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ISSUE 1
VOLUME 70
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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After decades of athletic growth, California Baptist University has completed its transition to Division I.
BY HANNAH GORDON ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
We made it. This year, California Baptist University Athletics will be competing at the highest level, Division I. “There is a tremendous sense of accomplishment now that we are a fully-fledged NCAA Division I program,” said Tyler Mariucci, director of Athletics. “I am so excited for our coaches and student-athletes because they now have the opportunity to compete for national championships on the
large stage the NCAA has.” This means CBU is going up against some of the most prominent schools in the country like UCLA and Brown University. “Now it’s kind of like our chance to go out and compete against all these big schools and win a championship,” Jordan Lane, captain of the men’s soccer team said. “It is a chance to go up against recognized schools.” The doors of opportunity have swung wide for the Athletics program thanks to this significant event. One of the na-
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It has been a long journey to full NCAA Division I membership for CBU, and it is the realization of a lot of great planning, hard work and investment from our leadership.
get something big.” CBU has been working its way up to Division I for 53 years. “CBU was a dominant force in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1969 to 2011,” Mariucci said. “We first became a fully-fledged NCAA Division II member in 2013-14 and then announced our move to NCAA Division I status and the Western Athletics Conference in January 2017. “It has been a long journey to full NCAA Division I membership for CBU, and it is the
realization of a lot of great planning, hard work and investment from our leadership.” Division I status is a benefit to all of CBU. “This brings increased exposure to CBU as a whole because we are competing against some of the most recognizable institutions in all of college athletics,” Mariucci said. Now, the school will have the opportunity to become more recognized. “That is the goal: to go and be with the best of the best,” Lane said.
The return of Clash N Roll launches new school year BY EMILY MCGINN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
A group of students has fun while waiting for Clash N Roll to begin.
Photo by Charissa Graves I Banner
Students flooded the Front Lawn on the evening of Sept. 4 to kick off the school year with crazy outfits and a massive game of Bunco during Clash N Roll. This annual event, which concludes Welcome Weekend, brings the student body together prior to the start of fall classes. However, for the past two years, the Front Lawn has lacked the clashing outfits and dice-throwing that is characteristic of this popular event. Clash N Roll has been absent from the
Welcome Weekend schedule for the past couple years because of regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alyssa Humphreys, senior psychology major, is a Community Life intern who helped prepare and run the Welcome Weekend and Clash N Roll events. “We’re so excited to have [Clash N Roll] back,” Humphreys said. “It’s an event that brings everyone together right at the start of the year. It’s such high energy and it sets the tone
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