Eighty-five minutes in and UCLA still had no answer for how to break the Stanford pressure. The Bruins couldn’t sustain any possession, and Cardinal goalkeeper Jane Campbell showed why she is a national team call-up, blocking any shots that somehow managed to trickle through to her. But for the second consecutive game, UCLA was saved […]
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Former Bruins to compete for 2016 NWSL championship title
Sunday’s National Women’s Soccer League title match might as well be a reunion of UCLA’s 2013 NCAA championships team. Six starters from that national championships team will be onf the pitch together once again when the Western New York Flash take on the Washington Spirit for the NWSL crown. Former Bruin defender Abby Dahlkemper, midfielders […]
Men’s tennis sends two to smash ITA All-American Championships
Joe Di Giulio tried to play through the pain. The senior was serving up 5-2 in the second set against Columbia’s Alex Keyser, when he aggravated his groin injury reaching for a drop shot in front of him. “It actually happened in my match against (USC’s Laurens Verboven) in first match of the day,” Di […]
Women’s tennis makes headway despite losses at Cal Nike Invitational
Jada Hart almost had another championship. The redshirt freshman – and defending U.S. Open juniors girls’ doubles champion –and junior Terri Fleming advanced to the finals of the Cal Nike Fall Invitational Blue Doubles bracket but came up short of the title, falling 8-6 to Arizona State’s Kassidy Jump and Sammi Hampton. UCLA women’s tennis […]
Hanson’s Hot Take: Stanford game demonstrates The Den lacks sports etiquette
The worst thing Saturday night wasn’t that UCLA lost to Stanford. It was that a horde of students started chanting “I believe that we will win!” with about four minutes left in the game. Come on, man. Rule number one of sports: It’s not over until it’s over. I understand the enthusiasm, but when you’re […]
Men’s tennis presents mixed performance at Irvine Futures
The UCLA men’s tennis team pushed onwards through its fall tournament regimen, although this week produced mixed results. No current Bruin advanced past the second round of the main draw at the Irvine Futures, but top-seeded 2016 alumnus Mackie McDonald swept the singles – his first professional – and the doubles titles Sunday. Senior Joe […]
Bruins deliver strong showing at Claremont men’s tennis tournament
A Bruin advanced to the finals of the Claremont USTA Pro Classic for the second year in a row. This time, however, it wasn’t 2016 NCAA champion Mackie McDonald – rather, it was freshman Evan Zhu. Zhu won four matches in the qualifying draw, then won four more in the main draw before falling 7-5, […]