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.
September 26, 2019
On Wednesday, September 25, San Diego Mesa College Athletics has been awarded the DeVore Trophy for the 2018-19 calendar year. The DeVore Award is presented each year to a Pacific Coast Athletics Conference (PCAC) member college with the most successful men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic program for the academic year. Mesa College finished 2018-19 with a total of 217 total points overall. The last time Mesa won the DeVore Trophy was in 2011-12.
This past year, Mesa captured PCAC titles in baseball, men's cross country, men's track & field, women's swim and dive, women's water polo and women's volleyball. Mesa teams placed second in men's swimming, women's soccer, softball and women's track and field. In addition, the Olympians finished second in the state in women's swim & dive while finishing third in men's cross country.
Grossmont College was the runner-up for the DeVore Trophy after capturing PCAC titles in men's swim & dive, women's tennis, men's volleyball, men's water polo and women's beach volleyball as well as a co-championship in women's basketball. The Griffins ended up sweeping everything in women's beach volleyball, winning a state title and having a duo capture the pairs state title.
The DeVore Award is named after the late Chester S. "Chet" DeVore, founding Commissioner of the Pacific Coast Conference. DeVore was President / Superintendent of Southwestern College in Chula Vista from 1961, when he supervised construction and development of its new Chula Vista campus, until his retirement as one of the nation's most respected community college CEOs 21 years later.
He became the first Commissioner of the PCAC, the host conference for community college athletics in San Diego County and Imperial County, in 1982. He served until his retirement from that post in 1998. DeVore, a World War II hero and Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient who left a long legacy both in academics and athletics at college, conference, state and national levels, died in January 2011. He was 92.
Chet DeVore Trophy History
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Year |
Program |
Athletic Director |
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2018-19 |
San Diego Mesa |
Ryan Shumaker |
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2017-18 |
MiraCosta |
Pat Conahan |
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2016-17 |
Grossmont |
Thomas Armstrong |
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2015-16 |
Grossmont |
Jim Spillers / Donivan Marthis |
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2014-15 |
Palomar |
Scott Cathcart |
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2013-14 |
Grossmont |
Jim Spillers |
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2012-13 |
Palomar |
Scott Cathcart |
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2011-12 |
San Diego Mesa |
Dave Evans |
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2010-11 |
Southwestern |
Terry Davis |
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2009-10 |
Palomar |
Scott Cathcart |
For more information on Mesa Athletics and upcoming contests, please see www.gosdmesa.com.
Tags: Mesa Athletics, PCAC
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
San Diego, CA. — Tomorrow, on Wednesday, October 18 at 12:00 p.m., Mesa College will be hosting their Spirit Week Pep Rally on campus to celebrate the success of the Athletics program with the 4th win of the Devore Trophy, and upcoming contests, culminating in the 2023 Homecoming Football Game on Saturday, Oct 21.
On Wednesday, September 25, San Diego Mesa College Athletics has been awarded the DeVore Trophy for the 2018-19 calendar year. The DeVore Award is presented each year to a Pacific Coast Athletics Conference (PCAC) member college with the most successful men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic program for the academic year. Mesa College finished 2018-19 with a total of 217 total points overall. The last time Mesa won the DeVore Trophy was in 2011-12.
Congratulations to Mesa College Women’s Soccer team for making it to the Southern California Regional Playoffs. They will compete tonight, November 15 at 7pm at the Merrill Douglas Stadium. The Mesa community is invited to come out and show support for the Women’s Soccer team tonight on the home field.
