Football – Josh Rosen Josh Rosen’s early enrollment at UCLA last January gave him a definitive edge over all other rookies in that he is familiar with the ins and outs of the school and football team before the first day of orientation. Accolades and expectations preceded the St. John Bosco graduate’s arrival on campus, […]
Category Archives: Men’s Volleyball
JT Hatch, US Junior National Team capture silver at Pan American Cup
It took just seven months since starting his first collegiate volleyball match for J.T. Hatch to put together an impressive list of accomplishments in both NCAA and national play. Appearing in every match of his freshman season with UCLA men’s volleyball, Hatch contributed a team-high 247 kills and added 142 digs defensively. He quickly established […]
UCLA men’s volleyball coaches balance collegiate and national roles
Three UCLA men’s volleyball coaches traded their blue and gold for a summer of red, white and blue after the 2015 NCAA season. As the team’s players scattered for the offseason, head coach John Speraw and assistant coaches Andrea Becker and Brad Keller united under a common goal: representing the United States on sidelines across […]
Men’s volleyball endures ups and downs of 2015 youthful trend
The 2015 season will likely go down in the storied history of UCLA men’s volleyball as a rebuilding year in every sense of the term. With four starting freshmen and only one starting upperclassman, the Bruins’ youth became their defining – and often limiting – characteristic. Despite it being a year of ups and downs […]
Top-seeded Irvine ends men’s volleyball’s season in first round blowout
For a UCLA team playing some of its best volleyball of the 2015 season, Saturday night was something of a letdown. No. 8-seed UCLA (13-14, 9-13 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), already guaranteed to have a challenge on its hands in No. 1-seed UC Irvine (26-4, 19-3), fell flat in its season finale, dropping out of […]
Bruins to take on No. 2 Anteaters’ aerial attack in MPSF quarterfinal
Brad Keller stood above the fray at volleyball practice Wednesday morning in Pauley Pavilion. Standing 10 feet tall on a ball cannon, the assistant coach aimed and fired volleyballs at freshmen Jake Arnitz and J.T. Hatch and sophomore Michael Fisher. Balls flew across the court at high speed as the outside hitters tried to field […]
Freshmen settle into starting roles for men’s volleyball
Eric Matheis had to grow up quickly. A freshman on a rebuilding UCLA men’s volleyball team, the setter stayed on the bench for the opening weeks of the conference season. The rookie watched as junior Steve O’Dell and sophomore Hagen Smith, veteran setters, traded the starting spot between them. Following O’Dell’s departure from the team […]