The winless UC Riverside’s men's soccer team (0-9-0) continued to struggle last week, taking two losses at the hands of Loyola Marymount University (2-6-2) on Sunday, Sept. 24 and Cal Poly (5-4-0) on Thursday, Sept. 28. Head Coach Tim Cupello admits that the nine-game losing streak to start the season has been difficult for the team to cope with....
One of the most difficult aspects of college sports is replacing the production of star players who graduate. It is no different for UCR volleyball Head Coach Michelle Patton-Coleman, who is now faced with replacing the production of the program’s all-time digs leader Maddie Hubbell. Although replacing Hubbell’s defense is no small task for any one player, the fourth-year...
The UC Riverside women’s soccer team (3-7-2) split their first two games of the week after losing to the University of San Francisco (4-5-2) on Friday, Sept. 22 before bouncing back in a big way to take a 3-1 victory against Cal State Bakersfield (5-7-0) on Sunday, Sept. 24.
A common denominator in both of these games was the defensive...
The Highlanders men's soccer team (0-6-0) has had a rough start to the 2017-2018 season, losing all six of their games. Despite the slow start, Head Coach Tim Cupello says there's more to those six games than what shows up in the loss column. “It’s been a challenging schedule,” admits Cupello, “our first five games were on the road...
It’s official: The six-year Carmelo Anthony soap opera in New York has ended. Anthony is off to Oklahoma City for center Enes Kanter, forward Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round pick (via the Chicago Bulls) in a deal first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN early Saturday, Sept. 23. Now, with the ties cut on the drama-filled relationship between...
After achieving their best nonconference record since 2001 at 8-4, UCR volleyball suffered a loss in a five-set nail-biter against Long Beach State in their Big West Conference opener in the SRC Arena on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
UCR took the first set 25-23, despite Long Beach leading the set 15-8. The Highlanders stormed back scoring 12 of the next 17...
The UC Riverside women's soccer team has struggled mightily in the first half of their 2017-18 season, going 2-7-2 in their first 11 games, but Head Coach Nat Gonzalez is hoping to get things turned around quickly. “Our goal is to kind of get this thing, right the ship if you will,” shares Gonzalez, whose focus is “to prepare...
UCR baseball (22-32, 8-16) had yet another subpar year, finishing with only a 33 percent winning percentage. The Highlanders haven’t had a winning season since 2011 and the streak of sub-par play continued through this season. The team did start off strong, winning eight of their first 10 games, but failed to keep up that level of play as...
The 2016-17 season is all in the books for the Highlanders, and there were plenty of memorable moments throughout the entire season. UCR athletics saw the end to amazing careers of volleyball’s Maddie Hubbell, women’s basketball’s Simone DeCoud, baseball’s Mark Contreras and men’s basketball’s Secean Johnson as well as the beginning of bright futures for players like women’s golf...
The 2017 season has come to a close with plenty of memorable moments. In the fall, volleyball saw senior Maddie Hubbell become UCR’s all-time digs leader with 1,695. Winter saw both men’s and women’s basketball compete in the Big West Tournament where the women’s team won their first round matchup against UC Irvine 92-60 before falling to UC Santa...