Ravi Bhatia

March 2, 2009

Santa Barbara Takes Big West Crown

By Ravi Bhatia

Before the 2009 Big West Swimming and Diving Championships, Gaucho Head Coach Gregg Wilson laid out his expectations for the tournament. "The women are going to maul the other teams," he said. "[It'll be] like men going...

February 26, 2009

Sunbirds Shot Out of the Sky

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB women's tennis team (1-3 Big West conference, 5-3 overall) ended their losing streak at two matches Wednesday, beating Fresno Pacific 4-3 at the Robertson Gymnasium courts in the fifth match of their homestand.

February 23, 2009

Conference Opponents Tear Up Santa Barbara

By Ravi Bhatia

The Big West has not been good to the UCSB women's tennis team.

February 19, 2009

SB Makes It Rain on Foes

By Ravi Bhatia

The rain may have dampened Isla Vista over the weekend, but the UCSB women's tennis team won two home matches against Loyola Marymount on Saturday and Hawaii on Tuesday, improving their overall record to 4-1.

February 17, 2009

Laying the Smackdown on Loyola

By Ravi Bhatia

February 10, 2009

SB Splits in Norcal

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB women's tennis team split matches on their NorCal road trip this weekend, opening Big West play with a 5-2 win over UC Davis on Saturday and losing 5-2 to Pacific on Sunday.

February 9, 2009

Pacific Paddles to Defeat Against SB

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB swimming team obliterated Pacific at Campus Pool on Saturday afternoon in their last dual meet of the season, honoring the outgoing seniors in a ceremony before the men posted a 167-85 win, with the women also w...

February 5, 2009

No Love for Davis And Pacific Rain or Shine

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB women's tennis team kicks off their Big West schedule this weekend in road matches at UC Davis on Saturday and Pacific on Sunday. Both matches are set to start at 11:00 a.m., pending the stormy weather set to hi...

February 2, 2009

UNLV Busts Gauchos

By Ravi Bhatia

For the sake of the upcoming Big West Conference and NCAA swimming tournaments, the Gauchos may be hoping that what happened in Vegas this weekend will stay in Vegas.

January 29, 2009

SB Visits Vegas

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB swimming team will travel to Las Vegas to swim against UNLV on Saturday in a dual meet at the Buchanan Natatorium in their last dual meet of the season on the road.

January 29, 2009

SB Visits Vegas

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB swimming team will travel to Las Vegas to swim against UNLV on Saturday in a dual meet at the Buchanan Natatorium in their last dual meet of the season on the road.

January 26, 2009

SB Sweeps Up Bakersfield

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB women's tennis team shut out Cal State Bakersfield 7-0 in their season opener on a windy Sunday afternoon at the Robertson Gymnasium courts, beginning the season 1-0 and setting a positive tone for the rest of t...

January 22, 2009

SB Digs for Redemption

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB men's volleyball team will play #2 Cal State Northridge (5-0 overall) at 7 p.m at the Matadome on Friday, giving the #10 Gauchos (2-3 overall) a chance to avenge their 30-38, 30-23, 28-30, 30-21 loss to the Mata...

January 20, 2009

Gauchos Sink Davis

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB men's and women's swimming teams cruised past conference rival UC Davis on Saturday afternoon at Campus Pool, the men winning 168-94 and the women winning 154.5-87.5.

January 15, 2009

Irvine Spoils SB’s MPSF Opener

By Ravi Bhatia

UC Irvine's 6-5 redshirt freshman opposite Carson Clark from Santa Barbara hit a career-high of 24 of the team's 59 kills on 32 attacks and four errors for a .625 hitting percentage on the way to a 30-23, 30-25, 26-30, 3...

January 15, 2009

UCSB Welcomes Davis

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB swimming team will host their first dual meet of 2009 on Saturday at noon, swimming against conference rival UC Davis at Campus Pool. “If they want to beat us, they will have to swim really fast,” He...