Golden Bears 2009 CALIFORNIA MEN’S CREW

TABLE OF CONTENTS Quick Facts...... 1 Coaching Staff ...... 2-3 Outlook ...... 4-5 Roster ...... 6 Athlete Bios ...... 7-12 2008 Season Recap ...... 13 2008 Race Results ...... 14 Award Winners ...... 15 History ...... 16 Cal Cup Results/Championships ...... 17 International Bears ...... 18-19 T. Gary Rogers Boathouse ...... 20 Briones Reservoir/Erg Facility ...... 21 The University...... 22-23 GENERAL INFORMATION Academic Support ...... 24 Schedule...... BC Location: Berkeley, Calif. Founded: 1868 Enrollment: 34,953 CREDITS Nickname: Golden Bears The 2009 Men’s Crew Media Guide Mascot: Oski was written and edited by Assistant Media Colors: Blue (282) and Gold (116) Relations Director Dean Caparaz with Conference: Pacifi c-10 assistance from Caitlin Oriel. Layout and Chancellor: Dr. Robert J Birgeneau graphics by Senior Publications Director Athletic Director: John Dunbar and Publications Coordina- Assistant Athletic Director/Sport Supervisor: Liz Miles tor Evan Kerr. Offi cial Cal Athletics Web Site: www.CalBears.com Photography provided by Michael Cal Crew Web Site: www.CalCrew.com Pimentel, John Todd, Kelley Cox, Evan Kerr, Zach Franzen, Sharon Collier, TEAM INFORMATION Richard Ersted, Doug Swanson, Kaelyn Gibson, Dave Olson and Nicole Younts. 2008 IRA National Championships Finish: 3rd Printing by UC Printing, Berkeley, 2008 Pac-10 Championships Finish: 2nd Calif. Letterwinners: Returning/Lost: 13/7 Copies of this guide may be purchased Newcomers: 17 by the public at a cost of $6.00 (including postage and handling) through the Media COACHING STAFF Relations Offi ce. Please make checks payable to “UC Regents.” Head Coach: (1st year, St. Joseph’s ’78) Offi ce Phone: (510) 533-8931; E-Mail: [email protected] Offi ce: T. Gary Rogers Boathouse, 2999 Glascock Street, Oakland, CA 94601 Freshman Coach: Geoff Bond BEAR BACKERS (510) 533-8941; [email protected] Assistant Coach & Director of Recruiting: Michael Vallarelli SUPPORT (510) 533-8957; [email protected] Assistant Varsity Coach: Luke Agnini YOUR TEAM (510) 642-3284; [email protected] Bear Backers are loyal Cal alumni Rigger/Boatman: Mike Fennelly; [email protected] and friends who provide fi nancial sup- port to Cal Athletics with their donations. Every student-athlete benefits from ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS their contributions, which underwrites Men’s Crew Contact: Assistant Director Dean Caparaz the scholarships, programmatic needs, Direct Line: (510) 642-5048 and academic tutoring programs. Bear E-mail Address: [email protected] Backers also build our athletic facilities, General Offi ce Phone: (510) 642-5363 including the Haas Pavilion. Joining Fax: (510) 643-7778 Bear Backers is the best way to support Mailing Address: 349 Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA 94720 the Cal team you care about. Call (510) Athletics Web Site: www.CalBears.com 642-2427 for more information.

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Mike Teti coached the U.S. team for the last time at the 2008 Olympic Games in , China.

At the Olympics in Athens 2004, he directed the men’s to a world record in its heat and an eventual gold medal, marking the fi rst time the captured the men’s eight since 1964. U.S. national team crews produced 27 total medals un- MIKE TETI der Teti’s guidance. Director of Cal Crew Teti was named the U.S. head men’s sweep coach Mike Teti, formerly the head coach of the after the 1996 Olympics and 2008 U.S. men’s Olympic team, be- head men’s coach following came the head coach of men’s crew at the the 2000 Games. At the 2000 University of California in July 2008. Olympics in Sydney, all of his Teti fulfi lled his obligations with the Olym- sweep boats qualifi ed for the fi nals, with the Teti is the coach of the only men’s eight in pic team through the Beijing Games and men’s pair capturing the silver medal. U.S. history to win three consecutive world officially started at Cal on Sept. 1, championship titles (1997-99), a feat that 2008. He replaced , earned him three consecutive USRowing after coaching the U.S. men’s eight to National Coach of the Year honors. He was a bronze medal in China. also selected the Developmental Coach of In December of 2008, Teti received the Year title in 1996. the USRowing Medal, the highest At the 2003 World Championships, Teti honor that the rowing governing body coached the men’s eight to a silver medal can bestow. and the men’s four with to a gold. A longtime fi xture on the national The men’s eight also won a bronze medal at level, Teti served on the U.S. coaching the 2002 World Championships. In addition, staff at the World Championships and he led the U.S. men to four gold medals at Olympic Games regularly since 1996. the 1999 Worlds and to three medals at the He coached the U.S. men’s eight to 1998 Worlds. nine world championship medals dur- Teti started his coaching career in 1982 at ing that time period including four gold , leading his crews to six medals in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2005. titles in seven years at the in . In 1989, he began a stint as freshman coach at Princeton, where his freshman eights won IRA titles fi ve times. As a rower, Teti was a 12-time national team member and three-time Olympian. From 1977-93, he won 24 national titles, a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games in the four, and a bronze and a gold in the eight at the World Championships (1985 and ‘87). He was also a bronze medal-winner in the eight at the 1988 Olympics. In 1987, Teti was named USRowing’s Male Athlete of the Year after rowing bow on the world champion U.S. eight. Born in Upper Darby, Pa., Teti rowed at St. Joseph’s University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1978. He is a member of the St. Joseph’s and USRowing Halls of Fame. Teti is married to Kay Worthington, an outstanding rower in her own right who won gold medals in the women’s four and eight for Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Head coach Mike Teti with his crew at the 2008 Head of the Charles competition. Barcelona.

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Agnini coached at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia in 2004 and 2005. A product of Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, Agnini graduated in 2002 with degrees in psychology and history. He competed in the IRA Regatta while rowing at Marietta.

GEOFF BOND MIKE VALLARELLI Assistant Coach/Novice Coach Assistant Freshman Coach/ Director of Recruiting Geoff Bond is a 1988 graduate of , at which he earned a B.A. in Clas- The Boston product, who competed at sical Greek and Roman History. Bond rowed Cal from 1999 to 2002, rejoined the Cal in Steve Gladstone’s powerhouse Brown coaching staff in the summer of 2008. He program, competing in the freshman, junior had been working as a fi xed-income trader varsity, and varsity eights between 1984 and at JP Morgan Securities since graduating MIKE FENNELLY Rigger/Boatman 1988. During that period Brown won two titles from Cal in 2003. at the Championships and In 2001, Vallarelli coxed the undefeated In his 28th year as Cal’s rigger, Mike Fen- two IRA varsity national championships. Pac-10 and IRA national champion Cal var- nelly is regarded as one of collegiate rowing’s After graduating from Brown, Bond and his sity eight. He also coxed Cal’s varsity eight to fi nest boatmen. He not only maintains all of wife, Hilary, spent two years teaching and IRA and Pac-10 national titles in 2002. the program’s boats and prepares them for coaching at the Salisbury School in Salis- As a member of the national team, Vallarel- racing, but also keeps the entire boathouse bury, Conn. They then traveled to Japan, li coxed the U.S. four to a sixth-place fi nish at in ship shape. where they taught English for two years. the 1997 Junior World Championships. Fennelly has a strong rowing background. Bond headed the Berkeley High School He rowed in high school at St. Joseph’s Boys Crew Program in 1993-94 and 1995- in Alameda, Calif., and continued at Long 96. When Gladstone returned to Cal in the Beach State before transferring to Cal and fall of 1996, he asked Bond to join him as rowing one year in the lightweight varsity his varsity assistant. During Bond’s three eight. In 1979, Fennelly became lightweight years of apprenticeship under Gladstone, he head coach while serving as rigger appren- helped develop the less experienced athletes tice under the legendary Matt Franich. In and ultimately coached the varsity 4+ at the 1981, he became Cal’s full-time rigger. IRA Regatta each year. In 1999 he led the Fennelly and his wife, Kathleen, live in Bears’ Henley Campaign, which ended in a Alameda with their two sons, Brian and second-place fi nish in the Ladies’ Plate at Patrick. the . Bond is currently in his ninth year at the helm of the California freshman crew. In addition to fi ve consecutive Pac-10 wins in 2003-07, his crews have collected medals LUKE AGNINI at the IRA national championships in six Assistant Varsity Coach of the last eight years. In 2004 and 2005, Luke Agnini joined Cal’s coaching staff the Cal freshmen were undefeated national in 2008. Previously, Agnini rowed with the champions, something never done before at Athletic Club, winning four na- Cal in consecutive years. Cal also won the tional championships for Penn AC. He held a 2007 and 2008 IRA freshman eight titles. An- number of positions in the Philadelphia, Pa., other fi rst under Bond’s leadership was Cal’s area, including the role of assistant director recent fi ve-year winning streak (2003-07) for the Masters Rowing Association. over the Washington Huskies in the annual Agnini also coached a U.S. coxed pair freshman dual that dates back to 1939. from Penn AC that reached the 2007 World Currently, he and his wife live in the Oak- Championships, claiming seventh place land Hills with their three children, Evelyn, MARKO KNEZEVIC overall. He coached the U.S. Under 23 light- Volunteer Assistant Coach Phineas and Beatrix. weight 4- to an eighth-place fi nish at the U23 World Championships. He also will coach the U.S. U23 lightweight 4- in 2009.

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Cal’s varsity 8+ will try to earn fi rst-year head coach Mike Teti both Pacifi c-10 and IRA championships in 2009.

xpect more of the same success for man 8+, under assistant coach Geoff Bond, California men’s crew in 2009, even 2009 USHERS won another national championship after Ewith a big change at the head of the edging Washington, 5:37.372-5:37.37880. storied program. The new season ushers IN MIKE TETI The Bears also claimed a pair of second- in a new era under fi rst-year head coach place fi nishes (in the second varsity 8+ and Mike Teti, just as 2008 closed the chapter ERA AT CAL freshman 4+) and two fourth-place fi nishes on Steve Gladstone’s second stint as the (in the varsity 4+ and open 4+) at IRAs. Cal Golden Bears’ boss. Teti ended his long ten- collected 207 points to fi nish second in the ure as the U.S. national team head coach by team standings. leading the U.S. squad at the 2008 Summer With a strong roster of returnees, fresh- Olympics in Beijing and then jumped into the men, transfers and other signifi cant new- Cal position on Sept. 1, 2008. comers, the Bears could produce another “I am honored to have been chosen to top-fi ve fi nish in the varsity 8+ and overall lead the men’s rowing program at Cal,” Teti team standings at the collegiate national said last summer. “From the Olympic gold championships, which will be held at Lake medals of the Ky Ebright era, to the numer- Natoma in Gold River, Calif., in 2009. This ous national championships over the past marks the fi rst time the IRA Regatta will be decade under Steve Gladstone, Cal is rich held on the West Coast. in rowing history. I am well aware of the ex- pectations and look forward to the challenge of upholding the strong tradition of California NEW ADDITIONS Crew. I am already quite comfortable ending TO VARSITY 8+ each phone call and E-mail with the words... There could be more changes to Cal’s top GO BEARS.” boat than just replacing the four members of He later said about his new team, “They’ve the 2008 varsity 8+ – including Cal’s current done well on the freshman level and across volunteer assistant coach, Marko Knezevic the board, always in the top three. A lot of – who are gone. A pair of 6-foot-6 rowers those kids will be back. It’s not like they left – Jan Tize and Olympian Olivier Siege- the cupboard bare. So far they’ve been a fun laar – should push hard for seats in Cal’s group to work with. They’re young guys and top boat as could members of Cal’s 2008 they’re bright, competitive, and it’s a really second varsity 8+, including Nikola Zunic good environment.” and Axel Stelter. Zachary Vlahos, Cal’s Cal’s varsity 8+ posted a third-place fi n- second varsity 8+ coxswain last season, ish at the 2008 IRA Regatta on the Cooper Cal opens the spring season with the could vie with Michael Porter, last year’s top River in New Jersey, and the Bears’ fresh- Pac-10 Challenge. Cal coxswain, for the cox role on the varsity

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Cal’s freshman Wong, a product of Folsom, Calif., coxed 8+ go for a third Capital Crew’s 8+ to the title in the men’s straight IRA junior 8+ grand fi nal at the 2007 San Diego championship this Crew Classic. He and Sam Leisk, an Eng- season. land-born Bear who now calls Monte Sereno, Calif., home, should compete for the job of coxswain on the novice 8+. Sophomore team. He participated Jimmy Henson is an intriguing addition in Canada’s Olympic to Cal’s novice ranks. The 6-4 rower from training camp, but Mount Shasta, Calif., is a former member of did not join fellow Cal the Cal men’s team. products and Scott Frandsen on the team that rowed in STACKED FIELD Beijing. The Pac-10 boasts one of the other big threats on the West Coast for the national NOVICE championship in defending conference and Ten Eyck champion Washington, which pro- CREW duced the varsity 8+ runner-up in 2008. Stan- STRONG ford, led by head coach and Cal alumnus Craig Amerkhanian, is also another strong AGAIN team that did well in 2008 (5th in varsity Geoff Bond brings in 8+ grand fi nal, 10th in team standings) and another strong fresh- could make some noise at IRAs. Another Cal man or novice crew, alumnus, Chris Clark, coached his Wisconsin which includes Patrick varsity 8+ to the national championship in Williams, coxswain the 2008 IRA Regatta, making the Badgers Reze Wong and Aus- obvious contenders in 2009. tralian Jack Farthing. “Washington will be diffi cult to beat,” Teti A San Francisco Bay said. “Mike [Callahan, Washington’s coach] Area native from Fos- is a great coach. He coached our U.S. U-23 ter City, Calif., Williams boat this summer. Brown, Wisconsin, Har- rowed on the U.S. 4- vard, Princeton, they’re all going to be tough. that placed 14th at the It’s going to be hard to win.” 2007 World Rowing He added, “But Cal is a force to contend Junior Championships with.” 8+. Nick Lucey and Spencer Crowley, who in Beijing. With Farthing in the bow, the Kings rowed on the national-champion freshman School won the Schoolboy Eight national 8+ last year, are also candidates to earn championship in 2006. spots on the varsity boat. Seniors Janis Fontein and Brandon Shald along with juniors Will Dean and Nareg Guregian are the other return- ing members of Cal’s varsity 8+ from last season. Fontein rowed on the varsity 8+ in each of the previous two seasons, while Shald, Dean and Guregian rowed on Cal’s top boat in 2008 and on the Bears’ novice 8+ in 2007. Siegelaar rowed in the third seat for the Netherlands’ 8+ that took fourth place in the 2008 Olympic fi nal in a time of 5:29.26, right behind the U.S. 8+ (5:25.34) coached by Mike Teti. The product of Haarlem, the Netherlands, has competed extensively on the international scene, including placing ninth with the Dutch double sculls in the 2008 Rowing World Cup regatta in Lucerne and fi nishing 10th with the Dutch quadruple sculls in the 2007 Rowing World Cup regatta in Amsterdam. Tize, a member of the All-Pac-10 team in 2006, when Cal won its last conference championship, took last season off to attempt to earn a spot on Canada’s 2008 Olympic The varsity 4+ hopes to vie for an IRA title.

2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 5 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2009 MEN'S CREW ROSTERS 2009 CALIFORNIA MEN’S CREW VARSITY ROSTER Name Height Weight Class Hometown Last School Rigel Bricken 5-6 130 Sophomore Albion, Calif. The Taft School Spencer Crowley 6-3 182 Sophomore Lantzville, B.C., Canada Brentwood College School Dan Dahlin 6-3 200 Junior Huntington Beach, Calif. Orange Coast College William Dean 6-5 208 Junior Kelowna, B.C., Canada Kelowna Secondary School Sean Engel 6-3 180 Junior Greenbrae, Calif. Redwood HS Janis Fontein 6-7 204 Senior Mülheim, Germany Broich Mülheim an der Ruhr Gymnasium Cam Gilham 6-1 190 Sophomore Edmonton, Alb., Canada Brentwood College School Robert Gilson 5-10 170 Sophomore Hillsborough, Calif. St. Ignatius College Prep Nareg Guregian 6-5 213 Junior San Clemente, Calif. Demirdjian HS Mitchell Haines 6-1 185 Senior St. Catharines, Ont., Canada Governor Simcos Secondary School Kirk Halterman 6-3 215 Junior Moss Beach, Calif. Serra HS Will Kolbe 6-3 200 Sophomore Orefi eld, Pa. The Lawrenceville School T.J. Laher 6-6 190 Sophomore Orinda, Calif. Miramonte HS Preston Lee 6-1 190 Senior Windermere, Fla. Northeastern James Long-Lerno 6-5 190 Junior Seal Beach, Calif. Orange Coast College Nick Lucey 6-2 187 Sophomore San Francisco, Calif. St. Ignatius College Prep Elissa Malmquist 5-6 126 Senior Moraga, Calif. Campolindo HS Jarrod McClendon 6-4 187 Senior Petaluma, Calif. Casa Grande HS Matt McLaren 6-0 162 Junior Sydney, Australia Newington College Jovan Popovic 6-6 214 Sophomore Belgrade, Serbia Belgrade Gymnasium Michael Porter 5-7 120 Senior Orange, Calif. Thomas Jefferson HS Will Prioleau 6-0 165 Junior Newport Beach, Calif. Orange Coast College Geoffrey Roth 6-4 182 Senior Edmonton, Alb., Canada Shawnigan Lake HS Jordan Sartor 6-3 185 Sophomore Fonthill, Ont., Canada Gordon Graydon Memorial Brandon Shald 6-6 215 Senior Sausalito, Calif. French American International HS Olivier Siegelaar 6-6 220 Sophomore Delft, the Netherlands Stedelijk Gymnasium Axel Stelter 6-4 159 Senior Rostock, Germany Rostock HS Rhetton Summers 6-6 195 Senior Alexandria, Va. Thomas Jefferson HS Jan Tize 6-6 200 Senior West Vancouver, B.C. Canada Brentwood College Goran Todorovic 6-3 195 Sophomore Belgrade, Serbia Belgrade Gymnasium Benedict Tufnell 6-6 204 Junior Silchester, England Pangbourne College Zachary Vlahos 5-9 130 Junior Piedmont, Calif. Millennium HS Samuel Walker 6-3 195 Sophomore Seattle, Wash. Seattle Academy Calum Wright 6-6.5 207 Sophomore Esher, Surrey, England Esher College Jack Zhou 5-5 120 Junior San Francisco, Calif. Lowell HS Nikola Zunic 6-3 204 Junior Zagreb, Croatia X. Gimnasyum

2009 CALIFORNIA MEN’S CREW NOVICE ROSTER Name Height Weight Class Hometown Last School Tyler Brandt 6-3 185 RSFreshman El Dorado Hills, Calif. Oak Ridge HS Vaughan Coder 6-3 185 Freshman Exeter, N.H. Phillips Exeter Academy Christopher DeRenzi 6-4 190 Freshman Pleasanton, Calif. Amador Valley HS Devan Donaldson 6-2 192 Freshman San Francisco, Calif. Saint Ignatius College Prep Robert English 6-4 190 Freshman Wrentham, Mass. Franklin HS Jack Farthing 6-1 185 Freshman Forbes, NSW, Australia The Kings School Barrett Hahn 5-11 171 Freshman San Francisco, Calif. Saint Ignatius College Prep Jimmy Henson 6-4 195 Sophomore Mount Shasta, Calif. Mount Shasta HS Sam Leisk 5-9 124 Freshman Monte Sereno, Calif. Radnor HS Joe Orlich 5-7 120 Freshman East Norwich, N.Y. Chaminade HS Rob Poole 6-3 176 Freshman Coronado, Calif. Francis Parker HS Sava Popovic 6-2 180 Freshman Belgrade, Serbia Third Belgrade Gimnasium Patrick Williams 6-7 218 Freshman Foster City, Calif. Juniperro Serra HS Reze Wong 5-10 125 Freshman Folsom, Calif. Folsom HS Chris Yeager 6-6 200 Freshman Westerville, Ohio Westerville North HS

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second) at the 2008 IRA Regatta…earned the RIGEL BRICKEN award for the oarsman who best exhibits the JANIS FONTEIN Class: Sophomore spirit of Coast Crew and the Rob Jordan Memo- Class: Senior rial Crew Scholarship in 2008…rowed on the Hometown: Albion, Calif. Hometown: Mülheim, Germany novice 8+ in 2007. High School: The Taft School High School: Broich Mülheim an der Personal: Political science major…was in the Height/Weight: 5-6/130 U.S. Army for 4.5 years – was a team leader Ruhr Gymnasium California: 2008 in an infantry platoon in his last few months – Height/Weight: 6-7/204 ((Freshman) Coxed Cal’s prior to attending OCC…parents are Wynndi California: 2008 (Ju- vvarsity 4+ to a runner- and William Dahlin…born on Nov. 28, 1981, nnior) Rowed on the Bears’ uup finish at the IRA in Fresno, Calif. vvarsity 8+ that placed RRegatta. tthird at the IRA Re- Personal: Undeclared ggatta and took second mmajor...parents are Cass- WILL DEAN iinn the Pac-10 Champion- ie and Alex Bricken... sships...named to the Pac- fafather attended Cal… Class: Junior 110 Rowing All-Academ- ccompeted for Penn AC Hometown: Kelowna, B.C., Canada iicc second team. 2007 Rowing Club in the ssummeru of 2008…partici- High School: Kelowna Secondary School ((Sophomore) Rowed in pated in skiing and soccer in high school…born Height/Weight: 6-5/208 the varsity 8 that took fi fth at the IRA Regatta on Oct. 3, 1988, in San Francisco. California: 2008 and second at the Pac-10 Championships. 2006 ((Sophomore) Rowed (Freshman) Awarded the Russ Nagler (Most oon Cal’s varsity 8+ that Promising Freshman) Award...rowed in the SPENCER CROWLEY pplaced third in the IRA Pac-10 champion freshman 8...placed second Class: Sophomore RRegatta and second in with the freshman 8 at the IRA Regatta. tthe Pac-10 Champion- Hometown: Lantzville, B.C., Canada Personal: Political economy of industrial sships. 2007 (Freshman) High School: Brentwood College societies major...rowed for Rennruder- Ge- RRowed on the freshman meinschaft Mülheim in high school...parents Height/Weight: 6-3/182 8 that won titles at the California: 2008 are Brigitte and Andreas Fontein...born Jan. 26, IIRA Regatta and Pac-10 1986, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. RRowed on IRA national ChChampionships. i hi 2006 Redshirted. cchampion freshman 8+. National Team: Won the 2008 Henley Grand National Team: Mem- Challenge Cup with the Canada under-23 eight CAM GILHAM bber of Canada’s junior na- at the Henley Royal Regatta. Class: Sophomore ttional team…took ninth Personal: English major...Canadian Indoor Hometown: Edmonton, Alb., Canada pplace with Canada’s Rowing Champion Male Athlete of the Year 44- at the 2007 World in 2005...played , rugby, cross High School: Brentwood College JJunior Championships... country, skiing and swimming in high school... Height/Weight: 6-1/190 aattended the 2007 Cana- placed eighth in Canadian nationals for cross California: 2008 didianan juniorj nior nationalnational teamteam camp with current Cal country...parents are Joanne Ritchie and Blake ((Freshman) Canadian in- teammate Cam Gilham…won with Canada’s Dean...born June 10, 1987, in Kelowna, B.C., tternationale added depth 4- and 8+ in the 2006 CanAmMex Regatta in Canada. ttoo talented Cal freshman Mexico. cclass. Personal: Undeclared – intended business National Team: At- major…helped his Brentwood crew post a record SEAN ENGEL ttendede the 2007 Cana- of 44-1...competed in rugby…parents are Marcie ddian junior national team and Stephen Crowley…born on June 22, 1989, Class: Junior ccamp with Cal teammate in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Hometown: Greenbrae, Calif. SSpencer Crowley. High School: Greenbrae HS Personal: UndeclareUndeclared major...lettered four Height/Weight: 6-3/180 years in crew and two years in rugby...Brent- DAN DAHLIN California: 2008 wood’s 2007 crew held a 20-1 record, won the Class: Junior ((Sophomore) Rowed on Canadian high school championship and took CCal’s second varsity 8+ Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif. home silver from the Henley Royal Regatta… tthat fi nished second in High School//Last School: Edison HS/ parents are Shirley Roozen and Dwayne Gil- ttheh IRA Regatta…named ham…older sister, Stacey, rowed collegiately Orange Coast College ttoo the Pac-10 Rowing Height/Weight: 6-3/200 for Tulsa…born on April 17, 1989, in Edmonton, AAll-Academic second Alberta, Canada. Orange Coast Col- tteam.e 2007 (Freshman) lelege: 2007-08 Trans- SStroked the freshman 8 feferred to Cal from Orange tthat won titles at the IRA CCoast College, where Regatta and PacPac- 10 CChampionships. hhe was a teammate of Personal: Political science major...parents fefellow Cal newcomers are Isabel and Vincent Engel...born Oct. 10, WWill Prioleau and James 1987, in Sydney, Australia. LLong-Lerno…rowed in tthe fi ve seat in the varsity 88+, which competed in ththe second d varsity it 8+ and took fi fth (Cal was

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in 2002 and 2003...played a year of lacrosse ROBERT GILSON and football in high school...parents are Cindy PRESTON LEE Class: Sophomore Smith and Donald Haines...born Jan. 9, 1986, Class: Senior in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Hometown: Hillsborough, Calif. Hometown: Windermere, Fla. High School: Saint Ignatius College Prep High School/Last School: Height/Weight: 5-10/170 KIRK HALTERMAN Olympia HS/Northeastern California: 2008 Height/Weight: 6-1/190 ((Freshman) Rowed on Class: Junior California: 2008 (Ju- tthe Cal open 4+ that Hometown: Moss Beach, Calif. nnior) Rowed on the fi nished fourth in the IRA High School: Serra HS fofourth-place varsity 4+ RRegatta. Height/Weight: 6-3/215 aat the IRA Regatta. 2007 Personal: Undeclared California: 2007 ((Sophomore) Rowed mmajor...parents are Cyn- ((Freshman) Added depth in the junior varsity 8+ tthia and Bob Gilson… ttoo veteran team. tthat took fi fth in the IRA bborn on Feb. 7, 1989, in Personal: Geogra- RRegatta and second SSan Francisco. pphy major…parents are in the Pac-10 Champi- GGwendolyn and Charles oonships. Northeastern: HHalterman…born on 2006 (F(Freshman). h ) NAREG GUREGIAN NNov. 3, 1987, in Moss Personal: History major…father is John Lee… Class: Junior BBeach, Calif. born on June 4, 1987. Hometown: San Clemente, Calif. High School: Demirdjian HS WILL KOLBE JAMES LONG-LERNO Height/Weight: 6-5/213 California: 2008 Class: Sophomore Class: Junior ((Sophomore) Rowed Hometown: Orefi eld, Pa. Hometown: Seal Beach, Calif. oon Cal’s varsity 8+ that High School: The Lawrenceville School High School/Last School: pplaced fourth in the IRA Height/Weight: 6-3/200 Los Alamitos HS/OCC RRegatta and took second California: 2008 Height/Weight: 6-6/195 iinn the Pac-10 Champion- ((Freshman) Rowed on Orange Coast Col- sships. 2007 (Freshman) tthe runner-up freshman lelege: 2007-08 Trans- RRowed for the freshman 44+ at the IRA Regatta. fferrede to Cal from Orange 8 that won titles at the Personal: Undeclared CCoast College, where IIRA Regatta and Pac-10 mmajor...parents are Lee hhe was a teammate of ChChampionships.ampionships aand Steve Kolbe...born ffellowe Cal newcomers National Team: Competed for the United oon June 28. 1988, in DDan Dahlin and Will Prio- States in the 2007 World Rowing Junior Cham- LLawrenceville, N.J. leleau...in 2008, he stroked pionships in Beijing, taking fi fth place in the 8 tthe Coast varsity 8+ to along with current Cal teammate T.J. Laher. T.J. LAHER tthe WIRA championship Personal: Media studies major...played three andd a third-place thi d l fi nishi h at the ECAC National years of varsity basketball and one year of Class: Sophomore Invitational Rowing Championships…rowed varsity in high school...parents are Hometown: Orinda, Calif. on the varsity 8+ that competed in the second Ani and Mirik Guregian...born Jan. 20, 1989, High School: Miramonte HS varsity 8+ grand fi nal and fi nished fi fth (Cal was in Los Angeles. Height/Weight: 6-6/190 second) in the 2008 IRA Regatta…named 2008 California: 2008 Oarsman of the Year at his team banquet. MITCHELL HAINES ((Freshman) Rowed on Personal: Undeclared major…parents are tthe runner-up freshman Lisa Long and Lawrence Lerno…born on Sept. Class: Senior 44+ at the IRA Regatta. 28, 1987. Hometown: St. Catharines, Ont., Canada National Team: Joined High School: Governor Simcos UU.S. junior national team NICK LUCEY Secondary School iinn 2007...competed for Height/Weight: 6-1/185 tthe United States in Class: Sophomore California: 2008 (Ju- tthe 2007 World Rowing Hometown: San Francisco nnior) Rowed on the var- JJunior Championships High School: Saint Ignatius College Prep ssity 4+ that placed fourth in BeijingBeijing, taking fi fth pplace in the 8 along with Height/Weight: 6-2/187 iinn the IRA Regatta. 2007 current Cal teammate Nareg Guregian. California: 2008 ((Sophomore) Rowed Personal: Undeclared major...rows for the ((Freshman) Member of oon the varsity 4 that Oakland Strokes…won the intermediate 8 and tthe national champion wwon titles at the IRA fi nished second in the senior 8 at the 2007 frfreshman 8+ at the IRA RRegatta and the Pac-10 USRowing Club National Championships...won RRegatta. CChampionships...named gold in the 8 and the 4 with coxswain at the Personal: Undeclared ssecond-team Pac- 10 2005 CanAmMex Regatta…won gold in the 4 mmajor...parents are Janet AllAll-Academic. Academic 2006 ((Freshman) Rowed in with coxswain at the 2005 USRowing National RRuffoni and Neil Lucey... the third-place freshman 4 at the IRA National Youth Invitational…father, Ron, swam for Cal bborn on Sept. 6, 1988, in Championships. and mother, Susie, rowed for the Bears…older SSan Francisco. Personal: Political science major...rowed in brother Zach is a former member of Cal men’s the Canadian Scholastic Rowing Champion- crew…born on Sept. 15, 1989. ships in high school...named athlete of the year

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Club, Tim McLaren is now the U.S. men’s head ELISSA MALMQUIST coach…Tim McLaren won a silver medal for WILL PRIOLEAU Class: Senior Australia in the quadruple sculls in the 1984 Class: Junior: Olympics…born on Jan. 27, 1988. Hometown: Moraga, Calif. Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif. High School: Campolindo HS Last School: Orange Coast College Height: 5-6/126 JOVAN POPOVIC Height/Weight: 6-0/165 Personal: German Orange Coast College: mmajor…now a coxswain Class: Sophomore 22007-08 Transferred to fofor Cal men’s crew, was a Hometown: Belgrade, Serbia CCal from Orange Coast mmember of Cal women’s High School: Belgrade Gimnasium CCollege, where he was ccrew in 2005…rowed Height/Weight: 6-6/214 a teammate of fellow fofor Oakland Strokes in California: 2008 CCal newcomers Dan hhigh school...placed fi fth ((Freshman) Member of DDahlin and James Long- in the 8+ at nationals in tthe national-champion LLerno…rowed on the 22002, placed fi rst in the frfreshman 8+ at the IRA vvarsity 8+ that competed lilightweight 8+ at nation- RRegatta. iinn the second varsity 8+ als in 2003 and placed seconds in the lightweight National Team: Com- grand fi nal that fi nished fi fth (Cal was second) 8+ at nationals in 2004... played three years of ppeting for Serbia, Pop- in the 2008 IRA Regatta…earned the Robert varsity water polo...member of the Pi Beta Phi oovic has won several B. Moore Crew Scholarship with a 3.58 grade- sorority...hobbies include water polo, swimming, mmedals, including a silver point average in the spring of 2008…rowed on hiking and skiing...parents are Linda and Steve mmedal in the 4 at the 2007 the Coast novice 4+ when it placed 10th in the Malmquist...sister, Amanda, rowed varsity at UC World ChampionshipsChampionships, a gold in the pair at the 2007 IRA Regatta. San Diego (2000-02)...born on Jan. 28, 1986. 2006 World Championships and a silver in the Personal: American studies major...parents pair at the 2006 U23 World Championships... are Karen and Paul Prioleau...rowing for the along with Cal teammate Goran Todorovic, Newport Aquatic Center, placed second in the JARROD won a gold medal for Serbia at the 2005 U23 quadruple sculls in the Royal Canadian Royal World Championships and took fi fth place in Regatta…born on July 17, 1988. McCLENDON the 4 at the 2007 European Championships... Class: Senior in the pair at the Junior World Championships, Hometown: Petaluma, Calif. Popovic and Todorovic placed fourth in 2004 GEOFF ROTH High School: Casa Grande HS and fi fth in 2005. Class: Senior Personal: Undeclared major...named his Height/Weight: 6-4/187 Hometown: Edmonton, Alb., Canada high school’s athlete of the year…parents are California: 2008 (Ju- High School: Shawnigan Lake HS Julijana Vuco and Dusan Popovic…younger nnior) Rowed on the Height/Weight: 6-4/182 fofourth-place varsity 4+ brother, Sava, is a Cal crew teammate…born on May 11, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia. California: 2008 (Ju- aat the IRA Regatta. 2007 nnior) Named to the Pac- ((Sophomore) Rowed for 110 Men’s Rowing All-Ac- tthe second varsity 8+, MICHAEL PORTER aademic fi rst team. 2007 inincluding in the annual ((Sophomore) Stroked WWashington dual meet… Class: Senior tthe second varsity 8 that sselected to the Pac-10 Hometown: Orange, Calif. pplaced fi fth at the IRA Re- AAll-Academic second High School: Thomas Jefferson HS ggatta…named to the Pac- teamteam. 2006 (Freshman(Freshman)) Rowed in the freshman Height/Weight: 5-7/120 110 All-Academic second 4+ that placed third at the IRA Regatta. California: 2008 (Ju- tteam.e 2006 (Freshman) Personal: English major...rowed for the Marin nnior) Coxed the varsity Rowed in the freshmafreshman 8 that placed second Rowing Association in high school...played two 88+ that took third at the at the IRA Regatta. years varsity basketball in high school...parents IIRA Regatta and second National Team: Along with Cal teammate are Linda and Ray McClendon...born Feb. 26, aat the Pac-10 Champion- Jan Tize and the Canadian men’s 8, won the 1987, in Redwood City, Calif. sships. 2007 (Sophomore) B fi nal at the 2007 World Rowing Under-23 CCoxed the varsity 8+ Championships. MATT McLAREN tthat took fi fth at the IRA Personal: Political economy of industrial so- RRegatta and second at cieties major...rowed for Shawnigan Lake while Class: Junior tthe Pac-10 Champion- in high school...played rugby, hockey and Hometown: Sydney, Australia shipsships…selected selected to the Pac-10 All-Academic in high school...parents are Susan Green and High School: Newington College second team. 2006 (Freshman) Coxed the Stewart Roth...born Sept. 2, 1987, in Edmonton, Height/Weight: 6-0/162 freshman 8+ that fi nished second at the IRA Alb., Canada. California: 2008 Regatta and won the Pac-10 title…Pac-10 All- ((Sophomore) Rowed on Academic second-team selection. tthe fourth-place open 4+ Personal: Mechanical engineering major... JORDAN SARTOR aat the IRA Regatta. intends to attend graduate school for mechanical Class: Sophomore engineering...parents are Karen and David Por- Personal: Undeclared Hometown: Fonthill, Ont., Canada ter...born Oct. 13, 1987, in Pasadena, Calif. bbut likely to major in High School: Gordon Graydon Memorial ppolitical economy of in- Height/Weight: 6-3/185 ddustrial societies…has California: 2008 (Freshman) Rowed on the aalso played rugby… freshman 8+ that won the national championship pparents are Karen and at the IRA Regatta…chosen to the Pac-10 Men’s Tim McLarenMcLaren…formerly formerl the director and head Rowing All-Academic second team. coach of the Oakland-based California Rowing

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Personal: Undeclared at the Pac-10 Championships...named Pac-10 mmajor...member of Don All- Academic second team. 2006 (Freshman) GORAN TODOROVIC RRowing Club in high Member of the freshman 8 that placed second Class: Sophomore sschool...parents are Bon- at the IRA Regatta and won the Pac-10 title. nnie and Larry Sartor... National Team: Won the 2001-04 German Hometown: Belgrade, Serbia ssister, Sam, competes for national championships...member of the 2002 High School: Belgrade Gymnasium CCal women’s crew...born and 2003 German national team. Height/Weight: 6-3/195 AApril 7, 1988, in Toronto, Personal: Architecture major...participated California: 2008 OOntario, Canada. in volleyball, soccer and track and fi eld while ((Freshman) Rowed on in high school...parents are Meike Stelter and tthe national champion Harald Huffschmid...born Feb. 14, 1985, in frfreshman 8+ at the IRA BRANDON SHALD Rostock, Germany. RRegatta. National Team: Along Class: Senior wwith Cal teammate Jo- Hometown: Sausalito, Calif. RHETT SUMMERS vvan Popovic, won a High School: French American ggold medal for Serbia Class: Senior International HS aat the 2005 U23 World Height/Weight: 6-6/215 Hometown: Alexandria, Va. ChChampionshipsi hi andd tookt fi fth place in the 4 California: 2008 (Ju- High School: Thomas Jefferson HS at the 2007 European Championships…in nnior) Rowed on the varsi- Height/Weight: 6-6/195 the pair at the Junior World Championships, ttyy 8+ that took third at the California: 2008 (Ju- Todorovic and Popovic placed fourth in 2004 IIRA Regatta and second nnior) Member of the and fi fth in 2005. aat the Pac-10 Champion- ssecond varsity 8+ that Personal: Undeclared major...parents are sships. 2007 (Sophomore) fi nished second at the Rada and Bosko Todorovic...born on Jan. 11, RRowed on the novice IIRA Regatta. (2007) 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia. 88+ that won titles at the ((Sophomore) Rowed IIRA Regatta and Pac-10 iinn the varsity 4+ that CChampionships. totook fi fth at the IRA Re- BENEDICT TUFNELL PlCliPersonal: Classic civilizations major...did ggatta and won the Pac-10 Class: Junior not participate in any organized sports in high cchampionship. Hometown: Silchester, England school...trained at and performed with the San PPersonal: l Interdisciplinary I t di i studies major... Francisco Ballet School for four years...parents participated in football, basketball and lacrosse High School: Panbourne College are Lisa and Philip Durbrow...Philip Durbrow while in high school...member of the university Height/Weight: 6-6/204 rowed for Cal...born Aug. 5, 1983. symphony orchestra...parents are Kathy and California: 2008 David Summers...born March 30, 1987, in ((Sophomore) Rowed on Alexandria, Va. tthe second varsity 8+ OLIVIER SIEGELAAR tthat took placed second in the IRA Regatta. 2007 Class: Sophomore JAN TIZE ((Freshman) Rowed on Hometown: Delft, the Netherlands tthe freshman 8 that won Class: Senior High School: Stedelijk Gymnasium ttitles at the IRA Regatta Height/Weight: 6-6/220 Hometown: West Vancouver, B.C., aand Pac-10 Champion- International: Competed Canada sships. fofor the Netherlands in the High School: Brentwood College NtiNational lT Team: Along Al with current Cal 22008 Olympics in Beijing, Height/Weight: 6-6/200 teammate Calum Wright, placed ninth in the rorowing in the three seat California: 2008 Red- 4 for Great Britain at the 2006 Junior World aand taking fourth place with sshirted. 2007 (Junior) Championships. ttheh Dutch eight; his boat MMember of the fi fth-place Personal: Theater and performance studies fi nished behind the third- vvarsity 8+ in the IRA Re- major…parents are Janina and Nick Tufnell… pplace U.S. eight coached ggatta. 2006 (Sophomore) born on Jan. 3, 1988. bby Mike Teti. RRowed in the Pac-10 PePersonal:rsonal: UndeclaredUndecla major…parents are aand IRA national cham- Janet Gerlins and Floris Siegelaar...born on Oct. ppion varsity 8+. 2005 ZACHARY VLAHOS 24, 1986, in Haarlem, the Netherlands. ((Freshman) Rowed on Class: Junior tthe undefeated national Hometown: Piedmont, Calif. championhifh8 freshman 8+. AXEL STELTER National Team: Won gold rowing with the High School: Millennium HS Canadian eight at the World Rowing Under-23 Height/Weight: 5-9/130 Class: Senior California: 2008 Hometown: Rostock, Germany Championships in 2006….along with Cal team- mate Geoffrey Roth and the Canadian men’s ((Sophomore) Coxed the High School: Rostock HS ssecond varsity 8+ that Height/Weight: 6-4/159 eight won the B fi nal at the 2007 World Rowing Under-23 Championships. ttooko placed second in California: 2008 (Ju- tthe IRA Regatta. 2007 nnior) Rowed on the sec- Personal: Environmental Earth sciences major...participated in two years of hockey, ((Freshman) Coxed the oond-place second varsity ffreshman 8 that won 88+ at the IRA Regatta…a basketball and rugby while in high school... rowed for Brentwood College School for four ttitles at the IRA Regatta PPac-10 All-Academic aand Pac- 10 Champion- fi rst-team selection. 2007 years...enjoys biking, sailing and skiing...parents are Anne and Rudolf Tize...has two siblings, sships. ((Sophomore) Rowed in PePersonal:rsonal: UndeclaredUndeclare major...parents are tthe bow of the second Carola and Andreas...born Feb. 6, 1986, in Boeblingen, Germany. Nancy Cutler and John Vlahos...born Aug. 19, vvarsity 8 that took second 1988, in New York.

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Championships...alongC of varsity fencing and four years of club Ultimate SAMUEL WALKER withw Cal teammate Bene- Frisbee in high school...works as a fencing dictd Tufnell, placed ninth instructor...parents are Yan Gong and Yong Class: Sophomore inin the four at the 2006 Zhou...born Nov. 23, 1988, in Xi’an, China. Hometown: Seattle JuniorJ World Champion- High School: Seattle Academy ships…wons silver in the Height/Weight: 6-3/195 4 at a 2007 Junior World NIKOLA ZUNIC California: 2008 CupC Regatta in , Class: Junior ((Freshman) Member of Germany.G Hometown: Zagreb, Croatia tthe national-champion Personal: Undeclared frfreshman 8+ at the IRA High School: X. Gimnasium major...competedjtdith in the 4 for the Molesey Boat Height/Weight: 6-3/204 RRegatta. Club in the 2007 Henley Royal Regatta…parents Personal: Undeclared California: 2008 are Angela and Donald Wright...born on Feb. ((Sophomore) Rowed mmajor...father is Jeff 10, 1989, in Teddington, England. WWalker, who competed oon second varsity 8+ fofor Cal crew (1973- 77)… ththat took second at IRA bborn on Nov. 27, 1988, in JACK ZHOU RRegatta…named to Pac- SSeattle. 110 All-Academic second Class: Junior tteam.e Hometown: San Francisco National Team: Mem- CALUM WRIGHT High School: Lowell HS bber of the Croatian na- Height/Weight: 5-5/120 ttional team Class: Sophomore California: 2008 Personal: UndeclareUndeclared major...rowed for Havk Hometown: Esher, Surrey, England ((Sophomore) Added Mladost in high school...parents are Jasminka High School: Esher College ddepth to veteran group and Branks Zunic...sister, Jelena, rows col- Height/Weight: 6-7, 207 oof coxswains. legiately for Texas and has also rowed for California: 2008 (Freshman) Rowed on the Personal: Society and Croatia’s national team…born June 23, 1987, national-champion freshman 8+ at the IRA eenvironment major... in Zagreb, Croatia. Regatta. mmember of Pacifi c Row- National Team: Took seventh place in the iingn Club in high school... 4 for Great Britain at the 2007 Junior World pparticipated in two years

FROSH/NOVICE TYLER BRANDT CHRISTOPHER ROBERT ENGLISH Class: Redshirt Freshman DERENZI Class: Freshman Hometown: El Dorado Hills, Calif. Hometown: Wrentham, Mass. Class: Freshman High School: Oak Ridge HS High School: Franklin HS Hometown: Pleasanton, Calif. Height/Weight: 6-3/185 Height/Weight: 6-4/190 California:C 2008 Red- High School: Amador Valley HS Personal:P Undeclared shirted.s Height/Weight: 6-4/190 major...am two-year varsity Personal:P Undeclared Personal:P Undeclared ma- wrestlerw in high school… major…strokedm his Capital jor...parentsjo are Mary and whilew on he was on the CrewC 8 to wins in the 2007 RobertR DeRenzi...uncle, squad,s Franklin fi nished SouthwestS Regional and in RRoy DeDenzi, is a Cal ssecond in state champion- theth San Diego Crew Clas- alumnus…borna on Feb. 1, sship three-straight years… sic…parentss are Karen 1990,1 in Fremont, Calif. pparents are Susan and anda Tim Brandt…sister, RRob English...born on Nov. KrKristin,istin, waswas a membermembe of Cal women’s crew… 6, 11989,989, iinn Natick,Natick, Mass.Ma born on Aug. 26, 1989, in Long Beach, Calif. JACK FARTHING VAUGHAN CODER DEVAN DONALDSON Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Hometown: Forbes, NSW, Australia Hometown: Exeter, N.H. Hometown: San Francisco High School: The Kings School High School: Phillips Exeter Academy High School: Saint Ignatius College Prep Height/Weight: 6-1/185 Height/Weight: 6-3/185 Height/Weight: 6-2/192 Personal:P Undeclared Personal:P Undeclared Personal:P Undeclared major...withm Farthing in major...playedm two years mmajor...parents are Juanita theth bow, the Kings School ofo varsity basketball… anda Evan Donaldson... wonw the Schoolboy Eight parentsp are Hilary and bornb on May 15, 1990, in nationaln championship in KenK Coder...Hilary Coder SanS Francisco. 2006…parents2 are Mar- (decathlon)(d and Ken Coder gretg and Max Farthing... (football)(f competed ath- bornb on Dec. 19, 1988, in leticallyle at Penn State… Sydney,S Australia. bborn on April 30, 1990, Boston.B

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BARRETT HAHN JOE ORLICH PATRICK WILLIAMS Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Hometown: San Francisco Hometown: East Norwich, N.Y. Hometown: Foster City, Calif. High School: Saint Ignatius College Prep High School: Chaminade HS High School: Juniperro Serra HS Height/Weight: 5-11/171 Height/Weight: 5-7/120 Height/Weight: 6-7/218 Personal:P Undeclared ma- Personal:P Coxswain is Personal:P Undeclared jojor...parents are Margaret aan undeclared major... mmajor...rowed on the U.S. aand Brit Hahn...born on eearned four varsity letters 44- that placed 14th at SSept. 23, 1989, in San fforo Chaminade…parents ttheh 2007 World Rowing Francisco.F area Jean and Joe Orlich... JuniorJ Championships in bborn on April 27, 1990, in BBeijing…competed in track LLong Island, N.Y. (2 years), football (3) and bbasketball (1) at Serra… parentsp are Kathleen and MaMarcrc WWilliams...bornilliams...born on March 19, 1990, in JIMMY HENSON ROB PPOOLE San Mateo, Calif. Class: Sophomore Class: Freshman Hometown: Mount Shasta, Calif. Hometown: Coronado, Calif. REZE WONG High School: Mount Shasta HS High School: Francis Parker HS Height/Weight: 6-4/195 Height/Weight: 6-3/175 Class: Freshman Personal:P Majoring in NationalN Team: Rowed on Hometown: Folsom, Calif. politicalp economy and theth U.S. junior national High School: Folsom HS in organizational behav- team’ste 4+ that won the B Height/Weight: 5-10/125 iorio and confl ict manage- fi nal and placed seventh Personal:P Undeclared ma- ment…formerlym a member overallo in the 2007 World jor...coxedjo Capital Crew’s ofo the Cal men’s swim RowingR Junior Champion- 8+8 to the title in the 2007 team...waste selected 2006 shipss in Beijing. SanS Diego Crew Classic’s NSCIFN Male Swimmer of Personal:P Undeclared men’sm junior 8+ grand theth Year...was the 2006 major...namedm MVP for the fi nal…parents are Robitah sections champion in the San Diego Rowing ClClub his sophomore year… anda Chin Wong...born on 50 and 100 freestyles...named to the 2006 named 2007 SDRC Competitor of the Year… Aug.A 19, 1990, in Folsom, NSCIF section All-Academic team...was the rowed for Penn AC Juniors in 2006…Poole Calif.C 2006 Mount Shasta High School Scholar-Athlete boxed for two and a half years before compet- of the Year...parents are Donna and Steve ing in rowing, but an injury forced him to stop Henson...born on Sept. 14, 1987, in Mount boxing…parents are Pat and Doug Poole...Doug CHRIS YEAGER Shasta, Calif. Poole competed collegiately in soccer and track Class: Freshman and fi eld (javelin) at Lehigh…born on June 24, Hometown: Westerville, Ohio SAM LEISK 1989, in San Francisco. High School: Westerville North HS Height/Weight: 6-6/200 Class: Freshman SAVA POPOVIC Personal:P Undeclared Hometown: Mount Sereno, Calif. major...rowingm in the High School: Radnor HS Class: Freshman sixs seat, won the men’s Height/Weight: 5-9/123 Hometown: Belgrade, Serbia heavyweighth eight with Personal:P Undeclared High School: Third Belgrade Gimnasium WestervilleW Crew in the major…coxswainm lived in Height/Weight: 6-2/180 20082 Midwest Rowing EnglandE for six years and Personal:P Undeclared Championships…parentsC hash dual citizenship…par- major...rowedm for Parti- area Connie and Charles entse are Rose and Robert zanz Rowing Club…older Yeager...bornY on Oct. 24, Leisk…bornL on Oct. 31, brother,b Jovan, is a Cal 1989, in Columbus, OOhio. 1989,1 in Philadelphia. crewc teammate…parents aare Julijana and Dusan Popovic...bornP on April 30,3 1989, in Belgrade, Serbia.S

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Cal’s novice 8+ won the IRA national championship in 2008. PAC-10 CHALLENGE STANFORD PAC-10 Cal made a strong showing at the two-day INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Pac-10 Challenge. On the fi rst day, Cal’s The fourth-ranked Cal varsity 8+ lost to Cal fi nished second in the team standings varsity 8+ defeated Trinity and UC San Di- sixth-ranked Wisconsin. In the second var- to Washington in the conference regatta. The ego. Cal’s second varsity 8+ beat Trinity. On sity 8+, the Bears faced a similar loss to the No. 8-ranked Cal varsity 8+ posted a strong, the second day of the challenge, the varsity Badgers. Teams faced a 7-10 mph head wind second-place fi nish, falling to No. 1 Washing- 8+ was victorious against Cornell by fi ve in both contests. ton. The Bears were in the lead until the last seconds and the second varsity 8+ posted 500 meters when the Huskies began a sprint a strong, 11-second win over Cornell. The towards the fi nish. During these last 500 Bears’ novice 8+ posted fi rst-place fi nishes WASHINGTON DUAL meters, the teams were even until the last on both days: beating Orange Coast College The sixth-ranked Cal varsity 8+ fell to No. 1 20 strokes. Washington’s varsity 8+ recorded by 30 seconds and UCLA’s second varsity Washington, which had won the two previous a win that was a little more than a second 8+ boat by the same margin on day 1, and Schoch Cups, by a margin of six seconds. faster than Cal’s fi nish. In the second varsity posting another win against Orange CC’s The Bears beat the Huskies in the second 8+, the novice 8+ and the varsity 4+ events, junior varsity 8+ on day 2. varsity 8+. In the freshman 8, Washington Cal placed second behind Washington. fi nished two seconds faster than Cal. SAN DIEGO IRA REGATTA CREW CLASSIC STANFORD DUAL Cal’s fifth-ranked varsity 8+ took third The Cal varsity 8+ took fourth overall in In the Big Row, Cal’s No. 6 varsity 8+ fell place in the Varsity Challenge Cup behind the Copley Cup grand fi nal, with Washington to No. 9 Stanford by a margin of less than winner Wisconsin and runner-up Washing- winning the title. Washington’s varsity 8+ one second in the race for the Schwabacher ton at the 106th annual IRA Regatta on the came into the race as the defending Intercol- Cup. This was the fi rst loss that the Cardinal Cooper River in Camden County, N.J. The legiate Rowing Association national cham- dealt the Bears in the annual varsity 8+ rivalry Bears, who competed in six grand fi nals on pion. Washington defeated the Bears in the since 1990. In the second varsity 4+ contest, the last day of the regatta, also won their novice 8+ grand fi nal for the Derek Guelker the Cal 2 and Cal 1 boats placed fi rst and second straight freshman 8+ champion- Memorial Cup, with Cal taking second place. second, respectively, beating out third place ship, placed second in the second varsity In the fi nal of the Sharp Cabrillo Cup, Cal’s Stanford. 8+ and freshman 4+ races, and took fourth junior varsity 8+ fi nished third behind fi rst in the varsity 4+ and open 4+ events. Cal place Harvard by four seconds and second collected 207 points to fi nish second in the place Washington by two seconds. In the team standings, while Washington compiled open 8+, the battle for the Joan Ward Me- 214 points to repeat as the winner of the Ten morial Trophy, Cal’s B boat and Cal’s A boat Eyck Trophy as the regatta’s overall points fi nished second and third, respectively. leader. Wisconsin (191) was third.

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SHARP CABRILLO CUP PAC-10 CHALLENGE Junior Varsity 8 Grand Final STANFORD IRA REGATTA March 29-30 in 1. Harvard ...... 5:52.31 May 3 in Redwood June 5-7 in Redwood City, Calif. 2. Washington ...... 5:54.22 City, Calif. Camden County, N.J. 3. California ...... 5:56.68 4. Oregon State ...... 6:00.78 SATURDAY, MARCH 29 Varsity 8 FINAL TEAM STANDINGS Varsity Eight 5. Stanford ...... 6:04.40 1. Stanford ...... 5:42.52 6. UC Davis A ...... 6:14.30 1. Washington ...... 214 points (Morning) 2. California ...... 5:43.39 2. California ...... 207 1. California ...... 6:05.59 JOAN WARD 3. Wisconsin ...... 191 2. Trinity ...... 6:19.21 Freshman Varsity 8 4. Harvard ...... 157 (Afternoon) MEMORIAL TROPHY 1. California ...... 5:51.91 Open 8 Grand Final 5. Brown ...... 150 1. California ...... 6:35.29 2. Stanford ...... 5:26.21 6. Northeastern ...... 148 2. UC San Diego ...... 7:00.03 1. USC ...... 5:58.94 2. California B ...... 6:11.53 7. Yale ...... 140 Second Varsity 4 8. Cornell ...... 138 Second Varsity Eight 3. California A ...... 6:12.53 1. California 2 ...... 6:27.62 4. Everett ...... 6:30.72 9. Princeton ...... 121 1. California ...... 6:14.93 2. California 1 ...... 6:30.90 10. Stanford ...... 106 2. Trinity ...... 6:31.40 5. Marin...... 6:31.83 3. Stanford ...... 7:56.78 6. M Rowing...... 6:38.29 11. U.S. Naval Academy ...... 96 12. Columbia ...... 68 Freshman Eight 13. Oregon State ...... 65 (Morning) PAC-10 14. Syracuse ...... 63 1. California ...... 6:20.99 STANFORD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2. Orange Coast ...... 6:50.64 INVITATIONAL May 18 Varsity 8 Grand Final (Evening) April 19-20 1. Wisconsin ...... 5:31.173 1. California ...... 6:21.40 in Lake Natoma, in Redwood City, 2. Washington ...... 5:32.894 2. UCLA (2V8) ...... 6:53.95 Gold River, Calif. 3. California ...... 5:39.021 Calif. 4. Northeastern ...... 5:42.399 SUNDAY, MARCH 30 FINAL TEAM STANDINGS 5. Stanford ...... 5:43.324 Varsity 8 Varsity 8 6. Columbia ...... 5:44.565 1. California ...... 5:55.42 1. Wisconsin ...... 6:06.21 1. Washington ...... 72 points 2. Cornell ...... 6:00.71 2. California ...... 6:10.06 2. California ...... 63 3. Stanford * ...... 42 Second Varsity 8 Grand Final 1. Washington ...... 5:39.308 Second Varsity Eight Second Varsity 8 4. Oregon State ...... 42 5. UCLA ...... 34 2. California ...... 5:41.350 1. California ...... 6:07.84 1. Wisconsin ...... 6:16.13 3. Wisconsin ...... 5:43.925 2. Cornell ...... 6:19.23 2. California ...... 6:19.73 6. Washington State ...... 18 7. USC ...... 13 4. Harvard ...... 5:49.236 8. Oregon ...... 4 5. Orange Coast Coll...... 5:51.227 Freshman 8 Third Varsity 8/Varsity 8 6. Brown ...... 5:52.298 1. California ...... 6:17.52 1. California 3V8 ...... 6:58.37 * Stanford claims third place with a better fi nish in the varsity 8. 2. Orange CC 2V ...... 6:23.04 2. Santa Clara V8 ...... 7:06.95 Freshman 8 Grand Final Varsity 8 1. California ...... 5:37.372 1. Washington ...... 5:52.1 2. Washington ...... 5:37.880 SAN DIEGO WASHINGTON 2. California ...... 5:53.4 3. Harvard ...... 5:42.335 CREW CLASSIC April 26 in 3. Stanford ...... 5:57.7 4. Yale ...... 5:44.752 April 5-6 Redwood City, Calif. 4. Oregon State ...... 6:06.8 5. Brown ...... 5:47.378 6. Princeton ...... 5:48.629 in San Diego, Calif. 5. UCLA ...... 6:20.9 Varsity 8 6. Washington State ...... 6:27.3 Varsity 4+ Grand Final COPLEY CUP 1. Washington ...... 5:42.11 7. USC ...... 6:48.6 2. California ...... 5:48.71 1. Washington ...... 6:19.964 Varsity 8 Grand Final 2. Marist ...... 6:20.745 1. Washington ...... 5:39.90 Second Varsity 8 Second Varsity 8 1. Washington ...... 6:00.9 3. Cornell ...... 6:23.510 2. Princeton ...... 5:41.80 4. California ...... 6:24.593 3. Harvard ...... 5:43.89 1. California ...... 5:49.31 2. California ...... 6:03.7 2. Washington ...... 5:52.53 3. Oregon State ...... 6:15.6 5. UCLA ...... 6:32.920 4. California ...... 5:44.15 6. Brown ...... 6:35.563 5. Northeastern ...... 5:44.18 4. UCLA ...... 6:39.9 Freshman 8 6. Stanford ...... 5:44.38 Freshman 4 Grand Final 7. Yale ...... 5:45.37 1. Washington ...... 5:51.22 Frosh/Novice 8 2. California ...... 5:53.27 1. Washington ...... 5:58.6 1. Washington ...... 6:25.931 2. California ...... 6:30.322 DEREK GUELKER 2. California ...... 6:04.8 Third Varsity 8/Varsity 8 3. Stanford ...... 6:10.1 3. Wisconsin ...... 6:36.356 MEMORIAL CUP 4. Rutgers ...... 6:39.179 Novice 8 Grand Final 1. California 3V8 ...... 6:00.34 4. Oregon State ...... 6:20.3 2. UC Davis ...... 6:03.78 5. UCLA ...... 6:47.2 5. Oregon State ...... 6:40.199 1. Washington ...... 6:01.8 6. Drexel ...... 6:48.981 2. California ...... 6:05.33 6. Washington State ...... 6:52.4 Freshman 8 3. Stanford ...... 6:12.46 Open 4 Grand Final 4. Oregon State ...... 6:16.67 1. California 2F8 ...... 6:11.86 Men’s Varsity 4 2. UC Davis ...... 6:29.64 1. Washington ...... 6:47.3 1. Harvard ...... 6:29.779 5. Penn ...... 6:30.07 2. Cornell ...... 6:31.173 6. USD ...... 6:34.65 2. California ...... 6:52.6 3. Stanford ...... 6:58.9 3. Harvard ...... 6:34.300 4. USC ...... 7:03.2 4. California ...... 6:38.516 5. Oregon ...... NT 5. Princeton ...... 6:38.888 6. Pennsylvania ...... 6:54.398

14 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears CAL AWARD WINNERS (since 2000)

PAC-10 CONFERENCE AWARDS CAL AWARDS ALL-PAC-10 TEAM MOST PROMISING FROSH/NOVICE 2000 Jeremiah Dees, Michael Lennig, Graham Taylor, Luke Walton (Russ Nagler Award) 2001 Nito Simonsen, Mladen Stegic, Jake Wezel, Luke Walton 2000 Jeffery Nalty 2002 Ian McGowan, Jeff Nalty, Ivan Smiljanic, Scott Frandsen 2001 Zachary Johnson 2003 Ian McGowan, Jeffrey Nalty, Mladen Stegic 2002 Tobias Smith 2004 Robert Austerman, Jesse Bauman, Max Frasca 2003 David Puder 2005 Troy Keeper, Rory Tuttle, Vaclav Voshoska 2004 Justin Ishida, Dan Casaca 2006 Dan Casaca, Elliot Hovey, Jan Tize, Max Wyatt 2005 Charlie Smith 2007 Dan Casaca, Elliot Haynes, Charlie Smith 2006 Janis Fontein 2008 Marko Knezevic, Charlie Smith 2007 Zachary Vlahos and Will Dean 2008 Nick Lucey PAC-10 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR Nick Lucey 2005 Eric Hand 2006 Elliot Hovey ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (Jim Lemmon Scholarship Award) 2000 Andreja Stevanovic PAC-10 ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 2001 Jesse Bauman 2000 Franco Arieta, Jeremiah Dees, Scott Frandsen, Edward Ham- 2002 Jesse Bauman ilton, Mike Maloney, Gunter Mihaescu, Stephen Rose, Luke 2003 Jesse Bauman Walton. 2004 Jesse Bauman 2001 First Team: Franco Arieta, Magnus Fleming, Joseph Ghory, 2005 David Puder Mike Wallin, Luke Walton. 2006 David Puder 2002 First Team: Jesse Bauman, Magnus Fleming, Scott Frandsen, 2007 Justin Ishida Christopher Kennelly, Joseph Manion, Mike Wallin. 2008 Jack Zhou 2003 First Team: Magnus Fleming, Max Frasca, Jesse Bauman, Janik Gasiorowski, Christopher Kennelly, Joseph Manion, Mladin Jack Zhou Stegic, Michael Wallin. Honorable Mention: Shawn Ghatan, Ian McGowan, Toby Smith, Mathew A. Todd. MOST IMPROVED ROWER 2004 First Team: Jesse Bauman, Sam Deutsch, Max Frasca, Deaglan (George Ahlgren Award) McEachern, David Puder, Matt Todd. Honorable Mention: Jor- 2000 Jeremiah Dees dan Mikes, Vaclav Vochoska. 2001 Jake Wetzel 2005 First Team: Andre Bastos, Peter Frings, Deaglan McEachern, 2002 Ian McGowan David Puder, Vaclav Vochoska. Second Team: Morgan Al- 2003 Robert Austerman len, Michael Holbrook, Jordan Mikes, TobiasSmith, Elizabeth 2004 Max Frasca, Jesse Bauman Swaney, Howard Williams. 2005 Rory Tuttle 2006 First Team: Andre Bastos, David Puder. Second Team: Morgan 2006 Elliot Hovey Allen, Elliot Bertinetti, Marko Knezevic, Peter Maiden, Sebas- 2007 David Naughton tian Scheiter, Tom Sproats, Courtney Wilkinson, Howard Wil- 2008 Nareg Guregian liams. Honorable Mention: Antonio Brecevich, Lowell Fleming. Nareg Guregian 2007 First Team: Morgan Allen, Andre Bastos, T.J. Grossman, Marko Knezevic, Marko Marjanovic, Kenneth Valkenier. Second Team: Mitchell Haines, Michael Holbrook, Justin Ishida, Gregory ATHLETE BEST EXEMPLIFYING LOYALTY, Mason, Jarrod McClendon, David Naughton, Michael Porter, PROFICIENCY & SPIRIT Geoffrey Roth, Sebastian Scheiter, Thomas Sproats, Axel (Dean Witter Award) Stelter, Courtney Wilkinson. 2000 Graduating Seniors 2008 First Team: Justin Hills, Marko Knezevic, Geoffrey Roth, Axel 2001 Eric Tiret Stelter, Courtney Wilkinson. Second Team: Sean Engel, Janis 2002 Nito Simonsen Fontein, Marko Marjanovic, Spencer Moscati, David Naughton, 2003 Paul O’Sullivan Jordan Sartor, Nikola Zunic. 2004 Rob Austerman, Shawn Ghatan 2005 Ivan Smiljanic 2006 Danny Johnson PAC-10 COACH OF THE YEAR 2007 Dan Casaca 2000 Steve Gladstone 2008 Charlie Smith 2001 Steve Gladstone 2002 Steve Gladstone Charlie Smith 2005 Steve Gladstone

Steve Gladstone

2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 15 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears HISTORY OF CAL MEN’S CREW

he University of California and its in the 1928 Olympics and brought home gold men’s rowing program were both from Amsterdam. Tfounded in 1868, and crew thereby The Cal varsity eight repeated its Olympic became the fi rst sport at Cal. The Cal men’s conquest four years later with a close vic- crew began its dominance of national and tory over Italy in the 1932 Olympics at Long international rowing in earnest in 1924 with Beach, Calif., as it too was unbeaten all year. the hiring of Carrol (“Ky”) Ebright as head Sixteen years later Cal brought home a third coach. Over Ebright’s leadership of 36 gold medal, this time from the 1948 Olympics years, Cal crew became synonymous with at Henley-on-Thames, England. Olympic gold medals and national collegiate Ebright’s crews also won a total of six championships. Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Over the years, Cal has won gold medals championships. In fact, some argue that representing the United States three times in Ebright’s 1939 IRA champion might have the Olympic Games, more than any college been the fastest of all of his fi ne crews: it had or university in the world. The year 1928 little trouble with its collegiate opponents, proved to be a landmark time in Cal crew defeating Washington by 12 lengths before history, as the team compiled arguably the going on to set the still-standing four-mile greatest season in the history of collegiate course record at the IRA. Jim Lemmon rowing. The crew was undefeated domesti- moved up from frosh coach to take over the cally, went on to become the American entry reins from Ebright in 1960. In Lemmon’s seven years as head coach, he CAL COACHING SUMMARY strung together an impressive streak that included winning Year Varsity Coaches three IRA championships and 1893-96 ...... E. M. Garnett, Harvard ’87 two Pacifi c Coast champion- The Cal varsity eight won its latest IRA 1901-03 ...... W. B. Goodwin, Yale ’90 ships. Lemmon’s 1964 crew title in 2006. 1904-08 ...... E. M. Garnett, Harvard ’87 also earned bragging rights 1909...... Dean Witter, Cal ’09 as one of Cal’s fi nest, going over Washington in his fi nal three seasons, 1912...... T. A. Davidson, Cal ’11 through the regular season 1985-87. Hodges’ 1986 crew was one of 1914-15 ...... Charles Stevenson and the IRA Championships the country’s best, as it defeated eventual 1916-23 ...... Ben Wallis, Yale ’10 without a loss. national champion Wisconsin en route to 1924-59 ...... Ky Ebright, Washington ’17 Cal won its next IRA title in the Bears’ victory in the inaugural Redwood 1960-66 ...... Jim Lemmon, Cal ’43 1976 during Stephen Glad- Shores Classic and then easily won the 1967-72 ...... Marty McNair, Cal ’61 stone’s fi rst turn at the helm Pacifi c Coast championship. In 1988, Bruce 1973-80 ...... Stephen Gladstone, Syracuse ’64 (1973-80). Cal also won the Beall guided Cal to its fourth consecutive 1981-83 ...... Mike Livingston, Harvard ’70 1979 Pacifi c Coast champion- dual-race victory over Washington in his fi rst 1984-87 ...... Tim Hodges, Cal ’75 ship, as the Golden Bears dom- year in charge. 1988-91 ...... Bruce Beall, Washington ’73 inated West Coast rowing and Mark Zembsch, a 1982 graduate of Cal, 1992- 96 ...... Mark Zembsch, Cal ’82 earned a spot in the semifi nals took his turn at the helm of program in 1992 1997-2008 ...... Stephen Gladstone, Syracuse ’64 of the at after two years of coaching Cal freshmen 2008-Present ...... Mike Teti, St. Joseph’s ’78 the Henley Royal Regatta in squads. The Bears showed improvement, England. Craig Amerkhanian, winning the ’92 traditional cup race over Year Freshman Coaches who guided the Bears frosh Washington in both the varsity and junior 1923...... Heinie De Roulet, Cal ’22 crews to two IRA gold medals, varsity events. In 1995, after three years of 1924-51 ...... Russ Nagler, Washington ’20 was a stalwart in that crew. rebuilding, the Bears had their best season 1952...... David L. Turner, Cal ’48 Mike Livingston became in nine years, ending in a sixth-place fi nish 1953...... Ron Reuther, Cal ’52 head coach in 1981 and di- at the national championships. 1954-59 ...... Jim Lemmon, Cal ’43 rected the Bears for three Gladstone returned for a second stint 1960...... John Halberg, Washington ’58 years. His 1982 crew was out- coaching the Bears in 1997 after many suc- 1962...... Stan Shawl, Cal ’59 standing. It defeated every top cessful seasons at Brown. Charged with re- 1963 & 1966 ...... Rich Costello, Cal ’61 crew in the country, after scor- turning Cal men’s crew to the upper echelon 1964-65 ...... Tom Dunlap, Cal ’62 ing victories in the San Diego of collegiate rowing, Gladstone wasted no 1967...... John McConnell, Cal ’65 Crew Classic and Pacifi c Coast time as the varsity earned an IRA bronze in 1968-71 ...... Ed Graham, Long Beach St. ’63 Championships, while earning 1997 and 1998 and IRA gold in 1999, 2000, 1972-79 ...... Kent Fleming, Cal ’63 Cal a berth in the semifi nals 2001, 2002 and 2006. With the 2006 IRA 1980...... Roy Eisenhardt, Dartmouth ’60 of the Grand Challenge Cup championship, the Bears have won 15 IRA 1981-83 ...... Tim Hodges, Cal ’75 at Henley. National Championships, the second most 1984-86 ...... Paul Prioleau, Cal ’79 In 1984, Tim Hodges, Cal’s behind Cornell (26). Gladstone closed out 1987-89 ...... Bob Newman, UCLA ’68 stroke in 1974 and ’75, stepped his Cal career after the 2008 varsity placed 1990-91 ...... Mark Zembsch, Cal ’82 up from freshman coach to third in the national regatta, paving the way 1992-2000 ...... Craig Amerkhanian, Cal ’80 lead the varsity. He guided the for the arrival of 2008 U.S. Olympic coach 2001-Present ...... Geoff Bond, Brown ’88 Bears to dual race victories Mike Teti in Berkeley.

16 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears CAL CUP RESULTS/CHAMPIONSHIPS

CAL vs. CAL vs. NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE WASHINGTON STANFORD ROWING ASSOCIATION SCHOCH CUP SCHWABACHER CUP MEDALISTS Since 1903: Bears 30, Since 1902: Bears 57, Huskies 66, 1 Dead Heat Cardinal 18 TOP 3 FINISHES VARSITY 8 JUNIOR VARSITY 8 1980...... California 1980...... California 15 Gold, 6 Silver, 9 Bronze 8 Gold, 12 Silver, 9 Bronze 1981...... Washington 1981...... California 1921...... Second 1926...... Third 1982...... California 1982...... California 1927...... Third 1927...... Third 1983...... Washington 1983...... California 1928...... First 1931...... Second 1984...... Washington 1984...... California 1932...... First 1932...... Second 1985...... California 1985...... California 1934...... First 1938...... Second 1986...... California 1986...... California 1935...... First 1939...... Third 1987...... California 1987...... California 1936...... Second 1940...... Third 1988...... California 1988...... Stanford 1938...... Second 1941...... First 1989...... Washington 1989...... California 1939...... First 1947...... First 1990...... Washington 1990...... Stanford 1941...... Second 1948...... Second 1991...... Washington 1991...... California 1948...... Second 1949...... Third 1992...... California 1992...... California 1949...... First 1950...... Second 1993...... Washington 1993...... California 1950...... Second 1951...... First 1994...... Washington 1994...... California 1960...... First 1952...... Third 1995...... Washington 1995...... California 1961...... First 1954...... Third 1996...... Washington 1996...... California 1962...... Third 1958...... Third 1997...... Washington 1997...... California 1964...... First 1959...... First 1998...... Washington 1998...... California 1976...... First 1960...... Second 1999...... California 1999...... California 1977...... Third 1961...... Second 2000...... California 2000...... California 1984...... Third 1963...... Third 2001...... California 2001...... California 1997...... Third 1964...... Second 2002...... Washington 2002...... California 1998...... Third 1977...... Second 2003...... California 2003...... California 1999...... First 1980...... Second 2004...... Washington 2004...... California 2000...... First 1990...... Second 2005...... California 2005...... California 2001...... First 1999...... First 2006...... California 2006...... California 2002...... First 2001...... First 2007...... Washington 2007...... California 2003...... Third 2002...... First 2008 ...... Washington 2008...... Stanford 2004...... Third 2003...... First 2005...... Third 2006...... Second 2006...... First 2008...... Second 2008...... Third FRESHMEN 8 7 Gold, 10 Silver, 2 Bronze PACIFIC COAST/ 1926...... Second 1929...... Second PAC-10 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1935...... Second 1936...... Second Team Varsity 8 1961 Junior 1998 1982 1937...... Second 1960 1899 1964 Varsity 8 1999 1984 1938...... First 1964 1904 1979 1925 2000 1991 1981...... Third 1979 1905 1982 1927 2001 1994 1982...... First 1982 1921 1986 1939 2002 1995 1991...... Second 1986 1927 1998 1949 2003 1996 1996...... Second 1994 1928 1999 1950 2006 1998 1998...... First 1998 1929 2000 1952 1999 1999...... Second 1999 1932 2001 1960 Freshmen 8 2000 2000...... First 2000 1939 2002 1961 1922 2003 2001...... Third 2001 1943 2005 1976 1925 2004 2003...... Second 2002 1947 2006 1980 1929 2005 2004...... First 2003 1949 1981 1940 2006 2005...... First 2005 1952 1982 1941 2007 2006...... Second 2006 1960 1983 1952 2007...... First 1991 1981 2008...... First

2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 17 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears INTERNATIONAL BEARS

(OLYMPIC GAMES AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS)

1985 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Belgium Henry Matthiessen ‘84 ...... 5th place, USA 4+ Chris Huntington ‘83 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+ Ted Swinford ‘83 ...... 5th place, USA 2+ Chris Clark ‘82 ...... 7th place, USA 2- Mark Zembsch ‘82 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+

1986 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS England Stewart Huntington ‘87 ...... 6th place, USA Ltw. 8+ Henry Matthiessen ‘84 ...... 10th place, USA 2+ Chris Huntington ‘83 ...... bronze medal, USA 4+ Ted Swinford ‘83 ...... gold medal, USA 4- Mark Zembsch ‘82 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+

1987 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Denmark Ted Swinford ‘83 ...... bronze medal, USA 4- Mark Zembsch ‘82 ...... 5th place, USA 2+

1988 OLYMPIC GAMES Seoul, Korea Chris Huntington ‘83 ...... 5th place, USA 4+ Ted Swinford ‘83 ...... USA alternate Mark Zembsch ‘82 ...... 5th place, USA 4+

The 1928 Olympic champions 1989 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Yugoslavia 1928 OLYMPIC GAMES 1981 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Chip McKibben ‘87 ...... USA alternate Amsterdam, the Netherlands Germany Gold Medal, USA 8+ John Bacon ‘77 ...... 5th place, USA Ltw. 8+ 1991 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Don Blessing Austria Pete Donlon ...... Hub Caldwell 1983 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Chip McKibben ‘87 ...... 6th place, USA 2x Jim Workman ...... Bill Dally Germany Bill Thompson ...... Fran Frederick Eric Klug ‘84 ...... 5th place, USA Ltw. 8+ 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES Jack Brinck ...... Curley Stalder Barcelona, Spain 1984 OLYMPIC GAMES Chip McKibben ‘87 ...... 6th place, USA 4x 1932 OLYMPIC GAMES Los Angeles, USA Los Angeles, USA Chris Huntington ‘83 ...... USA alternate 1993 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Gold Medal, USA 8+ Dave DeRuff ‘83 ...... 6th place, USA 2- Czech Republic Norrie Graham Fred Honebein ‘90 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+ Ed Salisbury ...... Bud Blair Duncan Gregg ...... Dave Dunlap Burt Jastram ...... Charlie Chandler Doc Tower ......

1948 OLYMPIC GAMES London, England Gold Medal, USA 8+ ...... Dave Turner Jim Hardy ...... George Ahlgren ...... Dave Brown ...... Jack Stack

1976 OLYMPIC GAMES Montreal, Canada Pat Hayes ‘73 ...... 11th place, USA 4+

1979 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Yugoslavia Paul Prioleau ‘79 ...... 9th place, USA 4-

1980 OLYMPIC TEAM BOYCOTT Paul Prioleau ‘79 The 1948 Olympic champions

18 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears

Sture Bjorvig ‘99 ...... 5th place, NOR 4- 2004 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Sebastian Bea ‘99 ...... 13th place, USA 2- Spain Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... gold medal, USA 8+ Marko Knezevic ‘08 ...... Bronze Medal, SCG 2+

2000 OLYMPIC GAMES 2004 OLYMPICS Sydney, Australia Greece Ian McGowan ‘04...... 7th place, USA 4x Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... Gold Medal, USA 8+ Ivan Smiljanic ‘04...... 8th place, YUG 4- Scott Frandsen ‘02 ...... 5th place, CAN 8+ Filip Filipic ‘03 ...... eighth place, YUG 4- Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 7th place, NOR 2x Mladen Stegic ‘03 ...... 8th place, YUG 4- Mladen Stegic ‘03 ...... 5th place, SCG 2- Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 9th place, NOR 4- Luke Walton ‘01 ...... 5th place (fi nal B), USA 2- Jake Wetzel ‘02 ...... 7th place, USA 4X Jake Wetzel ‘02 ...... silver medal, CAN 4- Kevin White ‘01...... CAN alternate Sture Bjorvig ‘99 ...... 9th place, NOR 4- 2005 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2000 U.S. Golden Bear Olympians (left Sebastian Bea ‘99 ...... silver medal, USA 2- Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 5th place, YUG 2- Japan to right): Laurel Korholz, Pete Cipollone, Troy Keeper ’05 ...... Silver Medal, USA 4+ Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... 5th place, USA 8- Jake Wetzel and Sebastian Bea. Dan Casaca ’07 ...... 4th place, CAN 4+ Scott Frandsen ‘02 ...... 7th place, CAN 8+ 2001 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 13th place, NOR 2x 1994 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Switzerland Padraic Hussey ‘04...... 17th place, IRE 1x 2006 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS USA Ivan Smiljanic ‘04...... 10th place, YUG 4- Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... silver medal, USA 4+ Filip Filipic ‘03 ...... 10th place, YUG 4- Great Britain Scott Frandsen ’02 ...... 8th place, CAN 4x Jerome Ryan ‘93 ...... USA alternate Mladen Stegic ‘03 ...... 10th place, YUG 4- Nito Simonsen ’02 ...... 10th place, NOR 2x Tim Ryan ‘91 ...... USA alternate Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 14th place, NOR 4x Fred Honebein ‘90 ...... gold medal, USA 8+ Joseph Manion ‘03 ...... 5th place, USA 2+ Ross Flemmer ‘88 ...... 6th place, USA Ltw. 8+ Luke Walton ‘01 ...... 4th place, USA 8+ Chip McKibben ‘87 ...... gold medal, USA 8+ Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 2nd place, YUG 2- 1995 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Finland Borko Mitrovic ‘00 ...... 19th place, YUG 2- Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 19th place, YUG 2- Danko Djunic ‘97 ...... 6th place, YUG 4+ Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... gold medal, USA 4+ Fred Honebein ‘90 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+ Ross Flemmer ‘88 ...... 10th place, USA Ltw. 2- Chip McKibben ‘87 ...... 7th place, USA 4-

1996 OLYMPIC GAMES Atlanta, USA Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... Coach USA men’s 1x Fred Honebein ‘90 ...... 5th place, USA 8+

1996 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Scotland Borko Mitrovic ‘00 ...... 6th place, YUG 4+ Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 6th place, YUG 4+

1997 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS France The 1982 Cal men’s varsity eight produced seven U.S. National Team members. Borko Mitrovic ‘00 ...... 8th place, YUG 2+ Sture Bjorvig ‘99 ...... 6th place, NOR 2- 2002 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Sebastian Bea ‘99 ...... gold medal, USA8+ Spain Germany Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 8th place, YUG 2+ Joeseph Manion ‘03 ...... silver medal, USA 2+ Dan Casaca ‘07 ...... 12th place, CAN 2- Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... gold medal, USA 8+ Scott Frandsen ‘02 ...... 7th place, CAN 2- Deaglan McEachern ’05 ...... 9th place, USA 4x Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 13th place, NOR 2x Jake Wetzel ’02 ...... Gold Medal, CAN 8+ 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Luke Walton ‘01 ...... 6th place, USA 4+ Germany Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 5th place, YUG 2- 2008 OLYMPICS Ian McGowan ‘04...... 12th place, USA 2X Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... bronze medal, USA 8+ China Jake Wetzel ‘02 ...... 7th place, CAN 2- Graham Taylor ‘01 ...... USA alternate Scott Frandsen ’02 ...... silver medal, CAN pair Sture Bjorvig ‘99 ...... 6th place, NOR 4- Elliot Hovey...... 13th place, USA double sculls Sebastian Bea ‘99 ...... 7th place, USA 4- 2003 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Mike Teti (head coach) ..... bronze medal, USA 8+ Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... bronze medal, YUG 2- Italy Jake Wetzel ’02 ...... gold medal, CAN 8+ Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... gold medal, USA 8+ Marko Knezevic ‘08 ...... 19th place, SCG 4- Ivan Smiljanic ‘05...... 19th place, SCG 4- 2008 WORLD U-23 1999 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Filip Filipic ‘03 ...... 19th place, SCG 4- CHAMPIONSHIPS Canada Mladen Stegic ‘03 ...... 8th place, SCG 2- Germany Ian McGowan ‘04...... 9th place, USA 2x Scott Frandsen ‘02 ...... 6th place, CAN 2- Luke Agnini (assistant coach) ... 8th place, USA ltwt. 4- Filip Filipic ‘03 ...... 16th place, YUG 2- Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 12th place, NOR 2x Mladen Stegic ‘03 ...... 16th place, YUG 2- Jake Wetzel ‘02 ...... Gold Medal, CAN 4- Nito Simonsen ‘02 ...... 5th place, NOR 4- Luke Walton ‘01 ...... 11th place, USA 2- Jake Wetzel ‘02 ...... gold medal, USA 4+ Djordje Visacki ‘99 ...... 19th place, SCG 4- Kevin White ‘01...... 8th place, CAN 8+ Pete Cipollone ‘94 ...... silver medal, USA 8+

2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 19 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears T. GARY ROGERS ROWING CENTER

or more than a century, the home of of Cal Crew, the Golden Bears opened their the Bears’ home in 2004. The preserved the California crew has been the brand new boathouse in 2004. The facility and restored front half of the Ky Ebright F Oakland Estuary, located between is a three building campus on a property Boathouse will serve as the inspirational link Alameda Island and the City of Oakland. that is three times the size of the former site. to the past and a museum of sorts. Many The Estuary offers 11 miles of protected The boathouse offers fi ve boat bays and a Olympic gold medalist, world champion and waters and is one of the few courses in the training space that can accommodate both national champion crews have trained at the nation where a straight three-mile race can men’s and women’s crew. boathouse at one time. It is believed that the be held. The T. Gary Rogers boathouse replaces boathouse has been home to more Olympic With a generous donation from Cal alumni the storied Ky Ebright Boathouse, which was gold medalists than any other facility in the Gary Rogers, and the hard work of Friends built more than a century ago and became world.

20 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears BRIONES RESERVOIR

ocated over the Berkeley Hills in Orinda, the Briones Reservoir serves L as the second home of Cal men’s crew. With its crystal clear water and limited boat traffi c, Briones offers a beautiful escape while providing excellent training conditions year-round. The topography of the surrounding hills combined with the L-shaped body of water result in fl at water conditions regardless of ity was completed, which has added to the varsity and freshman crews often practice wind direction. In 2002, a new two-bay facil- allure of Briones for the Cal men, whose at Briones.

ERGOMETER FACILITY

ocated underneath the west grand stand at the Edwards Track Stadium, L the California men’s on-campus er- gometer facility hums with the spinning of the fl ywheel and the beat of a boom box seven days a week. Although the Draconian concrete structure seems a bit foreboding at fi rst, it provides the perfect atmosphere to concentrate on pulling hard. “The erg room is an integral part of our overall training program,” said former Cal head coach Steve Gladstone. “Although we have water available to row on all year around, during the winter months we use the machines frequently.” With the music blaring, the coxswains yell- ing and 40 rowers chasing personal bests, the energy in the ergroom reaches a fever pitch on a regular basis. Whether it is a scheduled team workout location of the facility allows the student- get back to life outside of rowing as soon as or a solitary training piece, the convenient athletes to get on and off the erg quickly and possible.

2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 21 THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

SIMPLY THE BEST here is no other way to aptly describe America’s top public university. There is no T other way to describe one of the elite aca- demic 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 fl agship cam- pus of the state of California also features an athletic program that annually fi nishes 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 fi nest appli- cant pool in the United States. The university features a diverse student-body population. The University of California 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 the Association of Research Libraries with 10 mil- lion volumes in 32 campus libraries. The faculty features seven Nobel Laureates, 130 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 28 MacArthur Fellows, 76 Fulbright Scholars, four Pu- litzer Prize winners and more Guggenheim Fellows (357) than any other university in America.

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

Nobel Laureates TOPTOP PUBLIC PUBLIC Nobel Laureates UNIVERSITIES 2020 current current and and former former UNIVERSITIES 20 faculty members 20 faculty members 3000 1. CALIFORNIA 3000 1. CALIFORNIA 2. Virginia 2. Virginia ServiceService 3. UCLA Student-to-Faculty Ratio Service 3. UCLA Student-to-Faculty Ratio The University of California is the 4. Michigan 15-1 The University of California is the 4. Michigan 15-1 only school in the country to have 5. North Carolina only school in the country to have 5. North Carolina produced more than 3,000 vol- produced more than 3,000 vol- Source: U.S. News and unteers since the inception of the Source: U.S. News and Degree Programs unteers since the inception of the World Report Degree Programs Peace Corps in 1961. World Report 351351 Peace Corps in 1961.

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The Athletic Study Center Staff

ne of the real success stories for the University of Califor- enabling student-athletes to receive help after practices when nia is the development and growth of a comprehensive are able to devote more time to studying. O academic support program for its student-athletes: the Athletic Study Center. ADVISING PROGRAM In 1984, campus offi cials and athletic department administra- tors decided that a greater emphasis needed to be placed on The advising program offers a broad helping Cal student-athletes with their academic pursuits. The range of services to meet the unique needs Athletic Study Center was thus born and charged with develop- of student-athletes, including assistance ing an academic support program tailored to the needs of NCAA in understanding and complying with uni- Division I student-athletes. It was a signifi cant development for versity, college and NCAA requirements, an academically oriented institution such as Cal to recognize the developing time management skills and special needs required for a modern student-athlete’s success resolving personal academic issues unique both as an athletic competitor on the fi eld of play and as a student to student-athletes. in the classroom. During a student-athlete’s freshman year, advisors provide assistance to ensure a CHRISCCHRIS LLANEANE successful academic transition from high Academic STUDENT-ATHLETE PROGRAM school. In the sophomore year, they as- Advisor The Athletic Study Center, which is housed within the Division sist student-athletes in making decisions of Undergraduate Education, is the tutorial and academic support on appropriate majors and fi elds of study. program for the nearly 1,000 student-athletes at Cal. Centrally lo- Over the course of the fi nal two years, advisors take more of cated in the Cesar Chavez Student Center, the program provides an exiting approach, ensuring that proper academic progress a spacious and comfortable arboretum for quiet study, separate is being made towards graduation while referring juniors and classrooms for individual and group tutorials, and a computer lab seniors to areas on or near campus that can help with career for word processing and required course work. planning and development. Geared around the understanding of the amount of time stu- dent-athletes must devote to practice, training, physical therapy SPECIAL PROGRAMS and team travel, the program creates an environment where students can cultivate strong study habits, receive individual or The Athletic Study Center offers a special service called group tutoring and obtain counseling from academic advisors. Summer Bridge; an adjunct program designed to help ease the transition from high school to college. The primary components of the program include writing and math workshops, an advis- TUTORIAL PROGRAM ing workshop, study skills seminars and an evening tutorial The tutorial program promotes and enhances student aca- program. demic skills and progress by providing individual tutoring, group Another special program offered is peer advising. Peer advi- workshops, study groups, credit courses and intensive special sors provide academic and campus guidance for new intercol- programs. The Athletic Study Center has between 50-60 tutors legiate student-athletes. They are selected from junior and senior on staff per semester to guarantee that students receive the student-athletes who assist in the development of programs to best possible support. Tutorial sessions are also offered at night, further address the needs of student-athletes.

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