I cannot find anything on line about the athletic performance center construction project. Usually, the campus projects are available on the administration website, but I see nothing yet. Apparently, someone has noticed construction activity there. Is is possible that this a UC Davis Health project and that it would be the site covering the project? I heard that the football field would be the first stage of the project.

I was mostly wrong about the Richardson brothers not wanting to play against each other or dad. Rather interesting that the new Richardson brother stuck with brother over dad to play for the Ags. I guess its an easy call to play 11 games with your bro and only 1 against dad. I respect the dad a lot for letting his kids make the decision which had to be a little difficult.

Yes, but we have an very wealthy player parent who is apparently not used being told “no” you can’t do that. I have no idea who he/she is, but if he/she built the FH field hockey field he/she certainly can help KB figure this thing out. And then is still very plucky Stanford who also does not take “no” all that well either. I don’t think Dominque would have taken this job if she didn’t think there was a future here in FH. I think 72 made a very good point. The SoCal area needs this HS sport at another level. Lordy, there is enough wealth down there to get this figured out fast. Also, this is an Olympic sport and guess who gets the Games in 2028? LA.

But against his brother and dad? Don’t know where his brother is going to go. But i would suspect sac. So what then?

New FH coach hired by KB. Dominique Masters. So this sport is not going away any time soon. I bet that KB and Stanford will figure out a way to keep FH on the west coast.

I think its a fair question: will Kopper Richardson transfer to play for his dad? If so, OL not so talented.

The refs were calling a very tight game today, especially against the Ags (according to KDVS guy) but that’s what happens in a game against a very physical and potentially intimidating team like CSUN. The blocking foul on Morgan by Flucker which put her on the deck was a bit suspect, but whatever and glad she wasn’t hurt. Overall, very proud of the Lady Ags tonight.

Something just doesn’t fit here. I saw Jason Hairston play at every home game he played at UC Davis. I never witnessed any extreme hit to the head or even an injury to the upper body to Jason during those games. He played a bit in the NFL but I don’t think he was ever injured or put on the disabled or the unable to play list during his time in the NFL. So what I am saying is that many other college and NFL linebackers/players have played and taken severe hits to the head and have no CTE symptoms such as did Jason. I do not doubt that he had this disease, I just think there must be some genetic or other component to this disease besides hits to the head or upper body. It would seem that much more research needs to be done on this tragic disease. My loving thoughts and sympathy go out to Jasons beautiful wife and family for their tremendous loss of a great guy and great Aggie, Jason Hairston.

This meet actually got a fair amount of TV coverage in the Sac Metro area with CBS and Fox affiliates giving coverage to the program’s first ever meet in Davis. I wish i knew how to post those TV shots onto this post like so many of you do. Much still to learn. Great game by the Aggies! The Equestrian site has those TV shots.

Great win. I think maybe that the coaching staff was experimenting a bit with those quick inside passes which went wayward and looked very bad. Those passes are extremely hard to make work. But if they could be perfected they would be an incredible addition to an otherwise very competent offense. Meanwhile, could Morgan’s Biomedical team arrange for a blood transplant from the woman’s team to the very sad guys team?

I will circulate the petition to get this done ASAP! Also, if you go to the athletic social sight wall you will see their beautiful slick new uniforms; and, yes, Addidas has provided the uniforms. Simple, but very nice design work by Addidas.

Sorry- Delaware was ranked #7.

I confess I know next to nothing about this sport, but it appears that the Aggie Equestrian Team has won their inaugural equestrian meet against Delaware State the 9th ranked team in the nation- 6 to 4. Congratulations to these Aggie women on this historic win!

History will be made tomorrow at 10 am as the UC Davis Aggies will have their first ever Equestrian Team contest with the Delaware State #7 team in the in the nation. Go Ags!

Well the absolute best place for tailgating would be the dairy cattle facility directly across from the stadium. It is the dirty brown space to the east of the stadium in the drone video. Now for me, I don’t mind a drink or two with my bovine friends, though I do prefer horses to drink with as they seem to be more “classy” and better looking. However, I am reminded that horses have not provided any nutritional assets to us humans as do the cows. They also poop a lot and eat a lot. They also make my family buy a lot of stuff for our horsey niece. But, I am reminded that our indeared mascot, Gunrock, is a horse so we must bow to his honor. So no to the dairy facility. Sorry my dear cows.

I did find an 7-8 year old article in cal-magazine which interviewed rugby coach Clark about cal rugby when it was under siege due to UC Berkeley’s massive athletic debt. In the interview were some surprising facts regarding cal-rugby:
No scholarships
Full time paid coach
#3 in merchandise sales
#5 in concessions sales
#3-4 in paid attendance
5 million endowment
Men’s rugby is not an NCAA sport
Woman’s rugby IS an NCAA sport
Cal football was going to take away witter field rugby and put in a turf practice field
Cal rugby has an incredibly powerful alumni base.
Now this is an old article and I have no idea if it is still accurate.

I just love watching the gals do their thing so well. Just enjoy it while it lasts because it doesn’t last.

Does Berkeley/st Mary’s give scholarships for rugby?

How can this be when we really only lost one starter from last year? Maybe Chima was the key, but we played well without him.

Exceptional ball movement offense by the Aggies. The girls are starting to mold into a real contending team.