Practice was winding down. The UCLA men’s tennis team was finishing stretching and packing up. Players were talking about where they were going to eat, while others were talking about what midterms they had to study for that week. All except sophomore Joseph Di Giulio. Di Giulio asked assistant coach Adrien Puget if he could […]
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Cameroonian sensation circumnavigates globe in basketball conquest
Alfred Aboya had never seen snow. Clad in flip-flops and shorts, the 18-year-old unfolded his 6-foot-8 frame from the confines of the minivan that transported his life to the grounds of the Tilton School in New Hampshire, landing him on a prep school campus covered in a white blanket of winter weather. He took his […]
Women’s basketball’s Cori Close carries forward Coach Wooden’s legacy at UCLA
Twenty-one years ago, in the spring of 1994, coach Cori Close, then the restricted-earnings coach for the UCLA women’s basketball team, was not prepared. She was dressed in sweats one Tuesday evening when Steve Lavin, her counterpart on the men’s basketball team, told her that she was coming with him to coach John Wooden’s apartment […]
Freshman forward Gyorgy Goloman makes smooth transition from Hungary to UCLA
The town of Körmend, Hungary is about 145 miles away from Budapest, the nation’s capital. It’s about 5,235 miles away from Weston, Fla. And, as far as Gyorgy Goloman was concerned, it was about a world away from UCLA. About 12,000 people call Körmend home, including Goloman – who goes by “G.G.” – a freshman […]
Diving deepens sibling bond
Friends, teammates, competitors, sisters. UCLA swim and dive team members Montana and Ciara Monahan are all of those things to each other. They’ve never known life to be any other way. “We do everything together,” said older sister Montana Monahan. Diving has been no exception. It started when the divers moved from the East Coast […]
Team, family support senior swimmer Courtney Wilde through recovery
Two days before UCLA swim and dive was set to leave for last season’s Pac-12 tournament, Courtney Wilde was feeling ill. “I knew something was wrong when I woke up but I couldn’t really put my finger on what it was,” said the senior captain. Chalking it up to dehydration, Wilde pushed herself to go […]
UCLA gymnast Christine Peng-Peng Lee vaults back after hiatus
The redshirt sophomore gymnast mounted onto the high bar, grabbed hold and let her body swing. She kicked herself up vertically and released her hands to reach out and grab the lower bar. After her double layout dismount, she was met with the winning score and her team’s collective embrace. It appeared to more than […]