Update: The Ags win 1-0 with a late goal by Celina Minissian, her first as an Aggie.
For those of you who may not be following UCD Athletics, the first major event of the season happens today, and that’s Women’s Soccer visiting rival Sac State in their annual Causeway Classic matchup.
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It seems that a lot of UCD students are turned off by the fact that we don’t play in the PAC-12 or another famous conference. It is an unfortunate fact that California happens to boast four research universities on par with Davis that do play in a top-level conference, creating a bit of a sense of entitlement in terms of being included in such an organization.
The fact is, there are many, many DI conferences out there that aren’t major conferences, and the two big ones UCD is a part of (Big West for most sports, Big Sky for football) are pretty good ones with which to identify. The Big West, because it spans so many sports, is a topic too big to cover in full, so we’ll restrict the discussion to the Big Sky football teans for now.
So I have about 5 months of service left on this site before I can’t afford to maintain it, which is just enough time and in the right place to cover the regular season for fall sports. Therefore, I decided to use the time given to me to advocate an issue about which I am extremely passionate: getting the hardworking, high-achieving students of UC Davis interested in intercollegiate athletics. I love my school and I love the quiet school spirit that goes on here, but a continual issue I’ve had with the student body is its unmerited dismissive and critical attitude towards our school sports teams (and particularly football). This blog, then, will attempt to address those criticisms, explain apparent faults in UCD athletics, and describe the ins and outs of the Aggies in a way that is accessible to casual student fans.
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