Tight ends and special teams coach resigns
By Daily Bruin Staff
June 6, 2007 9:34 p.m.
UCLA tight ends and special teams coach John Wristen has resigned, football coach Karl Dorrell announced Tuesday.
Wristen is pursuing a head coaching position at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
“John wants to put all of his efforts into trying to land that job,” Dorrell said in a statement. “We agreed that in order for him to focus all of his energies in that direction, it would be best for him to resign so he can be in Colorado to pursue that position.”
Wristen has been at UCLA since February 2006.
“I would like to thank coach Dorrell and the UCLA family for my opportunity here at UCLA,” Wristen said.
Wristen is the fourth member of the football coaching staff to leave since the end of the 2006 season. The others were offensive line coach Jim Colletto, wide receivers coach D.J. McCarthy and offensive coordinator Jim Svoboda.
BRUINS ON TV: Three additional UCLA football games have been selected to be televised, bringing the total to eight. Fox Sports Net has chosen to nationally broadcast UCLA’s first game of the season on Sept. 1 at Stanford at 12:30 p.m. FSN will also televise the Bruins’ game at Washington State on Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m.
Versus has selected to televise UCLA’s first home game against BYU on Sept. 8 at 3:30 p.m.
The other five games that were already preselected for television include Utah (Sept. 15, Versus, 2 p.m.), Notre Dame (Oct. 6, ABC, 5 p.m.), Arizona (Nov. 3, ABC, 12:30 p.m.), Oregon (Nov. 24, TBD) and USC (Dec. 1, ABC, 1:30 p.m.).
RULON WINS CUTINO AWARD: Women’s water polo player Kelly Rulon was given the Peter J. Cutino Award, the most prestigious award in collegiate water polo. The award is given to the outstanding female and male collegiate water polo players in the country.
Rulon scored 70 goals in 30 games, leading the Bruins to their third straight NCAA championship, and the school to its 100th overall NCAA team championship. Rulon’s teams have won NCAA titles all four years she played, as she redshirted the 2004 season to play in the Summer Olympics in Athens.
Only two other UCLA women’s water polo players have won the award: Natalie Golda (2005) and Coralie Simmons (2001).
Compiled by Gilbert Quiñonez, Bruin Sports senior staff.
