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Recognized Leader 10After missing on the chance to lead her country to the top, Emily Csikos hopes to do so for her college instead. Csikos, Cal’s standout senior women’s water polo player, sat out the 2012 season to train with the Canadian National Team. Now back in Berkeley, Csikos is trying to help the Bears go one step further than they did in 2011, when they lost in the NCAA title match.

From Generation to Generation to Generation 14For Andrew Knapp, the Golden Bears’ first-team preseason All-American catcher, Cal baseball is truly a family affair. Sure, Knapp considers all his teammates his brothers and his coaches like family, but the Blue and Gold runs deeper in his blood than the average Golden Bear and in-cludes his grandparents, father and brother.

Bedrocks Among Builders 22Ten years ago this September, a monument was unveiled on the terrace of Doe Library that rec-ognizes philanthropists – known as Builders of Berkeley – whose history of giving to the Uni-versity has reached or surpassed $1 million. Among these cherished donors are 65 fami-lies who have made Intercollegiate Athletics a major thrust of their support, in many cases reaching that million-dollar mark through one of their gifts to the department.

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

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

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

SPRING SEASON PREVIEWS .................................................... 18

ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT ........................................................ 22

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

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

Master of the Crowd 8All eyes will be on Michael Weaver when he steps to the first tee at Augusta in April one day before his 22nd birthday. Weav-er, who will become the first person to ever play in the Masters while currently a Cal golfer, became accustomed to the feeling at an early age as a kid hanging out with a sea of professional adults in his hometown of Fresno.

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Together Forever 28As the only good players of their generation around, Riki and Ben McLachlan spent most of their childhood playing tennis against each other in Queenstown, New Zealand. Although they grew tired of it after a while, they have reunited as teammates for the Golden Bears.

Throwing Expectations Out the Window 30Megan Takacs earned MPSF Player of the Year honors in lacrosse last year after setting a Cal record with 53 goals during her junior season. Although a knee injury ended her campaign ear-ly, she is back in action this spring, and head coach Ginger Miles is excited about what her star attacker can do now that she’s healthy again.

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Dear Friend of Cal Athletics:

Just as the Golden Bear teams they support, Cal fans always seem to be up for a challenge, and a three-day period in late March presented one unlike any in recent memory – how to follow all of the Cal Athletics teams in action without missing any meaningful mo-ments? In many ways, March 22-24 was a typical spring weekend, as more than half of

our 29 programs were in action with winter sports in their championship seasons, spring sports in the midst of their campaigns and football completing the first set of workouts of the Sonny Dykes era. Picking and choosing the best events to enjoy is a rather common occur-rence for all of us who regularly cheer on the Bears.

But this particular weekend held more than its share of significant events. Across campus and across the country (plus a little jaunt into Canada), the Bears were setting re-cords and attracting attention. Although it was impossible for anyone to be in all places at once or keep an eye on each and every program live, we’d have it no other way. For all that was happening just reemphasized the diversity of our department and the high levels of achievement we’ve come to expect from our wonderful student-athletes and coaches.

Friday, March 22 featured a clean sweep for the Bears with home victories by our women’s tennis and softball teams plus a 5-1 baseball triumph at UCLA. Women’s swimming & diving, on the second day of its national championship, saw Rachel Bootsma claim the NCAA title in the 100 backstroke.

But Friday was just a precursor to what was to come on Saturday. In the Bay Area alone, men’s basketball met Syracuse in the third round of the NCAA Tournament in San Jose; football fans came out in droves to Memorial Stadium for the Spring Game; softball, women’s tennis and women’s water polo claimed victories in Berkeley; and track & field sent a large contingent to a meet in San Francisco. The day did not stop there – women’s basketball opened NCAA Tournament play with a win over Fresno State to begin its historic run to the Final Four; women’s gymnastics competed at the Pac-12 Champion-ships and Justin Howell was named the conference Coach of the Year; and women’s swimming wrapped up a second-place NCAA team finish that included Elizabeth Pelton’s American re-cord in the 200 back.

We barely had a chance to relax on Sunday morning before pitcher Jolene Henderson broke Cal’s all-time wins record with another softball victory over Utah, and rugby secured its sev-enth consecutive World Cup with a 38-6 decision over the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The image that represents our Cal Athletics brand will get another enhancement in April with our visual identity launch (see page 6 for more information). Having worked for nearly two years with some of the best brand managers in the world at Nike, we have created a set of guidelines that will simplify and unify the look and feel of our entire program, from uni-forms and merchandising to graphics and signage. Yet even with these changes intended to feature a more harmonious use of blue and gold across all platforms, one important symbol of our department remains constant and traditional – our iconic Cal script logo.

Whether noted by the accomplishments of our student-ath-letes in competition or by the uniforms they are wearing that proudly proclaim they are Golden Bears, striving for excel-lence remains a primary component of all who are a part of Cal Athletics.

Go Bears,

Sandy BarbourDirector of Athletics

LETTER from Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour

General Manager: Mike Kohler (510) 643-4825

[email protected]

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ON THE COVERThe runner-up at the U.S. Amateur last summer,

Michael Weaver is a big reason why the Cal men’s golf program has earned a No. 1 national ranking. Photo by

Don Feria (GoldenBearSports.com).

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ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS:Sandy Barbour

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS/CHIEF OF STAFF:Teresa Kuehn Gould

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS/COO:Solly Fulp

EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE AD/ DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT:

Phil Esten

SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/ INTERCOLLEGIATE SERVICES:

Foti Mellis

HIGH PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR:Keith Power

ASSOCIATE AD/BUSINESS:Laura Hazlett

ASSOCIATE AD/HUMAN RESOURCES & FINANCIAL SERVICES:

Dawn Howard

EDITORIAL STAFF349 Haas Pavilion

Berkeley, CA 94720

EDITOR:Herb Benenson

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:Scott Ball, Dean Caparaz, Doug Drabik, Miquel Jacobs,

Anton Malko, Kyle McRae, Tim Miguel, Jonathan Okanes, Mara Rudolph, Taylor Dutch

DESIGN:Evan Kerr

PHOTOGRAPHY:John Todd (GoldenBearSports.com), Michael Pimentel, Michael Burns, Richard Ersted, John Dunbar, Evan Kerr,

Don Feria, among others

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Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-2427

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ment’s official website at CalBears.com.

ON THE COVERThe runner-up at the U.S. Amateur last summer,

Michael Weaver is a big reason why the Cal men’s golf program has earned a No. 1 national ranking. Photo by

Don Feria (GoldenBearSports.com).

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The University of California Athletic Department has unveiled an updated visual identity for the Golden Bears, showing a set of graphics, colors and imagery that pays

homage to Cal’s historic past and creates a contemporary look and feel for the future.

Among the changes fans will see are uniforms that portray a coherent theme throughout all sports, consistent use of Cal’s blue and gold colors across a wide range of platforms from uni-forms and team performance gear to signage and advertising, as well as a new Bear logo that comes alive with renewed spark and energy. However, one significant element will not be al-tered: the Golden Bears’ most enduring and iconic mark - the script Cal - will continue as the primary logo for all of the Uni-versity’s intercollegiate athletic teams.

“We feel we have developed guidelines that respect Cal’s strong tradition and universally-recog-

nized marks,” Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour said. “At the same

time, we realize that we need to create a look designed to evolve with our changing world.”

Fans can purchase gear with the new identity today online through the Cal Bears Shop, the official outfitter of the California Golden Bears, or on campus at the ASUC Student Store. Most other outlets that offer Golden Bear merchandise will have prod-ucts available before the end of April.

Cal Athletics worked col-laboratively with the Nike design team to create the new brand identity. The core elements of the unified iden-tity include logo, color and type usage designed for flex-ibility and to keep pace with the athletic department’s evolving needs.

Cal’s blue and gold colors remain, but will now be used across programs to create consistency among team uniforms where variations have developed over time. An additional third color – gray – will be introduced in some cases to accent Cal’s traditional shades.

The distinct Cal script logo will remain the primary mark for the Golden Bears and serve as the main visual identifier.

“Our script logo is recog-nized around the world by alumni and fans, so we felt it

was important to maintain the equity it has built,” Barbour said. “We have worked to embrace the aspects of our visual brand that are firmly entrenched in our department’s culture, while coming up with new marks in areas where we haven’t been as consistent or developed a strong brand presence.”

One example is the Golden Bear logos, where a wide vari-ety of shapes and sizes have been used over the years. In their place will be a new bear mark portraying a powerful, intelli-gent force that reemphasizes the reasoning behind establish-ing the bear as Cal’s mascot more than 100 years ago.

To help build a coherent look for a wide variety of athletic communications, a custom font has been designed. In addition, unique word marks for California and Golden Bears, using the font, form a clear and consistent identity.

Many of the older Cal marks, such as drawings of Oski, are enduring images for Golden Bear fans and will remain avail-able on a wide range of items, such as t-shirt and sweatshirts, but Cal’s team uniforms and performance apparel will use the updated identity.

“When it comes to developing our brand, consistency is key,” Barbour said. “This work is crucial to our efforts to not only develop but also advance and leverage the brand that is Cal Athletics. Our stu-dent-athletes and coaches are excited about the new look and feel of our de-partment, and we hope our fans will share in the enthusiasm.”

For more on the new visual identity, visit CalBears.com/unifythebears.

Cal Athletics Introduces New Visual Identity


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Women’s Hoops Captures First Pac-12 Title on Way to Final Four

With a 17-1 conference record that in-cluded a 67-55 win at Stanford and a 15-game winning streak to end the

regular season, the Cal women’s basketball team secured its first Pac-12/10 champion-ship since the league began sponsoring wom-en’s sports in 1986-87. The Bears tied with Stanford atop the standings with identical 17-1 marks.

Cal’s last conference title of any kind came in 1981-82 with a first-place finish in the old NorCal Conference.

The Bears clinched a tie for the Pac-12 crown with a decisive 78-50 rout at Washing-ton with five players scoring in double figures, led by 22 points from senior Talia Caldwell.

Lindsay Gottlieb was tabbed the Pac-12 Coach of the Year by media who follow the conference, while Brittany Boyd, Gennifer Brandon and Layshia Clarendon received All-Pac-12 honors, and Cal Chief of Staff Teresa Gould was selected the national Administrator of the Year by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

Aug. 31 Sat. NorthwesternSept. 7 Sat. Portland StateSept. 14 Sat. Ohio StateOct. 5 Sat. Washington State*Oct. 19 Sat. Oregon StateNov. 2 Sat. ArizonaNov. 9 Sat. USC*Homecoming Weekend

Pac-12 and NCAA Swimmer of the Meet at the respective champi-onships, as well as the 2012 recipient of the Honda Sports Award as the top female col-legiate swimmer. Last summer, she captured a bronze medal in the 200-meter indi-vidual medley at the Olympic Games in London.

Since the conference began the scholar-athlete awards in 2007-08, 10 Golden Bears have earned the honor, including Jana Juricova (women’s tennis), Harper Kamp (men’s basket-ball) and Tarah Murrey (volleyball) in 2012.

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Senior guard Layshia Clarendon was named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women’s basketball, while senior and Olympic medalist Caitlin Leverenz

earned the honor for women’s swimming. The awards, which are presented in each of the 22 sports

the conference sponsors, were established to honor stu-dent-athletes who are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.

Clarendon, an American studies major, was a finalist for the national Senior CLASS Award, which is given for excellence in athletics, academics and community service. Twice named first-team All-Pac-12, she has scored more than 1,700 points during her career.

Leverenz is majoring in public health and was the 2012

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Bear Backers Honored at Annual Luncheon

The annual Bear Backer Luncheon, held on Feb. 19 at the Claremont Resort and Spa, featured presentations to four Cal alumni for their valuable contributions to Cal Athletics.

Former Golden Bear quarterback J Torchio received the Cal Spirit Award, while Kirsten Hextrum, a two-time national champion rower, earned the Cub of the Year honor, which is given for volunteer service within 15 years of graduation.

The Golden Bear of the Year, which recognizes outstanding volunteer endeavors, went to Bob Lalanne, a member of the JV football team as a freshman, and former tennis standout Stacy Savides Sullivan collected the Bear of the Year award for her “outstanding contributions towards the continuing excellence of Cal Athletics.”

Cal Claims First League Swimming Crown since 1981

Cal’s men’s swimming & diving team prevailed by 25 points over Stanford

to break the Cardinal’s 31-year hold on the conference and give the Bears their first league title since the 1981 season.

Cal took the lead after the first night of competition and held onto the top spot through all four days of the meet, finish-ing with the elusive trophy on March 6.

Senior Tom Shields was named the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet after winning five indi-vidual or relay championships. He finished his career with a total of 17 Pac-12 titles.

J Torchio (above with Carol Kavanagh Clarke) received the Cal Spirit Award, while Bob Lalanne (below) shows off his Golden Bear of the Year honor.

Junior Allen Crabbe was named the 2012-13 Pac-12 Player of the Year, becoming

the third Golden Bear to claim the honor in the last four years and the seventh since Jason Kidd earned the award in 1994.

Crabbe, who paced the team with 18.4 ppg and added 6.1 rpg and a team-high 37 steals, also earned All-America recognition from both the National Associ-ation of Basketball Coaches and the Sporting News.

In addition to Crabbe and Kidd, the other Cal players to receive conference honors are: Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996), Ed Gray (1997), Sean Lampley (2001), Jerome Randle (2010) and Jorge Gutierrez (2012). The Bears have had three more players of the year than any oth-er school in the league over the past 20 years.

Allen Crabbe Named Pac-12 Player of the Year


A ll eyes will be on Michael Weaver when he steps to the first tee at Augusta in April one day before his 22nd birthday. Weaver, who will become the first

person to ever play in the Masters while currently a Cal golfer, became accus-tomed to the feeling at an early age as a kid hanging out with a sea of profession-al adults at Fort Washington Golf and Country Club in his hometown of Fresno.

It was the summer of 2001 and the then-10-year-old son of Bill and Joanne Weaver was spending much of his time attending a local church camp, but there was a problem. In order to go on the cov-

eted field trips, campers had to arrive by 8 a.m. sharp, or they would miss the bus and be at church all day.

“One night at dinner he was complain-ing about having to get up so early to go to church camp,” Bill recalled. “I said ‘I’ll tell you what, you can either go to church camp at 8 a.m., or you can sleep in and

Master of the CrowdU.S. Amateur Runner-Up Michael Weaver Looks Forward to Playing at Augusta

mom can drop you off at the club when she goes to work around 9:30 or 10 and pick you up when she gets off work in the middle of the afternoon.’ Michael said ‘fine, I’ll go to the golf course’ with obvious displeasure on his face.”

But it wasn’t long before Weaver, now a junior for the Golden Bears, was more than happy to be at the golf course, put-ting in full days hitting a countless num-ber of balls on the driving range, practic-ing his chipping and putting, coming in briefly to eat lunch, and then going back out to do it all over again in the afternoon Central Valley heat that often eclipsed 100 degrees.

“I was beyond blisters,” Weaver quipped.In addition to honing

his skills as a young golfer, Weaver was learning how to handle himself around adults, and it also made him a well-known entity around the club.

“It’s almost comical,” Bill said with a laugh. “I have people coming up to me all the time saying you’re Michael Weaver’s dad. I like joking with them by saying no, Mi-chael Weaver is my son. Michael is known and well-liked by literally ev-erybody at our club. They have nothing but compli-ments for him all the time. We are obviously very proud of him.”

The experience Weaver gained at a young age has also served him well on the golf course.

After a standout junior career, Weaver is now one of the nation’s best collegiate players on the top-ranked Cal men’s golf team that won eight of its first nine tourna-ments in 2012-13. Weav-

er has posted a career-best 71.6 stroke average in his first season back in the lineup after redshirting in 2011-12 to successfully gain admission into the Haas School of Business. He earned honorable mention All-American hon-ors as a sophomore in 2010-11 and had the highest individual finish ever by a

Cal player at the NCAA Championship when he placed eighth that season. As a freshman, he became the first Cal player to finish in the top 10 at both the Pac-10/12 Championship (sixth) and NCAA Regional (eighth).

But Weaver’s biggest golf achievement to date came last August when his run-ner-up finish at the U.S. Amateur earned him an invitation to the Masters and an exemption for the U.S. Open this year.

Weaver admits that it did not sink in that he would be playing at the Masters until a trip to Augusta this past January to play five practice rounds at the famed course.

“Getting to play in the Masters at all would be pretty special, but playing it as an amateur means a lot because there’s only six guys that make it in each year as amateurs,” Weaver said. “It’s something a lot of people won’t ever get to do. I re-alize that, and I feel pretty fortunate that I get to do it.”

Both Weaver and Cal golf coach Steve Desimone know he’ll have a few nerves when he steps up to that first tee.

“You can’t help but be nervous in that situation,” Desimone said. “The other thing that you can’t help is wondering if you really belong there. When he’s on the driving range, and he’s got Tiger and Phil and Rory all around, yeah, you bet-ter believe he’s going to have stars in his eyes. You can read about it and watch it on television all you want, but until you are actually there in that locker room, on that driving range and on those tees with the guys you’ve watched and idolized forever you can’t even begin to under-stand the emotions you’ll go through.”

“I know when I tee off that first day there will be a lot of people around and it will be a pretty emotional deal,” Weaver said. “I don’t get nervous very often, but I’ll be nervous.”

Sure he’ll be nervous, emotional and in awe, but definitely not intimidated.

He also has a plan.“My goal is to play well and be the low

amateur,” Weaver said. “That’s probably a reasonable goal to have. Sure, I hope to win, but I’m not going to go out and say ‘I’m going to win the Masters.’ I want to try to treat it like any other tournament, play well and play smart. I feel like my game’s good enough where if I play four good rounds I should have a pretty good showing.”


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Master of the Crowd

Plus, Weaver expects to enjoy the ex-perience far too much to let anything ruin it.

“It’s definitely going to be a great expe-rience and I’m going to be doing every-thing there that I can,” said Weaver, who plans to take part in the annual amateur dinner and nine-hole par-three tour-nament the week of the Masters before competition begins. “I plan on soaking it all in. It will be a lot of fun.”

The only drawback is that he will be missing Cal’s final two regular-season events to participate.

“I always want to play in every tourna-ment, but I can’t do both,” Weaver said. “I haven’t really dwelled on it too much. We have excellent depth and our team will do fine without me. One of our other guys will be able to fill in just fine.”

“This is such a phenomenal opportuni-ty that as a coach I need to be supportive of what’s he doing,” said Desimone, who will miss the Western Intercollegiate to travel to Augusta to support Weaver. “I need to be there and be a part of it. It is every player’s dream to play at the Mas-ters and when that opportunity presents itself, nothing can get in the way. Michael has earned this, and we are behind him 100%.”

Desimone won’t be the only one on hand at Augusta rooting for Weaver. In fact, a large contingent of family and friends are renting a house in the area.

“That will be good and help me relax,” Weaver said.

According to his dad, that shouldn’t be a problem.

“He’s got a very calm personality,” Bill said. “He doesn’t seem to get rattled. He’s just a calm soul, he always has been.”

That will surely help when “a tradi-tion unlike any other” continues and Mi-chael’s part of it.

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“It’s something a lot of people won’t ever get to do. I realize that, and I feel pretty fortunate that I get to do it.”

– Michael Weaver

Michael Weaver


Recognized Leader

By Jonathan Okanes

Veteran Emily Csikos Brings International Experience to Women’s Water Polo

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A fter missing out on the chance to lead her country to the top, Emily Csikos hopes to do so for her college instead.

Csikos, Cal’s standout senior women’s water polo player, sat out the 2012 season to train with the Canadi-an National Team. The Calgary, Alberta, native hoped to help Team Canada qualify for the Summer Olympics in London, but her nation’s squad narrowly missed a spot after losing to Russia during the Women’s Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Trieste, Italy.

Now back in Berkeley, Csikos is trying to help the Bears go one step further than they did in 2011, when they lost in the NCAA title match.

“If I could be part of winning a national champion-ship, I think it would be amazing,” Csikos said. “It would be even more amazing because I was part of the cre-ation of the team getting there. It would be awesome to be part of that.”

Csikos is a three-time All-American and one of the best players in Canada, if not the world. After graduating from Henry Wise Wood High School in Calgary, she moved to Montreal for two years as a full-time member of Canadi-an National Team. She arrived at Cal in 2009 and the fol-lowing year helped the Bears secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.

After bringing the program to the cusp of a national championship in 2011, she decided to rejoin her Cana-dian teammates full-time with the hope of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming an Olympian. A heartbreak-ing 7-6 loss to the Russians ended those aspirations.

“It will probably be the hardest thing I ever experi-ence in my life,” Csikos said. “Obviously, everyone has regrets on my team, myself included. It’s just tough. I don’t know how else to put it into words. I’ll never for-get how I felt. I guess I have to decide at some point, am I going to go for it with water polo, am I going to try hard, or am I just going to pout about what happened? In the end, the Olympics are great, but that’s not why I play water polo.”

Csikos isn’t sure whether she plays water polo because she likes it, or because she has become obsessed with it. Like many elite athletes in all sports, Csikos has gone all in with water polo. It was her full-time job for two years immediately after high school, and even while in

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college, she is frequently required to re-turn to Montreal for a few days to par-ticipate in training camps. As soon as she wraps up finals this spring, she will resume her full-time status with the national team.

“I think I like it,” Csikos says with a laugh. “I’m pretty sure I like it. I had a conversation with my dad, and he said the elite athletes become obsessed with it. I’ve become obsessed with suc-ceeding and perfection. But I really do like the common drive to some goal and working with other girls and see-ing how far you can push yourself.”

Csikos’ return to Berkeley last fall provided an interesting dynamic. Since she was away for a year, she not only had to get to know the incoming freshmen, but the current sophomores as well. And because of her time with the Canadian National Team right af-ter high school and in 2012, she is as much as six years older than some of her new teammates.

“Because of her experiences in-ternationally and in this country, it puts her in a leadership position,” Cal coach Richard Corso said. “I think she has immediate credibility with the younger players. They know that she knows the game really well and when she says something, they listen. Not only is she giving instruction and en-couragement, she does a great job of holding herself accountable and her teammates accountable.”

There was never really any doubt water polo would be a big part of Csikos’ life. Her father, John, coached Canada’s Men’s National Team and Junior National Team. Her older sis-ter, Julie, played on Canada’s Youth National Team and went on to play at York University in Ontario. Csikos was swimming by age 3 and playing water polo at age 8.

But at first, it wasn’t just water polo. Csikos also played soccer, basketball and volleyball as a child. As her childhood progressed, she gradually dropped all of the other sports.

“She really understands the game at the high-est level,” Corso said. “She’s been playing since she was a little kid. She’s a coach’s kid. She’s been around it all the time. She has the physical talent with the high water polo IQ as well.”

With no Olympics to prepare for, Csikos found herself with no upcoming water polo commit-ments last summer, a rarity in the life of a na-tional team player. Corso told her to go “sit on a beach,” and while Csikos stayed out of the water for awhile, it wasn’t exactly a time for relaxation.

“I still had the mentality that I had to train,” she said. “I would go for a run, do lit-tle random classes. You can never go on vacation or you can never go more than maybe three days at a time without making sure you can train somehow. But it was nice to create your own

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schedule. It was definitely nice to not smell of chlorine for a little while.”

Csikos recognizes she has the responsibility of being a leader and role model for the 2013 version of the Bears. She hasn’t been hesitant to offer ad-vice, constructive criticism and encouragement.

“I definitely have a different role on the team than I’ve had before,” Csikos said. “It took me a little bit of time. I just wanted to kind of observe who everyone was before I really dove right in there. But they are a really good group of girls and they all genuinely want to succeed and work hard.”

Csikos has had physical problems with her hip and shoulder, but says if her body holds up, she’d love to make a run at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. That process will begin as soon as she returns to Montreal, which will be five days after the NCAA Tournament.

“A lot can change in our years, but that’s been my goal forever,” Csikos said. “I wouldn’t want to give up on that.”

Senior All-American Emily Csikos is back with the Bears this season after taking last year off to train with the Canadian National Team.

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For Andrew Knapp, the Golden Bears’ first-team preseason All-American catcher, Cal baseball is truly a family affair.

Sure, Knapp considers all his teammates his brothers and his coaches like family, but the Blue and Gold runs deeper in his blood than the average Golden Bear. The list starts with grand-parents Ray and Arlene Knapp, who both attended the Univer-sity and were member of the class of 1957, and goes through his father, Mike, a standout catcher for Cal in the mid-’80s, and now his younger brother, Aaron, who will be join-ing David Esquer’s squad in the fall of 2013.

“When we were recruit-ing Andrew, we knew that his family had a great affection for the Univer-sity,” Esquer said. “We knew this is where he wanted to be and where his heart was.”

From all indications, this spring is aligning it-self nicely for Andrew Knapp to enjoy his fin-est season of the three years he has called Evans Diamond his baseball home, starting with the game-winning hit in the season-opener versus Michigan. The Granite

Bay, Calif., native entered his junior campaign listed among the nation’s top players as one of the preseason players to watch for USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award given to the country’s top collegiate player.

All this is pretty heady stuff for a player who entered his junior season with a career batting average of .253, but the accolades are not a fluke. The talented switch-hitting catch-er has thrived among the country’s elite during the past two summers – first in the Northwoods League, where he was the league’s top hitter in 2011, and then last summer in the presti-

gious Cape Cod League, where he batted .293 with 13 doubles, eight home runs and 29 RBI in 40 games for Cha-tham (Mass.), opening the eyes of nearly every Major League scout.

Part of the saga of Knapp’s career at Cal has been that he has played behind all-con-ference catcher Chadd Krist, a 2012 ninth-round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs. However, Knapp was too talented to sit on the bench and has seen action in both the outfield and at first base for the Bears over his first two years with the program.

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“Save Cal Baseball” rap video that became an internet sensa-tion and expressed the plight of the Cal baseball program in a humorous and creative manner.

“The video came about when Eric, Derek and I were bored in our dorm room and decided to make a video,” said Knapp. “It ended up being much more popular than we had intended. We were trying to make a joke out of the situation, but I think that it ultimately ended up giving our situation media coverage and helping raise some money for reinstating the program.”

Now fast forward to the 2013 Cal baseball season where Knapp is one of the veterans of the team and is looking to lead the Bears back to the College World Series. He is also project-ed to be a high pick in the June Major League Draft with the opportunity to someday play with alongside his childhood Cal heroes – Ross and Jackson.

“It has been an awesome experience playing baseball at Cal,” said Knapp. “You go through a lot of adversity when your pro-gram gets cut and you get to see what kind of character you have as a person and as a player. I think I have gained so much experience from that. I think when you are at Cal, you don’t get stuff handed to you. One reason we have had so many Big Leaguers is that the school really teaches guys how to work for themselves.

“Andrew has always been next in line to be our catcher,” Esquer said. “But he was so talented, he didn’t have to wait. Andrew was unique as a catcher in that he was such a good athlete he had the ability to play other positions, and we knew having him play other positions would only help him down the line. Now, he is finally getting a chance to be our fulltime catcher, and we ex-pect him to have an outstanding season, go high in the draft and someday join our list of over 50 Cal Major Leaguers.”

Coming to Cal to play baseball had been a dream of Knapp’s since he was young enough to play catch with his father Mike and listen to his dad’s adventures of being the starting catcher on coach Bob Milano’s squad in 1985 and 1986.

“I started coming to Cal baseball games at Evans Dia-mond when I was about seven,” Knapp said. “I remember watching future big leaguers like Brett Jackson and Tyson Ross as a teenager and picturing myself playing for Cal someday.”

“It was a great day for me and my family when Andrew de-cided to make Cal his home,” Mike Knapp explained. “Cal is a big part of my family’s life and to have my son attend such a tremendous university is truly a blessing. Not only is it awe-some to see my son play on the same field I played on, but also for my parents to be able to see Andrew play on the same field that they watched me play is very special. It was interesting during the recruiting process. I tried really hard not to push Cal too hard because I wanted Andrew to make his own decision. I have to say I could not see myself wearing anything but the Blue and Gold.”

Not far into his freshman year, Andrew’s life-long dream started to unravel with the September 2010 announcement that Cal baseball was going to be discontinued following the 2011 season due to pressure on the athletic department’s budget.

It was a crushing blow to Knapp, whose photo was fea-tured on the front of the San Francisco Chronicle’s sports

page sitting in the Evans Diamond dugout dejected and wondering how his college baseball career would unfold.

The successful reinstatement of baseball and the ensuing trip to the College World Series is well known in Cal circles. What many people may not realize is that Knapp, in his first day of baseball as a Golden Bear, knocked in the game-winning RBI to capture a 6-5 victory over Utah in the second game of a season-opening doubleheader.

Knapp contributions to that magical 2011 season – besides playing in 29 games and starting 15 contests with three dou-bles, a home run and 15 RBI – was teaming up with fellow freshmen Eric Walbridge and Derek Campbell to create the

Andrew Knapp’s grandparents, Arlene and Ray (upper left), both attended Cal, as did his father, Mike, who was a standout catcher for the Bears. Andrew (right) enjoyed a chat with his father at the Cal Alumni game this past fall.

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So who is the better athlete in the family?“If you talk to my wife, she’ll say it’s her,” Forsett said.

“I’ll give it to her. I’ll be a good husband.”Both Forsett and Pressey have gone on to excel ath-

letically since leaving Cal. Forsett is getting ready to enter his sixth season in the NFL, having played with the Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans. Pressey, meanwhile, played in the U.S. Nation-al Team program for four years and professionally in Puerto Rico and Austria before becoming pregnant with Judah.

“We’re both competitive. It’s fun,” Forsett said. “We’re always competing at something, which is not always a good thing in a marriage.”

Pressey took her final semester at Cal off (she later finished her degree) in 2008 to start training with the U.S. team and spent the next four years in what effec-tively is a perpetual tryout. About 20-25 players com-pete in international summer tournaments. Pressey was one of six outside hitters being considered for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team before finding out she was pregnant.

Even though he was drafted and has lasted in the NFL five years, Forsett hasn’t stopped feeling like he needs to continually silence the critics. He didn’t receive a single Division I-A scholarship offer before Signing Day of his senior year of high school, and at 5-foot-8, he’s continual-ly had to prove he belongs on the football field.

Although she may not be able to fulfill her competi-tive urges as much anymore, Pressey says she is enjoy-ing using some of her free time to re-connect with family and friends, something that was difficult to do given the rigors and demands of volleyball.

And whether Judah becomes an athlete remains in question.

“I’m not sure,” Pressey said. “He may be the buffest pia-no player you’ve ever seen.”

Justin Forsett, Angie Pressey Build a Family in Texas

By Jonathan Okanes


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Justin Forsett is a football player, which is a good thing, inasmuch he’s not a volley-ball player.

Had he been a volleyball player, Angie Pressey may not have kept him around.

The former Cal stars are happi-ly married and living in Texas with

their newborn son, Judah, who joined the world on New Year’s Eve. Their relationship dates back to when each first arrived in Berkeley, a place where Forsett etched his name in Cal’s record books and Pressey left as one of the greatest players ever to don a volleyball jersey.

One weekend while they were dating at Cal, Forsett and teammate Brandon Hampton and Pressey and teammate Am’ra Solomon trekked down to Santa Cruz for a little beach volleyball showdown.

“He was horrible,” Pressey said. “I wanted to break up with him. I was so turned off.”

For the record, Forsett says he has a good serve and plays good defense. He spent most of his childhood in Florida and said he found himself in some pick-up games from time to time in Daytona Beach.

But that may not have given him enough experience to compete with his future wife, a two-time All-American who ranks fourth on Cal’s all-time list with 1,725 kills and led the Bears to their first-ever appearance in the NCAA semifinals in 2007.

Forsett, meanwhile, came to Berkeley as a lightly-re-cruited running back and lit up Cal’s record books. He ranks third all-time with 3,220 rushing yards and in 2007 had the third-best season ever for a Cal running back with 1,546 yards. That same year, he tied the school record with 15 rushing touchdowns.

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Cal men’s crew returns an experienced varsity eight with all but one member back from last season’s fourth-place finish in the IRA Championships. Highlighted by All-Pac-12 performers Ivan Ostojic and Cameron Klotz, the Golden Bears’ top boat has high expecta-tions in 2013. Head coach Mike Teti also welcomes back six rowers

and the coxswain from the junior varsity eight as part of a deep squad this spring. Teti, who coached the U.S. eight at the Olympics in London last summer, has added another Olympian to his staff in former Cal stand-out Scott Frandsen, a member of the Canadian team in 2012. Fans have the advantage of being able to see the Pac-12 and IRA regattas in North-ern California, as both events will take place on the Gold River outside Sacramento.

Cal has most of its team intact from a season of firsts a year ago when the Golden Bears reached the NCAA semifinals, won their first NCAA Regional and Pac-12 titles, and set a school record with six victories. The Bears return all five players from their NCAA lineup last season in Brandon Hagy, Max Homa, Pace Johnson, Michael Kim and Joël

Stalter. Hagy, Homa and Kim earned All-American honors in 2011-12, and the return of Michael Weaver makes it four returning All-Americans. Weav-er, who earned All-American honors in 2010-11, is back after redshirting last season to successfully gain entrance into the Haas School of Busi-ness. Weaver was also the 2012 U.S. Amateur runner-up, earning invita-tions to play in both the Masters and U.S. Open in 2013. Shotaro Ban and Keelan Kilpatrick are back, while Walker Huddy, Andrew Morgan, Cameron Shaw and James Yoon will be in their first season.

Cal women’s crew returns a strong contingent from last season’s squad that placed third in the NCAA Championships, and the Golden Bears, who are the five-time defending Pac-12 cham-pions, earned a No. 2 preseason national ranking. All-American Paparangi Hipango heads a list of rowers back in the varsity eight,

and she is joined by fellow All-Pac-12 honorees Michelle Leason and Ag-atha Nowinski. In addition, two-time All-American Kara Kohler, an Olym-pic bronze-medalist in the women’s quadruple sculls, is back in the boat after redshirting last season to train for the London Games. Head coach Dave O’Neill has earned the past three Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards and is fresh off coaching the USA lightweight women’s double sculls at the 2012 Olympics.

Cal baseball features 2013 first-team preseason All-American catcher Andrew Knapp and eight other members of the Golden Bears’ 2011 College World Series squad. Under the direction of head coach David Esquer, Cal also returns two All-American left-handers – Justin Jones, a freshman All-American in 2010, and

Kyle Porter, a freshman All-American in 2011 – from a squad looking to get back to postseason play after qualifying for NCAA Regionals in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Standout junior first baseman Devon Rodriguez has resumed his spot in the lineup after sitting out the majority of 2012 with a right knee injury. Another top returner is senior right-hander Lo-gan Scott, who is on the watch list for the Collegiate Baseball Writers’ Stopper of the Year Award after recording seven saves last season. With new lights installed at Evans Diamond, the Bears will play several home night games this spring for the first time in school history.


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Only a pair of golfers remain from Nancy McDaniel’s lineup that won the 2012 Pac-12 Championship, but those two – senior Jacqueline Williams and junior Nicola Rossler – form a solid nucleus to help guide the youth-oriented Bears in 2013. Ross-ler is the top returning scorer from both the Pac-12 and NCAA

West Region Championships. Gone are All-Americans Joanne Lee and Daniela Holmqvist, but Cal will look for sophomore Morgan Thompson and freshmen Carly Childs and Hannah Suh to help keep the Bears atop the conference standings. Childs is the younger sister of 2012 graduate Emily Childs, the first player in program history to win three tournaments in a single season and the program record holder for total individual medalist honors.

The Golden Bears pick up the 2013 season right where they left off – as the third-ranked team in the country following a histor-ic 2012 season that produced a program-best 58 wins and a Pac-12 Championship title. With a taste of greatness following Cal’s second consecutive Women’s College World Series bid, this

season’s squad returns hungrier than ever. Leading the way is two-time Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year Jolene Henderson, who was named to the 2013 ESPN Preseason All-America team and NFCA Player of the Year Watch List. Along with returning six position starters, the squad is backed by a quintet of talented freshmen and head coach Diane Ninemire, who is in her 26th season as leader of the squad. Pac-12 coaches tabbed Cal the favorite to repeat as title winners of the na-tion’s most successful and competitive softball conference.

boasting the 2012 MPSF Player of the Year on its roster in senior attack-er Megan Takacs, Cal looks to get over the hump from being one of the MPSF’s middle-tier teams to a true contender to win the conference crown in 2013. Second-year head coach Ginger Miles is excited about her squad’s enthusiasm and drive to raise some eyebrows. Before miss-

ing the last three games due to injury, Takacs paced the Bears with a school single-season record 53 goals in 2012, and she will be one of the team cap-tains along with senior defender Sarah Milik. Junior Megan McGinnis is back in the cage after posting a goals-against average of 10.91 last season. Anoth-er nice advantage for the Bears will be returning to newly renovated Memorial Stadium after calling Witter Rugby Field home for the past two seasons. Miles and the Bears are excited to enjoy a true home-field advantage.

Head coach Peter Wright’s team boasts a nice combination of vet-erans in senior co-captains Christoffer Konigsfeldt and Riki Mc-Lachlan and junior Ben McLachlan along with talented younger players/newcomers, including sophomore Chase Melton, Georgia transfer Campbell Johnson, a junior, French sophomore Gregory

Bayane, Danish freshman Mads Engsted, Northwestern transfer Nikhil Jayashanakar and freshman Wyatt Houghton. The McLachlan brothers form one of the best doubles teams in the nation, and the duo captured the doubles title at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships last fall. Ben McLachlan, Cal’s top singles player, won the singles title at the northwest regional and, like Konigsfeldt and Johnson, is nationally ranked by the ITA. The Bears have reached the NCAA Tournament 13 years in a row and advanced to the round of 16 last spring.

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Ranked No. 1 in the anchor leg of its regular season, the Rug-by Bears put together an undefeated campaign entering their Homecoming game March 30 vs. Utah on Witter Rugby Field, where fans were welcomed back this spring following a two-year repurposing of the field in support of the renovation

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Sophomore Zsofi Susanyi leads the Golden Bears into what promises to be another strong spring season, as Cal challenges for the Pac-12 Conference title and another postseason berth. An NCAA singles semifinalist as a freshman, Susanyi is one of the best young talents in the nation; she will pair with freshman Klara Fabikova – another

rising young star – to form one of the top duos around. Head coach Amanda Augustus has a roster that includes other nationally ranked singles talents in junior Anett Schutting and freshman Lynn Chi, who also combine as a nationally ranked doubles team, seniors Tayler Davis and Annie Goransson, juniors Kelly Chui and Alice Duranteau and sophomores Laura Posylkin and Cecilia Estlander. Cal has reached the NCAA Tournament in all 31 years it has been contested, and the Bears reached the national quarterfinals in 2012.

Cal returns four of five Golden Bears who qualified to the NCAA Outdoor Championships last June –Scott Esparza (hammer), Chad Jones (triple jump), Harrison Steed (high jump) and Chase Wheeler (long jump). Steed came through with first-team All-American honors after setting a Cal PR with a clearance of

7-2.50, which was good for eighth place. The Bears also boast a pair of conference champions on the roster. Collin Jarvis won the Pac-12 title in the 3000-meter steeplechase last spring, while Ray Stewart captured the Pac-10 crown in the 110-meter hurdles in 2011. Others to watch include Hammed Suleman, a former NCAA indoor qualifier in the triple jump, and Derek White, who was the league runner-up in the discus last season. Among the newcomers to expected to contribute right away are 400-meter hurdler Randy Bermea, high jumper Noel Frazier, thrower Ethan Cochran and distance runner Leland Later who were all state champions as high school seniors.

The Bears feature one of the top distance runners in the country in senior Deborah Maier, who placed third in the 10,000 meters at last year’s NCAA meet and later was a finalist in both the 5000 and 10,000 at the Olympic Trials over the summer. Her best time of 32:12.47 in the 10K from last April puts her No. 3 on the all-time

collegiate list in the event. Cal’s recruiting class was ranked fifth-best in the country by Track & Field News and is highlighted by throwers Shelby Ashe, the U.S. girls’ record holder in the hammer, and Torie Owers, the national prep leader in the shot put from 2012. Returnees Charnell Price (100 me-ters), Alima Kamara (400 meters), Angelica Weaver (400-meter hurdles), Kristin Rimbach (high jump) and Malaina Payton (long jump) all rank among the Bears’ top five on the school’s best performance lists.

The Bears look to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament with the return of three-time All-American Emily Csikos, who took the 2012 season off to train with the Canadian Nation-al Team. Cal also features a pair of two-time All-Americans in seniors Breda Vosters and Dana Ochsner. Vosters has led the

team in scoring in each of the past two seasons. Sophomore Tiera Schroeder was named to the MPSF All-Newcomer Team last year, and junior Ashley Young is a returning All-American as well. Under the guidance of eighth-year coach Richard Corso, the Bears are just one year removed from advancing to the NCAA title match, when they also won the MPSF Championship. Cal began the season as the No. 4 team in the country, and will get a home-pool advantage when it hosts the MPSF Championships at the end of April.

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Bedrocks Among BuildersMany Builders of Berkeley Make Intercollegiate Athletics a Priority

By Anton Malko

Among these cherished donors are 65 families — and count-ing — who have made Intercollegiate Athletics a major thrust of their support, in many cases reaching that million-dollar mark through one of their gifts to the department.

Their names are set in granite to capture the spirit of the pioneers whose vision and grit helped create Berkeley as “an Athens in the hills of California.” That enduring ethos has en-sured Cal’s place as the finest public teaching and research institution in the country. Each year, an elegant ceremony welcomes the newest Builders of Berkeley, recognizing their extraordinary commitment to the University’s continued ex-cellence. Here are profiles of a few of the Builders who have shown remarkable generosity to the campus as a whole and Cal Athletics in particular.

Rick Cronk ’65 – a member of the Cal Aquatics “Big Four” with fellow Builders Ned Spieker ’66, the late Don Fisher ’51 and the late Warren Hellman ’55 – and Janet Cronk ’69 are campus benefactors whose best-known contribution to Cal Athletics came with the creation of the Bear Splash Club, which launched in 1987 and expanded into the Friends of Cal Aquatics in 2002.

While the depth of the Cronks’ pas-sion can be found in the Spieker Aquat-ics Complex, their support, like that of many Builders, extends to other campus areas. But the Cronks consider today’s campus community, in particular Cal’s student-athletes, to be the true builders of the University.

“When they put on that uniform, they represent the institution,” Mr. Cronk said, “and wearing the blue and gold uniform comes with a responsibility as a

representative of the University. That clearly impacts student-athletes and changes their mindset.”

The men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs won back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2011 and ’12 and finished as runner-up in 2013, while both water polo programs have remained in the national title conver-

sation. But trophies are not the reason Builders support swim-ming & diving or any of Cal’s 29 Intercollegiate Athletics teams.

“In our Aquatics efforts we kept using the phrase ‘world class,’ but that never meant teams had to win the NCAA Cham-pionship all the time, or three-quarters of the time or half the time — that had nothing to do with it,” explained Mr. Cronk. “It’s about the pursuit of world class, both in the pool and in the classroom, and doing it with good character.”

It’s a mindset that also expands the community’s support elsewhere on campus. “It’s amazing how athletics bring people to campus and give them the inspiration to diversify their sup-port all over the University,” said Mrs. Cronk. “It’s so important to the whole health of the campus.”

Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi, who were recognized as new Builders in 2012, agree. A 1996 graduate with a double

The Ralph E. and Marla H. Andersen FamilyTrudy L. and William F. AusfahlMel and Vera BacharachDwight and Nancy BarkerDolores Freeman CerroBeverly B. and Arlington C. CharterAlice V. and Michael N. ChetkovichJohn E. Cook Jr. and Sandra G. CookJanet M. and William F. CronkFrithjof Jon and Ellen Giusti DaleMilt and Carol DavidWilliam S. and Mary Jane DetwilerPatricia L. and James W. Dieterich Jr.

James K. and Jean S. DobeyMarji and Phil DunnDavid R. Eckles and Allene H. WongKathleen G. Correia and Stephen A. EvansRobert J. and Christine FeibuschDoris and Donald G. FisherDouglas E. and Lisa M. GoldmanJohn L. and Margaret B. GompertzFrederick L. and Roberta O. GreenleeGlenn and Robin W. GulvinEvelyn D. and Walter A. Haas Jr.Peter E. and Mimi HaasElise S. and Walter A. Haas

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Ten years ago this September, a monument was unveiled on the terrace of Doe Library that recognizes philanthro-pists whose history of giving to the University has, in each

case, reached or surpassed $1 million. Known as Builders of Berkeley, this group of dedicated benefactors is joined each year by additional supporters who have reached that benchmark.

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major in rhetoric and history, Mr. Hadidi and his wife have gener-ously supported Arts & Humanities, the Chancellor’s Office and the UC Berkeley Foundation in addi-tion to Athletics.

“We all share a sense that athletics provides a common fo-rum for bonding the Cal family together,” Mr. Hadidi said. “My best friends that I have to this day are from my undergrad years at Cal, and one of the reasons we have stayed close for so long is that we come back to the campus for football games and basketball games. We relish the highs, we commiserate in the lows, and that’s a profoundly bonding experience for us. Athletics is a great way to encourage a building of community.”

Joffa and Ellen Dale, who became Builders in 2006, are examples of how athletics can serve as a gateway to further support of the University. They both received their under-graduate degrees in 1966, with Mr. Dale obtaining his Berke-ley MBA the following year. Twenty years after that, when their son, Jeffrey, became a member of the Cal Band, they be-came regulars at Cal football games.

As the Dales evolved into dedicated supporters who marched with the band on Saturdays to Memorial Stadium, their support as donors to Athletics also grew. They made a conscious decision to balance that commitment with pro-portionate donations elsewhere on campus.

“It began with our support for the Haas school, giving equal amounts to academics and Athletics, and it grew from there,” Mr. Dale said. For the Dales and many other Builders of Berkeley, commitment is a key word.

Among the Dales’ leading priorities is the men’s golf program, and Mr. Dale routinely travels with the team. Frequent hosts of team fundraisers, the Dales have seen how student-athletes keep their focus and composure despite busy schedules.

“For them to be successful students, athletics helps them, because they learn how to manage all the things they have to do. They can only do this if they are very organized, and

we’ve seen for our-selves: they are or-ganized,” Mr. Dale said.

For Mrs. Dale, remaining account-able to a team “is one of the biggest commitments a student can make on this campus.”

Builder David Eckles MBA ’73 believes that the pursuit of a sound mind and body — the Athenian origin of the student-athlete experience — buoys Cal Athletics. To witness student-ath-letes engaged in that pursuit, he explained, is what motivates many supporters to acknowledge the benefits of their own Cal experience.

“It’s an appreciation for the education, both in the classroom and on the campus, that we received at Cal, the excitement that a first-class University provides,” Mr. Eckles said. “As a group, we give to the schools we attended within the University, to Zellerbach, to the library and all over campus. We are not one dimensional.”

This September, another ceremony will mark the next “class” of inductees to the Builders of Berkeley. While the scope of their support will likely remain multi-dimensional, their fo-cus is singular — to do everything possible to ensure the University’s continued excellence.

To learn more about the Builders of Berkeley, please contact Nancy McKinney, Director of Donor Steward-ship for University Relations, at (510) 643-7664 or [email protected].

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Gary StormWhen Gary Storm ’92 was joined by his two children and wife, Mi-

chelle, to cheer on the men’s basketball team in 2012-13, their family’s spirit was represented on the court by sophomore

forward Christian Behrens, the most recent recipient of the J. Michael Storm Memorial Scholarship.

Mr. Storm called the scholarship in the name of his father, who played for two seasons in the late ’50s, “a great way to honor my father and also support Cal Athletics, something my family has being doing for many years now.” Gary was born and raised by parents who met at the Uni-versity and, he said, “I'm continuing the tradition today with both of my kids.”

Remembering the men’s team’s run into the third round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, Storm especially relished how “these individuals really started to play as a team.” He said he looks forward the 2013 foot-ball season with equal excitement. “The new stadium is amazing, really one of the best venues in the country to watch a college football game,” Storm said. “The new Club Rooms aren't too shabby either.”

Geoff WonGGeoff Wong’s graduation from the University in 1962 followed those of his sis-

ter, father and grandfather, and has been followed since by degrees attained by his nieces and nephews, making him part of four generations of Cal his-

tory. His cousin, Meme Fanner, was a starting point guard during her career on the women’s basketball team from 1986-89, which happened to overlap with the career of the future mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson.

In early April, Wong and fellow members of the Sacramento Grid Club welcomed new head football coach Sonny Dykes to their annual Tiny Bates Banquet, held in honor of the right end for the Bears in 1916 and 1917 under Andy Smith who co-founded of the club in 1947. Every year since Bates’ death in 1968, members of the football team who hail from the Sacramento area eligible for the Tiny Bates Award in his honor.

Wong supports a broad range of sports from the hardwood and diamond to the gridiron and track. And he’s just as big of fan of their achievements away from the competition arena. “One thing that really excites me right now is the reemphasis on the academic side of things,” Wong said. “Cal student-athletes are great stu-dents and great athletes. There is no contradiction in the term.”

Kevin KennedyKevin Kennedy lived a block from Memorial Stadium during

his first year at the University as a law school student in 1988 and went on to enjoy winning times for football that

included the 1992 Citrus Bowl. He continued to live a block from campus after graduation in 1991 until 2000, an era that, he said, “washed out its fair-weather fans.”

Kennedy’s wife, Jeanette, holds an MBA from the University and has only missed one football game in the past seven years. Their son, Connor, hasn’t missed one in five years, which, Mr. Kennedy said, “takes some coordination.”

When Cal faced Fresno State at Candlestick Park for the 2011 opener to the football season, Kennedy arranged for 150 tick-ets to allow Rally Committee members to attend, along with three buses to get them to and from the game. “I thought it would be a good way to get fans out to the game,” he said. “I’m also a big believer that the teams are really for the students.” Last season he took his son to the 2012 bonfire, which he also co-sponsored, before the Oregon game. Said Mr. Kennedy of Connor’s impressions, “He thought it was the greatest thing he had ever seen.”

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Riki and Ben McLachlan spent most of their childhood playing tennis against each other, and they grew tired of it.

The sons of Yuriko – a Japanese immigrant – and Craig McLachlan, the brothers grew up in Queenstown, a re-sort area of New Zea-land. They participated in a variety of sports, including rugby, bas-ketball, swimming, golf, cricket and tennis, which they began play-

ing at around ages 7 and 8. The burgeoning talents focused more exclusively on tennis at roughly 13 and 14.

As the only good tennis players of their generation around, they were forced to work out together.

“We never really got the chance to practice with a lot of peo-ple; it was just me and Riki all the time,” Ben said. “We’d prac-tice against each other every day. You’d get kind of sick of it.”

The siblings finally got the opportunity to hit with different players several years later when both joined the Cal men’s ten-nis team. Riki McLachlan, 22, is a senior for head coach Peter Wright’s squad, while Ben McLachlan, who turns 21 in May, is

a junior. They have been mainstays on Cal’s perennial postsea-son contender since they joined the Bears.

“Riki and Ben bring so many positive qualities to the team,” Wright said. “Riki’s maturity and leadership stand out, as well as his positive attitude and incredible play during critical mo-ments. Ben has grown incredibly during his time at Cal. He’s always been an incredible athlete, but adding discipline to his game has made the difference. He has developed into one of the top players in the USA.”

As fate would have it, they were coached in their formative years by former Cal tennis assistant coach Lan Bale – a one-time professional tennis player who moved to Queenstown af-ter his stint in Berkeley ended.

The McLachlans learned that college tennis would give them another way to continue playing beyond what they could ac-complish in Queenstown.

“If you don’t go pro, there are no opportunities in tennis in New Zealand,” Ben said. “To play tennis in college in the States, it’s a great opportunity to get an education and play a high lev-el of tennis. It was just perfect for us to come here.”

The brothers did their research on Cal and other schools. Riki considered Boise State and Louisville among others be-fore joining Wright’s team in 2009. Bringing Ben to Berkeley was not a done deal; he considered playing for Texas. But after visiting Cal, his brother and the rest of the team, Ben followed his heart and signed with the Bears.

Ben is currently the Golden Bears’ top singles player, and, as

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training trip during the January 2013 winter break. Ben and Riki turned tour guide for their teammates, as did their father, a hiking guide in Queen-stown. The Bears took part in a myr-iad of activities, including jet boating, bungee jumping and climbing the Re-markables, a mountain range near the McLachlans’ hometown.

“That was just incredible,” Riki said. “I’ve always talked about my home-town and my home country. It was re-ally cool to be able to show it off.”

Once back in Berkeley, Cal had a good start to the dual-match sea-son, including an upset of then-No. 4 Duke on March 10 at home. The Bears earned a No. 24 ITA ranking as of the end of March.

After this season, the McLachlans’ paths will diverge for perhaps the first time. Ben has his senior season and then possibly the pro game to look for-ward to, whereas, Riki– who will grad-uate at the end of the spring semester – wants to pursue coaching.

On Ben, Wright said, “Ben has always had special talents in tennis. This has, at

times, created unrealistic expectations in terms of the timing of his development. His time

in college has been good for him. He has grown each year in terms of his understanding of the game and his maturity. He has a very positive future in terms of professional tennis and in terms of representing New Zealand. If he is able to stay injury free, I think he’ll be No. 1 in New Zealand in the next few years.”

On Riki’s future, Wright remarked, “He has al-ways been a smart player, and I think he will have a lot to contribute as a coach. He is well liked and well respected by his peers for his intelligence and competitiveness, and that goes a long way in terms of being able to help develop players in the future.”

Whatever the future brings, Riki McLachlan has enjoyed his ride at Cal.

“It’s been just incredible,” he said. “Everything has been amazing, the way you get treated, getting to play tennis, getting to travel, and the academics

are just incredible here. Just being around the kind of great people we have has made it a lot of fun here.”

of March 12, was ranked No. 57 nationally by the ITA. In 2012, he was an All-Pac-12 second-team selection, and last fall, he captured the singles title at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships.

“It’s been really good,” Ben said of his Cal career. “Coming into college I knew I had a lot of growing to do through my tennis. I think the last two years I’ve been improving a lot, constantly.”

Riki is a Cal co-captain, and his lead-ership was on full display on Jan. 26 against then-No. 20 Michigan. Hosting an ITA Kick-Off Weekend event at the Hellman Tennis Complex, Cal vied with the Wolverines for the title that would send the Bears to the prestigious ITA Na-tional Men’s Team Indoor Championship. With the overall match tied at 3-3, the result came down to Riki’s match on court five. After losing the first set, Riki surged back to win the match, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4, and clinch Cal’s trip to nationals.

The brothers’ natural chemistry made them one of the top doubles teams in the nation, and that also led to the doubles title at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships. Earlier this season, the ITA ranked the tandem as high as No. 7 – but then an early February leg injury sidelined Riki. As of March 12, the ITA still ranked the brothers’ doubles team at No. 42, even though Riki hadn’t played since Feb. 8.

While Ben has since paired with other doubles part-ners, Riki faces the possibility that his college career is over. The team hopes to have him back for the postsea-son, and Riki spends two to three hours a day rehabbing the injury. He still comes to practice “to show he’s not go-ing to fade away,” Wright said.

“Riki’s injury has been a tremendous shock to the team,” Wright added. “It’s a horrible way to finish his col-legiate career. But it has also inspired our guys to reach higher. Riki has been there every step of the way for us, cheering on the guys and being an incredibly positive in-fluence. Not one moment has he felt sorry for himself. He wants our guys to win, and he’s our most inspirational voice on the sidelines.”

Prior to the injury, the brothers earned an extra vis-it home when Cal took its team to New Zealand for a

Together ForeverMcLachlan Brothers Bring Tennis Talents from New Zealand to Berkeley

“Riki’s maturity and lead-ership stand out, as well

as his positive attitude and incredible play during crit-

ical mo ments. Ben has grown incredibly during

his time at Cal. He’s always been an

incredible ath-lete, but adding discipline to his

game has made the difference.”

- head coach Peter Wright

By Dean Caparaz ’90

The McLachlans turned tour guide when Cal took a winter training trip to New Zealand, where the Bears participated in a variety of outdoor activities.


Megan Takacs earned MPSF Player of the Year honors last season after setting a Cal record with

53 goals during her junior season on the Golden Bear lacrosse squad.

Taken apart or together, both are noteworthy accomplishments. What makes them even more re-markable is that her 2012 cam-paign ended early due to a severe knee injury with the regular-sea-son finale against Stanford and the MPSF Tournament still on the Cal slate. Clearly, she could have easily added to her scoring total, yet the conference accolade came as the

biggest surprise.“It was an incredible feeling to receive that award,”

Takacs said. “I honestly wasn’t expecting it because I had just ended my season about a week before the [awards’] banquet. I felt so honored that the MPSF coaches picked me to be the MPSF Player of the Year even after miss-ing a conference game. I have a lot of respect for every single student-athlete in our conference, and I’m happy that our team had a few individuals representing some of the conference awards.”

Following eight months of rehab, Takacs was back in the starting lineup when the Bears took to the field for their season-opener at James Madison. Although she did not find the back of the net against the Dukes or in Cal’s next match at Maryland-Baltimore County, she scored four times in the Bears’ home opener, an 18-9 romp over Saint Mary’s.

Given Takacs’ drive to succeed, second-year head coach Ginger Miles is excited to see what her star attack-er can do now that she’s healthy again.

“She blew the lid off of our expectations last year,” Miles said. “With the confidence she’s bringing into this season, she’s going to blow the lid off of it again. She has the want, the hunger and the determination every single day to help this team. She’s a very selfless player. She just wants to help this team win any way she can, and she’ll step into any role that we need her to. She’ll have a huge impact on our success this season.”

Added Takacs about recovering from the injury: “It really tested my mental game, and I learned a lot while playing a sideline role. I am 100 percent and feel even stronger now. Being off for eight months has made me love the sport even more, which seems almost impossible.”

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Throwing Expectations Out the WindowBack from a Knee Injury, Megan Takacs Looks to Return to MVP Form

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If Takacs wants to repeat her feats of 2012, she will also have to deal with opposing defenses targeting her as the player to watch this spring. It’s a challenge and attention level that Takacs relishes.

“I like when someone is guarding me tightly because I have learned different ways of using my speed to get around them and therefore creating a clear lane to goal,” Takacs said. “I also like messing with their heads in the sense of telling my teammates something I will be do-ing and making sure my defender can hear me and then

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doing the complete opposite. I toy with my defender and play sort of a cat-mouse game; I have fun with it.”

In a way, Takacs has been fooling players and coaches for much more than her time here at Cal. As a high school freshman back in Ohio, she partic-ipated on a club lacrosse program. When the 11th grade team did not have enough players to partici-pate in a tournament, the coach asked Takacs to join the squad.

Takacs immediately earned the attention of NCAA schools, Cal being one of them, not knowing she was only a freshman. Over time, Takacs researched Cal and always kept the idea of trekking to the Bay Area in the back of her mind throughout her recruiting process.

After being courted by multiple top-10 lacrosse programs, Takacs decided she wanted to be a Bear and join the up-and-coming Cal team.

“I realized that Cal fit my personality and needs in every way,” Takacs said. “I chose Cal because of the girls on the team, the academic excellence, and more broadly speaking, the Bay Area in general. I wanted diversity and I wanted to get a four-year ac-ademic and athletic experience that would help me grow in the best way possible. Cal has exceeded my expectations.”

Takacs wasted no time in taking advantage of her time in Berkeley. After a productive freshman cam-paign when she ranked fifth on the team in scoring, Takacs earned first-team All-MPSF notice as a soph-omore in 2011 with her team-leading 48 points.

But it wasn’t until just before the start of her junior campaign when Takacs received her biggest oppor-tunity to shine.

Just before the season opener, Cal lost one of its season captains and key attacker, Tara Arolla, to a season-ending injury. Miles and her staff decided to move Takacs from midfielder to attacker.

“We knew that our offense had to make some ad-justments,” Takacs said. “The coaches then decided to move me down to attack so I could solely focus on the offensive piece of the game. I was excited because my favorite part of the game is offensive sets, assist-ing and scoring goals.”

Takacs went on to have a monster season that in-cluded being named to all-region, All-MPSF team, MPSF All-Academic and, of course, MPSF Player of the Year. She finished the year as Cal’s leader in goals (53), draw controls (63), game-winning goals (4) and free-position goals (11 of 16 attempts).

“I wouldn’t have had the year I had if it wasn’t for our attacking coach, Allison Comito,” Takacs said of the Bears’ assistant who was a two-time first team All-American at Maryland. “She specializes in attack, and I learned moves that I never even knew existed in lacrosse. She made me see the big picture of the attacking side of the game and the importance of uti-lizing the skills individuals bring to the attack. With that [knowledge], my teammates and I used our best skills in order to have a fluid attack.”

Although her Cal career will come to an end at the conclusion of this season, there is still plen-ty more in Takacs’ lacrosse future. Because her mother was born north of the border, Takacs will be able to represent Canada at the World Cup over the summer. Following her international experience, Takacs, an American studies major, hopes to return to the Bay Area and start her post- collegiate career.

Given some of the numbers Takacs has posted for the Bears, she’ll also be sticking around in the Cal re-cord book for years to come.

“It really tested my mental game, and I learned a lot while playing a sideline role. I am 100 percent and feel even stronger now.”

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environmental engineer-ing school in the country.”

Corrigan was also in-trigued by research be-ing conducted by Kara Nelson, an associate pro-fessor in the engineering school who was studying

ways to design better drinking water treatment for Third World countries – which matched her interest exactly.

“That was my main reason for coming to Cal before I even knew I had track eli-gibility left,” Corrigan said.

One week after she signed her fellow-ship papers to join the master’s program in Berkeley last March, Corrigan received the results of an MRI test that revealed a stress fracture. With her final spring sea-son on hold, she realized that could still compete a year later, but this time as a Golden Bear in 2013.

“I was just lucky that this was a pro-gram that had produced world-class ath-letes and we had a wonderful coaching staff,” Corrigan said.

It also helped that Virginia head coach Brian Fetzer is a former Cal assistant, and all it took was one phone call to connect Corrigan with director of track & field Tony Sandoval and the Golden Bears. Soon enough, Corrigan settled into her new environment in the Bay Area and was back training again. Coincidentally, her Cal debut came against her former Virginia colleagues in an April 6 tri-meet with Michigan at Edwards Stadium.

Once Corrigan completes her master’s requirements in May, she has several options to consider. She may contin-ue her education for a Ph.D., but more than likely will first find time to put her studies to work either here in the Unit-ed States developing water systems or working on the ground oversees. Like so many students who come through Cal, Corrigan hopes to make the world a better place to live.

Virginia transfer Anna Corrigan is studying for her master’s degree in environmental engineering at Cal.

Yet the drive to learn at the No. 1 public institution in the country and com-pete alongside world-class student-ath-letes brought her to Berkeley just the same.

Under NCAA guidelines, a student who wants to pursue a graduate degree program not offered at his or her origi-nal school may transfer and compete immediately. Such was the case with Corrigan, but she is not the only Golden Bear to take advantage of the rule. Team-mate and fellow distance runner. Joseph Greenspun arrived at Cal this season after earning a degree in electrical engi-neering from Boston University to work as an M.S./Ph.D. student in electrical engineering.

Last year, middle-distance special-ist Dylan Isaacson studied for his mas-ter’s in public health after receiving his bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Columbia.

Corrigan, meanwhile, compiled an impressive list of credentials during her four years at Virginia. An Academic All-American and three-time member of the ACC honor roll, she was the con-ference runner-up in the indoor 3000 meters and earned all-region honors in cross country. She also finished her re-quirements for a degree in systems engi-neering with a minor in civil engineering.

As an academic senior last year, Corrigan looked ahead to graduate schools without any indication she would have remaining athletic eligibility. Cal quickly rose to the top of her list.

“Cal had the most interesting research by far of all the programs,” Corrigan said. “To start with, it’s the top civil and

Distance Runner Anna Corrigan Is No Ordinary Newcomer

By Herb Benenson

ACADEMiC ACHiEVEMENT


A nna Corrigan is not your ordinary newcom-er to the Cal track & field team. A graduate student in environmental engineering, she came

to campus this past fall already armed with her under-graduate degree and several years experience compet-ing at one of the nation’s more prestigious universities.

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Taking Every Opportunity to Make a Difference

By Taylor Dutch ’13

“There are just small things, little things you can do everyday for the com-munity, for the environment, for other people that are really important,” said Goransson, “and it can make a big differ-ence in the long run.”

In September 2012, Goransson led a zero-waste program for the Cal Nike Invitational at the Hellman Tennis Complex and Chan-ning Tennis Courts. The goal for the weekend was to pro-mote zero waste, meaning all discarded materials are recycled, composted or re-used, and nothing is sent to the landfill.

In order to accomplish the goal for the tournament, Goransson applied for a grant from Campus Recy-cling and Refuse Services in the spring of 2012. The CRRS accepted her appli-cation and gave Goransson funds to set up bins for compostables, recyclables and waste, as well as bring in student volunteers to identify what product goes where.

“You just have to start thinking and be-ing a little bit aware of it and once you’re aware of it, you notice how wrong it feels to put something that is recyclable in

the trash,” Goransson said. “It’s good to increase some awareness, which eventu-ally changes behavior.”

Goransson’s passion for environmen-tal issues started in the fall of 2011 with a simple question asked by her land-

scape architecture professor: how can we make the campus more sustainable? It was this query that prompted Gorans-son to consider how the Cal tennis pro-gram, and tennis worldwide, could be more sustainable as a sport.

Goransson has since expanded her approach this year by conducting

Being a student-athlete at Cal means many things. It means accomplish-ing comprehensive excellence in both academic and athletic pursuits. It means constant growth towards one’s full potential. But one of the most

important qualities that makes a Cal student-athlete is the ability to create a pos-itive, lasting impression on the community. With her zero-waste initiative, senior Annie Goransson of the women’s tennis team exemplifies what it means to be a true Cal student-athlete.

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The Cal tennis teams set a tone at the Hellman Tennis Complex with their sign: Don’t be trashy. Recycle.

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research on the reuse of tennis balls since 300 million of them produced worldwide eventually end up in land-fills. She explored whether the material used to make tennis balls was recyclable, and eventually found that the material is in fact reusable, prompting another question: why are there no programs to recycle them?

“It would be interesting to send this report to some organizations in the U.S. like the USTA and maybe get the word spread since it’s possible (to recycle),” said Goransson, pausing in thought. “I think it’s important that at (tennis)

clubs they have a place to throw old tennis balls away, because so many people just don’t know what to do with them and they end up in the trash can.”

In the four years she has been a Golden Bear, Gorans-son has certainly made her mark at Cal. Although she will be graduating in May, Goransson wishes to con-tinue to explore and create more opportunities for sus-tainability. In June, she will travel to Tanzania to work with African Immigrants’ Social and Cultural Services to help build solar panels

and give the local school electricity. “I’m so grateful,” Goransson said. “I feel

like with what I got here (at Cal), I have an obligation to take these opportunities when they come, because not that many people have these opportunities.”

Spoken like a true Cal student- athlete.


17SB vs. Santa Clara

19SB vs. Oregon State WTN vs. Stanford WWP vs. Stanford LAX vs. Denver BAS vs. Washington State

20SB vs. Oregon State BAS vs. Washington State

21SB vs. Oregon State BAS vs. Washington State

23BAS vs. Cal Poly

26T&F in Brutus Hamilton Open WWP in MPSF Championships

27LAX vs. Stanford RUG vs. TBA Varsity Cup semifinal T&F in Brutus Hamilton Challenge WWP in MPSF Championships

28WWP in MPSF Championships

For a complete schedule, pick up a Cal schedule card at any home event or visit the official Cal website at www.CalBears.com.

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5WTN vs. Oregon

6SB vs. Oregon (DH) T&F vs. Michigan, Virginia

7WWP vs. Loyola Marymount SB vs. Oregon

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