Cal Olympic Sports Roundup - Bears competed in Track and Field National Championships, Fall sports schedules announced

Cal Track and Field

6 Student-Athletes (junior Kelsey Santisteban, senior Milan Ristic, redshirt senior Hammed Suleman, redshirt sophomore Jonte Grant, redshirt senior Derek White and sophomore Thomas Joyce) and the Men's 4x100 relay team (redshirt junior Dan Davis, redshirt seniors Tom Blocker, Dash Oliver and freshman Khalfani Muhammad...yes, that's the same Khalfani Muhammad who is the likely starting RB for Cal Football) represented Cal at the NCAA Championships last week up in Eugene, Oregon in 8 separate events. The lone female athlete, Kelsey Santisteban is also the only Golden Bears competing in two events.

While the depth of the Bears made the men super lethal in dual meets this season (including the No.1 ranking in the country and a Big Meet victory of Stanfurd), Golden Bears were not really a threat to win any individual events.

Here are the results:

Day 1:

Men
4x100-meter relay – 22. Dan Davis, Tom Blocker, Dash Oliver, Khalfani Muhammad 40.17

The Golden Bears quartet equalled their season best time of 39.91 for the 12th and final qualifying spot in the NCAA Qualifier. That time, set also earlier in the Pac-12 prelim, is the 7th best all time in Cal history. Unable to match their season best time, the Bears finished 8th in their heat and 22nd overall.

Day 2:

Men
1500-meters (semifinals) – 7. Thomas Joyce 3:41.67q

110-meter hurdles (semifinals) – 15. Milan Ristic 13.98

Long Jump – 10. Hammed Suleman 24-1.50 (7.35m)

Women
10000-meters – Kelsey Santisteban DNF

q-qualified

Day 2 saw Thomas Joyce qualified for the 1500-meters final with the 7th best time, which was by a margin of a mere 0.02 second. Hammed Suleman (a red-shirt senior) finished a quarter of an inch away from qualifying for the Long Jump final. Senior transfer Ristic also perform worse than his personal record time at the NCAA qualifying; he finished 5th in his heat and 15th overall.

On the women's side, Santisteban had to pull out with 5 laps remaining. She also ended up pulling out of the 5000-meter race later in the week.

Day 3:

Men
Discus – 17. Derek White 184-7 (56.27m)

Needing to equal his personal record throw of 194-11 (set at the Big Meet) to advanced to the final 9, redshirt-senior White was only able to throw a 184-7 to finish 17th overall.

Day 4:

Men
1500-meters (final) – 11. Thomas Joyce 3:41.08

Triple Jump – 14. Jonte Grant 51-11.75 (15.84m)

Both Golden Bears who competed on the final day of the NCAA Championships set their personal record, despite not placing in the top 3. Redshirt-sophomore Grant was able to set his personal best triple jump on his third and final attempt. Sophomore Joyce dropped more than half a minute from his qualifying time to also set a new personal record and finish 11th overall in the country. Both of these guys will look to set more personal records in future NCAA Championships.

Fall Schedules Announced

A slew of fall schedules were announced for the various Cal Fall Olympic sports:

Cal Volleyball

Coming off another NCAA tournament season, the Golden Bears will face 18 NCAA tournament teams in 2014. They will also have 13 matches televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

After spending part of the early summer on an Europe trip, the Golden Bears will stay close to the west coast for the entire season (not counting the NCAA tournaments, of course). Bears open with tournaments in Colorado Springs, CO and Las Cruces, NM before hosting their own tournament. After one local match against St. Mary's, the Bears will them start the always very tough Pac-12 volleyball season. Like other Pac-12 sports, a true roundtable schedule was only an one season things. Bears will only face the Washington schools once this year - hosting UW and visiting Wazzu.

2014 CAL VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

Fri, Aug. 29                        Southern Illinois@                          8 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 30             Winthrop@                                       4 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 31                Air Force@                                      12 p.m.

Fri, Sept. 5                          North Dakota State#                     3:30 p.m.

Sat, Sept. 6                        Radford#                                           9 a.m.

Sat, Sept. 6                        Grambling State#                           3:30 p.m.

Sun, Sept. 7                       New Mexico State#                         11 a.m.

Fri, Sept. 12                       Pacific%                                             7 p.m.

Sat, Sept. 13                      Nevada%                                         10 a.m.

Sat, Sept. 13                      UC Santa Barbara%                        7 p.m.

Fri, Sept. 19                       at Saint Mary’s                                   7 p.m.

Tue, Sept. 23                     at Stanford*                                        6 p.m.&

Fri, Sept. 26                        Washington*                                     8 p.m.&

Fri, Oct. 3                            Oregon State*                                    7 p.m.

Sun, Oct. 5                         Oregon*                                              11 a.m.&

Wed, Oct. 8                        at Arizona*                                         7:30 p.m.&

Fri, Oct. 10                          at Arizona State*                               7 p.m.

Fri, Oct. 17                          at Utah*                                              4 p.m.&

Sun, Oct. 19                       at Colorado*                                      11 a.m.&

Wed, Oct. 22                      USC*                                                   7:30 p.m.&

Sun, Oct. 26                       UCLA*                                                 3 p.m.&

Fri, Oct. 31                          at Oregon*                                          8 p.m.&

Sun, Nov. 2                        at Oregon State*                                 TBA

Fri, Nov. 7                          Arizona State*                                      7 p.m.

Sun, Nov. 9                       Arizona*                                                11 a.m.&

Fri, Nov. 14                        at USC*                                                7 p.m.

Sun, Nov. 16                     at UCLA*                                             11 a.m.&

Fri, Nov. 21                       Colorado*                                              TBA

Sun, Nov. 23                     Utah*                                                    11 a.m.&

Wed, Nov. 26                    at Washington State*                          7 p.m.

Fri, Nov. 28                        Stanford*                                              TBA&

@-Air Force Tournament

#-New Mexico State Tournament

%-Cal Molten Classic

*-Pac-12 Conference match

&-Pac-12 Networks

Cal Men's Soccer

Coming off arguably the most successful season in program history, the Golden Bears will have 10 of their 20 regular season matches televised by the Pac-12 Networks.

Golden Bears will make one East Coast trip in late August to play North Carolina and Wake Forest. Bears will also host 12 home matches, playing each of the 5 other members of the league twice each.

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME (PT)	RESULTS	MEDIA
Mon, Aug 18	UC Irvine	at Irvine, CA	7:00 p.m.
Wed, Aug 20	San Francisco	Berkeley, CA	4:30 p.m.
Sat, Aug 23	Cal Poly	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.
Fri, Aug 29	North Carolina	at Chapel Hill, NC	4:00 p.m.
Sun, Aug 31	Wake Forest	at Winston-Salem, NC	4:00 p.m.
Fri, Sep 12	Cleveland State	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.
Sun, Sep 14	Gonzaga	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Sep 19	Cal/Stanford Tournament: Delaware	Berkeley, CA	3:30 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Sep 21	Cal/Stanford Tournament: Southern Illinois, Edwardsville	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.
Fri, Sep 26	Santa Clara	at Santa Clara, CA	7:00 p.m.
Thu, Oct 02	Washington	at Seattle, WA	7:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Oct 05	Oregon State	at Corvallis, OR	3:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Oct 10	UCLA	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Oct 12	San Diego State	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.
Mon, Oct 20	Stanford	at Stanford, CA	7:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Oct 31	San Diego State	at San Diego, CA	12:00 p.m.
Sun, Nov 02	UCLA	at Los Angeles, CA	5:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Nov 07	Oregon State	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Nov 09	Washington	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Nov 16	Stanford	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network

Cal Women's Soccer

With a top 5 recruiting class to replace 10 graduating seniors, the Golden Bears will have 9 games televised on the Pac-12 Networks in 2014.

With a full slate of conference foes (all Pac-12 schools have a team, but they all only play each other once), the Bears will stay on the West Coast for the entire season.

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME (PT)	RESULTS	MEDIA
Fri, Aug 22	San Francisco	Berkeley, CA	5:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Aug 24	Santa Clara	Berkeley, CA	4:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Aug 29	California vs. LIU Brooklyn	San Francisco, CA	4:30 p.m.
Sun, Aug 31	California vs. Portland State	San Francisco, CA	12:00 p.m.
Fri, Sep 05	St. Mary's (California)	at Moraga, CA	4:00 p.m.
Sun, Sep 07	Cal Poly	Berkeley, CA	4:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Sep 12	Texas Tech	Berkeley, CA	3:30 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sun, Sep 14	Santa Clara	at Santa Clara, CA	12:00 p.m.
Fri, Sep 19	Pacific	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sat, Sep 27	Colorado	at Boulder, CO	12:00 p.m.
Fri, Oct 03	Washington State	Berkeley, CA	3:30 p.m.
Sun, Oct 05	Washington	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.
Fri, Oct 10	USC	at Los Angeles, CA	12:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Mon, Oct 13	UCLA	at Los Angeles, CA	7:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Oct 17	Utah	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Oct 24	Arizona State	at Tempe, AZ	7:00 p.m.
Sun, Oct 26	Arizona	at Tucson, AZ	1:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Oct 31	Oregon State	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.
Sun, Nov 02	Oregon	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.
Thu, Nov 06	Stanford	Berkeley, CA	2:00 p.m.		Pac-12 Network

Cal Men's Water Polo

4 was the clear ranking of the Golden Bears in 2013 (being able to beat everyone other than 'Furd, USC, and UCLA). That is also the number of games that will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks for the Bears in 2014.

After making a Princeton trip few years ago, this year's team will again just stay on the West Coast for the season with Navy making a visit to Berkeley.

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME (PT)	RESULTS	MEDIA
Sat, Sep 06	Triton Invite	San Diego, CA	All Day
Sun, Sep 07	Triton Invite	San Diego, CA	All Day
Sat, Sep 13	UC Davis	Berkeley, CA	10:00 a.m.
Sat, Sep 13	Alumni Game	Berkeley, CA	12:00 p.m.
Sat, Sep 20	NorCal Tournament	Stockton, CA	All Day
Sat, Sep 20	NorCal Tournament	Stockton, CA	All Day
Sun, Sep 21	NorCal Tournament	Stockton, CA	All Day
Sun, Sep 21	NorCal Tournament	Stockton, CA	All Day
Fri, Sep 26	Navy	Berkeley, CA	12:30 p.m.		Pac-12 Network
Sat, Sep 27	Davis Shootout	Davis, CA	All Day
Sat, Sep 27	California vs. California Baptist	Davis, CA	3:00 p.m.
Sat, Sep 27	Whittier at California	Davis, CA	6:30 p.m.
Sun, Sep 28	Occidental	Davis, CA	8:00 a.m.
Sun, Sep 28	Chapman (California)	Davis, CA	1:50 p.m.
Fri, Oct 03	Pacific	at Stockton, CA	All Day
Sat, Oct 11	SoCal Tournament	Los Angeles, CA	All Day
Sat, Oct 11	SoCal Tournament	Los Angeles, CA	All Day
Sun, Oct 12	SoCal Tournament	Los Angeles, CA	All Day
Sun, Oct 12	SoCal Tournament	Los Angeles, CA	All Day
Sat, Oct 18	UCLA	Berkeley, CA	TBA		Pac-12 Network
Sat, Oct 25	Pepperdine	at Malibu, CA	12:00 p.m.
Sun, Oct 26	UC Irvine	at Irvine, CA	All Day
Sat, Nov 01	UC Santa Barbara	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.
Sun, Nov 02	Long Beach State	Berkeley, CA	1:00 p.m.
Sat, Nov 08	Stanford	Berkeley, CA	TBA		Pac-12 Network
Sat, Nov 15	USC	at Los Angeles, CA	10:30 a.m.		Pac-12 Network
Fri, Nov 21	MPSF Tournament	Long Beach, CA	All Day
Sat, Nov 22	MPSF Tournament	Long Beach, CA	All Day
Sun, Nov 23	MPSF Tournament	Long Beach, CA	All Day

Cal Cross Country

Both men and women's cross country will compete in 9 meets before the NCAA Championships in Terra Haute, Indiana on November 22nd. 6 of the 9 meets will take  place in the Bay Area however.

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	TIME (PT)	RESULTS	MEDIA
Sat, Aug 30	University of San Francisco Invitational	San Francisco, CA	9:30 a.m.
Sat, Sep 27	Roy Griak Invitational	St. Paul, MN	9:20 a.m.
Sat, Sep 27	Stanford Invitational	Stanford, CA	10:50 a.m.
Sun, Oct 05	Sac State Cross Country Jamboree	Sacramento, CA	9:30 a.m.
Sat, Oct 18	Bronco Invitational	Santa Clara, CA	9:45 a.m.
Sat, Oct 18	Pre-NCAA Invitational	Terre Huate, IN	10:00 a.m.
Fri, Oct 31	2014 Pac-12 Cross Country Championships	Oakland, CA	TBA		Pac-12 Networks (D)
Sat, Nov 08	Doc Adams Invitational	Davis, CA	10:00 a.m.
Sat, Nov 22	Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships	Terre Haute, IN	TBA

GO BEARS!