Track and field Nicholas Yekikian, assistant Sports editor With the 2018 indoor season finally underway, UCLA track and field will take part in its second meet of the year this weekend. The Bruins will head east to New York for the Columbia Challenge on Saturday. UCLA will face the likes of Oregon – whose first-ranked […]
Category Archives: Women’s Tennis
Women’s tennis preps for indoor games with key players back in lineup
UCLA women’s tennis team survived against UCSB, but will be relieved to have No. 16 sophomore Ena Shibahara and No. 76 junior Alaina Miller back in the lineup after overcoming illnesses. Starting Friday morning, No. 16 UCLA (1-0) will face North Carolina State and No. 21 Kentucky (2-0) or Northwestern (2-0) on back-to-back days in […]
Women’s tennis defeats UCSB on familiar courts, notches season-opening win
Although two members of the UCLA women’s tennis team are out because of illnesses, the Bruins persevered. Without No. 16 sophomore Ena Shibahara and No. 76 junior Alaina Miller, No. 17 UCLA (1-0) defeated the unranked UC Santa Barbara 4-2 after squandering the doubles point. No. 119 redshirt sophomore Jada Hart emerged victorious on court […]
Women’s tennis motivated for season opener after preseason success
After a sweep in Las Vegas last weekend, the No. 17 UCLA women’s tennis team has all the momentum it needs going into the season opener against unranked UCSB on Friday. For sophomore Ena Shibahara, it’s the first step toward the NCAA title. “Ranked or not, I look at every match as a challenge,” Shibahara […]
UCLA women’s tennis claims titles at Freeman Memorial Championships
What started with 32 players representing eight schools finished entirely in Bruin blue. This weekend, five UCLA’s women’s tennis players traveled to Las Vegas for the Freeman Memorial Championships. They came home with first place titles in both the singles and doubles brackets. Not only did the Bruins secure the singles title, but the team […]
Weekend in Preview: Men’s water polo celebrates 114th title, women’s tennis heads to Vegas
Women’s tennis Dylan Dsouza, Daily Bruin Contributor The No. 17 UCLA women’s tennis team will be back in action this weekend for the first time since early November. Five Bruins will be traveling to Las Vegas to participate in the Freeman Memorial Championships. They will be led by No. 16 sophomore Ena Shibahara, who came […]
Women’s tennis transfer looks to UCLA for bigger stage
As a high school senior from urban Toronto, Ayan Broomfield instantly fell in love with suburban Clemson during her college visit. Playing mostly at the top of the Tigers’ lineup in singles and doubles, she amassed a 31-25 singles record, 28-16 doubles record and led Clemson to the second round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament. […]