Author Archives: Adam de Jong

They give over 300 tours a year to prep sports stars interested in attending UCLA. The job doesn’t command a lot of attention, but it does play a hand in recruiting Division I athletes. On each campus, the role of a student recruiting assistant could be easily overlooked. In fact, they usually are. Athletes are […]

Needing to overcome a sluggish first half in which it sputtered offensively, the UCLA football team pulled out a tight victory, 21-17, over the visiting Washington Huskies. The win was highlighted by a final drive in which senior quarterback Drew Olson went 6 of 7 through the air for 72 yards, and it was capped […]

The secret is out. The boys in Westwood have a pretty good thing going. This seems to be the sentiment shared by the national media as the college football world has started to give the Bruins positive coverage, wondering if Karl Dorrell is finding his way. ESPN, Sports Illustrated and just about every other major […]

As the 2004 UCLA women’s soccer season approached, Stacy Lindstrom and Stephanie Kron were faced with a tough call. Leaving to play for the Under-19 U.S. National team in Thailand for the FIFA World Championships would mean the players would have to redshirt and leave behind their beloved UCLA teammates for an entire season. “I […]

Replacing an All-American is tough no matter what the circumstance may be. But the task facing the men’s cross country team this season is especially difficult. 2004 All-American Jon Rankin provided men’s cross country with its bright spots in an otherwise mediocre season a year ago. His record-setting senior year came while his athletic yet […]

Following a season that saw them compete for a national title, the 2005 UCLA women’s cross country team looks on paper to be a veteran squad with few lingering questions entering the season. But looks can be deceiving. “Someone who might have followed our team in recent years would think we are a much more […]

So I have a confession to make. Until recently, I felt that my interest in sports was merely residues leftover from a timid childhood that had yet to really appreciate the more sophisticated, upper-echelon culture in a meat-n-potaters country. I was trying to push my sports fanaticism to the back of my subconscious as I […]