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Features, Sports, Women's Soccer

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November 19, 1:30 am

Women’s soccer’s Courtney Proctor up to speed after ACL injury

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.

Features, Men's Soccer, Sports

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November 14, 12:58 am

UCLA soccer senior Reed Williams looks forward to shaking off slump

Seventeen games played. Six hundred and eighty minutes on the field. One goal scored. Senior forward Reed Williams is in a slump. Scoring goals is what forwards live for, and it’s something that used to come naturally for Williams. Read more...

Photo: After tying for the team lead in goals last season, senior forward Reed Williams has had a limited role for the Bruins this year, having scored just one goal so far.

Features, Sports, Women's Soccer

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November 13, 1:12 am

Soccer player juggles commitments to UCLA, New Zealand’s national team

For Rosie White, picking which jersey to wear is not just a question of color. It’s a question of time and place. In one instance in mid-September, after spending 12 days away in Switzerland, the junior forward finally got to set foot on the UCLA campus once again. Read more...

Photo: New Zealand native Rosie White of the UCLA women’s soccer team also plays for her country’s national squad.

Features, Men's Basketball, Sports

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November 8, 1:55 am

Steve Alford balances tradition, own approach as coach

Steve Alford sat in a small booth at a local diner in Tarzana, Calif. A plate of eggs and bacon was on the table before him, a birthday cake sat opposite him and the face of John Wooden smiled down at him from the wall. Read more...

Photo: New UCLA coach Steve Alford, like the many coaches before him, has had to deal with continual comparisons to John Wooden in his first few months on campus. Alford’s Indiana roots are a similarity he and Wooden share.

Features, Sports, Women's Basketball

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November 8, 1:54 am

Atonye Nyingifa positively leads UCLA women’s basketball team

Atonye Nyingifa is always smiling. While running wind sprints in practice, the smile races by, sideline to sideline, in a blur. In games, the smile could be misconstrued as softness until she plows her way through two defenders for the offensive rebound and two points. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior forward Atonye Nyingifa overcame a pair of torn ACLs to return as one of UCLA women’s basketball’s top players.

Features, Men's Basketball, Sports

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November 8, 1:50 am

Zach LaVine looks forward to dunking UCLA experience

Zach LaVine waited anxiously on the UCLA bench in the opening minutes of an exhibition game against Cal State San Bernardino. “I tried not to seem like I had jitters or anything, but it’s human nature,” LaVine said. Read more...

Photo: After committing to UCLA early, freshman guard Zach LaVine flew under the radar in high school. But he expects to prove his talent quickly in college.

Club & IM Sports, Features, Sports

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November 7, 12:51 am

UCLA student seeks to capture true spirit of Quidditch in film

For UCLA graduate film student Farzad Nikbakht Sangari and the UCLA Quidditch team, nothing goes according to script. It seems fitting, then, that Sangari’s upcoming UCLA Quidditch documentary, “Mudbloods,” was neither planned nor imagined beforehand, but just fell into place and evolved naturally. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Quidditch founder Tom Marks has worked with Farzad Nikbakht Sangari to develop the upcoming documentary “Mudbloods.”


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