Golden Nuggets: Spring Break and Maps
Your favorite Golden Nuggets returns on a new day, same time.
Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets, our weekly recap article where we try to highlight all the fun, funny, or interesting things you might have missed roughly over the last week across Bear Territory (the whole damn world of course). Think of it like a cheat sheet for small talk about Cal.
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MAPS
It’s a bit of a light week this week what with Spring Break, the heat wave, and you know (gestures broadly), so I figured let’s kick things off with something light. And boy did the UC Berkeley Library deliver.
To celebrate Charter Day, the UC Berkeley Library highlighted the Earth Sciences and Map Library, showcasing a number of vintage maps showing campus and Berkeley over the last 160 years! In particular, a few librarians chose their favorite maps depicting campus for you to also walk down memory lane, or imagine life on campus in the 1910s. My personal favorite contains none other than Oski himself. Kind of.
Small Bites
Cal announced the 2025 Distinguished Teachers! Congrats to all!
Tosh appeared on the See Ball Get Ball with David Pollack show
ESPN profiled CJ Anderson on their “I Scored a Touchdown” series to talk about his touchdown in the Super Bowl and all the women that made it possible for him to do that
Women’s Water Polo celebrated Senior Day
Men’s Gymnastics celebrated Senior Day
This Week in e-Commerce
Some day I hope to make enough money from writing Golden Nuggets that I can drop $200 for a hat without a second thought. Until then, I’ll just browse and make others aware of this…Notre Dame inspired hat?
Yours on eBay if you got the $200!
Golden Bear Honors
Jaron Keawe-Sagapolutele (Football) was named the Pop Warner award winner, given to the best West Coast College Football Player.
Tonya Paulsson (Gymnastics) was the ACC Gymnastics Newcomer of the Week again. And then later ACC Gymnastics Newcomer of the Year (no surprise there)
Lulu Twidale (Women’s Basketball) is now the all time single season and career three point shooter at Cal!
Despoina Drakotou (Women’s Water Polo) was named MPSF Newcomer of the Week. And then she did it again.
Annalise Newman-Achee (Gymnastics) was named All-ACC for All-Around and Beam
Tonya Paulsson (Gymnastics) was named All-ACC for Bars and Floor
Claire Weinstein (Women’s Swimming) won silver in the 1650m freestyle and set a school record in the process at the ACC Championships
Mia West, Claire Weinstein, Teagan O’Dell and Ella Cosgrove (Women’s Swimming) set a school record in the 800m Free Relay and took Bronze at the ACC Championships
Lilou Ressencourt (Women’s Swimming) was named Second Team All-American in the 100m Butterfly
Annie Jia (Women’s Swimming) earned First Team All-American in the 100m Butterfly
Mia West and Claire Weinstein (Women’s Swimming) were named to the First Team All-American in the 200m Freestyle
Mary-Ambre Moluh, Annie Hia, Elle Scott, and Teagan O’Dell (Women’s Swimming) set school records in the 400 IM
Mart-Ambre Moluh (Women’s Swimming) set a school record in the 100m Freestyle
Dai Dai Ames (Men’s Basketball) hit 1000 Career Points
Kai Anderson (Track) was named ACC Men’s Freshman of the Week
Jasper Smith-Gordon (Men’s Gymnastics) was named an All-American in Vault
Matteo Bardana (Men’s Gymnastics) was named an All-American in All-Around
Claire Weinstein broke a school record in the 500m Freestyle and won Gold to become a National Champion
Cal Pros Recap
Basketball
Jaylen Brown stays hot continuing to average just around 30 points a game as they set themselves up for the 2-seed.
Football
Marshawn continues to do Marshawn things, this time experiencing Irish Football.
Golf
Max Homa and Collin Morikawa squared off in the TGL Finals (although Colin was out) with the LA Golf Club emerging victorious.
And so we find ourselves again at the end of another beautiful, perfect, Golden Nuggets. As always, last weeks most clicked link was about how Cal Alums make HBO’s The Pitt feel more real! Read it again!