RECognition: Daniela Torrey, Outback Adventures Recreation’s monthly series to highlight and celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director A lot can change in just a few years. One minute, you’ve never been camping in your life. Next, you’re leading trips of fellow students to Baja California, Anza Borrego Hot Springs, and more. […]
RECognition: Ian McGregor, Outback Adventures
RECognition: Ian McGregor, Outback Adventures Recreation’s monthly series to highlight and celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director Ian McGregor has big goals. And to accomplish them, he’s thinking small. Microscopic, even. The son of an engineer father, McGregor, a fourth-year in Seventh College, always wanted to be an engineer, since he […]
RECognition: Sydney Nichol, Outback Adventures
RECognition: Sydney Nichol, Outback Adventures Recreation’s monthly series to highlight and celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director Sydney Nichol remembers being nervous. As an incoming freshman at UC San Diego, she didn’t know what to expect. So she signed up for Wilderness Orientation — and everything changed. “My guides created such […]
RECognition: Kartyr Howe, Aquatics/Youth Programs
RECognition: Kartyr Howe, Youth Programs/Aquatics Recreation’s monthly series to celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director Children learning to swim through the UC San Diego Recreation Instructional Swimming Classes are in good hands. Kartyr Howe’s hands, specifically. “Kartyr is a Head Swim Instructor,” says Assistant Aquatics Director Clayton Claiborn. “She has managed […]
RECognition: Adrianna ‘Ace’ Hernandez, Youth Programs
RECognition: Adrianna ‘Ace’ Hernandez, Youth Programs Recreation’s monthly series to celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director Her friends, family members, fellow students, colleagues — shoot, pretty much everyone over the legal driving age — know her as Adrianna Hernandez. But to the scores of campers who cycle through UC San Diego […]
2024-2025 Sports Clubs and Esports Award Winners
2024-2025 Sports Clubs and Esports Award Winners Hearty Commendations and Heartfelt Goodbyes Aplenty at Year-End Banquet By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director As participants entered the banquet hall, they passed through a realistic (yet cardboard) faux wood archway adorned with “UC San Diego Recreation” in bright, white letters. When they exited a few hours […]
RECapalooza 2024-2025: Congratulations and Cowboy Hats
RECapalooza 2024-2025: Congratulations and Cowboy Hats Standout Recreation student staff honored at Western-themed, year-end celebration By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director The cowboy hats were out in all shapes and sizes. The smallest belonged to the yellow rubber duckies adorning the centerpiece of each circular table. A little larger were the shiny, plastic hats […]
A Life Lived Through Yoga: Arturo Galvez, UCSD’s Grandfather of Yoga
A Life Lived Through Yoga UC San Diego yoga legend Arturo Galvez leaves a lasting impact, set to guide another generation of instructors By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director Looking around the familiar Activity Room 3 at RIMAC, Arturo Galvez notices a few changes. The pads on the walls have been replaced. They used […]
RECognition: Ivy Goodwin, Aquatics
RECognition: Ivy Goodwin, Aquatics Recreation’s monthly series to celebrate our staff By Shawn Cyr Assistant Marketing Director There aren’t too many people who can claim to have met Olympic athletes and Flavor Flav on the same day. Consider Ivy Goodwin at the center of that exceptionally unique Venn diagram. Ivy, a graduating senior in […]
