Santa Clara University men’s tennis team claimed the West Coast Conference regular season co-championship along with the University of San Diego and Pepperdine University for the first time in program history with a 4-2 victory over the Toreros on Saturday, April 18, at the Degheri Tennis Center. Santa Clara, San Diego and Pepperdine each concluded conference play with identical 6-1 records. The Broncos captured four of five singles matches, highlighted by a three-set clincher from Luca Lemaitre ’27. The win marked Lemaitre’s eighth consecutive singles victory. Santa Clara had previously finished second in the WCC six times, most recently in 2025, aided by Lemaitre’s efforts, but the team had never broken through to claim even a share of the title. The milestone finally came against a dominant San Diego program that has earned at least a share of the conference championship in each of the last five seasons, including this year. The win also broke an eight-game losing streak against San Diego, marking Santa Clara’s first victory over the Toreros since 2018. The Broncos will enter the WCC Tournament as the No. 3 seed and face No. 6 Saint Mary’s College on April 23rd at 12 p.m. at the Green Valley Country Club in Fairfield, California. The winner will advance to play No. 2 Pepperdine on April 24 at 12 p.m. 📝: @aneeka.sideline 📷: @ninaglickphoto

The Santa Clara Community Action Program brought Slut Walk back to campus on April 10. This year, the event showed up with a new theme, a broader coalition of participating organizations and a first-time organizer who helped shape its creative direction from start to finish. This year’s theme, “Writing is Resistance: Your Story Matters,” centered storytelling as a form of activism, drawing on a feminist lens and placing strong emphasis on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices. Chloe Bryant ’29, this year’s program coordinator, is behind the development of the concepts and pointed out that the idea grew from something personal. “Romance novels have become really popular, and they do a great job of spreading love and awareness without people even realizing it,” she said. “These issues are very important, but people don’t want to talk about them. Seeing them through a different light makes it possible.” “You don’t have to say anything out loud, you can just write it down,” Bryant said. “As someone who is friends with victims, their voices are heard, but they don’t have to go out and say it.” Organizing the event at a Jesuit University hasn’t come without tension. Per University policy, organizers were prohibited from directly distributing condoms at the event. This restriction has shaped how SCCAP navigates outreach around sexual health. Chloe Wong ’22, staff advisor for SCCAP, described the workaround they landed on. “Per us being a Jesuit Catholic university, we are not allowed to hand out condoms,” Wong said. “We have figured out ways to do that. We have had condoms in our SCCAP office and on the table. If someone walks in and asks us about SCCAP and takes a condom, you are not directly handing them out.” This approach shows how campus organizations have had to work around University guidelines while still providing students access to sexual health resources. “Even if you’re not a victim of sexual assault or violence, it’s still important to show up,” Bryant said. “Even if you don’t fit into the categories we’re talking about, if you know somebody or you read about it online, then you’re impacted by it.” 📝: @diyachaudhary 📷: @ninaglickphoto @elainez_ly