Author Archives: Eric Johnson

Despite tying No. 1-ranked and defending national champion Indiana a little over a week ago in an exhibition match, the lineup of the UCLA men’s soccer team is anything but settled. With four days to go before the season opener against Santa Clara on Sept. 2, three positions are yet to be decided with six […]

Earlier this week, it looked as though there could be a dramatic facelift to the coaching staff of the men’s and women’s distance crews in the UCLA track and field program. Men’s and women’s cross country coach Eric Peterson was interviewing for the cross country and track and field distance coaching position at Stanford. Moreover, […]

UCLA Bruins past and present represented the United States in this year’s Track and Field World Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, with what turned out to be mixed results. While the United States fared considerably well overall, garnering 24 medals through Saturday, just two medals short of the team record set in 1991 with one […]

Jon Rankin had always been a good runner at UCLA, but it took him three years to establish himself as a collegiate great. Now, only three races removed from his career as a Bruin, Rankin has already established himself as a force to be reckoned with at the international level. Rankin finished first in each […]

The symptoms said I was nearly dead. My lungs needed oxygen and there was no way to fill them fast enough. Whether I rested my hands on my knees or clasped them behind my head, I was out of breath either way. Migraines were frequent. Bald patches were forming on the inside of my calves […]

For the UCLA women’s basketball team, a two-week exhibition tour in Australia was simply meant to be a tune-up for the upcoming season. The players were to work on basketball fundamentals, team cohesion and defense to prepare for what many are predicting a preseason top-20 team. But it ended up becoming much more. “The whole […]

The most remarkable thing about UCLA’s Kristen Maloney is not that she was the most dominant gymnast in the nation this year. It’s that she’s still a gymnast at all. Maloney, whose gymnastics career was halted for two years by a serious leg injury before her senior year at UCLA, finished the 2005 season as […]