Monday, May 25


Women’s soccer to face North Carolina in Elite Eight

The end of the road to the Bruins’ 110th NCAA Championship is getting closer for the UCLA women’s soccer team. After shutout victories over the weekend against Kentucky and Stanford on Friday and Sunday respectively, the Bruins move on to the Elite Eight where they will face No. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore forward Taylor Smith said that although UCLA is excited to face North Carolina again, the team is hoping to exhibit much tougher gameplay against the Tar Heels.


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.



Juniors aim for women’s soccer’s first NCAA title, UCLA’s 110th championship

Two years ago, 11 women made history together. UCLA’s women’s soccer’s 2011 recruiting class is widely considered the most talented and deepest in school history, as well as one of the best in the nation in its year. Read more...

Photo: This season, the UCLA women’s soccer team is looking to bring home the program’s first NCAA title. The Bruins are led by their junior class, which was widely considered the No. 1-ranked recruiting class in 2011. Clockwise from top left: Katelyn Rowland, Kylie McCarthy, Caprice Dydasco, Abby Dahlkemper, Rosie White, Courtney Proctor, Ally Courtnall, Sam Mewis, Megan Oyster and Sarah Killion.


Momentum shift in LA football rivalry began with 38-28 win over USC

Following a UCLA football practice in April, a young boy walked up to Anthony Barr, hoping the linebacker would autograph a picture. Receiving the enlarged photograph and a Sharpie, the senior outside linebacker proceeded to sign a still image of himself clobbering then-USC quarterback Matt Barkley for a sack in the fourth quarter of last year’s rivalry game. Read more...

Photo: Senior outside linebacker Anthony Barr’s hit on then-USC quarterback Matt Barkley last season represented UCLA’s improvement from its recent struggles against USC.