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!
Senior Day
We had some Senior Day activities! Let’s get to it!
Congrats to Cal Women’s Basketball Seniors Marta Suárez, Claudia Langarita, Ugonne (Michelle) Onyiah, Jayda Noble, Kayla Williams, Ioanna Krimili, and Natalia Ackerman
Congrats to Men’s Gymnastics Sean Shimizu, Tyler Shimizu, Landon Wu, Tomo Kawada, and Aidan Li!
Congrats to Cal Men’s Basketball Seniors Christian Tucker, Matt Desler, Jovan Blacksher Jr., Mady Sissoko, Gus Larson, and Student Manager Nick Green!
Oski Bear’s Pro Skater 3+4
Hello stranger reading this! I am a Millennial, and as a proud Millennial, I like it when entertainment things from my childhold are remastered and resold to me when I have sufficient funds to purchase them with my hard earned dollars, including the recently announced remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. Why am I out here shilling for a video game on a Cal Fan Blog? Well dear reader…
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FIRST LEVEL OF THE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER 4 TAKES PLACE ON OUR LOVELY CAMPUS? Roll the tape please…
“But Ben, that could be any gate and ANY movie theater!” Let us continue.
“Well…that’s just a neoclassical columned building next to a modernist building! That could be any campus!” I’m not done.
“Okay yeah. I see what you mean now.” Thank you.
It’ll be cool to explore campus again via skateboard, something that if I attempted now would result in 247 broken bones. Looking forward to the game July 11. Get a look at the newly remastered Sather Gate (what have they done…) and Campanile here.
Big Give
“On Thursday, March 13, 2025, you are invited to be the light for Berkeley during Big Give. This annual day of giving celebrates our collective power to ignite innovation, fuel life-changing research, and brighten the future for countless students. During Big Give, contests and matches spark friendly competition, the hashtag #CalBigGive builds awareness and excitement, but it’s your dedication and generosity that truly shine as we empower Berkeley to change the world.”
Alright thank you copy past from the Berkeley Big Give Website I’ll take it from here. Big Give is next week and man oh man are there a lot of good places in need of good money from people that can give it! Scroll down to the bottom here for the full list of every fund you can give to. As a Cal Band alum may I recommend throwing a few buckaroos to Cal Band. Or if you enjoyed watching Cal Ice Hockey streams, maybe throw them a few pucks (the joke is that pucks rhyme with bucks!) Or! Print out the full Student Group list and throw a dart board at one! You can’t go wrong! Thanks in advance for your support!
Hey Those Guys Look Familiar
Have you ever wondered what our dear leaders Nick Kranz and Avinash Kunnath’s living rooms look like? Well you’ll have to ask Avi since he recorded in front of a blank wall, but Nick showed us his living room this week on Tell the Whole Damn World! podcast. Watch it below! That’s a good looking clock Nick!
Hot Links
Bigfoot could get official state status and suit up as TE next Fall
Raising Cane’s is coming to nearby campus for…$12.7 million dollars. The store will be 300 sqft and comes with an in-unit washer/dryer
Chancellor Lyons posted a video responding to the recent changes in federal education and research funding
Campus honored three Black Trailblazers in STEM as part of the Black History Month
Golden Bear Honors
Acacia Anders (Softball) was named ACC Player of the Week
Aidan Li (Men’s Gymnastics) and Antonia Galland (Rowing) earned the Weaver James-Corrigan Swofford Award and a postgraduate scholarship from the ACC
Women’s Gymnastics was crowned the ACC Regular Season Champs!
Giavonna Meeks broke the weight throw meet record and earned Cal Track and Field its first ACC Championship medal!
Jason Plumb earned bronze in the Long Jump taking home his second conference medal
David Foster got Cal’s first ACC Men’s Title with a 60m time of 6.56 seconds. He ran faster than it took me to type this sentence.
Tyler Burns earned bronze in the Pole Vault taking his second career conference medal
Cal Women’s Basketball set a Program Record with 16 Home Wins
Mya Lauzon was named ACC Gymnast of the Week, a thing I have now typed in 5 separate weeks
Mya Wiley was named the ACC Newcomer of the Week
Ionna Krimili was named to the All-ACC Second Team for Women’s Basketball
Cal Athletics Recap
Cal Baseball beat Cal State Bakersfield went 1-3 over the week against Santa Clara (3-5, 2-4, 19-3, 0-9)
Cal Basketball lost to SMU but beat Boston College
Lacrosse beat Oregon, but lost to Virginia
Women’s Basketball beat Georgia Tech and Miami
Beach Volleyball beat Pacific and Davis, San Francisco, Sacramento State
Softball beat Southern Utah and Fresno State, Cal State Bakersfield, Fresno State (again), Southern Utah (again)
Men’s Tennis lost to NC State and Wake Forest
Men’s Gymnastics lost to Nebraska and Oklahoma
Women’s Gymnastics beat Stanford, Oregon State, and UC Davis
Men’s Rowing competed in the California Challenge Cup and Redwood Shores Invitational
Women’s Rowing competed in the California Challenge Cup
Track and Field Competed in the ACC Indoor Championships (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3)
Women’s Water Polo beat San Jose State
Women’s Tennis beat UC Santa Barbara
Men’s Golf competed at the Cabo Collegiate (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3)
Cal Pros Recap
Jaylon Tyson was recalled from the G League back to Cleveland
Jaylen Brown thinks the Celtics can do it all again
Michael Kim tied for 6th at the Cognizant Classic
Nohl Williams is starting to turn NFL heads
Teddye Buchanan is also getting some good attention
Next Week In Bear Territory
Softball plays UC Davis (3/5)
Women’s Basketball starts their March run at the ACC Tournament against Pittsburgh/Virginia (3/6)
Men’s Basketball plays at #14 Louisville (3/5) and Notre Dame (3/8)
Women’s Tennis plays Pepperdine (3/6), Boston College (3/7), Syracuse (3/8)
Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving starts Diving Championships (3/8-3/12)
Beach Volleyball plays Grand Canyon and USC (3/6), UCLA and Stanford (3/8)
Baseball starts a 3 game series against Duke (3/7-3/9) and Utah (3/11)
Softball starts a 3 game series against Boston College (3/7-3/9)
Men’s Tennis plays Florida State (3/7) and Miami (3/9)
Men’s Rowing celebrates Alumni Day (3/8)
Lacrosse plays at Pittsburgh (3/8) and Kent State (3/10)
Track and Field starts Outdoor Season (3/8)
Rugy plays BYU (3/8)
Women’s Water Polo plays at UCLA (3/8) and Loyola Marymount (3/9)
Men’s Gymnastics competes at the Stanford International College Open (3/8)
Women’s Gymnastics competes against North Carolina, Alabama, and Michigan State (3/9)
Women’s Golf competes at the Yale Invitational (3/10-3/11)
As always, it was another wonderful week in Bear Territory, and I’m sure I missed something. Let me know what I forgot in the comments, or tell me what Oski’s Skateboard would look like.
I guess I’m buying Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4!
Also Lulu and especially Michelle robbed for All ACC honors
Mya Lauzon is my Cal athlete of the winter
The clock was a gift from his great aunt. The piano you can slightly see to the right was built by his great, great grandfather about 150 years ago.