After fighting through pain in her left knee this past season, UCLA women’s basketball redshirt junior guard/forward Rhema Gardner has decided to medically retire from the sport. Gardner played in 26 of 31 games this season, averaging 1.8 points and 1.8 rebounds per game. In her last game on the court, Gardner filled out the […]
Category Archives: Women’s Basketball
Pauley to host first rounds of NCAA women’s tournament
While the season may have ended for UCLA women’s basketball almost two weeks ago, that doesn’t mean Pauley Pavilion will be sitting empty and dark in the coming days. UCLA will play host for the first two rounds of the NCAA women’s tournament on March 22 and 24 for the first time since 1999. Had […]
Women’s basketball’s season ends with fall to Colorado
The Pac-12 Network’s camera was focused on Thea Lemberger’s face. But this time, she wasn’t standing on the line ready to shoot a free throw. All she could do was watch in her warm-up gear from the bench as her team tried to overcome a deficit against Colorado. The senior guard was a conspicuous absence […]
UCLA women’s basketball to take on Colorado in first round of Pac-12s
Fast break transition layups, seven seconds or less – that isn’t something that should be expected this Thursday when the UCLA women’s basketball team takes on Colorado for the Pac-12 tournament. Thirty games into the season, both teams have established identities as teams predicated around a solid defense. Just like their previous two meetings this […]
UCLA women’s basketball ends regular season with Utah win
It wasn’t always pretty, but UCLA women’s basketball ended the regular season with a win. Heading into its final weekend before the Pac-12 conference tournament, the Bruins were looking to continue the focus and aggression that they found against the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal last week. Instead, UCLA (13-17, 7-11 Pac-12) couldn’t […]
Women’s basketball season winding down for Nyingifa
She’s been here for six years, battled through two separate ACL injuries and is now earning a graduate degree at UCLA. Through it all, Atonye Nyingifa has played 135 games, the most in UCLA women’s basketball history, and now can finally see the end of a long, but rewarding, journey. The sixth-year senior forward still […]
Corinne Costa has record-breaking season in blocks
For 36 years, Ann Meyers Drysdale held the UCLA women’s basketball record for career blocks at 101 as a guard standing at just 5 feet 9 inches. And then along came Corinne Costa, who plays forward/center and towers over most players on the court at a height of 6 feet 4 inches. The redshirt junior, […]