Golden Nuggets: Movie Day Week
It's another big nugget of week, this time with videos!
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!
ACC Pool Champions, what, like it’s hard?
Your California Golden Bears Men’s Swimming and Diving Teams are ACC Champions in their inaugural year in the ACC. Congrats all! Check Write For Cal soon for a recap!
Go Girls*, Go Bears, Go Play*
The Cal Cameron Institute held their second Go Girls*, Go Bears, Go Play* event for National Girls and Women in Sports Day and recapped it in a video above. “With 2,000+ participants, 14 Cal Athletics teams, and 25 incredible community partners dedicated to expanding equity and access to sport, the event brought together Cal student-athletes and families for a day of empowerment, teamwork, and play. 💙🐻🏆
*Cal Athletics affirms and celebrates all who experience life through the lens of girl/woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.”
Cal Women’s Basketball Gets Back on Track
The Cal Women’s Basketball Team posted a video recapping their second-to-last home stand and gave us a peak of some of the behind the scenes team bonding activities.
Cal Band at the SF Chinese New Year Parade
Cal Band marched in the SF Chinese New Year Parade and the Taiwanese-Chinese Committee (one of the bands many social and interest committees) of the band put together a video diary of the experience. Give it a watch!
And Now For A Bit of History…
This past week marked the 84th Anniversary of the discovery of Plutonium which was chemically identified in Room 307 of Gilman Hall. Thanks to Cal Bears History on X for the history! Read more here.
Ansel Adam’s 123rd Birthday was also this past week. Adams of course was commissioned in the 60s with photographing the UC Campuses which later were compiled in the book, Fiat Lux.
The Bears Go To Hollywood
Hollywood finally got wise and started casting Cal Athletes in things! Check out some of the trailers and still shots for some upcoming movies and TV shows featuring Cal Athletes!
Freaky Tales (Warning, it might be a little gory if you’re not into that stuff.)
Everyone’s favorite AC Transit driver appears at 1:00.
Stick
Apple has a new golf comedy show coming out in June featuring Owen Wilson as well as Cal’s Collin Morikawa and Max Homa
Golden Bear Honors
Cal Track and Field rose to #12 in the latest US Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association Rankings
Cal Men’s Tennis moved to #22 in the ITA Tennis Poll
ACC Swim Recap
Men’s Swimmers Seeliger, Okadome, Rose, and Alexy won the 200-yard medley and set the second fastest time in the country this season.
Battaglini, Seeliger, Alexy and Lasco came in second in the 200-freestyle relay
Gabriel Jett took first in the 200 backstroke
Jack Alexy took first in the 100 freestyle
Natalia Ackerman recorded her 500th career rebound!
Ioanna Krimili scored her 2500th career point!
Hakim McMorris took Silver in the USA Track and Field Indoor Championships in the Heptathlon
Kyen Mayhew styled Cal into her hair!
Nohl Williams is getting the early draft love.
Cal Athletics Recap
Cal Softball lost to Oregon and Cal State Fullerton, beat Washington, beat Seattle and LMU, beat Northwestern
Women’s Basketball beat Virginia but lost to Virginia Tech
Beach Volleyball beat Vanguard and CSU Bakersfield, beat Pepperdine and lost to Long Beach State
Women’s Water Polo trounced UC Santa Barbara, narrowly lost to Hawaii, beat Long Beach State, and beat UC San Diego
Women’s Tennis lost at USC and Pepperdine
Baseball went 1-2 against Houston, Game 1 Recap, Game 2 Recap, Game 3 Recap
Rugby lost at Navy
Lacrosse lost to Louisville
Men’s Basketball lost to Stanford
Women’s Gymnastics achieved their highest score of the season in a win over Pitt
Cal Pros Recap
13 Former Baseball Bears started out Spring Training this past week
Noa Datzell and SB Nation profiled Jaylen Brown who was in town for the All Star Game on the charity work he and Jason Kidd are doing in Oakland
Collin Morikawa and the Los Angeles Golf Club beat the New York Golf Club in the TGL Playoffs
Michael Mullan (class of ‘74) and former Swarthmore head coach was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame
Next Week in Berkeley
Baseball takes on Cal State Bakersfield in Berkeley (2/26) and starts a 4 game series against Santa Clara (2/28-3/3)
Men’s Basketball plays against SMU in Berkeley (2/26, also Sneakerhead Night!) and Boston College (3/1)
Lacrosse travels to Eugene (2/27) and Virginia (3/1)
Women’s Basketball plays against Georgia Tech (2/27) and Miami (3/2)
Beach Volleyball competes in the Battle of the Bay tournament in Berkeley against Pacific and UC Davis (2/28) and San Francisco and Sacramento State (3/1)
Softball travels to Fresno to play in the Fresno State Tournament (2/28-3/2) against Southern Utah, Fresno State, and Cal State Bakersfield
Men’s Tennis plays against NC State in Raleigh (2/28) and Wake Forest (3/2) in Winston-Salem
Men’s Gymnastics celebrates Senior Day in a meet against Nebraska and Oklahoma (2/28)
Women’s Gymnastics takes on Stanford, Oregon State (and Olympian Jade Carey), and UC Davis in the Stanford Quad Meet (2/28)
Men’s Rowing competes in the California Challenge in Newport Beach (3/1) and the Redwood Shores Invitational in Redwood Shores (3/1-3/2)
Track and Field competes in the ACC Indoor Championships (3/1-3/3)
Women’s Water Polo takes on San Jose State in San Jose (3/1)
Women’s Tennis plays UC Santa Barbara in Berkeley (3/1)
Men’s Golf travels to Cabo San Lucas for the Cabo Collegiate Tournament (3/2-3/4)
Alright well I hope you all enjoyed your movie day. As always, let me know what I forgot in the comments. Now where did the Planet Earth DVD get to….
Much appreciate these write ups. Recently moved to the east coast and like being able to catch up with all Cal athletics.
I have not seen Marshawn’s latest movie and I feel bad about it