Author Archives: Adam de Jong

Practice had not been over for 10 minutes, and UCLA women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier was back in her office breaking down film. Olivier was studying the play of Stanford guards Candice Wiggins and Brooke Smith, still trying to formulate a way to contain the tandem when the Bruins (10-8, 5-4 Pac-10) host the No. […]

The UCLA women’s basketball team has been tested against one of the most grueling schedules in the country, but the next two weeks might prove to be the most demanding. Or the most rewarding. With the next three games against No. 14 Stanford, California, and No. 15 Arizona State, the UCLA ball club has an […]

Fifteen feet stood between the UCLA women’s basketball team and its biggest comeback win of the season. Fifteen feet stood between them and a road win against a crosstown rival, or perhaps more importantly to a conference foe who overlooks them in the Pac-10 standings. Fifteen feet stood between the Bruins and a win that […]

It’s pretty simple at this point. If the UCLA women’s basketball team plans on fulfilling its preseason promise to make a deep run into the NCAA Tournament, it’s going to have to win games like this. In fact, the Bruins are going to have to win any game, like this or any other kind, if […]

Lindsey Pluimer has spent her first year and a half in Westwood trying to fit into the UCLA program, as a core player used to complement the “triple threat.” The 6-foot-4 sophomore forward, who was mostly a perimeter player in high school, has been asked to transform her game ““ and even her workout regimen […]

Noelle Quinn doesn’t think she is a great player “”mdash; yet. But she is quickly becoming one. After the Bruins’ tough loss against Washington on Thursday night, Quinn climbed into her hotel bed that night exhausted from the travel and beaten down by her poor play. The junior standout scored a season-low five points and […]

Winning on the road has as much to do with tenacity and aggressive play as anything else, including talent. The UCLA women’s basketball team again proved this by dropping its sixth road loss in seven games to the Washington Huskies, 96-75. It was a loss that punctured the growing momentum UCLA had built the past […]