Tuesday, May 26



Wearing Two Caps: UCLA water polo goalkeeper trains with US senior national team

When faced with the chance to take a year off from school to train alongside the United States women’s senior national water polo team, a pipeline to the Olympics, goalkeeper Sami Hill jumped at the opportunity. Read more...

Photo: UCLA goalkeeper Sami Hill redshirted her second season as a Bruin in order to train with the U.S. women’s water polo senior national team. The experience was a different one for the young athlete, who found herself somewhat intimidated by the nation’s top players. However, Hill is eager to apply what she learned to her current UCLA team.


UCLA shakes off loss, prepares for NCAA Individuals

Imagine losing an Olympic event by a hundredth of a second – and then competing in the world championships the next day. Read more...

Photo: Marcos Giron is one of the UCLA players that will have to make a turnaround today as he competes in the NCAA Individual Championships the day after the team lost the overall title.



Falling Short: NCAA title slips through fingers as Virginia bests UCLA 4-3

It was all on the final singles match. The score was 5-3, 40-30 in the third set, match point for junior Adrien Puget. Read more...

Photo: Adrien Puget came close to winning the final match for UCLA in the NCAA championships but fell short, losing in the third set and confirming the Bruins’ 4-3 loss to University of Virginia. It was a controversial match, as there were questions about a call that Puget touched the net after scoring the potential game-winning point. He ended up losing shortly afte