At the close of the 2008 season, the Cal Poly surf team has continued to improve upon the foundation that was laid by the club’s resurrection last year.
The club finished in the top 10 in the California division, and looks to improve upon that standing in national competition later this month.
Of USC and Cal Poly, which would you choose to attend? For tennis star Andre Dome, the decision was simple.
The Arroyo Grande High senior signed his letter of intent to play at Cal Poly in the fall on a full-ride scholarship – despite offers from USC, a program which has one 15 NCAA Division I men’s singles titles, in addition to Washington State and every Big West Conference school.
Though Cal Poly is known for its agriculture production and fields of fresh fruits and vegetables, there are fields on campus that can sometimes be forgotten – the sports fields. While strawberries are nice, they pale in comparison to the feeling of watching a ball game, peanuts in hand, cheering for the home team.
Cal Poly’s Sharon Day qualified in Wednesday’s women’s high jump preliminaries for Friday’s finals at the national outdoor track and field championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
The senior was one of 16 advancers to clear 5 feet, 9 _ inches – a mark she passed on her first attempt.
Cal Poly’s Sharon Day finished second Friday in the women’s high jump
at the collegiate outdoor track and field national championships at
Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
The senior cleared 6 feet, 1 ¬ inches – as did Arizona sophomore
Elizabeth Patterson and Auburn junior Raevan Harris – but did so on
her second attempt, one fewer than third-place Harris needed yet one
more than first-place Patterson.
Donovan Aird
Mustang Daily
Although an all-sports division may soon be added within the Great West, currently a football-only conference, such change likely wouldn’t directly impact Cal Poly, nor its four other football competitors, because new entrants almost certainly would be football-less, conference and school officials said Thursday.
Brent Morel and Logan Schafer have more and more in common these days.
They both just finished their junior seasons at Cal Poly, in which they both had batting averages of at least .365, with at least 45 RBI apiece.
And Thursday, they were both selected by teams from the Midwest in the third round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Despite a rough patch earlier this year, the Cal Poly men’s volleyball club team finished its season tied for fifth in nationals in April, its highest finish since placing ninth in 2004.
Additionally, four members were recognized as all-Americans.
“It was a great turnaround for us,” junior setter Brian Houlihan said.
This is the third of a three-part series about Cal Poly’s 2008 football schedule, the school’s on-hiatus rivalry with Sacramento State and the dwindling landscape of college football within California. George Allen told reporters the most rewarding season of his career wasn’t leading the Washington Redskins to Super Bowl VII in 1972, nor winning either of his NFL Coach of the Year honors, in 1967 and 1971.
The football rivalry between Cal Poly and Sacramento State makes almost too much sense.
Of the 125 teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), each is one of just four in California.
Both are available Oct. 11.
The only California State Universities left in the FCS played each other about evenly once a season for 20 years in a row beginning in 1983.
This is the first of a three-part series about Cal Poly’s 2008 football schedule, the school’s on-hiatus rivalry with Sacramento State and the increasingly dwindling landscape of college football within California. “It’s not that Cal Poly is bad,” Mike Huguenin opened with.