Sports

Road – Weary SB Welcomes Return

The #13 UCSB women's volleyball team's up-and-down season hit a bump in its final week of preseason play as #7 Pepperdine trounced the Gauchos.
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UCSB Intramurals 101

UCSB Recreational Sports, commonly known as Rec Sports, organizes and manages intramural sports for UCSB students and faculty. Rec Sports, run entirely by students, provides exciting opportunities to ...
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Club Sports Strive for Successful Seasons

he UCSB Sport Clubs program, a division of UCSB Recreational Sports, has high hopes for the upcoming season - and why not? With 22 teams, many of them nationally ranked, it's a safe bet to say it coul...
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SB Student Apathy

Student support of UCSB sports, especially women's basketball, has been terribly lacking, given the success of many of our 19 NCAA Division I programs at UCSB.
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Competition Loons in Backyard

For those of us who are too lazy or too sane to try and catch our dreams of playing college sports, salvation comes with intramural sports.
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Gauchos Gear Up to Go Loco

Starting this year, the Gaucho Locos is now officially run by the students, after the University ran the group for the its first five years.
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Let’s Get Physically Active

Listed in school schedules as PA 1 courses, physical activities courses cover a wide range of sports and athletic activities, from fencing and sailing to weight training and racquetball.
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Track and Field: Regional Opportunities

Thirteen Gauchos will attempt to qualify for the NCAA Division I Track and Field National Championships at the newly instated west regional competition, held today and tomorrow at Stanford's Cobb Trac...
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Santa Barbara Goes Clubbing For Success

What a year it has been in the world of sport clubs at UCSB. Twenty teams, about 25 articles, three league champions, one national championship, one coach of the year and you've completed the year at ...
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MLB Draft: MLB Scans SB For Diamond In Rough

UCSB baseball wrapped up a long season two weekends ago, going out with a bang by winning their final three series. But this week, several Gaucho players patiently await the knock of opportunity on a ...
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Ill Spittin’ Game: The Faces of the Game Make It Last

Three years in the same office and it's come down to three school days. When I first walked in to the Nexus about three years ago, it took me until this Tuesday afternoon to notice the smell.
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UCSB Only Hits So Far in 2003

The Gauchos concluded their season last Sunday with an impressive 9-5 victory over Cal Poly to haul their final season record to 25-28 overall and 8-13 in Big West play.
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The Shaw of Santa Barbara Reigns

It's hard to believe, but about 30 years ago women were not allowed to participate in sports and were only allowed to have "play days" and "interest groups." The only physical activity appropriate for...
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UCSB Coaching Connection

"In the words of Yogi Berra, it was deja vu all over again." Current UCSB men's basketball Head Coach Bob Williams uttered those words March 6, with a sigh of relief, after his Gauchos narrowly escape...
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SB Stars Earn Their Stripes

Senior-to-be center Lindsay Taylor and junior-to-be swingman Kristen Mann of the UCSB women's basketball team will represent the red, white and blue after being selected to play with USA Basketball in...
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