Bevan Hart NCAA Champion Hall of Fame Head Coach

Don Bowden NCAA 800 Champion, 1500 and Mile All-American

Dave Maggard All-American Atlee Mahorn 200m All-American

Travis Nutter Hammer All-American

Martin Biles Erv Hunt Eddie Hart NCAA Javelin Champion Hall of Fame Head Coach 100m and 440 Relay NCAA Champion

Chris Huffins George Roseme Rhuben Williams NCAA Decathlon Champion NCAA Javelin Champion All-American Shot Putter 52 and All-American Long Jumper Helga Haldorsdottir School Record Holder (400m Hurdles) Louise Romo Sabrina Han AIAW 800 Champion 10,000m All-American and 800 All-American

Sheila Hudson 3-Time NCAA Champion Triple Jumper, All-American

Kristin Heaston All-American Shot Putter Missy Vanek Joslyn and Roslyn Mack All-American Heptathlete (R. Mack: Cal Freshman Record Holder 400m Hurdles)

Chloe Jarvis 800m All-American

Sheni Russell Discus All-American

Beth Vidakovits Kirsten O’Hara All-American High Jumper All-American Distance Runner 53 Los Angeles Coliseum Archie Williams 1932 Olympics 1936 Olympics

BEARS IN THE OLYMPICS

CAL OLYMPIC FACTS

Jennifer Joyce Total Number of Competitors 2004 Olympics 42 athletes made 59 appearances in 21 Games.

Most Appearances 3 – Steen competed for his native Canada (1980, 1984 and 1988) in the decathlon, earning a bronze Owen Guinn Smith medal in 1988. Bruce Kennedy was selected to 1948 Olympics three Olympic Teams – 1972 and 1976 for Rhodesia, which was banned by the IOC, and in 1980 for the United States, which boycotted the Games.

Chris Huffins MEDAL COUNT 1996 and 2000 Olympics 12 (6 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze)

Interesting Facts Cal Director of Chris Huffins, who won a bronze medal in the decathlon in the 2000 Games, is the only current Cal head coach with an Olympic medal. The former Bear is also the last Cal track and field athlete to win an Olympic medal. Bolota Asmerom 2000 and 2004 Olympics Ramon Jimenez-Gaona 1992 and 1996 Olympics

Grace Upshaw 2004 Olympics Dave Steen Erv Hunt 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympics 1996 and 2000 Olympics 1992 and 1996 Olympics 54 ong considered one of the finest track and field facilities in the world, the University of California’s Edwards Stadium Lhas a legacy unmatched in collegiate track and field. Not only has the facility been host to some of the best individual performances in the sport’s history, but Edwards Stadium also stands in one of the most beautiful settings in the nation, with pan- oramic views of the Berkeley Hills and Strawberry Canyon to the east, and the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge and the city skyline to the west. Cal’s track teams returned home to Edwards Stadium/Goldman Field for the 2000 season after a year hosting meets away from Berkeley while the stadium reconstruction project was completed. Edwards Stadium was the site for the 2001 Pac-10 Champion- ships and also hosted the 1993 Pac-10 meet. Bids will be pre- sented in the near future to host upcoming NCAA and TAC Na- tional Championships events. With a seating capacity of 22,000, Edwards Stadium for years had the distinction of being the largest exclusive track and field facility in the United States. Beginning with the 1999-00 school year, the Cal men and women’s soccer teams adopted Edwards Stadium’s infield – Goldman Field – as their home venue. Over the years, Edwards Stadium has witnessed 12 world records, 26 American records and 24 collegiate records. The first world record set in the stadium was also history’s first 15- foot pole vault, by Cornelius “Dutch” Warmerdam in 1940. The last world mark to fall in Berkeley was in 1978, as Washington State’s Henry Rono clocked 13:06.4 in the 5,000-meter run. On a cinder surface in 1966 – before a Tartan all-weather surface was added in 1977 – a University of Kansas freshman by the name of Jim Ryun clocked a remarkable 3:51.3 miles. Named after Col. George C. Edwards, the facility opened in 1932 as the only stadium in the world built for track and field use only. Since that time, Edwards Stadium has hosted eight NCAA Championships meets (more than any other site), a National AAU Championship, the All-American Invitational in 1966, the 1971 and ’78 USA vs. USSR dual meets, six Kennedy Games, the Brooks Meet of Champions and the Kinney Invitational. In 1967, the oval itself was dedicated in the name of Walter Christie, California first track and field coach (1900-32), and in the early 1960s, the “Friends of California Track” raised funds to build the Walter Christie Bench, which stands just outside the running track on the west side of the field. With funds that re- mained after the bench was built, the electric clock that sits atop the scoreboard to the north was purchased. A 173-seat press box sits atop the west grandstands. competes at Edwards Stadium

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ne of the real success stories for the University of California is the Odevelopment and growth of a comprehensive academic support program for its student-athletes - the Athletic Study Center. In 1984, campus officials and Athletic Department administrators decided that a greater emphasis needed to be placed on helping Cal student-athletes with their academic pursuits. The Athletic Study Center was thus born and charged with developing an academic support program geared to the needs of NCAA Division I student-athletes. It was a significant development for an academically oriented institution such as Cal to recognize the special needs required for a modern student-athlete’s success both as an athletic competitor on the field of play and in the classroom. PROGRAM FOR The Athletic Study Center STUDENT-ATHLETES staff (from left): Christine The Athletic Study Center, which is Lane, Keiko Price, housed within the Division of Courtney Dolder, Derek Undergraduate Education, is the tutorial Van Rheenen, Melanie and academic support program for the Moonsamy, Joe Morello, nearly 1,000 student-athletes at Cal. Lucas Moosman, Richard Centrally located in the Cesar Chavez DeShong and Laura Student Center, the program provides a Neustedter. Not pictured, spacious and comfortable arboretum for Cassidy Raher. quiet study, separate classrooms for individual and group tutorials, and a support. Tutorial sessions are also offered that proper academic progress is being computer lab for word processing and at night enabling student-athletes to receive made towards graduation while referring required course work. help after practices when they have more juniors and seniors to areas on campus Geared around the understanding of time to devote to studying. that can help with career planning. the amount of time student-athletes must devote to practice, training, physical SPECIAL PROGRAMS therapy and team travel, the program ADVISING PROGRAM creates an environment where students The Advising Program offers a broad In addition, the Athletic Study Center can cultivate good study habits, receive range of services to meet the unique offers a Summer Bridge adjunct program individual or group tutoring and obtain needs of student-athletes, including designed to help ease the transition from counseling from academic advisors. assistance in understanding and high school to college. The primary complying with University, college and components for the program include NCAA requirements, developing time writing and math workshops, an advising management skills and resolving personal workshop, study skills seminars and an TUTORIAL PROGRAM issues unique to student-athletes. evening tutorial program. The Tutorial Program promotes and During the freshman year, advisors Another special program offered is Peer enhances students’ academic skills and typically try to help student-athletes make Advising. Peer advisors provide academic progress by providing individual tutoring, a successful academic transition from and campus life guidance for new group workshops, study groups, credit high school, while during the sophomore intercollegiate student-athletes. They are courses and intensive special programs. year, they assist student-athletes in making selected from junior and senior student- The Athletic Study Center has between 50- decisions on appropriate majors and fields athletes who assist in developing 60 tutors on staff per semester to guarantee of study. For the final two years, advisors programs to further address the needs of that students receive the best possible take more of an exiting approach, ensuring student-athletes.

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The strength and conditioning program for Cal Track & Field is a comprehensive process which combines modern Olympic platform, aerobic and anaerobic workouts in the Haas Pavilion fitness facility with personalized training to maximize strength, speed, flexibility and overall health.

n integral part of the Cal Track & The Cal weight peak performance during competition. Field program and its success is room includes eight Cal’s program stresses comprehen- A the strength and conditioning pro- Olympic platforms sive training in order to improve both gram, led by Hank Behrens and assis- and an array of aero- strength and speed. Flexibility is a key tants, who supervise the comprehensive bic and anaerobic component because it is essential for operation for the Golden Bear team. The equipment. The pic- proper lifting. program’s philosophy is geared towards turesque facility offers Athlete workouts are closely monitored helping each student-athlete achieve the panoramic views of by the conditioning staff who work in col- highest level of athletic development. the entire region, in- laboration with the entire sports medi- HANK BEHRENS By teaching how all the components of cluding San Fran- cine team (doctors, athletic trainers, Strength & strength and conditioning fit together, stu- cisco and the Bay. physical therapists, nutritionists, etc.) to Conditioning dent-athletes understand how to maxi- The training regimen ensure the health and safety of all of stu- mize force production. This includes en- at Cal is a year-round process that em- dent-athletes. hancement of speed, strength and flex- phasizes the speed, strength and flexibil- In this way, Cal’s strength and condi- ibility, which results in improved power. ity. With closely monitored workouts that tioning program is a vital component link- Motivating, educating and helping to reach involve a great deal of individual instruc- ing the “full circle” of a student-athlete’s maximum athletic development is the pri- tion and attention, student-athletes are physical development from conditioning mary focus of the Cal program. taught the correct techniques to increase through rehabilitation and reconditioning.

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he San Francisco Bay Area is a major metropoli- tan area of approximately six million people and Tone of the most scenic regions in the United States. The Bay Area includes the major cities of San Francisco and Oakland, as well as Berkeley, home of the world- renowned University of California. Just south is the city of San Jose and the Silicon Valley, home to many of the world’s high-tech companies. The Bay Area also lies within easy driving distance of the high Sierra resorts of Lake Tahoe and Yosemite, the Monterey/Carmel penin- sula, the world famous Napa wine country, and the spec- tacular Mendocino Coast. Everyone knows “The City” - San Francisco - from count- less photographs, movies and television shows that cap- ture its magic. It is a city built on a series of more than 40 hills, offering panoramic views of every kind. The hub of a nine-county complex and the financial and insurance capi- tal of the world, San Francisco has a resident population of about 740,000. San Francisco is situated on a 46.6 square-mile peninsula bounded on the west by the Pa- cific Ocean, on the north by the Golden Gate strait, and from north to east by the San Francisco Bay. The City has been named the world’s top city twice by readers of Conde Nast Traveller and the top U.S. city seven times since 1988. The San Francisco Bay is spanned by two landmarks, the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges, and graced by four islands: Alcatraz, Angel, Yerba Buena and Treasure. The area is easily navigated by car, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), bus or ferry, making it easily accessible to all.

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ocated across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, Oakland is a city of 400,000, jam-packed with exciting attractions, Lstimulating arts, and an ideal climate. Oakland’s charm ex- ceeds its man-made wonders, as its tumbling hills, vast forests, hiking and riding trails, beautiful lakes and numerous parks pro- vide a natural escape for those who prefer nature over an urban environment. TOP U.S. CITIES Berkeley, just a 12-mile drive from San Francisco, is situated on 18.8 square miles with a population of 103,000 people. A study in 1. San Francisco, CA contrasts, Berkeley is a small town with a big-city character. With 2. Santa Fe, NM 3. Charleston, SC its world-renowned university, global population and rich diversity 4. New York, NY of cultural arts, Berkeley reflects and affects the rest of the coun- 5. , IL try. 6. Honolulu, HI Sports fans can see it all in the Bay Area - professional football 7. New Orleans, LA (San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders), professional basketball 8. Carmel, CA (Golden State Warriors), professional baseball (San Francisco Gi- 9. Savannah, GA ants, Oakland Athletics), professional hockey (San Jose Sharks), 10. Boston, MA and outstanding collegiate competition.

Source: Conde Nast Traveller magazine, 2004 Readers’ Choice Sources: S.F. Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Oakland Convention & Visitors Authority, Berkeley Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the California Trade Awards and Commerce Agency.

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SIMPLY THE BEST here is no other way to aptly describe America’s top public university. There is no other way to Tdescribe one of the elite academic settings in the world – especially one that also includes one of America’s most successful athletic departments. The University of California blends the best of all worlds. Overlooking the scenic San Francisco Bay and ranked as the nation’s top public university by the U.S. News and World Report, the flagship campus of the state of California also features an athletic program that an- nually finishes among the leaders in the Directors’ Cup standings, which rates the overall success of America’s athletic departments. Cal attracts what many believe to be the finest appli- cant pool in the United States. The university features a diverse student-body population. The University of Cali- fornia offers 300 degree programs, and 35 of the school’s 36 graduate programs are ranked among America’s top 10. Cal’s 35 programs among the top 10 is No. 1 among all universities in the country, as is its 32 “distinguished” programs, as rated by the National Research Council. The library is ranked third in the country, as judged by Association of Research Libraries with 9 million volumes in 18 campus libraries. The faculty features seven Nobel Laureates, 128 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 MacArthur Fellows, 83 Fulbright Scholars, three Pulitzer Prize winners and more Guggenheim Fellows (139) than any other university in America.

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AMERICA’S NO. 1 PUBLIC UNIVERSITY BY THE NUMBERS Universities With Highest Universities With The In the 2004 survey Number of Top 10 Highest Number of conducted by The 1 Graduate Programs 1“Distinguished Programs” 1Association of Research 1. CALIFORNIA 1. CALIFORNIA ...... 32 Libraries, California’s 2. Stanford 2. Stanford ...... 28 library was ranked No. 1 3. Harvard 3. Harvard ...... 25 among public schools 4. Princeton 4. Princeton ...... 24 and third overall, behind 5. MIT 5. MIT ...... 20 only Harvard and Yale.

TOP PUBLIC Ranking of World’s Nobel Laureates UNIVERSITIES Top 10 Universities* 20 current and former 2 20 faculty members 1. CALIFORNIA 1. Harvard 6. Cambridge 2. Virginia 2. CALIFORNIA 7. Stanford 3. Michigan 3. MIT 8. Yale Student-to-Faculty Ratio UCLA 4. Caltech 9. Princeton 16-1 5. North Carolina 5. Oxford 10. ETHZurich Source: U.S. News and Source: *Times Higher Education Degree Programs World Report 2004 Supplement 351 Service The University of California is the only school in the country to have produced more than 3,000 volunteers 3000 since the inception of the Peace Corps in 1961.

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Shareef Abdur-Rahim - NBA All-Star, 2000 local chapter of National Council of Negro Women U.S. Olympian Jackie Jensen – 1958 American League MVP Steve Bartkowski - No. 1 overall NFL draft Kevin Johnson - NBA All-Star pick in 1975 Edgar F. Kaiser - Founder, Kaiser Permanente Stephen Bechtel - Founder of world’s largest Jeff Kent - 2000 National League MVP constructional engineering firm Clark Kerr - Chancellor, UC Berkeley Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - President, Islamic Jason Kidd - NBA All-Star, U.S. Olympian Republic of Pakistan Maxine Hong Kingston - Author, 1997 National Matt Biondi - Three-time Olympic swimmer, Humanities Medal winner of eight gold medals Yuan T. Lee - Chemist, Nobel Prize winner Rose Bird - Chief Justice, California Supreme Willard Libby - Scientist, discovered Carbon 14, Nobel Court Prize winner W. Michael Blumenthal - U.S. Secretary of Tung Yen Lin - World-renown civic engineer the Treasury Jack London - Author, “The Call of the Wild” Jerry Brown - State Attorney General, former Wiley Manuel - First African-American California State governor of California, former mayor of Oakland Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cech - Chemist, Nobel Prize winner Jerry Mathers - Actor, “Leave it to Beaver” Peter Chernin - Chairman, 20th Century Fox Brian Maxwell - Founder, PowerBar Leroy Chiao - First Chinese-American John A. McCone - Director of CIA, Atomic Energy astronaut Commission Choon Kun Cho - President, Korean Airlines Terry McMillan - Author, “Waiting To Exhale,” “How Rachelle Chong - Member, Federal Communi- Stella Got Her Groove Back” cations Commission Robert McNamara - U.S. Secretary of Defense Beverly Cleary - Author, “Ramona the Pest” Mary T. Meagher - U.S. Olympic swimmer, winner of Natalie Coughlin – Winner of five Olympic three gold medals medals in swimming Norman Mineta - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Joan Didion - Author, “Play It as It Lays” Gordon Moore - Co-founder, Intel Corp. Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle - World War II Julia Morgan - Architect hero, Medal of Honor recipient Hardy Nickerson - NFL All-Pro linebacker Adam Duritz - Lead singer, Counting Crows Sadako Ogata - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Maria Echaveste - Deputy Chief of Staff, Gregory Peck - Actor, Academy Award winner, Clinton Administration “To Kill a Mockingbird” Joy (Biefeld) Fawcett – Member of three U.S. Kenneth Pitzer - Chemist, president of Stanford University Olympic soccer teams Robert Raven - President, American Bar Association Don Fisher - Founder and Chairman of the Helen Wills Moody Roark - Winner of eight Board, The Gap Wimbledon championships David Flinn - President, University of Wisconsin Glenn Seaborg - Nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist winner, co-founder of Element 106 Tony Gonzalez - NFL All-Pro tight end Margaret Rhea Seddon - Astronaut Walter A. Gordon - Governor of Virgin Michael Silver - Senior writer, Sports Illustrated Islands, U.S. District Court Judge William G. Simon - Director, FBI Michele Granger - Olympic gold medalist, Samuel Smith - President, Washington State University softball pitcher Leigh Steinberg - Lawyer, sports agent Jennifer Granholm - Governor of Michigan Michelle Tafoya - TV Sports Personality, former Andrew Grove - President and CEO, Intel Monday Night Football sideline reporter Corporation George Takei - Actor, Mr. Sulu on “Star Trek” Walter Haas Jr. - President, Levi Strauss & Roger Traynor - Chief Justice, California Supreme Court Co.; owner of Oakland Athletics Eugene Trefethen Jr. - President, Kaiser Industries Philip Habib - U.S. Special Envoy to Middle East Rex Walheim - Space Shuttle astronaut William R. Hearst Jr. - Newspaper publisher Earl Warren - Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Marguerite Higgins - Journalist, Pulitzer Alice Waters - Chef, restaurateur, “Chez Panisse” Prize winner Jann Wenner - Founder, “Rolling Stone” magazine Susanna Hoffs - Lead singer of “The Bangles” Lionel Wilson - First African-American mayor Chris Huffins - Olympic bronze medal of Oakland decathlete, Cal head track & field coach Pete Wilson - Governor of California Lance Ito - Superior Court Judge, presided Dean Witter - Founder, Dean Witter Financial Services over O.J. Simpson trial Steve Wozniak - Co-founder, Apple Computer Systems Ida Jackson - United Nations observer, founder James D. Zellerbach - U.S. Ambassador to Italy

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