Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

The script was in place for a historic upset on Friday night, but No. 2 USC refused to play its part. The No. 19 UCLA women’s volleyball team came into the match looking to avenge a 3-0 sweep at the hands of the Trojans earlier this season. Instead, USC demonstrated why it is in the […]

Freshman Nancy Barba is soft-spoken away from the volleyball court, but on it, her game speaks for itself. An emerging presence on the No. 19 UCLA women’s team, Barba made her first three career starts earlier this month and reeled off 20 consecutive kills before making an error. “I guess one in 21 attempts is […]

After UCLA’s Brittany Ringel took 54 swings in just three games during yesterday’s loss to Pepperdine, it would certainly be excusable if she needed an ice pack after the game. But despite taking more swings than a schoolyard bully in a neighborhood brawl, Ringel was not even tired. “My arm feels good,” said the sophomore […]

Two weeks ago, the UCLA women’s volleyball team returned from the state of Washington, red-faced and reeling. This weekend’s jaunt to the Pacific Northwest left the squad feeling much more optimistic. The No. 19 Bruins swept a pair of matches against the Oregon schools, trouncing the Beavers on Friday night (30-19, 30-25, 33-31) and cruising […]

Don’t tell Kathy Olivier that exhibition games don’t count in the standings. After struggling through a 20-loss season last year, the UCLA women’s basketball coach wants her team to build some confidence when the Bruins take on the exhibition team Love and Basketball at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday in the season’s first exhibition game. “This […]

Canadians are a strange lot. Just when you think you’ve got them pegged as a nation of lacrosse fanatics guzzling Molsons and flaunting their free health care, they shake things up a little bit. From our northern brethren in Canadia who brought us maple syrup, a figure skating scandal, and the worldwide tragedy that is […]

In the waning moments of Friday night’s loss to No. 6 Stanford, UCLA freshman Haley Jorgensborg fell to the floor after a laser beam off the palm of the Cardinal’s Ashley Ivy hit her square in the neck. Staggered and seething, Jorgensborg bounced to her feet with a look of pure fury across her face. […]