Category Archives: Swim & Dive

Although the new academic year is just starting, the UCLA swim and dive team has already been back in Westwood for almost four weeks. In addition to having grueling practices twice a day, the month of September has served as a time for the team to get to know each other on a personal level, a factor that […]

A calmer, more confident Katie Kinnear took to the starting blocks in the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, as the 18-year-old rising sophomore prepared to swim in the Speedo Junior National Championships one last time.

Although the UCLA swim and dive team finished its collegiate season early in the year, competition has not ended for many Bruins, who continue to swim in elite meets this summer.

Back in her first days as a walk-on member of UCLA’s swim team, then-freshman Hayley Hacker set herself a seemingly impossible goal: to make the Maccabiah Games. But three years later and after significant improvements, Hacker, a rising senior, saw her dream realized when she was informed that she had been selected to represent the […]

Following months of training, practice and rehabilitation, rising sophomore diver Montana Monahan is left with a concrete board under her feet, a 10 meter drop and just over a second of flight. She just has to jump.

Entering the dog days of summer, five UCLA swimmers recently took to the pool to compete at the Phillips 66 National Championships.