The No. 3 UCLA women’s volleyball team could not possibly have asked for a better start to this season. Despite an undefeated record after 17 matches, the Bruins are beginning to find that with success comes higher expectations as well as additional pressure. As the team heads to the desert to take on Arizona and […]
Author Archives: Ben Azar
Time to relish the baseball playoffs
There are a lot of things in this world that make me happy. But the feeling that occurs when I get home, tired from my 9 a.m. class, turn on ESPN and playoff baseball is on, well, there are really no words to describe the emotions. Never mind that my Angels didn’t make the playoffs […]
Bruins return from the brink
Click here to see a DBTV FEATURE VIDEO about this game. Down 2-0 to the No. 4 Washington Huskies, the UCLA women’s volleyball team was all but dead. The Bruins were being outhustled, outworked and outplayed as they headed to the locker room between games. That’s something that coach Andy Banachowski wasn’t going to allow […]
Huskies hunt for volleyball revenge
Nellie Spicer set the ball; Katie Carter smashed it. The match had ended, but the pandemonium that ensued was just beginning. The No. 21 UCLA women’s volleyball team had just upset a Washington Huskies team that was undefeated in five games to give coach Andy Banachowski his 1,000th career win in front of a sparkling […]
UCLA lossless in first 15
To play 15 matches over the span of one month without seeing your home court is no easy task. To come out of those matches with a 15-0 record is something else altogether. Yet that is exactly what the UCLA women’s volleyball team has done to open up the 2006 season. As the Bruins enter […]
Bruins going strong into Pac-10 play
In 2005, the members of a young UCLA women’s volleyball team found out a lot about themselves through a season full of ups and downs. Now, in 2006, a more experienced team has heightened its expectations. So far, so good. Coming into Pac-10 play last Thursday, UCLA was off to its best start since 1993. […]
Rice game gives UCLA a chance to warm up, exercise options
There are some things in this crazy, messed-up world we live in that just make you wonder. Why does your nose run and your feet smell? Why isn�t there mouse-flavored cat food? And what the heck is Rice doing on UCLA�s football schedule again? It is reasonable enough to think that little can be gained […]