All year long, the Pepperdine men’s volleyball team’s status as the No. 1 team in the country was largely associated with one player, Waves’ senior outside hitter Sean Rooney. Read more...

Senior Jonathan Acosta had the best game of his career Saturday night. The only thing that would have made it even better was a win. Smashing a career-high 29 kills against Pepperdine in the NCAA men’s volleyball finals, Acosta repeatedly came up with big plays when the Bruins needed it. Read more...

In a season of ups and downs, the UCLA softball team appears to be peaking at the right time. The Bruins swept a three-game weekend road trip at the Arizona schools, the highlight beating No. Read more...

Coming into Saturday’s NCAA Championship, the top-seeded Pepperdine men’s volleyball team hadn’t dropped a fifth game all-season long. The Waves still haven’t. Pepperdine defeated third-seeded UCLA 3-2 (30-23, 23-30, 24-30, 30-25, 15-10) in a thrilling championship final before 6,853 at Pauley Pavilion Saturday to claim its fifth national title in school history, and first since 1992. Read more...

The biggest uncertainty for the UCLA men’s volleyball team going into last night’s NCAA semifinal against Penn State was which setter would step up for the Bruins. Read more...

For three straight years the national water polo player of the year award has been in his possession, and Tony Azevedo, a recent graduate of Stanford, is not ready to give it up. Read more...

As UCLA women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth watched her top-seeded Bruins compete during the first round of the NCAA West Regional on Thursday, she saw something the rest of her team couldn’t. Read more...