A 9-year-old Pattriana Perry woke up famished in her home – an old pickup truck. Unable to find food, she begged her mother, Barbara Perry, to get some for her. She watched intently as her mom got out and began to quickly gather change off the cement, desperately trying to scrape together enough quarters for […]
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Beach volleyball’s Kamila Tan talks personal, program growth at UCLA
When Kamila Tan entered UCLA as its first beach volleyball-exclusive athlete in 2012, there was only one 2-inch deep court the team had to practice on. The players weren’t allowed to dive on it, and there wasn’t even an NCAA Tournament for beach volleyball. Fast forward to today, 11 out of 15 players on the […]
Dream big: Olympian Maddie Musselman three games from UCLA water polo history
Adam Krikorian still remembers the day he met freshman attacker Maddie Musselman. The Women’s Senior National Team coach was at Boston Logan International Airport, on his way home from the 2013 NCAA Tournament at Harvard. The rising water polo star went there with her family to watch her sister, then a freshman on the UCLA […]
Far from home, Dutch water polo player Lizette Rozeboom shines at UCLA
A thick Dutch accent rang through the air at Spieker Aquatics Center as the UCLA women’s water polo team was practicing its drills in the winter of 2015. Lizette Rozeboom, a sophomore attacker from the Netherlands, was simply following directions when her teammates began laughing. “We did a drill where we had to yell, ‘One […]
Nick Kern overcomes months of illness to return to UCLA baseball
Nick Kern, frail and dejected, sat up in his bed. It was April 2016 and Kern was a familiar patient at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He had endured physical setbacks before – a shoulder problem forced him to give up pitching and become an infielder for UCLA baseball during his junior year. But […]
Club softball discusses importance of teamwork, student leadership
Three years ago, there was no club softball team at UCLA. But a group of students took it upon themselves to restart and build up a program that disbanded years ago. And now, UCLA club softball boasts a 20-player roster, a 15-game schedule across Southern California and Arizona, and practices nearly all year round. Despite […]
Track athlete Leon Powell makes strides in entrepreneurship
Leon Powell wears many different hats. It just so happens that he sells them, too. The junior sprinter has been juggling the responsibilities of a full-time student and business owner for more than a year now, all while heading up the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4×100-meter relay for the No. 20 UCLA men’s track […]