After a year of competing in the United States, rising sophomore gymnast Danusia Francis represented her home country, the United Kingdom, last week at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia. Read more...
Photo: Rising sophomore Danusia Francis competed in the World University Games for Britain last week. Her execution score, which tied for first, helped the British national team finish sixth overall.
Rising sophomores Paige McDuffee and Mysha Sataraka of UCLA’s softball team thought their seasons had ended in a loss to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the NCAA Regionals on May 19. Read more...
Photo: Rising sophomore pitcher Paige McDuffee was named to the USA Softball Junior Women’s Team, which earned silver after losing to Japan.
After locking up the championship trophy in the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame display case, the players on the UCLA baseball team weren't ready to lock their cleats in storage. Read more...
Photo: Rising sophomore pitcher James Kaprielian sees playing for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox during the summer as better use of his time than staying in Westwood to practice.
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...
After winning the program's first national championship and bringing home multiple awards recognizing him as the nation's top coach, UCLA baseball coach John Savage and UCLA agreed to terms on a contract extension that will keep him in Westwood until 2025. Read more...
Photo: John Savage was named National Coach of the Year by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper after guiding UCLA to a title.
On pain of pocketbook, it appears UCLA and Steve Alford will likely be together until at least 2016. According to a Los Angles Times report Monday night that specifically cited the buyout terms of the UCLA basketball coach's seven-year, $18.2 million deal, the two parties are locked in identical buyout clauses that would require a payout of $10.4 million from the early-acting side should the contract be terminated prior to April 30, 2016, or three years into Alford's tenure. Read more...
Entering the dog days of summer, five UCLA swimmers recently took to the pool to compete at the Phillips 66 National Championships. Read more...
Photo: Rising senior Anna Senko was one of five UCLA swimmers who competed at the Phillips 66 National Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. Senko competed in five different events.
