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.
December 13, 2016
San Diego Mesa College’s swim and diving teams for both men and women are recruiting for the Spring 2017 competitive season, starting Jan. 3 with a month of cardio conditioning during Winter Intersession.
Exercise Science 126A, Cardio Conditioning I can be taken by anyone, but it is used as a pre-season training course for women and men on the swimming and diving teams. The intersession course, which includes both in-pool and dry land training, can be signed up for online using the CRN 69658 in Reg-e under the “Spring 2017” semester.
The swim and dive teams officially starts training for the season on Jan. 17 at 1 p.m. The team doesn’t hold official tryouts, but interested students can come on that day to swim and get feedback on their performance. Coach Fegan said that as long as someone has a background in swimming they can be accepted on the team.
“All of our competitions are open, the only meet that you have to be fast enough to qualify for is the state championship,” Fegan said.
The teams practice for two hours every afternoon and two mornings every week. In addition to experienced competitive swimmers, women’s coach Jim Fegan said that some students may have transferrable skills that can be used in swimming and diving – such as gymnastics being used in diving.
“If you have a competitive background, it’s a great opportunity to keep swimming,” Fegan said of joining the team. “There’s also the fitness advantage of staying in shape, it’s fun and reports show that being involved in athletics improves your GPA and your transfer rate.”
Fegan said that the men’s swim team won the conference championship and won fifth place in the state championship last year, and the women’s team took second place at conference ninth place in the state championship.
Mesa swimmer Brandon Crabtree won first place in the men’s 50-yard Freestyle (20.09), set a state record winning first place in the 100-yard Freestyle (44.12) and won first place in the 100-yard Butterfly (47.95) races during last year’s championship meet, earning him the Swimmer of the Meet title.
Also in last year’s championship, Mesa swimmer Neil Franka set both a national and state record for the 200-yard Individual Medley with a time of 1:47.36, earning him the title of Men’s Co-performance of the year, according to the California Community College Athletic Association website.
For more information about the swimming and diving teams at Mesa College, contact women’s Coach Jim Fegan via email at jfegan@sdccd.edu or via phone at (619) 388-2452, or men’s Coach Nathan Resch via email at nresch@sdccd.edu or via phone at (619) 388-2429.
Tags: Athletics, Swimming, Diving
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
Jim Fegan
Head Coach, Women's Swimming & Diving
jfegan@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2452
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.
