Golden Nuggets: Cal Night at the Giants Game, Senior Day, some Bear news, and more!
Sentence or two about campaign.
Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets! In this weekly write up, we try our best to cover all things Cal, Berkeley, Bearkeley UC Berkeley, University of Cal Berkeley, University of Berkeley at Cal, BerkeleyInspire, and California Berkeley University that happened more or less in the last week! Let’s dig in!
Cal Night at AT&T Oracle Park
This past Friday, the San Francisco Giants held Cal Day at “It’s Still AT&T Park To Me” Oracle Park against Marcus Semien and the Texas Rangers. Cal Band and Dance Team held a rally at China Basin Park. Ron Rivera and Chancellor Lyons held a panel with fans before the game. Jim Knowlton was present. Cal Band played the National Anthem. Chancellor Lyons threw a high strike first pitch. Cal Women’s Basketball lead with the “Play Ball!” Watch the recap video of it all below!
Cal Band also put together a nice video of their time around the park!
Aaaaaand we won’t talk about that blown call to end the game, but sounds like a great time! Go Bears!
Senior Day at Levine-Frick
It was Senior Day this past weekend for Cal Softball up at the soon-to-be-improved Levine-Frick Field. Congrats to seniors Mika Lee, Acacia Anders, Anna Reimers, and Annabel Teperson!
Ron Has Acquired The Keys
Cal Football is crowdfunding some monies for Ron Rivera and Justin Wilcox to supe up the car that is Cal Football (after all Ron has the keys now!) They already passed the goal, but every dollar counts! We blew through the goal and others have stepped up! The match is now an additional $500,000 for Cal Football, meaning that we have another shot at raising $2 Million dollars (THROUGH TAX DEDUCTIBLE MEANS) for Cal Football in 1 week! Get to it!
Important Bear Updates
Someone tried to make Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania Bear Territory, but the politest bear I’ve ever met was shown the gate in what is probably one of the wildest bear encounter videos I’ve ever seen. He’ll need some polishing on aggressiveness but I still think he’ll help out on the defensive line and get a few snaps next year.
Hot Links
Today is national Bubble Tea day! But Berkeley celebrated it this past weekend. Read more for the event that was just off campus here!
Mark your calendars and set your DVRs, ESPN through the ACC Network will spotlight all 17 Football Programs April 29-May 2. Watch and get a glimpse of next years Bears! (oh sweet mercy the portal is finally closed.)
Congrats to 6 Berkeley Faculty Members for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Cal Athletics announced the 2025 Slate of Theme Days for Football
Golden Bear Honors
Bjorn Seeliger was named to the Academic All-American Second Team
The Cal Women’s Golf Team is NCAA Bound!
Beach Volleyball is NCAA Bound!
Women’s Tennis is NCAA Bound!
Women’s Water Polo is NCAA Bound!
A whole mess of Bears were named to the Indoor Track and Field All-American Academic Teams
Another mess of Bears were named to the Women’s Basketball All-American Academic Team
Portia Sherman and Emma Donley were invited to the 2025 Beach Collegiate National Team to represent the US in Paraguay and the Dominican Republic this summer
Cal Athletics Recap
Beach Volleyball beat Grand Canyon, lost to UCLA, and then beat Grand Canyon again, but lost to USC in the inaugural MPSF Championship
Men’s Golf finished Day 1 in 6th place in the ACC Championship and improved to tie for 4th place on Day 2, and fell back to a tie for 6th place on Day 3 before falling to Florida State in the ACC Quarterfinals
Women’s Water Polo beat San Jose State, narrowly lost to UCLA, and beat USC in the Third Place Game of the MPSF Championships
Softball went 1-2 against Virginia Tech (3-11, 0-9, 4-0) including this absolute moonshot
Baseball got swept by Notre Dame (1-8, 0-10, 5-6) and lost to USF (9-10)
Track and Field competed in the Payton Jordan Invitational (Day 1)
Cal Pros Recap
NBA
Jaylen Brown and the Celtics lead the Orlando Magic in the first round of the NBA Playoffs in the Eastern Conference -
Jaylon Tyson and the Cavaliers swept the Miami heat in the first round of the NBA Playoffs in the Eastern Conference. They’ll await the winner of the Pacers/Bucks series.
Jason Kidd and the Mavericks just missed the playoffs, but Jason decided to become a part owner of Everton. He joins Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, and Manchester United.
NFL
Nohl Williams was drafted 85th by the Kansas City Chiefs where he joins Niko Remigio
Teddye Buchanan was drafted 129th by the Baltimore Ravens (and it’s worth watching when he got the call)
Marcus Harris was drafted 183rd by the Tennessee Titans
Next Week in Bear Territory
Men’s and Women’s Tennis compete in the First/Second Rounds & Round of 16 in the NCAA Championships (5/2-5/11)
Beach Volleyball plays #7 Texas in the NCAA Championship (5/2)
Softball starts a three game series against Syracuse (5/2, 5/3, 5/4)
Men’s and Women’s Rowing competes against Stanford in the Big Row (5/3)
Track and Field take on Stanford in the Big Meet (5/3)
Rugby takes on Life University in the 2025 D1A National Collegiate Championships (5/3)
Women’s Golf competes in the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional (5/5-5/7)
Baseball plays at Pacific (5/6)
Once again, we find ourselves at the end of Golden Nuggets, but fret not dear friends, for I shall return next week with more great Cal content for you. In the meantime, let me know what I forgot in the comments! Now to go find some boba…
Cal's Track and Field teams take on Stanford Saturday at 1PM in the Big Meet at Edwards Field. Cal's discus thrower, Mykolas Alekna, is the present World Record holder. He is fantastic to watch. He will be throwing at 1:30.
I loved performing at a Raiders game in my Cal Band days, but I’m a little jealous about the Giants night.