The UCLA crew teams may have found a new place to practice, as long as the wet weather continues. Jackie Robinson Stadium certainly isn’t fit for baseball, and the Bruins’ weekend series against Pacific consequently ended in a rain-shortened split. UCLA won 6-1 Friday, lost 7-0 Saturday and simply wasn’t able to play any more […]
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W. swimming: Swim team aims to drown USC
Speeding down the home stretch of the 2003-2004 swimming and diving season could not be more exciting for the UCLA team. Coach Cyndi Gallagher’s Bruins (7-2, 4-2 Pac-10) have already proven themselves against some of the top competition in the country, with an upset victory against No. 3 Stanford on Jan. 30 and a win […]
Swimming: Bruins bask in new home pool advantage
Last Friday and Saturday, the atmosphere at the Student Activities Center pool was electric, and fittingly so ““ a pair of vital swim meets were battled out. Fans, alumni and parents crowded into the venue to see the No. 10 UCLA swimming and dive team host No. 4 Stanford and No. 6 California on consecutive […]
Swimming: Swim and dive team’s intense training pays off
After a month of “holiday training,” the UCLA swim and dive team returned to a competitive pool Wednesday against Washington State. The No. 10 Bruins improved to 5-1, 3-1 Pac-10 with an 84-74 win Wednesday afternoon at the pool of the Student Activities Center, formerly called the Men’s Gymnasium. Coming into Wednesday’s meet, the Bruin […]
[Online] Swimming: Vandenberg continues improvement; four Bruin swimmers qualify for Olympic trials
Sophomore Kim Vandenberg simply will not stop getting better. The Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year in 2003 opened the swimming and diving season Nov. 8 by swimming the 200m butterfly in 2:11.82, an NCAA “A-standard” qualifying time. Then, when the Bruin team took a road trip to Arizona for a pair of away dual meets, […]
W.swimming: Bruins do swimmingly at Texas A&M
Last weekend, the No. 11 UCLA swimming and diving team got an excellent preview of how its season will hopefully conclude. The squad captured the team title at the Texas A&M Fall Invitational. The mid-season tournament served not only as a chance to swim and dive against teams from across the country, but it familiarized […]
Big game is about rivalry, not win
I love rivalries. Really, few things capture my attention like disdain for an opponent that runs deeper than in an average game. Rivalries have the power to force droves of fans to put more stock in what is often already heated competition. Rivalries can breathe life into a dying season and get an entire campus […]