Women’s volleyball looking for consistency against top-ranked teams

The women’s volleyball team has played two matches against top-five opponents this year. Both times, No. 12 UCLA has been dominated, falling in straight sets against then-No. 3 USC and then-No. 5 Washington. Is Bruin coach Michael Sealy worried? “What’s there to worry about?” Sealy said this past weekend. “There’s real problems in the world, […]

Matter of Fact: Myles Jack’s decision to unenroll justified by NFL potential

Myles Jack never picked up his textbooks. There they were, sitting in the campus store, the unenrolled linebacker’s name attached to books he’ll never read, things he’ll never learn. Jack and I are kind of similar. I haven’t picked up my textbooks either. The only difference between us – besides four inches, 100 pounds and […]

Q&A: Pac-12 broadcaster Josh Grau on UCLA women’s volleyball

Josh Grau is a former Division I women’s volleyball coach who now works as a volleyball broadcaster for the Pac-12 Networks. Daily Bruin assistant sports editor Matt Cummings got a chance to ask Grau about the Bruin team before Grau broadcasted Friday night’s UCLA-Washington match. Daily Bruin: How do you think UCLA stacks up in […]

Reserve player turns tide of momentum, spurs women’s volleyball to victory

Michael Sealy had tried to reverse the momentum. But his team still trailed Washington State 16-8 in the third set, and the women’s volleyball coach was out of the usual options. “We had already used both timeouts,” Sealy said. “We kept giving the same message but it wasn’t really happening.” So Sealy turned to his […]

Jim Mora named Dodd Trophy Coach of the Week

Although UCLA football coach Jim Mora said he was disappointed with his team’s performance on Saturday, officials from the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl were clearly impressed. The organization named Mora the Dodd Trophy Coach of the Week on Wednesday, four days after his Bruins trounced the then-No. 16 […]

Men’s, women’s cross country teams flourish at Mustang Challenge

Josh Rosen is the most well-known UCLA athlete from St. John Bosco High School. But he was not the most successful this past Saturday. Cross country runner sophomore Myles Smith, another Bosco alum, paced the field at Saturday’s Mustang Challenge, turning an early lead into a 14-second victory in the 8K race. Smith, UCLA’s fifth-best […]

Jordan Anderson ‘brings the fire’ to UCLA volleyball

Jordan Anderson was 5 years old when her parents found out she couldn’t play YMCA soccer. They watched as Anderson, having just been scored upon, found out for the first time in her life that her team was losing. With their daughter in hysterics over the goal her team had just allowed, Kristina and Todd […]