There’s going to be a different NCAA women’s soccer champion this year. For the first time in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, UCLA’s women’s soccer team had to claim a victory outside of Drake Stadium, and in the process, knocked out the defending champion, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore forward Taylor Smith scored the golden goal in double overtime to send UCLA to the College Cup.Photo credit: Erin Ng.
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.
Abby Dahlkemper and Caprice Dydasco have been playing soccer together since they were children. In 2011, they both committed to UCLA to play for the women’s soccer team as a part of a top recruiting class. Read more...
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.
Ally Courtnall gave the UCLA women’s soccer team a pleasant surprise when she walked into the team’s locker room two days before the team left for its third game of the season in South Bend, Ind. Read more...
Photo: First year UCLA women’s soccer coach Amanda Cromwell called Ally Courtnall her first recruit.
Women’s soccer teammates Abby Dahlkemper and Caprice Dydasco have been friends since they were 13 years old. Their friendship grew from their similarities, but one big difference separated them while they were growing up – and that separation happened to be approximately 2,400 miles. Read more...
Photo: Junior defenders Abby Dahlkemper and Caprice Dydasco’s friendship factored into their recruitment.
The rivalry between the UCLA women’s soccer team and Stanford is making some playoff history. Before the match on Sunday, UCLA and Stanford had met three of the last four years in the NCAA tournament. Read more...
Photo: Erin Ng/Daily Bruin senior staff
