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 […]
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Gymnast leads British team to sixth place at World University Games
After a year of competing in the United States, rising sophomore gymnast Danusia Francis represented her home country, the United Kingdom, last week at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
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 women’s rowing poised to shock competition at NCAAs
Having competed at the Pac-12 championships two weeks ago, UCLA rowing will be surrounded by familiar faces this weekend when it competes at the NCAA championships, where half of the conference will be in attendance.
Rowing finishes fourth in the Pac-12
After 1,500 meters of UCLA’s final race at the Pac-12 championships last weekend, the varsity eight found itself sandwiched in fourth, one boat length behind third-place Cal and two seconds ahead of fifth-place Stanford.
Crew of Bruins seek to stroke past rivals
Two weeks ago, UCLA suffered a close loss to undefeated USC, which the Bruins will try to bounce back from when they compete for the Pac-12 title this weekend.
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 […]