Author Archives: TuAnh Dam

Around the League: Pac-12 teams deliver strong showings in softball, women’s golf, baseball

While Bruin athletes continue competing in Westwood, here’s a look at some of the biggest news from the rest of the Pac-12 and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Softball TuAnh Dam, Sports editor It was a big weekend for Pac-12 softball, and it wasn’t just because then-No. 12 Arizona was squaring off with then-No. 3 […]

Eleven UCLA football players join NFL teams following 2017 draft

The 2017 draft is in the books and five UCLA players, including first-round pick Takkarist McKinley, heard their names called this week. Five other players also signed as undrafted free agents to round out the Bruins’ draft weekend with 10 players on nine different teams. McKinley created one of the most shared moments of the […]

Takkarist McKinley picked 26th in NFL draft by Atlanta Falcons

For the fourth time in five years, a UCLA football player went in the first round of the NFL draft. Datone Jones, Anthony Barr and Kenny Clark have all had their names called. This year, it was defensive end Takkarist McKinley who, after being selected with the 26th pick by the Atlanta Falcons, carried a […]

Rivalry, fan support fuel victory over USC for men’s tennis

Junior Logan Staggs roared and celebrated with UCLA fans after every long rally. Junior Martin Redlicki encouraged the students behind him to get louder and louder during his tight match on court two. Against then-No. 6 USC’s men’s tennis (22-5, 5-2 Pac-12), the energy at the Sunset Recreational courts was nothing short of tangible as […]

UCLA gymnastics hopes to fine-tune routines to prep for next season

Valorie Kondos Field was on a roll. The UCLA gymnastics coach, sitting in between Oklahoma coach K.J. Kindler and Utah’s Tom Farden, wasn’t just talking about what she saw in the first NCAA semifinal Friday afternoon. Kondos Field was also raving and gushing about everything else gymnastics: the camaraderie of the sport, the rapidly growing […]

UCLA gymnastics earns fourth-place finish at NCAA Super Six

ST. LOUIS — The scores kept getting bigger and bigger for UCLA gymnastics. In the hunt for the program’s seventh national championship, the Bruins came out slow on vault before building momentum and hitting their routines over the final three rotations. “(Vault) is our weakest event, and in order to do really well we just […]