It’s a new year, with many new high-profile recruits coming in, but the same question remains for the Bruins. Can they play defense? The UCLA men’s basketball team struggled to stop anyone – both on the perimeter and in the paint – last season. Read more...
Photo: (Kaley Powers/Daily Bruin contributor)
The passes were there, the shooting was there, now UCLA men’s basketball is focusing on what went wrong for them it year – defense. The Bruins gave up an average of 76.7 points a game last season behind an inconsistent defense that switched back and forth from man-to-man to zone. Read more...
Photo: Defense will be key for the Bruins this year after they give up 76 points a game last season. With more depth, UCLA will focus on simplifying its defensive schemes. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Last year wasn’t a typical year for UCLA women’s soccer. The loss of experienced seniors, lack of chemistry and an inconsistent back line all contributed to the Bruins’ sub-.500 season and their exclusion from the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 19 years. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior defender Zoey Goralski said that watching film over the offseason helped the Bruins’ young back line learn how to position themselves to support each other. As a result, UCLA has given up 11 less goals this year compared to 2015. (Eileen Lising/Daily Bruin)
Long before they were assistant coaches for UCLA women’s volleyball, Tony Ker and Kaitlin Nielsen were best friends – they spent time together almost every day as student-athletes at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Tony Ker and Kaitlin Nielsen were best friends when they both played Division I volleyball at UCLA. The two have reconnected as core members of coach Michael Sealy’s supporting cast for UCLA women’s volleyball. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
If zero tolerance truly means zero tolerance, then Harvard got it right. The men’s soccer team has an abhorrent tradition of ranking student-athletes on the women’s team by appearance and assigning them ideal sexual positions in “scouting reports” uncovered by the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Read more...
Photo: Harvard canceled the rest of its men’s soccer season after vulgar documents from 2012 surfaced. (Creative Commons photo by Joseph Williams via Flickr)
Quarterbacks: C+ By at least trying to bring back the run game Thursday, the Bruins took some pressure off of Mike Fafaul, only asking him to drop back 34 times. Read more...
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Two weeks are all a freshman volleyball player gets before she’s thrown into fast-paced Division I play. That’s 14 days to adjust to college life, get to know teammates and learn the team’s system. Read more...
Photo: Four of the players on UCLA women’s volleyball played for the same high school, making their volleyball journey together much longer than just their years as Bruins. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
