UCLA track and field’s dual meet with USC goes back decades. Each year, trends and patterns are broken or made, and this season’s meet was no exception. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore Julia Rizk and freshman Cassandra Durgy were two of UCLA track and field’s distance athletes that reclaimed event titles for the distance team after last year’s squad dropped them in the UCLA versus USC dual meet. Rizk won the 800-meter while Durgy finished first in the 1,500. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
As far as dual meets go, the USC versus UCLA one produced results like no other in 2017. This year’s edition, which took place Sunday at USC’s Loker Stadium, had 22 men’s performances and 23 women’s performances make the top 95 in the nation – not counting those athletes already in the top 95 beforehand – and the split was almost dead-even. Read more...
Photo: Junior sprinter Leon Powell became the first Bruin in 14 years to take home the 100-meter dash title at the annual USC versus UCLA track and field dual meet. It took a lifetime best of 10.26 seconds. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
Los Angeles’ oldest rivalry is set for its annual track and field renewal, and this time UCLA will be heading downtown. The Bruins and the Trojans will clash again Sunday at Loker Stadium in UCLA’s second and final dual meet of the year. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore sprinter/hurdler Rai Benjamin is one of the many UCLA underclassmen atop the national Track & Field Results Reporting System rankings that will compete in their first USC dual meet this Sunday.
For all of its improvement in the rankings this outdoor season, the men’s track and field team had been missing its usual high-ranking performances from its top athletes. Read more...
Photo: Senior long jumper Austin Hazel, one of UCLA’s three male Indoor Nationals qualifiers from earlier this year, is still waiting on a comparable outdoor leap, though is ready to put everything together against USC in UCLA’s last dual meet of the outdoor season. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
With the USC track and field meet just a week away, UCLA pole vaulters and throwers decided to get one last competition under their belts before their final dual meet. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore thrower Dotun Ogundeji notched the seventh-farthest throw on the UCLA all-time shot put list at the Triton Invitational in San Diego. Ogundeji threw 66 feet, 3 inches, coming in second to Nike-sponsored professional Darrell Hill. (Michael Hull/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Leon Powell wears many different hats. It just so happens that he sells them, too. The junior sprinter has been juggling the responsibilities of a full-time student and business owner for more than a year now, all while heading up the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4×100-meter relay for the No. Read more...
Photo: Junior sprinter Leon Powell Jr. started Cozy Caps LA with inspiration from his father. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
With more than half of its outdoor season complete, the UCLA track and field team put a stamp on its final home meet of the year Saturday. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore hurdler Pattriana Perry ran a collegiate-best time over the weekend in the 100-meter hurdles, cracking 14 seconds as the Bruins closed out their stretch of home meets with the Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
