Wednesday, June 24

Dream big: Olympian Maddie Musselman three games from UCLA water polo history

Adam Krikorian still remembers the day he met freshman attacker Maddie Musselman. The Women’s Senior National Team coach was at Boston Logan International Airport, on his way home from the 2013 NCAA Tournament at Harvard. Read more...

Photo: The skills freshman attacker Maddie Musselman has developed en route to becoming one of the most dominant players in the NCAA in her very first year took her through the trials and tribulations of playing with some of the world’s greatest water polo players before she was a junior in high school. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Women’s golf falls short in NCAA regional after winning Pac-12 title

UCLA women’s golf’s run has come to an end. A week after claiming the Pac-12 title, the No. 1 Bruins’ season is over. After making it out of the NCAA regional for 16 consecutive years, the team finished eighth in the Lubbock, Texas, regional, just missing the sixth-place cutoff for the NCAA Tournament. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Lilia Vu and UCLA women’s golf couldn’t carry momentum from their Pac-12 win into the NCAA regional. The Bruins placed eighth in the Lubbock, Texas, regional, narrowly missing the sixth-place cutoff. (UCLA Athletics)


Rowing to prepare for Pac-12s with NCAA berth on the line

No. 1 Washington and No. 2 California have been the stars of Pac-12 rowing. Those two schools will be leading the line over the weekend at the conference championship, where No. Read more...

Photo: Right on the edge of a berth in the NCAA Tournament, No. 20 UCLA will first compete at the Pac-12 championship alongside No. 1 Washington and No. 2 California. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Top-ranked women’s water polo to battle Wagner in NCAA first round

It has been eight years since UCLA, the team with the most NCAA women’s water polo championship titles, last won the crown. But once again, the Bruins have only three games and seven teams separating them from their eighth national championship title. Read more...

Photo: Coach Brandon Brooks and his UCLA team will open the NCAA Tournament against Wagner Friday afternoon. UCLA is the No. 1 overall seed and will face the winner of No. 4 California and No. 5 Irvine on Saturday if the team advances. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)


Softball’s NCAA seed hinges on final regular-season series versus ASU

UCLA softball has reached the last stop of its regular season campaign: No. 22 Arizona State. Traveling to Tempe, Arizona, for their final series, the No.10 Bruins (39-13, 13-8 Pac-12) currently are ranked fifth in the Pac-12 – out of contention for the Pac-12 title that the Sun Devils claimed last weekend. Read more...

Photo: Junior pitcher Selina Ta’amilo and the Bruins will finish regular season play against the Arizona State Sun Devils over the weekend. UCLA will then find out its postseason fate when the NCAA bracket is revealed Sunday night. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)


UCLA track and field team shows leaps in improvement over seasons

Since the 2016 outdoor season, the UCLA track and field team has seen improvement in its national rankings in over a dozen events. A quick glance at the year-over-year numbers reveals this track and field team is one of the fastest UCLA has assembled in several years. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Arturo Sotomayor and the UCLA men’s distance squad is one of many divisions on the track and field team that have improved their standing in a number of events from past years, from hundreds away from the top to within spitting distance. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)


Scouting report: 2017 NCAA women’s water polo championship

The stage for the 2017 NCAA women’s water polo championship is set. Half of the field will be familiar faces for UCLA women’s water polo, as three other teams from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation were selected. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior attacker Rachel Fattal and the No. 1-seeded UCLA women’s water polo team will play No. 17 Wagner in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, but there are six other teams the Bruins could potentially face as they navigate the field for a national championship. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)