Some of the upperclassmen on the UCLA track and field team have seen five Pac-12 championships in their tenures as Bruins. When redshirt senior Kylie Price and senior sprinter and hurdler Andre’ Chapman, who didn’t compete in the 2014 season, first competed for the team in 2012, the women finished eighth out of 12 teams while the men finished fourth. Read more...

Photo: Senior Andre’ Chapman missed the cutoff for regionals by less than a tenth of a second, but over his career, the sprints and hurdles team has done better and better at the conference championships. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)

The men’s distance medley relay team was on the brink of qualifying for the NCAA indoor championship at the tail end of the indoor track season two and a half months ago. Read more...

Photo: Sprinter Jonny Moniz is currently 0.05 seconds away from the 48th fastest time in the western region. Against USC, a physical impediment did not allow the junior to finish his 400 meter dash the way he wanted to, but Moniz is rounding into form for the Pac-12 championships. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)

The Pac-12 multi-event championship this past weekend featured new faces for the UCLA track and field team. Sophomore Zack Bornstein competed in his first complete decathlon in almost three years. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Zack Bornstein vaulted his way to his best decathlon score at the Pac-12 multi championship this past weekend. Bornstein finished fifth out of 10 competitors. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)

After a lengthy indoor and outdoor season, the moment the track and field team has been waiting for is on the doorstep. The outdoor championship season, which begins with the Pac-12 championship, is one week away for runners and field event athletes, but three multi-event competitors will travel to Seattle one week ahead of schedule. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt sophomore Kendall Gustafson is 26th in the nation in the heptathlon, but will try to add more points to her score at the Pac-12 championship this weekend. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

Last year against USC, the UCLA men’s track and field team was clinging to a four-point lead going into the meet’s last event – the 4×400-meter relay. Read more...

Photo: Senior distance runner Nick Hartle out-kicked USC’s Robert Ford in the last 100 meters of the 800 in a dominating distance showing against the Trojans. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)