Only five people in UCLA women’s water polo history had scored more than 65 goals in a single season coming into 2017. Of those five, only one – redshirt senior attacker Rachel Fattal – had done it in her very first collegiate season, until this year. Freshman attacker Maddie Musselman finished the season Sunday with […]
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Rowing’s NCAA berth eligibility unclear with sixth-place Pac-12 finish
Going into the Pac-12 championship regatta, UCLA rowing was barely in the top six for its NCAA region. The Bruins were ranked sixth overall, sixth in the first varsity eight, fifth in the second varsity eight and sixth in the varsity four in the fifth national region, according to NCAA.com. Coach Amy Fuller Kearney said […]
Women’s water polo drops NCAA championship to Stanford in final minute
This post was updated May 14 at 7:08 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS — Another NCAA women’s water polo final came down to the last minute between UCLA and Stanford, and for the third time in four years, the Cardinal came out on top – narrowly. No. 1 UCLA (24-2, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) had completed a […]
Women’s water polo to play in NCAA championship after defeating Cal
INDIANAPOLIS — After coach Brandon Brooks’ team committed a number of offensive fouls in Friday’s first-round match against No. 16 Wagner, he said his team’s aggressiveness has been a key part of how No. 1 UCLA women’s water polo has played all season long, and that he doesn’t want them to take any steps back. […]
Dream big: Olympian Maddie Musselman three games from UCLA water polo history
Adam Krikorian still remembers the day he met freshman attacker Maddie Musselman. The Women’s Senior National Team coach was at Boston Logan International Airport, on his way home from the 2013 NCAA Tournament at Harvard. The rising water polo star went there with her family to watch her sister, then a freshman on the UCLA […]
Heptathletes take home three top-10 spots at multi-events championship
It wasn’t first, second and third, but the UCLA track and field heptathletes that competed at the Pac-12 Combined Events Championships at Oregon State still finished sequentially over the weekend. Sophomore Christina Chenault, junior Kendall Gustafson and senior Monique Van finished in fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively, to give the UCLA women 12 points heading […]
Women’s water polo’s No. 1 seed holds weight in NCAA Tournament
One of the two most important collegiate water polo tournaments of the year – the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship – has come and gone, but the NCAA championship is just around the corner. For each, the No. 1 UCLA women’s water polo team (22-1, 6-0 MPSF) secured the one seed. Though there is little relation […]