Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

It wasn’t how fast Alison Costello ran the 5000 meters that pleased UCLA distance coach Eric Peterson, so much as how much faster the redshirt freshman could have run it. Costello made several critical tactical errors on Friday night at the Mt. SAC Relays, but still managed to shave seven seconds off her lifetime best […]

To secure a provisional berth in the NCAA Championships this June, UCLA’s Nastassja Hall knew she would need to run the best race of her career on Thursday in the 800 meter, the seventh and final event of the heptathlon competition at the Mt. SAC Relays. That’s exactly what she delivered. Hall, who trailed Colorado […]

I don’t think we have a problem. The statement was chillingly honest, painfully ignorant and frighteningly naive. One UCLA student-athlete has alleged that his coach threatened to kick any gays off the team. Another said that men’s college sports is not a place for homosexuals. Bruin coaches and administrators admit no formal athletic department policy […]

Here’s a scary thought for the nation’s top quarter-milers going into the heart of the outdoor season: UCLA’s Monique Henderson says she’s running faster than she ever has this early in the year. Saturday afternoon at Drake Stadium, a few hours after receiving a plaque commemorating the gold medal that she won as a member […]

There was a time when the hammer throw didn’t come this easily for UCLA’s Jessica Cosby. For most of her collegiate career, Cosby never looked comfortable in the hammer, launching the majority of her throws into the netting and failing to make any sort of impact in the event on a national level. Then came […]

The injury bug that has struck the UCLA middle-distance corps the past few years claimed another victim this week. Ashley Caldwell, the UCLA women’s track and field team’s most accomplished middle-distance runner, will redshirt the outdoor season due to the effects of a stress fracture in her left tibia. That leaves the Bruins without a […]

Things looked so bleak a few weeks ago for UCLA’s Chelsea Johnson, the defending NCAA pole vault champion, that she was certain this would go down as a wasted season. Her hamstring throbbed. Her rhythm was off. And, less than one year after setting a new collegiate record in the pole vault, her confidence was […]