After a rocky 2013 campaign, the UCLA women’s volleyball team incorporated a new strategy to bring a much-needed breath of fresh air into its offseason training: reading. At last season’s start, the team faced the loss of several key senior players. With many close losses and injuries throughout the rest of the season, the team […]
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Senior Sign-off: Kelly Reeves
By Kelly Reeves It’s crazy to think that my four years here at UCLA are finally coming to a close. It’s weird, I never really thought about it until now. I’ll be honest, there are definitely some emotions going on, totally normal, am I right? But looking back on things, my experience here at UCLA […]
Women’s volleyball falters in final season matches, misses NCAA bid
With a final opportunity to add something, anything, new to this season’s narrative, the UCLA women’s volleyball team had nothing but the same old story. UCLA dropped its final two matches of the regular season as it was swept by USC Wednesday before falling to Utah 3-1 Friday. Both matches were familiar tales for UCLA (15-15, 6-14), which finished […]
Women’s volleyball to face USC after win against Arizona
As the UCLA women’s volleyball team nears the final homestand of the season, its travel plans are still undecided, hotels have yet to be booked and plane tickets haven’t been bought. For a program that is usually penciled in for the postseason before the season even starts – UCLA has missed the postseason just once, […]
UCLA volleyball’s Karsta Lowe went from walk-on to top player
Look at Karsta Lowe today, and it would be hard to believe that she was born to be anything but a volleyball player. Watch the 6-foot-4-inch junior leap into the air and coolly slam a searing kill through the heart of an opposing defense, and it seems ludicrous that four years ago, she wasn’t even […]
UCLA women’s volleyball makes comeback to beat Arizona
It was a situation the Bruins had found themselves in so many times this year. Having come back from a 20-15 deficit in the first set of Sunday’s match against Arizona, the UCLA women’s volleyball team was down 24-23 and facing an opposing set point. Too many times this season, UCLA (15-13, 6-12 Pac-12) had […]
Women’s volleyball carries confidence into matches against Arizona schools
The UCLA women’s volleyball team has been playing essentially the same volleyball for more than a month and a half. “We’ve had the same season, we’re playing the same matches every time,“ said coach Michael Sealy. “If it works out our way, it’s going to work out our way. We’re going to control what we […]