UCSB’s Honer earns record sixth Player of the Week award

By ERIC BOOSE UCSB SPORTS WRITER

For the sixth time this season, UCSB’s Amelia Honer has earned The Big West Women’s Tennis Player of the Week award, the conference announced on Wednesday. She is the first Gaucho

Goleta releases video of State of City event

GOLETA — The city of Goleta is releasing a 2023 Goleta Community State of the City highlight video and a recording of the entire event held April 10 at the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge.

Approximately 200 people attended the informative night to get an update on how the city is doing, learn about plans for the future and ask questions.

To see how it went, city officials invite you to watch the short video

‘Big

SANTA BARBARA — A free screening of the new film “Big George Foreman” will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre, 2044 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara. Cinema Society members will be seated first.

A Q&A session with writer/ director George Tillman Jr. will follow the screening. “Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion” is based on the true story of and just the second player in The Big West to receive the award six times in a single season since at least 2002, when the conference’s Player of the Week archives begin.

The sophomore from Newtown, Pennsylvania was practically unbeatable last week, winning her doubles and singles matches against both UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton, losing only eight total games over the weekend. She shut out her singles opponent against the Anteaters, 6-0, 6-0, then combined with Kira Reuter to do the same in doubles against the Titans, 6-0. The Gauchos won both duals, improving to 6-1 in Big West play, putting them second in the conference standings heading into the final weekend of the regular season.

Honer is now unbeaten in her last 13 singles contests, as well as her last seven doubles matches alongside Reuter. In this week’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings, Honer and Reuter reached a new high, being recognized as the No 12 doubles partnership in Division I women’s tennis. Honer is also in the singles rankings, at No. 60 in the country.

Honer and the Gauchos will recap at youtu.be/AqEZ1xYuJ68.

To watch the event in its entirety, go to youtu.be/iSZhPejRYdM.

The Goleta event featured a room full of information tables on city projects and programs, a keynote address by Mayor Paula Perotte, an update on the city’s finances by City Manager Robert Nisbet and a Q&A panel with department directors.

Both the highlight video and the event recording are also available to view on Goleta TV Channel 19, the city’s website (cityofgoleta.org) and social media platforms (@ cityofgoleta).

— Neil Hartstein

the famous boxer’s life. The Sony Pictures Entertainment film follows Mr. Foreman from his impoverished childhood to his success as an Olympic gold medalist and world heavyweight champion and his time at the pulpit. The movie goes on to show Mr. Foreman’s return to boxing. Mr. Tillman co-wrote the movie with Frank Baldwin. The film stars Khris Davis, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sonja Sohn and Forest Whitaker. It has a running time of 2 hours and 13 minutes. For more information, go to sbiffriviera.com.

— Dave Mason

round out the regular season this week, traveling to CSUN on Friday, then returning home for the season finale against Cal Poly on Saturday.

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