2010-11 Cal Poly Wrestling Media Guide

Quick FactsLocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0388Founded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1901Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19,325President (Interim) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Glidden (Iowa ‘58)Director of Athletics . . . . . . . . . .Alison Cone (Washington State ‘75)Senior Associate Athletics Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Phil WebbSenior Woman Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barbara MartinezFaculty Athletics Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ken WalkerAthletic Department Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-2924Nickname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MustangsColors . . . . . . .Forest Green (Pantone 3308), Gold (Pantone 7402)Affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NCAA Division IConference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pacific 10Ticket Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-5806 / (866) GoStangsCal Poly Radio Affiliate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESPN (1280 AM)

Mott GymYear Opened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1960Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,032Press Row Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-6751

Coaching StaffCo-Head Coach . . . . . . . .John Azevedo / Cal State Bakersfield ‘81Record at Cal Poly / Seven Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45-61 (.425)Career (NCAA) Record / Seven Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45-61 (.425)Office Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-1348Azevedo’s E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mark Perry / Iowa ‘08Record at Cal Poly / Second Year (First as Co-Head Coach) 0-0 (.000)Career Record / Second Year (First as Co-Head Coach) . . .0-0 (.000)Office Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-5131Azevedo’s E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Coach . . . . . . . . . . . .Tyrel Todd (First Year) / Michigan ‘09

Team Information2009-10 Dual Meet Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-4 (.667)2009-10 Pac-10 Dual Meet Record / Finish . . . . . .5-2 (.714) / Third2009-10 Pac-10 Championships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Third2009-10 NCAA Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tie-18th PlaceLetterwinners Returning / Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 / 6Starters Returning / Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 / 2Newcomers / Returning Redshirts and Non-Participants . . . . .10 / 6

Key ReturneesWrestler, Year Weight Duals Pac-10 NCAA Overall PinsKelan Bragg, Jr. 184 2-5 1-3 (6th) 0-0 9-14 1Ryan DesRoches, Jr. 174 9-2 3-1 (3rd) 0-2 34-10 17Nick Fisher, So. 149 4-2 2-1 (2nd) 0-2 17-8 7Boris Novachkov, Jr. 133 8-2 3-0 (1st) 4-2 (7th) 28-5 4Filip Novachkov, Sr. 141 11-1 2-1 (2nd) 2-2 25-8 7Jim Powers, Sr. 285 2-9 1-2 (7th) 0-0 14-19 2Ryan Smith, Jr. 197 7-4 2-1 (2nd) 0-0 19-11 2Steven Vasquez, So. 165 4-6 1-3 (6th) 0-0 17-14 0

Athletics Media Relations InformationDirector, Media Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brian ThurmondAssistant Director, Media Relations (Wrestling Contact) Eric BurdickOffice Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-6550Cell Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 550-3427Office Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-2650Mailing Address: Mott Gym 123, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0388Burdick's E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(805) 756-SCOR (7267)Cal Poly Athletics Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.GoPoly.com

What’s in a Name?When referring to the university, please use “Cal Poly” only. We are

NOT Cal Poly SLO or Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or Cal State Poly orany other derivative -- just Cal Poly. No hyphen. The NCAA agreed todelete “SLO” and “San Luis Obispo” in 1994 and has used just CalPoly in all statistics, releases and record books since then.

2010-11 MustangWrestling Schedule

Date Opponent TimeNov. 6 GREEN vs. GOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Nov. 13 *CAL STATE FULLERTON . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Nov. 20 at Fullerton Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Dec. 3-4 at Las Vegas Invitational . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Dec. 17 SOUTHERN OREGON . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 a.m.

CAL BAPTIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.MENLO COLLEGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 p.m.

Dec. 19 at Reno Tnmt. of Champions . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Dec. 29-30 at Midlands Open (Chicago) . . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Jan. 14 WYOMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 *at Oregon State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 p.m.Jan. 23 *at Boise State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.Jan. 28 *CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Jan. 30 *at Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.Feb. 5 at All-California Open (S.Francisco St.) .9 a.m.Feb. 11 *at Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Feb. 13 SAN FRANCISCO STATE . . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Feb. 27 Pacific-10 Conference

Championships (Oregon State) . . . . . . .11 a.m.Mar. 17-19 NCAA Championships

(@ Philadelphia, PA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 a.m.* Pacific-10 Conference matchAll Times Pacific

NCAA Division I All-AmericansNational Champions

1969 Tom Kline . . . . . . . . . .191lbs1976 Mark Digirolamo . . . . .118 lbs

Second Place1968 Tom Kline . . . . . . . . . .191 lbs1969 John Woods . . . . . . . .167 lbs1975 Cliff Hatch . . . . . . . . . .167 lbs1983 Louie Montano . . . . . .158 lbs2008 Chad Mendes . . . . . . .141 lbs2010 ChasePami . . . . . . . . .157 lbs

Third Place1968 Kent Wyatt . . . . . . . . . .145 lbs1969 Terry Hall . . . . . . . . . . .115 lbs1971 Lee Torres . . . . . . . . . .142 lbs1975 Rodger Warner . . . . . .142 lbs1978 Scott Heaton . . . . . . . .167 lbs1994 Jake Gaeir . . . . . . . . . .150 lbs2002 Cedric Haymon . . . . . .141 lbs

Fourth Place1966 Mike Remer . . . . . . . . .115 lbs1969 Ken Bos . . . . . . . . . . . .177 lbs1971 John Finch . . . . . . . . . .158 lbs1973 Allyn Cooke . . . . . . . . .158 lbs1976 Sythell Thmpson . . . . .177 lbs1980 Gary Fischer . . . . . . . .118 lbs1984 Chris Delong . . . . . . . .134 lbs

Fourth Place1985 Roger Sayles . . . . . . . .177 lbs1988 Eric Osborne . . . . . . . .167 lbs2004 Darrell Vasquez . . . . . .133 lbs

Fifth Place1972 Larry Morgan . . . . . . . .134 lbs1976 Kim Wasick . . . . . . . . .167 lbs1978 Gary Fischer . . . . . . . .118 lbs2007 Darrell Vasquez . . . . . .133 lbs

Sixth Place1974 Rodger Warner . . . . . .150 lbs2003 Vic Moreno . . . . . . . . .125 lbs2004 Vic Moreno . . . . . . . . .125 lbs2006 Chad Mendes . . . . . . .125 lbs

Seventh Place1983 Pat O’ Donnell . . . . . . .150 lbs1985 Mark Tracey . . . . . . . .190 lbs1986 Mark Tracey . . . . . . . .177 lbs1998 David Wells . . . . . . . . .158 lbs2009 Chase Pami . . . . . . . . .157 lbs2010 Boris Novachkov . . . . .133 lbs

Eighth Place1980 Jeff Barksale . . . . . . . .142 lbs1982 Mike Brafuss . . . . . . . .134 lbs1982 Louie Montano . . . . . .158 lbs1983 Al Gutierrez . . . . . . . . .118 lbs

Pacific-10 Champions1987 Eric Osborne . . . . . . . .167 lbs1988 Eric Osborne . . . . . . . .167 lbs1989 Joey Pangelinan . . . . .126 lbs1992 Eric Schwartz . . . . . . .177 lbs1993 Craig Welk . . . . . . . . . .150 lbs1993 Seth Woodhill . . . . . . . . .Hwt.1993 Jake Gaeir . . . . . . . . . .150 lbs1994 Jake Gaeir . . . . . . . . . .150 lbs1997 Tyson Rondeau . . . . . .158 lbs1998 Craig Welk . . . . . . . . . .150 lbs1998 Mike French . . . . . . . .190 lbs1999 David Wells . . . . . . . . .197 lbs

2001 Cedric Haymon . . . . . .149 lbs2002 David Schenk . . . . . . .197 lbs2003 Ryan Halsey . . . . . . . .184 lbs2004 Matt Cox . . . . . . . . . . .149 lbs2005 Vic Moreno . . . . . . . . .125 lbs2006 Chad Mendes . . . . . . .125 lbs2007 Darrell Vasquez . . . . . .133 lbs2008 Chad Mendes . . . . . . .141 lbs2008 Chase Pami . . . . . . . . .157 lbs2009 Chase Pami . . . . . . . . .157 lbs2010 Boris Novachkov . . . . .133 lbs

2010-11 Cal PolyWrestling

2010-11 Coaching Staff

2010-11 Cal Poly Wrestling Media Guide -- Page 2

John Azevedo, Co-Head Coach, Eighth SeasonA former Olympian and NCAA

Champion, John Azevedo begins his10th year with the Mustangs, eighthas head coach and sharing headcoaching duties with Mark Perry forthe 2010-11 season. He was an assis-tant under Lennis Cowell for twoyears before taking over the head jobwith the Mustangs in 2003.

Last season, Azevedo had his mostsuccessful season as head coach. Heguided the Mustangs to an 8-4 dualmeet record, third place in the Pac-10regular-season standings at 5-2, thirdin the Pac-10 ConferenceChampionships and a tie for 18thplace in the NCAA Championships.Five Mustangs qualified for theNCAA meet and two earned All-American honors -- Chase Pami sec-ond at 157 and Boris Novachkov sev-enth at 133.

In the 2008-09 season, Azevedoproduced a pair of NCAA qualifiersand Pami earned All-American hon-ors by placing seventh at 165 pounds.The Mustangs finished sixth in thePac-10 Conference Championshipswith Pami claiming his second indi-vidual title and Filip Novachkov placing third.

The 2007-08 season nearly saw Azevedo’s first NCAA champion.Chad Mendes remained undefeated all the way to the NCAA title bout at141 pounds, but lost to Ohio State’s J Jaggers.

Azevedo guided three Mustangs to the NCAA Championships in totalon the year and produced a pair of Pac-10 individual champions inMendes and Chase Pami (157). As a team, his squad was sixth at the Pac-10s.

Azevedo’s second-most successful year as a Mustang head coach camein his first season when he led Cal Poly to a 8-8 overall record and a 4-4finish in Pac-10 dual meets. The Mustangs placed second in the 2003-04Pac-10 Championships and 16th at the NCAA Division I NationalChampionships. Azevedo was named “Rookie Coach of the Year” byAmateur Wrestling News and coached a pair of All-Americans, DarrellVasquez (133) and Vic Moreno (125).

In all, Azevedo has coached nine All-Americans and nine Pac-10 indi-vidual champions while at Cal Poly.

As a collegian, Azevedo won an NCAA title in 1980 while at Cal StateBakersfield, after two runner-up finishes and three NCAA Division IItitles. He amassed a 122-2 collegiate record and was named team captainthree times. He is also a member of the California Wrestling Hall ofFame.

Azevedo was also a member of the 1980 United States Olympic team(the U.S. boycotted those summer games in Moscow) and won a nation-al freestyle championship in 1981. He placed fourth at the WorldChampionships in 1982.

Azevedo’s coaching career began as he served as a graduate assistantat Arizona State from 1980-81. He went on to an assistant coaching posi-

tion at Cal State Bakersfield from 1981-84, followed by two years as anassistant as Notre Dame.

Following his term as an assistant at Wisconsin, Azevedo received hisfirst head coaching appointment at Calvary Chapel High in Santa Ana,leading the wrestling program to seven state championships and one run-ner-up finish in 12 years. Calvary Chapel also garnered 11 league titles,10 CIF-Southern Section team championships, and posted a 183-18 dualmeet record under Azevedo’s direction. The program also spawned 23NCAA Division 1 wrestlers.

Azevedo was named National High School Coach of the Year in 1993and California Coach of the Year seven times.

Azevedo earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from CalState Bakersfield in 1981. He is the uncle of former assistant wrestlingcoach Matt Azevedo, now at Cornell. John and his wife, Theresa, are theparents of two daughters, Jessica, 25, and Janelle, 23.

The Azevedo RecordYear Duals Pac-10 NCAA2003-04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-8 Second 16th2004-05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-13 Fifth 25th2005-06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-7 Second 23rd2006-07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-9 Fourth 27th2007-08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-8 Sixth 26th2008-09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-12 Sixth 43rd2009-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-4 Third Tie-18thTotals: 45-61 (seven seasons)

Azevedo File• Has coached nine NCAA All-Americans

and nine Pac-10 Individual Champions• Named “Rookie Coach of the Year”

by Amateur Wrestling News in 2004• Team placed 16th at the NCAA Finals

and were Pac-10 Runners-Up in 2004• 37-54 Career Dual Meet Record• Member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team• Former NCAA Champion with

Cal State Bakersfield

Mike DincuTeam Masseur

CreditsThe 2010-11 Cal Poly Wrestling Media

Guide is produced by the Cal Poly AthleticsMedia Relations office, directed by BrianThurmond. Written, edited and designed byEric Burdick, Assistant Director, AthleticsMedia Relations. Cal Poly pages and insideback cover designed by Chris Giovannetti.

Printing by Poor Richard’s Press of SanLuis Obispo, CA.

Cover design by Kristen Sanzari. Photos courtesy of Andrew Santos-

Johnson, Eric Burdick, Frank Stranzl, CalPoly Public Affairs, University GraphicSystems and WIN Magazine.

2010-11 Coaching Staff


Tyrel Todd, Assistant Coach, First Season

Mark Perry, Co-Head Coach, Second SeasonTwo-time national champion and four-time

All-American Mark Perry was added to theCal Poly wrestling coaching staff as an assis-tant coach for the 2009-10 season and hasbeen elevated to co-head coach for the 2010-11 campaign.

“I think this will be great experience forMark and his future as a head coach,” saidAzevedo.

When Perry was hired as assistant coach inthe summer of 2009, Azevedo said, “Ibelieve his passion for wrestling and winningwill help Cal Poly wrestling go to the nextlevel of becoming the best. Mark brings anextensive amount of individual and team suc-cess to the program.”

Perry, a two-time national champion andfour-time All-American at Iowa, spent the2008-09 season as an assistant coach at PennState before coming to Cal Poly a year ago.

“Being promoted to co-head coach is ahuge honor for me and I am confident that Iwill be able to continue to help this programmove forward in its quest toward winningPac-10 titles and NCAA trophies,” saidPerry. “The future of Cal Poly wrestling isgoing to be exciting. I guarantee our fans andalumni we are going to be one of the top pro-grams in the country on a consistent basis inthe near future.”

With his title in 2008 Perry became the17th four-time All-American and 14th two-time national champion in NCAA history.

During his 2007 NCAA run, Perry defeat-

ed two-time NCAA champion JohnyHendricks in the finals on his way to a 32-5overall record.

Both his NCAA titles came at 165 pounds.As a sophomore at the NCAAs, Perry

placed third at 174 pounds, earning theGorriaran Trophy for pinning four opponentsat the championships.

As a freshman he placed second at 165pounds, posting a 32-5 overall record.

Perry was a team captain all four years atIowa and was a Big Ten Conference finalistfour times, capturing one title in 2007. Healso was a four-time finalist in the presti-gious Midlands Wrestling Tournament, earn-ing two titles.

Perry was named National WrestlingCoaches Association rookie of the year in2005 and University of Iowa athlete of theyear in 2007.

Perry was a two-time prep national cham-pion while attending Blair Academy, located60 miles west of New York City, in ruralWarren County, New Jersey. He was a three-time AISCS High School All-Americanwhile posting a career 169-7 record.

Perry earned his bachelor of arts in art in2008 from the University of Iowa.

At Penn State in 2008-09, Perry coached apair of Nittany Lion wrestlers to freshmanAll-American honors. He has directed MarkPerry Wrestling Camps nationwide the lastfour summers and worked at various otherwrestling camps throughout the nation from

2004-06.He has served as a volunteer coach for

youth wrestling clubs throughout EasternIowa, participated in the University of Iowa'sDay of Caring from 2004-08, and performedvolunteer maintenance and miscellaneouswork for St. John's Catholic Church inStillwater, Okla.

Tyrel Todd, a three-time NCAA All-American and the 2009 Big Ten Conferencechampion at 197 pounds while wrestling atMichigan, was hired as an assistant wrestlingcoach at Cal Poly in August 2010.

Todd will continue training for Olympicand World teams while coaching theMustang wrestlers.

"Bringing Tyrel Todd on board is a hugeasset for our program in every way possible,"said Perry. "He is one of the top big guycoaches in the country and he will be trainingfor World and Olympic titles right along sideour athletes, so it will bring extra motivationin the room.

"Tyrel brings the type of passion and inten-sity we want out of our athletes and we lookfor it to rub off on them," Perry added. "Webelieve Tyrel will be a big part of Cal Poly'ssuccess toward moving to the top of thenational rankings."

Todd placed third as a junior (2008), fourthas a senior (2009) and fifth as a sophomore(2007) at the nationals and also was a nation-al qualifier as a freshman in 2006. He was aCliff Keen Invitational champion at 184pounds in 2007 and earned Academic All-

Big Ten honors in 2006.Todd's career record at Michigan was 121-

30, including a 54-11 mark in dual meets. Herecorded 22 career falls, including 10 as asenior.

In addition to his Big Ten title in 2009,Todd placed second in 2008, third in 2007and fifth in 2006. He posted a 25-3 record asa senior, 34-4 as a junior and 28-8 as a soph-omore. In his junior season he put together acareer-best and team-high 21-match winningstreak.

Todd, a two-year team captain atMichigan, placed fourth at the 2008 OlympicTrials and fifth in the 2007 U.S. Open, bothin freestyle at 84 kg (185 pounds).

Todd, a 2004 graduate of Bozeman HighSchool in Montana, was a three-timeMontana state champion and state runner-upas a freshman, compiling a 136-6 career preprecord, including undefeated sophomore andjunior seasons. He also competed in football,serving as team captain and earning all-stateaccolades as a senior.

Todd earned his degree in secondary edu-cation (history and psychology) at Michiganin 2009 and was an assistant coach with theWolverine wrestling team last season. Hisfather Jeff wrestled at Montana State.

2010-11 Season Outlook


Cal Poly, which improved from 3-12 to 8-4 in dual meets last season,including from 0-8 to 5-2 in Pac-10 matches, and finished third in thePacific-10 Conference Championships, producing a pair of NCAADivision I All-Americans in March, seeks even better numbers for the2010-11 campaign.

Cal Poly sent five wrestlers to the NCAA Championships and four ofthem return. Two captured All-American honors -- Chase Pami finishedsecond at 157 pounds and Boris Novachkov was seventh at 133pounds. Pami is gone, but back for another season of competition areBoris Novachkov and three other national qualifiers -- FilipNovachkov, Ryan DesRoches and Nick Fisher.

The 2010-11 roster features eight returning Pac-10 ConferenceChampionship placewinners, including 133-pound champion BorisNovachkov, and co-head coaches as Mark Perry was elevated to sharehead coaching duties with John Azevedo this season.

“Coming off the success we had last season, we have high expecta-tions for this group of guys,” said Perry. “We’re right there to win thePac-10 and that will be our main sight this year, to win the conferencetitle.

“There are a lot of positives carrying over to this year and we want to put as many All-Americans and National Champions on the podiumin March,” Perry added. “We have the talent to do it. We just need tohave self belief and our wrestlers have to believe in the system they’rein.”

Added Azevedo, entering his eighth season as head coach, “We defi-nitely are looking to be one of the top teams in the Pac-10, realizingthat Boise State is ranked No. 2 inthe country. We have a group ofguys who could be right up there.Our goal is to win the conferenceand get six or seven wrestlers tothe nationals.”

The Novachkov brothers willswitch weight classes this year,with Boris taking the 141-poundslot and Filip dropping to 133.

Boris Novachkov finished hissophomore season with a 28-5overall record, a Pac-10 title and aseventh-place national finish. He

was 8-2 in dual meets and notched four pins on the year.Filip Novachkov, now a senior, was 25-8 a year ago, finishing second

in the Pac-10 finals and posting a 2-2 mark at the nationals. He was 11-1 in dual meets and recorded seven falls for the season.

Other returning Pac-10 placewinners are Fisher (second at 149pounds), Ryan Smith (second at 197), Ryan DesRoches (third at 174),Steven Vasquez (sixth at 165), Kelan Bragg (sixth at 184) and JimPowers (seventh at 197).

DesRoches led the Mustangs with a school record-tying 17 falls ayear ago, finishing the season 34-10 overall and 9-2 in dual meets.Fisher was 17-8 a year ago with seven falls while Smith was 19-11with a pair of falls. Vasquez notched a 17-14 record and Bragg was 9-14.

DesRoches will drop one weight class to 165 this year while Vasqueztakes over at 174. Bragg has slimmed down to 184 to make room forSmith at 197.

The Mustang roster also is bolstered by the addition of three transfers-- 157-pounder Barrett Abel and 184-pounder Stephan Hampton fromUC Davis and 285-pounder Atticus Disney from Minnesota. Abel was aPac-10 champion a year ago and finished the season 21-9.

In preseason polls, Filip Novachkov is ranked as high as No. 5 at 133while Boris Novachkov is ranked as high as No. 9 at 141. Other rankedMustang wrestlers in the preseason include No. 15 Fisher at 149, No.16 Abel at 157, No. 25 DesRoches at 174, No. 25 Smith at 197 and No.25 Disney at 285.

Cal Poly opens the 2010-11 season with a Pac-10 dual meet againstCal State Fullerton in Mott Gym.In addition to the Titans, Cal Polyhas 10 other dual meets on theschedule, including home dateswith Wyoming and Cal StateBakersfield, and also will competein the Fullerton Open, MidlandsOpen, Las Vegas Invitational, theReno Tournament of Championsand the All-California Open.

The 2011 Pac-10 finals are slat-ed for Feb. 27 at Oregon State andthe NCAA Championships will beheld March 17-19 in Philadelphia.

Mustangs Seek Even Bigger ImprovementsCal Poly’swrestling

team will beled this sea-son by the

return of theNovachkovbrothers --

Filip (left) andBoris (right).

Boris, anNCAA All-

American at133 pounds

last year, andFilip, a two-time NCAAqualifier at

141, willswitch weightclasses this

year.

Ryan Smith (left) was 19-11 as a sophomore a year ago at 197.

Mustangs at NCAA Championships


Chad Mendes completed one of themost storied seasons by a Cal Polywrestler in the program’s history in 2008,tallying a 30-0 record before dropping a 5-2 decision to Ohio State’s J Jaggers inthe NCAA Championship bout.

Mendes will be remembered as one ofthe all-time greats to walk the halls of MottGym. The Hanford, Calif. native recordedseven falls, eight major decisions and onetechnical fall in 2008. He pinned PaulMoseman of Cal State Bakersfield in just13 seconds on Nov. 18 at the FullertonOpen and wooed a large crowd at CalPoly by pinning the then-No. 2 ranked141-pounder in the nation, Minnesota’sManuel Rivera, in 1 minute, 34 seconds.At the NCAA Championships, Mendeswon his first match by fall in just 34 sec-onds.

Among his many accomplishments,Mendes won a Pac-10 title in 2008 andwas also named the conference’s Wrestlerof the Year. He also won tournament titlesat the Michigan State Open and FullertonOpen and became the eighth wrestler inprogram history to navigate an undefeateddual slate.

Mendes finished his career with animpressive 64-14 record. He was an All-American at 125 pounds in 2006 before

bulking up to 141 for his senior year in2007-08.

On Jan. 15, 2008, Mendes became thefirst Cal Poly wrestler to earn a No. 1ranking by pollsters since Scott Heatonand Rick Worel did so together in 1980.

After graduating from Cal Poly in thespring of 2008, Mendes embarked upon aprofessional fighting career with thePalace Fighting Championship circuit.After winning all five fights, he signed asix-fight deal with the WEC (WorldExtreme Cagefighting) in October 2009.

Competing in the featherweight division,Mendes appears ready to enter the UFCwith an undefeated 9-0 record after beat-ing Javier Vazquez by unanimous decisionat WEC 52 on Nov 11, 2010.

His favorite technique is the wushu fin-ger hold.

“It’s a great opportunity and a greathonor to be competing in the WEC,” saidMendes. “This is where I’ve always want-ed to fight and it’s awesome to be a partof such a huge organization

Mendes scored his first knockout in hisfourth career fight against Steve Siler. Hebroke his hand early in the second roundagainst Mike Joy, but won by unanimousdecision before getting a metal plate andeight screws put in after the fight.

Chad Mendes2008 NCAA Runner-Up

Cal Poly’s Chase Pami became thesixth NCAA Division I runner-up inMustang wrestling history last March.

Trying to become the third Division Inational champion, Pami led 2-1 early inthe first period, but eventually fell 6-4 totop-seeded and four-time NCAA All-American J.P. O'Connor of Harvard in the157-pound final at the Qwest CenterOmaha.

Pami closed out his Cal Poly careerwith a 29-7 record as a senior and a 100-35 career mark.

Pami, the lowest seeded wrestler in thechampionship finals, tried to become thefirst Cal Poly wrestler in 34 years to cap-ture a Division I national title. Tom Klinewon in 1969 and Mark DiGirolamo accom-plished the feat in 1976.

Pami earned his 100th career win in thesemifinals with a 13-5 major decisionagainst Justin Lister of Binghamton.

Pami placed seventh in the 2009 NCAAmeet and is the ninth two-time All-American at Cal Poly. The others wereKline, Mark Tracey, Vic Moreno, Louie

Montano, Chad Mendes, Rodger Warner,Gary Fischer and Darrell Vasquez.

Pami also joins Kline (1968), JohnWoods (1969), Cliff Hatch (1975),Montano (1983) and Chad Mendes (2008)as the only Mustangs to earn second-place finishes at the Division I nationals.

Pami captured back-to-back Pac-10Conference titles at 157 pounds in 2008and 2009. Only other Mustangs to claimconsecutive Pac-10 championships areEric Osborne (1987-88) and Jake Gaeir(1993-94).

Pami was an NCAA qualifier all fourseasons at Cal Poly. He finished 27-9 as ajunior, 24-6 as a sophomore and 20-13 asa freshman.

He was a two-time Nevada state cham-pion and four-time high school All-American while wrestling at CimarronMemorial High School in Las Vegas. Hewas 185-14 in his prep career.

Pami recently conducted a clinic foryouth wrestlers at San Marcos HighSchool in Santa Barbara.

Chase Pami2010 NCAA Runner-Up

2010-11 Cal Poly Roster


2010-11 Cal Poly Wrestling RosterName Ht Yr. Exp. Class Hometown (Schools Attended)Barrett Abel 5-10 Sr. TR 157 Diamond Springs, CATucker Armstrong 5-4 Fr. HS 149 Springfield, OHKelan Bragg 6-1 Jr. 2V 285 Tustin, CAJesse Delgado 5-5 Fr. HS 125 Gilroy, CARyan DesRoches 5-11 Jr. 2V 174 Deer Park, Wash.Atticus Disney 6-2 So. TR 285 Topeka, KSGeoffrey Doss 5-8 So. 1V 149 Los Gatos, CANick Fisher 5-10 So. 1V 149 Fresno, CATravis Gallegos 5-11 Fr. HS 165 Palo Cedro, CAAlex Grandy 6-2 Fr. HS 184 Santa Maria, CAStephan Hampton 6-2 So. TR 184 Red Bluff, CADominic Kastl 5-11 Fr. HS 165 Gilroy, CABritain Longmire 5-3 R-Fr. RS 125 Las Vegas, NVDrew Meulman 6-0 Fr. HS 285 Los Gatos, CABoris Novachkov 5-7 Jr. 2V 141 Sunnyvale, CAFilip Novachkov 5-8 Sr. 3V 133 Sunnyvale, CAJim Powers 6-1 Sr. 2V 285 Ramsey, N.J.Travis Rasmussen 6-0 So. 1V 157 Bakersfield, CA]Brandan Rocha 5-4 R-Fr. RS 133 Lemoore, CARyan Smith 6-0 Jr. 2V 184 Temecula, CAPearce Swerdfeger 6-0 R-Fr. RS 157 Glendale, AZJake Tanenbaum 5-8 So. 1V 125 Leawood, KSStephen Thalin 5-10 Sr. 3V 149 San Jose, CASteven Vasquez 5-10 So. 1V 165 Tracy, CAMatt Wykoff 5-10 Fr. HS 174 Visalia, CA

Co-Head Coaches: John Azevedo (Eighth Season, Cal State Bakersfield ’81)Mark Perry (Second Season, Iowa ’08)

Assistant Coach: Tyrel Todd (First Season, Michigan ’09)

Mustangs Return to National PollsAfter an absence of a few years, the Cal Poly

wrestling team is back in the national rankings.The Mustangs were ranked anywhere from No.

15 to 25 most of the 2009-10 season, finishedtied for 18th in the NCAA NationalChampionships and opened the 2010-11 cam-paign with national rankings from No. 16 to 28.

Co-head coaches John Azevedo and MarkPerry guided the Mustangs to to an early No. 16ranking in WIN Magazine's Tournament PowerIndex, a measure of how a team will do in tourna-ment competition.

Amateur Wrestling News ranked Cal Poly No.18 while WrestlingReport.com places the Mus-tangs 19th. The Mustangs are receiving votes inthe National Wrestling Coaches Association poll.

Individually, the Novachkov brothers are receiv-ing the highest rankings.

Boris Novachkov, seventh in the NCAA finals at133 a year ago, was ranked No. 5 at 141 poundsby The Open Mat (formerly D1collegewrest-ling.net), No. 5 by WrestlingReport.com, No. 6 byboth WIN Magazine and Amateur Wrestling News

and No. 9 by InterMat.Filip Novachkov was ranked No. 4 by Amateur

Wrestling News and WrestlingReport.com at 133pounds, No. 5 by InterMat and No. 6 by WINMagazine.

Ryan DesRoches, who recorded a schoolrecord-tying 17 falls a year ago, is ranked No. 12by WIN Magazine, No. 17 by The Open Mat andWrestlingReport.com and No. 19 by InterMat.

Barrett Abel, the transfer from UC Davis whowas a Pac-10 champion a year ago, is rankedNo. 15 by InterMat and WrestlingReport.com at157 pounds, No. 16 by The Open Mat, No. 17 byWIN Magazine and No. 18 by Amateur WrestlingNews.

Atticus Disney, a transfer from Minnesota, hasearned a No. 10 national ranking at 285 poundsby Amateur Wrestling News, No 11 by WINMagazine, No. 15 by The Open Mat, No. 16 byWrestlingReport.com and No. 17 by InterMat.

Nick Fisher drew a No. 29 ranking at 149pounds by WrestlingReport.com while RyanSmith is ranked No. 28 by the same Web site.

Barrett Abel was 21-9 and Pac-10champ at 149 while at UC Davis.

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Barrett Abel

5-10 • SeniorDiamond Springs, CA / Union Mine High School

15759-30 Overall, 23-13 Duals

2009-10 -- Posted five falls and three technical falls en route to21-9 record as a junior and team captain at UC Davis, raising hiscareer pins total to 16 … captured Pac-10 title at 149 with a 12-9 victory over Nick Fisher of Cal Poly in the finals … 6-4 induals … 0-2 in NCAA Championships, losing to Anthony D’Alieof Central Michigan 5-2 and to David Cheza of Michigan State14-9.

2008-09 -- Went 20-7 as a sophomore at UC Davis for team-best winning percentage of .741 ... also led team with 12 dualwins, 52 dual points, six pins and three technical falls ... dualwins are tied for fourth on the single-season list ... went 10-4against Pac-10 opponents and 8-5 in tournament action ... pinnedTeddy Astorga of Cal State Fullerton in 1:03 to finish third atPac-10 Championships ... win over Astorga avenged opening lossat conference tournament ... placed fourth at Reno Tournament ofChampions with two pins and a technical fall ... won seven ofeight matches from Dec. 18 through Jan. 10, four by pin and oneby major decision.

2007-08 -- Finished with 18-14 overall record as a redshirtfreshman at UC Davis ... tallied five pins, four major decisionsand a team-best four technical falls ... pinned Orlando Jimenez ofArizona State to place seventh at Pac-10 Championships ... alsoposted 11-3 major-decision win over Oregon's Elliot Tracy inwrestleback at conference finals ... made collegiate debut with16-0 technical fall over Arizona State's Preston Pruett in seasonopener ... placed third at Oregon Classic, scoring three wins byfall and one by technical fall.

2006-07 -- Redshirt ... entered the California Collegiates tour-nament at 149 pounds but forfeited his first match due to injury... placed fourth at the Fullerton Open at 149 pounds.

High School -- Finished second at CIF state championships asa senior (140 pounds) and fourth as a junior (125 pounds) atUnion Mine High School ... won CIF-Sac-Joaquin Section titleseach year, plus subsections in 2004 ... compiled 153-37 record,including 42-8 as a junior and 38-4 as a senior ... captured fourstraight Sierra Valley Conference titles, all at different weightclasses: 103, 112, 125 and 140 ... three-time team captain ...voted Most Inspirational as a sophomore, then MVP for his finaltwo seasons ... wrestled and coached for Sierra Strikers club …also lettered in football at Union Mine High School.

Personal -- Son of Steve and Laura Abel, whom he lists as hisnon-sports heroes … one sister, Renae ... sports heroes are RayLewis and Muhammad Ali … lists hiking, climbing, fishing andhunting as hobbies … born Oct. 4, 1988, in Placerville, Calif. …majors in economics.

Barrett AbelSenior

Tucker ArmstrongFreshman

Kelan BraggJunior

Jesse DelgadoFreshman

Kelan Bragg

6-1 • JuniorTustin, CA / Orange Lutheran High School


2009-10 -- Posted 9-14 record as a junior … opened the seasonat 197 pounds but dropped to 184 in January … finished sixth inPac-10 Championships with 1-3 record … earned one fall in 4:44against Bobby Strain of Colorado School of Mines … one winwas by major decision, a 10-2 verdict against Mark Savalle ofCal State Fullerton … 2-5 in dual meets.

2008-09 -- Earned one victory in 17 matches as a redshirtfreshman ... lone win was a 3-2 decision against ImanibomEtukeren of Arizona State in dual meet Jan. 31, 2009.

2007-08 -- Redshirt ... was 5-6 while competing unattached at184-pounds ... won twice by fall, the quickest in 1:27.

High School -- Four-year letter winner in wrestling at OrangeLutheran High School ... won CIF individual titles in 2006 and2007 ... was named CIF and Trinity League MVP in 2007 ... com-bined for a 92-13 record in his junior and senior years ... also let-tered three times in football ... part of a CIF-Southern Sectionchampionship football team in 2005 and 2007 ... won CaliforniaState High School Football Division II title in 2007.

Personal -- Son of Marshall and Stephanie Bragg ... two broth-ers, Cameron and Hayden … majors in business administration… once won a cake-eating contest … visited Africa in the sum-mer of 2010 to teach children how to read ... born December 27,1988 ... honor roll student throughout high school career ... choseCal Poly for its wrestling program and great academics ... listslifting, running and surfing as hobbies.

Tucker Armstrong

5-4 • FreshmanSpringfield, OH / Kenton Ridge High School


High School -- Captured Ohio state Division II championshipat 125 pounds as a sophomore at Graham High School in Paris,Ohio and was second as a senior at Kenton Ridge High School inSpringfield, Ohio … attended Corona del Mar High School inNewport Beach, Calif., as a junior, but did not compete in thepostseason due to a death in the family … advanced to Ohio statechampionships as a freshman at Kenton Ridge ... a Super 32champion in 2008, third in the National High School CoachesAssociation (NHSCA) Junior Championships in 2009 and a two-time Fargo All-American ... listed 83rd on the list of top 100

Jesse Delgado

5-5 • FreshmanGilroy, CA / Gilroy High School


High School -- Delgado claimed a California state title at 112as a junior at Gilroy High School after a pair of thirds as a fresh-man and sophomore and a fourth-place finish as a senior …helped Gilroy to sixth-place team finish in both 2009 and 2010… captured a Reno Tournament of Champions title during the2008-09 season ... was rated No. 4 nationally by Wrestling USAand No. 5 by both Amateur Wrestling News and WIN Magazinewas listed No. 42 on the list of top 100 recruits by InterMat …four-year Honor Roll member.

Personal – Son of Jesus Delgado and Elizabeth Lopez … onebrother, Joseph ... lists listening to music as his hobby … bornAugust 26, 1992, in Salinas, Calif. … majors in communicationstudies.

recruits by InterMat … visited Iowa State and Maryland beforechoosing Cal Poly.

Personal – Son of David and Karen Armstrong … one broth-er, Josh … born March 16, 1992, in Riverside, Calif. … majorsin Parks and Recreation.


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Ryan DesRoches

5-11 • JuniorDeer Park, WA / Riverside High School


2009-10 -- A third-place finisher in the Pac-10 Championshipsand a national qualifier in breakout sophomore season at Cal Poly… posted 34-10 overall record with 17 falls and five major deci-sions … won 14 of his first 22 matches by fall … placed first inthe Cuesta Invitational, Menlo Open and California Collegiate,was second in the Reno Tournament of Champions and fourth inthe Missouri Open … beat Eric Starks of Arizona State fourtimes, including 6-2 decision for third place in Pac-10 finals …lost to Daniel Rinaldi of Rutgers 13-4 and to Scott Giffin of Penn11-4 in NCAA Championships … 9-2 in dual meets with fourmajor decisions and a pair of falls … lead the team with six three-point near falls in dual meets.

2008-09 -- As a true freshman, compiled 16-13 record, includ-ing 4-5 mark in duals ... posted 2-2 mark in Pac-10Championships, earning a pin and a major decision ... was 4-2 inthe Missouri Open as well as in the California Open ... dropped6-3 decision to Ryan Sonderegger of Portland State in dual butavenged the loss with a fall in 4:12 at Pac-10 Champion

High School -- Three-time Washington State champion atRiverside High School ... compiled a 134-16 record in four yearsas a varsity wrestler ... won his regional twice and district threetimes ... went undefeated in his junior year ... won the Tri-StateChampionship in 2006 at 160-pounds ... won two titles at theUSAW Freestyle State Championships and was a USAW GrecoRoman State Champion in 2007 ... also a three-time letterman infootball.

Personal -- Son of Robert and Gina DesRoches ... eight broth-ers, Jake, Nick, Jimmy, Sammy, Jonny, Aaron, Peter ... married toKaitlin DesRoches ... born Aug. 25, 1989 in Spokane, Wash. ...majoring in kinesiology ... chose Cal Poly for its academics andwrestling ... also visited Boise State, Lehigh and Oregon State ...career ambition is to be a doctor ... enjoys being outdoors andmusic.

Geoff Doss

5-8 • SophomoreLos Gatos, CA / Los Gatos High School


2009-10 – Posted 12-6 record as a sophomore with four falls,a trio of technical falls and two major decisions … 1-1 mark induals … placed first in California Collegiate, earning an 8-2 deci-sion over Andrew Balch of Cal State Bakersfield in final round… also was third in Cuesta Invitational and fourth in MissouriOpen.

2008-09 -- Redshirt ... wrestling unattached, posted 22-4record ... won Fullerton Oopen title with 5-0 record and Art KraftMemorial Open title with 4-0 mark ... was 4-1 in Brand Open aswell as the California Open.

High School -- Compiled a career record of 144-32 in fouryears of wrestling at Los Gatos High School ... Third at the StateChampionships as a senior ... placed sixth as a junior ... holdshigh school records for wins and takedowns in a season and alsoholds the career takedown record ... won the Central CoastSection Sportsmanship Award ... won league championship threetimes and was a two-time CCS champion.

Personal -- Son of James Virginia Doss and Gaye Doss ... bornJuly 20, 1989 ... majoring in industrial technology ... lists snow-boarding, surfing, rifling and Guitar Hero as hobbies.

Nick Fisher

5-10 • SophomoreFresno, CA / Clovis West High School


2009-10 -- 2009-10 – As a sophomore posted 17-8 record withseven falls, four technical falls and one major decision …claimed second place in the Pac-10 Championships at 149, losingonly to Barrett Abel of UC Davis 12-9 … national qualifier, los-ing to Nicholas Bertucci of Purdue 4-1 and Seth Morton of Ohio12-6 … placed first in the Cuesta Invitational, second in theCalifornia Collegiate and fifth in the Missouri Open … pinnedtwo nationally ranked wrestlers – No. 17 RJ Pena of Oregon Statein a dual meet and No. 6 Jason Chamberlain of Boise State in thesemifinals of the Pac-10 Championships.

2008-09 -- Redshirt ... competing unattached, compiled 23-8record ... posted 7-1 mark with four pins in California Open, 4-2in Fullerton Open, 6-2 in Northern Iowa Open and 5-1 with twofalls in Brand Open.

High School -- Compiled a career record of 148-36 in fouryears as a varsity wrestler at Clovis West High School ... as a sen-ior, finished third at the State Championships and had a record of48-4 ... won 28 matches by fall as a senior ... California CadetNational Team member in 2006 and 2007 ... also made theNational Junior Duals Team in 2007.

Personal -- Son of Darryl Fisher and Sheri Carr ... one broth-er, Griffin Geringer, and one sister, Kassidy Geringer ... bornMay 2, 1990 in Fresno, Calif. ... majoring in recreation, parks andtourism ... lists music, skating and longboarding as hobbies.

Atticus Disney

6-2 • SophomoreTopeka, KS / Shawnee Heights High School/Minnesota


University of Minnesota – Disney was a redshirt atMinnesota in the 2008-09 season before transferring to Cal Poly… posted 18-3 record in open tournaments during redshirt seasonwith 11 pins and a pair of major decisions … closed the seasonwith a season-high seven consecutive wins … earned his firstcareer win and fall in his first career match, pinning Tabor Martinin 28 seconds … won three tournament titles … did not competein 2009-10 season.

High School – Captured three Kansas state championships atheavyweight while competing at Shawnee Heights High School… tabbed 10th-best high school heavyweight by AmateurWrestling News … four-time All-Wichita Area selection andthree-time all-state honoree … named USA Wrestling All-American in 2006, 2007 and 2008 … also was a lineman in foot-ball, twice earning first-team all-state honors … earned 10 highschool letters while competing in wrestling (4), football (4) andtrack (2).

Personal -- Son of Barry and Jeanne Disney … two sisters,Emily and Hayley … born April 26, 1990, in Girard, Kansas …majors in communication studies.

Ryan DesRochesSJunior

Atticus DisneySophomore

Geoff DossSophomore

Nick FisherSophomore


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Britain Longmire

5-3 • Freshman (RS)Las Vegas, NV / Cimarron Memorial High School


2009-10 – Redshirt … competed in three open tournaments,compiling a 6-5 record at 125 pounds with one fall, one technicalfall and a pair of major decisions.

High School -- A three-time Nevada state champion underhead coach Mike Garcia at Cimmaron Memorial High School ...led Spartans to state championship in 2009, third-place state fin-ish in 2008 and second-place finish in 2007 ... also lettered infootball as a freshman ... a candidate for National Honor Society.

Personal -- Son of Robert Longmire and Ellen Maura... twobrothers, Brandon Maura and Robert Longmire Jr., and two sis-ters, Victoria Russell and Kristin Longmire … lists watching TVand hanging out with friends as hobbies ... born July 24, 1990, inCincinnati, Ohio ... majors in social sciences.

Travis Gallegos

5-11 • FreshmanPalo Cedro, CA / Foothill High School


High School -- Earned a pair of third-place finishes in theCalifornia state championships as a sophomore and junior atFoothill High School and was sixth as a senior … also placedsixth in the Junior Nationals as a sophomore ... qualified for thestate championships as a freshman and was 95th on the list of top100 recruits by InterMat.

Personal – Son of Jim Gallegos … one sister, Courtney …lists wakeboarding as his hobby … born Sept. 1, 1992, in Burney,Calif. … credits his father as well as high school coach JerryValliton for “pushing me and making me successful” … majorsin business administration.

Alex Grandy

6-2 • FreshmanSanta Maria, CA / Pioneer Valley High School


High School -- A 2010 graduate of Pioneer Valley High Schoolin Santa Maria, where he lettered four times in varsity wrestling… placed fourth in California state championships after a third-place finish in CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet … claimedthree Pac-7 individual titles ... qualified for the Junior Nationalsin Virginia Beach, VA … claimed Pac-7 League title as a seniorand was second as a junior … earned first-team All-Pac-7 Leaguehonors in football as a defensive lineman and also lettered inbaseball ... a three-year varsity letter winner in football, earningfirst-team All-CIF-Southern Section honors ... played in SantaBarbara County All-Star Game ... earned three varsity letters inbaseball, capturing All-Pac-7 first-team honors as a senior ...named to Merit Roll all four years ... visited Cal State Bakersfieldbefore choosing Cal Poly.

Personal – Son of Noel and Cynthia Grandy ... two brothers,Noel Jr. and Zach, and two sisters, Serena and Nicole ... lists skat-ing and video games as hobbies ... born Sept. 23, 1992, in SantaMaria, Calif. ... majors in construction management.

Stephan Hampton

6-2 • SophomoreRed Bluff, CA / Red Bluff High School/UC Davis


2009-10 – Posted a 5-10 record with two falls as a redshirtfreshman 184-pounder at UC Davis … transferred to Cal Polyafter Aggies dropped sport … was 2-2 at Cliff Keen Invitational.

2008-09 --Redshirt.High School --Finished fourth (189 pounds) at CIF state

championship as a senior at Red Bluff High School ... won 191-pound title at CIF-North Section Masters Meet, posting three pinsalong the way ... three-time Eastern Athletic League and CIF-North Section champion … twice earned all-league and all-CIF-North Section honors ... also competed for Northern ExtremeWrestling, earning All-America honors at 2007 Greco-RomanNationals … also lettered in football at Red Bluff High.

Personal –Son of Tony and Heidi Hampton … one sister,Samantha ... claims to be an avid history buff and majored in his-tory at UC Davis … hobbies include hunting and fishing … bornMarch 12, 1990, in Redding, Calif. … majors in economics.

Dominic Kastl

5-11 • FreshmanGilroy, CA / Gilroy High School


High School -- Kastl placed fourth as a senior and seventh asa junior in the California State High School Championships …attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View as a juniorbefore returning to Gilroy High School for his senior season ...finished eighth in the NHSCA Junior Championships in 2009 ...four-time CIF-Central Coast Section champion … was rated No.22 in his weight class by Wrestling USA … also lettered in foot-ball at Gilroy and St. Francis.

Personal – Son of Lance and Edith Kastl, both Cal Poly grad-uates … two brothers, Blake and Mario … wants to be a physi-cal therapist … lists longboarding and biking as hobbies … bornJune 18, 1992, in San Mateo, Calif. … majors in kinesiology.

Travis GallegosFreshman

Alex GrandyFreshman

Stephan HamptonSophomore

Dominic KastlFreshman

Britain LongmireFreshman

Drew Meulman

6-0 • FreshmanLos Gatos, CA / Saint Francis High School


High School -- Meulman was runner-up at heavyweight in2010 and at 215 pounds in 2009 in the California State HighSchool Championships after a seventh-place finish as a sopho-more in 2008 … also finished fourth in the NHSCA JuniorChampionships … three-time CIF-Central Coast Section champi-on and placed fourth as a freshman at St. Francis High School inMountain View … first West Coast Athletic League wrestler toplace in state finals three times … holds school records for mostwins and falls in a season and career ... also a center on the St.Francis High football team as well, leading Lancers to second-place CIF-Central Coast Section finish … earned all-league andall-section honors in football … was ranked No. 11 in his weightclass by Wrestling USA and No. 12 by WIN Magazine and was93rd on the list of top 100 recruits by InterMat … also visitedNavy, Virginia and Maryland before choosing Cal Poly.

Personal – Son of Todd and Joan Meulman … two sisters,Anne and Elle … wants to be a sports agent … lists reading as ahobby … born July 1, 1991, in San Jose, Calif. … majors in busi-ness administration.


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Filip Novachkov

5-8 • SeniorSunnyvale, CA / Fremont High School


2009-10 -- 2009 -10 – As a junior, posted 25-8 record , earn-ing a spot in the nationals with a second-place Pac-10 finish …posted 2-2 mark in the NCAA National Championships … lost toAdin Duenas of Cal State Bakersfield 9-3 in Pac-10 finals afterupsetting No. 13 Chris Drouin of Arizona State 4-2 in semifinals… placed second in Las Vegas Invitational with 4-1 record andwas third in Missouri Open with 5-1 mark … posted 11-1 markin duals, losing only to No. 4 Levi Jones of Boise State 8-5 … ledthe team with eight two-point near falls and six three-point nearfalls in dual meets ... among his seven falls was one in 12 secondsagainst Cory Bloodgood of Central Missouri in Missouri Open… 8-4 against nationally ranked wrestlers … was 13-4 beforewinning 10 of 11 matches to improve to 23-5 ... expected toswitch places in lineup with his brother, Boris, with Boriswrestling at 141 and Filip at 133 this season.

2008-09 -- Posted a 23-9 record as a sophomore with five fallsand three major decisions ... 5-6 in duals ... went 4-0 in MissouriOpen, 5-2 in Las Vegas Invitational, 4-0 in California Open, 3-1for third place in Pac-10 Championships and 1-2 in the NCAAChampionships ... beat Brandon Low of UC Davis three timesbefore losing 7-3 to the Aggie wrestler in the NCAAChampionships.

2007-08 -- Finished 16-10 overall and 3-6 in duals as a redshirtfreshman ... season was cut short due to an injury ... defeated No.1 Lou Ruggirello of Hofstra, 6-3, on Dec. 1 at the Cliff Keen/LasVegas Invitational ... also had wins over Nos. 18 and 16 RickyDeubel of Edinboro (7-2) and Joey Baker of Navy (3-2) at theCliff Keen ... pinned No. 19 Conor Beebe of Central Michigan in1:50 on Dec. 18 at the Reno Tournament of Champions ... placedfifth at the Cliff Keen and fourth at the Reno TOC ... won fourmatches by fall, one by major decision and one by technical fall.

2006-07 -- Redshirt ... was 7-2 competing unattached with onepin and one major decision.

High School -- Competed in the SCWAL ... wrestled from2004-06 at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale ... capturedCalifornia state championship in 2006 ... 103-pound CentralCoast Section champion in 2004 ... placed second in 2005Ironman Wrestling Tournament in Ohio ... 4.0 GPA in highSchool ... academic Student of the Year.

Personal --- Son of Stefan and Zhivka Novachkov ... Has oneBrother, Boris, who is now wrestling at Cal Poly ... born inRadnevo, Bulgaria ... Moved to California from Bulgria six yearsago ... competed in national tournaments in Bulgaria ... enjoyssnowboarding, surfing, skateboarding and video game ... majorsin industrial technology ... Chose Cal Poly for the wrestling andthe environment.

Boris Novachkov

5-7 • JuniorSunnyvale, CA / Fremont High School


2009-10 – A stellar sophomore campaign ending with All-American honors as he placed seventh in the NCAA NationalChampionships with a 4-2 record … pinned Steve Bell ofMaryland in 4:26 in final match … both losses in nationals weredecided in overtime – a 5-4 verdict against No. 4 Jordan Oliverof Oklahoma State and a 2-1 decision against No. 8 Tyler Graffof Wisconsin … finished the season 28-5 with four falls, onetechnical fall and four major decisions … captured the Pac-10title at 133 pounds with a 4-3 decision over Brandon Low of UCDavis, avenging a 6-3 loss to Low in a dual meet two weeks ear-lier … 8-2 in duals and 20-3 in tournaments … placed first in theMissouri Open and Las Vegas Invitational and was second in theReno Tournament of Champions … 7-5 record against nationallyranked wrestlers … expected to switch places in lineup with hisbrother, Filip, with Boris wrestling at 141 and Filip at 133 thisseason.

2008-09 -- Redshirt ... posted 9-0 mark competing unattachedwith a 4-0 mark in Fullerton and 5-0 record in California Open ...one win by technical fall and two more by major decision.

2007-08 -- Finished 19-12 overall and 3-5 in duals as a truefreshman ... upset top seeded T.J. Dillashaw of Cal StateFullerton to take third at the Pac-10 Championships ... NCAAChampionship qualifier ... defeated No. 14 Brandon Kinney ofColumbia in a 125-pound match, 3-1, on Dec. 1 at the CliffKeen/Las Vegas Invitational where he finished seventh against ahighly competitive field ... was 15-6 at 125 pounds before mov-ing up a weight class ... notched one fall and four major decisionson the year.

High School -- Four-year letter winner in wrestling at FremontHigh School in Sunnyvale, Calif. ... two-time state champion,once at 103 pounds (2006) and once at 125 (2007) ... compiled acareer record of 145-21 as a prep, including a 90-3 record span-ning 2006 to 2007 ... two-time National Freestyle champion ...two-time Greco-Roman National champion.

Personal -- Son of Stefan and Zhivka Novachkov ... one broth-er, Filip, who also wrestles for Cal Poly ... born in Radnevo,Bulgaria ... moved to California from Bulgaria six years ago ...born November 29, 1989, in Bulgaria ... chose Cal Poly becausehe liked the wrestling coaches and so he could wrestle with hisbrother ... career ambition is to be an athletic trainer ... lists snow-boarding and surfing as hobbies ... majors in kinesiology.

Drew MeulmanFreshman

Boris NovachkovJunior

Filip NovachkovSenior


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Ryan Smith

6-0 • JuniorTemecula, CA / Temecula Valley High School


2009-10 – In sophomore season compiled 19-11 record,including 7-4 mark in duals … second on the team in takedownsin dual meets with 44 … placed fifth in both the Missouri Openand Reno Tournament of Champions and finished second in thePac-10 Championships at 197, but did not advance to the NCAANational Championships … lost to Riley Orozco of Cal StateBakersfield three times, including an 11-5 decision in final roundof Pac-10 tournament … 2-2 mark in Las Vegas Invitational.

2008-09 -- Compiled 6-11 record in redshirt freshman season... was sidelined nearly two months by injury, but competed inPac-10 Championships ... won his first four matches of season,two by major decision.

2007-08 -- Redshirt ... was 0-2 at Michigan State Open, hisonly action of the season.

High School -- Part of a Temecula Valley High School teamthat was a two-time team CIF-Southern Secion champion andtwo-time CIF-SOuthern Section Masters champion ... won indi-vidual CIF-Southern Section titles three times ... two-time Greco-Roman All-American ... placed at the state championships twice.

Personal -- Son of Ken and Christina Smith ... four brothers,Brad, Blaine, Kenny and Keesan … traveled to Thailand in thesummer of 2010 ... born July 26, 1989 ... lists computers, skatingand snowboarding as hobbies ... business administration major.

Travis Rasmussen

6-0 • SophomoreBakersfield, CA / Bakersfield High School


2009-10 – As a redshirt freshman, compiled 13-12 record …placed first in Cuesta Invitational with 4-0 mark and was fourthin Missouri Open … no falls, but won three matches by technical

Brandan Rocha

5-4 • Freshman (RS)Lemoore, CA / Lemoore High School


2009-10 – Redshirt … competed in three open tournaments,placing first in the Menlo Open and second in the CaliforniaCollegiate .. also posted 3-2 mark in Fullerton Open, but did notplace … finished with 9-3 record, winning three matches by fall… earned two falls, each in 90 seconds, in his first two matchesat the Menlo Open.

High School -- Lettered four times in varsity wrestling underhead coaches Kent Olsen and Marcio Botelho at Lemoore HighSchool ... led Tigers to four straight West Yosemite League titles... earned four league individual titles and pair of San JoaquinValley championships --- twice was a state finalist and earnedover 200 victories in high school ... presented with student-ath-lete award ... also visited Oregon State and Colorado School ofMines before choosing Cal Poly.

Personal -- Son of Anthony and Regina Rocha ... three broth-ers, Dillen, Dustin and Anthony ... Dustin wrestled at FresnoState ... enjoys wrestling and weightlifting as hobbies ... bornOct. 19, 1990, in Hanford ... majors in construction management.

Jim Powers

6-1 • SeniorRamsey, NJ / Blair Academy / Virginia Tech


2009-10 – As a junior at Cal Poly, Powers compiled a 14-19record at 285 pounds with two falls, a technical fall and onemajor decision … five of his losses were by two points or less tonationally ranked wrestlers … 2-9 in dual meets … one of his twofalls was in just 53 seconds over Corey Johnson of OklahomaCity in the Missouri Open … placed second in that tournament,third in the Menlo Open and fourth in the California Collegiate… 1-2 in Pac-10 Championships for seventh place.

2008-09 -- Redshirt ... did not compete in any tournaments.2007-08 -- Was 11-21 overall and 1-11 in duals ... pinned

Stanford's Mark Shughart in 4:36 at Reno Tournament ofChampions ... won two matches by fall and one by technical fall.

2006-07 (Virginia Tech) -- Finished 7-20 with two pins andone major decision as a freshman.

High School -- Two-time prep national finalist and won oncewhile competing for Blair Academy ... two-time prep All-American ... took third at “Beast of the East” Tournament andfifth at the Walsh Jesuit Ironman ... captained an eight-timenational championship squad ... first-team all-league and all-statein wrestling ... also a second-team all-league player in football.

Personal -- Son of Jim and June Powers ... has two sisters,Madeline and Natalie ... born February 20, 1988 ... chose CalPoly as a transfer school for its athletics, academics and location... lists lifting, running and fishing as hobbies ... majors in busi-ness with a concentration in finance.

Jim PowersSenior

Travis RasmussenSophomore

Brandan RochaFreshman

Ryan SmithJunior

fall and five others by major decision … 1-4 in dual meets,defeating Ian Wrenn of San Francisco State by technical fall.

2008-09 -- Compiled 11-4 record wrestling unattached ... wonall four matches in California Open for first place at 157 ... 6-2 inMVC Open ... two of his wins on the year were by fall and heearned pair of major decisions as well.

High School -- Finished second at 145-pounds at CaliforniaState Championships as a senior in 2008 at Bakersfield HighSchool ... compiled a 44-4 record in senior season ... began yearranked No. 14 nationally in his weight class by Wrestling USAMagazine ... Doc Buchanan Champion as a senior ... also won theFive-Counties League title ... as a junior, was ranked No. 15nationally amongst juniors by Wrestling USA Magazine and No.10 by Intermatwrestle.com.

Personal -- Son of Bruce and Meg Rasmussen ... one brother,Shane ... born Aug. 9, 1989 ... majoring in business administra-tion ... chose Cal Poly because of the coaching staff and the beach... lists wakeboarding and playing the guitar as hobbies.

Pearce Swerdfeger

6-0 • Freshman (RS)Glendale, AZ / Deer Valley High School


2009-10 – Redshirt … competed in four open tournaments,placing first in the Menlo Open and sixth in the CerritosFrosh/Soph Open … compiled 12-6 record with three falls and amajor decision … beat teammate Mike Dumelle 9-4 for title inMenlo Open.

High School -- Posted a 169-19 record in four varsity seasonsunder his father and head coach, Flint Swerdfeger, at Deer ValleyHigh School ... set Deer Valley High records for career wins, pinsand takedowns ... also was a quarterback on the Skyhawks foot-ball team as a quarterback, earning all-region honors ... also let-tered four years in volleyball ... also visited Brown and ColoradoSchool of Mines before choosing Cal Poly ... graduated No. 12 inhis senior class with a 4.6 GPA.

Pearce SwerdfegerFreshman


2010-11 Mustangs

Stephen Thalin

5-10 • SeniorSan Jose, CA / The King’s Academy


2009-10 – Competed in four open tournaments as a junior,placing second in the Menlo Open … lost to Josh Emmett ofMenlo College 6-4 in the finals … compiled 12-7 overall markwith two falls, a technical fall and one major decision.

2008-09 -- Posted 8-7 record with one fall, one technical falland a pair of major decisions ... pinned James Hesser in 6:07 atthe Fullerton Open ... 3-2 in Fullerton Open and 2-2 in both theBrand Open and California Open.

2007-08 -- Was 5-8 overall and 1-2 in duals on the year ... lonefall of the season came in 4:49 against UC Davis' Ryan Nelson.

2006-07 -- Redshirt ... was 2-2 while competing unattached.High School -- Competed in the Santa Clara Valley Wrestling

Association ... four-year letter winner in wrestling at Kings

Steven Vasquez

5-10 • SophomoreTracy, CA / Central Catholic High School


2009-10 – In first competitive season at Cal Poly, posted 17-14record with seven major decisions … 4-6 in dual meets and 13-8in tournaments … finished sixth in Pac-10 Championships at 165pounds with 1-3 record … also placed first in the CuestaInvitational, third in the California Collegiate and fifth in theMissouri Open.

2008-09 -- Posted 3-2 record in season-opening FullertonOpen, competing unattached ... won two matches by decision andthe other by default ... challenging Travis Rasmussen for startingnod at 165 pounds.

High School -- Three-time state qualifier for Central CatholicHigh School in Modesto, Calif. ... placed second as a senior in2008 ... three-time California Freestyle State Champion ... alsowon titles at the California Greco State Championships,California Cadet Freestyle State Championships and WesternRegional Freestyle Championships ... two-time California TripleCrown winner ... compiled a record of 45-2 as a senior and had a3.56 cumulative GPA.

Personal -- Son of Steve and Tammy Vasquez ... father playedbaseball at San Jose State and at the Double-A level profession-ally ... one brother, Cameron ... born Jan. 3, 1990, in Tracy, Calif.... career ambition is to be a physical therapist ... lists ridingquads, surfing and skimboarding as hobbies ... majoring in kine-siology.

Jake Tanenbaum

5-8 • Sophomore (RS)Leawood, KS / Blue Valley North High School


2009-10 – Redshirt … competed in five open tournaments,compiling 13-9 record … placed third in the Jim Fox Open andfourth in both the Cleveland State Open and California Collegiate… two of his wins were by fall and four others were by majordecision.

2008-09 -- Compiled 9-17 record as a true freshman, includingpair of wins in dual meets against Menlo's Mike Righi andArizona State's Angel Alegre ... posted 3-2 mark in MissouriOpen as well as the MVC Open ... competed in MacabbiahGames over the summer in Israel.... earned gold in the 60kgfreestyle class with wins over Dylan Flejszon of Canada (6-0, 6-0). Mikhael Golod of Russia (5-2, 5-1) and Pavel Siniavsky ofIsrael (5-2, 6-0) ... also won the title in the 55kg Greco Romancompetition with victories over Igor Roitman of Israel (3-2, 6-0)and Artum Roitman of Israel (3-3, 6-0, fall) also earned a goldmedal at the Grand Prix Munich Memorial Tournament in July2009.

High School -- Compiled a 158-21 record and placed at thestate championships in each of his four years at Blue ValleyNorth High School ... third at the Brute-adidas NationalChampionships as a freshman ... finished his high school careerranked No. 10 in the nation at 125-pounds according toIntermatwrestle.com ... holds high school record for three-pointnear falls ... cumulative GPA of 3.5.

Personal -- Son of Robert Tanenbaum and Kelly Jackson ...one brother, Zack, and one sister, Carly ... father wrestled atGeorgia ... has two uncles who wrestled collegiately ... chose CalPoly for the academics, environment and wrestling program ...lists traveling as a hobby ... majors in kinesiology.

Jake TanenbaumSophomore

Stephen ThalinSenior

Steven VasquezSophomore

Matt WykoffFreshman

Matt Wykoff

5-10 • FreshmanVisalia, CA / Mount Whitney High School


High School -- Earned a pair of West Yosemite League titlesat 171 pounds at Mount Whitney High School in Visalia …placed sixth in CIF-Central Coast Section finals … compiled 25-12 record as a junior and 35-8 as a senior … qualified for statemeet both years, but did not place … student body president,maintained 4.0 grade-point average and earned an AcademicLetter … visited Cal State Fullerton before choosing Cal Poly.

Personal – Son of Skip Wykoff and Ruby McKee … no sib-lings … aspires to be an electrical engineer … enjoys ping pongand video games as hobbies … born Feb. 14, 1992, in Visalia,Calif. … majors in electrical engineering.

Personal -- Son of Flint and Barb Swerdfeger ... both parentsare teachers and graduates of Northern Arizona University ... twobrothers, Marshall and Hunter ... Marshall wrestled at SouthernOregon University ... born October 27, 1990, in Glendale, Ariz.... majors in environmental engineering.

Academy High School ... Central Coast Section finalist ... alsoran cross country and played football for one year ... graduatedseventh in his senior class ... member of the National HonorSociety ... was an active member in the music department in highschool.

Personal -- Son of John and Katie Thalin ... father attendedNorthwestern and mother attended UC Davis ... born in SantaClara, Calif. on September 2, 1988 ... three brothers: Billy,Matthew and Jacob, and one sister, Elaina ... majors in civil engi-neering at Cal Poly ... member of Athletes in Action ... chose Calpoly for the wrestling, location, and academics ... made an offi-cial visit to Stanford.


2009-10 Season in Review

One year after going 3-12 indual meets, including an 0-8mark in Pac-10 Conferenceduals, Cal Poly rebounded in the2009-10 campaign with an 8-4dual meet record (5-2 in Pac-10matches), and finished third inthe Pac-10 Championships, pro-ducing a pair of NCAA DivisionI All-Americans.

Cal Poly sent five wrestlers tothe NCAA Championships andtwo captured All-American hon-ors -- Chase Pami finished sec-ond at 157 pounds and BorisNovachkov was seventh at 133pounds.

Three other Mustangs -- FilipNovachkov, Ryan DesRochesand Nick Fisher -- also qualifiedfor the nationals.

The 2009-10 season began witha Pac-10 dual meet at Cal StateFullerton. Eric Maldonaldo'scome-from-behind decision at149 pounds keyed a strong finishby Cal Poly as the Mustangs defeated the host Titans, 26-13. TheMustangs won the final five bouts after Fullerton had taken a 13-7 lead.

Pins by Filip Novachkov and Ryan DesRoches powered Cal Poly to a22-15 upset against No. 10 Missouri. The two teams split the 10 individ-ual bouts, but Cal Poly prevailed because of the two falls as well asChase Pami’s major decision at 157 pounds.

The next day in Columbia, Mo., Pami and Boris Novachkov earnedindividual titles while David Christian and Jim Powers finished secondin the Missouri Open.

After a break for Thanksgiving, Boris Novachkov captured the 133-pound championship in the 28th Annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas CollegiateInvitational at the Star of the Desert Arena.

Filip Novachkov, seeded sixth at 141 pounds, settled for second placeas he dropped a 5-3 decision to top-seeded Reece Humphrey of OhioState. Pami placed fifth at 157 pounds.

Cal Poly finished seventh among 44 schools in the team standings with78.5 points.

Needing a victory in the final match, Maldonado earned a technical fallas the Mustangs beat Cal State Bakersfield 22-18 in another Pac-10 dualmeet at the Icardo Center, stretching their season-opening dual winningstreak to three.

Cal Poly also received victories from Maldonado, Pami, DesRochesand the Novachkov brothers.

Boris Novachkov andDesRoches earned second-placefinishes to highlight Cal Poly’sperformance in the RenoTournament of Champions atthe Reno DowntownConvention Center.

Two other Mustangs -- Pamiat 157 pounds and Ryan Smithat 197 pounds -- earned fifth-place finishes as Cal Poly placedsixth among 26 schools.

In early January, No. 4Oklahoma State overcame a 9-6deficit by winning four of thefinal five bouts, including a trioof major decisions, to defeat Cal

Poly 21-13 in Stillwater, Okla.The Novachkov brothers and

Pami continued their winningways the next day in Norman,Okla., but Cal Poly dropped a 27-13 decision to No. 10 Oklahoma.

Boris Novachkov earned a 9-0major decision over Greg Cannonat 133 pounds while FilipNovachkov followed with hisfifth pin of the year, upsetting No.4-ranked Zack Bailey in 4 min-utes, 18 seconds. Pami was a 4-1winner over No. 12 ShaneVernon.

Back home, Smith’s first-peri-od fall put an exclamation pointon Cal Poly’s 29-9 victory overNorth Dakota State in Mott Gym.

The Mustangs won six of thenine contested matches and alsopicked up six points for a forfeit at133 pounds. Filip Novachkovfaced North Dakota State’s topwrestler, Ryan Adams, and earneda 9-6 decision.

Four consecutive technical falls by Filip Novachkov, Nick Fisher,Geoff Doss and Travis Rasmussen sparked Cal Poly to a 32-9 victoryover San Francisco State. Steven Vasquez, Kelan Bragg and Smith allwon by decision, giving Cal Poly seven straight wins after a forfeit at 133pounds, the opening bout.

A fall by Filip Novachkov and a major decision by Pami sparked CalPoly to a 28-11 victory over Stanford.Novachkov needed just one minute to pinBret Baumbach while Pami scored sixtakedowns, one escape and riding time toearn a 14-5 major decision against MikeKent.

No. 12 Boise State rode a technical fallby No. 1-ranked Kirk Smith and victoriesin two matches pitting nationally rankedwrestlers as the Broncos defeated CalPoly 23-13. The Mustangs won just twoof the nine contested matches andreceived a forfeit at 133.

Doss and DesRoches earned champi-onships at the California Collegiates host-ed by San Francisco State. Doss won fourmatches at 157 pounds, including an 8-2decision against Andrew Balch of CalState Bakersfield in the finals. DesRochesearned the title at 174 pounds with fourwins (two falls), defeating Troy Goodbanof Cal State Bakersfield 11-4 in the cham-pionship match.

Finishing second for the Mustangswere Brandan Rocha at 133 pounds andFisher at 149 while Vasquez (165) andChristian (149) placed third.

Technical falls by Smith and FilipNovachkov plus a major decision by Pami gave No. 16 Cal Poly justenough bonus points to edge Arizona State 20-18.

The Mustangs forfeited the bout at 125 but did not give up any morebonus points as Arizona State secured four wins by decision. Each teamwon five matches.

No. 18 Oregon State won four of the final five bouts, including a fall

Ryan Smith finished 19-11 andsecond in the Pac-10 finals at197 pounds last season.

Chase Pami finished second in the Pac-10 finals and secondin the nation at 157 pounds last year, earning 100 career wins.

Mustangs Rebound With Strong Performances

Ryan DesRochesearned 17 falls and a 34-10 record in 2009-10season, placing third inPac-10 finals at 174.


2009-10 Statistics8-4 Overall, 5-2 Pac-10

Overall Duals Tnmts.Name Wt. Class W-L Pct. W-L W-L Dec. Maj. T.F. Fall FF/DFChase Aura 125 4-5 .444 1-0 3-5 1 0 0 2 1/0Nick Basile 197 0-2 .000 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 0 0/0Kelen Bragg 197 9-14 .391 2-5 7-9 7 1 2 1 0/0David Christian 149 13-6 .684 1-0 12-6 11 2 0 1 0/0Ben Crosby 184 4-5 .444 .0-0 4-5 2 1 1 0 0/0Ryan DesRoches 174-184 34-10 .773 9-2 25-8 11 5 0 17 1/0Geoffrey Doss 157 12-6 .667 1-1 11-5 3 2 3 4 0/0Mike Dumelle 157 2-7 .222 0-0 2-7 2 0 0 0 0/0Micah Ferguson 125 8-18 .308 2-9 6-9 6 2 0 0 0/0Nick Fisher 149 17-8 .640 4-2 13-6 4 1 4 7 0/1Grant Haschak 197 18-7 .720 0- 18-7 6 1 6 5 0/0Tyler Holt 184 0-10 .000 0-2 0-8 0 0 0 0 0/0John Hooper 149 1-2 .333 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 0 0/0Britain Longmire 125 6-5 .545 0-0 6-5 2 2 1 1 0/0Eric Maldonado 149 12-8 .600 3-2 9-6 5 3 3 0 1/0Boris Novachkov 133 28-5 .848 8-2 20-3 18 4 1 4 1/0Filip Novachkov 141 25-8 .758 11-1 14-7 9 3 2 7 0/0Chase Pami 157 29-7 .805 10-1 19-6 12 12 3 1 1/0Jeremy Paragan 285 1-2 .333 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 0 0/0Jim Powers 285 14-19 .424 2-9 12-10 9 1 1 2 1/0Travis Rasmussen 165-174 13-12 .520 1-4 12-8 4 5 3 0 0/1Brandan Rocha 133 9-3 .750 0-0 9-3 6 0 0 3 0/0Lenny Romero 285 9-4 .693 0-1 9-3 3 1 0 4 1/0Ryan Smith 197 19-11 .633 7-4 12-7 8 5 2 2 1/1Pearce Swerdfeger 157 12-6 .667 0-0 12-6 8 1 0 3 0/0Jake Tanenbaum 125 13-9 .591 0-0 13-9 5 4 0 2 2/0Stephen Thalin 157 12-7 .632 0-0 12-7 8 1 1 2 0/0Steven Vasquez 165-174 17-14 .548 4-6 13-8 10 7 0 0 0/0Andy Wagner 141 3-5 .375 0-0 3-5 2 0 1 0 0/0Totals: 345-222 .608 66-51 278-171 162 66 34 68 10/3

2009-10 ResultsDate Opponent TimeNov. 7 GREEN vs. GOLD NTSNov. 14 *at Cal State Fullerton 26-13 WNov. 20 at Missouri 22-15 WNov. 22 at Missouri Open NTSDec. 4-5 at Las Vegas Invitational (Primm) 7thDec. 16 *at Cal State Bakersfield 22-18 WDec. 20 at Reno Tnmt. of Champions 6thJan. 2 at Oklahoma State 13-21 LJan. 3 at Oklahoma 13-27 LJan. 9 NORTH DAKOTA STATE 29-9 WJan. 14 at San Francisco State 32-9 WJan. 22 *STANFORD 28-11 WJan. 24 *BOISE STATE 13-23 LJan. 30 at All-California Open (@SFS) NTSFeb. 5 *ARIZONA STATE 20-18 WFeb. 6 *OREGON STATE 18-21 LFeb. 12 *UC DAVIS 34-7 WFeb. 26-27 Pacific-10 Conference

Championships (@ UC Davis) ThirdMar. 18-20 NCAA Championships

(@ Omaha, NE) T-18th* Pacific-10 Conference match

2009-10 Season in Review

by Colby Covington at 174 pounds, to rally from a 14-6 deficit and beatCal Poly 21-18.

Cal Poly won three consecutive bouts to build the early lead. FilipNovachkov earned an 11-2 major decision over Mike Mangrum at 141and Fisher pinned No. 17 RJ Pena in 5 minutes, 27 seconds to win the149-pound bout. Pami completed the run with a 14-5 major decisionagainst Keegan Davis in another matchup of nationally ranked wrestlers.

Cal Poly seniors Micah Ferguson and Pami earned victories in theirfinal duals as Mustangs and Filip Novachkov won by a fall as theMustangs defeated UC Davis 34-7.

At the Pac-10 Championships hosted by UC Davis, Boris Novachkovcaptured the conference title at 133 pounds, four other Mustangs finishedsecond and DesRoches claimed third place at 174 as Cal Poly settled fora third-place team finish after leading in the first two sessions.

The quartet of Mustangs who placed second were Filip Novachkov at

141 pounds, Fisher at 149, Pami at 157 and Smith at 197.Three weeks later at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb., Pami

became the sixth NCAA Division I runner-up in Mustang wrestling his-tory. Trying to become the third Division I national champion, Pami led2-1 early in the first period, but eventually fell 6-4 to top-seeded J.P.O'Connor of Harvard in the 157-pound final.

Boris Novachkov claimed seventh place and All-American honorsafter pinning Steve Bell of Maryland in the second period of their 133-pound bout. Novachkov posted a 4-2 mark in the three-day tourna-ment and finished the year with a 28-5 record (56-17 in his Cal Polycareer).

Cal Poly, earning a pair of All-American honors in the nationals for thefirst time in six years, finished in a tie for 18th place with Michigan State,each with 30 points. Darrell Vasquez was fourth at 133 pounds and VicMoreno placed sixth at 125 in 2004.

StevenVasquez(left) won17 of 31

bouts lastseason and

placed infour tourna-ments whileNick Fisher(right) was

17-8, finished

second inPac-10

finals andqualified for

NCAAfinals.

Iceman: My Fighting Life


huck Liddell ranks as one of, if not the,most famous Cal Poly graduates in theschool’s history. For two years Chuck

“The Iceman” Liddell reigned as the UFC lightheavyweight champion, but before that, Liddellstarred in Mott Gym as a 190-pound wrestler.

Recently, Liddell released a book that chronicleshis life as a fighter. Iceman: My Fighting Lifedebuted on February 17, 2008, and spent multi-ple weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Liddell started training for his career at the ageof 12 in Santa Barbara. He was a four-yearstarter on the football team at San Marcos High School, andbecame a Division I wrestler at Cal Poly in 1988. After spend-ing five years on the wrestling squad, Liddell would completehis degree while pursuing a career as a professional fighter,graduating in 1995 with a B.A.in business. As a graduation giftto himself, he had his iconic tattoo inked on his scalp whichreads “Koei-Kan” (“prosper with happiness.”) He would thentransition to mixed martial artist when he earned a purple beltin Brazilian jiu-jitsu under John Lewis, ultimately aiming for acareer that would take his fame and fortune to a new level.

Liddell made his UFC debut in 1998 with a decision victoryover Noe Hernandez. He soon established his reputation as adevastating striker with victories over Tito Ortiz, RenatoSobral and Wanderlei Silva over the next few years. On May26, 2004, he knocked out Randy Couture in two minutes to

win the Light Heavyweight Title. He defendedhis titles successfully five times, all ending witheither a knockout or a TKO. He surrendered hisbelt after losing in a matchup with Quinton“Rampage” Jackson, three years to the day ofbeing crowned champion.

Despite his busy schedule as a fighter and aworld-renowned celebrity, Liddell still takes timeto remember his roots as a Cal Poly Mustang.Liddell can often be seen matside at Cal Polymatches and is an avid fan of the team. He wasinducted into the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fameon Sept. 11, 2009.

Chuck‘The Iceman’

Liddell

Cal Poly1988-93

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Chuck Liddell “faces off” with Cal Poly 197-pound wrestlerRyan Smith during a practice session in 2008.

Cal Poly Wrestling Records


Most Wins (25) — Glenn Anderson, 1973Best Win Percentage (1.000) — Glenn Anderson, 1973

Rick Worel, 1980Scott Heaton, 1980 Seth Woodhill, 1993 Jake Gaeir, 1994Ken Wyatt, 1968 Neal Mason, 1994Chad Mendes, 2008

Best Win Streak (25) — Glenn Anderson 1973Most Pins (12) — Scott Heaton 1979Most Takedowns (90) — Robert Kiddy 1978Most Escapes (58) — Steve Strange 1999Most Penalty Points (17) — Seth Woodhill 1993

Most Team Points (116) — Glenn Anderson 1973Most Wins (82) — Scott Heaton, 1976-80Best Win Percentage (.878) — Scott Heaton, 1976-80Best Two Year Win % (.960) — Neal Mason, 1993-95,

Seth Woodhill, 1991-93

Ken Wyatt, 1966-68Most Wins (41) — Cedric Haymon, 2002

Luis Montano, 1983Best Win Percentage (.981) — Tom Kline, 1969 Most Pins (17) — Tom Kline, 1969

Ryan DesRoches, 2010Most Takedowns (203) — Eric Osborne, 1988

Most Wins (136) — Scott Heaton, 1976-80Best Win Percentage (.939) — Terry Hall, 1968-70Most Pins (55) — Scott Heaton, 1976-80

Year Place1969 . . . . . . . . . . . .5th1972 . . . . . . . . . . .21st1975 . . . . . . . . . . . .8th1976 . . . . . . . . . . . .6th1977 . . . . . . . . . .22nd1978 . . . . . . . . . . . .9th1980 . . . . . . . . . . .12th1981 . . . . . . . . .T44th1982 . . . . . . . . .T24th1983 . . . . . . . . . . . .9th1984 . . . . . . . . . .22nd1985 . . . . . . . . . . .11th

Year Place1986 . . . . . . . . .T45th1988 . . . . . . . . . . .25th1989 . . . . . . . . .T44th1990 . . . . . . . . .T49th1991 . . . . . . . . .T58th1992 . . . . . . . . .T54th1993 . . . . . . . . . . .36th1994 . . . . . . . . . . .27th1995 . . . . . . . . .T36th1996 . . . . . . . . . . .41st1997 . . . . . . . . . .33rd1998 . . . . . . . . . . .28th

Year Place1999 . . . . . . . . .T44th2000 . . . . . . . . .T55th2001 . . . . . . . . .T60th2002 . . . . . . . . .T29th2003 . . . . . . . . . . .31st2004 . . . . . . . . . . .16th2005 . . . . . . . . . . .25th2006 . . . . . . . . . .23rd2007 . . . . . . . . . . .27th2008 . . . . . . . . .T26th2009 . . . . . . . . . .43rd2010 . . . . . . . . .T18th

Year Place1965 . . . . . . . . . . .2nd1966 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st1967 . . . . . . . . . . . .7th1968 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st

Year Place1969 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st1970 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st1971 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st1972 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st

Year Place1973 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st1974 . . . . . . . . . . . .1st

Name Sports Years at Poly Year InductedTom Kline Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1966-69 1987Pat Lovell Wrestling, Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1957-60 1989Tom Hall Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1952-54, 1957-60 1990Donald Adams Wrestling, Boxing, Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1956-63 1991Sheldon Harden Coaching — Wrestling and Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1948-87 1991Norm Gomes Wrestling, Athletic Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1954-58 1993Glenn Anderson Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1969-73 2000Eduardo Labastida-Ochoa Wrestling, Soccer, Boxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1954-57 2000Larry Morgan Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1970-73 2003Scott Heaton Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1976-80 2008John Woods Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1964-69 2009Chuck Liddell Wrestling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1988-93 2009

Cal Poly’s only NCAA Division I national champions are Mark DiGirolamo (left), who won in 1976, and Tom Kline, the 1969 champ.

Cal Poly Team Finishes at NCAA Tournament

Wrestlers in the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame

Dual Meets (Season)Division I

Division II

Bruce Lynn :08 vs Oregon State (Mark Evenhus) 1975Frank Oates :12 vs UCLA (Jeff Johnson) 1971Ryan O’ Leary :15 vs Bucknell (Jason Prokopcha) 1992Keith Leland :17 vs Stanford (Mark Feinstein) 1972David Jack :18 vs So Illinois (Steve Byrne) 1979Scott Heaton :18 vs Utah (Noel Prudent) 1980Steve Gardner :19 vs Cal (Larry Cohn) 1973Lennis Cowell :22 vs Northridge (Al Nett) 1965Scott Heaton :22 vs Northridge (Jeff Watson) 1977Howard Lawson :23 vs Oregon State (Terry Johnson) 1983Dan Hayes :24 vs Fresno State (Darrel Goodin) 1977Dale Amber :26 vs Long Beach St (Larry Budgen) 1981Chris Delong :31 vs San Jose St (Anthony Palomino) 1984David Wells :33 vs Portland State (Adam Thomas) 1999Chad Mendes :33 vs Stanford (Max Rosefigura) 2008

Dual Meets (Career)

Overall (Season)

Overall (Career)

Quickest Dual Meet Falls

This is Cal Poly

More than 19,000 students, nationally-renown courses of study and the top-ranked public master’s university in the western United States

... all 11 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

Located in the central California coastal town of San Luis Obispo, Cal Polycomprises one of 23 campuses in the California State University, thenation’s largest four-year undergraduate university system. Each CSU

campus is given considerable freedom to develop its programs and each insti-tution boasts its own qualities and strengths.

Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing principle of instruction prepares undergraduates forcareers in applied technical and professional fields. From computersto crops, Cal Poly holds that the best preparation for any endeavoris derived through practical application. This ideal has set Cal Polyapart from other institutions and been the school’s driving philoso-phy since its 1901 founding.

Courses at Cal Poly emphasize a high proportion of lab work, field-work and special assignments, culminating with a senior project.Unique on-campus opportunities – such as an organic farm and astudent-run daily newspaper and majors of study ranging from aero-space engineering to wine and viticulture – make hands-on learning a daily real-ity at Cal Poly. In total, Cal Poly confers bachelor's degrees in 64 separate areasof study. Nine of those degrees are exclusive to the San Luis Obispo campus(see next page). For 17-consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report hasranked Cal Poly as the top public master’s university in the western UnitedStates. The publication also ranked Cal Poly’s College of Engineering as the No.3 program in the nation among public non-doctoral institutions (see below).

On-campus activities are headquartered at the renown University Union andCal Poly’s student-run activities have earned enviable reputations across thenation. Week of Welcome offers first-quarter students a successful introduction

to the collegiate experience through a team of trained student leaders and uni-versity officials, all of whom provide academic and social resources, encourageawareness and promote relationships with the campus and central coast com-munity.

Athletically, Cal Poly boasts one of the most successful Division I programsfor an institution of its size. During the 2009-10 academic year, the athletics

department – which sponsors 20 varsity programs – captured BigWest Conference championships in women’s soccer, men’s crosscountry and men’s tennis and enjoyed the All-America selections ofwrestlers Chase Pami and Boris Novachkov. Women’s basketballforward Kristina Santiago was named Big West Player of the Yearwhile softball designated player Anna Cahn earned Big West FieldPlayer of the Year praise. Mustangs earned 42 all-conference hon-ors while seven Cal Poly student-athletes were named Big WestFreshman of the Year in their respective sports.

As testament to Cal Poly’s athletics and academic integrity, 38 Mustangs col-lected Big West All-Academic praise during the 2009-10 school year. The CalPoly Athletics Department also finished second in the Big West Commissioner’sCup, an award presented to the institution with the best overall results in theconference's 18 sponsored sports.

Internationally, Cal Poly was represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics byformer Mustangs Sharon Day (United States, high jump), Jimmy Van Ostrand(Canada, baseball) and Stephanie Brown Trafton, whose gold medal for theUnited States in the discus competition was the first such feat by a Mustang ath-lete.

For the 17th-straight year, Cal Poly was rated by U.S.News and World Report as the best public master’s uni-versity in the western United States in its 2010America’s Best Colleges guidebook. Cal Poly moved upfour spots from 10th to sixth in the publication’s overalllist of the west’s best universities – including both publicand private institutions – that provide “a full range ofundergraduate and master’s-level programs but few, ifany, doctoral programs.” The publication ranks collegesthat grant doctoral degrees, such as those in theUniversity of California system, in a separate category.

“Perhaps the most important gauge of the effective-ness of Cal Poly’s educational programs is how suc-cessful our graduates are in the real world,” said formerCal Poly President Warren J. Baker, who retired in2010 after serving for 31 years. “We hear that our grad-uates are doing great things and we take pride in that.Getting a ranking in U.S. News for the 17th straightyear, however, helps to validate the quality of our pro-

grams and the success of our gifted faculty inpreparing students to meet the challenges they willface.”

Within individual areas of study, U.S. News andWorld Report ranked Cal Poly’s College ofEngineering No. 3 among public engineering pro-grams for schools whose highest degree is a bach-elor’s or master’s (Cal Poly was bested only by theUnited States Military and Naval Academies).

A number of College of Engineering programsranked high in the Best UndergraduateEngineering Programs categories. Cal Poly’sindustrial and manufacturing, computer, electricaland mechanical engineering programs were eachranked as the top program at a public university intheir respective specialty categories. Cal Poly’scivil and environmental engineering tracks wereboth ranked as the second best programs at a pub-lic university.

The College of Engineering, located on the northwestcorner of the Cal Poly campus.

Athletics and Academic Excellence • www.gopoly.com

CAL POLY AN ACADEMIC DYNASTY 17 YEARS IN THE MAKINGBEST IN THE WEST

• Affiliation: Member of the 23-campus California State University, the largest four-year public university system within the United States

• Location: San Luis Obispo, approximately 220 miles south of San Francisco and 200 miles north of Los Angeles

• Terms: Four 11-week quarters per year• Student Body (Fall 2009 Quarter): 19,325• Faculty: 1,047, with a 19-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio• Accredited and Recognized Programs: 24• Estimated 2009-10 Annual Fee Average for Students (California

Residents): Undergraduates – $5,826; Graduate – $6,066• Out-of-State Tuition (2009-10): $226 per quarter unit in addition to

regular tuition fees• Room and Board (2009-10): $9,846 per year

THE CAL POLY BREAKDOWN


• During the last survey conducted among thosestudents who graduated during the 2007-08 aca-demic year, 89.1 percent of Cal Poly studentsreported working full time or attending graduateschool within one year of receiving an undergrad-uate degree. Breaking down the figures, 70.2 per-cent of Cal Poly graduates were working full timewithin one year of graduation, 18.9 percent wereattending graduate school and 4.6 percent wereat least employed part time. Additionally, 94 per-cent of those employed were in fields related totheir college degree.

• The median starting salary for those Cal Polystudents graduating during the 2007-08 academ-ic year was $52,000.

• Cal Poly’s admissions process is highly compet-itive. The fall 2010 quarter marked the 16th-straight year that the university experienced arecord applicant pool of nearly 41,000 prospectivestudents. Freshmen enrolled for the Fall 2009term had an average high school GPAof 3.81, anaverage ACT score of 26.3, an average SAT 1reading score of 579 and an average SAT 1 mathscore of 623.

• Cal Poly has more than 117,000 alumni livingand working across the globe. San Luis ObispoCounty features the largest concentration of CalPoly alumni (14,479), followed by Santa ClaraCounty (8,480) and Los Angeles County (8,454).

• Cal Poly’s main campus features more than1,300 acres. Off-site acreage includes the adja-cent San Luis Creek Ranches (1,614 acres), non-adjacent Western Ranches (3,043), SwantonPacific Ranch in Santa Cruz County (3,200) andthe Valencia Property (500), also located in SantaCruz County. Cal Poly is the second-largest land-holding institution in the state, ranking behind theUniversity of California. Cal Poly, however, usesall of its holdings in active support of education.

• Cal Poly annually remains among the top-10schools in the United States in granting degreesto Hispanic, Asian and other minority students inthe fields of agriculture, architecture and engineer-ing. With information compiled by Diverse Issuesin Higher Education magazine, Cal Poly rankedNo. 4 nationally in granting agriculture degrees toHispanic students; No. 5 in architecture degreesto students of all minority groups and architecturedegrees to both Asian and Hispanic students; No.

6 in agriculture degrees to Asian students; No. 7in agriculture degrees to students of all minoritygroups and No. 8 in engineering degrees toHispanic students. Overall, Cal Poly ranked No.12 in granting degrees to all minorities.

• Hundreds of firms recruit and employ Cal Polygrads each year. Cal Poly annually hosts between300 and 600 employers through an on-campusrecruiting program and career fairs.

• Measuring 203,605 square feet, Robert E.Kennedy Library contains approximately2,576,300 items. This collection features morethan 620,000 books, 107,000 bound periodicalsand an extensive collection of government docu-ments and exclusive collections.

• In 2009, prominent architectural and engineeringjournal DesignIntelligence rated Cal Poly’s archi-tecture program as the third-strongest curriculumin the United States. The architecture departmentreceived a $60 million pledge from an anonymousdonor in 2007. At the time, it marked the largestsingle gift ever made to a campus in the CSU sys-tem.

• Recognized as a leading source of accountinggraduates, Cal Poly’s Orfalea College of Businessis one of only two public universities in California(along with the University of California) to be rec-ognized by Business Week magazine as one ofthe top 100 undergraduate business programs inthe nation.

• As part of developing a comprehensive curricu-lum for a degree in wine and viticulture, Cal Polyand E&J Gallo Winery have established a state-of-the-art vineyard on campus.

• The National Science Foundation has recog-nized Cal Poly’s science programs as among themost innovative undergraduate curriculums in theUnited States. A new 190,000-square foot Centerfor Science and Mathematics is expected to becompleted by 2011.

• The College of Agriculture, Food andEnvironmental Sciences is the nation’s fourth-largest undergraduate agricultural program atapproximately 3,832 students, as of the Fall 2008term. The college was recently awarded $7.6 mil-lion in research grants from the CaliforniaAgricultural Research Initiative.

FACTS, FIGURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS


THE CAL POLY EXPERIENCE

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, FOODAND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

• Agricultural Business (BS)• Agricultural Science (BS)• Agricultural Systems Management*

(BS)• Animal Science (BS)• BioResource and Agricultural

Engineering* (BS)• Crop Science* (BS, Minor)• Dairy Science* (BS, Minor)• Earth Sciences (BS)• Environmental Horticultural Science*

(BS)• Environmental Management and

Protection (BS)• Food Science (BS, Minor)• Forestry and Natural Resources (BS)• Fruit Science *(BS, Minor)• Nutrition (BS, Minor)• Recreation, Parks and Tourism

Administration (BS)• Soil Science* (BS, Minor)• Wine and Viticulture (BS, Minor)

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE ANDENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

• Architecture (BArch)• Architectural Engineering* (BS, Minor)• City and Regional Planning (BS, MCRP,

Minor)• Construction Management (BS, Minor)• Landscape Architecture (BLA)

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING• Aerospace Engineering (BS)• Biomedical Engineering* (BS)• Civil Engineering (BS)• Computer Engineering (BS)• Computer Science (BS, Minor)• Electrical Engineering (BS)• Environmental Engineering (BS)• General Engineering (BS)• Industrial Engineering (BS)• Manufacturing Engineering (BS)• Materials Engineering (BS)• Mechanical Engineering (BS)• Software Engineering (BS)

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS• Anthropology/Geography (BA)• Art and Design (BA)• Child Development (BS, Minor)• Communication Studies (BA, Minor)• Comparative Ethnic Studies (BA)• English (BA, Minor)• Graphic Communication (BS, Minor)• History (BA, Minor)• Journalism (BS)• Modern Languages and Literatures

(BA)• Music (BA, Minor)• Philosophy (BA, Minor)• Political Science (BA)• Psychology (BS, Minor)• Social Sciences (BS)• Sociology (BA, minor)• Theatre Arts (BA, Minor)

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

• Biochemistry (BS)• Biological Sciences (BS)• Chemistry (BS)• Kinesiology (BS)• Liberal Studies (BS/BA)• Mathematics (BS, Minor)• Microbiology (BS, Minor)• Physics (BS, BA, Minor)• Statistics (BS, Minor)

ORFALEA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS• Business Administration (BS)• Economics (BS, Minor)• Industrial Technology (BS, Minor)

SEPARATE MINOR PROGRAMS• Agricultural Communication• Agribusiness• Anthropology/Geography• Art History• Asian Studies• Astronomy• Biology• Biotechnology• Business• Dance• Disaster Management and Homeland

Security• Environmental Studies• Equine Science• Ethnic Studies• French• Geographic Information Systems • Geology

• German• Gerontology• Global Politics• Integrated Project Delivery• Land Rehabilitation• Landscape Horticulture• Latin American Studies• Law and Society• Linguistics• Meat Science and Processing• Military Science• Multidisciplinary Design• Ornamental Plant Production• Packaging• Photography• Plant Protection Science• Poultry Management• Rangeland Resources• Real Property Development• Religious Studies• Spanish• Studio Art• Sustainable Agriculture• Sustainable Environments• Values, Technology and Society• Water Science• Western Intellectual Tradition• Women's and Gender Studies

MASTER’S PROGRAMS• Accounting-Taxation (MS)• Aerospace Engineering (MS)• Agribusiness (MS, MBA)• Agriculture (MS), with specializations in

Agricultural Education; Agricultural Engineering Technology; Animal Science; Crop Science; Dairy Products Technology; Environmental Horticulture Science; Food Science and Nutrition; Irrigation; Plant Protection Science; Recreation, Parks and Tourism Management and Soil Science.

• Architecture (dual MBA-BArch)• Biological Sciences (MS, MA)• Business and Technology (MS)• City and Regional Planning

(MCRP/MS)• Civil and Environmental

Engineering (MS)• Computer Science (MS)• Economics (MS)• Education (MA)• Electrical Engineering (MS)• Engineering (MS), with specializations in

Biochemical Engineering; Bioengineering; Biomedical Engineering; Integrated Technology Management; Materials Engineering and Water Engineering

• Engineering Management (dual MBA-MS)

• English (MA)• Forestry Sciences (MS)• General Management (MBA)• Graphic Communication Document

Systems Management (MBA)• History (MA)• Industrial and Technical Studies (dual

MBA-MS)• Industrial Engineering (MS)• Kinesiology (MS)• Landscape Architecture

(dual MBA-BLA)• Mathematics (MS)• Mechanical Engineering (MS)• Polymers and Coatings Science (MS)• Psychology (MS)• Public Policy (MPP)• Transportation Planning (MCRP/MS)

DOCTORATE• Education (through College of Education

and in conjunction with UC Santa Barbara)

CREDENTIAL PROGRAMS• Administrative Services• Agriculture Specialist • Education Specialist (Mild/Moderate

Disabilities)• Single Subject, including Agriculture

Instruction; Biological Science Instruction; Chemistry Instruction; English Instruction; Mathematics Instruction; Social Science Instruction; Physical Education Instruction; Physics Instruction

• Multiple Subject Instruction• Multiple Subject; Bilingual Cross-

Cultural Language and Academic Development Emphasis

* Among California State Universitysystem’s 23 campuses, major course of study exclusive to Cal Poly.

DEGREE PROGRAMS

• Male: 10,837 (56% of population); Female: 8,488 (44%)• Average Age: 20.8• Approximate Geographic Undergraduate Origin: San Francisco Bay Area 31%, Los

Angeles area/Orange County 23%, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties 9%, San Joaquin Valley 8.5%, San Diego area 8%, Sacramento area 7%, remaining California 5.5%, remaining United States 6.8%, International 0.4%

• Applications for Approximately 4,000 freshman seats for 2010 Fall Term: Nearly 41,000• Enrolled: 3,908 first-time freshmen, 716 transfer students• First-Time Freshman Student Average High School GPA: 3.81• First-Time Freshman Student Average High School SAT 1 Reading Score: 579• First-Time Freshman Student Average High School SAT 1 Math Score: 623• First-Time Freshman Student Average High School ACT Score: 26.3• Average Transfer Student GPA: 3.32

*All figures taken from fall 2009 quarter unless noted otherwise

CAL POLY STUDENT BREAKDOWN*


In the 1890s, when a proposal for a teacher training school in San LuisObispo seemed unlikely to succeed, California State Senator SylvesterC. Smith instead suggested a polytechnic institute. Myron Angel, chron-

icler of San Luis Obispo County history, became an ardent supporter ofthe idea and articulated a vision to establish a school that would “teachthe hand as well as the head.” The plan succeeded and on March 8,1901, legislation was signed founding the California Polytechnic School,then a vocational high school.

During the ensuing three decades, Cal Poly evolved into the modernequivalent of a junior college, but its future became uncertain. In 1933,however, Julian A. McPhee, chief of the California Bureau of AgriculturalEducation, saved the institution from abolishment by agreeing to becomeschool president. During the next 33 years, McPhee guided Cal Poly’stransformation into a four-year institution and set an educational standardstill emulated today.

Cal Poly’s first baccalaureate exercises were held in May 1942 and in1947, the institution was officially renamed California State PolytechnicCollege. As programs continued to evolve, the institution becameCalifornia Polytechnic State University in 1972.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS,TRANSCENDENT FUTURE

Robin BaggettFormer General Counsel,Golden State WarriorsBobby Beathard Former NFL GeneralManager, San DiegoChargers and WashingtonRedskinsRichard Bergquist CTO, PeopleSoftGary Bloom Chairman, Cal PolyFoundation; former CEO ofVeritas Data CenterSoftwareDean Borgman Developer of NOTAR, arotor-free helicopter systemElizabeth D. Carey Executive engineer anddirector, Cummins, Inc.Gregory ChamitoffFlight engineer, InternationalSpace StationRobert A. Coltrin Jr.Senior show set designer,Walt Disney ImagineeringJim Considine President, Ryder Stilwell,Inc., and former chair ofCSU Board of TrusteesLaura Diaz Co-News Anchor, KCBS2/Los AngelesGeorge P. Foster Owner, Foster FarmsMichelle Franzen Correspondent, NBC NewsThomas Gallo General manager, GalloWineriesDanny GansFormer singer, comedian, impressionist and Las VegasEntertainer of the YearRobert L. Gibson Retired Chief Astronaut,Johnson SpaceCenter/NASAMohinder Gill Founder, Mohinder Sportsand 1972 Olympian for IndiaGreg Hind Founder, Hind Sportswear, Inc. Kathleen Holmgren Senior Vice President, SunMicrosystemsPeter H. King National correspondent, LosAngeles TimesMike KrukowFormer Major League pitcher; current SanFrancisco Giants radio andTV analyst

Chuck LiddellFormer Ultimate Fightinglight heavyweight championand Cal Poly wrestlerJohn Madden Emmy Award-winning football commentator and1976 Super Bowl championcoachInonge Mbikusita-LewanikaZambian Ambassador to theUnited StatesNeel MurarkaProgram Manager, MicrosoftDevin NunesU.S. Congressman (CA)Linda Ozawa Olds, KirkPerron, Joseph VergaraTri-founders, Jamba JuiceGeorge RadanovichU.S. Congressman (CA)George RamosPulitzer Prize winner at LosAngeles Times and formerJournalism Department chairRobert Rowell Team President, GoldenState WarriorsLoren Roberts Champions Tour golferBurt Rutan Pioneering designer of “Voyager,” the first aircraftto fly non-stop around EarthKarin Smith Five-time U.S. Olympian in the javelin and first female inducted into Cal Poly Athletics Hall of FameOzzie SmithHall of Fame Major LeagueshortstopRick Sturckow Lieutenant Colonel, USMCand NASA astronautBill SwansonPresident, RaytheonRobert Charles TapellaNamed in 2007 as PublicPrinter of the United StatesTed TollnerCurrent passing game coordinator, OaklandRaiders, and former headcoach at USC and SanDiego StateAlvin Trivelpiece Former director, U.S.Department of Energy’sOffice of Energy“Weird Al” Yankovic Grammy Award-winning parodist and entertainer

FROM SAN LUIS OBISPO TOSPACE, THE NATION’S ELITE CALL

CAL POLY HOME


CAL POLY HISTORY DISTINGUISHED AND NOTABLE ALUMNI

Hall of Fame MajorLeague shortstop

Ozzie Smithplayed

at Cal Polybetween 1974-77

Gregory Chamitoffwas aboard

the InternationalSpace Station

in 2008

Robert CharlesTapella is entrusted

as Public Printer of the United States

Former UFC light heavyweight

champion ChuckLiddell wrestled

at Cal Poly

With the Orfalea College of Business in the background, O’Neill Green hosts, amongother activities, a tailgate prior to football games at the adjacent and recently remodeledAlex G. Spanos Stadium. A 1948 graduate of the College of Agriculture, the late Richard J.O’Neill is the founder of Supporters of Mustang Athletics Teams (SUMAT) and was instru-mental in helping to stabilize funding for Cal Poly.

Dedicated in 2006 and situated outside of Alex G. Spanos Stadium, Mustang MemorialPlaza commemorates the 18 Cal Poly football players, team manager and program sup-porter who perished Oct. 29, 1960 in an airplane accident outside of Toledo, Ohio.


Alison E. Cone was named as Cal Poly’s Directorof Athletics on Jan. 31, 2005 following one year ofservice as the Interim Director of Athletics and 10

years as the Senior Associate Athletics Director. Of themore than 300 colleges and universities that supportmen’s basketball at the Division I level, Cone is one ofjust a handful of female athletics directors. At Cal Poly,Cone oversees 20 Division I programs and more than400 student-athletes. In five years under Cone’s direc-tion, Cal Poly’s athletics programs have captured 13 dif-ferent conference titles and made 12 team NCAA Tournament showings.

Since arriving at Cal Poly in 1994 and prior to taking the Director ofAthletics position, Cone oversaw the department’s NCAA compliance andacademic support programs and served as department liaison for NCAA cer-tification. She also served as a member of the department’s managementteam, administering Cal Poly’s letter-of-intent program and athletics scholar-ship budgets.

Currently, Cone serves on the Big West Conference Council and theDirectors Council of the Great West Conference.

Cone, who at one time served as chair of the Big West ComplianceCommittee, worked for the passage of a fee referendum to fund athleticsscholarships during her year as Interim Director of Athletics.

Cone arrived at Cal Poly from Washington State University, where sheserved as the Director of Athletics Academic Services between 1992-94.

Her duties with Washington State’s athletics programs included the gover-nance of academic support programs for student-athletes. She directed andsupervised the activities of the athletics department counselors, interns,tutors and proctors.

Prior to working at Washington State, Cone was the Academic Coordinatorat Cal State Fullerton between 1983-92 and the Director for Student Servicesat Cal State Dominguez Hills between 1982-83.

Cone earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from WashingtonState in 1975, a teaching certificate from Central Washington University oneyear later and a master’s degree in education from Cal State DominguezHills in 1982.

Cone has been coaching and teaching since 1975, having handled tennis,track, soccer and basketball at the high school level, basketball and volley-ball at Green River Community College in Auburn, Wash., and serving as thehead tennis coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Cone is a native of Ellensburg, Washington.

CAL POLY ADMINISTRATION


INTERIM PRESIDENT DR. ROBERT GLIDDEN

Dr. Robert Glidden, president emeritus of OhioUniversity, was named interim president of CalPoly on Aug. 1. Glidden assumed the appointment

following the July 31 departure of retiring PresidentWarren J. Baker. Glidden will serve until the presidentialsearch is completed.

As President Emeritus at Ohio, Glidden oversaw apublic research institution with 20,000 students and anadditional 9,000 students on five regional campusesthroughout southeast Ohio. During his tenure asPresident at Ohio (1994-04), Glidden led strategic planning efforts that engagedthe community and refocused Ohio’s mission to solidify its status as one ofAmerica’s top 100 research universities. He oversaw the technological develop-ment of the institution and established the Office of Nationally CompetitiveAwards, which resulted in more prestigious national scholarship awards for OhioUniversity than any other institution in the state. During his final three years atOhio, Glidden led a successful $200 million campaign to commemorate thebicentennial of the university.

Prior to his presidency at Ohio, Glidden served as a professor and Dean ofthe School of Music (1979-91) at Florida State University, as well as the VicePresident for Academic Affairs (1991-94). During his career, Glidden has beena member of the faculties at Wright State University, Indiana and Oklahoma aswell as serving as the Dean of Music at Bowling Green in the late 1970s. From1972-75, Glidden also served as the Executive Director of the NationalAssociation of Schools of Music and National Association of Schools of Art inWashington.

During his presidency at Ohio, Glidden was a member of the Governor’s

Science and Technology Council and chaired the Ohio Aerospace Institute. Hewas Chair of the Mid-American Conference (athletics) and the Inter-UniversityCouncil of Ohio, a member of the Board of Directors for Ohio Campus Compactand a member of the Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission from its incep-tion in 1996 until his retirement in 2004. For the American Council on Education,he served as Chair of the Commission on Leadership and InstitutionalEffectiveness and on the Advisory Committee for the Center on Policy Analysis.He also facilitated a series of presidential roundtables for ACE (2006-08). He wasnamed Mentor of the Year in 2008 for the ACE Fellows Program and continuesto work with that program as a mentor and leadership group facilitator.

Glidden has been President of both the National Association of Schools ofMusic and Pi Kappa Lambda (the national honor society in music) andChairman of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation. From 1996-98, hewas Founding Chair of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation andserved on the board until 2004. He continues to work on special projects forCHEA.

Acting as a consultant or evaluator for more than 75 U.S. colleges and uni-versities, Glidden has delivered papers on various aspects of American highereducation in both Europe and Asia. He worked with the European UniversityAssociation in 2004 to evaluate Irish national universities for the Irish UniversityQuality Board (IUQB). He continues on the registry of institutional reviewers forIUQB and chaired a review team during the spring of 2010. He currently servesas a member of the Accreditation Committee for the American Bar Associationand works with the TIAA-CREF Institute in planning the organization’s annualHigher Education Leadership Conferences.

A native of Iowa, Glidden earned a B.A. in music from the University of Iowain 1958, an M.A. in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1966.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ALISON E. CONE

MUSTANG DIVISION I EXCELLENCENCAA DIVISION I TOURNAMENT TEAM QUALIFIERS

Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (2009)Men’s Cross Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 (1999, 2003-04, 2006-08)Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2005, 2008)Men’s Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (2005-06)Men’s Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (1995, 2008)Women’s Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 (1999-00, 2002-04)Softball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2007, 2009)Women’s Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (2003)Volleyball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 (1999-00, 2002, 2006-07)

BIG WEST CONFERENCE TEAM TITLESMen’s Cross Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 (1998-00, 2003-09)Women’s Cross Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2000-01)Men’s Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (2006)Women’s Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 (1996, 1999-00, 2002-04, 2009)Softball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2007, 2009)Men’s Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2007, 2010)Women’s Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (2003)Volleyball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 (2006-07)

AMERICAN WEST/GREAT WEST CONFERENCE TITLESFootball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 (1994, 2004-05, 2008)

CAL POLY ATHLETICS DIVISION I HONORS (1994-2010)

Conference Team Championships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Conference Coaches of the Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Team NCAA Tournament Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Individual NCAA Postseason Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159All-Conference Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447All-Conference Academic Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .520All-America Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70NCAA Individual National Champions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3CoSIDA Regional All-Academic Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Teams Earning Top-25 National Rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37NCAA National / Regional Coaches Of Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6


CAL POLY ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL


ATHLETIC EXCELLENCEFeaturing 20 varsity programs, the Cal Poly Athletics

Department is in its 17th year of NCAA Division I com-petition since completing reclassification in 1994. Withthe exception of football (Great West Conference),wrestling and men’s swimming (Pac-10 Conference)and the women’s swimming and indoor track and fieldprograms (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), CalPoly is also in its 15th year as a member of the BigWest Conference. Among Big West institutions, onlyUC Davis (23 programs) boasts more athletic disci-plines than Cal Poly.

Prior to transitioning to the Division I level, Cal Polyranked as the most successful institution in the historyof NCAADivision II athletics with 35 national team titles.Cal Poly has continued its winning tradition at the topflight with teams and individuals routinely earning con-ference championships and NCAATournament berths.

During the 2009-10 academic year, Cal Poly’swomen’s soccer, men’s cross country and men’s tennisprograms all captured conference titles while theMustang Athletics Department finished second in theBig West Commissioner’s Cup, an award presented tothe institution with the best overall results in the confer-ence's 18 sponsored sports.

Individually during the 2009-10 academic term,wrestlers Chase Pami (157 pounds) and BorisNovachkov (133 pounds) earned All-America praiseafter finishing, respectively, second and seventh at the2010 NCAA Championships. Wrestlers FilipNovachkov (141 pounds), Nick Fisher (149 pounds)and Ryan DesRoches (174 pounds), swimmer PeterKline, high jumper Whitney Sisler and the women’s ten-nis doubles team of Brittany Blalock and SuzieMatzenauer all advanced to the NCAAChampionships.Cross country runner Joe Gatel also earned an NCAAChampionships berth and was named Big West Athleteof the Year after winning the conference’s individual title.Other Big West Player of Year recipients includedwomen’s basketball forward Kristina Santiago and soft-ball designated player Anna Cahn.

Cal Poly student-athletes produced 42 all-conferencehonors during the 2009-10 academic year while sevenMustangs – Jordan Bridge (men’s tennis), MitchHaniger (baseball), Angie Haven (women’s swimming),Taylor Herrera (men’s track and field), Pace Johnson(men’s golf), Dave LaFlamme (men’s swimming) andKayleigh Tyerman (women’s cross country) – earnedBig West Freshman of the Year praise. In testament toCal Poly’s academic integrity, 38 Mustangs collectedBig West All-Academic praise.

Cal Poly athletes have consistently excelled outsidethe bounds of the collegiate arena. Cal Poly was repre-sented at the 2008 Summer Olympics by formerMustangs Sharon Day (United States, high jump),Jimmy Van Ostrand (Canada, baseball) and StephanieBrown Trafton, whose gold medal for the United Statesin the discus competition was the first such feat by aMustang athlete. Other prominent post-Cal Poly exam-ples include All-American wide receiver RamsesBarden (2005-08), who was a third-round selection bythe New York Giants in 2009. Former linebacker ChrisGocong (2002-05) – one of Cal Poly’s three BuckBuchanan Award winners as the FootballChampionship Subdivision’s top defensive player –made 35 starts in three active seasons with thePhiladelphia Eagles before signing with the ClevelandBrowns in 2010. As a member of Plymouth ArgyleFootball Club, former men’s soccer midfielder AntonPeterlin is the only Big West player to have appeared inan English Football League match. As of August 2010,the Cal Poly baseball program had produced three cur-rent Major League players while 18 former Mustangswere active in the minors.

MUSTANG HEAD COACHES

For more than 100 years, Cal Poly’s student-ath-letes have been dedicated to excellence in boththe athletic and academic arenas. During the

2009-10 scholastic year alone, 38 Mustangs werenamed to all-conference academic teams. Since CalPoly transitioned to the Division I level in 1994, theschool has enjoyed 520 total all-conference academicselections – an average of more than 32 per year.

Taking pride in each student’s ability to excel bothathletically and intellectually, Cal Poly and the athleticsdepartment offer guidance and support to each stu-dent-athlete during his or her tenure. To support thesemotives, the athletics department initiated theAcademic Resource Center. Opened in 2001, the cen-

ter provides year-round academic support, tutoring,workshops and academic advising. The center hasalso developed study hall programs with bi-quarterlyprogress checks, weekly academic appointments anda first-year seminar class for incoming student-ath-letes.

In deference to the student-athlete’s need for classschedule flexibility, Cal Poly also offers in-season pri-ority registration for two of the three quarters duringwhich competition occurs.

Of the 64 major courses offered at Cal Poly,Mustang student-athletes were enrolled in 54 separateareas, as of the Fall 2009 term. Below is a breakdownof student-athlete majors, by percentage.

MUSTANGS EXCEL IN THE CLASSROOM

JOHN AZEVEDO Co-Wrestling Eighth Year

HUGH BREAMWomen’s Tennis

11th Year

JOE CALLEROMen’s Basketball

Second Year

SCOTT CARTWRIGHTGolf (M/W)Eighth Year

MARK CONOVERDirector of Track

Second YearCross Country

13th Year

ALEX CROZIERWomen’s Soccer

19th Year

PAUL HOLOCHERMen’s Soccer

Fifth Year

LARRY LEEBaseball

Ninth Year

JUSTIN McGRATHMen’s Tennis

Fifth Year

TOM MILICHSwimming

and Diving (M/W)Fifth Year

JON STEVENSONVolleyball Sixth Year

TIM WALSHFootball

Second Year

FAITH MIMNAUGHWomen’sBasketball14th Year

3%• Mechanical Engineering• Social Sciences

2%• Animal Science• Biomedical Engineering• Civil Engineering• General Engineering• Industrial Technology• Political Science• Psychology

1%• Biochemistry• Economics• English• Graphic Communication• Industrial Technology• Liberal Studies• Nutrition

Less than 1%• Aerospace Engineering• Agricultural Systems • Management• Architecture• Art and Design• BioResource and

Agricultural Engineering• Chemistry• Child Development• City and Regional

Planning• Comparative Ethnic

Studies• Computer Engineering• Computer Science• Earth Sciences• Electrical Engineering• Environmental Engineering• Environmental

Horticultural Science

• Environmental Management and Protection

• Food Science• Forestry and Natural

Resources• History• Industrial Engineering• Journalism• Landscape Architecture• Manufacturing

Engineering• Materials Engineering• Mathematics• Microbiology• Philosophy• Physics• Sociology• Software Engineering• Theatre Arts• Wine and Viticulture

JENNY CONDONSoftball

Seventh Year

Cal Poly Student-Athlete Majors, by Percentage (2009-10)

MARK PERRYCo-WrestlingSecond Year

42% Other (see right)

4% Recreation, Parks and TourismAdministration

5% CommunicationStudies 5% Business

Administration

4% Construction Management

5% Biological Sciences

15% Kinesiology

5% Agricultural Business


CAL POLY ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL

Cal Poly AthleticsOne Grand Avenue

San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0388Area Code: 805

BASEBALL (FAX: 756-7406)Larry Lee, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6367 / [email protected] Kelly, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1201 / [email protected] Warrecker, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2462 / [email protected]

MEN’S BASKETBALL (FAX: 756-2650)Joe Callero, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Mark Amaral, Associate Head coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2354 / [email protected] Mitch Freeman, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1747 / [email protected] Lowery, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6559 / [email protected] Reaves, Director of Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6344 / [email protected]

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (FAX: 756-2650)Faith Mimnaugh, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1159 / [email protected] Nakamoto, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2953 / [email protected] Shaw, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2683 / [email protected] Iwanaga, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-7218 / [email protected]

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY (FAX: 756-2650)Mark Conover, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2235 / [email protected] Strong, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1130 / [email protected]

FOOTBALL (FAX: 756-6444)Tim Walsh, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5166 / [email protected] Cook, Co-Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2867 / [email protected] Tuitele, Co-Offensive Coordinator / Linemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2726 / [email protected] Lupfer, Defensive Coordinator / Defensive Backs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2928 / [email protected] Thompson, Asst. Coach / Wide Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5140 / [email protected] Wood, Asst. Coach / Running Backs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1338 / [email protected] Crivello, Asst. Coach / Offense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-7389 / [email protected] Brown, Asst. Coach / Linebackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2866 / [email protected] Cain, Asst. Coach / Defensive Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2049 / [email protected] Cox, Asst. Coach / Linebackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5166 / [email protected] Johnston, Asst. Coach / Offense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5166 / [email protected] Valeria, Director of Football Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-7389 / [email protected]

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S GOLF (FAX: 756-2650)Scott Cartwright, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5156 / [email protected]

MEN’S SOCCER (FAX: 756-2650)Paul Holocher, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-7070 / [email protected] Reed, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2905 / [email protected] Hopkins, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2905 / [email protected] Jones, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2905 / [email protected] Fens, Director of Men's Soccer Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2905 / [email protected]

WOMEN’S SOCCER (FAX: 756-2650)Alex Crozier, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2590 / [email protected] Lemieux, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2590 / [email protected]

SOFTBALL (FAX: 756-7405)Jenny Condon, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1539 / [email protected] Sua-Amundson, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6365 / [email protected] Nyhus, Assistant / Pitching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6366 / [email protected]

SWIMMING AND DIVING (FAX: 756-2650)Tom Milich, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5714 / [email protected] Yoshida, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5714 / [email protected]

MEN’S TENNIS (FAX: 756-2650)Justin McGrath, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2777 / [email protected] Napoli, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2777

WOMEN’S TENNIS (FAX: 756-2650)Hugh Bream, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2768 / [email protected] Gerst, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2768 / [email protected]

TRACK AND FIELD (FAX: 756-2650)Mark Conover, Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2235 / [email protected] Hoyt, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2937 / [email protected] Danny Williams, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6501 / [email protected] Strong, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1130 / [email protected]

VOLLEYBALL (FAX: 756-2650)Jon Stevenson, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2371 / [email protected] Walters, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2850 / [email protected] Hutchins, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2837 / [email protected]

WRESTLING (FAX: 756-2650)John Azevedo, Co-Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1348 / [email protected] Perry, Co-Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5131 / [email protected] Orozco, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5131 / [email protected]

ADMINISTRATION (FAX: 756-2699)Alison Cone, Director of Athletics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2924 / [email protected] Ogden, Administrative Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2924 / [email protected] Webb, Senior Associate A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2882 / [email protected] Martinez, Asst. A.D. / SWA-Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5075 / [email protected] Chaney, Asst. A.D. / Ticket Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-0141 / [email protected] Wood, Strength and Conditioning Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756-5288 / [email protected] Bob Gervais, Assistant to A.D. / Special Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5736 / [email protected] Kracher, Equipment Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1188 / [email protected] Latino, Director, Facilities and Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1738 / [email protected] Schlick, Business Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5794 / [email protected]

ATHLETICS ADVANCEMENT OFFICE (FAX: 756-7255) Chris Baker, Assoc. A.D., Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756-7188 / [email protected] Bistline, Assoc. A.D., Major Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1741 / [email protected] Saylor, Special Events Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-0277 / [email protected] Seret, MAF Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6382 / [email protected]

ACADEMICS SERVICES (FAX: 756-2699)Shannon Stephens, Asst. A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2762 / [email protected]

MARKETING AND CORPORATE RELATIONS (FAX: 756-7255)Shaun Russell, Asst. A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-0275 / [email protected]

MEDIA RELATIONS (FAX: 756-2650)Brian Thurmond, Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2410 / [email protected] Burdick, Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6550 / [email protected] Giovannetti, Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-7513 / [email protected]

ATHLETICS TRAINING (FAX: 756-7058)Kristal Slover, Head Athletics Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-6065 / [email protected] Eggen, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-5491 / [email protected] Gabrielson, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2096 / [email protected] Ritter, Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-2096 / [email protected]

STAFF DIRECTORY


CAL POLY ATHLETICS STAFF

CHRIS BAKERAssociate A.D.,Advancement

GREG BISTLINEAssociate A.D.,

Major Gifts

ERIC BURDICKAssistant Media

Relations Director

CODY CHANEYAssistant A.D.,

Ticket Operations

JAMES EGGENAssistant

Athletics Trainer

PAUL GABRIELSONAssistant

Athletics Trainer

BOB GERVAISAssistant to

Athletics Director

CHRIS GIOVANNETTIAssistant Media

Relations Director

STEVE KRACHEREquipment Manager

JESSE LATINODirector, Facilitiesand Operations

BARBARA MARTINEZAssistant A.D.,

SWA-Compliance

LYNN OGDENAdministrative

Assistant

CHRIS RITTERAssistant

Athletics Trainer

SHAUN RUSSELLAssistant A.D.,

Marketing

BILL SAYLORSpecial Events

Coordinator

STEVE SCHLICKBusiness

Coordinator

LEANNE SERETMAF Membership

KRISTAL SLOVERHead Athletics

Trainer

SHANNON STEPHENSAssistant A.D.,

Academic Services

BRIAN THURMONDDirector, Media

Relations

PHIL WEBBSenior AssociateAthletics Director

DAVID WOODStrength and

Conditioning Coach


CAL POLY ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT FACILITIES


ENHANCED BY SOME OF THE NATION’S MOST RAVENOUS CROWDSAND PRISTINE WEATHER, CAL POLY’S ATHLETICS FACILITIES

PROVIDE THE MUSTANGS WITH AN UNPARALLELED HOME ADVANTAGE

• With a picturesque mountain backdrop ringing the land-scape, Ozzie Smith Plaza was completed in 2001 and playshost to the Bob Janssen Field softball and Baggett Stadiumbaseball venues. The Mustang baseball team regularly drawsfour-figure attendances and hosts nationally ranked competi-tion. The Mustang softball program, which clinched its firstBig West title in 2007 at Janssen Field, drew an overflow, pro-gram-record 1,532 fans for a 2007 doubleheader againstperennial national powerhouse UCLA. Both venues featurespacious clubhouses, as well as batting cages and bullpenareas for both teams.

• Cal Poly finished resurfacing an on-campus all-weathertrack in 2001 and completed improvements to the high jumpand pole vault areas. The track and field program hosts itsannual Cal Poly Invitational each March.

• Cal Poly broke ground on the Sports Complex in 1999,which, in addition to Baggett Stadium and Bob Janssen Field,features six multi-purpose fields for use by the school’s inter-collegiate and club teams, as well as intramural programs.

• During the 2008-09 academic year, Cal Poly finished con-struction on the FieldTurf Upper Field, located above OzzieSmith Plaza. The area is used by Cal Poly’s athletics pro-grams and intramural leagues.

• Cal Poly opened Mustang Courts in 2001. The seven-courtcomplex is located behind Mott Gym, features permanentchairback seating and is used by both the men’s andwomen’s tennis programs.

• An on-campus golf practice facility, featuring bent,

Bermuda and paspalum grasses, is located near theOrnamental Horticulture facility. A swing lab, located in MottGym, was completed in 2003 and utilizes computer equip-ment to analyze a golfer's swing.

• The Mustang men’s golf program hosts the Firestone GrillIntercollegiate and the women’s team hosts the Lamkin GripCup Invitational at Cypress Ridge Golf Course in nearbyArroyo Grande. The course was recently rated four-and-a-half stars by Golf Digest magazine. Cal Poly, also hosted the2009 Big West Conference championships at the exclusiveSan Luis Obispo Country Club.

• The Fairbanks Memorial Cross Country Course in San LuisObispo has regularly played host to the Big West CrossCountry Championships.

ADDITIONAL CAL POLY ATHLETICS FACILITY HIGHLIGHTS

Completed in 2006, Alex G. Spanos Stadium (above) hosts Cal Poly’s foot-ball and men’s and women’s soccer programs. The Mustang football teamchristened the complex on Nov. 18, 2006 with a 55-0 victory versus SavannahState, while a program-record 11,075 spectators packed Spanos StadiumSept. 15, 2007 for Cal Poly’s season home-opening win against Weber State.On Oct. 17, 2008, another sellout crowd of 11,075 supporters – the third-largest regular season crowd figure in NCAA men’s soccer history – floodedSpanos Stadium for Cal Poly’s nationally-televised showdown against centralcoast rival UC Santa Barbara. During the 2009 season, the men’s soccer pro-gram ranked third among NCAA Division I programs by averaging 2,213 fansper home date.

Cal Poly’s volleyball, wrestling and basketball programs call 3,032-seat MottGym (right) home. The athletics department ensured its commitment to CalPoly’s programs by installing a new $700,000 floor during the summer of 2007.During recent years, Mott Gym has hosted the Pac-10 Conference WrestlingChampionships and, in front of a sold-out audience, the first and seconds roundsof the 2006 NCAA Volleyball Tournament (also right). The men’s basketball pro-gram produced its most recent sellout during a 60-57 defeat of eventual Big Westchampion UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 27, 2010. Additionally, the Mustangwomen’s basketball program drew a program-record 1,737 fans for a Feb. 14,2009 game against UC Santa Barbara.

Remodeled at a cost of more than $3million, the Olympic-sized AndersonAquatic Center (left) was completedin August 2009 and plays host toboth Cal Poly’s men’s and women’sswimming and diving programs.Situated adjacent to Mott Gym, thepool measures 12,348 square feet.Eight 50-yard lanes highlight thecomplex, which also provides for atotal of eighteen 25-yard crosscourse lanes. The complex also fea-tures a 15-by-30-foot all-shallowtherapy pool. Anderson AquaticCenter held its first official event onOct. 3, 2009, when the Mustangwomen’s swimming program wel-comed then-defending nationalchampion California to San LuisObispo.


Unmatched beauty that com-

prises miles of sandy coast-

line and rocky ocean outcrop-

pings, world-class wineries and

rolling hills, historic landmarks and

celebrated shopping and dining

opportunities that stretch from cof-

feehouses to diverse and award-win-

ning cuisine are all factors that make

San Luis Obispo one of the most

breathtaking and impressive places

to reside within the United States.

One of the oldest cities in

California, San Luis Obispo was

founded in 1772 with the establish-

ment of the fifth of California s 21

Spanish missions. The city has

grown and flourished since the Feb.

16, 1856 incorporation and is now a

bustling college town that offers a

quality of life unlike few places in the

United States.

Endless hiking and biking trails

along pristine lakes and mountains

provide the perfect training for out-

door enthusiasts. Surfers flock to

the 80 miles of continuous coastline

in San Luis Obispo County. O u t d o o rM a g a z i n e recently tabbed San Luis

Obispo as one of the best places to

live with a year-round climate that

features an average of 315 days of

sunshine per year and a median tem-

perature of 70 degrees.

Located along U.S. Highway 101,

San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway

between San Francisco and Los

Angeles. The city features a regional

airport serviced by two carriers with

daily connecting flights to San

Francisco, Los Angeles and

Phoenix.A second regional airport is

located 35 miles south in Santa

M a r i a .

Welcome to

San Luis Obispo

SAN LUIS OBISPO FA C T SL o c a t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220 miles south of San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and 200 miles north of Los A n g e l e s

Miles to Nearest Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Average Yearly Te m p e r a t u r e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 degreesAverage Yearly Precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 inchesAverage Days of Sunshine per Ye a r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315Median Resident A g e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Population (2007 Estimate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44,439Miles of County Coastline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80Average Household Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$61,000Nearby A i r p o r t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .San Luis Obispo County Regional


SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

ATTRACTIONS• Founded in 1772, Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is the fifth

of California s 21 Spanish missions (top left).

• Downtown San Luis Obispo features prime restaurants and

shopping (bottom left).

• The Thursday night Farmers Market brings produce vendors,

food stands and live entertainment to downtown San Luis Obispo.

• The county features a thriving wine business with more than two

dozen premier wineries within easy reach of downtown.

• Madonna Inn is a landmark that features 109 uniquely-themed

rooms and eccentric architecture.

• Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst s elaborate summer

home, is located 45 miles north along the coast in San Simeon.

• Hikers, bikers, equestrians and other outdoor enthusiasts have

access to extensive trail systems, parks and mountains. Three

golf courses reside in San Luis Obispo with 12 additional sites

located within 28 miles of downtown. With 80 miles of coastline,

San Luis Obispo County features infinite opportunities for

surfers, anglers, kayakers and whalewatchers.

Photograph by: Tim Olson

Date Opponent TimeNov. 6 GREEN vs. GOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Nov. 13 *CAL STATE FULLERTON . . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Nov. 20 at Fullerton Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Dec. 3-4 at Las Vegas Invitational . . . . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Dec. 17 SOUTHERN OREGON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 a.m.

CAL BAPTIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.MENLO COLLEGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 p.m.

Dec. 19 at Reno Tournament of Champions . . .9 a.m.Dec. 29-30 at Midlands Open (Chicago) . . . . . . . . .9 a.m.Jan. 14 WYOMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Jan. 21 *at Oregon State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 p.m.Jan. 23 *at Boise State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.

Date Opponent TimeJan. 28 *CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD . . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Jan. 30 *at Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 p.m.Feb. 5 at All-California Open (S.Francisco St.) 9 a.m.Feb. 11 *at Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6:30 p.m.Feb. 13 SAN FRANCISCO STATE . . . . . . . . . . . .2 p.m.Feb. 27 Pacific-10 Conference

Championships (Oregon State) . . . . . .11 a.m.Mar. 17-19 NCAA Championships

(@ Philadelphia, PA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 a.m.

*Pacific-10 Conference matchAll Times Pacific

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