Author Archives: Erin Wagner

Capturing a title that had eluded a Bruin swimmer for some time, Katie Arnold became the 2005 Pac-10 champion in the 100-meter backstroke, out-touching the competition and breaking her own school record in the process. With a time of 53.22 at the Pac-10 Championships in Federal Way, Wash., three weeks ago, the sophomore is now […]

As the Bruins faced the best team the East Coast had to offer on Tuesday night, they proved that the West is still where the best volleyball lies. UCLA, facing a Penn State team that had won 16 straight games, swept the Nittany Lions in three games 30-22, 30-27, 30-28 at Pauley Pavilion. Penn State […]

Saying goodbye to parents and moving onto campus is considered a life-altering change that thousands of UCLA freshmen deal with each year. However, for freshman freestyle swimmer Katherine Wong, her life-altering change came in December when she lost her father, Robert Wong. While most UCLA freshmen were celebrating the end of their first quarter, Wong, […]

Given the opportunity, Brennan Prahler seized it, took advantage of the playing time, and made his presence known on the court in his second start of the season. The senior finished with 15 kills and led the team on the night with an average hitting percentage of .560, as the top-ranked Bruins were able to […]

Exceeding all expectations this weekend at USC, UCLA tore past the competition, swimming fast enough to gain five automatic NCAA qualifying marks and pushing the team’s overall total of both automatic and provisional qualifying times to 30. Last year’s national 200-yard butterfly champion, senior Kim Vandenberg, leads the pack with two automatic qualifying times in […]

Sometimes a great performance is just not enough. For little-used fifth-year Brennan Prahler, who started in the place of struggling sophomore Steve Klosterman on Friday, a season-best performance against UC San Diego wasn’t enough to convince UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates to start him in Thursday’s match against No. 9 Stanford. Despite recording 10 […]

It’s been a downward spiral recently for the UCLA women’s swim and dive team. Dropping their last two meets decisively to Cal and Stanford, the Bruins (5-3, 2-3 Pac-10) will travel and face rival USC on Saturday. In their last regular season meet before the Pac-10 Championship, the Bruin divers will take on a Trojan […]