It took the UCLA women’s soccer team all but 26 minutes into its new season to answer the question: how does a team improve fresh off a championship run? The answer became apparent in the No. 1 Bruins’ 3-0 home wins against Maryland and UC Irvine on Friday and Sunday: getting more productivity from set […]
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UCLA women’s soccer season preview
The UCLA women’s soccer team, last year’s NCAA champion, is preparing for its upcoming season. Watch highlights of its practices and listen to some of the players and coaches as they talk about solidifying their teamwork and strategy with new, talented freshmen.
Consecutive championships become goal for UCLA women’s soccer
Jan. 25, 2014 – that was the day the challenge was issued. “One in nine” was the phrase former Bruin goalkeeper Alana Munger used in her farewell speech at the UCLA women’s soccer team banquet to describe the team now that it was in the company of eight other programs that have won a national […]
UCLA women’s soccer scores four MAC Hermann nominations
The preseason hit full stride for the UCLA women’s soccer team last week. The players began their official practices as the No. 1 team in the nation with several players who have also received individual award nominations. Senior defender Abby Dahlkemper, senior midfielder Sarah Killion, senior goalkeeper Katelyn Rowland and sophomore forward Darian Jenkins were […]
UCLA women’s soccer invited to play for LA Blues; wins championship
The women’s soccer team still has three weeks before they begin the defense of their NCAA championship, but three players say they already know what it takes to win back to back a title. For the second year in a row, senior defenders Abby Dahlkemper and Caprice Dydasco, and senior midfielder Sarah Killion, made the […]
Women’s soccer makes history in national championship run
It’s been slightly more than a year since Amanda Cromwell first arrived at UCLA, but the notes from the first time the women’s soccer coach addressed her team in May last year are still tucked away deep in her iPhone, as they are in her memory. “At the very end of it I say something […]
Five Bruins head to national women’s soccer training camp
This post was updated at 10:20 p.m. Five UCLA women’s soccer players were named to the U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team’s second training camp roster on Tuesday. “It’s an honor every time I get called, and it never gets old,” said junior defender Abby Dahlkemper, who is a veteran of the U23 squad after receiving multiple […]