Second-year student Zora Williams is using her voice to bring more mental health and nutrition programming to San Diego Mesa College. Williams was elected president of the college’s Associated Students (AS) for the 2024-2025 academic year and serves as the college’s student representative on the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Sometimes, you hear a story that makes you want to know more. Kevin Gonzalez has such a story. The last time this story was updated, San Diego Mesa College student Kevin Gonzalez was a 15 year-old heading off to Massachusetts to complete his high school education. In the ensuing years, he has travelled to the other side of the world, built houses, but remained in close contact with his Mesa College professors and connections he made while on campus.
The San Diego Community College District has appointed four new student trustees for the upcoming academic year. Dalia Ramirez (San Diego City College), Zora Williams (San Diego Mesa College), Hailey Hua (San Diego Miramar College), and Haydee Zuniga (San Diego College of Continuing Education), will be sworn in during the June 20 SDCCD Board of Trustees meeting.
November 18, 2016
San Diego Mesa College’s women’s soccer team has become the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference Southern Division Champion for the fourth season in a row.
With their reclaimed title, the 12 seed team is headed to the playoffs with their first post-season game against five seed San Bernardino Valley on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Their first place record for their division this season is 9-0-1 a win percentage of .950, and the team has an overall record of 16-2-2, the team has won their last four games in a row.
One of the women’s only two losses of the season was against San Bernardino on Oct. 11, and Head Coach Todd Curran said that in this rematch game, the team will focus on limiting the amount of space that their opponents can get behind the ball.
Of the team this year, Curran said that their maturity had been one of the key elements in helping the team to have a winning record.
“I think the biggest thing is our maturity in the sense that we have 12 sophomores, all very mature, responsible, who understand the needs of this program, understand how to bring the team together,” Curran said.
Sophomore kinesiology major Emily King feels that getting a good start in the beginning of the year helped to inspire the team throughout the season.
“I feel like our chemistry is really better than last year, and we built that really early,” King said. “I think that we are all after the same goal – we all want to get to the Final Four – and you can see that in every game that we play, and you can see how hard we’re fighting for it.”
This year’s team earned nine All Conference Awards for the PCAC South Division. Coach Curran was awarded Head Coach of the Year and attacking forward Alahna Perez was named the Player of the Year. Brittany Garridos, Georgina Herrera, King, Paulina Maldonado, Alexia Orenday, Jennifer Pabon and Perez all won All Conference Awards.
Assistant Coach Samantha Seiders said that what makes Curran an award-winning coach is the amount of mutual respect that he and the team have for one another.
“I think that Todd has proved that he knows the game, and he knows how to teach it, and he also understands the girls,” Seiders said. “I think on a personal level – on a human level – he can relate to them really well, on a different level other than sports, so I think that’s why they respect him, listen to him and ultimately have the success that they do.”
For more information about women’s soccer at Mesa College, contact Head Coach Todd Curran via email at tcurran@sdccd.edu or via phone at (619) 388-2430.
Tags: Women's Soccer, Soccer, Athletics
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
Todd Curran
Head Coach, Women's Soccer
tcurran@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2430
San Diego –On Monday, July 22 to Thursday, July 25, 2024, the San Diego Mesa College Softball program and Nike’s US Sports Camp program will host a half day and day camp for local girls, ages 6-14, at all levels of experience with Softball. Campers will learn the skills required to successfully play at a competitive level and maximize their potential as players.
San Diego, CA. — It is with great sadness and deep regret that San Diego Mesa College announces the passing of one of the greatest long jumpers in history, Arnie Robinson, at the age of 72. Arnie Paul Robinson, Jr. had a nearly life-long connection to Mesa College as a student, a coach and a Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient. He lived in San Diego and began his track career as a stand-out athlete at Morse High School. In 1967, he enrolled at Mesa College, where he set school records in the long jump, high jump, and triple jump for track and field.
Troy Cristobal is the winner of this year’s 2020 Mesa Scholarship President’s Award, given annually to a deserving Mesa College student who demonstrates leadership and academic excellence in their undergraduate career. Troy is a worthy recipient on both counts, having served as team captain for Mesa’s track and field team since the spring of 2019, and set to graduate this May as an Engineering major with a cumulative 4.0 GPA.
