In expected fashion, Chad Mendes and Sharon Day were named Cal Poly’s 2007-08 Athletes of the Year on Tuesday night. Well deserved. Men nominated for the award included: Brent Morel (baseball), Titus Shelton (basketball), Phillip Reid (cross country), Ramses Barden…
Kline makes Olympic trials in 400 I.M.
Cal Poly’s Peter Kline qualified Friday at the Santa Clara International Meet for the Olympic trials in the 400-meter individual medley.
In prelims, the freshman from Fresno – who entered ranked 28th with a mark of 4 minutes, 35.77 seconds – touched the wall in 4:30.
A brand new Day — in video
Video of Sharon Day reaching the Olympic “A” standard in the women’s high jump at this past weekend’s Big West Conference Championships at Cal State Northridge surfaced on the Internet, at the Big West’s official Web site. She cleared 6…
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Day soars to new height, Olympic 'A' standard
Sharon Day finally found what she was looking for – or more specifically, the height.
The Cal Poly senior cleared 6 feet, 4 _ inches in the women’s high jump Saturday at the Big West Conference Championships at Cal State Northridge’s Matador Track Complex, not only winning the event, but meeting the Olympic “A” standard, making her dreams of competing at the 2008 Summer Games more of a reality.
Cal Poly rugby regroups
After defeating Army in the round of 16 and losing to Cal in the quarterfinals of the national championships, the Cal Poly rugby club team finished ranked sixth nationally by American Rugby News.
The Mustangs opened the National Guard Men’s Collegiate Championships in Albuquerque, N.
Mustangs swept by Long Beach State
Despite pulling within a run in the eighth inning, the Cal Poly baseball team could get no closer during its Senior Day Sunday afternoon at Baggett Stadium, falling 3-2 to Long Beach State, which completed a three-game, Big West Conference series sweep.
Cal Poly (23-30, 7-14) first got on the scoreboard and contributed to what would become the final margin when sophomore designated hitter Luke Yoder sent a two-RBI home run to left field.
Day leads Poly into end of BWC
Last weekend she made history, but Sharon Day isn’t content stopping there.
The Cal Poly senior broke the Big West Conference heptathlon record while winning the title May 10 at Cal State Northridge, lifting the Mustangs women to a 19-15 lead heading into the main events today and Saturday.
Ellerson: Perrilloux report not true
Contrary to a report of an Alabama newspaper, Cal Poly had no interest in former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, Cal Poly head coach Rich Ellerson said Thursday.
“That’s news to me,” Ellerson said of the Thursday report by The Anniston Star of Anniston, Ala.
Baseball, men's soccer programs penalized
The baseball and men’s soccer programs at Cal Poly each face a contemporaneous penalty of losing 64 percent of an athletic scholarship, the NCAA decreed through its Academic Progress Rate penalty summary released May 2.
According to school officials, baseball was operating with 11.
Cal Poly cycles through six pitchers, loses
For the second game in a row, the Cal Poly baseball team used six pitchers in a loss, as it fell 8-5 to Pepperdine in a non-conference game at Baggett Stadium on Tuesday night. Five of the Waves’ scores came in a decisive third inning, which was opened with catcher Trent Diedrich being hit by a pitch and rightfielder Donald Brown drawing a walk.