Look toward the heavens in Pauley Pavilion. There you’ll see a banner listing the 18 years in which the UCLA men’s volleyball team has won NCAA titles. Forty-one-year veteran head coach Al Scates brought the Bruins to practice at Pauley for the first time all season last week and made them do just that. Implicit […]
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Love and volleyball
As the volleyball player who doesn’t love volleyball got warmed up, he dribbled. Between the legs and behind the back the volleyball went. Then he flipped it to the setter, leapt, and slammed it home. Point taken. UCLA’s Matt McKinney wants to show that he can play both basketball ““ the sport he loves ““ […]
Waves crush men’s volleyball, UCLA may miss postseason
MALIBU “”mdash; Not by chance or choice, the Bruins have become a masochistic bunch. Saturday’s Firestone Fieldhouse flogging at the hands of Pepperdine wasn’t enough to satisfy them. No, the UCLA men’s volleyball team (14-13, 9-11 MPSF) actually wants to take up its season-long frustration with the Waves (21-3, 18-2) one last time in the […]
Match against Pepperdine a must-win situation for UCLA
Playing at Pepperdine in 2001, the UCLA men’s volleyball team picked up its 1,000th win under head coach Al Scates. It seems like that was ages ago. Now, Scates needs what would arguably be an even greater victory against the top-ranked Waves (20-3, 17-2 MPSF) on Saturday at Firestone Fieldhouse. The No. 10 Bruins (14-12, […]
Finger injury ends Morrow’s college career
Scott Morrow made it look easy blocking volleyballs for UCLA. But for the three-time all-conference middle blocker, pain was always much more difficult to block out. The already-injured Morrow suffered a major dislocation to his finger Thursday at Cal State Northridge that will end his college career. “This was a bummer,” the soft-spoken Morrow said. […]
Head coach Dorrell approaches spring football on a clean slate
Spring football will be like Christmas in April for first-year UCLA head coach Karl Dorrell. Like the little kid who holds off until the big day to open his presents, Dorrell refused to watch game film of his newly inherited team. He wanted no preview of his Bruins playing for another coach. He wanted to […]
UCLA falls to CSUN in four games
NORTHRIDGE ““ Over spring break, the UCLA men’s volleyball team broke down. A 30-26, 27-30, 34-32, 30-25 loss to Cal State Northridge on Thursday left the Bruins in grave danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in school history. UCLA (13-12, 8-10 MPSF) currently sits one and a half matches out of the […]