Two UCLA women's basketball coaches have a friendship that dates back nearly two decades after the two met volunteering as coaches at a camp for female high school athletes. Read more...
Photo: Erin Ng/Daily Bruin
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Features, Sports, Women's Basketball
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January 22, 1:11 am
Earning her shot: UCLA walk-on Madeline Brooks works way toward scholarship
A year ago, Madeline Brooks would have been in warmups on the bench cheering on her teammates. But this season against then-No. 10 Oklahoma, the junior guard found herself walking the almost 80 feet from the defensive baseline to the free throw line with UCLA up two points and 15 seconds left on the game clock. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Madeline Brooks walked onto the women’s basketball team before earning a full scholarship at the end of last season.
Club & IM Sports, Features, Sports
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January 15, 1:15 am
Finding Waldo: Brian Pritchard cultivates teamwork between UCLA athletes
If you’re looking for Brian Pritchard, don’t ask for him by name. Simply navigate your way to the northwest corner of the John Wooden Center and look for Waldo. Read more...
Photo: Brian Pritchard, better known as “Waldo,” is the Outdoor Adventures program manager for UCLA. He works with various UCLA Athletics teams to improve team bonding and chemistry.
Features, Men's Basketball, Sports
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January 9, 1:50 am
Athletic trainer finds lifelong friend and ‘Coach’ at UCLA
Tony Spino stands atop the two-flight staircase overlooking the lobby of the John Wooden Center. A few hundred feet and several racquetball courts behind him lies his new temporary office in the UCLA Competitive Sports Clubhouse. Read more...
Photo: Tony Spino spent time in John Wooden’s den taking care of the former UCLA men’s basketball coach. A re-creation of that den has now been immortalized in the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
Features, Sports, Women's Basketball
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January 9, 1:20 am
Despite injury, Korver inspires UCLA women’s basketball team
Knees bent, elbows in, eyes on the basket, follow through and swish. Kari Korver has made a name for herself off her deadliness from behind the three-point line. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore guard Kari Korver tore her ACL and will not be able to play this season, but her leadership off the bench has helped the Bruins.
Features, Sports, Women's Volleyball
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November 27, 12:00 am
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 sure if she was going to play college volleyball. Read more...
Photo: After walking on her freshman year, junior outside hitter Karsta Lowe has emerged as one of the Bruins’ top performers.
Features, Football, Sports
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November 25, 2:50 am
Special bond with sister keeps Brett Hundley grounded
In trying to figure out what Brett Hundley values most, his wrists are a good place to start. During many of the redshirt sophomore quarterback’s stand-up interviews with reporters, three wristbands fit snug just above a right hand that has flung the football more than 6,000 yards in two seasons at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore quarterback Brett Hundley supported his sister Paris Hundley at the Walk to End Epilepsy event on Nov. 17. Although Paris Hundley suffers from epilepsy, she and her family manage to attend all of UCLA football’s games to support her brother.