After the 2004 NCAA Championships in Opelika, Ala., she was the first one on the 18th green to greet her teammates. It was of no consequence she wasn’t out there competing. Melissa Martin may not have played for the national champion women’s golf team last season, but she was still an integral part of its […]
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Highly recruited twins to visit UCLA
If the hype is to be believed, then they are the biggest thing to hit collegiate women’s basketball. Literally. Twin sisters Courtney and Ashley Paris from Piedmont, two of the most sought-after recruits in the nation, will be making their official visit to UCLA today. The Bruins are reportedly one of five teams in the […]
W. golf: Champs not worried about start
Weird. It can be the word used to describe the No. 1 UCLA women’s golf team’s inauspicious start to the 2004-2005 season. Coming into the Mason Rudolph Championship this past weekend, the team’s superstar, senior Charlotte Mayorkas, was having her share of struggles. At the Fall Preview in Bend, Ore. a week ago, the Bruins […]
W. golf: Champs hope to overcome fatigue
For a team whose season doesn’t start for another five months, the defending champion UCLA women’s golf team is already a bit tired. That’s because women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth is keeping her team pretty busy, having scheduled three exhibition tournaments in a span of less than two weeks. Though it would appear Forsyth is […]
W. golf: Top-ranked team ends tourney on bottom
The mission, hardly impossible, has already started. The UCLA women’s golf team travelled to Bend, Ore., last week knowing that if it was to repeat as champions, it would have to come on the hallowed grounds at the Sunriver Resort. Invited to participate at the Fall Preview, a tournament for top teams in the country […]
M. polo: Pair of losses thwarts team
Two weeks ago, the UCLA’s men’s water polo team rode into the So Cal Tournament hoping to make a strong statement. Consecutive losses to Stanford and Cal were not what the team had in mind. “I’m disappointed,” coach Adam Krikorian said. “I expected much better, especially against Cal. Our effort level was just not there […]
Live sports to the fullest
Lets get one thing straight. Sports do not imitate life. Nor do they offer us a distraction from our lives. Sports are life. One such tale of how sports permeate through life resounds with me nearly every single day. I have a friend who loved baseball. It didn’t matter to him that he wasn’t particularly […]