Ask any member of the UCLA women’s golf team the secret to sustaining long-term success in a sport as fickle as golf, and there will be a definitive answer returned in unison. Consistency. But achieving that in a game as complex and intricate as golf, where tournaments are as equally likely decided by a stroke […]
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M. golf: Drive for success
Standing alongside the 18th green at the conclusion of last year’s NCAA Championships, UCLA men’s golf coach O.D. Vincent peered over at the leaderboard for one final time. What it confirmed was much more than just a score. It signified the end of one era, and the emergence of another. His team’s five-shot lead entering […]
W. basketball: Bruins scorched by Sun Devils
For the second consecutive time this season, Arizona State showed a penchant for knowing exactly how to slow down the UCLA women’s basketball team’s potent offense. But on Saturday, the Sun Devils may have also dented the Bruins’ NCAA Tournament aspirations as well. Hoping to at least achieve a split in Arizona and make a […]
W. basketball: Women’s hoops seeks rematch in Arizona
Of all the motivations the UCLA women’s basketball team has used to fire itself up against its opponents this season, revenge hasn’t been one of them. Until now. “What the Arizona schools did to us here is still very fresh in our minds,” said junior Lisa Willis, referring to when the Sun Devils and Wildcats […]
W. golf: Bruins unable to hold on
On their run to a championship last season, the members of the UCLA women’s golf team used their season-opening tournament, the Regional Challenge in nearby Palos Verdes, as a spring board to their overwhelming success. The Bruins will have to jumpstart their title run somewhere else this year. The No. 2 UCLA women’s golf team […]
M. tennis: Shutout streak comes to an end
It had to end at some point, but the Bruins didn’t expect it to happen in the fashion it did. The No. 2 UCLA men’s tennis team’s streak of seven consecutive shutouts came to a painful end Tuesday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, despite easily displacing San Diego 6-1. In what was supposed to […]
W. hoops: Heavy court time no sweat for trio
Anyone who has watched the UCLA women’s basketball team over the past few weeks has most likely seen juniors Nikki Blue and Lisa Willis along with freshman Lindsey Pluimer on the court at the same time. That’s because the trio of Bruins has been logging heavy minutes as UCLA goes through the stretch run of […]