Bobcat Athletics

Dunham Named Cal Pac Athletic Director of the Year

June 4, 2025

UC Merced Executive Director of Recreation & Athletics David Dunham has been named California Pacific Conference Athletic Director of the Year for the second straight year and for the third time in four years. Under Dunham's leadership in 2024-25, UC Merced won a Cal Pac-record 13...

UC Merced Basketball Teams Flying High to Future in NCAA

Intercollegiate basketball soared to new heights at UC Merced this season. For the first time, the women’s and men’s teams both advanced to their respective National Association of...

Bobcats Bring Valley’s Love for Soccer to a National Stage

The significance of soccer in the San Joaquin Valley cannot be overstated. It’s a sport that connects communities, bridges borders and stretches across generations of fathers and mothers and...

Star Soccer Player Finds Success On and Off the Pitch

Four years ago, lifelong soccer player Yesenia Tijerina stopped playing when the pandemic shut everything down. Her classes at UC Davis were taken online at her home in Salinas. Tijerina started...

A graphic depicts a book, a light bulb, a computer and a photo of Lucas Khoi Nguyen.

New Bobcat from Atwater Aims High in Business, Basketball

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2024 semester. Lucas Khoi Nguyen was a standout student athlete at Atwater High School before signing a...

A Dream Come True: Bobcat Plays for Fiji National Soccer Team

Between academic semesters and collegiate soccer seasons, UC Merced standout defender Preeya Singh is representing Fiji on the world stage. Over the past eight months, Singh has played in multiple...

UC Merced athletes Alexandra Lopez and Brycen Miller, and athletics director David Dunham

UC Merced Student-athletes, AD Earn Top Cal Pac Honors

UC Merced has earned a trio of top athletic year-end honors from the California Pacific Conference. Alexandra Lopez and Brycen Miller were named female and male Scholar-Athletes of the Year,...

UC Merced Set to Join California Collegiate Athletic Association, Transition to NCAA Division II

One of the nation's top NCAA Division II conferences - the California Collegiate Athletic Association - will get that much stronger as its Board of Presidents has voted unanimously to admit the...

Water Polo and Outdoor Track Add to Growing Roster of Sports at UC Merced

UC Merced is adding men’s and women’s water polo and men’s and women’s outdoor track as varsity intercollegiate sports beginning in the 2022-23 academic year. This...

The UC Merced women's basketball team is seen after a game on March 1, 2022.

Women's Basketball Team Crowned Cal Pac Tournament Champions

The UC Merced women's basketball team beat Westcliff University 64-46 on Tuesday night to win their fourth California Pacific Conference Tournament Championship in the last eight years. The...