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🎉NCAA HERE WE COME🎉
As of July 13th Menlo College has been accepted to join the ranks of NCAA Division II athletics!
The Oaks will begin a three-year process that will see Menlo begin to transition to competing in the Pacific West Conference for future conference competition!
The Menlo College Athletic Department is excited to name Brendan Rooney as the next Head Men's Basketball Coach. Rooney comes to Menlo from Cal Maritime after leading the Keelhaulers to three straight winning seasons. Welcome Coach Rooney! Article at
Menlo Women's Wrestling added a pair of big time recruits for the 2018-19 season with the signing of Gracie Figueroa and Alleida Martinez. Both Figueroa and Martinez are three-time CIF State Champions and are each ranked
#1
nationally in their respective weight classes!
Introducing your 2019 184 lb NAIA NATIONAL CHAMP, Anthony Orozco! Orozco downed his opponent 12-2 (maj. decision) in the finals - the largest margin of victory of any competitor in the finals thus far. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's events.
THREE individual national champions, one national runner-up and the first team national championship in school history! Go Oaks!!!! Stay tuned for coach and athlete interviews, photos and more!
#WCWA2019
🚨 BREAKING!!! 🚨 For the first time, Menlo Women's Wrestling is ranked
#1
in the nation in both the
@NAIA
and WCWA! The Oaks surpass the now-second-ranked Bearcats of McKendree University in the WCWA. Alleida Martinez and Gracie Figueroa are ranked
#1
.
Guess the cat's out of the bag...
MENLO COLLEGE WOMEN'S WRESTLING IS THE 2019 WCWA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
This represents the first National Championship in Menlo's history.
BREAKING: Alex Hoover has just been named the newest Head Coach of
@mcoaksbaseball
! Hoover has 15 years of coaching experience at the NCAA DI, DII, Junior College, and High School levels. Full article at !
#GoOaks
Introducing your 2019 Menlo College Men's Wrestling NAIA All-Americans! Anthony Orozco went a perfect 2-0 on day one while Terrill Sidner and Blaysen Terukina each went 3-1. All three will take part in day two in Iowa on Saturday morning!
Congratulations to former Oaks pitcher and coach, Chris Cleary on being promoted to Volunteer Assistant Coach for
@OleMissBSB
! It’s a well deserved honor!
Two buzzer-beaters in one week? If that isn't
#NAIATopPlay
worthy, we aren't sure what is. Relive the thrilling shots from Charles Neal of
@MenloMBB
right here!
National Champion. Most Outstanding Wrestler. And now,
@CCCSports
Wrestler of the Year. Anthony Orozco lands this conference award after dominating the 2019 National Championship, his first Wrestler of the Year award as an Oak!
Congratulations to Menlo third baseman Joe Gillette on being selected in the 36th round of the MLB First Year Player Draft by the
@Dbacks
! He represents the eighth player in program history taken in the draft, and the fifth in the last years.
For the first time in 23 months,
@mcoaksbaseball
was in action today, and they earned a split against Corban. Tony Masetti and Ethan Baird each drove in a run, while Ryan Io and Ryan Inouye combined for a shutout in game 2. The Oaks and Warriors will be back at it tomorrow.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS!!! 🚨 Just announced by the
@NAIA
, Destinee Bowie of
@MenloWBB
has been named the NAIA Player of the Week! This marks the first time since 2014 the Oaks have had an NAIA POTW award winner.
For the first time since Troy Lakin a season ago, the Oaks have a wrestler ranked
#1
in his respective weight class with Anthony Orozco taking over the top spot at 174 pounds! Men's Wrestling is ranked
#8
as a team with seven individuals ranked!
Congratulations to former
@MenloMBB
Coach Brandon Laird, former Associate Head Coach Jamison Montgomery, and former standout Point Guard Chris Cobb for all being honored at their conference or national level for their brilliance on the sideline!
As announced by University of Hawaii-Hilo's Athletics, Coach Kaniela Aiona has accepted the position of Head Coach for the Vulcan Men's Basketball Team. Thank you Coach Aiona for all of the time and hard work that you have put into our program!
Charles Neal posted career-bests in his first double-double (27 pts, 10 reb) and
@MenloMBB
beat
#9
@HIURoyals
78-70 for the biggest win in program history! The only other win against a top-ten team came in 2016 against ACU when they were ranked 10th.
NEWS |
#RebsBSB
announces the addition of Chris Cleary as its next Coordinator of Operations - External Affairs. Welcome to the Rebel family, Chris!
📰
#HottyToddy
🔵🔴
Felt so good last year, he decided to do it again. Anthony Orozco won the 184 lb. championship at the 2019 Roadrunner Open, his second-straight championship at the event!
Menlo College Women's Wrestling is thrilled to announce the signing of Illinois standout Louisa Schwab! Schwab brings a laundry list of prep and national accomplishments with her to Menlo College and is a key piece to an already stacked 2020-21 recruiting class!
Charles Neal hits the game-winning free throw with seconds left on the clock to give the Oaks a 79-78 win over
@HSUJacks
! John Paine led the Oaks with 22 points as Menlo erased a seven-point halftime deficit to improve to 10-2.
Recognizing the best! Aaron Gillespie (Clarence "Ike" Pearson award) and Ashley Vogds (Athletic Trainer of the Year) have won these respective awards at the GSAC level and are moving on to a national vote!
GSAC CHAMPS! Volleyball won its SIXTH-straight match on Saturday to claim the GSAC Regular Season title for the first time in program history! With the win, the Oaks also earned the right to host the conference tournament next Friday and Saturday inside Haynes-Prim Pavilion!
This week, Shane Jones became the first Oak to win GSAC Player since 2018, after going 6-11 at the plate with three home runs and eight RBIs. He now leads the GSAC with 27 total runs batted in this season!
That's a wrap!!!!
@MenloWBB
knocks off
#1
Vanguard 76-66! First ever win over Vanguard for the Oaks and first win over a top ranked opponent. Go Oaks!!!
What a night it was!
#6
Men's Wrestling claimed the 2020 CCC Championships inside their home gym and Anthony Orozco and Blaysen Terukina repeated as individual champions! Six Oaks earned All-CCC honors and nine Oaks punched their ticket to nationals!
The Oaks sweep 🧹 the Red Hawks in Saturday’s double-header! Brice Foster had a spectacular game one as he hit a grand slam and pitched 5 innings with 5 k’s and no walks earning the win.
Devon Canty went 2-3 with a home run and a double in game two🔥
Blaysen Terukina and Anthony Orozco won national titles, the Oaks finished 2nd for the first time since 2004, Coach Martinez was named Coach of the Year, and the team won the Sportsmanship award. On top of all that, Orozco became the second two-time champ in program history!
Just announced by
@gsacathletics
, Charles Neal has landed on the 2019 All-GSAC team! Neal led
@MenloMBB
in points per game with 16.8, and shot nearly 50% from the field and 40% from three-point range.
Anthony Orozco was named the Red Lion Wrestler of the Week for his tournament win at the Missouri Valley Invite. He went 5-0, with three tech falls and a pin, beating three ranked wrestlers! It's the second straight week the Oaks have had a CCC wrestler of the week!
WBB DI: Shoutout to
@MenloAthletics
on a great
#NAIADIWBB
tournament debut. The 6-seed was the highest seed left in the quarterfinals and had the third best shooting offense in the tournament.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@MenloWBB
has received an at-large bid for the
@NAIA
National Tournament! Menlo is a No. 6 seed and will take on No. 3 seed
@LSUS_Athletics
in the opening round on March 14 at 9:15 am PT!
The Oaks have done it again! Menlo had 12 All-Americans, eight finalists, and five champions to claim the first ever NAIA National Invitational Championship on Saturday in North Dakota, besting second place Oklahoma City by 76 points. Recap:
#NAIAWWrestle
Congratulations to
@mcoaksbaseball
's Christopher Lopez on being named the GSAC Player of the Week! Christopher totaled a staggering 8 hits, 10 RBIs, and 4 home runs over four games for the Oaks this weekend.
#GoOaks
Congrats to our very own Brian Brownfield on being named the GSAC SID of the Year! Thanks for all that you do for Menlo Athletics, the
@gsacathletics
and the
@NAIA
!
Brian Brownfield has been selected as the GSAC Sports Information Director of the Year‼️
Visit our website to read the full release and all of Brownfield’s accomplishments.
In the first
@NAIA
Women's Basketball Poll of the year,
@MenloWBB
is up two spots to
#14
! Menlo is one of 7 unbeaten teams in the nation (7-0) and are now ranked as high as they've ever been in the NAIA DI.
Lauren Harrison has been named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District team! Harrison finished 2019 with a .401 average, a program-record 44 runs, and 21 steals, with a 3.84 GPA. Harrison is the 5th Oak this year to make an Academic All-District team.
Recently announced by the
@NAIA
, 13 of 16 varsity teams for Menlo Athletics have earned the distinction of NAIA Scholar-Teams! All 13 of these teams featured GPA's of 3.00 and above, with Women's Golf leading the way with a GPA of 3.44. Well done, Oaks!
It's over in France: China def.
@Banyana_Banyana
1-0 in Game 2 of the 2019
#FIFAWWC
. Former
@MenloWSOC
keeper Kaylin Swart drew the start and made 2 HUGE saves late in the second half to keep South Africa in the match. We are so proud of you,
@Kaylin194
!
With a leap of 23-6 in the long jump at the NAIA National Championships in Gulf Shores, Ala., Tommy Wright becomes the first NAIA All-American in program history! Wright finished 8th overall in the event and will have another crack at a podium tomorrow in the triple jump.
That is the first GSAC playoff win in program history!
@MenloMBB
takes down
@VULions
97-72 to advance to the semifinals of the tournament, tomorrow against
#1
The Master's University! John Paine scored a career-best 31 in the rout.
On this day in 1997, Menlo Hall of Famer and Current Sacramento State Head Baseball Coach Reggie Christiansen led
@mcoaksbaseball
to 14-10 victory over National Christian by launching a walk off grand slam!
Welcome to the Top-25! After winning 10 of their last 11, the Oaks have been ranked 20th in the most recent NAIA Division I Coaches Polls. This is the highest the Oaks have ever been ranked in program history!
A message from GSAC Commissioner Mike Daniels: "...the ten member institutions of the GSAC remain committed to safely bringing students back for the 2020 Fall Academic Year and having sports compete for conference and national championships this fall season. Full statement below.
The Golden State Athletic Conference is planning a safe return to campus and sports for the fall season. Read the full statement from Commissioner Daniels below. ⤵️
#GSACStrong
#NAIATogether
GSAC. CHAMPS. For the 2nd time in 4 years,
@MenloMSOC
wins the
@gsacathletics
title, taking down
@OUAZSpirit
5-4 in penalty kicks, with Luke Gleadle nailing down the clincher! Now: onto the
@NAIA
National Tournament!
I'd say this makes for a happy birthday! Charles Neal hit three free throws with three seconds on the clock to beat RV
@ravenathletics
81-80 on his 19th birthday! His performance helps put the Oaks at 12-2.
MOVING. ON.
@MenloWBB
advances to it's first-ever
@NAIA
quarterfinal round by beating
@ravenathletics
88-78! Celina Pagan lights up the board for 28 points, her second-highest total of the year. Menlo now plays tomorrow at 1:00 PT against either Campbellsive or Montana Western!
Just announced by
@NAIA
,
@MenloWBB
will begin 2018-19 ranked
#16
in the nation! The Oaks made it to the round of eight last year in the national tournament for the first time ever, and featured a top-ten offense in the country. Congrats, ladies!
Just announced by
@gsacathletics
, Larissa Martinez of
@Menlo_Softball
has been named the Pitcher of the Week in the conference! Her lone outing in the circle was a complete game win against
#5
Vanguard, where she took a shutout into the final inning.
Champions!
#2
Women's Wrestling had six champions, leading to the first ever Cascade Collegiate Conference Championship! 10 Oaks finished top three to earn All-CCC status and Precious Bell was named Outstanding Wrestler while Coach Bareng earned Coach of the Year honors.
Charles Neal has won Menlo Men's Basketball's first
@gsacathletics
Player of the Week award! Neal was instrumental in
@MenloMBB
winning both of their GSAC games this past week, scoring 43 points and adding his second-career double-double into the mix.
🎉UPSET ALERT🎉
@MenloWBB
hands
#2
ranked Westmont their first loss of the season 77-67!
Forward Kiara Brown officially joins the 1000 career points club after a huge 22 Pts and 9 Reb effort!
Jordyn Rosette, Nura Galmes & Vivian Woo all score in double figures.
#shOAKtime
Terrill Sidner and Anthony Orozco won, two other Oaks placed, as
@Menlo_Wrestling
competed in the annual Roadrunner Open hosted by CSU Bakersfield on Sunday.
Happy birthday to the fearless leader of
@menlocollegesp
Coach Victor Brankovich! Keeping
@menlocollege
athletes in peak shape for the past seven years!
One more round of applause for Head Men's Wrestling Coach Joey Martinez for being named the NWCA Coach of the Year, as voted on by his peers. A complete write-up, courtesy of the NWCA can be found here!
⚾️: Oaks take game four of their series with The Master's Mustangs 7-4! Brice Foster improved 3-0 on the season while Devon Canty went 2-4 with a solo shot! Go Oaks!
In the Reno TOC on Thursday,
#10
@Menlo_Wrestling
finished 8th overall and saw Anthony Orozco finish 2nd in the 184 bracket! His run to the championship round ended with his first defeat of the year, at the hands of an NCAA DI opponent.
What a day for Anthony Orozco! He claimed the 184 pound crown in dominating fashion, and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler for his efforts. His win pushed the Oaks to 8th place as a team which is their best finish in 11 years!
Just announced by the
@NAIA
, Celina Pagan of
@MenloWBB
has been named to the All-Tournament Second Team for her efforts in the National Tournament this past week! In three games, Pagan averaged 23 points per game, shot 55% from the field and 57.1% from beyond the arc.
Trevor Bauer lost a bet to former
@mcoaksbaseball
assistant coach
@JasonOchart
, and now Bauer will be wearing his name during MLB's Player's Weekend! Look for Bauer on the mound Sunday for the
@Reds
!
A decorated wrestler and stellar student, Blaysen Terukina graduated with a legacy of greatness for
@Menlo_Wrestling
as a 3 time regional/conference champion, a 2 time All-American, and a 2020 National Champion! Read all about Blaysen's time at Menlo at
Oaks Men’s Basketball notches best win in program history, downing the second ranked Master’s Mustangs 87-76. Ross Williams led the way with 20 points and 6 assists while Corey Le’aupepe added 16 points on 7-9 shooting en route to the victory.
@rb_the_sid
had the call!
Jamison Montgomery has been promoted to Associate Head Coach before the start of the upcoming
@MenloMBB
season! This is Montgomery's third year on staff, and the Oaks have won more games each season, including 20 last season.
Menlo Women's Wrestling freshman Alleida Martinez was featured in the May 20, 2019 issue of
@SInow
in the "Faces in the Crowd" section! She is the first Menlo student-athlete to be featured in this section since 2001.
Over the past 10 seasons,
@mcoaksbaseball
could be described as a force. With the ability to "FEED THE TREES" offensively, and baffle opposing batters defensively, the Oaks have received great notoriety. Here is their All-Decade Team! Full article at
Congratulations to Dalton Maxwell for being named to his second All-GSAC team! In his senior season, Maxwell hit .333, while leading the team with 14 2Bs and 28 RBIs. Maxwell ranks in the top-ten in program history in six different categories.
Also on this day in 2018, Mikel Perales won the 125 bracket to lead
@Menlo_Wrestling
to their best ever finish at the Missouri Valley Invitational, finishing third overall out of a field of 30 of the top NAIA wrestling programs in the country!