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Cal Poly wins team competition at Wildflower

About 1,000 Cal Poly volunteers watched nearly 7,500 athletes compete with enthusiasm inspired by their remarkable dedication and vigor – or with languor inspired by 80-degree heat and no shade – at this year’s Avia Wildflower Triathlons over the weekend.

The courses sprawled around Lake San Antonio in Bradley, along various roads lining the lake, and including hills that competitors had a hard time with.

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Wildflower begins this weekend

People have been partying at Wildflower for 26 years, but does everybody know what they’re celebrating?

As one of the largest triathlons worldwide, the Wildflower races, or Avia Wildflower Triathlons, held at Lake San Antonio, draw upward of 7,500 athletes and 30,000 spectators and volunteers annually – including 1,200 volunteers from Cal Poly, according to sponsorship coordinator Colleen Bousman.

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Senior Prom benefits Alzheimer's Association

More than 300 Cal Poly students and San Luis Obispo senior citizens attended the second annual Senior Prom – twice the number of last year’s attendees – and helped raise more than $3,500 for the Alzheimer’s Association.

The three-hour event, hosted by Cal Poly’s Student Community Services, was held Sunday at the Manse on Marsh, a senior living community at 475 Marsh St.

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Meet Cal Poly in only five minutes

If you fall into the majority in every category of enrolled students at Cal Poly, you are probably a 21-year-old Caucasian male engineering major from the San Francisco Bay area . at least that’s what the statistics say.

Figures found in the past year or two show that certain trends prevail among Cal Poly students, especially as far as majors, ethnicity and region of origin go.

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