Wheels of Fury
Although UC Santa Cruz isn’t recognized as an athletic powerhouse, UCSC’s cycling club is quickly turning heads. The team has been on an absolute tear as of late, recently clinching its third straight Division I mountain biking championship. The 2015 mountain biking season ended on...
UCSC Administrators Pull NCAA Referendum Proposal off 2016 Spring Ballot
With less than four months until campus elections, the UC Santa Cruz administration pulled the proposed NCAA referendum models off the spring voting ballot. This spring, students will not vote on the fate of NCAA athletics. The per student, per quarter fee previously planned for...
Men’s Volleyball Starts Season Undefeated
The UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team kicked off its 2016 season with a pair of convincing wins against Holy Names and Benedictine University over the weekend. The Slugs came into the game against Division II Holy Names with the debut of Paul Leon, the...
Wounded Warriors
The 2016 NBA D-League showcase at the Kaiser Permanente Arena featured 19 teams and 19 games, with two NBA call-ups and one showcase champion. For the Santa Cruz Warriors it resulted in a 0-2 record and a Net Rating of -18.0, the worst in the...
Fighting for the Future
Santa Cruz, California is by no means a city on the average NBA fan’s radar. But yesterday, over 100 NBA figures — including scouts, general managers and future stars — united in this Bay Area city for the first day of arguably the NBA Development...
Defending the D-League
In an opening night saturated in remembrance of their 2015 NBA D-League Championship, the 2015-16 Santa Cruz Warriors made a statement of their own, cruising to a 104-87 victory against the Bakersfield Jam on Nov. 13 at sold-out Kaiser Permanente Arena. “For the most part,...
Time to Start Anew
The absence of Julie Roth, former administrative assistant and sports information coordinator, left UC Santa Cruz Athletics in a tailspin trying to cover all the work she did. Collin Pregliasco, the new associate athletic director, will do his part to help calm the storm. He...
UCSC’s Fall Sports Suffer Season-Ending Defeats
Women’s Volleyball By Olivia Dobbs After the Great South Athletic Conference win that advanced the women’s volleyball team to its first NCAA tournament in three years, the Slugs lost to No. 3 Bears from Washington University in St. Louis in the NCAA Regional Quarterfinal on...
Slug Basketball is Back
Both UC Santa Cruz NCAA basketball teams started their seasons on Nov. 7 with scrimmages against out-of-division opponents. The men’s team lost to Westmont College, which is part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), while the women’s team was also defeated in its...