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Features, Sports, Women's Basketball

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February 11, 12:54 am

Women’s basketball’s Cori Close carries forward Coach Wooden’s legacy at UCLA

Twenty-one years ago, in the spring of 1994, coach Cori Close, then the restricted-earnings coach for the UCLA women’s basketball team, was not prepared. She was dressed in sweats one Tuesday evening when Steve Lavin, her counterpart on the men’s basketball team, told her that she was coming with him to coach John Wooden’s apartment – he said she didn’t have a choice. Read more...

Photo: UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close first met John Wooden while working as a restricted-earnings coach for the Bruins. As she moved forward to be assistant coach for UCSB and finally head coach for UCLA, her relationship with Wooden influenced her approach to her job. (Erin Ng/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Features, Men's Basketball, Sports

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February 11, 12:00 am

Freshman forward Gyorgy Goloman makes smooth transition from Hungary to UCLA

The town of Körmend, Hungary is about 145 miles away from Budapest, the nation’s capital. It’s about 5,235 miles away from Weston, Fla. And, as far as Gyorgy Goloman was concerned, it was about a world away from UCLA. Read more...

Photo: Coming from the town of Körmend, Hungary, freshman forward Gyorgy Goloman had to make the decision between playing professional basketball in Europe or going to the United States for college. After months of deliberation, Goloman decided to go to school in the United States, so he made the trip alone to Florida to join the private prep Sagemont School. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Features, Sports, Swim & Dive

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February 10, 1:38 am

Diving deepens sibling bond

Friends, teammates, competitors, sisters. UCLA swim and dive team members Montana and Ciara Monahan are all of those things to each other. They’ve never known life to be any other way. Read more...

Photo: Junior diver Montana Monahan (left) and freshman diver Ciara Monahan (right) are sisters on the UCLA dive team. The Monahan sisters picked up the sport of diving together after moving from the East Coast to home in Burbank that came with a swimming pool and a diving board. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Features, Sports, Swim & Dive

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February 6, 12:38 am

Team, family support senior swimmer Courtney Wilde through recovery

Two days before UCLA swim and dive was set to leave for last season’s Pac-12 tournament, Courtney Wilde was feeling ill. “I knew something was wrong when I woke up but I couldn’t really put my finger on what it was,” said the senior captain. Read more...

Photo: After blood clots in her lungs forced Courtney Wilde to miss the Pac-12 tournament last season, she leaned on the support from her team and family in the recovery. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)

Features, Gymnastics, Sports

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February 4, 2:30 am

UCLA gymnast Christine Peng-Peng Lee vaults back after hiatus

The redshirt sophomore gymnast mounted onto the high bar, grabbed hold and let her body swing. She kicked herself up vertically and released her hands to reach out and grab the lower bar. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt sophomore gymnast Christine Peng-Peng Lee is starting her gymnastics career on a clean slate after overcoming years of adversity. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Features, Sports, Swim & Dive

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January 15, 12:54 am

Transfer Ally Loper dares to be a Bruin, rises to swim team captain

Ally Loper was experiencing a problem that a considerable number of college students go through. The university that she was attending turned out to be not at all what she initially thought it would be. Read more...

Photo: Senior swimmer Ally Loper has emerged as a team captain and leader for UCLA swim and dive after transferring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Erin Ng/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Features, Sports, Women's Soccer

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November 21, 7:37 am

Former Bruin athlete bridges crosstown rivalry

Alana Munger almost never applied to USC’s medical school. After graduating cum laude with an undergraduate degree in physiological sciences at UCLA and spending five seasons on the women’s soccer team as a goalkeeper, the crosstown rivalry almost got to the Bruin alumna. Read more...

Photo: After graduating cum laude with a degree in physiological sciences last year, former UCLA women’s soccer goalkeeper Alana Munger has since enrolled in the Keck School of Medicine of USC to pursue her medical doctorate. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


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