A former UCLA football player and track athlete is coming back to Westwood – this time to coach. Avery Anderson will be taking over as director of track and field and cross country. Dan Guerrero, UCLA’s director of athletics, made the announcement Thursday, nearly two months after former director Mike Maynard announced his retirement. During […]
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Track and field athletes shine at summer meets, two make US junior team
UCLA’s outdoor track and field season ended with the closing of the NCAA Championship meet, but a handful of Bruins are still competing. Five athletes traveled to Sacramento for the USA Track and Field Junior Outdoor Championships for the chance at a spot on the country’s junior national team. Rising sophomore jumper Isaiah Holmes and […]
UCLA athletes compete at NCAA outdoor track and field championships
The UCLA men haven’t had a runner finish atop the podium at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 17 years. But sophomore hurdler Rai Benjamin was a hair away from breaking that drought on Friday. In what was an otherwise dismal finish to the 2017 season for the rest of the […]
Altitude training lifts distance runner above competition in final year
Dullstroom, South Africa, lies at a lofty 6,890 feet and is home to just 558 people – which leaves plenty of wide open space for some of the world’s top runners to altitude-train. Dullstroom’s altitude drew redshirt senior distance runner Austin O’Neil below the equator for the last winter break of his UCLA career. O’Neil […]
Bruins Racing members discuss experiences, plans for future races
Dozens of students converge in a small workshop in Boelter Hall every day. It is constantly crowded, always smells of motor oil and produces several brand new cars each year. Bruin Racing, a UCLA student-run motorsports organization, builds competition-ready race cars among a mix of motorcycle engines, aluminum wheel hubs and a host of other […]
Relay team cracks UCLA top 10 at NCAA prelims, gets championship spot
Forty seconds isn’t much time. It’s hardly enough time to read a single page from a favorite book or microwave some ramen. But for four Bruin sprinters, it was more than enough time to cover 400 meters. In 39.32 seconds, redshirt junior Eldridge Massington, sophomore Rai Benjamin, senior Darnell Roberson and junior Leon Powell ran […]
Highly ranked incoming freshmen signify bright future for UCLA
Every year, UCLA Athletics looks to high school seniors to fill gaps left by departing athletes, and this year’s crop of recruits are a highly ranked bunch. Nearly every team at UCLA whose schedule can be judged in terms of wins and losses posted a winning record over the 2016-17 athletic year – the lone […]