Girl Power
After winning a scholarship to UCLA, Jackie Joyner-Kersee went on to win Olympic gold as one of the best all-around female athletes in the world. Now she’s helping today’s girls develop a love of sports.<more>
Days of Grace
In addition to being a championship tennis player, Arthur Ashe was a humanitarian and a statesman, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton posthumously. UCLA honored him in 1997 by putting his name on our Student Health Center. <more>
Breaking Barriers
UCLA alum Jackie Robinson not only broke Major League Baseball’s decades-long color barrier, but fought tirelessly for civil rights and integration in professional sports for the remainder of his life. <more>
Wizard of Westwood
Named the greatest coach in the 20th century by ESPN in 1999, John Wooden led UCLA to a phenomenal NCAA record-setting 88 straight wins and 10 national titles in 12 seasons.
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Team USA
UCLA ranked among the nation’s most successful universities at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, ranking No. 1 among all universities in number of different medalists and number of Olympian. <more>
When it comes to athletic success, UCLA ranks second to none. Over the past 40 years, no other school can match UCLA’s combination of NCAA championships, football bowl games, NCAA tournament appearances and Olympic participation. In the list of the NCAA’s 100 most influential college athletes, three of the top five are Bruins.
But more than all of our records and all of the accolades, UCLA takes pride in the fact that our athletes go on to shape society with skills that transcend their physical talents. UCLA has created a living, breathing legacy of athletes and coaches who have changed the world of athletics and beyond.
• In May 2007, UCLA became the first school to win 100 NCAA team championships.
• In April 2005, Sports Illustrated On Campus stated that “UCLA has the most complete athletic program in the country.”
Lorenzo Holds Court
UCLA Basketball power forward/center Lorenzo Mata showed that he is not only a rising star on the basketball court, but in the community as well when he spoke to a captive audience of children at Team Prime Time, an after school program for at-risk youth. <more>
Think Big
He’s one of the greatest basketball players of all time because he perfected a thinking man’s approach to the game. And in the two decades since his retirement, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s provocative ideas have made us think in new ways about issues like race, sports and society. <more>
Life Lessons
Recently retired UCLA Softball coach Sue Enquist guided her teams through 11 national championships, and ably coached countless Olympians — but to her athletes, she was known as much for what she taught off the field as on. <more>
The Other Wizard
Selected the National Coach of the Year five times and inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1993, UCLA Volleyball coach Al Scates was the only coach to guide three men’s volleyball teams to undefeated seasons. <more>
