With the Pac-12 championship just over three weeks away, UCLA track and field has only three regular-season meets remaining. The first leg of that three-meet path to the postseason begins this weekend in Walnut, with a prestigious and age-old meet: the Mt. Read more...

Photo: Senior pole vaulter Elena Clarke enters this weekend’s Mt. SAC Relays on the heels of a season-best 13-1.75-foot vault at the Jackie Joyner/Raefer Johnson Invitational in Drake Stadium on Saturday. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

UCLA’s men’s track and field team featured a new athlete on the anchor leg of the 4×100-meter relay Saturday. Freshman sprinter Joe Herrera took the role in stride, helping UCLA reach a season-best time of 40.97 seconds, which blew away Oklahoma’s time of 41.63. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore sprinter Darnell Roberson said UCLA men’s track and field’s 4×100-meter relay team has a lot of room to grow, even though the Bruins recorded a season-best time of 40.97 seconds Saturday. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

For the second straight week, UCLA track and field had the opportunity to compete in the comforts of a home atmosphere in front of an audience that featured former UCLA track and field standout Rafer Johnson. Read more...

Photo: Freshman Joe Herrera anchored the men’s 4×100-meter relay for the first time since high school Saturday afternoon. The freshman contributed to a season-best time of 40.97 seconds for the Bruins. (Keila Mayberry)

Nicholas Scarvelis, UCLA’s top shot put thrower, considers many intractable factors when he steps into the shot put ring, not just the weather. Particularly, the redshirt junior takes into account adrenaline and meet atmosphere. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt junior shot-putter Nicholas Scarvelis is looking to combine both home-field advantage and the adrenaline of top competition to reach new heights this year. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)

UCLA’s track and field team is the biggest Division I sports team on campus in terms of roster size. There are 117 athletes on the team. Read more...

Photo: Freshman hurdler Misana Viltz was one of assistant sprints and hurdles coach Darrell Smith’s local recruits, coming from Long Beach. (UCLA Athletics)

The Legends Invitational began Friday afternoon at Drake Stadium with the stands almost completely empty. Mostly high school athletes performed, and the atmosphere hardly lived up to the meet’s name. Read more...

Photo: Freshman Idrees Bernard achieved back-to-back lifetime bests in the long jump during Saturday’s portion of the Legends Track and Field Invitational at Drake Stadium. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)

This weekend marks the second home meet at UCLA’s Drake Stadium for the 2014-2015 track and field season. The Legends of Track and Field Invitational will feature both high school and collegiate athletes, most of whom come from California schools. Read more...

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