Sunday, May 10

Track and field athletes prepare for final meet of season

For most of the UCLA track and field team, this weekend will be the last of the 2017 season. The Pac-12 championship is the last meet that the athletes have to get their times and scores into the top 48 of the Western Division and advance to the NCAA West Regional. Read more...

Photo: Freshman Nate Esparza is one of several Bruins in position with top-48 scores to secure a spot in the NCAA regionals. The thrower is 18th nationally in the shot-put heading into the Pac-12 championships this weekend. (Michael Hull/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Garcia propels softball to 4-3 victory against Arizona State

Rachel Garcia threw a complete game and hit a go-ahead homer to give the Bruins the win. The redshirt freshman fired seven innings, yielding five hits – all singles – and three runs in No. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt freshman Rachel Garcia broke the 3-3 tie with a solo home run in the top of the seventh to give No. 10 UCLA the lead on the road against ASU. Garcia, who was also the starting pitcher, had an RBI in the top of the third to score the Bruins’ first run of the night. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)


Men’s tennis prepares for first match of NCAA Tournament

The journey to reach Georgia starts Friday. The No. 5-seeded UCLA men’s tennis team (19-5) faces off in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against unseeded Army (21-9) at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center tennis courts Friday. Read more...

Photo: Junior Martin Redlicki and the UCLA men’s tennis team will open up the NCAA Tournament against Army Friday afternoon. Redlicki typically plays on court two for singles, but will likely play on court one, since senior Gage Brymer is out for the rest of the season. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)


Baseball looks to defeat shaky Washington State in conference series

As the regular season nears the finish line, the Bruins continue to battle it out in the Pac-12. “We’ve been playing for our season the last couple of weeks,” said coach John Savage. Read more...

Photo: For the first time in almost three months, junior Jake Bird will start on the mound for the Bruins this weekend. The pitcher had been out with a shoulder injury, but came in as a reliever against the Trojans last weekend. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)


Gage Brymer ends collegiate tennis career early after upper body surgery

Senior Gage Brymer’s collegiate career is over. UCLA Athletics announced Thursday afternoon that Brymer underwent a season-ending upper body medical procedure, which will force him to miss the NCAA Tournament. Read more...

Photo: Senior Gage Brymer will miss the NCAA Tournament after UCLA Athletics announced he underwent an upper body medical procedure Tuesday. Brymer is expected to make a full recovery, per UCLA Athletics. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)


Dream big: Olympian Maddie Musselman three games from UCLA water polo history

Adam Krikorian still remembers the day he met freshman attacker Maddie Musselman. The Women’s Senior National Team coach was at Boston Logan International Airport, on his way home from the 2013 NCAA Tournament at Harvard. Read more...

Photo: The skills freshman attacker Maddie Musselman has developed en route to becoming one of the most dominant players in the NCAA in her very first year took her through the trials and tribulations of playing with some of the world’s greatest water polo players before she was a junior in high school. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Women’s golf falls short in NCAA regional after winning Pac-12 title

UCLA women’s golf’s run has come to an end. A week after claiming the Pac-12 title, the No. 1 Bruins’ season is over. After making it out of the NCAA regional for 16 consecutive years, the team finished eighth in the Lubbock, Texas, regional, just missing the sixth-place cutoff for the NCAA Tournament. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Lilia Vu and UCLA women’s golf couldn’t carry momentum from their Pac-12 win into the NCAA regional. The Bruins placed eighth in the Lubbock, Texas, regional, narrowly missing the sixth-place cutoff. (UCLA Athletics)