Author Archives: Chris Chen

Dropping three consecutive Pac-10 dual meets wasn’t what the UCLA women’s swim and dive team wanted as they entered the final phase of the season.

Before the trip up north to the Bay Area, swim coach Cyndi Gallagher tried instill a passion in her team she felt was missing in a complacent home loss against Washington.

In a six-day turnaround the UCLA women’s swim and dive team (4-2, 2-2 Pac-10) is coming off only their second loss of the season and finding themselves facing a pair of formidable conference foes in California and Stanford.

If senior diver Marisa Samaniego was burning and bleeding on the outside, she was fuming on the inside.

The UCLA women’s swim team (4-2, 2-2 Pac-10) entered Saturday two months removed from their last dual meet.

With the Pac-10 Championships just a month away, the UCLA women’s swim and dive team (4-1, 2-1 Pac-10) looks to re-establish their success heading towards a tough stretch of conference dual meets.

As a high-school senior on an official recruiting trip, Madeleine Stanton sat poolside next to UCLA swim coach Cyndi Gallagher, soaking in the team atmosphere and the California sunshine.