Bruin digest
By Daily Bruin Staff
March 7, 2005 9:00 p.m.
UCLA’s Jacqueline Nguyen, who had hoped her provisional
mark in the pole vault would qualify her for this week’s NCAA
Indoor Championships, learned Monday evening that it was not good
enough. Only two Bruin women, junior Dawn Harper (60m hurdles) and
senior Candice Baucham (triple jump), were among the list of
qualifiers for the two-day meet that begins Friday in Fayetteville,
Ark. Nguyen, who took fifth place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
last June, had the 19th-best mark in the nation at indoors this
year. The top 17 pole vaulters will compete this weekend. On the
men’s side, UCLA earned three bids, as expected. Junior Craig
Everhart (400m), senior Yoo Kim (pole vault) and a distance-medley
relay team of Jon Rankin, Everhart, Martel Munguia and Ben Aragon
will each seek individual national titles.
WOMEN’S GOLF: The defending UCLA NCAA
champion women’s golf team heads to Corral Del Tierra Country
Club in Salinas for the San Jose Invitational from March 8-9. The
Bruins took home the title in this event last season with a score
of 858 (-6) on the par of 72 in the over-5,826 yards course.
“We are excited to play in the San Jose State
tournament,” UCLA coach Carrie Forsyth said. “The golf
course is fun, and it’s a place where low scores are very
likely to happen. It is great for building confidence and making a
lot of birdies, and I’m sure that the team will make it
happen.” Last year in the San Jose Invitational, senior
Charlotte Mayorkas was the individual champion, penciling in a
54-hole score school record of 211 (-5). This season, Mayorkas
continues to impress, leading the team in scoring at 72.7 and most
recently winning the individual title in the Arizona Wildcat
Invitational.
MEN’S WATER POLO: The UCLA water polo
community was stricken last week after receiving news that former
UCLA water polo player Steve Doyle passed away at the age of 52.
Doyle was a member of the Bruins’ first three national
championship teams (1969, ’71 and ’72). An advocate of
UCLA water polo and one of the founders of Palos Verdes Water Polo
Club, Doyle’s impact on the game was evident in the eyes of
UCLA coach Adam Krikorian. “The UCLA water polo family not
only lost a friend last week but also a major staple in the
Bruins’ winning water polo tradition,” Krikorian said.
“Steve was a fantastic water polo player in his four years
here, but an even better human being. The thoughts and prayers of
the entire water polo community are with his family and friends.
Steve will be greatly missed.”
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY: Freshman Drew
Shackleton captured third place in the inaugural NACAC Cross
Country Championships at the National Training Center in Clermont,
Fla., on Saturday to help the U.S. capture the gold medal in the
men’s junior race. “I was really happy about my finish
because I was the last person accepted into the meet, but I ended
up beating three of the runners ahead of me and scoring for the
team,” said Shackleton, who finished with a time of 20:03.
“It was a great feeling to represent the U.S. and exciting to
win two medals.”
Compiled by Bruin Sports senior staff.
