It took just seven months since starting his first collegiate volleyball match for J.T. Hatch to put together an impressive list of accomplishments in both NCAA and national play. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore outside hitter J.T. Hatch was named captain of this year’s U.S. Men’s Junior National Team after the NCAA season. The team got silver at the U21 Pan American Cup in June. (Daily Bruin file photo)

The 2015 season will likely go down in the storied history of UCLA men’s volleyball as a rebuilding year in every sense of the term. With four starting freshmen and only one starting upperclassman, the Bruins’ youth became their defining – and often limiting – characteristic. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore middle blocker Mitch Stahl finished fourth on UCLA with 135 kills this season. Stahl was one of five underclassmen to play a consistent starting role for a young Bruin team this year. UCLA showed its youth at times, finishing the season 13-14 and ranked No. 12 in the nation. Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)

For a UCLA team playing some of its best volleyball of the 2015 season, Saturday night was something of a letdown. No. 8-seed UCLA (13-14, 9-13 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), already guaranteed to have a challenge on its hands in No. Read more...

Photo: Freshman setter Eric Matheis was responsible for 29 of the 30 assists for UCLA in the team’s season-ending loss to UC Irvine. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin)

Brad Keller stood above the fray at volleyball practice Wednesday morning in Pauley Pavilion. Standing 10 feet tall on a ball cannon, the assistant coach aimed and fired volleyballs at freshmen Jake Arnitz and J.T. Read more...

Photo: Freshman outside hitter Jake Arnitz rises for a serve in UCLA’s game against UC Irvine on April 10, which the Bruins lost 3-1. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)