Daily Bruin columnists Jason Feder and Allister Wenzel face off over which team will bring home UCLA’s 100th title and who will really care when they do. ————————————————– Which team will win UCLA’s 100th national championship? Feder: It will be the gymnastics team. They’ve got the first shot at No. 100 with NCAA Championships starting […]
Author Archives: Allister Wenzel
Olympic grass isn’t always greener
I might have been the only one not upset when Los Angeles lost the Olympic bid for 2016 in favor of Chicago. When you think about it at first, it doesn’t make sense to have the Olympics anywhere but Los Angeles. UCLA was scheduled to be the site of the Olympic Village in the proposal […]
Volleyball takes revenge in final home game
In the last home match of their collegiate volleyball careers, the departing UCLA seniors wouldn’t have had it any other way. Against Long Beach State Wednesday night, fourth-ranked UCLA exacted revenge for a five-game loss at Long Beach last February, sweeping the 49ers 30-27, 30-23 and 38-36. The last regular season match in Westwood recognized […]
Young team may be on road to title
With men’s basketball falling out of championship contention and Bruins everywhere searching for a team that could take No. 100 this season, inevitably eyes fall on a select few sports: water polo, gymnastics, golf, tennis and baseball. And then there is men’s volleyball. After an unprecedented 19th NCAA Championship last year, the most storied program […]
Cal Baptist Lancers fall to Bruins in five games
After winning 10 straight matches at home and with the regular season winding down, UCLA men’s volleyball was determined not to let Cal Baptist get the best of them. Thanks to 15 kills from both redshirt senior Paul George and redshirt freshman Brett Perrine, fourth-ranked UCLA was able to defeat a very talented Cal Baptist […]
Volleyball splits road games over break
The men’s volleyball team didn’t have much of a spring break. While Bruins everywhere were spending their week off in whatever way they pleased, Bruin volleyball was busy preparing for two of its biggest games of the season against top-ranked Pepperdine and crosstown rival USC. In front of a huge crowd at the Firestone Fieldhouse […]
Volleyball crushes Ball State; second team gets playing time
Hosting its second Midwestern team of the season after sweeping Loyola Chicago at home last Wednesday, fourth-ranked UCLA (13-9, 9-8) was able to find similar ease against Ball State on Wednesday night, defeating the Cardinals in three games, 30-20, 30-22, and 30-11. No. 15 Ball State (10-8) came to Westwood for its fourth stop on […]