gehan hopes to be fully immersed in the art world. She’d like to earn her MBA with the hope of running a museum someday. “She’s really looking forward to her senior year. We’re just hoping and praying that she will stay healthy,” Caroline said. “We’re excited for the season to start.” fall 2013
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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Stabilizing Influence Allie Swartz’s Athletic and Academic Pursuits Have the Same Goal
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llie Swartz has made a name for herself as a stabilizing and protective entity on the Cal field hockey team.
A three-year starter at defender, the San Diego native has made a habit out of finding ways to keep the Bears on even footing while helping lead the team to a NorPac first-place regular-season finish in 2010 and NorPac Tournament championship in 2011. With that role on the field, it’s no wonder she chose to pursue earth sciences as a major – one that finds its roots in studying ways to keep the world stable. “I knew I wanted to do something environmental, and I just liked the applications of all the basic math that I grew up learning and then applying it to real things,” Swartz said of choosing her education path. In the midst of competing in her senior season for the field hockey team, Swartz Allie Swartz is currently researching graduate schools to continue her studies in her chosen concentration of paleoclimatology. She’s spent the past two years participating in labs, gathering information on rock sediments and isotopes to study changes in the earth’s climate. After working towards a Ph.D., Swartz will weigh her options as to what industry she will enter. As a member of the Geological Association of Berkeley, she is able to network with other students in the earth sciences program who preceded her to learn and gather ideas about different career paths. “I was always interested in environmental and earth sciences,” Swartz said. “There is a big opportunity here at Cal to do it, and Berkeley has a really good program for this. I never realized before I came here that I could study something that I wanted to like that. I came in on the environmental science track, which is a bit different, but when I found earth sciences, I knew that it was a really good program that I liked. The smaller department size and the professors make it really incredible.” As she gears up to complete her final collegiate season, Swartz looks forward to what has become the annual balance of playing at Maxwell Family Field and studying at McCone Hall. The Bears began camp in mid-August and host their first game of the season in Berkeley on Sept. 6 against Dartmouth. As she 34
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suits up beside her teammates for 18 more games, Swartz will always cherish the opportunity she had to be a student-athlete at Cal. “It’s been a really cool experience,” Swartz said. “It’s really busy, especially during the season. Thank goodness the professors are supportive. I feel like I’m learning all day long. You go to practice and learn, and then in class they teach you more. I really like it. I’m lucky to do both. I kind of play all morning and then go learn cool things in the afternoon.”
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Aspiring Business Student Graham Nesbit Continues a Family Tradition By Scott Ball
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he Nesbit family has set an example of academic and athletic excellence on the Berkeley campus for over 60 years, so it is not surprising Graham Nesbit has long been steeped in the tradition of Cal water polo.
Graham is the latest in the line of Nesbits to grace Spieker Aquatics Complex while studying at Cal. The junior attacker from La Canada, Calif., was Scholar-Athlete of the Year on Kirk Everist’s squad last season after sporting a 3.8 GPA, and now has a goal to enter Cal’s prestigious Haas School of Business in greatest influence on Graham. Andrew was Cal water polo’s the fall of 2014. “Attending the Haas School of Business would teach me top scholar-athlete with a 3.9 GPA, and was a member of the how to combine my business aspirations with my interest in Bears’ latest NCAA championship squad during the 2006-07 environmental issues,” Nesbit said. “In the summer of 2012, campaign. “I was motivated to come to Cal after hearing how much my my teammate Thomas Agramonte and I were driving up the coast to begin summer water polo training and started devel- brother had enjoyed himself,” Nesbit said. “Now that I have oping a business plan for an apparel company that would make been part of the water polo program for the last two years, it eco-friendly clothes and raise awareness of the need for ocean- has been my interactions with my teammates that had made it so worthwhile. I may have had the top GPA on the team last ic preservation.” The family’s love of the water began over 60 years ago with season, but I am not alone in that position. Our team is an intelGraham’s grandfather, Don Nesbit Sr., who was a Cal under- ligent and motivated group of guys who understand the value graduate and a member of the Bears’ swim team. Since his of getting an education at Cal. Coach Everist is a huge influence graduation with a business degree in 1947, Don Sr., now 91, in our academic success and instills in us an appreciation of all has regularly attended Cal water polo matches throughout the the opportunities available to us on campus.” “Graham is a hard-workpast six decades. ing young man in all aspects Uncle Don Jr. was the next of his life,” Everist explained. Nesbit to jump into the Cal “He has high standards and pool, lettering in swimming expectations for himself and in 1969 and in water polo in is willing to do the necessary 1971. Graham’s father, Scott, work to accomplish his goals. followed and became a fourHe has been a pleasure to year letterwinner in swimcoach and is a student-athlete ming, a 1975 All-American as who all of us should be very a member of the Bears’ 400 proud of.” free relay, and was part of For the Nesbits, Cal has Cal’s first-ever NCAA water been a major influence on polo champions in 1973. their lives for 60 years and Brother, Andrew, joined the Cal family in 2005, and Three generations of Nesbits have excelled with Cal Aquatics (L-R): father given Graham’s success, it should remain so for a long it was his experience on the Scott (‘75), brother Andrew (‘09), grandfather Don Sr. (‘47), and junior time to come. Berkeley campus that had the Graham. fall 2013
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MSOC vs. Washington WSOC vs. Arizona
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FB vs. Ohio State VB vs. Kansas State
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MTN vs. USTA National Team
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MSM vs. Indiana WSOC vs. USC
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MSOC vs. Colgate
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MGF in Alister MacKenzie Invitational
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Men’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion) Women’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion) Field Hockey (Maxwell Family Field) Football (Memorial Stadium) Men’s Golf (Sonoma Golf Club) Men’s Soccer (Edwards Stadium) Women’s Soccer (Edwards Stadium)
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MBB vs. Southern Utah
22
VB vs. Washington
24
VB vs. Washington State WBB vs. Northwestern
December 2
MBB vs. UC Irvine
7
WBB vs. Pacific
10
MBB vs. Nevada
14
MBB vs. Fresno State
15
WBB vs. CSU Bakersfield
MSOC vs. UCLA VB vs. UCLA
28
6
29
MSD vs. Stanford in Triple Distance Meet
MBB vs. Furman WBB vs. Lafayette College
8
MBB vs. Coppin State WBB vs. Long Beach State
9
FB vs. USC MWP vs. USC
10
WBB vs. Duke
12
MBB vs. Denver
14
MWP vs. Santa Clara
For a complete schedule, pick up a Cal schedule card at any home event or visit the official Cal website at CalBears.com.
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