The Cal Poly football team was ranked sixth in the USA Today Sports Weekly College Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Preseason Top 25 released Monday.
The Mustangs will play three teams ranked in its top 14 this season, hosting No. 3 Montana and traveling to No.
As expected, the Great West Football Conference to which Cal Poly belongs officially announced Thursday its addition of an all-sports division.
Fourteen sports and six schools – Houston Baptist, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas-Pan American and Utah Valley – make up the division, Great West commissioner Ed Grom declared.
Racers zipped between cones with precision accuracy at the 2008 U.S. National Slalom Skateboarding Championships in Morro Bay last weekend.
At one point, a racer neared the finish and plowed through the remaining cones to beat his opponent. Fortunately for him, hitting cones did not count against him.
Although Cal Poly has not officially announced its volleyball schedule, other universities have released theirs, giving the Mustangs an early idea of where they stand.
The tentative slate is strong, Cal Poly head coach Jon Stevenson said, featuring home matches against Stanford and Nebraska.
One of the state’s best prep high jumpers, also the starting quarterback for an undefeated CIF-San Diego Section Division I football champion, has committed to compete in both sports at Cal Poly this year.
Tynan Murray of Poway High School will partake in track and field on a scholarship, and has been invited as a walk-on in football.
Former Cal Poly standout Sharon Day qualified Friday night in the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. for the U.S. Olympic team in the women’s high jump.
“It feels amazing,” Day said in a statement. “It’s kind of like a dream.
Cal Poly may not be getting any new competition in one of its conferences, but it could soon be in another.
Despite an apparent invitation to a pending all-sports division about to be added within the larger umbrella of the Great West Football Conference, football-less Cal State Bakersfield will likely hold out and try to eventually join the Big West Conference in coming years, a school official said Tuesday.
Nearly two weeks ago, Sharon Day missed her graduation ceremony. She was OK with that, though, because she can soon qualify for another ceremony – at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Day finished her Cal Poly career June 13 by placing second in the women’s high jump at the national collegiate outdoor track and field championships in Des Moines, Iowa – parts of which were being overwhelmed by flooding.
Imagine you are watching television when you see shocking footage of an athlete’s death. Not only do you see it once, but you are then shown replays of the death highlighting all camera angles so that we may see the exact moment the person died.
On Saturday, the death of Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta was the latest in a string of incidents in which athletes’ deaths were broadcast for the world to see.
Although the Cal Poly baseball season ended May 25, many Mustangs are in the midst of playing in summer collegiate leagues across the country.
Former Mustangs Brent Morel, Logan Schafer, Derrick Saito and Brian Grening, who have all already signed professional contracts, are also playing summer baseball, after being chosen in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft from June 5-6.
Former Cal Poly standout Sharon Day advanced Monday evening to Friday’s women’s high jump finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
She cleared 5 feet, 10 « inches and 5-11 «, both on first attempts.
Also advancing to the finals were nine others who cleared 5-11 «, and four more at 5-10 « – all on first attempts.