Golden Nuggets: National Mascot Day, Librarians, and Track and Field Championships

Open for lore-accurate Oski.

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!

Oski as described in the ancient texts.

National Mascot Day

Yesterday was National Mascot Day! And while many on the internet celebrated, none celebrated more than the Calgorithm. I asked around for folks best posts with Oski in them and here we are!

Let me know what I’m missing!

We also had a multimedia presentation from @dalmcm on Twitter. Click through the image below to watch.

Oh and Oski got a new head.

IMPORTANT URSINE UPDATES

As a brief reminder for no one, the whole damn world is Bear Territory. This week, one of our fellow bears was caught taking in the Florida sunshine.

Who among us hasn’t wanted to hang out in a hot tub, take a six hour nap under the lanai, and then throw back a few donuts. What a king.

Hot Links

• The Bears Lair is Dead. Long Live the Bears Lair.

• Berkeleyside wrote about the hottest new band that all the toddlers love. Thank your librarians.

• Cal Band was at Sacramento Pride this past weekend and will be at San Francisco Pride here near the end of the month.

• Speaking of Pride, Berkeley News let Evolutionary Biologist and Professor Noah Whiteman speak on Pride and thriving in academia

• With the higher than likely chance that Annie passed away this past year to Bird Flu, a new falcon family has started poking around the Campanile

• Berkeley is set to get a new coffee shop as Sightglass Coffee expands into the Bay Area

Golden Bear Honors

• Amanda Augustus (Tennis) was named ITA Northwest Regional Coach of the Year, Lan Mi was named Most Improved Player, and Mao Mushika was named a Player To Watch

• Noah Yanchulis was named an Assistant Coach for the World Aquatics Championships

• Giavonna Meeks was named a First Team All-American in Hammer

• Giavonna also came in Fifth Place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships

• Valentina Savva was named a Second Team All-American in Hammer

• Violet Williamson took 9th Place in the 3-meter dive at the USA Diving Championships

• Ariana Drake will compete in the World Aquatics Championships representing Team Philippines

• Ryan Erisman was named to the 2025 World University Games roster

• Abigail Herscu, Violet Williamson, and Teagan O’Dell earned spots on the roster for Team USA Swimming

• Theodor Gadderud competed in the Norwegian Championships while Trigg Dudley will compete in the London Open and took Silver

• Mykolas Alekna placed second at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Discus

• Matteo Bardana was named to the Team Canada for the upcoming FISU World University Games in Germany

• Caisa-Marie Lindfors was named to the First-Team All-American in Discus (and broke a school discus record while placing 4th.)

Cal Athletics Round Up

• Track and Field competed in the NCAA Outdoor Championships (Day 1 Recap, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4)

Cal Pros Round Up

• PGA

  • The US Open was this past weekend. Colin Morikawa tied for 23rd, Michael Kim tied for 50th, while Ben An missed the cut.

• MLB

  • Andrew Vaughn is back in Blue and Gold after being traded to the Milwaukee Brewers

• NFL/CFL

  • Kenny Lawler keeps doing Kenny Lawler things in the CFL

• Pickleball

  • Former Cal Tennis Player Anna Bright is now one of the world’s top pickleball players and…the subject of a rap?

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Consider rewatching Cal make Auburn Bear Territory