Palm trees, a tropical climate and pristine sky blue water – those were prominent elements in UCLA women’s soccer’s first road trip of the season to Honolulu, Hawaii. But for one Bruin, there was an additional element: home. In UCLA’s two road wins against Hawaii and No. 11 Pepperdine, the road game factor almost felt […]
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Former UCLA baseball player Brenton Allen releases song ‘Make a Move’
Brenton Allen is known as a student at UCLA and a former Bruin baseball player who helped his team reach the College World Series in 2013, but he is emerging as an up-and-coming musician. Allen, a fourth-year history student, left UCLA after three years of collegiate baseball to pursue a career in professional baseball. After […]
Football transfer player finds ‘new slate’ with Bruins
Toward the end of the third quarter of last year’s Russell Athletic Bowl, with Miami trailing Louisville 29-2, Hurricanes running back Dallas Crawford carried the ball up the middle and was stuffed for no gain. Two plays later, on fourth down, a Louisville defender ran untouched through a hole that would’ve fit an 18-wheeler and […]
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 […]
Bruins sport new look on days five, six of football training camp
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — When UCLA finally took the practice field at Cal State San Bernardino in full pads for the first time Friday afternoon, a new electricity was in the air. After four days of minimal contact, the opportunity for players to make and take hits was a welcome change for players and coaches, […]
UCLA Bruins tackle day two of training camp
SAN BERNARDINO – His lengthy strides made the streak route toward the end zone appear easy, effortless even in comparison to other UCLA wideouts. With the defender on his heels in the afternoon’s seven-on-seven drill, and his height advantage, wide receiver Alex Van Dyke needed only to pull the over-the-top, floated ball in. But it […]
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 […]