Nearly 50 UCLA student-athletes and coaches made the trip from Westwood to Gwangju, South Korea, for this summer’s World University Games. Over the next week, Bruins representing three countries across seven sports will compete for gold.
Category Archives: Swim & Dive
UCLA swim and dive heads to Greensboro for NCAA championships
After six months of competition, the UCLA swim and dive team has finally reached the end, and it’s what the Bruins have been waiting for all along. To conclude their 2014-2015 season, members of the team travel to Greensboro, N.C., to compete in the NCAA championship meet this week. “This is the meet they have […]
UCLA junior Allison Wine balances swim career, motherhood
Junior swimmer Allison Wine has a busy schedule that doesn’t look quite like any other UCLA student-athlete’s. Wine attends swim practice every day in the same way that the rest of her team does, competing at meets and cheering loudly for her peers. She goes to lecture with the same consistency, furrowing her brow at […]
UCLA divers qualify for national championship at NCAA zone meet
Earlier this week, a small group of three Bruins competed in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the 2015 NCAA Zone E Diving Championships. Freshman diver Maria Polyakova and sophomore Annika Lenz both qualified for the NCAA Championships in the first event of the meet — the 3-meter dive. To qualify, divers had to place in the […]
Dive team prepares for altered environment at NCAA zone meet
With only one chance left to qualify for the NCAA championship, the UCLA dive team heads to Colorado Springs, Colo., this week to compete in the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships. The Bruins have three divers competing in the three-day event, taking place from Monday to Wednesday. Freshmen Ciara Monahan and Maria Polyakova will be […]
Swim and dive makes splash in record books at Pac-12 championship
This past Wednesday through Saturday, the UCLA swim and dive team traveled to Federal Way, Wash., to compete in the Pac-12 championship, where the team got the chance to face off against some familiar faces. While the results may not have been what the team had planned, it left Washington with six new school records […]
UCLA swim and dive optimistic for Pac-12 conference play
UCLA swim and dive is focusing on heading into the Pac-12 tournament, despite being weighed down by logistical concerns. Coach Cyndi Gallagher and assistant coach Naya Higashijima worked on supplying equipment and miscellaneous items to the team right up until they left for Federal Way, Wash. on Tuesday morning. “We don’t just show up on […]