Palm trees, a tropical climate and pristine sky blue water – those were prominent elements in UCLA women’s soccer’s first road trip of the season to Honolulu, Hawaii. Read more...

Photo: Although the Bruins played the weekend’s games against Hawai’i and Pepperdine in Honolulu, senior defender Caprice Dydasco’s family made the team feel at home by hosting a barbecue on Thursday and showing up to Friday and Sunday’s games in UCLA colors. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

It took the UCLA women’s soccer team all but 26 minutes into its new season to answer the question: how does a team improve fresh off a championship run? Read more...

Photo: Senior defender Megan Oyster celebrates after scoring the Bruins’ first goal of the season with a header off a corner kick. Scoring off set pieces has been a focal point of improvement for the Bruins since they identified that weakness last season. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Jan. 25, 2014 – that was the day the challenge was issued. “One in nine” was the phrase former Bruin goalkeeper Alana Munger used in her farewell speech at the UCLA women’s soccer team banquet to describe the team now that it was in the company of eight other programs that have won a national championship since women’s soccer became a Division I sport in 1982. Read more...

Photo: UCLA women’s soccer is looking to make history this season by becoming the second program to win back-to-back championships in all 32 years of NCAA division I women’s soccer history. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)