The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field Championships and the Seattle Pacific University Final Qualifier – the last chances for UCLA track and field to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships – are just two weeks away. This past weekend, select distance runners traveled to the Dempsey Indoor Facility in […]
Category Archives: Track and Field
Track and field coach Rob Jarvis returns as volunteer director
For many of the UCLA track and field athletes, Rob Jarvis is a new face. He has a premier position in the program he hasn’t had in the past, but he’s no stranger to Westwood. From 2010-13 Jarvis worked as the UCLA jumps coach and coached three record-setting athletes in the decathlon, all of whom […]
Track and field posts personal bests, top-three finishes over weekend
UCLA track and field didn’t send very many athletes to Texas, but the team made sure to send its best. Despite facing some of the fiercest competition in the country, the Bruins had 13 top-three finishes and posted many personal records at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station, Texas, last weekend. Shot-putters placed a […]
Track and field looks to continue positive results in Texas
After getting off to a strong start at Columbia’s East-West Challenge this weekend, the UCLA track and field team will compete in the Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station, Texas, on Friday. The team is taking even fewer athletes than it did to New York, though some are the top performers from the weekend. “It […]
Track and field takes third place overall at Columbia East-West Challenge
Less than a third of the UCLA track and field team made the trip to the Columbia East-West Challenge this weekend. But despite the lack of bodies on the track and going against stiff competition from Oregon, UCLA still locked up a third-place finish at the Armory Track and Field Center in New York. It […]
Track and field opens new season with the pieces needed to turn heads
Over the past 10 years, UCLA track and field has had the head-turning athletes. It’s had Nicholas Scarvelis, a Rio Olympian and multiple-time NCAA nationals qualifier in the shot put, Turquoise Thompson and Nicole Leach, both three-time national-top-3 finishers in the 400-meter hurdles, and others, but it hasn’t finished in the top 10 nationally as […]
Around the League: Oregon sets track and field records, Utah gymnast thrives
While Bruin athletes continue competing in Westwood, here’s a look at some of the biggest news from the rest of the Pac-12. Track and fieldMichael Hull, assistant Sports editor Nike co-founder Phil Knight has donated hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to the University of Oregon athletics department, and the track and field […]