Golden Nuggets: Even More Senior Days, EDSBS Charity Bowl, and a Mess of Hot Links

John Cho was on Campus! Student's are nearing graduation! And 4 Alums at August!

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 State University Berkeley that happened more or less in the last week! Let’s dig in!

Spring Senior Days

A number of teams celebrated Senior Days this past week! Let’s take a look!

Congrats to Belle Tiesi, Kennedy Mason, Kalena Johnson, and Callan Fritsch!

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Over on the Tennis Courts, the Men’s Team celebrated seniors Derrick Chen, Alex Chang, Carl Emil Overbeck, Mikey Wright, and Theo Den!

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And over on the sandy court, Cal Beach Volleyball celebrated Christine DeRoos, Ella Dreibholz, Ella Sears, Alexandria Young-Gomez, Sierra Caffo, and Maile Somera!

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EDSBS Charity Bowl 2025

Dear friends, the time has come for us to come together and out-petty our rivals for the benefit of refugees looking to resettle here in the United States. I’m speaking of course about the EDSBS Charity Bowl, a fundraiser for New American Pathways. “New American Pathways is an Atlanta based nonprofit with the mission of helping refugees and Georgia thrive. Our vision is for new Americans in metro Atlanta to become successful, contributing, and welcomed members of Georgia’s communities.”

This year’s bowl will start Monday, April 14th and run through Friday April 18th. During that time, you are encouraged (if you are able) to donate funds to New American Pathways through their donation link and indicate which school you will be donating for (if you’re reading this, that school is Cal (Berkeley). Last year, this community raised $17,565 for resettling refugees and placed 13th (Stanford donated $21,551 and placed 10th). All told, $1,171,087 was donated in 5 days to welcome refugees into their new lives.

For those looking to be clever, we’ve compiled a few suggested donations to honor the 2024-2025 Cal Athletics

• $98.00 for 98 Yards With My Boys

• $21.14 for making Auburn Woke

• $3,000 to represent everyone that attended College GameDay in Berkeley

• $60, $10 for each time Mya Lauzon was named ACC Gymnast of the Week

• $44.70 for the dismantling of Oregon State by Cal Football

• $83.63 for the first half of the Cal Women’s Basketball Stanford Sweep

• $75.72 for the second half of the Cal Women’s Basketball Stanford Sweep

Please note that any and all donations are appreciated, especially *gestures broadly at the economy* now. Please, if you can donate, great, and if you can’t, please help amplify.

Hot Links

• John Cho (BA English Literature, 1996) was back on campus to visit his thesis professor

• Cal Softball is getting a renovated Softball Facility

• Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

• Current UC Berkeley Student Ashmita Kumar launched Startup Code Blue to help detect signs of stroke

• Robert Strauss returned to Cal to finish his Master’s Degree in Journalism 50-Years Later (that’s a lot of missed assignments)

• Jayda Noble surprised the team with some SICK custom cleats

• Write for Cal’s Own Thomas Dunn appeared on the Locked On College Football podcast to discuss Ron Rivera and the donor revolt

• Larry Berroya’s Family let us know that after a week, they have enough to cover the sign and any other donations will go to Donors Choose to support local teachers. Read more here.

• Cal Night at the Giants Game is coming up on April 25th!

• Cal Football is building of the Summer Reading Challenge by hosting a book drive during the Spring Game this weekend!

Golden Bear Honors

• Ionna Krimli competed in Final Four Weekend 3 Pt Contest and placed 6th

• Michelle Onyiah competed in the Women’s College All Star Game

• Puff Morris competed in the NBTC All Star Game and was named the Most Outstanding Player

• Mya Lauzon and Maddie Williams are headed to Fort Worth for the NCAA Gymnastics Championships

• Matthew Jensen, Tyler Kopp, Evan Petty, and Bjorn Seeliger were named to the 2024-2025 CSWC Academic All-District Team

• Valentina Savva set a Freshman Record in the Hammer Through at 68.73m!

• Jasper Smith-Gordon was named the Men’s Gymnastics ACC Conference champion (the first conference championship for Cal since 2018 and first vault champion since 1987!)

• Theodor Roald Gadderud, Jasper Smith-Gordon, Aidan Li, Matteo Bardana, and Carter Kim were named All-MPSF

• Nykolas Alekna was named the US Track and Field, Cross Country Association’s Men’s Athlete of the Week and National Athlete of the Week

• Cal Men’s Gym is NCAA Championships Bound!

Cal Athletics Round Up

• Cal Track and Field competed in the Brutus Hamilton Multi-Events (Day 2, Day 3), the Mike Fanelli Track Classic (Day 2), and the Stanford Invitational

• Beach Volleyball beat Saint Mary’s (4-1), San Jose State (5-0), Pacific (5-0), and San Francisco (5-0)

• Women’s Gymnastics made it to the NCAA Regionals in Tuscaloosa before losing to some southern home cooking

• Women’s Tennis lost to Duke and North Carolina

• Softball beat Nevada (8-3) and lost to San Jose State

• Men’s Tennis beat Duke and North Carolina

• Baseball got swept by Clemson (4-6, 3-13, 3-4) but beat Pacific

• Men’s Rowing competed at the Cal/Stanford Invitational (Day 2)

• Women’s Water Polo beat #14 ASU

• Rugby dominated Colorado State

• Men’s Gymnastics competed in the MPSF Championships

• Lacrosse lost to Syracuse

• Women’s Golf competed in the Silverado Showdown (Day 2)

Cal Pros Round Up

• Michael Kim is recording his time in August on Twitter. Follow the saga here.

• ESPN Previewed the Masters here. Michael Kim, Colin Morikawa, Max Homa, and Byeong Hun An will compete.

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Women’s Golf wraps up the Silverado Showdown (4/9)

• Softball plays Pacific (4/9) and a series against Florida State (4/11, 4/12, 4/13) followed by a double header against Saint Mary’s (4/15)

• Women’s Tennis plays NC State (4/11) and Wake Forest (4/13) before starting the ACC Championship (4/15-4/19)

• Lacrosse competes at Charlotte (4/11) and North Carolina (4/13)

• Baseball starts a series again Georgia Tech (4/11, 4/12, 4/13) and plays Fresno State (4/15)

• Men’s Rowing competes against Yale (4/12) and Brown (4/13)

• Women’s Rowing competes against Virginia/Syracuse (4/12)

• Beach Volleyball competes in the Sacramento State Tournament (4/12) and the Hawaii Invitational (4/12-13)

• Men’s Tennis plays at Stanford (4/12) before starting the ACC Championship (4/15-4/19)

• Rugby Takes on Arizona in the D1A National Collegiate Championships (4/12)

• Women’s Water Polo faces UC Irvine (4/13)

• Men’s Golf competes at the Western Intercollegiate (4/14-4/15)

Well that about does it for us this week! As always, let me know what I forgot in the comments! And let me know what you’re planning to donate in the comments! Or come up with some other donation amounts for the rest of us.