The American River College men’s cross country team improved on their #3 state ranking to capture 2nd place behind San Diego Mesa College at Saturday’s State Championships.
The 2019 season was a highly successful campaign for the Beavers as a team. Individually ARC earned some highly prestigious awards as well. Three Beavers achieved the highest individual honor of making the ITA National JuCo All-American Team.
The young roster features only two Sophmores, 6'3" Guard Jashon Lewis, originally from Whitney High School, and Four-year transfer Chris Cagle, a 6'7' Forward who was a leader for the Woodcreek Wolves during their dominance in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. The two will serve as team captains. Additionally, the Beavers bost a solid young core of Freshman talent including 5'8" Point Guard Jair Lang (West Campus), 6'5" Tenigee Brown (Inderkum) and 6'7" Forward David O'Looney (Nevada Union).
James “Jimmy” Ghilardi comes from a family deeply rooted in athletics and coaching, and in keeping with the tradition, he has continued his football career into American River College, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
In a clash between surging Sacramento-area community college football squads it was the Beavers from American River powering past the Sierra Wolverines, 45-14, Saturday.
Three Beaver players represented Northern California as the best community college singles player (Younes Kodij) and the best community college doubles team (Jack Hall/Gabe Kinder) in the region at the prestigious ITA Cup, played in Rome, Georgia.
In the preseason ITA Regional Tournament, the ARC Beavers men’s tennis team was extremely successful, having 7 of the 8 quarterfinalists in singles, and all 4 doubles semifinalists.
The football team at American River College emerged victorious against the defending state champion Laney College in its home opener for the season at Beaver Stadium on Sept. 14. The final score was 15-10 in favor of ARC.
On Friday Aug. 30, student athletes at American River College were honored by the athletic department for their achievements during the previous academic year, in anticipation of the upcoming fall sports season.
Parker Haven, a 6'6" Forward from Folsom, California, earned a full-ride athletic scholarship to play basketball at Menlo College, and NAIA Division-I school, located just outside of Palo Alto, California.
It was an all-ARC affair on the men’s side of the ITA Regional Tournament hosted by American River College at Gold River Sports Club. In the quarterfinals, 5th seeded Micah Erwin defeated the lone non-Beaver player left in the draw when he upset 4th seeded Rajan Bhatia from Solano, by the score of 3-6, 6-3, 2-0 ret.
Once again a lot of hard work in the classroom paid off as the American River College Baseball team posted a near program record 2.94 team gpa in the Spring semester.
American River College beat Sacramento City 27-0 in a junior college opener at Hughes Stadium, the 10th consecutive time the Beavers have bested their rival.
Tommy Edwards, a 6-foot-4 guard from Roseville, California, Edwards earned a full ride scholarship to Holy Names University after a monster Sophmore season at American River College.
It didn’t take Steve Holm long to make an impact as a head coach at the Division 1 level. After successful stints as an assistant coach at Sac State and Purdue University, the former Beaver player lead the Illinois State Redbirds to their first ever regional final and a 36-26 record in his first year.
American River College (ARC) Beaver athletics finished the 2018-19 academic year ranked 5th in the state of California for overall excellence among community college sports programs.
Despite the rainy and windy conditions, the American River College Women’s Track and Field squad battled through to an impressive seventh place team finish, in the 2019 California Community College State Meet Championships.
Younes Kodiji, Stephen Guenard, and Raymond Halvorsen all made the Beaver Scholar-Athlete List for the spring of 2019 by posting a GPA of 3.0 or above.