With its five-month season approaching, UCLA’s track and field team has been staying focused in an attempt to reach higher goals than last year. However, the focus isn’t on the past – it’s on the future. Read more...
Photo: Senior heptathlete Tatum Souza will be one of UCLA track and field’s top returning athletes this season.
Opportunities for collegiate athletes to compete at the highest level with professionals of their respective sports can be few and far between. Read more...
After staying in a village with elite athletes from around the world and walking out to an opening ceremony in front of a crowd of about 50,000, Mike Woepse could only describe the experience as Olympic-like. Read more...
Photo: Rising senior Mike Woepse hopes this international experience won’t be his last, since the pole vaulter has hopes to go professional.
After a breakthrough year in 2013 and rewriting the record books, UCLA rising redshirt senior discus thrower Julian Wruck was announced as one of three finalists for The Bowerman Trophy, becoming the first Bruin athlete, male or female, to contend for the award. Read more...
Photo: Rising redshirt senior discus thrower Julian Wruck is a finalist for The Bowerman Trophy.
As a senior in high school, Joanna Hayes turned down the chance to compete for USC's track and field team in favor of UCLA. The man who recruited her to join USC, John Henry Johnson Jr., was a UCLA alumnus himself. Read more...
The rise in temperature that comes with the summer heat wasn’t the only thing making eight members of the UCLA track and field team sweat. For these Bruins, the early days of summer break were spent at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, competing at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships for a chance to represent Team USA. Read more...
Returning to his alma mater, John Frazier will try to guide UCLA’s track and field program to a national championship, something he just missed out on as a Bruin athlete. Read more...
