Author Archives: Adam de Jong

For student-athletes, signing a national letter of intent to join the UCLA program might seem like the start of their college career. But when they step out onto campus for the first time, during the fleeting days of summer, it is truly their time to begin. Those first few weeks in September can understandably be […]

Somebody forgot to send the memo to Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig: The MLB amateur draft is designed to give the worst teams in the league the first crack at the next pool of superstars. This seems like an easy enough concept to understand, but for whatever reason, the MLB has yet to understand […]

As a season defined by losing streaks and frustration nears its conclusion, the UCLA baseball team is taking the opportunity to audition some of its less-heralded players for next year. Pitcher Brian Schroeder and shortstop Nolan Rouse, two Bruins who played a complementary role for much of the season, stepped forward last weekend to help […]

The UCLA-Washington State series may not have changed the landscape of the Pac-10 baseball standings much. But in Sunday afternoon’s rubber match in Pullman, Wash., there was still plenty on the line for both teams, who have been in a race to avoid the conference basement this year. Less than 20 hours after giving the […]

When the NCAA announced the 64-team field that will compete for the softball national title on Sunday, UCLA learned it had received the seventh seed. While such a seeding would have been disappointing news to the Bruins the last two years, both of which culminated in UCLA winning the NCAA Championship, it was welcomed with […]

For a program that has quietly flourished on this campus over the past two years, the UCLA equestrian team finds itself in a unique position. Though the team has doubled in size and has proven to be nationally competitive, it is still without any sponsorship or club sports status that would provide it with much-needed […]

The day that Alaina Sudeith began playing water polo, the way her peers perceived her changed. Before the UCLA sophomore joined the water polo team at University High School in Irvine, her classmates knew her as a tomboy. Afterward, many wrongly assumed she was a lesbian. “There’s a double-standard for men and women in sports […]