The headliner of UCLA women’s soccer’s No. 1 recruiting class for the 2016 season will not be suiting up for the Bruins for an official in-season game. United States women’s national team starter Mal Pugh has left UCLA to pursue a professional soccer career, UCLA Athletics announced Monday. “This decision was certainly not easy for […]
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No. 3 women’s water polo outlasts No. 1 Stanford for 10-9 upset win
STANFORD — It was evident from the very first minutes Saturday afternoon – the Bruins meant business. In No. 3 UCLA women’s water polo’s first three possessions, redshirt senior center Alexa Tielmann, redshirt senior defender Alys Williams and redshirt senior attacker Rachel Fattal each rattled off a goal to build a 3-0 lead over the […]
Q&A: Stanford Daily’s Neel Ramachandran previews women’s water polo matchup
The No. 3 UCLA women’s water polo team (18-1, 4-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) heads up to the Bay Area this weekend to take on the newly minted No. 1 Stanford Cardinal (17-1, 4-0 don’t need MPSF second time), who last weekend put an end to No. 2 USC’s NCAA-record 52-game winning streak. It’ll be […]
Around the League: USC women’s water polo ends winning streak with Stanford loss
While Bruin athletes continue competing in Westwood, here’s a look at some of the biggest news from the rest of the Pac-12 and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Women’s water polo Michael Hull, assistant Sports editor The second water polo win-streak record of the year came to an end Saturday. Like the UCLA team that […]
Men’s track and field debuts top athletes at invitational
After UCLA men’s track and field soared to 12th in the national rankings last week, this weekend was meant to be a breather. The team didn’t roll out its A 4×100 relay team, sophomore sprinter Rai Benjamin, freshman jumper Isaiah Holmes in the high jump – for which he’s ranked in the top 10 nationally […]
Men’s water polo alumni face off in National League championship game
For the second year in a row, UCLA men’s water polo alumni dominated the stat lines in the USA Water Polo National League championship game. 2016 scoring leader Patrick Fellner and Paul Reynolds, the fourth-most scoring Bruin in program history, suited up for the Olympic Club against the reigning champion, the New York Athletic Club. […]
Women’s water polo nets three dominant victories in Hawaii
The next time UCLA women’s water polo will compete as often as it did this past week, it will be for a seed in the NCAA championship. The No. 3 Bruins (17-1, 3-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), however, kept their eyes on the next game over their week in Oahu, Hawaii, as they cruised to […]