Just as quickly as things can fall together, they can fall apart. After wins in the Olympic quarter and semifinals, the United States women’s volleyball national team was swept 3-0 by Italy in the gold medal match Sunday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA women’s volleyball coach Alfee Reft stands near the Galen Center sideline. Reft served as an assistant coach for the United States women’s volleyball national team’s silver medal campaign at the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Shane Yu/Daily Bruin staff)
A Big Ten team has appeared in eight women’s volleyball national championships since 2013. Now, UCLA women’s volleyball calls that conference home. The Bruins took to the Big Ten Network Studios in Chicago for the 2024 Big Ten Volleyball Media Days on Tuesday – four days after officially joining the conference. Read more...
Photo: UCLA women’s volleyball rising graduate students, setter Audrey Pak (left) and middle blocker Anna Dodson (right), speak to media at the Big Ten Network Studios on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Suzi Mellano/UCLA Athletics)
UCLA is under a month away from its first Big Ten women’s volleyball season. But three Bruins of the past and one present took to the hardwood early, in Paris for Olympic women’s volleyball preliminary rounds from July 29 to Aug. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA women’s volleyball outside/opposite hitter Iman Ndiaye reaches for a ball at Pauley Pavillion. (Brandon Morquecho/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated July 28 at 9:52 p.m. Almost 20 years since leaving Westwood, a former Bruin has traded batting for spiking. Sue Enquist – a softball legend and UCLA Hall of Famer – brings her 30 years of experience in collegiate athletics to the United States women’s national team as a culture consultant for the women’s national volleyball team ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist (left) converses with an umpire. Enquist was named the U.S. Volleyball Women’s National Team culture consultant ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Courtesy of UCLA Athletics)
This post was updated July 23 at 2:51 p.m. Correction: The original version of this article misspelled Milwaukee in a sentence. The original version of this article also misspelled Karch Kiraly’s last name. Read more...
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This post was updated July 7 at 9:05 p.m. UCLA is just weeks away from joining the Big Ten. After 96 years and 123 national championships in the Pac-12, the Bruins are at the forefront of the Big Ten’s West Coast expansion. Read more...
Photo: Berger Reilly readies the ball. Reilly earned Second Team All-American and Big Ten Setter of the Year honors as a freshman in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Nebraska Athletics. Design by Lindsey Murto/Design director)
As a Bruin, many of us had the privilege of embarking on the college search journey. Whether student or student-athlete, we toured colleges, asked questions, sought insights into student life across universities and tirelessly compared schools, imagining what life at each one might look like. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student middle blocker Desiree Becker goes up to hit a ball over the net. (Shane Yu/Daily Bruin staff)
