Opponent’s Spotlight Curt Toppel By Amanda Fletcher Daily Bruin Senior Staff Al Scates knows Stanford outside hitter Curt Toppel so well that he can tell you what happened the night of Toppel’s senior prom. Read more...

  DAVE HILL/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Sophomore Travis Rettenmaier hits a backhand during the unofficial match against players from the College of the Desert. By Scott Schultz Daily Bruin Staff Although this was a competition between two No. Read more...

  COURTNEY STEWART Distance runners Gina Donnelly, Melissa McBain, Julia Barbour and Elaine Canchola are the first Bruins to compete in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase. Read more...

By Christina Teller Daily Bruin Senior Staff How does a team follow up back-to-back Indoor National titles? The most common answer from the women’s track and field staff is to win the outdoor title ““ something that UCLA hasn’t done since 1983, when Head Coach Jeanette Bolden was a Bruin athlete herself, along with the late Florence Griffith-Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Read more...

  NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Junior Malika Leatham trys to get past the defense of Oregon State in a game in late February this season. By Scott Schultz Daily Bruin Staff A transition season is not judged on the final record. Read more...

  MARY CIECEK/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Preston Griffin runs the bases in a game against Pepperdine. UCLA 3 SDSU 2 By Jeff Agase Daily Bruin Reporter Just when the UCLA baseball team thought it could avoid yet another stomach-churning one-run game with San Diego State, the Aztecs made it interesting. Read more...

Pac-10 schedule causes casualties After starting the season 35-0, mostly against weaker non-Pac-10 teams, the Bruins finally entered the tougher conference schedule and have lost three games to highly ranked Pac-10 teams. Read more...