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As the 2012 Summer Olympic Games closed Sunday, 46 Golden Bear athletes, coaches and staff members stood tall, following another record-setting performance on the international stage. In all, the Bears earned 17 medals, matching their record haul from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Eleven of the medals were gold, one silver and five bronze.
Tag: 2012 Summer Olympics
Day 13: Bears bring home the gold
August 10, 2012:
Three more Golden Bears took home Olympic gold medals Thursday, as former Cal All-American forward Alex Morgan led the U.S. women’s soccer team to a 2-1 victory over Japan and former Cal women’s water polo standouts Heather Petri and Elsie Windes guided the U.S. to gold with an 8-5 victory over Spain.
Day 12: Two Bears advance, another falls
August 9, 2012:
In men’s water polo, Aleksa Saponjic and his Serbia team advanced to the semifinals, while John Mann and the USA lost in the quarterfinal round. Former Bear Alysia Montano, winner of the 800 meters in the U.S. Track and Field Olympic trials, posted the top time in the 800 heats.
Day 10: Morgan heads Team USA into soccer final
August 7, 2012:
With the eyes of the world upon her and a trip to the Olympic final on the line, former Bear forward Alex Morgan headed in the game-winning goal to book the U.S. women’s soccer team’s ticket to the gold-medal match.
Day 9: Women’s water polo powered by Cal alums
August 6, 2012:
Former Bears Heather Petri and Elsie Windes helped propel the United States past Italy, 9-6, in the quarterfinals of the women’s water polo medal rounds on Sunday.
Day Six: Cafaro leads women’s crew team to gold
August 3, 2012:
Cal alumna Erin Cafaro and the U.S. women’s eight rowing team notched an impressive second-straight Olympic gold on Thursday, bringing the Golden Bear medal count at the 2102 summer Olympics to nine. View full Cal Olympics coverage here.
Day Five: Adrian, Vollmer lead Cal gold rush
August 2, 2012:
Cal lifted its 2012 Olympic medal total to eight on Wednesday with wins by swimmers Nathan Adrian and Dana Vollmer and a bronze medal from rower Kara Kohler.
Day Four: Bronze for Cal swimmer Leverenz
August 1, 2012:
Golden Bear Caitlin Leverenz earned a bronze medal in the women’s 200-meter individual medley to highlight Cal’s action Tuesday at the Olympics in London. Leverenz, a rising senior, is the fifth Bear to secure a medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Day Three Olympics update: Women’s water polo win
July 31, 2012:
Day Three of the 2012 Summer Olympics saw California Golden Bears — seven alums, one current student-athlete — competing in women’s water polo, women’s swimming and men’s and women’s rowing.
Day Two Olympics update: Gold and silver for Cal Bear swimmers
July 30, 2012:
On Day Two of 2012 Olympics competition, former Golden Bear Dana Vollmer won the 100-meter butterfly final in a world-record time of 55.98, and Nathan Adrian took home a silver medal in the 400-meter free relay.
45 Cal Bears at Olympics — most for a U.S. public school
July 27, 2012:
As the games begin in England, UC Berkeley cheers on its 45 student-athletes, alumni, coaches and campus-community members. Stats compiled by Cal Athletics show UC Berkeley in the lead for number of Olympic participants from a U.S. public university and No. 2 (USC is No. 1) among public and private schools.
For water polo standout Heather Petri, it’s Olympiad number four
July 26, 2012:
In a final Olympic profile from Cal Athletics, alumna and water polo player Heather Petri is hailed as likely “the greatest Cal Olympian of all time.” This is Petri’s fourth competition at the Olympics; she helped Team USA medal three times in the past. Joining her quest for gold in London is teammate Elsie Windes, another campus alumna.
Women’s soccer star to shine on New Zealand Olympic team
July 25, 2012:
UC Berkeley student Betsy Hassett, a resident of New Zealand, will be on her homeland’s soccer team, the Football Ferns, at the Olympics and celebrate a birthday while there on Aug. 4. “This has been my dream and my goal since I was so young,” Hassett says of being at the London Games in a Cal Athletics profile of the midfielder, one of the top players in the Pac-12 conference.
Cal senior set to swim in two Olympic events
July 19, 2012:
Caitlin Leverenz, 21, who will swim the 200 and 400 IM at the Summer Olympics, has relied on her faith to keep her afloat through her illustrious career. Today, Cal Athletics profiles the UC Berkeley senior, considered the nation’s top female college swimmer after winning this year’s NCAA Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet award and the 2012 Honda Sports Award for swimming.
Cal rower Kara Kohler heads to Olympics
July 16, 2012:
UC Berkeley student Kara Kohler, 20, will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics as a rower for the United States in the quadruple scull event, in which four women row a small sculled boat with two oars each. The swimmer-turned-rower is profiled in an unfolding Cal Athletics series that highlights the more than 40 Cal student-athletes and coaches headed for London and the chance to win Olympic gold.
‘Octolympian’ Mike Teti, Cal men’s crew coach, heads to 8th Olympic Games
July 12, 2012:
In the first in a series of Cal Athletics’ stories on UC Berkeley athletes and coaches at the Summer Olympics, “Octolympian” Mike Teti is profiled. Teti, head men’s crew coach at Cal, has participated in seven previous Olympic Games. In London, the 1992 Olympic bronze medalist will coach the men’s eight rowing team.
Cal doctor to oversee U.S. Olympic team’s medical staff
June 28, 2012:
Campus doctor Cindy Chang is headed to the Olympics in London as the U.S. team’s chief medical officer.
