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Old Family RecipeCal volleyball junior Tarah Mur-rey’s support base has the striking-

ly rustic flavor of an old family recipe. Her story is steeped in special ingredients, and its product evokes a lasting impression. While it may be easy to credit her athletic talents to her genes, she believes whatever talent she has acquired comes from the life lessons her family has taught her.

Major AccomplishmentSoccer has lifted Hector Jimenez to new heights throughout his life, and his time at Cal is no

exception. The midfielder has developed into one of the top playmakers in program history, and at the end of the fall term, the fifth-year senior will become the first member of his family to graduate from college.

DEPARTMENTSLETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ...................... 2

SIDELINE REPORT ................................... 4

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

FALL SEASON PREVIEWS ..................... 18

ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT .................... 20

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ................... 34

HOME EVENTS CALENDAR................... 36

Lucky Number 13 For many, the number 13 conjures images of black cats, full moons

and bad luck, but for Alex Morgan, it represents an opportunity and a goal she’s pursued since playing age-group soccer. Morgan chose the su-perstitious numeral in honor of longtime USA star Kristine Lilly, and now, some 11 years later, she is on the same senior squad with her child-hood heroine.

Featured Spieker Cal will host the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament for the

first time Dec. 4-5, putting the championship in a pool that has produced more collegiate water polo crowns than any in history. The Bears have captured the title 13 times, and Spieker Aquat-ics Complex will move to center stage when Cal hopes to compete for championship No. 14 in Berkeley.

Bedrock for the BearsFred De Grosz’s support for Cal – from the Athletic Department to

the business school – will never slow down. In addition to his numerous donations to buoy both the men’s basketball and football programs, his commitment to the Endowment Seat Program ensures that he and his family will continue to enjoy the Blue and Gold for generations to come.

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oN ThE covER Strong FoundationSenior linebacker Mike Mohamed spent the majority of the summer

in Berkeley, taking classes and busily preparing for the 2010 football season. And in late July, just before his final training camp began, he joined his family at a rented house in the Mission Beach area of San Diego for an annual get-together with his parents and five younger sisters.

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Dear Friend of Cal Athletics:

Each fall, I seem to begin my Cal Sports Quarterly letter by ex-pressing my excitement over our students returning to campus

and the fall seasons getting underway. However, this year, my en-thusiasm for the coming year is heightened as we see the Student-Athlete High Performance Center and the renovation of California Memorial Stadium taking shape, with each day representing a step closer to their realization.

We have talked about both of these projects for a long time. Well, the time for mere talk is past. These ventures will change the way that Cal Athletics func-tions, not only from an operational standpoint, but also by creating an endowment that will support our long-term financial sustainability. Once completed, our student-athletes, coaches, staff and fans will be able to enjoy state-of-the-art facilities that will enhance the overarching Golden Bear experience.

Whenever I head up to Strawberry Canyon, I can’t help but be impressed by the tremen-dous progress being made. Already, workers are busy adding drywall and utilities to the interior of the SAHPC and installing landscaping around the perimeter. Although we still have almost a year until the High Performance Center opens – and, of course, until 2012 for the stadium to be ready – the anticipation continues to build.

California Memorial Stadium has generated so many wonderful memories over its 87-year lifespan. The construction team got a head start over the summer, with major restora-tion efforts set to begin soon after the final home football game against Washington on Nov. 27. I am so proud of all of those who have worked hard for us to reach this moment!

The incredible outpouring of support for both of these endeavors will benefit genera-tions of Golden Bears. Through the Endowment Seating Program, which so many of our loyal supporters have supported, Cal Athletics will secure its financial future. Your gener-osity enables us to provide a first-class academic and athletic experience for our student-athletes and, with the development of the High Performance Initiative, become a model program on the national level.

My sincere thanks go out to each and every one of you who have helped make these transformational projects a reality. Many of you have heard me say that I have never before in 30 years in intercollegiate athletics been involved with a project that has evoked such passion, commitment and energy. It is a great testement to the determination and resil-iancy of Golden Bears throughout the world.

Now let’s go have our best year ever!

Go Bears!

Sandy Barbour

Director of Athletics

ISSUE 33 - FALL 2010

ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS:Sandy Barbour

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS:Steve Holton

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS/SWA:Teresa Kuehn Gould

SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/ INTERCOLLEGIATE SERVICES:

Foti Mellis

HIGH PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR:Keith Power

EDITORIAL STAFF

349 Haas PavilionBerkeley, 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 (goldenbearsports.com), Michael

Pimentel, Kelley Cox, Richard Ersted, Michael Burns, Nikan Robinson, John Dunbar, Evan

Kerr, Mollie McClure and Tim Binning (TheSwim Pictures.com), among others

ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

195 Haas Pavilion Berkeley, CA 94720

510-642-2427 [email protected]

ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE

(800) GO BEARSFor daily updates on Cal Athletics, including

schedules, press releases and player profiles, visit the department’s official website at

CalBears.com.

ON THE COVER

Senior linebacker Mike Mohamed, the leading returning tackler in the Pac-10, leads a hard-hitting Cal defense in 2010. Photo by John

Todd (goldenbearsports.com).

General Manager: Damon Dukakis(510) 643-4825

[email protected]

LETTER fRom DiREcToR of AThLETics sAnDy BARBouR


Golden Bear fans will be able to enjoy enhanced coverage of their favorite teams through an

expanded array of programming beginning this fall on the Cal/ISP Sports Radio Network, which includes a renewal of Cal football games on KGO Radio (810 AM), a move for men’s basketball to KNEW Radio (910 AM) and the first-ever commercial broadcasts for women’s basketball on KKGN (960 AM).

In addition, the Cal Coaches Corner, a new one-hour show devoted to Cal sports, will air weekly on KNEW Radio, running from 6-7 p.m. on Mondays, starting Aug. 30.

Football broadcasts will begin 30 min-utes earlier than past seasons with an ex-

During the fall, segments will include ap-pearances by Tedford and selected Golden Bears players on a weekly basis, as well as regular interviews with assistant football coaches, head coaches and student-athletes from many of Cal’s other sports, Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour, Cal alumni and more. Beginning in December, the focus will shift to Mike Montgomery and Joanne Boyle and their basketball programs.

On television, the Cal Sports Report re-

turns to CSN California and will air each week from 5-6 p.m. on Wednesday except when preempted by live sporting events. Be sure to check local listings each week for the exact time to catch the Golden Bear features program in your area.

panded hour-long pregame show that will include interviews with head coach Jeff Tedford, Cal players and special guests. During home football Saturdays, the first 30 minutes will be broadcast live from FunZone on Maxwell Family Field.

Joe Starkey and Troy Taylor will once again call the action from the booth, with Todd McKim providing reports from the sidelines.

After the game, Cal’s Postgame at the

Paragon – held at the Claremont Hotel Club and Spa in Berkeley – returns with hosts Kate Scott and Lee Grosscup.

The Cal Coaches Corner on KNEW Ra-dio (910 AM) will also air live from the Paragon, with McKim serving as host.

Cal Fans to Enjoy Increased Coverage of Golden Bears on Radio, TV

siDELinE REPoRT


What to Watch for at Memorial Stadium This Fall

When Golden Bear fans arrive on campus for football games this season, progress on both

the Student-Athlete High Performance Center and Memorial Stadium construction projects will be readily evident.

The timeline to complete the SAHPC is well past the midway point, with opening expected for fall of 2011. Fans will also no-tice the large temporary braces supporting the west wall of the stadium, as well as the demolition of the interior offices and Hall of Fame Room that have greatly increased the size of the concourse.

For the most part, fans will enter and exit the stadium in a similar fashion to 2009. As was the case last season, a three-color diagram of Memorial Stadium has been created to help fans find their correct gate. Patrons are requested to enter and exit through the gates that correspond with their section color. To assist in the process, the recommended gate will be printed on each ticket. In addition to having maps posted

BEarS ON ThE airCal Football flagship ...........................................KGO Radio (810 AM)Cal Men’s Basketball flagship ..........................KNEW Radio (910 AM)Cal Women’s Basketball .................................. KKGN Radio (960 AM)Cal Coaches Corner (Mondays, 6 p.m.) ..........KNEW Radio (910 AM)Cal Sports Report (Wednesdays, 5 p.m.*) ....................CSN California*Check local listings in case preempted by live programming

around the outside of the stadium, Athletic Department representatives will be sta-tioned around campus on gamedays to pro-vide directions, distribute maps and answer any questions.

One of the most significant improve-ments for 2010 will be evident just outside the west side of Memorial Stadium where fans will be able to access portions of the roof of the SAHPC to reach their sec-tions, with a continuous path from north

to south. Last year, elevated walkways above the construction zone offered lim-ited means to walk along the side of the stadium and did not provide a clear route from one end of Memorial Stadium to the other. Once the SAHPC is complete, the entire roof of the facility will serve as a gameday plaza.

For more information on Memorial Sta-dium access, please visit CalBears.com/gameday.

A corridor atop the Student-Athlete High Performance Center provides fans with access from north to south on the west side of Memorial Stadium.

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Single-Game Football Tickets on Sale Now

Single-game tickets for all 2010 Cal football games are on sale now through the tickets link at

CalBears.com or by calling (800) GO BEARS. Don’t miss your chance to see the Golden Bears in action in the final year of California Memorial Stadium before renovation.

Upcoming Football Game Promotions

OpENiNg DaySept. 4 ............................ UC DaviS

SpiriT Of amEriCa DaySept. 11 ......................ColoraDo

hOmECOmiNgoct. 9 ..................................... UCla

hall Of famE rECOgNiTiONoct. 23 ................arizona State

aCaDEmiC rECOgNiTiONnov. 13 ............................oregon

113Th Big gamEnov. 20 ........................StanforD

SENiOr Daynov. 27 ...................WaShington

2010-10 Golden Bear Home Basketball Schedules

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Cal Basketball Season is Near

Football Alumni Tailgates Back for 2010

Calling all California alumni football players! All former Golden Bear gridiron players are invited to the

second annual Alumni Football Tailgate parties before each home game this season. They will be held at Minor Plaza at the School of Optometry, just a short walk from Memorial Stadium, and start two hours before kickoff.

The tailgates provide a great op-portunity for Cal football alumni to re-establish and maintain relation-ships developed through long hours

spent together in practice, games and class. Complimentary appetizers and refresh-ments will be served.

Contact Jennifer Lovewell in the De-velopment Office at (510) 643-7246 or [email protected] with any ques-tions about the events.

WomEnnov. 4 ........................vanguard (exh.)nov. 14 ............................Saint Mary’snov. 23 ..........................................Yalenov. 27-28 ...............................Colliers

international Classic(Cal, fullerton, tulane, Portland St.)

Dec. 11........................long Beach St.Jan. 2 ..................................... StanfordJan. 6 .............................arizona StateJan. 8 .......................................arizonaJan. 20 ........................................UClaJan. 22 .......................................... USCfeb. 10............................. Washingtonfeb. 12....................Washington Statefeb. 24..................................... oregonfeb. 26........................... oregon State

mEnnov. 10 .............. Sonoma State (exh.)nov. 16 .............. Cal State northridgenov. 20 ............................ new MexicoDec. 1 ................................... UC DavisDec. 8 ........................San Diego StateDec. 12 .............Southern MississippiDec. 18 ...................................Cal PolyDec. 22 .................................... KansasDec. 28 ...................................hartfordJan. 13 ....................Washington StateJan. 16 ............................. WashingtonJan. 27 ........................... oregon StateJan. 29 ..................................... oregonfeb. 3.............................arizona Statefeb. 5.......................................arizonafeb. 17.......................................... USCfeb. 20........................................UClaMarch 5 ................................. Stanford

gamES arE mOrE fuN wiTh a grOup

Bring your group of Cal fans out to Memorial Stadium or Haas Pavilion for exciting college

football, basketball and volleyball action!A Cal sporting event is a great place to

host birthday parties, alumni or family re-unions, and business retreats. Group tick-ets are also a fun way to entertain clients or reward employees for their hard work.

For more information on Cal’s group tickets program, contact Kevin Holman at (510) 642-8131 or [email protected].

As the Golden Bear basketball squads prepare for the 2010-11 season, it’s time to start thinking about tickets

for the upcoming year. Season tickets are on sale now for both the men’s and women’s teams and feature great amenities, including postseason ticket priority, early access to single-game tickets, options to purchase parking and more!

The defending Pac-10 champion Cal men welcome a recruiting class that has been ranked among the top 25 in the country

and features a non-conference home sched-ule highlighted by visits by national powers Kansas and New Mexico.

The Golden Bears, who captured the 2010 National Women’s Invitation Tourna-ment title, host the annual Colliers Interna-tional Classic in late November and open Pac-10 action vs. Stanford Jan. 2.

For more information, visit CalBears.com or call (800) GO BEARS. Complete schedules for both teams can also be found on CalBears.com.

Rugby celebrates its national title (left); Liv Jensen won the NCAA 50 freestyle (top); Cal’s 400 free relay champs (middle); the men’s varsity 8 claimed the 2010 IRA crown (bottom).

Bears Celebrate National Championship Week Sept. 7-11

New-Look CalBears.com Offers More Features

Cal Athletics perpetuated its storied tradition of national champions during 2009-10 as Golden Bear student-

athletes brought home a national team title in rugby, while men’s swimming won an unprecedented four NCAA relay titles and the men’s varsity 8 captured the IRA crown. Individually, Cal continued to make waves in the pool as standouts Nathan Adrian, Damir Dugonjic, Liv Jensen and Tom Shields all added to the Bears’ legacy of swimming champions.

Cal has now had at least one national cham-pion in 75 of the past 90 years, including ev-ery season since the 1973 Bears won the NCAA men’s water polo title, making it 37 straight years of athletic excellence in Berke-ley. To properly honor the accomplishments of these exceptional student-athletes and their coaches, the Cal Athletic Department will be celebrating the school’s fifth annual National Championship Week, Sept. 6-11.

“In collegiate athletics, a national championship is the ultimate accom-plishment and comes as a result of years

of hard work, determination and per-severance,” said Director of

Athletics Sandy Barbour. “Establishing a National Championship Week has

been our way of publicly recognizing these tremendous

achievements and formally of-fering our congratulations to

the student-athletes, coaches and support staff that helped make a dream of a national championship become a reality.”

Events during National Championship Week include the unveiling of a dedi-cated display case in Haas Pavilion and a Chancellor’s reception at University House. The week culminates with the introduction of the national champions during Cal’s Sept. 11 football game vs. Colorado.

Among the many new elements now on-line are:

• Increased video profiles and features• CalBears.com Blog for up-to-date news on the Bears

• Easy access to Cal social media pages, such as Twitter and Facebook

• Direct links to merchandise, tickets, schedules and Bear Backers

• Devoted pages to the Student-Athlete High Performance Center and Memorial Stadium construction projects, including live web cams

• Reorganization of links to make the site easier to navigate

We hope that you enjoy the new look and use CalBears.com as the best source for in-formation about the Golden Bears.

CalBears.com, the official website for Cal Athletics, underwent a major overhaul during the summer and

re-launched as a more streamlined and an interactive site to follow the Golden Bears.

Dave Rosselli Accepts Position at Pacific

Dave Rosselli, Cal’s associate athletic director

for development who has worked at the University since 2004, has resigned his position to return to his alma mater, the University of the Pacific, as assistant dean for development, effective Sept. 7.

“Although it is extremely difficult to leave my staff and close friends at Cal, I am confident that I leave the develop-ment operation in great shape and the Endowment Seating Program well on its way towards completion,” Rosselli said. “I would like to thank Athletic Director San-dy Barbour for giving me this exciting op-portunity to work closely with her on this transformational project and incredible career journey. I will always feel part of the Cal family.”

Rosselli, who will be based at Pacific’s Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Fran-cisco, previously spent eight years at UOP as director of development for the Schools of Engineering and Business in the 1990s. A search for his replacement at Cal is currently underway.

Dave Roselli


Fifth-year senior linebacker and preseason All-American Mike Mohamed spent the majority of the summer in Berkeley, taking classes and busily preparing for the 2010 football season.

me and him. We had to bond being sur-rounded by so many different girls.

“Since I’ve been in college, he’s kind of been left to face all of them on his own,” he added with a smile on his face.

Big Mike doesn’t seem to mind too much.“I grew up with a bunch of boys,” said

the elder Mohamed, who owns a farming business with his two brothers. “I have had to change the way I think. When you grow up in a house with a bunch of men, it’s a lot different than growing up in a house full of women. You can’t treat women like you treat men and Mikey is very aware of that. He’s very respectful of other people, and I think his mother and sisters played a big part in that.”

All joking aside, the eight members of the Mohamed household have always en-joyed each other’s company and love their annual beach get together.

“It’s awesome, just hanging out at the beach,” said Mohamed. “With four of us now in college, there are not too many times we all get to be together.”

“We really enjoying being together,” added his mother, Molly. “We say we’re just ‘beaching it.’”

But in late July, just before his final Cal football training camp began, he joined his family at a rented house in the Mis-sion Beach area of San Diego. Although he could only stay for a weekend, he wasn’t going to miss a family tradition that’s been going on for more than a decade … even if it did include a trip to the local salon for a pedicure.

That’s what can happen when you grow up in a family with six women.

“My dad started getting pedicures with my mom and I was like ‘hey, I’ll do it, sounds good,’” said Mohamed, whose fam-ily includes five younger sisters plus his mother and father. “It’s kind of like a foot massage. As long as you don’t put anything on your nails, there’s nothing wrong with a guy doing it.”

Getting pedicures is certainly not the only thing that Mike and his father, affec-tionately known as Big Mike, have done together.

“My dad and I formed a strong bond being the only guys in the house,” said Mohamed. “We did everything together – sports, video games, watching football, all those kinds of things – because it was just


Strong Foundation

FEATURE

Mike Mohamed Remains Close to His Parents, Five Sisters

By Kyle Mcrae

his outreach including the Sage Mentorship Project that matches Cal students with local youths to serve as one-on-one mentors.

“I just help out whenev-er I get a chance,” he said humbly.

Mohamed’s accomplish-ments on the field have flown largely under the radar during his first three collegiate seasons. But af-ter the numbers he racked up as a junior in 2009, when he led the Pac-10 with 112 stops and earned first-team all-conference honors, he couldn’t help but be noticed.

In fact, Mohamed has been the team’s most rec-ognized player prior to the 2010 season, picking up multiple honors, highlighted by preseason All-America status. He is also on national

watch lists for the Chuck Bednarik Award (best defensive player), Rotary Lombardi Award (best lineman or linebacker), The Lott Trophy (IMPACT player of the year) and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy (best de-fensive player).

True to his nature, Mohamed is more concerned about the team.

“I’m aware of all the individual pre-season honors, but at the same time I’m not really too worried about it,” Mohamed said. “If I end up playing well enough to make some of these things come true that’s great, but my main goal is to win the Pac-10 with my team. That’s all I really need.”

Well before he gained recruiting no-tice from the Golden Bear coaching staff, Mohamed understood all the opportunities Cal offered.

“I always had Cal in the back of mind as a school to go to, even without the football part of it,” he said. “When the opportunity to come to school and play football here came up, I definitely jumped on it. This is a great academic institution and getting a degree from Cal is something you can proudly put on your resume. A Berkeley education opens up a lot of doors.”

Hanging out with six women, that’s something he’s surely been doing for others his entire life.

Big Mike and Molly raised Mike, 22, and his five sisters – Annie, 21; Calie, 19; Emily 18; twins, Gabi and Dani, 13 – in the small California desert town of Brawley, located in the heart of the Imperial Valley about 125 miles east of San Diego and 30 miles north of Mexicali, Mexico. Although members are starting to spread out throughout the coun-try, they remain a tight-knit family.

“We have a strong family that supports and loves each other,” said Molly. “There’s not a day that goes by that I’m sure Mikey doesn’t stay in touch with someone from the family, even if it’s just a quick text mes-sage. We have a really strong bond and a strong family foundation that is important to all of us.”

That familial base has helped create a young man who is friendly, pleasant, polite and respectful.

“With a bunch of women around, our house was loud,” said Molly. “Mike would get his two cents in and then sit back and listen. He might stir the pot a little bit then go back in the shadows, kind of sit back and laugh, and see what played out.”

“I’ll admit that I’m not the most talkative person, but I still think I do a good job of relating to a lot of different people,” said Mohamed.

That has been important as he has adjusted to life in Berkeley, where the culture is much different than the one he knew back home.

“It was definitely a culture shock,” Mo-hamed recalled about his arrival at Cal. “There were a whole lot of different people and a whole lot of different ideas that I’d never seen or been exposed to. I remember my first time walking down Telegraph Av-enue, thinking what the heck is going on. But now all the craziness is just second na-ture to me. I’ve met a lot of different people and it’s made me a better person.”

Being a good person is something Mo-hamed learned from his parents and much of what he is all about.

“My parents are the foundation and rock of our family,” he said. “They kept everybody together and raised us to be good people.”

There is no doubt he’s been good – not just off the field in class and in the com-munity, but also on the gridiron. Mohamed is on target to receive his bachelor’s degree in business administration in December with a GPA just shy of 3.5. Twice he has earned first-team Pac-10 All-Academic recognition and last year added District 8 All-Academic honors from CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine for the first time.

Mohamed has also been one of the team’s most active players in the community with

The entire Mohamed clan: Mike, his parents (center) and his five sisters.

“My parents are the foundation and rock of our family. They kept everybody together and raised us to be good people.”

- Mike Mohamed

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Lucky NumberAlex Morgan Looks to Take Her Place among the World’s Elite

For many, the number 13 conjures images oF black cats, Full

moons and bad luck, but For alex morgan it represents an opportunity and a goal she’s pursued since her days running down the pitch with the rest oF her recreational league soccer team.

Morgan, now in her senior season with the California women’s soccer team, selected the superstitious 13 as an age-group player in honor of U.S. Senior National Team star Kristine Lilly. Little did Morgan know that some 11 years later, she would be on that same senior squad with her heroine.

After attending several training camps with the senior team, Morgan made her first appearance with the U.S. national squad this past March in a 1-0 victory against Mexico. Playing in snow – a first for the Americans – Morgan saw a full half of action versus Mexico, playing alongside the players she idolized as a prep.

“Prior to the game against Mexico, [head coach Pia Sundage] told me I was going to see 45 minutes, so I had time to men-tally prepare,” Morgan said. “We couldn’t feel our feel our feet and had trouble anticipating things, so it didn’t really feel like a first cap to me.”

Alex Morgan

by ANNA OLesON-WheeLer

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In May, the Diamond Bar, Calif., native’s good luck and athletic talents earned her an invitation to join the team for a game against Germany. In a proverbial clash of the titans, the match pitted the No. 1 team in the world, the United States, against second-ranked Germans. Morgan’s mood brightens noticeably when discussing the game, in which she played 26 minutes.

“Going in for the States to play against Germany was a com-pletely different expe-rience than any I’ve had,” Morgan said. “Those games espe-cially made me want to continue to work hard for the team, and to do more. I wish I could have contrib-uted more – like a goal or two – but it was amazing.”

While Morgan dons number 20 with the senior team with Lilly still sporting her num-ber 13, Morgan wore 13 when she led the U.S. Under-20 Na-tional Team to the gold medal at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile. She won the Silver Ball as the tournament’s second-best player and the Bronze Shoe as the third-leading scorer, in addition to expanding her fan base from America to the world.

“In meeting Alex, you would never know of her fame, success and ability,” Cal head coach Neil McGuire said. “She carries her-self with great humility and leads her team as a captain the players all look up to.”

From her gold in Chile, Morgan made the transition to U-23 team training camps and then the big time with the senior national team. While Morgan has gone toe-to-toe with some of the best players in the country with the Golden Bears and the world with the U-20 team, joining the senior national team intimidated her at first.

“It’s surreal playing with these players,” Morgan said of senior stars such as Abby Wambach, Christie Rampone, Hope Solo, Shannon Boxx and, of course, Lilly. “Some of them have been playing together for years, but as I come in more and gain more experience, it’s been easier. I’m becoming

coming in, but there are 22 girls at practice every day to work harder,” Morgan said of the self-imposed voluntary sessions. “We want to work every day to improve so that we can do better in the Pac-10 and the NCAA Tournament. I think this year will be a really good year for us to take it all the way to the end and not slow down as the

season progresses.”This fall, Morgan

will transition all she has learned while wearing the red, white and blue to the blue and gold of Berkeley. The 5-7 starter has led Cal in scoring in each of the past three seasons and is fourth on the all-time scor-ing list with 31 goals coming into her senior campaign. McGuire fully echoes Morgan’s sentiments that her time with the national teams has vastly im-proved her already stellar play.

“Alex continues to grow as a player and has no doubt benefit-ted greatly from be-ing around some of the best players in the

world,” McGuire said. “Alex’s play is for-ever evolving as she adds different dimen-sions to her game.”

Not only will this fall be the last for Mor-gan in a Cal uniform, but it will also be her final semester of school. Morgan took a full load of classes over the summer to ensure she will be set to graduate in De-cember with a degree in political economy. She selected the major for its emphasis on international relations after she traveled abroad with the Cal squad to Italy, studying in Spain last summer and to multiple coun-tries with Olympic Development Program and national teams. Somewhere down the line, Morgan sees herself earning an MBA and pursuing a career in international business.

Morgan planned her studies carefully to graduate a semester early so she could be free to play professionally in the Women’s Professional Soccer league in the spring. In the meantime, you can catch Morgan loping across Goldman Field at Edwards Stadium in her lucky number 13.

more a part of a family and making friend-ships that will last a long time.”

Nowadays, the pair of Lilly and Morgan, tied together by their number and forward position, jokes about how nervous Mor-gan was not only meeting Lilly, but then playing alongside her. After Morgan told Lilly that she selected her 13 in her honor,

Lilly told Morgan that she would bequeath her jersey number to Morgan upon her retirement.

“I’ve had 13 since I started playing club soccer, and it may seem like just a num-ber but to me, it’s more than that,” Mor-gan said. “Lilly and the others played in the 1999 World Cup, which really opened the doors for women’s soccer in the States. I’ve always looked up to her, Mia Hamm and Joy Fawcett, who I’ve met before be-cause she’s a Cal alum. Meeting all of these players and having Lilly come back into camp and getting to know her, it’s all made for a crazy six months.”

Morgan noted this summer differed from others because trained with multiple teams, including Cal and the U.S. National Team. To help her workout regimen, Morgan also spent time practicing with the Golden Bear men’s soccer team. Additionally, Morgan and many members of women’s side have come to Berkeley earlier than required to condition.

“We have a young team with 11 girls

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The University of California will host the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament for the first time this December, putting the championship in a pool that has produced more collegiate water

polo crowns than any in history.

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NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship Comes to Cal in 2010, 2011

By Scott Ball

Dating back to their first title in 1973, the Golden Bears have captured the national title 13 times, and Spieker Aquatics Complex – the team’s venerable facility at the corner of Dana Street and Bancroft Way – will move to center stage this Dec. 4-5 when Cal hopes to compete for championship No. 14 in Berkeley.

“It is obviously an honor to host this type of national championship, especially at a place with a tradition of winning NCAA titles,” said Cal head coach Kirk Everist, who has spent nearly 15 years and numer-ous hours playing and coaching among the con-crete confines of Spieker Aquatics Complex. “To have the national championship at Cal for the first time makes it special and we are all excited. Spieker is a place rich in water polo tradition, so it is kind of natural to have it here.”

Everist is also a natural to lead a Bear squad that is one of the frontrunners for a spot in the four-team NCAA field. An Olympian and member of the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame, Everist is the only person ever to win a national water polo title as both a play-er and a coach more than once (Stanford coach John Vargas has one title as a UC Irvine player and one title as the Cardinal’s coach). As a student-athlete, he led Cal to NCAA crowns in 1987 and 1988 under the Bears’ legendary mentor Pete Cutino, earning NCAA Player of the Year honors in ’88.

Eighteen years later, Everist wielded his winning ways in repeat fashion, this time as Cal’s head coach

directing the Bears to back-to-back championships in 2006 and 2007.

This year’s Cal squad just happens to feature two players, seniors Brian Dudley and Zach White, who were key performers as freshmen when Cal upended USC, 8-6, at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center for its

last crown in 2007.“The guys on this

year’s team are extreme-ly excited to have the opportunity to play for a national championship at home,” said Everist. “There is that little added excitement knowing this could be a historical sea-son. We have a couple of seniors who won a na-tional championship as freshmen and now have

an opportunity to play their last game at Cal for the national championship. That would be fantastic. We also have a large and talented junior class who now know they have an opportunity to possibly do it twice here.”

Not only will Spieker Aquatics Complex host the NCAA Championship this fall, it will repeat as the venue in December 2011.

Formerly known as Harmon Pool, a refurbished Spieker Aquatics Complex was completed in the fall of 1982 and was named after former Cal water polo letterman Edward “Ned” Spieker, who provided ma-jor funding for the renovation. Since that time, the Bears’ men’s water polo team has won more than 200 matches (205-49, .807) at home, including un-defeated seasons in 1988, 1991 and 1992. For the 2010 NCAA Tournament, seating capacity will

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Jon Sibley. In addition, the Bears return eight other letterwinners and welcomes in freshman class that includes three first-team high school All-Americans and two foreign athletes who were members of their junior national teams.

“It is a big deal that Cal is hosting the NCAA cham-pionships for a lot of reasons,” said Steffens. “It is an opportunity for kids in the community to come and experience what water polo is like at Spieker and en-joy the atmosphere just like I did when I was growing up as a Bear fan. For the alumni, it is a chance to come back to Cal and reconnect. When you enter Spieker,

it is like you are captured inside its walls with all these great people and great community. I was in awe of the legends like Pete Cutino when I was a kid, and I felt like I was part of the Cal team, just like I do now.

“For the players, every year it is about winning the national championship, but it is an extremely dif-

ficult thing to do. This season we’ll be fighting all the way. There is pressure, but it is good, fun pres-sure. We have all studied championship teams from the past and know what made them successful, but it is time to write our own chapter and make our own history.”

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be expanded to more than 1,000, with temporary bleachers gracing the upper deck of complex.

Yet even with Cal’s success at home, there are no guarantees for 2010. Although the Bears possess as much talent as any team in the nation - they are ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll - the character of Everist’s squad might be what propels the Bears into this year’s NCAA field and places them among the school’s all-time great teams.

Cal’s team captains, Dudley and junior Charlie Stef-fens, are both elite student-athletes who garnered 4.0 GPAs last spring. Dudley, a 6-5 defender/utility man from Johannesburg, South Africa, is attend-ing the Haas School of Business and was the team’s Co-MVP last season. Steffens is ma-joring in ethnic studies and is the son of Carlos Steffens, who helped the Bears to the 1977 NCAA title and was the 1979 Pac-10 Player of the Year.

Cal has two out-standing juniors from Serbia, Ivan Rackov and Luka Saponjic. Rackov is the Bears’ top return-ing scorer with 55 goals while earning third-team All-America honors. Saponjic is a 6-5 left-hander attacker who is a member of the Serbian National Team. Last season, Saponjic paced Cal with four goals in an overtime victory over Stanford in the MPSF semifinal, including the match-winning score.

Brothers Zach and Spencer White are both strong inside players who will play a key role for the Bears, while junior Cory Nasoff returns after earning All-America notice in ’09. Cal also has three goalies who will be vying for playing time: junior Wil Toppen, who was named as the team’s most improved player, and two members of the U.S. Junior National Team – sophomore Justin Parsons and incoming freshman

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Above: Courtney Johnson surrounded by her family (l-r): daughter Ainsley (4), son Gideon (6), husband Darren and son Maddox (2). Johnson competed at the 2000 Olympics (in blue cap, above left) and posed with the silver-medal winning Team USA squad (lower left).

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Courtney Johnson a Trailblazer for Women’s Water PoloBy Melissa Dudek

advanced to the gold medal match, falling to host Australia in the final. Johnson came home with the first-ever silver medal for Olympic women’s water polo.

“People always ask what makes the Olympics special,” Johnson said. “There were six teams. We play those teams all the time. It wasn’t all that dif-ferent from any other competition, but you do feel the pressure of the Olym-pics with all the media there and all the fans there. The Olympic gold medal game was in the natatorium [Sydney International Aquatic Centre] where it

held 17,000 people. And it was full. That was the most they have ever had watching a women’s water polo match. “

Though she retired from playing in 2001 after earning her law degree from Santa Clara University, Johnson remained active in the USOC. She began as the USA Water Polo representative to the Athletes Advisory Council, serving four terms before being elected to the Executive Committee. She also recently served on a 13-member USOC governance restructure task force, headed by former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, that was charged with looking at the structure and operations of the USOC.

These days, Johnson and her husband Darren (also a Cal grad), live in Moraga with their three children, Gideon (6), Ainsley (4), and Maddox (2). They have a fourth child, a girl, due in October.

On Friday, Oct. 22, Courtney Johnson will officially become a member of the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame.

As a student-athlete, Johnson was the MVP of Cal’s club team before women’s water polo became a varsity sport in 1995. In that first year, Johnson helped the Bears make a huge splash, leading them to a sec-ond-place national finish. She was also the Bears’ first national tournament MVP and their inaugural first-team All-American, along with teammate Kailya Young.

Johnson’s playing career, and her series firsts, did not end at Cal. She earned a spot on the U.S. National team in 1996, the same year the Olympics were held in Atlanta. De-spite men’s water polo’s status as an Olym-pic sport since 1900, women’s water polo did not have the same privileges.

“In 1996, we sat outside looking in at the Olympics,” Johnson recalled. “Softball and women’s soccer had just been added. It was a huge boost for wom-en’s sports, but we kind of got left out of that. There was a concern that we would never get in.”

The U.S. team worked with the Australian National team to encourage the International Olympic Committee to add women’s water polo for the 2000 Games in Australia. After a hard battle, the IOC at last voted to add the sport to the docket for Sydney.

Johnson continued playing well for the American upstarts. The team lacked national funding until it earned Olympic status, put-ting it at a competitive disadvantage behind many other fully-funded national teams around the globe.

“We were probably the eighth-best team in the world when they announced water polo was going to be in the Olympics,” Johnson said. “We had to make a lot of improvements in a short amount of time to even to make the Olympics.”

The U.S. team did qualify for the six-team Olympic field in 2000, making Johnson a member of the first-ever U.S. Olympic water polo squad. She and her teammates did not just make the Olympics. Johnson and the rest of the team defied the odds and

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The Cal men look to return to the NCAA Championships this year behind anexperienced trio of runners that includes a pair of track & field All-Americans. Senior Michael Coe, who redshirted during the 2009 cross country season, is

back for his final campaign. He was a contributing member of the Bears’ 2007 and ’08 squads that finished among the top 25 at the NCAA meet, and is a two-time indoor track All-American as part of Cal’s distance medley relay. Senior Steve Sodaro devel-oped into the team leader last fall, earning all-region honors after taking 16th at NCAA West Regionals. Later in 2009-10, he placed sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA outdoor track championships. Senior Kari Karlsson, another key member of Cal’s 2009 NCAA squad, claimed all-region status in ’09, while a host of other competi-tors will try to establish themselves among the squad’s top five runners.

With nine starters returning from last year, Cal hopes to find itself atop the Nor-Pac standings this season after earning the No. 2 seed in last year’s NorPac Tournament. While the Bears lose their points leader from a year ago, Natalie

Nurnberg (25 points), returning is Cal’s scoring leader from 2009, junior erin Magill (9 goals, 21). Magill, a member of the all-region team last year, also made the NorPac all-conference second team with sophomore Deanna Kennedy, who paced the Bears with 10 assists. On the defensive side, three-time NorPac Defensive Player of the Week lisa lohre is back. She collected six defensive saves in 2009 to lead her team and finish third in the conference in that category. Head coach Shellie onstead and the Bears open the season with a three-game homestand.

Important Home DatesSunday, Sept. 5 vs. UC DavisThe Bears welcome the Aggies for the NorPac openerfriday, oct. 29 vs. StanfordCal faces Stanford under the lights in the regular-season finale

Head coach tony Sandoval believes he has the pieces in place for the Calwomen to contend for their first trip to the NCAA national meet in more than 20 years. The Bears just missed out on a spot last season and return an experienced

and deep crew of runners. Heading the list is junior Deborah Maier, who became the first Cal woman to be chosen first-team All-Pac-10 after she took sixth at the confer-ence championships in the fall of 2009. She later brought home All-America recogni-tion in the outdoor 5000 meters in track & field. Sophomore laurynne Chetelat be-comes eligible this year after transferring from Stanford, where she earned All-Pac-10 and all-region honors as a freshman in 2008. Junior Keena Kohl and sophomore ellie Keene both established themselves in the lineup last season and will add depth and experience to the roster.

When Cal takes the field for the first time in 2010, the Golden Bears will do so as one of the most accomplished Pac-10 teams of the last eight years, hav-ing averaged 8.4 wins per season under head coach Jeff tedford. With his

next victory, Tedford will record his 68th win, passing the legendary Pappy Waldorf on Cal’s all-time list. The Bears return 19 players who started at least five games a year ago. with three of them – punter Brian anger, tight end anthony Miller and linebacker Mike Mohamed – earning preseason All-America recognition. In addition, senior quarterback Kevin riley heads the offense as the Pac-10 active leader in both wins (15) and touchdown passes (37). The final season in Memorial Stadium before construction begins in earnest in December features seven home games, including the 113th Big Game vs. Stanford.

Important Home DatesSaturday, nov. 13 vs. oregonBears, 3-0 vs. Ducks in Berkeley under Tedford, host preseason Pac-10 favoritesSaturday, nov. 27 vs. WashingtonFinal game in Memorial Stadium before moving to AT&T Park in 2011

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Coach Kevin Grimes looks to lead the Golden Bears back to the NCAA Tournament after injuries derailed what was a strong start to the 2009 season. A solid core of seniors includes midfielders Hector Jimenez (2009 Pac-10 leader in assists with 9),

Servando Carrasco and Demitrius Omphroy, forward David Paul and defender A.J. Soares. Junior goalkeeper David Bingham (0.95 GAA in 2009) and midfielder Tony Salciccia, Cal’s 2009 Freshman of the Year, are back for the Bears, as well. Bingham and Soares, who posted career highs in points (7) and goals (3) last year, were both members of the Far West All-Region team in ’09, while Carrasco and Jimenez joined Bingham and Soares on the All-Pac-10 team.

Important Home Datesfriday, Sept. 10 vs. Saint Mary’sHome opener and first game of the Cal Legacy Classicthursday, nov. 11 vs. StanfordFinal regular-season game against rival

After advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007 last season, California is aiming to improve on 2009’s 11-9-1 overall mark. The Bears return 17 letterwinners and welcome 12 newcomers, including

a power-packed freshmen class. Senior alex Morgan, who paced Cal with 14 goals and eight assist last year, as well as U.S. Under-23 National Team player MeganJesolva and Icelandic National Team starter Katrin omarsdottir, key the list of veter-ans on the roster. Head coach neil Mcguire, who is in his fourth year at the helm of the Bears, has scheduled an exciting slate of 15 home games and hopes to have Cal back in the national playoffs for the 12th time in the last 13 seasons.

Important Home Datesthursday, Sept. 23 vs. PortlandThe national-power Pilots close Cal’s nonconference homestandSaturday, oct. 30 vs. StanfordCal battles the 2009 NCAA runner-ups in the Bay Area Derby

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The Golden Bears put themselves in elite company after advancing to the NCAA regional final for the third consecutive year in 2009. Cal joined just three oth-er teams on a short list to accomplish the feat, including three-time defending

champion Penn State. The Bears return two-time All-American setter Carli lloyd to the lineup as she teams with junior outside hitter tarah Murrey. In the middle, Cal will feature the talents of sophomore Correy Johnson, who was a member of the Pac-10 All-Freshman team a year ago. Defensively, senior Meagan Schmitt steps into the role of libero. Head coach rich feller earned his 200th victory as Cal’s leader and 500th career win during the 2009 season. He will look to guide the Bears to a school-record fifth straight 20-win season and their ninth consecutive NCAA selection in 2010.

Important Home Datesfriday, nov. 5 vs. USCThe Bears and the Trojans clash in the middle of the Pac-10 seasonfriday, nov. 19 vs. StanfordThe home team claimed five-set victories in each meeting last year

With the NCAA Championships coming to Spieker Aquatics Center in Decem-ber, the Golden Bears bring an experienced squad to the pool that hopes to earn its record 14th national title in its home venue. Kirk everist’s team

features four returning All-Americans – seniors Brian Dudley and zach White, and juniors ivan rackov and Cory nasoff – plus several other talented performers. Ad-ditional major contributors will include junior attackers Charlie Steffens and luka Saponjic, plus junior goalie Wil toppen. Cal also welcomes in a freshman class that features three first-team high school All-Americans and two foreign athletes who were members of their junior national teams.

Important Home DatesSaturday, oct. 9 vs. UClaRematch of 2009 MPSF Tournament final won by UCLAfriday, nov. 19 vs. StanfordAnnual Big Splash played night before Big Game this year

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Bedrock for

BearsFred de Grosz Is a Stalwart Supporter of Cal Athletics

By anton Malko

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Jeff Tedford sat at a donor appreciation lunch in June 2003 after his first season, one that saw the Golden Bears’ fortunes turn around dramatically and set the stage for a string of postseason bowl appearanc-es. The head coach was surrounded that day by sup-porters who knew the football program was on the

right track.

One of the boosters at Tedford’s table was Fred de Grosz, who received his BS in 1964 from the Haas School of Business. De Grosz listened as Tedford confided his disappointment that efforts to gain approvals – and funds – to replace the natural grass at Memorial Stadium with artificial turf were proving to be unsuccessful.

De Grosz and the rest of the table urged the head coach not to give up. Soon, they convinced him to stand and make an appeal to everyone at the lunch. After some urging and a quick check with then-Director of Athletics Steve Gladstone, Tedford stood and told the room full of Cal supporters that the funds needed to pay for a new playing surface were not materializing.

By the end of that day, fortunes had changed.“We raised $250,000 on a napkin,” Tedford said, “and when the

Chancellor saw that, he said, ‘Go ahead and do it.’ I’ll never forget Fred for really encouraging me because it has made such a huge difference in our entire athletic program. At that point, it really be-came evident to me that if supporters are educated about something, they’re willing to support it. He’s given not only sound advice but great financial support, too. He’s a great friend of the program.”

In the seven years since then, de Grosz has only increased his commitment to Cal Athletics. In addition to his numerous donations to buoy both the men’s basketball and football programs, his seven season tickets for basketball and another six for football through the

Endowment Seat Program ensure that de Grosz and his family will continue to enjoy the Blue and Gold for generations to come.

“It ties our family to Cal with a long-term commitment,” explained de Grosz, who sees excellence in athletics as a natural extension of the campus community. “It’s clear that a successful athletic program contributes to the University’s ability to attract bright stu-dents and contributes to the positive alumni contributions. I strongly believe that strong academics and successful athletics can coex-ist and, in fact, enhance each other.”

De Grosz was raised in Burlingame and San Francisco, where he attended Lincoln High School. Looking across the Bay toward his collegiate ambitions, Cal was “always my dream and my parents’ dream,” he said. “Once in a while I’d go over to Cal just to walk on the campus and that alone was a motivator to somehow make it there as a student.”

He arrived at the University in 1962 after two years at junior college and embarked toward his degree from Haas while main-taining a busy work schedule as both an employee of a fresh-fruit forwarding company and the manager of the ice-skating rink at San Francisco’s Jack Tar Hotel, known at the time as one of the town’s swankest at Geary and Van Ness.

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generosity. Fred cares for people and is willing to help whenever possible without the spotlight being on him.”

Tedford described the vital role de Grosz and other donors play to nur-ture the Athletic Department, espe-cially in a tough economic climate: “Donors are always the lifeline of the program,” Tedford said. “Wheth-er you talk about scholarships or the other financial obligations to run a Division I football program at this level, it’s absolutely imperative that you have support. With times being as hard as they are right now, it re-ally just shows the strong commit-ment people have to the athletics program.”

Montgomery agreed. “In the cur-rent economic times, it is vital for people to give back to the Univer-sity so that others may experience that which is Cal,” he said.

Added Tedford: “Even though things are tough economically, for people to continue to come out and support us creates a great deal of ap-preciation. It’s imperative for our success that that continues, and we want to make them proud, as well.”

De Grosz’s wife, Kathi, did not attend the University but is “a very committed Cal Bear,” according to de Grosz. Their daughter, Kerri, got

her BA from Cal in 1993 before earning her JD from Santa Clara and passing the bar, while their son, Kurt, earned his MBA from Haas in 1994 following his undergraduate studies at UCLA.

Kerri and Kurt have produced five “little Bears,” as de Grosz called his grandchildren, three boys and two girls – one of whom is distinctively named Berkley.

Asked if he envisions his grandchildren enjoying football games from his ESP seats at the renovated Memorial Stadium, de Grosz painted a different picture. “My grandchildren aren’t going to be in those seats,” he said. “They’re going to be across in the student section. Hopefully, I’ll wave to them.”

As multiple generations of de Grosz family members wave to each other from either side of Memorial Stadium, an equally com-mitted family of student-athletes will be taking the field filled with pride to represent themselves, their families, their University and all the supporters who stand tall to support the Bears on their quest for continued success.

With its modest tuition rates, Cal was as big a bargain financially as it was a powerhouse academically, and de Grosz found a way to balance his busy schedule to succeed in both the classroom and the workplace.

“I was literally working fulltime every day and on the weekends to put myself through Cal. That’s one of the reasons that I’ve been so in-volved with the University as a do-nor,” de Grosz said. “I felt I had a debt I had to repay there, which I continue to do.”

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Cal, de Grosz earned an MBA in 1967 from San Francisco State, going to school at night while continuing to work fulltime for the fruit-forwarding firm. He then land-ed a job with General Foods, and the following five years saw him move from San Francisco to Denver, to the company’s headquarters in White Plains, N.Y.; back to Denver and then Memphis, where he was the district manager handling the com-pany’s coffee business in three states before deciding he wanted to come back to the West Coast.

Back in San Francisco, de Grosz jumped into a one-man insurance company in 1971. Over the course of 38 years until his retirement in 2009, de Grosz built Alburger de Grosz, Inc., into a major insurance and financial services company which merged with the Mario L. Basso Agency to become ABD In-surance & Financial in 1990. The new firm grew into the 14th-largest brokerage in the United States by 2005, with 970 employees. ABD was acquired by Greater Bay Bancorp in 2002 for $200 million; in 2007, Wells Fargo took ownership in a $1.5 billion acquisition of Greater Bay Bancorp.

Unsurprisingly, retirement has not slowed de Grosz down. He still consults for brokerage firms and has joined a couple of boards of directors as well as The Angels Forum, a seed-funding group.

De Grosz’s support for Cal – from the Athletic Department to the business school, making him an official Builder of Berkeley – will never slow down, either.

“I believe that the Cal experience enabled me to compete with anybody on this planet,” de Grosz said. “I respect the University, I love it and I feel that we need a great UC Berkeley in California and in this country. My experience was that I left Cal confident that I could do and be whatever I wanted.”

After spending some time with de Grosz over the summer, men’s basketball head coach Mike Montgomery said he was “greatly impressed with his passion for all things Cal and his

Fred and Kathi de Grosz have been generous donors to the Haas School of Business, as well as Intercollegiate Athletics.

“Fred cares for people and is willing to help whenever possible without the spotlight being on him.”

- men’s basketball coach Mike Montgomery

“I’ll never forget Fred for really

encouraging me because it has made such a huge differ-

ence in our entire athletic program.”

- football coach Jeff Tedford


It might just be the perfect blend of fresh ingredients and aromatic spices. For Cal volleyball junior outside hitter Tarah

Murrey, her support base has the strikingly rustic flavor of an old family recipe.

Like a carefully calculated, simmering roux, Murrey’s story is steeped in special ingredients. Its product evokes a lasting impres-sion, one its connoisseurs are unlikely to forget.

On the surface, Murrey’s indomitable presence is undeniable. She stands 6-foot-3 and exudes a confidence not seen in your average 20-year-old college student. Incredible leaping ability and willful control of her body through the air helped her net 345 kills as a sophomore. As high as Murrey can fly, her talent at

staying low produced 275 digs for the Bears.

“Tarah possesses a great combination of size, power and speed,” said head coach Rich Feller. “She can be physically imposing at times, but can also show great finesse at others.”

While it may be easy to credit Mur-rey’s athletic talents to her genes, she believes whatever talent she has acquired through genetics comes from the life lessons her family has taught her.

“If my parents in-stilled anything in me, they’ve taught me that I have to work hard,” said Murrey. “Because of them, I know that if I care about some-thing, I’ll give it 100 percent. If I do that, I know I’ve succeeded.”

Murrey’s mother, Barbara, played volleyball at San Jose State where she met her husband, Doug, a Spar-tan men’s basketball star. In 1981, Doug Murrey received notice from the Golden State Warriors that he had been drafted into the NBA. One year after they married, Doug and Barbara had their first child, son Barry. A year later, Tarah’s older sister, Brittany, was born.

Surrounded by athletes from birth, Tarah grew up in a world where sports were second nature. With her parents standing by as coaches, her siblings pushed the right buttons and nurtured a competitive edge from the very start. While Barry and half-brother Jerryck Owens-Murrey starred as basketball players, it was Brittany who carried the volleyball torch as she matured into a starting role as a setter at UC Riverside. The older-sister influence helped fuel Tarah’s desire to improve as a volleyball player. But it was her own inner competitive spirit that shaped her into one of the most sought-after recruits coming out of nearby St. Mary’s High School.

When Brittany was 13 and Tarah 10, camping excursions and family vacations evolved into club volleyball trips. Weekends at New Brighton Beach and outings to Disneyland eventually gave way to overnight stays in hotels near the next major club tourna-ment. Undaunted, the Murreys found ways to mix business with pleasure and turned those trips into fun for everyone.

“My family means everything in the world to me,” said Tarah. “When we’re together, we’re always laughing and cracking jokes with each other. This family does everything together.”

While some things changed when college came around, many things stayed the same. With their four kids all leaving the nest in rapid succession, Tarah’s father made his wishes clear.

“A family that plays together, stays together,” said the elder Murrey. “And a family that prays together, stays together. I’ve al-ways encouraged my children to stay connected with each other. When they left for college, I encouraged each of them to keep a Bible with them and every so often, I’ll try to lift them up with words of encouragement.”

For a family that has always had fun together, the father’s belief that a solid foundation creates life balance has cultivated deeper roots in his children than he could ever have hoped. For

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By Jeremy Wu

Tarah Murrey registered 345 kills for the Bears as a sophomore in 2009.

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all the challenges that have come from academics, social life and her athletic career, Tarah has had a place to turn. Though she often speaks with her mother first, she allows herself to be transparent with both of her parents and that has made a vital difference in her life. Doug and Barbara Murrey are also among Tarah’s best friends.

Though it offers no true tangible advantages, Tarah likes to think her biracial background creates a situation in which she is able to experience the best of both worlds. In a parallel universe, the diverse nature on the University of California campus breathes the same sentiment. For someone who took special care in selecting her collegiate destination, Tarah found the same familial comforts with the coaches and her teammates at Cal.

“I’ve known since I was in the fourth grade that I wanted to come to Cal,” said Murrey. “Even though I took a look at other colleges, my heart has been here all these years. The way I see it, I had the chance to immerse myself in something incredibly diverse and I took it.”

Choosing where to attend col-lege and play volleyball was the easy part. The road since arriving on campus has been marked by the ebb and flow of the victories and struggles that accompany many collegiate athletic careers. Even if there is little that Murrey can do to change the challenges that arise, she is often comforted by the simplest of loving acts, such as a text message from her father.

One message that Murrey re-fuses to delete from her phone arrived moments after she had expressed her frustrations to her mother on another call. The words of encouragement from her father read:

“Faith performs the miracle. It is the appetite for big challeng-es. Faith craves the impossible and challenges the most difficult situations.”

The 140-character message brings a smile to the face of a daughter who needed just that; the unbridled sense of joy and comfort is unmatched by any-thing Murrey says she has expe-rienced as a player.

Sports for the Murrey family is a commonality more than a

foundation. Its importance is undressed when the larger picture is revealed. When asked what he believes his daughter would be doing had she not been gifted with an aptitude for volleyball, Doug Mur-rey refers to Tarah’s love for food and cooking as her second joy.

Tarah’s recollection of a pastor’s sermon at church draws her attention to the importance of food in a family setting.

“After listening to my pastor’s message,” said Murrey, “I real-ized that the kitchen really brings my family together. Food is how so many people learn about the world; how to show love to one another and how to be loved by someone else.”

Whenever she is home, she gladly trades her uniform for an apron and does what she can to help prepare the family dinner. For Murrey, food is a chance for the family to be together around the table. It’s where stories are shared and firm foundations are built. Upon further examination, food just may be Murrey’s third joy af-ter family and volleyball. With no lack for ingredients and enough servings to never go hungry, Murrey will hold this old family recipe close to her heart.

From vacations to meals around the dining table to volleyball tourna-ments, Tarah Murray and her family developed close and loving relation-ships.


Soccer’s hector Jimenez First in his Family to

earn College Degree

By Dean Caparaz ’90

Soccer has lifted hector Jimenez to new heights throughout his life, and his time at California is no exception.

The senior midfielder has earned All-Pac-10 first-team status, as well as gained several academic accolades, the past two years, all while developing into one of the top playmakers in program history.

But no matter how the Golden Bears do on the field this season, Jimenez will conclude his time in Berkeley in unique fashion thanks to his work in the classroom. A social welfare major with a minor in education, the fifth-year senior will become the first member of his family to graduate from college.

Jimenez participated in a graduation ceremony at the end of the 2010 spring semester but will officially earn his degree after the fall semester.

“It’s huge,” Jimenez said. “Both my parents cried when I walked. I haven’t graduated yet, but it’s big in my family. I have a huge, extended family, and I’ll be the first one to graduate. I’m leading by example. It’s been a long five years.”

After an admittedly difficult sophomore year in the classroom, Jimenez re-bounded to garner Pac-10 All-Academic second-team honors for the 2008 sea-son. He duplicated that feat in 2009, when he also gained a spot on the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District 8 team.

“He’s very devoted to academics,” head coach Kevin Grimes said. “He’s worked extremely hard to get himself acclimated to the Cal academic environ-ment. That’s always a tough transition for a kid coming from high school to college. For Hector that might’ve been a little more challenging. He’s done a great job since, and he’s doing very well in school.”

PAreNTAL iNFLUeNCeJimenez credits his parents, Dalila and Mauricio, for pushing him to excel

academically and in soccer. His father played soccer for semi-professional teams and also wore the No. 16 jersey that son Hector would

later adopt as a youth player. Hector Jimenez added to the family pedigree by playing for an elite youth club and

for a youth national team.A product of Bell Gardens, Calif., Jimenez starred

for Bell Gardens High School and the Arsenal Foot-ball Club, which featured future Cal teammate Davis Paul. He won U.S. Youth Soccer national titles at the

Under-15, Under-16 and Under-17 levels with Arsenal

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MAJOr ACCOMPLiShMeNT

Hector Jimenez


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and parlayed his success into stints with the U.S. U-17 National Team in 2004 and 2005. Jimenez spent part of 2005 in a U.S. U-17 residency camp that included 2010 U.S. World Cup forward Jozy Altidore.

Soccer played a key role in steering Ji-menez clear of the troubles that afflicted other kids growing up in his southern California neighborhood. Whether it was because he was playing and traveling with Arsenal or living in the full-time U.S. U-17 residency program in Florida, Jimenez stayed away from the situations that put some of his contemporaries behind bars.

Besides ensuring Hector stayed out of trouble, Mauricio Jimenez coached him to play in a certain way – as the player who sets up his teammates.

“I love players like [former French star] Zinedine Zidane; just playmakers,” the younger Jimenez said. “That’s what my dad wanted me to be. I started playing for my dad on the Bell Gardens Tigers back in the day. My dad was always say-ing, ‘I don’t want you to score; I want you to assist.’ Growing up, it was hard because all my other teammates were scoring. I was a little kid. I cried, ‘Why can’t I score?’ But he always told me to assist other people and make the people around me better.”

PASSiNg FANCyNow wearing No. 9 at Cal, Jimenez fits

in well with the Bears’ possession style of play. The 5-9, 140-pound midfielder needs

just two assists to move into second place in the school record books. He needs 19 more to surpass the Cal record of 40. Ji-menez bounced back from a broken leg that ended his 2008 season to collect a Pac-10 leading and career-high nine assists in 2009, giving him 22 for his career, which ranks third all-time at Cal.

He hopes that a talented, veteran squad – Jimenez is one of seven seniors on the team – will change Cal’s fortunes in 2010 after several injuries derailed the Bears last year, causing them to miss out on the NCAA playoffs. As one of the more experienced members of the team, Jimenez has joined fellow seniors A.J. Soares and Servando Carrasco as a team captain this year.

“This summer, all of us have been up here preparing for the season and getting every-body on the same track,” Jimenez said. “It’s the final season for seven of us, and we all want to end on a good note. We want to prepare as much as we can so we can put ourselves in a good position. Hopefully we don’t have any injuries this season. We have a lot of talent and a lot of experience. Everyone’s got the right mindset and has a lot of heart. Hopefully the marbles roll our way this season and we can go far.”

After he completes his time with the Bears, the talented playmaker has a shot to become the latest in a long line of Grimes’ players to enter the professional ranks, whether it’s with former teammate Andrew Wiedeman in Major League Soccer or elsewhere.

Whenever his playing career is over, Ji-

menez wants to put his studies to good use by giving making sure children in his com-munity stay in school.

“Where I grew up, there are a lot of kids who don’t have the opportunity I have,” Jimenez said. “Their parents don’t really push them or support them. My parents were always there for me, and at school I always had someone pushing me and advis-ing me. I want to do that if soccer doesn’t work out for me – be a counselor to kids. I went through it, so I want to help kids out. A lot of guys where I grew up have a lot of talent, soccer-wise, but don’t have the edu-cation or the grades, and they never make it far.

“I know how it feels when somebody helps you out. It feels good.”

Hector Jimenez poses with his younger sister, Nereyda, at his early graduation ceremony in the spring.


When Erin Magill, a defender on the Golden Bear field hockey team, decided to come to Cal, she was following in the footsteps of previous family members who were associated with the university’s

grounds. Her cousin, Sheila, is a graduate, and her grandparents, Tom and Paula Chance, once lived on what is now the Clark Kerr Campus.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

For Magill, a San Jose native, those ties made her decision to come to Berkeley that much easier.

Magill spent her freshman year boarding in the Clark Kerr residence halls. Almost a half century earlier, her grandparents, Tom and Paula Magill,

also lived on the site when it housed the California School for the Deaf and Blind and, as a result, became lifelong Cal fans. Both her grandparents are hearing impaired. Erin recalled her grandparents were thrilled when she decided to be a Bear.

“I remember the first time I visited Clark Kerr with my grandpar-ents, I could see how excited they were to be at their old school,” Magill said. “It was only much later, once I realized I would be living at Clark Kerr, that it did influence my decision to come here. It connected me to Cal and to Clark Kerr much more strongly than I think most incoming freshmen would normally feel.”

Magill remembers fondly the first time her grandparents visited her during her freshman year.

“It was a little surreal,” Magill said. “The first time my grand-parents visited me, we walked around the Clark Kerr Campus and they told me where they used to go to class, eat and relax. They spent most of their adolescent lives living at Clark Kerr, and here I was living there, as well, almost a half century later. They have been my biggest fans my entire life and it was great to be able to share that with them.”

A junior athletically, but a senior academically, Magill will grad-uate in the spring of 2011 as a political science major and plans to forego her final season of eligibility once she obtains her degree. An interest in the subtleties of political language and action that influence elections and media drove Magill to choose the major.

Magill will be called upon to lead the Bears in 2010. She paced the team in goals (9) and game-winning goals (3) last season, earn-ing all-region and second-team all-conference honors, as well. In addition, Magill gained a rare distinction having been voted both NorPac offensive and defensive player of the week during the ’09 campaign.

When the 2010 season gets underway this fall, an enthused group of Magills will be supporting her with gusto.

“My parents and grandparents have created an extended family of Cal athletes and fans,” Magill said. “My dad refus-es to wear the color red, and not a day goes by that he doesn’t wear something with the Cal logo on it – I’m not kidding! My grandparents were the original Cal fans in my family, but it has absolutely spread to everyone else.”

Erin Magill

Keeping It in the FamilyField Hockey’s Erin Magill Has Ties to Campus Dating Back nearly 50 Years

By Tim Miguel

Erin Magill and her grandparents have a special tie to the residence halls at Cal’s Clark Kerr Campus.

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Through only four years of competitive running – two in high school and two at Cal – Deborah Maier has established herself as one of the top cross country and distance runners in Golden Bear history.

a correlation in the fact that in sport, if you work hard, you see benefits. It’s the same with academics.”

Within her political science major, Maier is em-phasizing international relations with a goal to work

in international aid, displaying a particular interest in eastern Af-rica. As she moves into her upper-division classes this fall, Maier brings the confidence that years of preparation will help ensure she is ready to handle the difficulties of more challenging courses and greater expectations in her athletic specialties.

Disciplined ApproachDeborah Maier Finds Long Training Hours Facilitate Her Focus

on Academics

By Herb Benenson

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Deborah Maier

During her sophomore season in 2009-10, she became the first Cal woman to earn first-team All-Pac-10 honors in cross country after finishing sixth at the conference meet. She then set school indoor records in the 3000 and 5000 meters before capturing the MPSF league crown in the 3000. And in the spring, she finished fourth in the 5000 meters at the Pac-10 championships, as well as ninth at the national NCAA meet, despite missing three key weeks of training due to injury.

Maier’s list of accolades for her academic work is just as presti-gious, if not more so, and has developed from a lifetime commit-ment to education that reaches throughout her entire family.

“Pretty much all of my brothers and sisters were valedictorians or salutatorians in high school,” said Maier, who will compete as a junior this year. “Academics was definitely something that was held high in my house. My siblings set a standard to do your best and work hard. I saw growing up that they were able to get the jobs they wanted and get into the schools they wanted because they worked hard.”

The college of choice for the Maier household has primarily been Cal. One of six children of Paul and Donna Maier, Deborah is the fifth to attend UC Berkeley. Her older brother, Chris, was also a member of the Golden Bear track and cross country teams a decade ago.

“It wasn’t so much that they really pushed us and expected us to get straight A’s,” Maier said of her parents. “Starting at a young age, they would read to us and build a base for enjoying learning.”

Among Maier’s scholastic honors to date at Cal are membership on the Pac-10 All-Academic and track & field coaches’ association All-Academic teams. In May, she received a Golden Bear Award for having the highest GPA on Cal’s cross country squad – 3.808 as a political science major.

Maier said that the long training hours required to be an elite runner have clear benefits to aid her classroom achievements, using the time to escape from her schoolwork, relax and re-charge. In addition, the workouts help provide the discipline needed to keep her focused on completing her assignments in a timely manner.

“When you’re practicing and you need to get your sleep, you real-ize that you’re on a tight schedule and you need to get things done,” Maier said. “You can’t procrastinate. I find that I work better that way instead of thinking that I have plenty of time. There’s definitely Deborah Maier is carving out her own academic and athletic legacy at Cal.

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MBB Men’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion)WBB Women’s Basketball (Haas Pavilion)FH Field Hockey (Maxwell Family Field)FB Football (Memorial Stadium)MGLF Men’s Golf (Meadow Club)

MSOC Men’s Soccer (Edwards Stadium/Goldman Field)WSOC Women’s Soccer (Edwards Stadium/Goldman Field)MTN Men’s Tennis (Meadowood Resort in St. Helena)WTN Women’s Tennis (Hellman Tennis Center)VB Volleyball (Haas Pavilion)MWP Men’s Water Polo (Spieker Aquatics Complex)

13fB vs. oregon

14WBB vs. Saint Mary’s

16MBB vs. Cal State northridge

19MWP vs. Stanford vB vs. Stanford

20fB vs. Stanford MBB vs. new Mexico

23WBB vs. Yale

24vB vs. arizona State

26vB vs. arizona

27fB vs. Washington WBB vs. Cal State fullerton

28WBB vs. tulane/Portland State

DEcEMbER1MBB vs. UC Davis

4MWP hosts nCaa tournament

5MWP hosts nCaa tournament

8MBB vs. San Diego State

11WBB vs. long Beach State

12 MBB vs. Southern Mississippi

15MSoC vs. San Diego State WSoC vs. Washington vB vs. Washington State

16vB vs. Washington

17MSoC vs. UCla WSoC vs. Washington State Mglf hosts alistair MacKenzie invite

19Mglf hosts alistair MacKenzie invite

23fB vs. arizona State

29MSoC vs. oregon State fh vs. Stanford

30WSoC vs. Stanford

31MSoC vs. Washington

NovEMbER4MWP vs. loyola Marymount WBB vs. vanguard (exh.)

5WSoC vs. oregon vB vs. USC

6MWP vs. UC Santa Barbara vB vs. UCla

7 MWP vs. long Beach State WSoC vs. oregon State

10MBB vs. Sonoma State (exh.)

11MSoC vs. Stanford

12WBB vs. rutgers

11fB vs. Colorado vB vs. Seton hall vB vs. fresno State

12MSoC vs. Unlv WSoC vs. long Beach State

14VB vs. CS Bakersfield

17WSoC vs. San francisco

18MWP in norCal tournament FH vs. Pacific

19MSoC vs. San francisco MWP in norCal tournament WSOC vs. Pacific

23WSoC vs. Portland

24MSoC vs. Denver MWP vs. Pacific Wtn hosts Cal nike invitational Mtn hosts napa valley Classic

25Wtn hosts Cal nike invitational Mtn hosts napa valley Classic

26Wtn hosts Cal nike invitational Mtn hosts napa valley Classic

ocTobER1vB vs. oregon

2vB vs. oregon State

9fB vs. UCla MWP vs. UCla

10fh vs. harvard

AUgUST20WSoC vs. loyola Marymount

22WSoC vs. UC irvine

27fh vs. Miami (oh) WSoC vs. Santa Clara vB vs. UC Santa Barbara

28vB vs. Manhattan

SEPTEMbER3

fh vs. Michigan State WSoC vs. rice

4fB vs. UC Davis MWP vs. UC Davis

5MWP vs. Santa Clara fh vs. UC Davis WSoC vs. hawaii

10MSoC vs. Saint Mary’s vB vs. UC Davis

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