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Great West expansion to be announced

An all-sports division under the larger umbrella of Cal Poly’s Great West Football Conference will likely be announced today, according to conference and school officials.

South Dakota – reportedly one of 11 independent schools GWFC commissioner Ed Grom previously told the Mustang Daily the conference has discussed the division with – has announced a 1 p.

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Great West becomes all-sports conference

As expected, the Great West Football Conference to which Cal Poly belongs officially announced Thursday its addition of an all-sports division.

Fourteen sports and six schools – Houston Baptist, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas-Pan American and Utah Valley – make up the division, Great West commissioner Ed Grom declared.

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Mustangs to announce volleyball schedule

Although Cal Poly has not officially announced its volleyball schedule, other universities have released theirs, giving the Mustangs an early idea of where they stand.

The tentative slate is strong, Cal Poly head coach Jon Stevenson said, featuring home matches against Stanford and Nebraska.

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Multi-sport star commits to Cal Poly

One of the state’s best prep high jumpers, also the starting quarterback for an undefeated CIF-San Diego Section Division I football champion, has committed to compete in both sports at Cal Poly this year.

Tynan Murray of Poway High School will partake in track and field on a scholarship, and has been invited as a walk-on in football.

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Day makes Olympic team

Former Cal Poly standout Sharon Day qualified Friday night in the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. for the U.S. Olympic team in the women’s high jump.

“It feels amazing,” Day said in a statement. “It’s kind of like a dream.

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Great West expansion to be announced soon

Cal Poly may not be getting any new competition in one of its conferences, but it could soon be in another.

Despite an apparent invitation to a pending all-sports division about to be added within the larger umbrella of the Great West Football Conference, football-less Cal State Bakersfield will likely hold out and try to eventually join the Big West Conference in coming years, a school official said Tuesday.

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Day heads to Olympic trials

Nearly two weeks ago, Sharon Day missed her graduation ceremony. She was OK with that, though, because she can soon qualify for another ceremony – at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Day finished her Cal Poly career June 13 by placing second in the women’s high jump at the national collegiate outdoor track and field championships in Des Moines, Iowa – parts of which were being overwhelmed by flooding.

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To show or not to show?

Imagine you are watching television when you see shocking footage of an athlete’s death. Not only do you see it once, but you are then shown replays of the death highlighting all camera angles so that we may see the exact moment the person died.

On Saturday, the death of Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta was the latest in a string of incidents in which athletes’ deaths were broadcast for the world to see.

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Poly draftees tune up in summer leagues

Although the Cal Poly baseball season ended May 25, many Mustangs are in the midst of playing in summer collegiate leagues across the country.

Former Mustangs Brent Morel, Logan Schafer, Derrick Saito and Brian Grening, who have all already signed professional contracts, are also playing summer baseball, after being chosen in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft from June 5-6.

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