On a rainy Westwood day in December 2011, Mericien Venzon found herself in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with her mother by her side. The fifth-year biology student remembered almost nothing of the hour before – when she was behind the wheel of her car, at the intersection of Le Conte and Gayley avenues. […]
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Mericien Venzon figures out a balance on and off the ice
On a rainy Westwood day in December 2011, Mericien Venzon found herself in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with her mother by her side. The fifth-year biology student remembered almost nothing of the hour before – when she was behind the wheel of her car, at the intersection of Le Conte and Gayley avenues. […]
Clay Thompson helps UCLA tennis to Stanford win on Senior Day
Hardly one to hide his raw emotions or neglect pumping up a crowd, Clay Thompson tossed back his headband, racket and any tennis balls in his pockets before shaking his opponent’s hand at the end of his final Pac-12 home match. Thompson’s trademark demonstration concluded a 4-0 win over Stanford that kept the No. 3 […]
Bruins show improvement at UCLA Pro Day
Cameras caught Jordan Zumwalt cursing at himself at least once a few moments into his 40-yard dash at February’s NFL Combine. The former UCLA linebacker did not think media members would be able to hone in on his slip of the tongue during a 4.76-second run. “I didn’t anticipate that they’d be so zoomed in […]
UCLA men’s tennis charged up for rematch of NCAA final against Virginia
Men’s tennis coach Billy Martin exerted little in simply hitting with a rehabbing Adrien Puget on Tuesday. But memories of Puget’s three-set defeat that crowned Virginia the 2013 NCAA champions proved enough to elevate the blood pressures of both men. “From a coaching standpoint, I say … ‘What could I have done differently, what could […]
Men’s tennis looks for rebounding win against evenly matched Trojans
This year’s UCLA men’s tennis team only superficially looks like its 2013 NCAA runner-up counterpart. Only a 4-3 loss to USC at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship separates UCLA, just like last year’s incarnation, from a perfect record nine games into the season. Yet three freshmen in the singles lineup and the absence of […]
UCLA men’s tennis dominates Pepperdine in 4-0 win
Pepperdine’s Tom Hill grunted and groaned each time he hit the ball. He even yelled out a complete sentence after going up 1-0 in his first singles set. Redshirt sophomore Karue Sell went on to demand that Hill’s feet be just as active as his vocal chords. UCLA’s man on court six kept his baseline-stranded […]