Courtesy: SMC Athletics Release: 10/23/2009  
Tracy, Ca – Saint Mary’s men’s basketball player, Omar Samhan, took some time away from the classroom and court, to visit the Advancement Via Individualized Determination (AVID) students at Williams Middle School in Tracy on Wednesday. This marks the second visit Samhan has made to a Northern California school this school [...]

Pleasanton couple’s dog a winning wiener
By Robert Jordan
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 05/21/2010 12:00:00 AM PDT
Updated: 05/21/2010 09:58:38 AM PDT
PLEASANTON — Sammy Davis loves to fetch.
His ears perk up. His little dachshund tail switches back and forth.
They say he’ll chase anything. “No dog runs like him,” said Patrick Major, his owner. “He’s special.” Major should know.
In the seven years [...]

Courtesy: SMC Athletics Release: 10/23/2009  
Tracy, Ca – Saint Mary’s men’s basketball player, Omar Samhan, took some time away from the classroom and court, to visit the Advancement Via Individualized Determination (AVID) students at Williams Middle School in Tracy on Wednesday. This marks the second visit Samhan has made to a Northern California school this school [...]

Hayward, CA – On September 9, men’s basketball center Omar Samhan visited the sixth graders of Bowman Elementary School, located in Hayward. The reason for his trip was to speak to the kids about education during their academic rally, which focused on last year’s STAR 9 scores.
Samhan spoke to the Bowman kids about succeeding academically [...]

Last week basketball became bigger than just a game. When ten super athletes pound up and down the court as part of an Ozone Night, an event put together by Saint Mary’s College (SMC) and the Hayward Youth Academy (HYA), the business of putting a ball in a hoop is no longer just a game. [...]

Remembering Coach Miles McAfee  
St. Mary’s College Meet the Players Banquet
Keynote Speaker:   Tom Brown
February 13, 2010
It’s always good to be back at Saint Mary’s.  I spent most of my life on this campus as an Assistant Dean of Students, Associate Dean of Studies and Dean of Advising Services.  I had many responsibilities during my 27 year [...]

Joe Hackman discusses youth outreach with Chris Major of Hayward Youth Academy. Chris Major is the president of Hayward Youth Academy (HYA) a 501c(3) non profit organization. He and a dedicated board of directors focus on developing motivational programs that blend critical thinking skills with academic performance in the classroom. This leads to more [...]

Saint Mary’s College Gael basketball star, and Hayward’s best-kept secret inspired youth in 2008-09 around the bay area. It takes a lot to intimidate Diamon Simpson, who braved scores of flying elbows en route to breaking the career rebounding record at Saint Mary’s. A couple hundred sixth-graders did the trick. “Honestly”, Simpson said, Thursday, recalling [...]

When he was at Moreau High School in Hayward, Christopher Major ’83 accomplished a lot as the football quarterback and a baseball outfielder, along with being the first black class president. But he didn’t think much about where he would go to college.
“I had a goal for college, but not much of a plan,” he [...]