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In 1982, the Diocese of California made an arrangement with Saint Mary's College of California, approved by the papal nuncio, which allowed for St. Giles to worship in the chapel at St. Mary's College. St. Giles became financially self-supporting in 1988 and became recognized as a parish in 1995. Saint Giles continues to worship in the chapel ...
Saint Mary's has 17 Division I teams, competing in the West Coast Conference. The nickname of Saint Mary's sports teams is the Gaels, which had been given to the school's football team in 1926 by Pat Frayne, a writer for the San Francisco Call-Bulletin. The school's previous nickname was the Saints although the baseball team still kept the ...
In 2012, Saint Mary's claimed both the regular season WCC title and the tournament title and received a seven seed in the NCAA tournament but lost to #10 seed Purdue in the first round. The Gaels finished second in the WCC in the 2012–13 season and received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, defeating Middle Tennessee in a "First Four ...
The last high school boarder graduated from Saint Mary's in 1971. That year, the student population numbered 507. Beloved De La Salle Hall was razed in 1973 as an earthquake hazard. Brother Norman Cook, who taught at the academy from 1952 to 1959, returned to Berkeley as Saint Mary's Principal in 1973.
Moraga is a town in Contra Costa County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The town is named in honor of Joaquín Moraga, member of the famed Californio family. As of 2020, Moraga had a total population of 16,870 people. Moraga is the home of Saint Mary's College of California.
The 2024–25 Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball team represents Saint Mary's College of California during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The team is led by head coach Randy Bennett in his 24th season at Saint Mary's.
Saint Mary's Gaels football; First season: 1892: Last season: 2003: Stadium: Saint Mary's Stadium: Field surface: Natural grass: Location: Moraga, California: NCAA division: Division I-AA (now FCS) (1993– 2003) Conference: Independent: Past conferences: Independent (1892–1924) Far Western (1925–1928) Independent (1929–1950) College ...
The Gaels compiled a 27–6 record and went 14–2 in the WCC in 2011–12, including a win in Moraga over Gonzaga and a sweep of new conference member BYU. Saint Mary's spent most of the season ranked in the AP and Coaches' polls and won the outright WCC regular season title, the first time since 2000 that Gonzaga had not claimed part of the ...