Author Archives: Seth Fast Glass

By taking a casual glance at the UCLA women’s golf team’s stats at the NCAA West Regional, it would appear that there had to be something wrong with the top-seeded Bruins. Of the 15 completed rounds by UCLA’s five golfers, only one round, junior Susie Mathews’ 69 on Saturday, was under-par. Of the 108 players […]

The UCLA men’s track and field team finds itself in a familiar position after this past weekend’s Pac-10 multi-event championships. Last year, the Bruins trailed Oregon by 23 points after the decathlon, and came back to win the conference championship. This year, if UCLA wants to defend its title, it will have to overcome an […]

Coming into Saturday’s NCAA Championship, the top-seeded Pepperdine men’s volleyball team hadn’t dropped a fifth game all-season long. The Waves still haven’t. Pepperdine defeated third-seeded UCLA 3-2 (30-23, 23-30, 24-30, 30-25, 15-10) in a thrilling championship final before 6,853 at Pauley Pavilion Saturday to claim its fifth national title in school history, and first since […]

It appeared to be a mismatch on paper, and mostly played like one on the court. The top-ranked Pepperdine men’s volleyball team disposed of fourth-seeded Ohio State, 3-0 (30-16, 31-29, 30-26), Thursday night in an NCAA semifinal match before 5,125 at Pauley Pavilion to advance to Saturday’s championship match. The Waves (24-2) will face third-seeded […]

As UCLA women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth watched her top-seeded Bruins compete during the first round of the NCAA West Regional on Thursday, she saw something the rest of her team couldn’t. While all five Bruins were intently focused on their individual rounds, Forsyth paced up and down the New Mexico State University Golf Course, […]

Winning the Pac-10 Championship is considered an accomplishment. Winning the NCAA Championship is considered a once-in-a-liftetime opportunity. Yet winning the tournament that comes in between the two, the NCAA Regionals, is merely considered a relief. Ask collegiate golf coaches which tournament scares them the most, and the majority will answer that the regional is the […]

The UCLA men’s golf team went to sleep Tuesday night on the heels of one of its best performances of the season. On Wednesday, however, the Bruins followed that up with one of their worst. In prime position to secure a top-two finish before they teed off, the Bruins quickly slid down the leaderboard in […]