The way UCLA’s MacKenzie Hill sees it, qualifying for the NCAA Championships this past weekend in Oregon was only the beginning. Now that the sophomore hurdler has earned a trip to Sacramento next week, she is determined to prove that she belongs there. Hill, a member of the U.S. Junior National team in high school, […]
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W. track: Thrower beats illness to get berth
Weary, weak-legged and increasingly short of breath, UCLA’s Jessica Cosby had every reason to surrender to the effects of a bout of pneumonia and withdraw from the shot put competition on Saturday. But with a berth to next week’s NCAA Championships hanging in the balance, Cosby, a senior, would not quit. She took three throws, […]
W. track: Top Bruins score bids to NCAAs
Whatever chance the UCLA women’s track and field team has to defend its national championship will rest on the shoulders of its smallest contingent of qualifiers in almost a decade. Eight Bruins earned bids to next week’s NCAA Championships this past weekend at the West Regionals in Oregon ““ barely half the number of athletes […]
W. track: Cautious team braces for regionals
For someone who has enjoyed an inordinate amount of success at the NCAA West Regionals the past two years, UCLA women’s track and field coach Jeanette Bolden is dreading her third trip. Changes to the format of the meet have left even the nation’s strongest teams with no margin for error heading into the weekend. […]
W. track: UCLA won’t compete in relays
If the UCLA women’s track and field team wins its second consecutive national championship next month, it won’t clinch it on the anchor leg of the mile relay again this year. The Bruins, who placed in the top four in both relays at the NCAAs last June, will not attempt to qualify a team in […]
W. track: Only a matter of time
Everything Monique Henderson has accomplished so far at UCLA may soon be no more than a scintillating opening act. Her Olympic gold medal. The blazing anchor leg she ran to clinch the NCAA team title last June. The way she silenced her legion of critics a year ago by zooming to the top of UCLA’s […]
W. track: Stanford ends UCLA’s 8-year run at Pac-10s
It’s something no member of the UCLA women’s track and field team has ever experienced before, and it’s not a position they’re eager to be in again. Yet, as the Bruins gathered together on the infield at Drake Stadium and watched Stanford receive the Pac-10 Championship trophy on Sunday afternoon, most of the team had […]