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Teen apprentices performing at festival

Eight teens have been selected as Rhodes Junior Apprentices for the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival at California Lutheran University.

KCLU AM/FM, Ventura and Santa Barbara County’s National Public Radio station, won more awards than any other contender in the western United States at the 2009 Mark Twain Awards Show hosted Saturday, June 27, by the Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival will conclude its 13th season with its first production of “All’s Well That Ends Well” from July 17 though Aug. 2 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company will present its popular Summer Theatre Camp at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks for the 24th year.

Since 13 is the unluckiest of numbers, the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival is kicking off its 13th season with what is considered the Bard’s unluckiest play – “Macbeth.”

California Lutheran University will break ground on a new social and behavioral science building at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 4.

Auditions for scholarships to the California Lutheran University Summer Vocal Institute will be held on Saturday, May 30.

The Honors Convocation at California Lutheran University on May 15 highlighted the scholastic achievements of several students.

Two longtime faculty members at California Lutheran University are retiring.

Katherine Rose Bierach of Campbell and Allison Wachtel of Thousand Oaks received California Lutheran University’s top literary prizes during Honors Convocation on May 15.

The college football season is still a couple months away but two Cal Lutheran football players have been selected to the 2009 Lindy's Preseason All-Division III Team. Senior Victor Edwards was named to the first team while sophomore Jackson Damron landed on the second team.

A record-setting group of 99 student-athetes from 19 teams at California Lutheran University were recognized by the school's Scholar Athlete Society at a year-end banquet. All the students maintained a 3.4 GPA or higher for the academic year while particpating as a NCAA Division III student-athlete. 

Cal Lutheran junior Matt Martin was one of only two players in Division III baseball to eclipse 10 triples, doing so in 35 games during the 2009 season notching the triples per game title outright. The mark also breaks the school's 29-year old single season record and 15-year old career record.

Cal Lutheran women's water polo standouts Meredith Butte, Joy Cyprian, Bobby Sanders and Ashley Bentz were chosen as members of the 2009 Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American Teams, released on Thursday. Butte and CLU Head Coach Craig Rond were named as ACWPC Division III Player and Coach of the Year, respectively.

After one year with the men's tennis team at California Lutheran University, sophomore transfer Andrew Giuffrida earned a spot on the 2009 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) DIII Men's All-American Team.

The conclusion of the 2008-09 athletics year came to a close with the California Lutheran women's programs taking third in the Conference All-Sports Standings. Points are awarded based on final conference standings for each of the nine SCIAC sports and awarded to each institution respectively.

Six of the 10 Cal Lutheran men's athletic programs secured top three conference finishes earning a fourth place result in the 2008-09 SCIAC All-Sports Standings. Points are awarded based on final conference standings for each of the nine SCIAC sports and awarded to each institution respectively.

California Lutheran University's David Iden has been selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 35^th round of Major League Baseball's 2009 First-Year Player Draft, announced on Thursday. The senior infielder was the 1,057^th pick overall and the latest Kingsmen selected since former teammate Lee Ellis in 2007.

Second year kicker Jackson Damron was selected to the 2009 Consensus Draft Services Division III Preseason All-American Second Team. After earning All-Conference first team last season he is the lone SCIAC player to earn a spot on the CDS teams.

Junior Jordan Ott was named to the 2009 D3Baseball.com All-America Team, released earlier today. The designated hitter earned an "Honorable Mention" spot after hitting .361 and led the team with 50 RBI.