The temptation to enter Candice Baucham in both the long jump and triple jump at the NCAAs is getting stronger each day for UCLA jumps coach Robert Johnson. Baucham, a three-time All-American in the triple jump, has developed into a national-caliber long jumper as well this season. She opened her season in the long jump […]
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W. track: UCLA’s star power leads to another win over USC
For someone who had already beaten USC 11 consecutive times going into Saturday’s crosstown dual meet, Jeanette Bolden, UCLA’s longtime women’s track and field coach, certainly savored her latest win more than usual. First she exchanged handshakes with all of the members of her staff. Then she honored every Bruin individually at a post-meet team […]
W. track: Pole vaulter gets season-best mark
Any satisfaction that UCLA’s Chelsea Johnson might have taken from her meet-record performance in the pole vault Saturday was tempered by her concern over the condition of her injured left knee. Johnson, who already had left knee surgery in September to repair a torn meniscus, tweaked it again in warm-ups Saturday and will have it […]
W. track: Crosstown meeting could be closest in years
To a chorus of laughter from the cardinal and gold crowd and an array of bewildered smiles from the Bruins in the room, USC track and field coach Ron Allice ushered in the 70th crosstown dual meet in a manner only he could. UCLA women’s coach Jeanette Bolden was explaining to a group of reporters […]
W. track: Track may unleash secret weapon
Saturday could be the busiest afternoon of Monique Henderson’s UCLA career if she enters all five of the events in which she is scheduled to compete at the crosstown dual track meet. But if that’s what it takes to beat USC for the fourth time in her career, Henderson says she is prepared for the […]
W. track: Bruin throwers put team on track to NCAAs with career-best scores
No matter how poorly she has thrown the shot put the past few months, UCLA’s Jessica Cosby repeatedly vowed she was due for a breakthrough. Saturday, less than one month before the championship portion of the track and field season begins, it finally came. Cosby, the NCAA champion in the shot put as a freshman, […]
M. track: Coach drops track runner
Three years after arriving at UCLA as one of the most decorated high school sprinters in the nation, Matt Bruno will leave Westwood without ever having fulfilled his potential. Bruno, UCLA’s top recruit in 2002, was dismissed from the men’s track and field team on Wednesday because of a violation of team rules. “This is […]