The UCLA women’s soccer team won the NCAA championship after beating Florida State 1-0 in Sunday’s championship game. Sophomore forward Kodi Lavrusky scored the game-winning goal in overtime. The Bruins concluded their consistently dominant season by making history and winning the women’s soccer program’s first national championship, adding one more to UCLA’s grand total of now-110 national titles.
Category Archives: Women’s Soccer
UCLA women’s soccer to face off against Virginia in College Cup
The UCLA women’s soccer team has made eight trips to the College Cup and eight times, the team has come home empty-handed. However, 2013 seems to be the year for the Bruins. With a new coaching staff, the team won the Pac-12 title, finished conference play undefeated and is now back in the Final Four […]
No. 2-seeded UCLA women’s soccer advances past UNC to Final Four
There’s going to be a different NCAA women’s soccer champion this year. For the first time in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, UCLA’s women’s soccer team had to claim a victory outside of Drake Stadium, and in the process, knocked out the defending champion, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels. It was an […]
Women’s soccer to face North Carolina in Elite Eight
The end of the road to the Bruins’ 110th NCAA Championship is getting closer for the UCLA women’s soccer team. After shutout victories over the weekend against Kentucky and Stanford on Friday and Sunday respectively, the Bruins move on to the Elite Eight where they will face No. 1-seeded North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. on […]
From best friends to teammates
Abby Dahlkemper and Caprice Dydasco have been playing soccer together since they were children. In 2011, they both committed to UCLA to play for the women’s soccer team as a part of a top recruiting class. The juniors sat down with Bruin sports reporter Aubrey Yeo to reflect upon the evolution of their friendship, both […]
Juniors aim for women’s soccer’s first NCAA title, UCLA’s 110th championship
Two years ago, 11 women made history together. UCLA’s women’s soccer’s 2011 recruiting class is widely considered the most talented and deepest in school history, as well as one of the best in the nation in its year. Now, the 10 remaining players have entered their junior year; seven start while two are deployed as […]
Ally Courtnall returns to shoot for national championship with women’s soccer
Ally Courtnall gave the UCLA women’s soccer team a pleasant surprise when she walked into the team’s locker room two days before the team left for its third game of the season in South Bend, Ind. She was back. Toward the end of last season, the junior defender started losing her passion for soccer. Once […]