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Zack Harris Collects Big West Freshman of the Week Honors
NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—CSUN Men’s Soccer’s Zack Harris earned his first career Big West Freshman of the Week award, the league office announced Monday. Harris helped CSUN earn a 2-2 draw with UC Santa Barbara, netting a pair of goals. An Agoura Hills native, Harris gave CSUN a big offensive lift in what would be just his third start of the season -- BVM Sports
2023 Kā‘anapali Classic tees off to support Maui wildfire victims
Dillon Jonke, who graduated in spring 2023 from Maui Preparatory Academy, will reunite with family and friends on Maui for the first time since he left for Cal State Northridge in early August, just days after the Maui wildfires. Jonke was a key contributor on Maui Prep’s 2022 Hawai’i High School Athletic Association championship team, placing as the individual runner-up at the Kā’anapali Golf Courses’ hosted event. -- Lahaina News
Che Flores becomes NBA's first openly nonbinary, trans referee
A Cal State Northridge alum, Flores also served as a referee in the NCAA for 13 years, officiating the 2021 NCAA Women’s National Championship Game and the Women’s Final Four in 2019. -- FOX News
First Trans And Nonbinary NBA Referee Che Flores Gave Megan Rapinoe a Tattoo In WNBA ‘Wubble’
That tattoo was just one chapter in Flores' career. The Los Angeles native and former women's basketball player at Cal State Northridge became an NBA referee in 2022 after a 14-year, 1,000-plus game career that has included stints in the NCAA, G League and WNBA. -- The Messenger
From Mia St. John To Laila Ali, Exploring the Journeys of the 5 Greatest Female Boxing Champs of All Time
Mia pursued her education, obtaining a degree in psychology from California State University, Northridge. During her student days, Mia showcased her tenacity by excelling in taekwondo, earning a black belt, and also modeling to finance her education. -- Essentially Sports
Opinion: End the corruption of the human psyche
In 2022, the SPLC documented 523 hate and 702 antigovernment extremist groups,totaling 1,225 active groups. Timmer, a criminologist at the California State University, Northridge, reports studies on why people commit acts of violence. "These studies suggest that violence does indeed beget violence, as exposure to war makes other kinds of brute force more acceptable and even more likely." For example, retail clerks and hospital personnel report increasing verbal abuse and threats of violence from the public. It seems, glorifying military warriors becomes a model for accepting violence in daily living.-- Concord Monitor
Dancer Tiler Peck Turns It Out In SoCal
New York City Ballet Prima Ballerina, frequent Broadway musical theater performer and Instagram sensation Tiler Peck is bringing her show Turn it Out with Tiler Peck and Friends to Southern California with performances in:
Santa Barbara | Presented by UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures at The Granada Theatre October 25
Los Angeles | Presented by The Soraya at Cal State Northridge October 28 - October 29 -- Forbes
SMMUSD Hires District Veteran As Curriculum Chief
She's also taught at Cal State Northridge, including a recent course on English language arts and English language development for diverse learners. She was also the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Region 14 director-at-large, and is currently the Westside vice president of curriculum and instruction. -- Malibu Patch
Second-half success gave Cardinals’ JoJo Romero assurance he took ‘next step’ as big leaguer
The Oxnard, Calif., native’s plan is to spend parts of his offseason in Arizona and in Southern California, where trains at a community college near Santa Clarita and occasionally at Cal State Northridge’s facilities, where his brother, Josh, is a two-way player for the Matadors. -- St. Luis Post-Dispatch
CSUN Women’s Volleyball Falls to UC Santa Barbara in Big West Match
CSUN women’s volleyball team suffered a 3-0 loss at the hands of conference-leading UC Santa Barbara in a Big West match. Despite Carisa Barron’s impressive triple-double performance, with 13 kills, 15 assists, and 19 digs, the Matadors fell short. The Gauchos out-hit the Matadors, with a final score of 298 to .102. CSUN has struggled on the road this season, losing for the ninth time in 10 matches. The team will return home for their next game against Cal State Bakersfield, looking to bounce back from this defeat. -- BVM Sports