This year, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 36 past, current and future UCLA athletes will compete in Rio de Janeiro. Each day, the Daily Bruin will wrap up the different events with Bruin highlights, key performances and upcoming events. Women’s gymnastics: Team Final This U.S. women’s gymnastics team might just be the best ever. In […]
Category Archives: Women’s Soccer
Women’s soccer ready to be tested, looks toward 2016 season
What 2015 season? With all head coach Amanda Cromwell and the UCLA women’s soccer team have done since last year’s more-than-disappointing end, it’s easy to forget that the program that won a national championship three years ago and followed up with a powerful 21-1-2 season descended into an 8-10-1 mire. The coaching staff landed the […]
Incoming Bruins make Olympic debuts for women’s soccer national teams
Thirty-six past, current and future UCLA athletes and coaches will compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Each day, the Daily Bruin wraps up the different events with Bruin highlights, key performances and upcoming events. Women’s soccer Canada vs. Australia Team Canada started the 2016 Rio Olympics with a upset 2-0 victory over fifth-ranked team Australia. […]
Current and former Bruins clinch soccer titles across country
The first United Women’s Soccer championship couldn’t have had more of a storybook ending. The Santa Clarita Blue Heat had one last-ditch effort to win the game in overtime – a corner kick in the 119th minute with the match tied at one goal apiece. Then came Julia Hernandez. The UCLA sophomore forward timed a […]
Mallory Pugh to join UCLA in winter after playing in US national teams
UCLA women’s soccer will have to wait a little longer for one of the Bruins’ most anticipated recruits. Mallory Pugh – the nation’s consensus No. 1 recruit in her class – signed her letter of intent in February, and was set to join the team this fall. Since then, she’s been called up to the […]
Incoming freshman Mallory Pugh makes U.S. women’s soccer Olympic team
Incoming freshman Mallory “Mal” Pugh was named to the 2016 Olympic team, U.S. women’s soccer coach and former UCLA coach Jill Ellis announced Tuesday morning. The first-time Olympian will be the second-youngest soccer Olympian in U.S. history at just 18 years old. The No. 1 recruit in the nation earned her first cap with the […]
Current and incoming Bruins earn national player of the year awards
Six national player of the year awards belong to the Bruins. Three incoming freshmen and three current athletes secured player of the year honors in basketball, softball, soccer, tennis, water polo and golf. Lonzo Ball, men’s basketball Heralded five-star men’s basketball recruit Lonzo Ball ran away with multiple national awards. Ball won the Naismith, MaxPreps, […]