Bryan Baird Men's Soccer Senior - Forward

Baird, a senior history major from San Anselmo, CA, scored 10 goals and added one assist for the Banana Slugs during October as the team finished 7-1.  For the month, Baird totaled 21 points, had a .750 shot-on-goal percentage (.646 for the season) and a .500 shot percentage (.396 for the season).  Baird scored in seven of the Slugs' eight games, which included a hat trick against Chapman University and two goals against Ripon.  Baird was held scoreless in only UC Santa Cruz's 1-0 victory over Nebraska Wesleyan University, which broke a scoring string of 10 consecutive games.  Of Baird’s 10 goals, four were game-winners, including the only goal in a double-overtime victory over California State University, East Bay. 

For the season, Baird has 19 goals and four assists, totaling 42 points and six game- winning goals.  He is ranked 11^th nationally  in points per game with 2.42, and seventh in goals per game with 1.12.  UC Santa Cruz is 17-1-1 and ranked No. 10 in the nation by the National Soccer Coaches Association.

Matt Seeberger Men's Tennis Sophomore

In one week of competition at the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championships held at UC Santa Cruz, Seeberger became the third player in NCAA history to sweep the singles and doubles championships, and the first from UC Santa Cruz.

Seeberger did not drop a set as he repeated as the NCAA singles champion. He defeated Will Boe-Wiegaard of Bates, 6-2, 6-4, to inch the Slugs within one point of the team championship.

Unseeded in the doubles tournament, Seeberger and partner Matt Brunner fought their way through a difficult bracket to pull off a thrilling third-set tiebreaker (after seven match points) against top-seeded Michael Malvits and Julian Seelan of Kalamazoo to win the doubles title.

This tournament marked the first time that players on one team captured the singles, doubles and team championships in the same year.

Katie Frick Women's Tennis Senior

Katie Frick, the No. 1 singles and doubles player at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and left fielder Mike McCormick of New Jersey City University, were named today as the recipients of the Association of Division III Independents Student-Athlete of the Month awards for April.

A senior from LaVerne, CA, Frick went 8-3 in singles matches during April. During the month, she won 18 sets and lost only five. Two of her wins were against Division II opponents, while her three losses came at the hands of highly ranked Redlands, Claremont and Division I Santa Clara University. Currently, Frick is the 15 th ranked singles player in the West Region.

Frick and doubles partner Erika Villalobos were 10-1 in April, with their only loss coming at the hands of Santa Clara. The pair is 17-3 overall and the top-ranked doubles team in the West Region. At the OJAI Championships, Frick and Villalobos won the doubles championship after winning seven straight sets, including beating the top-seeded UC Davis, a provisional Division I program, in the finals (6-4, 6-2). Frick will compete in both the singles and doubles tournaments at the Division III Tennis Championships.