Support the Program: Golf Tournament October 5

Register now for the Caltech Hoops Golf Tournament! Support the season and the Beavers future international trip with an exciting day of golf and community fun, all at Brookside Golf Club in Pasadena!

Golf Tourney 2012

Info for 2012 Men's Basketball Golf Tournament -- Friday, October 5
If you'd like to participate, email: hoopitup AT caltech DOT edu

Tech Trails: Rising Sophs

Joel led the team in assists and steals

Tech Trails tracks summer plans of Caltech basketball players -- from SURFs (summer undergraduate research fellowships) to related work in the fields of math, science, and engineering.

Rising sophomores Bryan Joel and Andrew Hogue had tremendous freshman campaigns. They proved themselves as playmakers and scorers and finished in the program's top 10 in 3-point percentage for a season. And this summer, they are showing their might in the workforce.

Hogue scored in double figures 14 times

Joel is interning in Bethesda, Maryland for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division. He is working on a couple different projects that will help make certain devices on Navy ships more effective and help sailors safely manage their environment.

Hogue is living on campus while he interns at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Protocol Technology Lab working in the field of Deep Space Networking. He is helping optimize combinations of protocol used to send transmissions between spacecraft, satellites, and mission control.

Save the Date: October 5

Friday, October 5: Golf Tournament at Brookside Golf Club to support the men's basketball program!

More info to come!

Five Named to NABC Honors Court

Once again, Caltech basketball players have been named to the NABC Honors Court. This year, five Beavers, all juniors, earned the honor. Ethan Boroson, Arjun Chandar, Christophe Kunesh, Alex Runkel, and Pan Wang each have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. Besides the GPA cutoff, to qualify for Honors Court, student-athletes must be a junior or senior.

The five honorees, tied for the most of any NCAA school's one class, are the most since Eslinger's first season, when seven players qualified (five seniors and two juniors). There were no seniors on this year's team.

Caltech release:
http://gocaltech.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/NABCHonorsCourt

Tech Trails: Captains

Edwards (far left), Murphy (front), & Boroson (with ball)

Tech Trails tracks summer plans of Caltech basketball players -- from SURFs (summer undergraduate research fellowships) to related work in the fields of math, science, and engineering.

Caltech's captains are rising seniors who have been consistent starters and contributors for three years. Besides their great work on the court, Collin Murphy, Michael Edwards, and Ethan Boroson are all living on or near campus this summer as they continue to build their resumes.

Murphy and Edwards are interning at HoverState 2.0 in Encino. The computer science majors are getting hands-on experience in programming -- everything from developing and coding to design and quality testing.

In previous summers, they each have worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Boroson is involved with a SURF under Guillaume Blanquart. The mechanical engineer major is busy modeling turbulent variable density flows using computer simulations.

He interned at GLHN Architects and Engineers (Ariz.) the past two summers.

Murphy and Boroson are two of the Beavers top playmakers, often ranking high in the league in assists, steals, and rebounds. Edwards has amassed 1200 points in his career and has finished in the top 10 in SCIAC scoring each of his three seasons.

Tech Trails

Tech Trails tracks summer plans of Caltech basketball players -- from SURFs (summer undergraduate research fellowships) to related work in the fields of math, science, and engineering.

Mike Paluchniak excels on and off the court. Besides being a key cog in the basketball program, he is involved in various opportunities in business, economics, and management.

This summer, he is taking his talents to New York City where he will be working as an analyst intern for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

His focus: risk management and tech development.

Last summer, he interned at Caltech's Investment office. And the summer prior to his freshman year, he managed political science data with Professor R.M. Alvarez.