UCLA track and field will renew its crosstown rivalry with USC on Sunday at Drake Stadium. This is UCLA’s first and only dual meet this season, and the team is returning 10 event winners from last year’s meet against the Trojans, including redshirt junior thrower Ashlie Blake, who won the women’s discus and finished third […]
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Track and field puts down strong performance at weekend meets
UCLA track and field was split between two different meets this weekend, but despite the smaller squads, the Bruins were still able to bring home top marks from both meets. The Bruins sent exclusively distance runners to the Mt. SAC Relays in Torrance, California, where they took seven top-10 finishes. The rest of track team […]
UCLA track and field team split across meets for second time this season
Track and field rosters are often so long the team is occasionally split between two different meets. This weekend, UCLA track and field would have blanketed three, but senior heptathlete Kendall Gustafson threw a wrench in the team’s scheduling for the second time this year. “(The Bryan Clay Invitational) was kind of a backup meet […]
Track and field achieves several personal bests in Bruin Day meet
Athletes both current and future were present at Drake Stadium for the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational on Saturday. As UCLA welcomed thousands of recent admits to its campus for Bruin Day, the Bruins also hosted their second home meet of the season for track and field, going against a group of schools that included Texas A&M, […]
Track and field hopes to vault athletes into NCAA in upcoming meet
Over a dozen UCLA track and field athletes currently hold national championship-qualifying spots. More will seek to join their teammates’ ranks at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational on Saturday, the team’s second home meet of the season. UCLA will host teams from Oregon State, Cal Poly, and Texas A&M. Junior jumper Lillianna Hebert is one […]
The Rundown: April 12
Track and FieldNicholas Yekikian, assistant Sports editor Usually, when awards are administered by either the MPSF or the NCAA, just one or two athletes from a particular team are singled out for something exceptional. However, when it came to this year’s indoor track and field team, 17 members secured MPSF All-Academic honors. Of the 17 […]
Track and field debuts throwers, claims two first-place finishes
There was a slight change of plans for the UCLA track and field team this weekend. While the Bruins originally planned to compete the Jim Click Multi’s on Thursday and Friday, track and field director Avery Anderson said the team changed plans and decided to rest senior pentathlete Kendall Gustafson and give some throwers the […]