UCLA’s pass defense faced arguably the toughest four-game stretch of any team in the nation over the past month. In the last four games, UCLA has faced the nation’s No. Read more...
Photo: The resurgence of UCLA’s secondary seemed to correspond with redshirt senior safety Anthony Jefferson’s move to cornerback against Arizona State in the fourth game of the season. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Fifth week at UCLA usually spells a plethora of overdue studying for midterms and scrambles to finish essays before deadlines. It marks the halfway point of another quarter, as well as a marker for a reassuring success or, unfortunately, a disheartening reality check. Read more...
Photo: Senior setter Julie Consani (left) and senior middle blocker Zoe Nightingale (right) will look to keep Colorado from running up its blocks total this Thursday (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff).
The UCLA women’s tennis team doesn’t compete in its first official team match until January, but that’s not stopping some players from representing the blue and gold in tournament play this fall. Read more...
Photo: Senior Chanelle Van Nguyen, the No. 2 seed of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship, said she will be able to benefit from the quicker pace of the indoor game. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This week, sophomore Mackenzie McDonald and freshman Martin Redlicki will be traveling to Flushing Meadows, N.Y. to participate in the 2014 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore MacKenzie McDonald qualified to play both singles and doubles at this weekend’s tournament in New York, where he says he’ll be going in aggressive, looking to win (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff).
Editor’s note: UCLA men’s volleyball player Steve O’Dell is writing a biweekly guest column pertaining to his experiences as a Division I student-athlete. Every other Thursday, the Daily Bruin will run a perspective piece from O’Dell focusing on a facet of his experience at UCLA. Read more...
UCLA men’s water polo team might have a number of players who were teammates in high school, but no combination has as much combined collegiate and high school experience as fifth-year seniors Stephen White and Chris Fahlsing. Read more...
Photo: Having played on the same water polo teams since 2006, Chris Fahlsing (left) and Stephen White (right) look to finish off their Bruin careers with a national championship. White said that the two are really unsatisfied that they haven’t won at the NCAA level yet (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff).
Though Brett Hundley passed over the NFL and returned to school for another year, the thought of playing on Sundays affected his Saturdays. It showed in his game, as the redshirt junior quarterback tried to be the player that pro scouts wanted him to be, rather than the one that No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s offense has gotten a second wind this season after redshirt junior quarterback Brett Hundley started looking less like a pro-style quarterback and more like a dual threat. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
