Golden Nuggets: Hall of Fame, Bumpy Brains, and some All-Conference Selections

Just because school is out doesn't mean the nuggets stop coming.

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 Athletics Hall of Fame

Cal Athletics announced the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2025 including:

• Layshia Clarendon (Women’s Basketball, 2009-2013)

• Hana Cutura (Volleyball, 2006-2009)

• Damir Dugonjic (Men’s Swimming and Diving, 2007-2011)

• Donna Fong (Field Hockey Head Coach, 1976-1994)

• Alex Mack (Football, 2005-2008)

• Ivan Rackov (Men’s Water Polo, 2008-2011)

• Jeff Tedford (Football Head Coach, 2002-2012)

• Michael Weaver (Men’s Golf, 2009-2014)

Read more about the incoming class here!

Hot Links

• College Gameday won an Emmy for Outstanding Studio Show and I choose to believe it was for their appearance on campus here at Cal (The Emmys think so too since they used Daniel kicking a field goal for $100k)

• Berkeley found a new way to call someone stupid. A new study finds that more small grooves in the brain’s surface is linked to stronger network connectivity (important for the 5G Microchip) and better reasoning ability. Read more here.

• Another obituary was written for beloved Campus Tavern “Bear’s Lair”, rebranded to be fresh and trendy with none of the mystery stickiness or charm.

• UC Berkeley EECS Professor Stuart Russell was elected to the Royal Society! I’m assuming that now means he holds land somewhere in Britain?

• The EA College Football 2026 slow leak began this week with the reveal of the Deluxe Edition cover which includes, prominently, right under the logo, a supposed member of Rally Committee. Another cultural victory for Cal. I kind of got the hint after they rejected my early version.

Golden Bear Honors

• Carl Emil Overbeck (Men’s Tennis) was named to the ITA Singles All-American Team

• Mao Mushika and Jessica Alsola (Women’s Tennis) were named to the ITA All-Americans Doubles Team

• Frederick Breuer (Rowing) was named the MPSF Athlete of the Year/All-Conference.

• Angus Dawson, Iliad Izadi, Harry Manton (Rowing) were named to the MPSF All-Conference

• Scott Frandsen (Rowing) was named MPSF Coach of the Year

• Track and Field is sending 26 Bears across 29 events to the NCAA West Regionals this week!

• Mykolas Alekna was named to The Bowerman Watch List and now has the most appearances on the watchlist by any thrower in history (22)

• Portia Sherman and Emma Donley (Beach Volleyball) took the Gold Medal for Team USA at the Under 23 NORCECA Tour

• Jacob French (Baseball) was named to the ACC Championship All-Tournament Team

• PJ Moutzouridis (Baseball) was also named to the ACC Championship All-Tournament Team

• Theodor Gadderud competed with Norway at the European Gymnastics Championships

• Cade Uluave was featured as part of AAPI Heritage Month

Cal Athletics Round Up

• Baseball beat Wake Forest 14-12 to advance out of the second-round before losing to Georgia Tech 3-10 in the Quarterfinal

• Men’s Golf competed at the NCAA Championship tied for 8th on Day 1, in 10th on Day 2, and finished 17th on Day 3. Ziqin Zhou tied for 22nd individually

Cal Pros Round Up

• PGA

  • Michael Kim tied for 16th at the Charles Schwab Challenge

  • Colin Morikawa, Michael Kim, Ben An, and Max Homa will compete at the Memorial Tournament this next weekend

• MLB

  • Andrew Vaughn was sent down to the Chicago White Sox Triple A Team for hopefully a short stint

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Track and Field Starts the NCAA West Regionals (5/28-5/31)

• Men’s Rowing heads to Cherry Hill, NJ for the IRA National Championships (5/30-6/1)

• Women’s Rowing heads to West Windor, NJ for the NCAA Championships (5/28-5/31)

Thanks again for reading all the way to the end here! It’s a light week as summer unofficially starts with many sports coming to an end, but the nuggets, boy do they never stop coming. As always, if I forgot something, please feel free to let me and others know in the comments!