Swimmer achieves dream of competing in the Maccabiah Games

Back in her first days as a walk-on member of UCLA’s swim team, then-freshman Hayley Hacker set herself a seemingly impossible goal: to make the Maccabiah Games. But three years later and after significant improvements, Hacker, a rising senior, saw her dream realized when she was informed that she had been selected to represent the […]

Rowing gives strong performance despite ninth-place finish

Despite high hopes and a No. 6 national ranking going into this weekend’s NCAA championships, UCLA women’s rowing wound up placing ninth, one spot worse than last season. Regardless, coach Amy Fuller Kearney came away with positives from the weekend and tried to keep things in perspective. “Ultimately we have to consider this weekend a […]

UCLA seniors compete in Pro Gymnastics Challenge

Last weekend at the Pro Gymnastics Challenge in Pennsylvania, seniors Alyssa Pritchett and Vanessa Zamarripa didn’t know whether they were competing as gymnasts for the last time in their lives or for the very first time as professionals. That’s because last weekend’s competition was the equivalent of a pilot episode for a new professional gymnastics […]