In 1999, former U.S. women’s national team player Brandi Chastain scored the decisive penalty kick to win the World Cup for the U.S., a feat almost overshadowed by her ensuing celebration. Chastain is also a former teammate of current UCLA women’s soccer coach Amanda Cromwell. The Daily Bruin’s Aubrey Yeo spoke with Chastain to get […]
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UCLA women’s basketball looks beyond score as it faces Nebraska
It’s the end of a Friday afternoon practice. Coach Cori Close has finished her speech; everyone in the huddle has their hands up in the air, and one shout ends the day’s events: beyond! “Beyond is our theme for the year. It’s not beyond like beyond where you’ve gone in the NCAA tournament. Beyond is […]
UCLA women’s soccer eager to play USC in last regular season game
It’s always a good thing when a team clinches a conference title before the end of the regular season. The team gets a chance at some relief, and the stakes of those last remaining games may not seem that high anymore. But all that changes for the Pac-12 champion UCLA women’s soccer team when the […]
UCLA women’s soccer secures Pac-12 championship
When a coach is drenched from head to toe with a sports drink, it’s usually because she’s done something right. For first-year UCLA coach Amanda Cromwell, that feat was guiding the team to its first conference championship since 2008 with a 2-0 win over Oregon on Sunday. And her reward: one of the most extensive Gatorade […]
Women’s basketball wins exhibition, but still has ‘soul-searching’ to do
On a night that usually sees its fair share of ghouls and ghosts, UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close kept with the supernatural theme when she said her team had some soul-searching to do during a halftime interview. UCLA took over the Halloween night exhibition matchup against the Vanguard Lions early in the game, at […]
No. 2 women’s soccer relieved to be at home for rest of regular season
The UCLA women’s soccer team will have the luxury of finishing the home stretch of the regular season, appropriately enough, at home. The team has spent the season traveling to Northern California, the Rocky Mountains and even embarking on a 12-day cross-country road trip stopping by Indiana and North Carolina. With the last three games […]
UCLA women’s soccer hopes to reach new heights in this weekend’s games
The UCLA women’s soccer team will trade palm trees and Southern Californian weather for the Rocky Mountains and thin air for this weekend’s competitions. With only a handful of games left in the regular season, the Bruins will cross over to the Mountain Time Zone to take on two of their remaining Pac-12 opponents, facing […]