Tony Spino stands atop the two-flight staircase overlooking the lobby of the John Wooden Center. A few hundred feet and several racquetball courts behind him lies his new temporary office in the UCLA Competitive Sports Clubhouse. Read more...
Photo: Tony Spino spent time in John Wooden’s den taking care of the former UCLA men’s basketball coach. A re-creation of that den has now been immortalized in the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
Knees bent, elbows in, eyes on the basket, follow through and swish. Kari Korver has made a name for herself off her deadliness from behind the three-point line. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore guard Kari Korver tore her ACL and will not be able to play this season, but her leadership off the bench has helped the Bruins.
Look at Karsta Lowe today, and it would be hard to believe that she was born to be anything but a volleyball player. Watch the 6-foot-4-inch junior leap into the air and coolly slam a searing kill through the heart of an opposing defense, and it seems ludicrous that four years ago, she wasn’t even sure if she was going to play college volleyball. Read more...
Photo: After walking on her freshman year, junior outside hitter Karsta Lowe has emerged as one of the Bruins’ top performers.
In trying to figure out what Brett Hundley values most, his wrists are a good place to start. During many of the redshirt sophomore quarterback’s stand-up interviews with reporters, three wristbands fit snug just above a right hand that has flung the football more than 6,000 yards in two seasons at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore quarterback Brett Hundley supported his sister Paris Hundley at the Walk to End Epilepsy event on Nov. 17. Although Paris Hundley suffers from epilepsy, she and her family manage to attend all of UCLA football’s games to support her brother.
Short white socks with blue and gold stripes. Royal blue shorts cut just above the knee. A blue and gold V-neck sweater reveals the collar of a gold undershirt. Read more...
Photo: Alumni cheerleader Geoffrey Strand was known for asking “every man, woman and child” to cheer for UCLA.
Visit coach Jorge Salcedo when he’s home and chances are he’ll be watching a soccer game. Almost everything in his life is about soccer and the UCLA men’s soccer team that he has coached for the past 10 years. Read more...
Photo: From a ball boy to a player to an assistant coach and now to coach, Jorge Salcedo has been involved in the UCLA men’s soccer program nearly his whole life. The team has become his extended family, and at every level he’s been with the Bruins, aside from currently as a coach, he’s won an NCAA championship. Now, with his team seeded No. 1 overall in the NCAA tournament, Salcedo looks to win one more championship.
Heading into her sophomore year, UCLA women’s soccer player Courtney Proctor was primed for a breakout season. After struggling in her freshman year, the forward worked tirelessly in the offseason to prepare for the next season; She said she wanted to have a bigger impact on the team and produce for the coaching staff that had invested in her. Read more...
Photo: Proctor said that the time spent on the sideline and away from the field because of her injury taught her to love the game more and appreciate the time she has on the field. Proctor also said that she did not become depressed about her injury and instead focused on how to improve.
