I am so excited for the new Under Armour deal UCLA just signed, the athletic gear we all get will be so cool. … But of course I won’t be getting any because I’m leaving. The rest of the student-athletes will, and I keep forgetting that I won’t be on the track team next year. […]
Category Archives: Track and Field
Track and field record-holder Steele Wasik to leave UCLA
One of the brightest young stars on the UCLA track and field team has seen his last days as a Bruin. According to the Medina Gazette, a newspaper based in Medina, Ohio, sophomore multi Steele Wasik will leave UCLA. Wasik suffered an injury at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March that forced him to withdraw […]
Vigorous showing at regionals earns Bruins spots in NCAA championship
The thunder and lightning weren’t the only things to make impressions on the NCAA track and field Western Regional championship this weekend. Eleven of the 37 Bruins who went to Kansas are moving on to the NCAA national championship meet in a week and a half, despite the weather subjecting them to an unfavorable reorganization […]
Battle of the Editors: Rookie of the year
Battle of the Editors: Next year’s Daily Bruin Sports editors square off in their first co-publication ever. The new kids at the helm argue who they think should be UCLA’s rookie of the year. TuAnh Dam: Josh Rosen Few freshmen come into Westwood with more fanfare than UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen. The Manhattan Beach native […]
Track and field athletes hope to place in top 12 at NCAA regional meet
Forty-three UCLA athletes will make their way to Lawrence, Kansas to compete in the NCAA West Prelims – all in hopes of placing in the top 12 of their respective events. But sophomore sprinter Leon Powell may have the most to compete for. He had a quick start to the season in his main event […]
UCLA track student patents ‘Strings’
UCLA track team and second-year physics student Scott Snow explains how to play his patented original game, Strings.
UCLA pole vaulter Greta Wagner leaps toward NCAA regionals
Not many success stories start with hesitation. The characteristic audacity that defines collegiate and professional athletes is no doubt built with hours of training, but there are nearly always seeds of boldness at the inception of promising careers. When it comes to redshirt freshman pole vaulter Greta Wagner, however, she was almost reluctant in the […]