The No. 20 Cal Poly volleyball team made program history in thrilling fashion Saturday evening, moving to 3-0 in Big West Conference play for the first time by virtue of a 30-20, 30-19, 20-30, 35-37, 17-15 win against Long Beach State at Walter Pyramid.
Cal Poly fought off two match points (14-12, 14-13) to tie the fifth set at 14-14 after a 49ers attack error and won the game, 17-15, on a block by Jaclyn Houston.
The Cal Poly women’s soccer team (6-4) snapped UC Davis’ six-game winning streak Friday afternoon, downing the Aggies 3-0 in Davis.
This is the first game this season that the Aggies (7-2) have been shutout.
Cal Poly freshman midfielder Morgan Miller scored her first goal of the season just 13 minuets, 56 seconds into the game when she tapped the ball over the goal line off of a pass from junior midfielder Erica Zumbahlen.
The Cal Poly women’s cross country team had a solid performance with a third place finish at the Stanford Invitational on Saturday.
Freshman Kimberly Donatelli led the Cal Poly contingent with a 13th-place time of 14 minutes, 56 seconds on the 5K course.
She was followed by classmate Alyssa Daw in 14th in 14:56.
Cattle ranchers throughout California will come to the Central Coast this weekend to buy Cal Poly’s bulls.
The event, Cal Poly’s 50th annual Field Day and Bull Sale, will be held Saturday and Sunday at the animal science department’s new Beef Center in Escuela Ranch, near Cuesta College.
The 1960 Cal Poly football team will receive an honorary induction into the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame.
On Friday, Cal Poly will host two campus events honoring the team and the unique legacy it brings to the history of the university.
A late-afternoon private ceremony will be held dedicating Mustang Memorial Plaza, a 15,000-square-foot space honoring the 18 members of the Cal Poly family who lost their lives in the tragic Oct.
After sitting out last week’s game at San Jose State with a sprained left ankle, Cal Poly sophomore tailback James Noble expects to play Saturday against visiting Southern Utah.
Noble has rushed for 250 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 6.1 yards per carry, in three games.
This year, 19 CSU students received the Hearst/CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement and one is a student right here at Cal Poly. Melissa O’Neal, 25, is a graduate student focused on plant protection sciences. The hardships she has gone through in her life earned her this award, which includes a scholarship of $3,000.
After living in Italy for over one month now, I have experienced a whole new way of life and in my time here, I have decided that Italians simply do it better. The approach to living in Italy is the absolute opposite from that in America and is something everyone should have the chance to experience.
I am sure I am not alone when I say that was another summer that went by way too fast. School has now officially started and I am sure everyone is excited to get back to the 5-10 hours a week of studying that Cal Poly recommends. Or was it 25-35 hours?
How far away are we from Thanksgiving break, like two months, right? Fall quarter isn’t the quarter where we get all those Mondays off, is it?
But seriously, my name is John Middlekauff and I’m here to wrap up what’s going on in sports around the country.
As mind numbing as Cal Poly academic life can get, it’s nice to know that one can turn to the Internet for immediate stress relief. Seriously, what could be better than reading the latest “Yo’ momma” joke or watching some jackass try to launch a bottle rocket out his bum for an instantly amusing stress killer?
However if you’ve turned to the Internet as a Messiah for entertainment and escapism from the daily grind, where do you go to find a collection of the latest jokes, funny video clips, or simply a good read?
Chances are, if you have ever yearned to watch that “Dude gets kicked in the nuts” video then you’ve found your way over to the modicum of Web sites that bring you all things “viral media.
I did not go to my first local show until I was a year and a half into living in San Luis Obispo. Coming from Reno, it was hard to understand that anything worthwhile could come from a small town scene.
My mind quickly changed after shows featuring the Attractives, Mariee Sioux (of Brightblack Morning Light), the Louvre, and Midnight Shark Attack among others.