Golden Nuggets: Important Bear Related News, Lots of Awards, and a Grammy Winner!
Bear Territory cleans up just about everywhere!
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!
Can I Pet That Dog?
We start this week with important BEAR NEWS. Following the evacuation of Altadena and the Los Angeles area, a 525-pound bear was found all cozy comfy in the crawl space when some rude electrical guys tried to turn the power back on. Met with confusion, the ended up luring the bear out of newly established BEAR TERRITORY with a combination rotisserie chicken, sardines, tomato sauce, apples and peanut butter. Alternatively they could have just offered to take him to a local buffet!
After safely trapping the bear, officials relocated him to the nearby Angeles National Forest, but not before an in-home visit by Peter Sirmon and Andrew Browning who promptly offered the bear (DT, Class of 2027, Rivals 4 Star, On3 5 Star). The decision will be announced this fall while the bear mulls offers from Cal, Montana, Central Arkansas, and Baylor.
Weeeeeeeeeeeee are the championssss
Fresh off a win over San Jose State, Cal Hockey travelled to Hockey and promptly kicked some Oregon Duck butt to go undefeated in the regular season! Go Bears! Gabe Fernandez of SF Gate profiled the team and the coach this week and you can read all about it here!
The Calgorithm of course has been all over it, with Twitter User @suessgobears creating the meme of the week, a Blades of Steel crossover!
30 Under 30 Media Luminaries!
Forbes this week released their 30 Under 30 list, highlighting 30 rising starts under 30 years old at the top of their respective fields! Your author was considered but was promptly thrown out of the Forbes office. Anyways, there were 46 representatives across the UC System with 20 individuals coming out of Berkeley, CA! Read all about them here!
John Lewis Youth Leadership Award
Saanvi Arora, current UC Berkeley student, received the John Lewis Youth Leadership Award for work through the Youth Power Project, which gives young leaders the tools and support they need to create meaningful change. Read the full write up of the award here and watch this KTVU profile! Congrats Saanvi!
Don’t Steal From Us (looking at you UCLA)
With the Senior Bowl upcoming, Cal Football Equipment Manager Trevor Skogerboe is back in the news for his tackle of a would be thief trying to steal a helmet in the post Big Game festivities. Trevor got a profile on ESPN and you can read it here!
JET Camp (or as I call it, Flight School!)
Jaivian “The Jet” Thomas is hosting a Spring Football Camp on March 29th in Oakland! Sign up for the camp here!
Pete Newell Game and Career Achievement Award
Cal Basketball and Cal Athletics announced this week that Al Grigsby will be honored with the Pete Newell Career Achievement Award this Saturday when Cal takes on Wake Forest. Read the full press release here!
Cal Baseball Virtual Gala
This Friday, Cal Baseball holds the “For the Love of the Game” Virtual Gala. It should be a fun time (and a great pre-game for Gymnastics later in the evening) featuring appearances by Cal Baseball Alumni including:
Rich Nye (1966)
Chuck Cary (1981)
Bob Melvin (1980) (Current SF Giants Manager)
Jerry Goff (1986) (wonder what happened to his son)
Geoff Blum (1993)
Xavier Nady (1997)
Tyson Ross (2008)
Tony Renda (2011) Pac-10 Player of the Year
Andrew Knapp (2013)
Andrew Vaughn (2019) Golden Spikes Award Winner
Get Your Aas to Haas
In case you haven’t heard, Cal Women’s Gymnastics is absolutely COOKING right now. We’ll get to it, but they’re ranked in the top 7, they’ve won ACC Gymnast of the Week 4 out 5 times, oh, and Stanford is coming to Haas this Friday! Get your aas to Haas! Need more reasons? Why not go straight to the source, eMjae Frazier and Mya Lauzon talked about the team on Tell the Whole Damn World Podcast.
Cal at the Grammy’s!
If you watched the Grammy’s this week, you saw Doechii make history as the third woman to ever win Best Rap Album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards! But did you know, the a Cal Grad helped her make the album? Timothy Karoff of SFGATE profiled Amazon Delivery Driver/Music Producer (and UC Berkeley alum) Spencer Golanka, a producer on the album. Read the profile here!
Senior Day at the Pool
Cal Men’s Swimming and Diving celebrated Senior Day this past week. Congrats to Jack Alexy, Kai Crews, Trent Frandson, Robin Hanson, Gabriel Jett, Michael McGillivray, Evan Petty, Ziyad Saleem, Jacob Soderlund, and Sean Swift!
Golden Bear Honors
Track and Field Athletes Aysha Shaheed and Johnny Goode broke some school records this past week in Albuquerque
Abbey Scanlon’s routine was named Routine of the Week by the All Things Gymnastics Podcast. Oh did we mention it was her first routine?
Craig Woodson, Nohl Williams, and Teddye Buchanan balled out in the East-West Bowl Team. Teddye and Nohl were named to the All Practice Team.
Ioanna Krimli recorded her 400th Three Pointer! She was also named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Year Watchlist!
Ioanna and Lulu were also interviewed during a Warriors Pre Game Show. Watch the interview here.
Assistant Coach Matt Scherb was selected to the Elite 75 Future Head Coach Power Lunch
Lucas Henveaux was named ACC Co-Swimmer of the Week
Mya Lauzon was named ACC Gymnast of the Week for the second time
Cal Athletics Round Up
Men’s Golf placed 9th at the Southwestern Invitational
Men’s Basketball lost to SMU and Syracuse
Women’s Basketball lost to UNC, but beat Pitt
Men’s Swimming and Diving beat Stanford
Cal Track and Field had great weekends in Seattle and Albuquerque
Rugby smoked Arizona
Women’s Swimming and Diving lost at Stanford
Women’s Golf placed 5th at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge
Women’s Tennis lost to UCLA
Men’s Gymnastics lost at Stanford
Women’s Gymnastics beat NC State
Cal Pros Round Up
Jaylon Tyson started for the first time in his career and had an immediate impact including this coast-to-coast bucket
Goff excelled at the Pro Bowl Games before later being named Offensive MVP
Jaylen Brown was named to the All Star Reserve Team
Cam Jordan launched a new Legacy Scholarship Program in Louisiana
Marshawn and Ke Huy Quan hung out before the premiere of their movie
What’s Happening in Bear Territory?
2/5 Men’s Basketball vs NC State, 2/8 vs Wake Forest
2/6 Women’s Basketball @ Louisville, 2/9 @ South Bend
2/7 Track and Field goes back to New Mexico
2/7 Softball vs Minnesota, Maryland, 2/8 vs. Utah, 2/10 vs ASU
2/7 Women’s Gymnastics takes on Stanford (BE THERE!)
2/8 Women’s Water Polo vs San Jose State 2/9 vs Pacific in Davis
2/8 Lacrosse takes on UC Davis in Davis
2/8 Men’s Gymnastics travels to the Air Force Academy
2/8 Rugby takes on UCLA in Strawberry Canyon
Well, that about wraps it up! Thanks again for reading, and as always if I forgot something drop it in the comments. Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time I crawl back under the crawlspace.
I want to know who got the bear to stand on the scale - that's the guy we need to recruit. Also, need to know the bear's 40-yd time and vertical leap to make sure he is legit.
Cal Ice Hockey (10pm Saturday nights Berkeley Iceland) really taught me how to be a Cal fan in the 90s