Twenty-two years later, Dave Roberts still thinks about his blue and gold roots. “The daily walk up and down Bruin Walk made me realize how fortunate I was to go to UCLA,” Roberts said. Read more...
Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Daily Bruin)
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Features, Sports, Women's Tennis
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April 19, 2:56 am
Jada Hart surpasses injuries to bring strength to women’s tennis team
Car crash, stress fracture, redshirt year – nothing could stop Jada Hart from playing tennis. In the beginning of her freshman year of high school, Hart suffered a back injury from a sudden car accident. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt freshman Jada Hart’s kind and funny nature earned her a “middleman” persona on UCLA women’s tennis. Her doubles teammate, junior Terri Fleming, said Hart can be chill or crazy whenever she wants. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Features, Gymnastics, Sports
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March 16, 12:10 am
UCLA gymnast excels on floor after overcoming injury, rare disease
Next time redshirt freshman Macy Toronjo steps onto the blue mat for her floor routine, look past her posing and her affectations. That’s all part of the performance, part of the character she pretends to be. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt freshman Macy Toronjo recovered from a torn rotator cuff she sustained as a high school senior, only to be diagnosed with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease at the start of this school year. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Features, Men's Volleyball, Sports
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March 6, 11:32 pm
Men’s volleyball player Mitch Stahl digs into Pennsylvania roots
Out of place. That’s how some members of the bright blue-and-gold-clad UCLA men’s volleyball team felt, standing in the tall grass of a field in Pennsylvania. Read more...
Photo: Unlike many of his West Coast-native teammates, senior middle blocker Mitch Stahl hails from the rural town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
Features, Sports, Women's Water Polo
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March 1, 12:10 am
Kelsey O’Brien reflects on water polo journey from hometown to UCLA
When Kelsey O’Brien, a senior attacker on the UCLA women’s water polo team, first walked onto UCLA’s campus, she was 11 years old. She had a cousin who went to UCLA at the time so Kelsey and her father, Joe O’Brien, stopped by to visit after a water polo tournament. Read more...
Photo: Senior attacker Kelsey O’Brien won five Junior Olympic titles with the Santa Barbara Water Polo Club before she came to UCLA. She has deep connections with UC Santa Barbara’s water polo team, but committed to Westwood instead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Features, Sports, Track and Field
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February 22, 12:37 am
Rai Benjamin beats foot fracture, leads UCLA men’s sprints in 2017
Halfway through his first collegiate track and field season, one of the top sprinters in the country found himself hobbling around campus with a boot on his right foot. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore sprinter Rai Benjamin was one of the top sprint recruits in the nation two years ago, but an injury-plagued first year at UCLA placed him on the sideline for most of the season. He was cleared to run with less than a week to go until the qualifying cutoff for the NCAA championship, and rather than redshirting the season, he became a first-team All-American. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Features, Men's Volleyball, Sports
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February 15, 9:29 pm
UCLA men’s volleyball player serves up volleyballs and fresh beats
Two numbers make Daenan Gyimah, a freshman on the UCLA men’s volleyball team, stand out: He hits the ball when it’s over 12 feet in the air and his music has been streamed over 15,000 times on SoundCloud. Read more...
Photo: Freshman middle blocker Daenan Gyimah produces his beats using Logic, a music production program. Notable artists who also use Logic include Disclosure, Kygo and Twenty One Pilots. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)