Stephan Teodosescu While the men’s basketball team put Cal Poly sports on the national radar with an improbable run to the NCAA Tournament, other athletic programs across campus made a splash as students were on spring break. Here’s a roundup of what you missed in Cal Poly Athletics this past week. Baseball continues hot streak […]
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Former Cal Poly athlete Day-Monroe breaks American pentathlon record
Former Cal Poly athlete Sharon Day-Monroe broke the American record in the pentathlon last month.
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Frias leads track in NCAA prelims
As junior runner Chris Frias toed the line for last weekend’s 10,000-meter run at the Big West Conference Championships in Northridge, there was one thing on his mind.
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Prader leaps to new heights
Despite losses from the Cal Poly track and field team on both the men’s and women’s sides to UC Santa Barbara, Saturday’s performances yielded some positive results in its last dual meet of the season — most notably John Prader’s recording-breaking leap in the pole vault — as the team prepares to partake in the 2013 Big West Conference Championships.
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Track and field tunes up at Mt. SAC Relays
In the 2012 cross country season, true freshman Laura Hollander raised more than a few people’s eyebrows.
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UCSB outduels Cal Poly track and field
The entire Cal Poly team lined the side of the track in preparation for the men’s 4×400 relay to finish out Saturday’s dual meet against UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). As the shot rang and the runners took off, Cal Poly and UCSB teammates cheered their respective runners on. Amid the claps and screams, a sense […]
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Surviving the break
One year ago, he was traveling between classes in a wheelchair. Just prior to a fateful day in April 2011, he was running personal best times good enough for conference-qualifying standards and dreaming of someday going pro. But for junior 100- and 200-meter sprinter Antwaine Miller, his season, his career and his life all changed […]
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Track and field has sights set on Big West
The Cal Poly track and field team is climbing up the Big West Conference list with new personal records and overall solid performances. The team anticipates the conference in Irvine for outdoor performances, which will take place on May 11 and 12, head coach Mark Conover said. The Mustangs will compete against Long Beach, Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, UC […]
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Pickett advances to NCAA track and field finals
Senior Jasmine Pickett has advanced to the NCAA Championships for the second time in her Cal Poly career in the triple jump when she finished 12th in the first round of the NCAA Track and Field Regionals in Eugene, Oreg. on Friday.