Sports

UCSB Athletes Globe-Trot Over Summer: Gaucho Boys of Summer Disperse Across Country, Pacific During Break

Most college baseball players will play the game, no matter whose name is on the front of their jerseys. Several Gauchos traded in their UCSB gear in late May and scattered across the globe to keep pa...
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Softball: Gauchos Face Must-Win Series

There is no more room for error. This is a must win series. These are the things that the young UCSB softball team (29-26, 11-4) will be hearing for the rest of the week until it faces Long Beach Stat...
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Baseball: Polished Pitcher Provides Power for UCSB

Location. Location. Location. As students here in sun-soaked Santa Barbara, we swear by this axiom. As the newly crowned go-to guy in the UCSB bullpen, so does Gaucho relief pitcher Loren Fraser.
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Track & Field: Santa Barbara Meets Last Chance

It will be a relaxed weekend for the UCSB track and field team. While most of the team rests for the upcoming Big West Championships, a select few will compete in the Oxy Invitational at Occidental Co...
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Male Athlete of the Year: Memo Arzate

The best way to describe his game is comprehensive. From the first whistle to the last, from one goal line to the other, and from the beginning of his career to its end, Memo Arzate covered all the gr...
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Female Athlete of the Year: Megan Blackshire

Megan Blackshire is a team player. She may have led the UCSB women's volleyball team's offense as a middle blocker, but the sophomore Capistrano Beach, Calif., native has nothing but the team on her m...
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Team of the Year: Women’s Basketball

It's a bad time to be in the Big West. Unless of course, you are Santa Barbara. After ripping off its unparalleled eighth consecutive Big West title coupled with its first ever Sweet 16 appearance, th...
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Coach of the Year: Kristy Schroeder

Head Coach Kristy Schroeder took the UCSB softball team to its first ever NCAA postseason appearance in only her third year as head coach, earning her Coach of the Year honors.
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Freshman of the Year: Chris Valaika

In the classroom, it's annoying when a freshman tries to look like a Ph.D. candidate by asking pretentious questions and using vocabulary from a word-of-the-day calendar.
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Track and Field: SB Men Finish 14th, Women Place 17th at Regionals

Members of the UCSB track and field team continue to blow away the competition and exceed all expectations. Santa Barbara will be sending six Gauchos to the NCAA National Championships after competing...
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Scholarship Regulations Make Recruiting Complex

Men's volleyball Head Coach Ken Preston has never known the luxury of having too much time on his hands. Neither has the Gaucho baseball team's Head Coach Bob Brontsema.
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Black Tide Disqualified From National Championship

Although it went undefeated in the Ultimate Players Association (UPA) sectional and regional tournaments, the UCSB Black Tide men's ultimate Frisbee team will not be making the trip to the Ultimate Co...
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15 Gauchos Set For Regionals


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Track and Field: White Sets Pace for Gaucho Track

This year the cross country and track and field programs will have one of their top runners graduate - senior distance runner Chris White. "Every year you have someone graduate that you know you canno...
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Baseball: Malec Tops List of Potential SB Draftees

You've just been offered a large amount of money to walk away from college and do what you've dreamed of doing since you were hitting off a tee. Take the money and run! No-brainer, right?
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