Any player cutting into Thea Lemberger’s lane better expect some contact. “I’m excited to hit ‘em,” she said. The women’s basketball senior guard has already taken the most charges on her team, but she’ll gladly take some more.She’ll dive for loose balls. She’ll welcome the blows that try to stop her from scoring. She’s not […]
Category Archives: Women’s Basketball
UCLA falls to Cal, Stanford in seniors’ last home games
At the end of 40 minutes, the Stanford Cardinal emerged victorious. The primarily blue crowd in Pauley Pavilion was on its feet, applauding. But the cheers were not for the No. 5 Cardinal that had just beaten the Bruins 65-56; they was directed to the efforts of senior guard Thea Lemberger and sixth-year senior forward […]
UCLA women’s basketball hosts ‘Play 4Kay’ game, Senior Night
This weekend may be the last time this season that a UCLA women’s basketball game opens with a recording of a John Wooden quote. It’ll be the same lights, the same hoops and the same fans in Pauley Pavilion one last time, as UCLA takes on No. 18 California Friday and No. 5 Stanford on […]
UCLA women’s basketball outscores Oregon 103-83
For one afternoon, it looked like the roles were reversed. The UCLA women’s basketball team spent the President’s Day holiday in the Matthew Knight Arena facing off against the nation’s No. 1 scoring offense, the Oregon Ducks. But it was the Bruins who came off looking like the team that averages over 90 points per […]
Bruins shoot to rebound from recent losses
Coach Cori Close asked each player to raise her hand if she felt that she had committed absolutely 100 percent to the last drill. No one raised their hand, so Close had the drill repeated. Immediately, a new sense of urgency drifted onto the court. That urgency was what Close was looking for. With just […]
Nirra Fields finds home on basketball court
Racing up and down the basketball court, Nirra Fields is at home – it’s her place of solace. It’s been there to give her a place to escape the struggles of living in a family with a single mother who could not always provide for her seven children in the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec. It […]
Coaches & Companions
Two UCLA women’s basketball coaches have a friendship that dates back nearly two decades after the two met volunteering as coaches at a camp for female high school athletes.