After a lengthy indoor and outdoor season, the moment the track and field team has been waiting for is on the doorstep. The outdoor championship season, which begins with the Pac-12 championship, is one week away for runners and field event athletes, but three multi-event competitors will travel to Seattle one week ahead of schedule. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt sophomore Kendall Gustafson is 26th in the nation in the heptathlon, but will try to add more points to her score at the Pac-12 championship this weekend. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

Last year against USC, the UCLA men’s track and field team was clinging to a four-point lead going into the meet’s last event – the 4×400-meter relay. Read more...

Photo: Senior distance runner Nick Hartle out-kicked USC’s Robert Ford in the last 100 meters of the 800 in a dominating distance showing against the Trojans. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

There’s something about dual meets that brings out the best in UCLA’s track and field teams. The men are ranked 16th in the nation overall, but are seventh in dual meet matchups. Read more...

Photo: Senior sprinter and hurdler Andre Chapman said there’s something “ridiculously special” about UCLA track and field’s rivalry with USC, against whom he will be competing in his second outdoor meet this season. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

When it comes to the sport of track and field, UCLA was once an unquestioned NCAA powerhouse. One could look back to the 1940s, when Jackie Robinson was an NCAA champion in the long jump or to the 1980s, when Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Joyner dominated the global track scene. Read more...

Photo: Assistant coach Joanna Hayes, class of 2001, is recruiting a lot of sprint talent that’s bringing UCLA sprints into the spotlight again. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

Saturday was a field day for the UCLA men’s shot put team down in San Diego. If there were a podium for the top three men’s shot put finishers to stand on, redshirt senior Nicholas Scarvelis and sophomore Braheme Days would be standing next to world champion Joe Kovacs. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore thrower Braheme Days’ throw of 66–3.75 over the weekend gave him the sixth longest throw in UCLA history. The mark catapulted him over four past greats, including current throws coach John Frazier. (Daily Bruin file photo)

Coach John Frazier’s shot put teams have been on a tear this year. His most senior throwers – redshirt senior Nicholas Scarvelis and redshirt junior Torie Owers – posted huge personal bests against Texas A&M last weekend to claim the first and third farthest throws in the nation this season for their respective genders. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt freshman Ashlie Blake will compete at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, in preparation for the Triton Invitational this weekend at UC San Diego. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)

It had been more than a month since the reigning Pac-12 champion had thrown shot put, and the spectators at Saturday’s meet in Drake Stadium were waiting for his return. Read more...

Photo: Senior thrower Nicholas Scarvelis threw 67 feet in the shot put competition this weekend against Texas A&M. Both the UCLA men and women would lose the overall meet. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)