Intercollegiate Athletics Content / Intercollegiate Athletics Content for ٺƵ en ORG CHART: History Professor Downs Named Faculty Athletics Representative /news/org-chart-history-professor-downs-named-faculty-athletics-representative <p class="MsoNormal"><span>History professor <strong>Gregory Downs</strong> has a brother, Wil, who played college basketball at the Division I level. “And he never ceases to remind me of that,” Greg says.</span></p> May 16, 2023 - 12:14pm Dave Jones /news/org-chart-history-professor-downs-named-faculty-athletics-representative Athletics Benefit the Entire University Community /news/athletics-benefit-entire-university-community <p>Countless Aggies have had their lives enriched through their experiences competing in or attending athletic events. But the impact of athletics extends far past our venues for the Aggie community and city of Davis. Here are some of the ways athletics benefits the larger community.</p> April 26, 2022 - 10:00am Cody Kitaura /news/athletics-benefit-entire-university-community Statement on ٺƵ Varsity Baseball Team /news/statement-uc-davis-varsity-baseball-team The safety of students is of utmost importance to ٺƵ. The university has learned of allegations of misconduct involving the varsity baseball team. The ٺƵ Office of Compliance and Policy is investigating these allegations, and the entire baseball program has been placed on suspension pending the outcome of this review. In addition, the baseball coaching staff has been placed on administrative leave. July 14, 2021 - 12:15pm Julia Ann Easley /news/statement-uc-davis-varsity-baseball-team ٺƵ Chancellor Gary May Announces Departure of Athletics Director Kevin Blue /news/uc-davis-chancellor-gary-may-announces-departure-athletics-director-kevin-blue <p>University of California, Davis, Chancellor Gary S. May announced today that Intercollegiate Athletics Director Kevin Blue has resigned his position effective Dec. 31. He will join Golf Canada in his hometown of Toronto as chief sport officer, where he will lead the national sport development and high-performance programs for golf in Canada, from the Olympics team to the grassroots junior participation programs.</p> December 03, 2020 - 7:00am Anonymous /news/uc-davis-chancellor-gary-may-announces-departure-athletics-director-kevin-blue Ags Land Dec. 1 Home Game in Playoffs /news/ags-land-dec-1-home-game-playoffs <p><strong>Updated 10:30 a.m. Nov. 18: </strong>Aggie Stadium missed out on hosting the Causeway Classic, Saturday (Nov. 17), after officials moved the game to Reno to escape the wildfire smoke in the Davis-Sacramento region.</p> November 18, 2018 - 1:30pm Dave Jones /news/ags-land-dec-1-home-game-playoffs Adding a Team: Fact Finding in Final Stages /news/adding-team-fact-finding-final-stages <p>A recommendation for a new ٺƵ women’s athletic team is pending while a campus working group completes its analysis of the criteria. The final stages of the analysis involve a detailed assessment of the facility enhancements that each of the possible teams would require.</p> <p>Athletics officials said the fact finding effort is expected to wrap up at the beginning of April. It’s anticipated that the working group will be ready to make its recommendation to the chancellor at that time.</p> March 23, 2018 - 9:35am Dave Jones /news/adding-team-fact-finding-final-stages Update on Additional Opportunities for Women in Athletics /news/update-additional-opportunities-women-athletics <p><em>In November 2017, the ٺƵ athletics department announced that it would provide additional opportunities for women in athletics, starting in the 2018-19 academic year, to maintain compliance with Title IX. A nomination process ensued to gather proposals for the team or teams to be added. A working group has been charged with analyzing the proposals and making a recommendation to the chancellor. In the following statement, posted Feb. 16, the working group listed the four most viable options for a new team or teams.</em></p> February 16, 2018 - 10:53am Cody Kitaura /news/update-additional-opportunities-women-athletics Open Forum Jan. 9 on Adding a Women’s Varsity Team /news/faq-adding-womens-varsity-team <p><strong>Updated Jan. 3: </strong>Director of Athletics Kevin Blue and Faculty Athletics Representative Scott Carrell will host an open forum, 2-4 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 9), regarding the addition of a women's varsity team (the sport has not been chosen) in 2018-19. The forum, for students, staff and faculty, and members of the community, will be held in the Mee Room on the second floor of the <a href="http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=104">Memorial Union</a>.</p> January 03, 2018 - 10:00am Dave Jones /news/faq-adding-womens-varsity-team Women Advance to the Round of 16 /news/aggie-athletes-onward-and-upward <p>What a week this is for our student-athletes:</p> March 19, 2017 - 7:35pm Dave Jones /news/aggie-athletes-onward-and-upward Committed to the Scholar-Athlete Ideal /news/committed-scholar-athlete-ideal <p><em>Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter sent the following letter Oct. 6 to the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors and the Athletics Advisory Committee on the subject of “reaffirming our commitment to Division I scholar-athleticism at ٺƵ.”</em></p> <p><strong>Dear Colleagues,</strong></p> October 11, 2016 - 9:05am Dave Jones /news/committed-scholar-athlete-ideal