Cal Sports Quarterly - Winter 2009-10

RELAY RACES Cal’s Success Helped Bears to 2009 NCAA Title

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CONTENTS

On the cover

SPORTS

QUARTERLY

WINTER 2009-10 DEPARTMENTS LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS.............. 2 SIDELINE REPORT........................... 4

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?............. 16

Relay Races With a victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay last March, the Cal women’s swimming & diving team secured its first national crown. The fact that the title was determined by a relay should come as no surprise to followers of Golden Bear swimming. For years, Cal has been one of the top relay teams in the country.

2009-10 WINTER SEASON PREVIEWS....................... 18 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS........ 34 WINTER HOME EVENTS CALENDAR...................... 36

FEATURES

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Overcoming the Odds

Courting Leadership

Jerome Randle is living proof that sometimes the smallest man on the court has the biggest heart. The senior guard may not have the most intimidating credentials listed on the roster sheet, but his in-game capabilities have made him a force in the Pac-10 and across the country.

Lauren Greif has always been the round ’em up and get ’em organized kind of leader. Now in her third year as a captain for the Cal women’s basketball team, Greif has become even more active for a squad that features more newcomers than veterans.

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Golden Griggs

Boys Everlasting

The first member of his immediate family to attend college, Jim Griggs started a tradition of true-blue Bears. Now, Griggs and his children, Lorene and Chris, not only have Cal degrees, they remain supportive of their alma mater just as they continue to be nourished by their Cal experiences.

They’ve been uncommonly successful in their endeavors on and off the football field with something very special in common. They are Pappy’s Boys, and they continue to dedicate themselves to maintaining friendships and supporting the Golden Bears more than 50 years after their final snap.

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Swimming Odyssey

National Caliber

For Sean Mahoney, who represented the United States at the World University Games in Serbia over the summer, his successes at Cal have been part of a journey that has taken the talented swimmer from a small cattle ranch in northern California to the near the top of the world stage.

With 29 individual NCAA titles and four national team crowns, the Cal men’s gymnastics program exudes excellence and tradition. That amount of Golden Bear history could be intimidating for any talented gymnast, but for junior allarounder Kyle Bunthuwong, it makes a perfect fit.

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LETTER

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Dear Friend of Cal Athletics:

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eing a student-athlete at the University of California requires an unparalleled level of dedication and discipline. Not only are our Golden Bears expected to succeed on a national level in athletic competition – where they clearly do! – but they are also challenged every day in the classroom alongside some of the brightest minds our country has to offer.

With the release of the latest NCAA graduation success data in November, all of us can stand up and give a hearty “Go Bears!” The latest figures show that Cal student-athletes achieved a four-year average graduation rate of 80 percent – their highest since the NCAA began compiling such numbers – and four points higher than last year.

Perhaps more impressive was that the most recent class to be included in the numbers (the 2002 freshmen) posted an 82 percent graduation rate, up a full 12 percent from the 2001 class.

Two of our teams – women’s golf and women’s gymnastics – reported perfect 100 percent graduation rates, with six others at 85 percent or higher. Our football team’s graduation rate jumped 11 percent from last year, with the incoming 2002 freshmen – coach Tedford’s first class of recruits – showing an 18 percent increase from their 2001 predecessors.

These statistics are clearly the result of hard work by our student-athletes, as well as the dedicated efforts of the support system created by our coaches, staff and professors. And as with all of our endeavors, we believe we can always do better.

As we head into the New Year, we are certainly focused on our financial environment, and like many of you, we are challenged to manage a difficult situation. The economic troubles that confront our University are daunting and finding solutions to them will require the best efforts of our students, faculty, staff and members of the community.

As you may be aware, the University’s Academic Senate recently forwarded to the Chancellor a resolution passed by 91 faculty members recommending that Intercollegiate Athletics become financially self-sufficient. Although Chancellor Birgeneau has expressed his support for our department, he is going to take the senate’s vote very seriously. We are working closely with the campus administration to develop a plan to reduce our reliance on campus funds.

However, I do believe that Intercollegiate Athletics is worthy of a level of institutional support and offers great value to the University, not only to our more than 800 student-athletes, but to our entire campus and to a community of thousands of alumni who remain connected to the campus through Athletics. We are very proud of the fact that we have a robust, energetic and diverse program that features 27 sports programs.

Given the circumstances, this is the moment for us to step back and take a good look at how we do business. Many examples of creative and cutting-edge thinking are already underway in our department, with the Endowment Seating Program and the High Performance Initiative being two outstanding examples. ESP will provide stabilization to our financial future and the HPI will give our student-athletes and coaches the tools to maximize performance both in the classroom and in our athletic venues. It will take this kind of innovation, imagination and willingness to contemplate change to see us successfully through the days ahead.

We all know that Athletics is an integral part of teaching and learning on campus, but these are difficult economic times and hard decisions will have to be made. We have much to be proud of, and all of us will be called upon to demonstrate leadership and commitment in order for our great university to sustain our level of academic and athletic excellence.

As always, we will work diligently to make 2010 the best year in our history! We appreciate your passionate support of the Bears, and wish you and your family a healthy and happy holiday season.

Go Bears,

Sandy Barbour Director of Athletics

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WINTER 2009-10 ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: Sandy Barbour DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: Steve Holton DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS/SWA: Teresa Kuehn Gould SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/I NTERCOLLEGIATE SERVICES: Foti Mellis HIGH PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR: Keith Power EDITORIAL STAFF 349 Haas Pavilion Berkeley, CA 94720 EDITOR: Herb Benenson CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Scott Ball, Dean Caparaz, Melissa Dudek, Anton Malko, Kyle McRae, Tim Miguel, Anna Oleson-Wheeler, Jeremy Wu DESIGN: Evan Kerr PHOTOGRAPHY: John Todd (www.goldenbearsports.com), Michael Pimentel, Kelley Cox, Peter Bick, John Dunbar, Evan Kerr, and Molly McClure, among others ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE 195 Haas Pavilion Berkeley, CA 94720 510-642-2427 bearback@berkeley.edu ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE (800) GO BEARS For daily updates on Cal Athletics, including schedules, press releases and player profiles, visit the department’s official website at www.

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ON THE COVER Traditionally, Cal women’s swimming has been one of the top teams in the country when it comes to relays, and they were a key reason the Bears won the 2009 NCAA title. This year’s squad features four returning swimmers who were on a winning relay last season (from left): Erica Dagg, Hannah Wilson, Liv Jensen and Sara Isakovic.

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SIDELINE REPORT Rugby’s Return to 2016 Olympics Harks Back to Golden Days at 1920 and ’24 Games

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ugby, the oldest intercollegiate sport on the California campus entering its 128th season, has an Olympic history that will reawaken with its return to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro, bringing to 22 the number of Cal’s intercollegiate athletic programs for men and women that correspond with medal sports at the Olympics.

Twelve nations will qualify for Olympic rugby competition – using a seven-a-side, 14-minutematch format ideal for the roughly two-week event – with medals for both men and women. If the qualifying ended today, the USA would likely have both genders in the Olympic mix. The U.S. men’s national sevens team finished 11th in the 2008-09 World Series, while the U.S. women won the illustrious Hong Kong Sevens in 2008 and advanced to the Cup semifinals at the first World Series for women in ’09.

The United States would enter the ’16 Olympic Games as the reigning champion. And it would be no surprise if Cal players earned spots on the roster that travels to Rio. Cal’s Charlie Tilden, Matt Hazeltine Sr., Red Meigan, George Dixon, C. “Babe” Slater and future Bears rugby coach Ed “Mush” Graff were among the

The 1920 gold medalwinning USA rugby team featured six Golden Bears.

Americans who stunned their European opponents and audiences at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, beating France, 8-0, for the gold medal; and again at the ’24 Games in Paris, defeating Romania, 39-0, to advance to the final, where the Americans beat France once more, 17-3, for the gold.

“We have worked for many years on rugby reentering the Olympic Games and this gives all of us great pride in our sport,” Cal head coach Jack Clark said. “Our University will no doubt have rugby Olympians once again, and that’s not only a prediction, it’s fun to say.”

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alifornia has been tabbed by the media as the favorite to win the Pac-10 title this season, and Golden Bear fans have the opportunity to follow the team all the way through the conference tournament in March.

Single-game tickets for the Pac-10 home schedule are available now, while supplies last. Join the Bears for every exciting game at Haas Pavilion.

All-session passes are also on sale for the Pac-10 Tournament held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles March 10-13.

To order your tickets, call the Cal Athletic Ticket Office at (800) GO BEARS, or go online and print at home through the tickets link at CalBears.com.

Men’s Basketball Pac-10 Home Schedule Jan. 2 Stanford Jan. 6 UCLA Jan. 9 USC Jan. 21 Oregon Jan. 23 Oregon State Feb. 11 Washington Feb. 13 Washington State Feb. 25 Arizona Feb. 27 Arizona State

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very Pac-10 women’s basketball weekend game is Cal Kids Day, where all youth tickets are only $1 (12th grade and younger). Take part in all the pregame activities one-and-a-half hours prior to tipoff: face painting, poster making and the inflatable jump house, plus appearances by the Cal Band, dance team, Oski and much more. There will also be a postgame autograph session with the Golden Bears. For tickets, call (800) GO BEARS or log onto CalBears.com.

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al and Nevada have announced a new three-game series in football, with Golden Bears traveling to Reno on Sept. 18, 2010, and the Wolf Pack making two return visits to Berkeley on dates still to be determined.

Cal and Nevada will resume a rivalry that featured regular games between the schools early in the 1900s, but they have met only once since 1945, a 33-15 Golden Bear victory in 1996. Overall, Cal leads the series, 29-2-1.

The contract with Nevada completes Cal’s 2010 slate with a non-conference portion that includes foes UC Davis and Colorado both coming to Memorial Stadium. Fans should note that several dates on previously published 2010 football schedules are expected to change to incorporate bye weeks into the calendar. Check CalBears.com for updates as they become available.

In addition to the teams on the ’10 schedule, the Bears have signed contracts with several other non-conference opponents for home-and-home series, notably Ohio State (away in 2012, home in 2013), Northwestern (home in 2013, away in 2014) and Texas (away in 2015, home in 2016).

NCAA Tournament Returns to Haas Pavilion

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he NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament will be back at Haas Pavilion when Cal hosts first- and second-round games March 20 and 22, 2010.

And if the Golden Bears, who were ranked as high as 13th in preseason polls this season, return to the field for a fifth consecutive year, they will be seeded in the Berkeley draw.

Two games will be played March 20, with the winners meeting on March 22 and the victor advancing to the Sweet 16.

Last year, Cal hosted the regional round of the NCAA Tournament and attracted more than 11,000 fans despite the fact the Bears were competing in a separate regional more than 3,000 miles away. Cal hopes to be able to use its home court advantage this time around.

All-session tickets good for all three games at the NCAA first and second rounds are now available through the Cal Athletic Ticket Office, running $35 for sideline chairback seats, $25 for sideline bench seats, $20 for end zone adult bench seats, and $10 for both youth and senior bench seats in the end zone.

For more information about the NCAA Tournament games in Berkeley, visit CalBears.com/ncaa2010.

Holding the Stanford Axe, Kevin Riley celebrates the 2009 Big Game victory with Cal fans.

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ymnast Kyson Bunthuwong, who finished fourth in the all-around as a senior at last year’s NCAA championships, has received a Pac-10 “Living the Dream” scholarship, becoming the fourth Golden Bear to claim the honor since its inception in 2002.

An international political economy major, Bunthuwong plans to use the $3,000 award to attend graduate school and study global management with a focus on global development.

During his Cal career, he was a four-time allconference scholar-athlete, was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and spent many hours volunteering with Cal’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. A final- Kyson Bunthuwong ist for the 2009 Nissen-Emery Award, which is presented to the national gymnast of the year, Bunthuwong also earned All-America honors twice for the Bears.

Previous winners of the Pac-10 scholarship from Cal are Walter Chun (golf, 2002), Caleb Kirk (gymnastics, 2007) and Justin Pollard (swimming, 2008).

O’Toole Purcell to Receive NCAA Silver Anniversary Honor

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aureen O’Toole Purcell, Cal’s first women’s water polo coach when the Golden Bears’ program became a varsity sport in 1996 and one of the sport’s legendary players, will be honored by the NCAA with a Silver Anniversary Award on Jan. 15, 2010, during the NCAA Convention in Atlanta.

The award is presented to six distinguished student-athletes each year on the 25th anniversary of the end of their intercollegiate athletics eligibility.

Considered by many to be the greatest women’s water polo player of all time, Maureen O’Toole Purcell was a 15O’Toole Purcell time U.S. MVP, a six-time World MVP and a four-time national Sportswoman of the Year as named by the U.S. Olympic Committee. As the head coach of the Bears from 1996-98, her squads finished as national runners-up all three years, combining for an 83-18 overall record.

O’Toole Purcell rejoined the Cal women’s water polo program as a volunteer assistant coach for Richard Corso in 2007. She resides in Danville with her husband Jim, a three-time All-American at Cal and a key member of the 1975 and 1977 NCAA championship water polo squads, and her 18-year-old daughter, Kelly, one of the nation’s top high school players who has signed a letter of intent to be a member of the Cal women’s water polo team next season.

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Syd’Quan Thompson Honored by NCAS for Academic Improvement

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al senior cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson has been named one of 22 national winners of the Academic Momentum Award as part of the ScholarBaller® Program, in conjunction with the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS).

Thompson is a social welfare major scheduled to graduate in May 2010. After Syd’Quan Thompson a period on academic probation following his first year at Cal, his GPA improved to 2.995 during the spring of 2009.

Thompson has also devoted much of his time to community service and public engagements.

Through his major, he has worked with disadvantaged and homeless youth, and has also been involved with a Martinez school system program that brings disadvantaged children to the Berkeley campus, with the focus being to introduce kids to the idea that they can attend Cal. In addition, Thompson has worked at a homeless dinner sponsored by the Newman Church on campus, where he plays with kids while their parents eat a meal provided by the church.

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Relay Races Golden Bears Excellence Creates a Strong Sense of Pride and Tradition

By Herb Benenson

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ith one swimming event remaining at the 2009 NCAA championships at in being on a relay,” head coach Teri McTexas A&M’s Student Rec Center Natatorium last March 21, California Keever said. “In our culture, it’s an honor held a slim one-point lead over Georgia in the race for the team title. All and a responsibility. It’s more than just you. that stood between the Golden Bears and their first national crown was the 400- You are truly representing the team.”

For some, such as Dagg, just making a yard freestyle relay.

The tactic clearly worked. Not only relay is an objective that can often eclipse Finish ahead of the Bulldogs, and the banner would be raised in Berkeley. A loss, did Cal beat Georgia by three places, the personal acclaim.

“My main goal was to get on one of the and Cal would have to settle for second Bears set a U.S. Open record with a time of 3:09.11, nearly a second and a half ahead relays,” Dagg said. “It was a driving point place.

But before the swimmers could enter of runner-up Stanford. More importantly, for me. That got me through my hard practhe pool one last time, the platform div- the quartet of Hannah Wilson, Liv Jensen, tices, always that end point of being on ing competition was on the schedule, an Dagg and Dana Vollmer sealed the national one of the relays. Everyone on this team is fast. There are seven or eight girls all event that would have no effect on the final team championship for Cal. The fact that the title was determined by a within a tenth of a second who could be team score. So instead of stepping up to the blocks right away to settle the outcome, Cal, relay should come as no surprise to follow- on the relay.”

Georgia and the other relay squads waited 45 minutes for the start of their race.

With so much on the line, such a delay “I think there’s a lot of pride on the could have caused havoc on fragile nerves. team in being on a relay. In our culture, The Bears, though, found their own unique way to relax. it’s an honor and a responsibility.

Virtually the whole team broke out in It’s more than just you. You are truly dance. representing the team.”

“Had it just been the four of us hanging out, we probably would have freaked,” said – head coach Teri McKeever junior Erica Dagg, who was scheduled to swim the third leg of the relay. “The whole team made it really fun. It was pressure On its way to the NCAA title last spring, filled, but at the same time, we knew it was ers of Golden Bear women’s swimming.

For years, Cal has been one of the top relay Cal captured two of the relays. In addition just like another race.”

“We do it as part of our training,” sopho- teams in the country. In fact, the Bears are to the 400 free, the foursome of Isakovic, more Sara Isakovic said of the dance. “It’s one of only five schools in history to win Wilson, Jensen and Vollmer set a U.S. a good workout. When we are just hang- an NCAA trophy in each of the five relays Open-record time of 6:52.69 in winning ing out or warming up in the morning be- – the 200, 400 and 800 free relay, and the the 800 free relay on the second day of the three-day meet. The Bears, who have also fore we get in the water, we do some of the 200 and 400 medley relay.

“I think there’s a lot of pride on the team won the past six 800 free relays at the Pacmovements.”

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California’s NCAA Champion Relays The Golden Bears have captured eight NCAA titles in the relays – all in the last 10 years.

200 Free Relay 2000 400 Free Relay 2007 2009 800 Free Relay 2004 2007 2009 200 Medley Relay 2000 400 Medley Relay 2007

Cal’s 400 free relay checks the clock after winning their race at the 2009 NCAA championships.

10 championships, have claimed three national crowns in the event since 2004.

“The 200 free is like an endurance sprint,” said McKeever, referring to each leg of 800-yard race. “It’s longer and a lot of things can happen. There’s definitely a sense of pride because there are people who have characterized our program as a sprint program. But the 800 free relay is probably the one we’ve had the most success in.

“When I look back at last year,” she continued, “the 800 free relay was our most impressive team performance. Until 2007, no women’s team had been under seven minutes. When you take that kind of time

On its way to accumulating 411.5 points to win the team title, the Bears got 174 points out of their relays, which included runner-up finishes in the 200 free and 400 medley relays, and a sixth-place finish in the 200 medley relay.

Coaches vary on their strategy for putting together a quality relay team. Some like to set teams well in advance and practice exact exchanges in pursuit of perfection. Others tend to mix and match throughout the year. McKeever said she often won’t come up with a unit until it feels right.

“I like there to be a bit more flexibility,” McKeever said. “Sometimes, those are

The 2009 400 free relay (from left): Hannah Wilson, Dana Vollmer, Erica Dagg, Liv Jensen.

The 2009 800 free relay (from left): Dana Vollmer, Hannah Wilson, Liv Jensen, Sara Isakovic.

off, it’s pretty awesome.”

Relays, although they constitute only five of 21 events at a championship meet, are doubly important mostly because, well, points are doubled. At NCAAs, a relay win is worth 40 points compared to 20 points for individual races.

tough choices, and you end up making gut decisions.”

For example, by the third day of the ’09 NCAA meet, McKeever realized that Wilson was getting tired from all her previous races and decided to rest her in the morning prelims of the 400 free relay, substituting

Tara Thomas in the leadoff leg. At night, Wilson returned and covered the 100 yards in her opening sprint in 47.91, just 0.06 off her career best and setting the stage for the victory.

To help ensure her team is prepared for such last-minute changes, McKeever often won’t reveal the order of a relay until well into a dual meet during the regular season.

The strategy helps McKeever figure out which swimmers can handle the assignments, block out distractions and focus on the task at hand, much like a baseball relief pitcher who has to perform on sudden notice.

“You have to deal with what’s going to happen right at the moment,” the 18th-year Cal head coach said. “Can you flip that mental switch?”

Many swimmers also have to learn how to cope with approaches to different legs and dealing with either being ahead or forced to swim from behind. McKeever said Vollmer liked being at the end to provide a knock-out punch, but she often used Natalie Coughlin, a three-time NCAA Swimmer of the Year, in the second spot to push the Bears in front and put pressure on other teams to catch up.

Regardless of the order, Golden Bears understand the privilege it is to be selected for one of the team’s relays.

“Knowing the history this school has, it is a Cal relay,” Jensen said. “I’m representing this university on that relay, and it’s unbelievable how amazing that feels.”

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FEATURE

Overcoming

the Odds Jerome Randle Loves Silencing His Critics

By Tim Miguel

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erome Randle is living proof that sometimes the smallest man on the court has the biggest heart.

The senior guard may not have the most intimidating credentials listed on the roster sheet, but his in-game capabilities have Jerome Randle made him a force in the Pac-10 and across the country. Randle’s long journey has included moving to Berkeley from Chicago after not being highly recruited out of high school, surviving the scare of a kidney biopsy and constantly being overlooked because of his size.

A 2009 All-Pac-10 first-team selection, Randle was recently named a preseason candidate for the Wooden Award and the Naismith Trophy, honors given to the national player of the year. The accolades are finally beginning to pour in for him as he begins his senior campaign for the Golden Bears as an acknowledged leader. The expectations are high; however, they aren’t anything he hasn’t conquered before.

Randle has had to prove himself since he first took up basketball. Measuring at 5-10 and less than 160 pounds at Hales Franciscan High School, he was constantly criticized for being too small. Yet seemingly when everybody counts Randle out, he rises to the occasion.

“I am all about proving people wrong,” Randle said. “I have been proving people wrong since I was in grade school. They said we wouldn’t win, but we did. They said I wouldn’t go to high school and win anything. I won two state championships.

They said I wouldn’t go to a big-time collegiate program because I was too short. I got a scholarship from Cal.” There are times when Randle can’t escape the comments about his height, even from his own teammates. Fellow senior guard Patrick Christopher, Randle’s backcourt ally, playfully teases him about his size, but he respects his big game on the court.

“He just laughs it off. That’s our relationship,” Christopher said. “I try to do it around everybody so everyone else laughs, too. But to see the things that he does as a scorer blows my mind sometimes. He shot the ball nearly perfectly [last season].

It was almost a flawless season on the offensive end, shooting the ball from three. He was the most consistent player on the team last year hands down. I definitely respect him for that.”

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Randle didn’t let the fact that pointer at Utah and was again he wasn’t highly sought after by tabbed the Golden Bear Classic many major colleges get in the MVP. But one performance in way of his dreams of playing particular stands out above the for a big-time NCAA program. rest, when the Bears trekked to Randle became well acquainted Tucson, Ariz., for a clash against with Cal’s former assistant coach Arizona. In that game, Randle Dennis Gates, another native of connected on eight treys, one shy Chicago. The impression of Cal of the Cal record, and went on to that Gates instilled in Randle score a career-best 31 points as had a lot to do with his decision Cal won at the McKale Center to come to Berkeley. for the first time since 1995.

Despite his excitement for the “It was one of the games that chance to play in the Pac-10 – a I felt like the basket was the size conference known for producing of the ocean,” Randle recalled.”

NBA-bound point guards – leavI couldn’t miss. It was just one ing his hometown of Chicago of those nights. I have those was difficult for Randle. Family nights sometimes; they come ties are very strong for him, espeonce in a while. I just feel like cially to his mother, with whom I can’t miss. I am just hoping I he has a close relationship. have like 10 or 15 of those this “I am a big-time mama’s year. It was a special night.” boy,” Randle said. “Being away The secret is out about how from my mom is tough. It is still talented Randle is. He feels a tough with me right now. I have target on his back – as well as to talk to her every day. I miss on the team, now that the Bears my mom’s cooking, and I’ve are the preseason Pac-10 favornever been the cooking type. ite – but he doesn’t let it get to Every chance I get, I always try him. He stays away from all of to go back home to spend time the media hype as best he can with my family.” and just focuses on his game.

The start of Randle’s sophoStill, when times get tough, more season in 2007-08 brought Randle is grateful that he has about another hurdle that he’d the love and support of his have to overcome. A routine mother and his family. blood test picked up minor ab“Looking at the struggles and normalities, and doctors conlooking at how I grew up as a cluded that he needed to have kid, knowing what I want out a kidney biopsy. The procedure of this whole thing and makstalled his preseason push to garing it happen is what keeps me ner a starting role on the squad. motivated,” Randle said. “My “When I first heard about it, mother has always been a motiI was definitely down,” Randle vator, keeping me levelheaded. said. “I thought basketball was I’d call when I’m mad and cry over for me. I cried really hard because things weren’t going and my mother told me it would well. She is the one that keeps Randle, a first-team All-Pac-10 choice last season, is a candidate be all right. I went to the doc- Jerome my spirits up. To know that my for two national player of the year awards this year. tor, and they told me that I had brothers, my sisters, nieces and a kidney disease.” nephews have faith in me goes Fortunately for Randle, results a long way. So just giving up – and was among the conference leaders in from the biopsy showed that he only had a assists. is just not an option for me. That’s why I mild inflammation in his kidney that could Heading into last season, it was unclear work hard the way that I do.” be treated with medication. After missing what Randle’s role on the team would be, Randle hopes to achieve his goal of bringthe first two games of the season, Randle especially with a new head coach on board. ing a Pac-10 championship to Berkeley, and returned with a bang, soaring for 21 points True to his nature, he excelled. Randle then move on to the professional ranks. He in his first appearance against San Diego shattered the school single-season record expects a new round of critics to tell him that State and earning Pac-10 Player of the Week for three-pointers with 82 and ended the he’s too small to play in the NBA. and Golden Bear Classic MVP honors in year as the best career free-throw shooter Just as he’s done all along, Randle fully December. He ended the ’07-08 campaign in the history of the program. intends to prove the naysayers wrong once averaging 11.8 ppg – third best on the team Randle nailed the game-winning three- again.

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Courting Leadership Senior Guard Lauren Greif Is the ‘Mama Bear’ of the Golden Bears

By Melissa Dudek

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eam captains. Every sport has them. And while some have very public and official roles, others operate more quietly and do most their work in the privacy of the locker room or practice court.

Many times, captains are paraded out to midfield to witness the coin toss. In football, for example, this ritual takes center stage with the captains walking slowly and purposefully, their hands intertwined in a show of solidarity, and their call of ‘heads’ or ‘tails’ is piped over the loudspeaker to tens of thousands of fans in attendance.

In other arenas, such as in soccer, the captains’ meeting is equally important, but just not as prominently displayed. In volleyball, the captain is such a crucial element that the rule book states that no point can be played without a captain on the court for each team.

Each player, whether a senior or an underclassman, handles the responsibility a little differently.

“A team captain does a lot of behind the scenes stuff like organizing meetings,” said senior guard Laruen Greif, now in her third year as a team captain for the Cal women’s basketball team. “For me, it is also making sure everyone is confident in what they are doing, knowing the plays, giving little pep talks before we go back onto the floor, and trying to get everyone in the same place at the same time.”

As a captain for a squad that includes more freshmen (seven) than returners (five), Greif is spending a lot of her time this year trying to get everyone in the same place at the same time.

“The joke right now on the team is that I am Mama Bear, and these are my cubs, my baby cubs,” Greif said with a smile. “Layshia (Clarendon) has taken off with that, so everywhere I am, I am Mama Bear. The freshmen tend to wander off sometimes, making it difficult to get to where we need to be on time. So it is very much like ‘Mama Bear needs to go, so let’s go.

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“I have always been a talker, and I think people equate talking with leadership. So I just continued to be talking non-stop during practices to motivate people to give their all.”

– Lauren Greif

Greif has always been the round ’em up and get ’em organized kind of leader. She learned early on that if she planned ahead and got everyone organized, there was much more time available to actually participate. Even at elementary school recess, she would sit her friends down in advance and figure out the games they were going to play during their 30-minute break from classes. Greif believed that if everyone already knew whose team they were going to be on in kickball, they could play for the entire half hour.

“The other kids were just trying to figure out how to play the game and picking teams when we were well into our games,” Greif recalled. “I have just continued that into leadership here.”

With limited gym time available before the official start of practice at Cal, Greif uses her pre-activity skill set, sorting out pickup game teams ahead of time to ensure they could be on the court for a full hour.

“I realized we can do better,” she said.

“We can make better use of our time if we had this organized.”

Greif was originally voted into the role as a Cal team captain as a sophomore, a somewhat unexpected but very welcome development for the then second-year player who had started every game for the Bears her rookie season.

“I had Dev (Devanei Hampton) and Ash (Ashley Walker) and Lex (Alexis GrayLawson), players above me, who voted me into a leadership role,” Greif said. “There was a lot of responsibility with that. I respected their choice, and so I stepped up.”

Greif was a seasoned veteran at being a team captain before coming to Cal. A three-sport varsity athlete at Lincoln High in Portland, Ore., she served three years as a soccer team captain, three years for golf and four for basketball. She is pretty sure she knows what motivated her high school

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as well as her present teammates to bestow the title on her.

“I have always been a talker, and I think people equate talking with leadership,” Greif said. “So I just continued to be talking non-stop during practices to motivate people to give their all.”

Greif is very precise in how she “talks” and “motivates,” especially during games. After every huddle break when she is on the floor, Greif will give a very detailed rundown to her fellow players, to make sure that everyone is 100 percent clear about what play they just talked about and review which defenses they are in.

“Sometimes, the plays and defenses will change,” Greif said. “If we make the basket, we are going to go into this.

If we miss it, we are going to be in this. All the variations we came up with, I go over that. I ask everyone if they are comfortable. Even if they say they know, sometimes there is hesitancy. I need to make sure that they really know what they are supposed to do.”

Greif has worked with a variety of co-captains over the years. She spent two seasons with Krista Foster and two more leading alongside All-American Ashley Walker. This season, freshman Tierra Rogers is one of her co-captains, along with senior guard Natasha Vital. Rogers,

who will be sitting out due to a rare heart condition discovered during the fall, earned the honor by a vote of her teammates.

“Tierra has been a fantastic teacher and a motivator in practice,” Greif said. “Her role with the team and in this leadership position is still evolving, but just having her out there every day has been fantastic.”

Vital compliments Greif’s outgoing style with a more reserved, leading-by-example model. She takes pride in showing the freshmen how to conduct themselves on the floor, in class and in public. Vital also rounds up the newcomers and to help make certain they get to study hall on time.

“LG is very organized,” Vital said of her fellow captain. “She is great about making sure everyone on the court knows exactly what they are supposed to be doing, time left on the shot clock, how many fouls everyone has, detail things like that.”

When asked what really defines Greif’s leadership style, Vital laughs: “Mass texts. LG is known for her mass texts. She sends a lot of mass texts. A lot!”

After all the years of the texting, cheering, organizing and motivating, Greif, who will be graduating with a degree in psychology in May, has realized that this is not something she wants to walk away from.

“No matter what job I take, I want to be a mentor to people, especially college-age people,” Greif said when pressed to look ahead into the future.

However, Greif is hesitant to discuss life after Cal. Right now, she and the rest of the team only want to talk about one thing they see in the future: the Bears playing deep into the postseason after winning a Pac-10 championship … with Lauren Greif leading the way.

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where are they now?

Mary Harvey: Soccer Pioneer as a Player, Executive

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She played semi-professional ball in Germany ary Harvey was arguably the best goalkeeper in the history of California women’s soccer. However, she has made a bigger impact (for FSV Frankfurt, 1988-91) and Sweden (for Hammarby, 1993, and Tyreso, 1994). on the game since ending her college career.

Harvey retired after the 1996 Olympics due to injuries – she’s The former U.S. National team stalwart has been involved in several soccer firsts as a player and an administrator. Harvey had three back surgeries – and a lack of playing time.

“Combined with the fact I was 31, it was time to get my career worked at the sport’s highest levels, including at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the U.S. Soccer started again,” she said.

Harvey became a player advocate, establishing the U.S. Socfederation, before moving into her current role as the chief operating officer for Women’s Professional Soccer, the women’s pro cer’s Athletes’ Council and working for U.S. Soccer for 12 years, including five years on the U.S. Soccer Executive Committee. She league in the United States.

“It was a great launch year,” Harvey said of 2009. “It was one contributed to the task force charged with writing the U.S. Soccer Player Bill of Rights. that can be categorized as building and adjusting.”

She ran a small company before receiving her MBA from She was inducted into the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000 and became the first woman inducted into the American Youth Soccer UCLA in 1998. Harvey was a consultant at Deloitte for Association (AYSO) Hall of Fame in 2003. Harvey and fellow for- three years and consulted for the U.S.-hosted 1999 Women’s mer Golden Bear Joy Fawcett were enshrined into the U.S. Olym- World Cup. Harvey worked for FIFA, the worldwide governing body of socpic Committee Hall of Fame in 2004 as members of the U.S. team cer, in a prestigious role as its Director of Development in Zurich, that won the 1996 Olympic gold medal.

Harvey played at Cal from 1983-86 and led the Bears to three Switzerland, from 2003-08. She became the first woman and first top-five finishes in the NCAA Tournament, including in 1984 American appointed to run a major business unit. As a member when Cal finished fourth in its first foray to the semifinals and she of the senior management team, she oversaw several projects that impacted the game, particularly on the women’s side, all over the was named the NCAA All-Tournament goalkeeper.

Cal finished fifth in 1983, when Harvey started as a freshman, world.

Harvey didn’t necessarily see her career winding this way. and in 1986, when was named the adidas National Goalkeeper of “When you retire from playing, you tend to want to contribute the Year. She graduated in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in busito the sport,” she said “I went this route. I love the game. I didn’t ness administration.

Harvey won the first Women’s World Cup as the starting U.S. set out to do that, but I guess later I stopped playing, went to goalkeeper in 1991. She was the backup on the U.S. squad that business school, got involved in U.S. Soccer business, and it was placed third in the 1995 Women’s World Cup and on the team a wonderful experience. I was trying to bring a contribution to the game.” that won the first Olympic women’s tournament in 1996.

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Winter 2009-10 2009-10 Outlook

With four returning starters from a team that finished 22-11, advanced to the NCAA Tournament and paced the nation in three-point shooting last year, Cal has earned an Associated Press preseason ranking (13th) for just the third time in school history and first time since 1995-96. In addition, the Golden Bears have been chosen by media who cover the conference as the preseason Pac-10 favorite. Cal is led by 2009 AllPac-10 first-teamers Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher. Both were named to the Naismith Trophy watch list, and Randle is also a preseason candidate for the Wooden Award. Senior forwards Jamal Boykin and Theo Roberson round out the returning starters for head coach Mike Montgomery’s squad.

Important Home Dates

Dec. 5 vs. Iowa State Cal faces the Cyclones in this year’s Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series Feb. 11 vs. Washington Matchup of teams picked to finish 1-2 in the Pac-10 this year

mEN’S basketball 2009-10 Outlook

Cal, which is coming off an impressive 2008-09 season that saw the program make its first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, will have a vastly different look this year with seven freshmen on the roster. The newcomers, however, comprise the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class. In addition, the returners are anchored by senior guards Alexis Gray-Lawson (All-Pac-10 first team, Wooden Award and WBCA Wade Trophy candidate), Natasha Vital (four-time Pac-10 honorable mention) and Lauren Greif (Pac-10 All-Academic first team). The Bears are picked to finish second in the preseason Pac-10 coaches poll and third in the Pac-10 media poll. With Cal hosting the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament, the Bears hope to be playing on their home floor in March.

Important Home Dates

Dec. 5-6 Colliers International Classic Cal’s annual tournament includes nationally-ranked Texas A&M March 6 vs. Stanford Battle of the Bay has attracted 10,000+ fans each of the last two years

WOmEN’S basketball 2010 Outlook

Despite losing four letterwinners, including NCAA individual champion Evan Roth, the Golden Bears welcome six newcomers and a solid core of 12 experienced returners. Tops on the list of lettermen are senior national team members Kyle Bunthuwong, who traveled with the U.S. delegation to the Japan Cup this summer, and Glen Ishino. Cal also brings back 2009 All-Americans Jim Kerry and Bryan del Castillo. Of the freshman, Swiss national team member Dennis Mannhart and U.S. junior team member Donathan Bailey could make the biggest impact right away. Last season, Cal had 13 top-10 individual finishes, marking the first time since 1959 that a Cal team has achieved this feat and only the second time in program history.

Important Home Dates

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2010 Outlook

Cal added tremendous depth to its roster this season, giving head coach Cari Dubois greater flexibility in her event lineups as the Bears look to earn a spot in the NCAA postseason. Cal brings back two of the three gymnasts who competed at NCAA regionals last season. Sophia Hocini, who earned second-team All-Pac-10 notice in the all-around last year, returns to compete in her senior season, trying to earn her fourth NCAA Regional invitation.

Junior Avery Gee qualified for regionals in 2009 in the floor exercise and spent the summer training hard to take her floor and bars routines to an even higher level of difficulty while maintaining consistency.

Important Home Dates

Jan. 17 vs. Arizona State Cal opens the season at home against the highly-regarded Sun Devils Feb. 7 vs. Oregon State Cal hosts its annual Pink Meet to raise money for breast cancer research

WOmEN’S gymnastics 2009-10 Outlook

After back-to-back fourth-place finishes at the NCAA championships, the Golden Bears look to move up in the standings this year. Cal features 2009 Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian, who as a sophomore won conference titles in the 50, 100 and 200 free; and NCAA crowns in the 50 and 100 free. Cal also returns junior Damir Dugonjic, the 2009 NCAA champ in the 100 breaststroke, and senior Sean Mahoney, who was the ‘09 national runner-up in the 200 breast. In addition, the Bears return five other individuals – juniors Graeme Moore, Josh Daniels, Martti Aljand and Guy Barnea, and sophomore Nolan Koon – who earned All-America honors at the NCAA meet.

Important Home Dates

Jan. 22 vs. Arizona State Cal and ASU open the Bears’ home Pac-10 weekend Jan. 23 vs. Arizona Bears host a Wildcat squad that won NCAA title in 2008

mEN’S swimming & Diving 2009-10 Outlook

After capturing the 2009 NCAA and Pac-10 team titles, Cal returns most of the squad that produced the best season in program history. Junior Amanda Sims (100-yard butterfly) is one of the Golden Bears’ five ’09 NCAA champions returning, a list that includes juniors Erica Dagg (400 freestyle relay) and Hannah Wilson (400 and 800 free relays), and sophomores Sara Isakovic (800 free relay) and Liv Jensen, the 2009 Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year who swam on the 400 and 800 free relays. Head coach Teri McKeever became the first woman to lead her team to the NCAA crown last spring, a feat that earned her NCAA and Pac-10 Coach of the Year honors.

Important Home Dates

Jan. 22 vs. Arizona State Cal opens its Pac-10 dual-meet schedule vs. the Sun Devils Jan. 23 vs. Arizona Final home meet against team that was third at 2009 NCAAs

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Golden riggs G Jim Griggs ’57 Started a Tradition of True-Blue Bears

Jim Griggs with grandson, Stevie

By Anton Malko

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arold J. “Jim” Griggs arrived in Sacramento at age 4 from South Dakota and grew up in extended Cal country.

No one in his immediate family had attended college, but today Jim and his children, Lorene and Chris – who serve as president and vice president of the business started by their father – not only have Cal degrees, they also continue to support their alma mater just as they continue to be nourished by their Cal experiences.

Before he could enroll at Cal, Jim Griggs needed to figure out whether he could pay for it. His high-school counselors submitted an application on his behalf to the Sacramento branch of the Cal Alumni Association, and chapter president Forrest Plant

Chris Griggs with son, Stevie

awarded Griggs with the Alumni Scholarship that made it possible.

“It was a whopping 500 bucks,” Griggs recalled, “but that was a heck of a lot of money 55 years ago.”

Griggs was motivated to attain a degree that could steer him away from the paving contracting business his father had developed. “I had to get my butt in gear and get a degree in something else if I didn’t want to work with him,” he said.

Griggs went to the counseling center on campus, where his tests revealed an aptitude for real-estate finance. “At that time Cal was one of only six schools in the country where you could major in real-estate finance, so that’s what I did,” Griggs said.

He received his B.S. in real-estate finance in 1957.

In 1974, after building his professional resume with Northwestern Mutual and Buhler Mortgage, as well as his own business, Griggs created a new company in response to his growing work as a consultant, much of which was increasingly devoted to real-estate investments for pension funds.

Griggs became the first real-estate advisor for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), now the nation’s largest public pension fund with over $13 billion invested in real estate.

Griggs ended up doing business in 38 states, and one of his accounts was the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System. To help assuage any concerns the Ohioans may have had about a Californian making decisions on how to invest their money, he decided to add “Buckeye” to the company name, making it Buckeye Pacific Investors.

“Thanks to that name and our success, they thought it was great when we invested for them,” he said.

But wouldn’t “Golden Bear Pacific” have been a more stirring name, especially for clients in the Cal community?

“I’d have to tell them that Jack Nicklaus had the Golden Bear name locked up in the financial community,” said Griggs. After all, the “other” Golden Bear was born in the state and attended Ohio State, where he won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1959 and ’61 along with the 1962 NCAA championship.

While Griggs did not choose to take on the golf legend on his home turf in Ohio, he and his family have certainly done their part to help the continuing rise of the Cal men’s golf program and the Athletic Department as a whole.

Griggs’ son, Chris, played Cal golf from 1988-92 and graduated with a B.A. in English (whereas his daughter, Lorene, received her degree in finance from the Haas School of Business). Chris is a director of the Cal Golf Committee and co-directs the annual Sacramento satellite events in support of Cal golf with fellow golf alumnus Craig Miyamoto, a 1991 teammate, at Del Paso Country Club.

Chris called the annual Sacramento event “a great core group of supporters for Cal Athletics and Cal golf” and said his ties to the program continue to energize him just as they did during his days as a studentathlete.

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greatest moments in the history of the program during Chris’ junior year.

That Saturday in 1990 – Oct. 20 – included the football team’s 38-31 win over UCLA at Memorial Stadium, but a smaller group of student-athletes in blue and gold were making their own history down at the Stanford Fall Intercollegiate.

The men’s golf program had recently taken a good turn, making the NCAA Regionals for the first time the previous spring.

There was no live scoring back then, but Desimone knew his golfers were in the hunt for the tournament title coming down the back nine of the third and final round.

“We really didn’t know exactly where we stood, but I had a sense that we were playing well enough to win,” Desimone recalled. When the final cards were signed, the Bears had won by a single shot.

“We drove back to campus and I’ll never forget, that was a pretty amazing feeling,” Chris said.

“You could not find a happier bunch of Golden Bears,” said Desimone. “We were whooping and hollering all the way home.

It was one of the great days of my life and great achievements of our program.”

The Bears were able to duplicate the feat at Stanford in the spring of 2000; four years later,

The 1990 golf team, featuring Chris Griggs (front row, far right), won the Stanford Fall Invitational; Jim Griggs’ daughter, Lorene; Bowles Hall (above right) served as the Cal home for Jim Griggs as it does now for grandson Andrew.

men’s golf won a national championship.

Today, Jim Griggs has 11 grandchildren, four of whom, including the golfing Stevie, are Chris’ kids and another, Lorene’s son Andrew, is a current Cal student housed in Bowles Hall, just as Jim once was. Jim, his son, daughter and other family members still sit in the same six seats in Section GG that he has had since his graduation, and Jim has signed a letter of intent to keep football seats in the family with the Endowment Seating Program.

The commitment from people like Jim, Chris and the entire Griggs family continues to ensure that the Athletic Depart-

ment can always stay on target toward excellence.

“Cal Athletics doesn’t survive without the support of individuals,” said Chris. “It’s always going to be a huge part of my life and I want to help make it part of others’ lives, too. I appreciate everything Cal Athletics has done for me, what it’s doing right now and hopefully what it will do for all the other students that ever go through its programs.”

“It’s important that you give back to where you got so many benefits,” agreed Jim. “Cal was just a fabulous experience for me in all ways. To go out and give back feels good. It’s just a very special place.”

FEATURE

Boys Everlasting Pappy’s Boys Do Great Deeds in the Name of Their Coach and University

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hey’ve been uncommonly successful in with Pete Schabarum, a halftheir endeavors on and off the field with back from 1948-50, as current president. something very special in common.

Pappy’s Boys welcome in the new football season each year on the FriThe former student-athletes who played day before the first home game with a banfor Lynn O. Waldorf during his 10 seasons quet. Their gifts to the University include at Cal, along with many widows of those an endowment maintained by the Regents who have departed and other stalwart sup- worth almost half a million dollars. They porters, continue to dedicate themselves to also perform other charitable activities, such as bringing hunreuniting on a regudreds of underprivilar basis not just to leged kids each year keep the fires of on a bus trip to the their friendships University for a camburning, but also to pus tour and a football do good deeds for game, led by Paul LarCal and the comson (QB/S, 1952-54) munity in Pappy’s and Ed Bartlett (DE, name.

1949-51).

Waldorf coached Some of the mem103 games in his bers of Pappy’s Boys, Cal career, notchlike Wally Haas Sr., ing a 67-32-4 record didn’t suit up for the (.650) from 1947 to Bears, and not all of 1956, including a them, such as USC’s winning streak of 33 Frank Gifford, even consecutive regular- Glen Gulvin with wife, Robin went to Cal. season games from “Frank is a partner with Les Richter ’47-50, earning three Pacific Coast Conference championships and three trips to the (G, 1949-51) and Bob Karpe (T, 195152) in some real-estate investments, so Rose Bowl.

Waldorf was inducted into the National Bob told him, ‘Look, I’m going to do a Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1966. little something good here,’” explained In 1986, the group Pappy’s Boys became Glenn Gulvin, a tackle for Waldorf in official, one year before their former coach 1950, ’51 and ’52. “Bob used some of was inducted into the Cal Athletic Hall of the money from that investment group to Fame. The group’s work is executed by a fund Pappy’s Boys. He later told Frank, board of directors that serve 3-4-year terms ‘You’re a member of Pappy’s Boys. You representing the 480-person membership, helped found it.’ Frank was a good friend

They are Pappy’s Boys.

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Left to right: Glenn Gulvin, John Olszewski, Pete Schabarum, Paul Larson, Rod Franz, Jackie Jensen, Dick Erickson Left to right: Don Robison, Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf, Les Richter

of Pappy’s later on when they got to ship Fund. The Gulvins signed their Letter of Intent to be a part of the Endowment know each other. ” After a year of freshman football when he Seating Program at Memorial Stadium in first arrived at Cal, Gulvin ventured to try May of 2009.

As part of Pappy’s Boys, Glenn has also out for the varsity in 1950. “I went out on the field and there were 100 guys out there helped to make Waldorf an everlasting part with various types of uniforms, ill-fitting of the renovated stadium.

“Ed Bartlett came to me and a few pads and so forth.” Gulvin remembered.

“We all had the right to go out there and try other guys to get a room at the stadium to make the team. Pappy stood up in front of dedicated to Pappy,” said Gulvin. “We this whole group of wet-eared guys and said, committed our pledges and proceeded.

‘Look, the first 11 men who play football are going to be the best players. The next 11 are going to be the guys who want to play the most.’”

Gulvin said Pappy’s speech made him think, “I’ve got a place on the field.” He became a starter at defensive tackle at 6-4 and 220 pounds, usually lining up against people taller and heavier than himself.

“Pappy’s Boys’ existence is substantiation of the fact that he produced special people,” Gulvin said.

“Every guy that played for him was a little bit special because of him.”

Gulvin got his B.A. in political science from Cal and won the Ken Ed Bartlett, Paul Andrew and John Dawson Cotton Award in ’52 as the varsity player That’s typically how we do things. We displaying the most courage, an award giv- don’t ever have a negative vote. If we en in the name of the 1935-37 fullback who vote on something, it’s yes unanimously, was killed in action in World War II as a almost always.”

Current Cal head coach Jeff Tedford Navy flyer. Gulvin has been a member of reached the 100-game mark during his Pappy’s Boys since 1993.

As individuals, Gulvin and his wife, eighth season at the 2009 Big Game, which Robin, have given with wonderful gen- the Bears won, 34-28, to put him in a tie erosity to the Department of Athletics. In with Waldorf for all-time wins as Cal coach 2002, they established the Glenn Gulvin in the modern era. Like Waldorf, Tedford and Robin W. Gulvin Endowed Scholar- joined the Cal program after the Bears had

endured eight years without a winning season prior to his arrival.

Two years short of the length of Waldorf’s tenure, Tedford has a .670 winning percentage and, more importantly, also has a bond with his players that, as he has said, goes increasingly beyond the Xs and Os on the football field.

“It’s a great honor just to be mentioned with his name because I am so respectful of his time here and of Pappy’s Boys,” said coach Tedford when asked about his link to Waldorf and his players.

“I’m always amazed by the togetherness and the consistency they’ve had, year after year. It’s amazing and a pretty special thing to see.”

The idea that his players could continue to mature as men and remain forever bonded by their Cal experience is important to Tedford, too.

“I would hope that our players, not so much for me or my name, but for themselves, continue to stay together over the years and relive the memories that they’ve had,” he said.

While members of Pappy’s Boys will quickly admit that getting together to reminisce and socialize is close to the top of reasons why they reunite, the group remains most committed to supporting Cal. “We’d like to think so,” confirmed Dick Erickson, the Bears QB from 1946 through ’48. “The primary reason we get together is to see each other and have a good time, but our support of Cal is also one of our main objectives.”

And for that, everyone associated with Cal Athletics is thankful.

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FEATURE

Swimming

Odyssey Sean Mahoney’s Talent in the Pool Has Taken Him around the World

By Scott Ball

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or senior Sean Mahoney, his successes at the University of California have all been part of a journey that has taken the talented swimmer from a small cattle ranch in northern California to near the top of the world stage.

This December, Mahoney will represent second in the 200-yard breast (1:52.34) this the United States as a member of the pres- past March at the 2009 NCAA championtigious Dual in the Pool team that will be ships in College Station, Texas.

So how did someone coming from a competing against the top swimmers from Great Britain, Germany and Italy in Man- rural environment, not usually associated with world-class swimming, end up at Cal chester, England.

The muscular 6-0, 200-pound breaststro- as one of the world’s top breaststrokers? It ker will be part of the U.S. contingent com- came in a round-about way, from Rio Vista, prised of the nation’s fastest swimmers, in- to West Virginia University, and finally to cluding fellow Golden Bear Nathan Adrian Berkeley.

“I think the reason Sean has become the and Olympic hero Michael Phelps, who were selected based on their results from world-class swimmer that he is, is because this past summer’s USA National Champi- he has matured,” explained Cal head coach onships, World University Games and the David Durden, who will be part of the USA coaching staff in England. “Not only has he World Championships.

The fact that Mahoney hails from outside become a better swimmer, but a better perthe small town of Rio Vista, Calif., popula- son, a better teammate and a better student. tion 7,000, makes any venture to a large city I think all these positive attributes have caran extreme change of scenery for the Cal ried over to the pool.

“His club coach, Ray Mitchell, taught star, who currently owns the second-fastest time in the United States in the 200-me- Sean how to work. He has that ranch-type, ter breaststroke with a World University hard-work attitude. You could tell him to Games’ mark of 2:09.70 set in Belgrade, run through a brick wall and he would do Serbia, last summer. This was after placing it. Sean takes a lot of confidence from that

hard work, and that is what makes him unique and makes him successful.”

Growing up in Rio Vista with parents, Dan and Christine, and older siblings, Ryan and Kelly, Mahoney swam for Mitchell’s renowned and notoriously tough Terrapins Swim Team, where he set a pair of national age-group records in the 200 breaststroke.

Mahoney went on to become a high school All-American at De La Salle High School in Concord before transferring to Rio Vista High School, where his father was the football coach, for his senior year.

Then Mahoney’s swimming odyssey really began.

Mountaineers win the 2007 Big East title his freshman year while setting the school record in the 200-yard breast with a time of 1:57.75. But sadly for West Virginia swimming, Lopez decided to leave the program late in the summer of ’07 to become the head coach of The Bolles School, a prestigious prep school in Jacksonville, Fla. Suddenly, Mahoney again had to weigh his options, because without one of his favorite coaches, his desire to stay in Morgantown faded.

Again, the aquatic world smiled favorably on Mahoney.

“The new coach at West Virginia was

in the morning prelims, before being edged out by Georgia’s Neil Versfeld (1:51.40) in the final.

Now as one of only five seniors on the 2009-10 Cal squad, Mahoney is appreciative of his opportunity to compete for the Bears and is primed for an even greater future, both in and out of the pool.

“Cal has absolutely made me a better swimmer and student,” said Mahoney, who is majoring in American studies. “We have the best weight program in the country with Nick Folker, who is just an amazing strength coach. Coach Durden is the best at tapering a swimmer (to get them ready

“Cal has absolutely made me a better swimmer and student … Coach Durden is the best at tapering a swimmer (to get them ready for a championship meet) I have ever seen.

If you watch us at the NCAAs, you see everyone across the board having these phenomenal swims. It is never just one or two people.

– Sean Mahoney

“I first signed a letter of intent with Arizona State, but I quickly realized I had made a wrong decision,” said Mahoney. “I had picked ASU for the wrong reasons. I was a little bit burnt out with the sport.”

Fortunately for Mahoney, he had options.

During his recruiting process, Mahoney had met Sergio Lopez, then the head coach at West Virginia, and immediately formed a bond.

“The one really honest person through my whole recruiting process was Sergio Lopez,” said Mahoney. “Sergio had been supportive of me all along, even after I had signed with another school. It wasn’t so much about recruiting me as an athlete, but about me as a person. So I decided to go to West Virginia and rescinded my letter of intent to ASU.” Mahoney’s time in Morgantown was extremely successful, as he helped the

really understanding about my situation and released me from my scholarship right away,” said Mahoney. “I had decided I wanted to be closer to home, but at that time Nort Thornton had retired and Cal was without a coach. Still, I knew I wanted to come back home, and Cal was a great swimming school with great academics. It couldn’t have worked out any better. Coach Durden is one of the most caring coaches I have ever met, and that is saying a lot because I have been close with all of my coaches.”

That bond with coaches and teammates continues in Berkeley, helping Mahoney thrive with the Bears. After placing third at the NCAA championships in the 200 breast as a sophomore, he bettered that performance last season with a national runner-up finish. In fact, Mahoney had set an NCAA record in the 200 breast (1:51.96)

for a championship meet) I have ever seen.

If you watch us at the NCAAs, you see everyone across the board having these phenomenal swims. It is never just one or two people. It is everyone, as a group, doing awesome.

“There is a great balance among our coaching staff. Assistant Greg Meehan provides us with an aerobic background that personally helps me because I need that for the 200 breaststroke. Nort (now Cal’s head coach emeritus) is the technical coach and the imagination of our team. He is always coming up with new ideas on how to improve, refining your technique, and exploring new ideas on how to become better than anyone else.”

And whether in Rio Vista, Morgantown, Berkeley or Manchester, becoming better than anyone else in the pool has always been part of Sean Mahoney’s travel plans.

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FEATURE

National Caliber Gymnast Kyle Bunthuwong Striving to Be a Fixture on U.S. Team

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

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ith 29 individual NCAA national titles, four team titles and “With Kyle being so young, even 13 Olympians, the California men’s gymnastics program though he was only the alternate, was exudes excellence and tradition. That amount of Golden a real feather in his cap. He’s now had Bear history could be intimidating for any talented gymnast, but for some big international experience that junior all-arounder Kyle Bunthuwong, it makes a perfect fit. will make him more comfortable the Bunthuwong claimed four Junior Olympic next time he competes abroad.”

Bunthuwong remarked that competitions in Japan are much difnational championships by the time he graduated high school. And since enrolling at Cal, ferent than American meets.

Kyle Bunthuwong “Everyone goes silent, dead silent,” Bunthuwong said of the he has transformed into an even more complete athlete. Now a member of the U.S. Senior National team, crowd. “At our meets in the States, everyone is cheering and yelling.

Bunthuwong has two international meets under his belt and is I was more nervous for my team members than they were for their routines.” poised to take his skills to a higher level.

Bunthuwong affirmed his standing with the National team after “Kyle is an explosive, exciting and dynamic gymnast,” head coach Barry Weiner said. “He has a very strong technical back- an explosive outing at the U.S. Championships in August, when he took fourth in the all-around. In addition to his high scores, he had ground, as well.”

After finishing sixth in the all-around at the prestigious Win- the fewest technical deductions of the gymnasts. Despite having ter Cup Challenge last February, Bunthuwong was named to the to perform at one of the preeminent competitions in the United U.S. Senior National team in just his sophomore year of college. States, the high stakes did not make him nervous.

“I’ve competed with many of those gymnasts before,” BunthuHe also earned a spot as the alternate to travel to the Japan Cup with the U.S. delegation in July, a squad that Weiner noted as the wong said. “Being on the U.S. championship floor is very different than a collegiate meet, but I had made Senior National team Americans’ “A” team.

“I got to work out with the team and experience the compe- at Winter Cup, so I just focused on doing my best, and it went tition,” Bunthuwong said. “It was a totally different atmosphere well.”

In addition to his international experiences, Bunthuwong notes compared to what I’m used to.”

Although he was the alternate for the Japan Cup, which was that he has benefitted from training in the same gym as Tim Mccomprised of the top six gymnastics countries in the world, Neill, a fellow National team member and a five-time NCAA champion for the Bears.

Bunthuwong profited from the experience.

“It’s good to train with someone at your caliber,” Bunthuwong “We sent our front-line best guys that we have,” Weiner said.

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said. “It motivates and pushes you. Just watching him train every day makes you want to strive to be where he’s at.”

Bunthuwong got his start in gymnastics when his grandmother took him and his older brother, Kyson, to a class to run off some of their energy. Both had an innate athleticism and flexibility that made them perfect candidates for the sport.

“The teacher of the class recognized that we could be good, and we kept going with it,” Kyle said. “I think I’m more athletically built and enjoy sports more than Kyson, though.”

Kyson, two years ahead of Kyle in school, was a four-year letterwinner for the Bears and the brothers were Cal teammates for the 2008 and ’09 seasons.

“He’s a really good teammate for me to have,” Kyson said of

and played a pivotal role in Cal’s fourth-place finish at the NCAA championships, marking the 10th time in the past 12 years that the team had closed the year as one the top five teams in the country.

It was also the highest the Bears have finished since 2002, when they were third. This year, the team welcomes six newcomers and a solid core of 12 experienced returners.

“We have a lot more depth,” Bunthuwong said of this season’s squad. “We’re going to have very good parallel-bars and pommelhorse teams.”

Although Bunthuwong excels on both events, advancing to the 2009 NCAA individual finals on pommel after setting a career high of 14.900 in the team finals, he notes that floor exercise is his favorite event.

“Kyle is an explosive, exciting and dynamic gymnast. He has a very strong technical background, as well.”

– head coach Barry Weiner

Kyle. “We work really well together in the gym and push each other. He can help me along through my down periods, and he’s a good motivator. I did definitely sway his coming to Cal.” Although Kyson takes some of the credit in Kyle’s decision to become a Golden Bear, Kyle recalled that it was a hard choice to make as he was recruited by several other gymnastics powerhouses. Kyle and Kyson’s mother, Suzanne, as well as various aunts and uncles, all list Cal as their alma mater, which also affected his college selection. Both Kyson and Kyle attended Cal gymnastics meets as children, growing up just up the road in El Cerrito.

“I knew I wanted to stay close to home, but after going on the recruiting trips, it made it harder to stay in California,” Bunthuwong said. “But I love Berkeley’s food and atmosphere. It’s more laid back, yet there’s always something to do. Cal’s academics are top notch, too.”

Weiner knew exactly what he was looking at in Kyle – someone who would be an excellent addition to his Golden Bear squad.

“Kyle has Kyson’s qualities, but more power,” Weiner noted.

“He’s elegant, graceful, technically talented and has lot of powerful physical attributes. He was a can’t-miss recruit.”

Last season, Bunthuwong competed in every meet for the Bears

“On floor, there is no limit to what you can do,” Bunthuwong said.

“On parallel bars, which used to be my favorite, you’re limited to how many skills and flips you can do. There’s a real adrenaline rush on floor.”

Outside of the gym, Bunthuwong has declared sociology as his field of study in the classrooms of Berkeley.

“I love how broad a subject it is,” Bunthuwong said. “There are so many different branches of it that I study. I recently studied globalization and poverty, and now I’m onto sports management.”

Following graduation, Bunthuwong aspires to attend culinary school and possibly open a restaurant. But before that can occur, he hopes to take his gymnastics to the highest stage – the Olympics.

“Right now, academics and gymnastics are my top priorities,” Bunthuwong said. “I want to see if I can make it to the 2012 or 2016 Olympics.”

First up will be a competitive 2010 schedule with the Bears.

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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Gee Whiz Gymnast Avery Gee Studying Cognitive Science at Cal

By Melissa Dudek

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“I really like computer scit first glance, that seems like a simple phrase Cal fans have ence,” Gee gushed. “My parents heard hundreds of times. But think about it for a minute. What [Cal alums Albert and Nora Gee] does “Go Bears” really mean? What actually happens when were both engineers.

It is nice to you scan your memories for “Go Bears” or think about its meaning? write some instructions and have What are memories? What does it mean to think?

Welcome to the world of cognitive science, the computer do all the mechanical labor that you don’t really an interdisciplinary studies major at Cal that care to do yourself.” brings together psychology, linguistics, comWith courses that include Scientific Approaches to ConAvery Gee puter science, philosophy and physiology, and sciousness, Metaphor and Neural Basis of Language and the chosen major of Golden Bear gymnast Avery Gee. Now a ju- Thought, and Dysfunction and the Brain, Gee is learning about nior, Gee chose cognitive science as her academic emphasis after relations between mind and brain on a physical and philosophcoming to Cal with a different intended line of study. ical level, but it has been some of the psychology classes that “I was pre-med for my two years here,” said Gee. “I took all the have made the biggest impact on her day-to-day life. chemistry and math classes for pre-med, but found I was really “In my Cog Sci 100 class [Fundamental Issues in Cognitive interested in neuroscience. I really love the linguistics and phi- Science], we learned a lot about memory and perception,” Gee losophy aspects of it, which I didn’t think I said. “There are these things called context was going to enjoy. Now, I really appreciate effects and state dependant effects. It is the them, and I think it is fun to do while sitting idea that what you practice will have an efby the pool.” fect on what you would want to compete in.

Gee and rugby’s Eric Strack are the only So if you practice one way, you will want two current student-athletes who are declared to compete that same way, be in that same cognitive science majors. Senior football situation. So that is what I try to do.” player Brian Holley started in the field, but Gee also pays closer attention to pochanged to the broader interdisciplinary studtential brain injuries in the gym. Though ies major last year. as one of the Bears’ top gymnasts and a “Cognitive science has very set classes,” competitor at NCAA Regionals last seaHolley explained. “I really loved studyson, falling from the beam and bars are ing about the brain and brain processes, not day-to-day occurrences for Gee. but there was too much focus on computer “I’m always worried when I occasionscience for me.” ally fall off the beam,” she said, “but I Holley continues to study the brain as an really haven’t had any head injuries.

ISF major and is finishing his thesis on the efThough when my teammate kicked me in fects of concussions on football players. Gee, the head at practice, I definitely checked on the other hand, has a greater appreciation Junior gymnast Avery Gee is one of two to make sure I didn’t have any damage to for the computer classes. my cranial nerves!”

Golden Bears majoring in cognitive science.

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Academic Discovery Tennis Sophomore Catalina Visico Uncovers New Majors after a Year of Study

By Jeremy Wu

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otivation comes in many forms. For California women’s success of the women’s tennis team. Aftennis sophomore Catalina Visico, it used to come in the ter brushing aside her feelings of homeform of reward. The second-year Golden Bear treated sickness, Visico embraced her new surherself to popsicles or allowed herself to watch her favorite television roundings warmly and has learned life lessons beyond her initial expectations. program whenever she reached her own academic goals.

For someone who considered herself In just a year on campus, Visico is proud to proclaim that she a scholarly individual in high school, the understands how much more important it is to learn about yourself Long Beach, Calif., native has begun to dis- than it is simply to learn.

Catalina Visico cover the true meaning of immersing herself “The lessons we learn on the way to our degree will last much into her studies. longer than the degree does,” said Visico, whose older sister, Visico entered her freshman year with pre-med aspirations and Christina, lettered for the Bears from 2005-08. took courses in molecular and cell biology.

Visico puts a premium on arriving at her own Over time, she allowed herself to discover goals, and being a part of the women’s tennis what truly excited her in the classroom. Toteam has made her task both easier and more difday, she is a double-major in two vastly disficult at the same time. The women’s tennis proparate areas; economics and French. gram won the Newmark Award two seasons ago For Visico, having a mother who specialfor the highest team grade-point average among izes in blood science and a father who earns all of the sports at Cal and has continued to keep his living as an engineer, her interest in the its stranglehold on the top spot over the last year. way things work was cultivated at an early “The girls on the team are competitive, no age. Visico describes herself as an emotional doubt,” said Visico. “On the court, there’s no person – one who yearns for human connecquestion how strong the team is. It’s off the court tion in what she does and in what she opens that people don’t know about, but each and every her mind to. In a matter of 14 months, she has member of the team pushes the others to do betdramatically changed the course of her study. ter because of their own desire to do well in the Still, she maintains that her parents have alclassroom.” ways encouraged her, no matter what direcWhile the pressure to succeed is heightened tion she has chosen. in the collegiate environment, Visico knows that “My parents have always told me to do those around her share the same goals. whatever I want to do,” said Visico. “I think “A degree from the University of California is they understand that it’s much more important huge,” said Visico. “It opens a lot of doors and that I’m happy with what I’m doing than it is opportunities for a bright future. While those opfor them to be happy with what I’m doing.” portunities belong to us as individuals, real credit Those values have spurred Visico to be- Catalina Visico takes pride in both individual should be given to the ones that have push us to come a valuable contributor to the academic and team academic accomplishments. succeed. That’s more than enough motivation.”

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2009-10 Winter calendar BAS MBB WBB MGYM WGYM LAX RUG SB MSD WSD MTEN WTEN T&F WWP

Baseball (Evans Diamond) Men’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion) Women’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion) Men’s Gymnastics (Haas Pavilion) Women’s Gymnastics (Haas Pavilion) Lacrosse (Memorial Stadium) Rugby (Witter Rugby Field) Softball (Levine-Fricke Field) Men’s Swimming & Diving (Spieker Pool) Women’s Swimming & Diving (Spieker Pool) Men’s Tennis (Hellman Courts) Women’s Tennis (Hellman Courts) Track & Field (Edwards Stadium) Women’s Water Polo (Spieker Pool)

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MBB in 29 Golden Bear Classic

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