PALO ALTO, Calif. — Feel free to exhale. Yes, UCLA still can’t shoot on the road. Yes, the Bruins went scoreless for long stretches of Thursday’s game. And yes, they nearly blew it. But for once it didn’t matter. And for once, UCLA finally won a road game outside the city of Los Angeles. After […]
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Women’s water polo goalkeeper shows Olympic promise
Sami Hill never imagined she would play water polo for a program as prestigious as UCLA’s. Yet Hill – now a redshirt senior – has not only asserted herself as a team leader for UCLA, but also positioned herself as an Olympic hopeful. Hill came from an athletic household – her mother played basketball at […]
UCLA gymnastics defeats Cal 196.800-195.425
Redshirt senior Samantha Peszek, the usual all-around competitor on the UCLA gymnastics team, was conspicuously absent at Pauley Pavilion, competing in only one event, the uneven bars. Peszek was rested because the team wanted to pace her season toward the end, making sure her form will be 100 percent at that time. However, the rest of the […]