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FALL 2013
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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men's basketball ead coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s Bears return three starters and seven letterwinners from last season’s Pac-12 regular-season champion and NCAA Final Four participant team that went 32-4 overall and 17-1 in conference play. Although Cal lost WNBA selection Layshia Clarendon and 1,000-1,000 club member Talia Caldwell, key members of the squad include All-American Gennifer Brandon, All-Pac-12 selection Brittany Boyd, Afure Jemerigbe and Reshanda Gray. Gray spent part of her summer competing for the United States at the World University Games. Additionally, Cal welcomes four newcomers in a recruiting class that was ranked in the Top 25 by every major service. Joining the Bears are Hind Ben Abdelkader, Mercedes Jefflo, Courtney Range and KC Waters. The season opens on Nov. 8 against Long Beach State, and the schedule includes marquee matchups against Duke at Haas Pavilion on Nov. 10 and a trip to Madison Square Garden to take on national champion UConn.
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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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