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.
August 11, 2017
London, UK. – Brittney Reese, San Diego Mesa College track coach, took her fourth world title today – at the IAAF World Championships in London.
Previously, Reese was a six-time USA Track & Field Outdoor Women’s Champion in the long jump, a three-time World Outdoor Champion, a three-time World Indoor Champion, the indoor American record holder, and the 2012 Olympic Games gold medalist, and 2016 Olympic Games silver medalist.
Reese serves as a part-time track coach at San Diego Mesa College. Born in Inglewood, California, and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi, Reese began competing in the high jump and 400-meter dash, had found a new sport in which to excel. She was named Mississippi’s 2004 Gatorade Player of the Year for track and field and enrolled at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College before accepting a track and field scholarship to the University of Mississippi.
Reese made the U.S. Olympic Team in 2008 and finished fifth at the Summer Games in Beijing. From 2009 to 2013, she was the No. 1 ranked long jumper in the world. In 2016, Reese re-established her place as the best women’s long jumper in the world and made the U.S. Olympic team for the third time. Reese jumped into coaching at Mesa three years ago. Reese said as a coach, she makes one thing clear to anyone who walked onto the track at Mesa College.
“You’ve got to be a student first. You have to take care of business in the classroom before you can take care of business on the track. We take being a student very seriously at Mesa. My job is to push these athletes to be the best they can be and help them understand that if you work hard, anything can happen. I’m a living testament to that.”
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Jennifer Nichols Kearns
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SAN DIEGO, CA – San Diego Mesa College will celebrate the grand opening of its newly developed CommUnity Spaces—student-centered support and affinity spaces designed to enhance engagement, learning, and a sense of belonging on campus—on Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Room I4-202.
San Diego April 1, 2025—San Diego Mesa College announced today that it has earned the 2025-2026 Military Friendly ® School designation.
In honor of Mesa College Giving Day, the Newsroom features the accomplishments of several amazing San Diego Mesa College students. The eight students featured here have distinguished themselves, but they represent just a fraction of what Mesa Olympians achieve every day here on campus and in the world. To celebrate them and the future students who will call Mesa home, consider joining us to celebrate #MesaGivingDay. Give now until Saturday May 25, 2024 to double your gift and support Mesa students.
