Short white socks with blue and gold stripes. Royal blue shorts cut just above the knee. A blue and gold V-neck sweater reveals the collar of a gold undershirt. Read more...
Photo: Alumni cheerleader Geoffrey Strand was known for asking “every man, woman and child” to cheer for UCLA.
Visit coach Jorge Salcedo when he’s home and chances are he’ll be watching a soccer game. Almost everything in his life is about soccer and the UCLA men’s soccer team that he has coached for the past 10 years. Read more...
Photo: From a ball boy to a player to an assistant coach and now to coach, Jorge Salcedo has been involved in the UCLA men’s soccer program nearly his whole life. The team has become his extended family, and at every level he’s been with the Bruins, aside from currently as a coach, he’s won an NCAA championship. Now, with his team seeded No. 1 overall in the NCAA tournament, Salcedo looks to win one more championship.
Heading into her sophomore year, UCLA women’s soccer player Courtney Proctor was primed for a breakout season. After struggling in her freshman year, the forward worked tirelessly in the offseason to prepare for the next season; She said she wanted to have a bigger impact on the team and produce for the coaching staff that had invested in her. Read more...
Photo: Proctor said that the time spent on the sideline and away from the field because of her injury taught her to love the game more and appreciate the time she has on the field. Proctor also said that she did not become depressed about her injury and instead focused on how to improve.
Seventeen games played. Six hundred and eighty minutes on the field. One goal scored. Senior forward Reed Williams is in a slump. Scoring goals is what forwards live for, and it’s something that used to come naturally for Williams. Read more...
Photo: After tying for the team lead in goals last season, senior forward Reed Williams has had a limited role for the Bruins this year, having scored just one goal so far.
For Rosie White, picking which jersey to wear is not just a question of color. It’s a question of time and place. In one instance in mid-September, after spending 12 days away in Switzerland, the junior forward finally got to set foot on the UCLA campus once again. Read more...
Photo: New Zealand native Rosie White of the UCLA women’s soccer team also plays for her country’s national squad.
Steve Alford sat in a small booth at a local diner in Tarzana, Calif. A plate of eggs and bacon was on the table before him, a birthday cake sat opposite him and the face of John Wooden smiled down at him from the wall. Read more...
Photo: New UCLA coach Steve Alford, like the many coaches before him, has had to deal with continual comparisons to John Wooden in his first few months on campus. Alford’s Indiana roots are a similarity he and Wooden share.
Atonye Nyingifa is always smiling. While running wind sprints in practice, the smile races by, sideline to sideline, in a blur. In games, the smile could be misconstrued as softness until she plows her way through two defenders for the offensive rebound and two points. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt senior forward Atonye Nyingifa overcame a pair of torn ACLs to return as one of UCLA women’s basketball’s top players.
