All it may be is just a small two-digit number in front of their names, but for the members of the UCLA women’s basketball team, that number is quite significant. Not only is being ranked in the top-25 to begin the season validation for all of the extra hours they put in the gym over […]
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M. golf: Bruins craft comeback
The UCLA men’s golf team could have taken its 5-0 opening-round drubbing at the hands of Florida on Sunday as a bitter pill to swallow. Instead, the Bruins didn’t let their loss in the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship deter them for too long. The eighth-ranked Bruins bounced right back to win the consolation bracket […]
Coaches recruit with modern twist
When women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier wants to contact a prospective recruit, she has a variety of options at her fingertips. She can hop on a plane and travel anywhere in the country, pick up a telephone and dial, or simply type 439 into her cell phone, which, when translated into letters, reads “Hey.” It’s […]
W. basketball: Basketball pumped up for new season
To begin the season, it’s a position that coach Kathy Olivier’s recent teams have been unaccustomed to. That of looking down on most of the competition. For a team that relished the underdog role last season, the women’s basketball team’s mindset will have to change from that of the hunter to the hunted. Predicted to […]
Golf: Women’s golf holds 16-shot lead in Hawaii
Women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth thought her team needed a good bonding experience, so she invited the whole team to compete in this week’s tournament. It helped that the event was in Hawaii. “I thought we needed a little bit of fun over the weekend, get to see the other side of people,” Forsyth said. […]
W. basketball: Pitts to redshirt basketball season
Ravaged by injuries over the last two-plus years, junior Julia Pitts of the UCLA women’s basketball team will redshirt for the 2004-2005 season. Pitts and coach Kathy Olivier reached a decision earlier this week because it was clear to both of them that it was not in the 6-foot-2 forward’s best interest to play this […]
W. golf: Golf coach questions team’s focus
When coach Carrie Forsyth looked into her players’ eyes five months ago at the NCAA Championships, she saw it. Since then, she hasn’t. The drive, the focus, the determination, all staples of what the UCLA women’s golf team used to get to the top of the collegiate golfing world, so far have been AWOL in […]