The nets are cut, the buzzer has sounded and the accolades are ready. Bruins from all sports set records, won awards and made headlines throughout the country. To commemorate an eventful 2015-2016 year, the sports editors – TuAnh Dam, David Gottlieb, Michael Hull, Grant Sugimura and Hanson Wang – present the Daily Bruin Sports Yearlies for the […]
Author Archives: Michael Hull
Track and field record-holder Steele Wasik to leave UCLA
One of the brightest young stars on the UCLA track and field team has seen his last days as a Bruin. According to the Medina Gazette, a newspaper based in Medina, Ohio, sophomore multi Steele Wasik will leave UCLA. Wasik suffered an injury at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March that forced him to withdraw […]
Vigorous showing at regionals earns Bruins spots in NCAA championship
The thunder and lightning weren’t the only things to make impressions on the NCAA track and field Western Regional championship this weekend. Eleven of the 37 Bruins who went to Kansas are moving on to the NCAA national championship meet in a week and a half, despite the weather subjecting them to an unfavorable reorganization […]
UCLA pole vaulter Greta Wagner leaps toward NCAA regionals
Not many success stories start with hesitation. The characteristic audacity that defines collegiate and professional athletes is no doubt built with hours of training, but there are nearly always seeds of boldness at the inception of promising careers. When it comes to redshirt freshman pole vaulter Greta Wagner, however, she was almost reluctant in the […]
Strong weekend puts women’s golf in good position for match play
The nearly weeklong NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship is halfway done and the Bruins are in a good position to advance to match play. At the conclusion of the second round Saturday, UCLA as a team was only one shot above par but still eight shots behind first-place USC. However, after advancing six shots […]
Track and field seniors anticipate nationals after their last Pac-12s
Some of the upperclassmen on the UCLA track and field team have seen five Pac-12 championships in their tenures as Bruins. When redshirt senior Kylie Price and senior sprinter and hurdler Andre’ Chapman, who didn’t compete in the 2014 season, first competed for the team in 2012, the women finished eighth out of 12 teams […]
Track and field aims for qualifying scores at Pac-12 championship
The men’s distance medley relay team was on the brink of qualifying for the NCAA indoor championship at the tail end of the indoor track season two and a half months ago. They crushed the school record and went on to become All-Americans, but once again, it has come down to the wire for a […]