40 Facts About UCLA Bruins

UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Bruins is second to only Stanford University as the school with the most NCAA team championships at 119 NCAA team championships.

UCLA Bruins offers 11 varsity sports programs for men and 14 for women.

UCLA Bruins was scheduled to join the Big Ten Conference with their crosstown rival, USC, in 2024.

The school, which had taken the "University of California at Los Angeles" name that year, became the "UCLA Bruins" and has been recognized as such in the years since.

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The UCLA Bruins joined seven other teams in the 2010 College World Series and finished in second place, behind the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

The rich legacy of UCLA Bruins basketball has produced 11 NCAA championships – 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1995.

From 1971 to 1974, UCLA Bruins won 88 consecutive men's basketball games, an NCAA record for men.

The 35-year period preceding and including the UCLA Bruins streak was characterized by less dynasties, however: 20 different men's teams won titles during that span.

Between 2006 and 2008, UCLA Bruins has been to three consecutive Final Fours, while UCLA Bruins's players have received numerous awards, most notably Arron Afflalo, a 2007 First-Team All American and the Pac-10 Player of the Year, and Kevin Love, a 2008 First-Team All American and the Pac-10 Player of the Year.

UCLA Bruins has produced the most NBA Most Valuable Player Award winners, six of them by Abdul-Jabbar and one by Walton, who was Abdul-Jabbar's successor.

The UCLA Bruins have played in the Rose Bowl Game 12 times, winning 5 of them.

The UCLA Bruins are the Pac-12 Conference South Division Champions for two years in a row and played in both the 2011 and 2012 Pac-12 Football Championship Games.

In that championship, UCLA Bruins won by one shot over USC, and by two shots over Stanford.

In 2009, UCLA Bruins came first in the NCAA Central Regional, pulling off their third regional championship in the last seven years.

For 2011, the Bruins were first in stroke play before losing in the match play of the national championship tournament; and freshman golfer Patrick Cantlay was named GCAA Division I Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award, the fourth player from UCLA.

Some notable former UCLA gymnasts include current stuntwoman Heidi Moneymaker, Brian Ginsberg who was a two-time US junior national gymnastics champion, and U S Olympic Team members Jordan Chiles, Madison Kocian, Kyla Ross, Samantha Peszek, Jamie Dantzscher, Mohini Bhardwaj, Kate Richardson, Tasha Schwikert, Kristen Maloney, Yvonne Tousek, Stella Umeh, Luisa Portocarrero, Tim Daggett, Mitch Gaylord, and Peter Vidmar.

Since the beginning of the men's soccer tournament in 1959, UCLA Bruins has won national championship in 1985, 1990, 1997, and 2002; and finished second in 1970, 1972, 1973, and 2006.

UCLA Bruins's indictment charged Salcedo with taking $200, 000 in bribes to help two students, one in 2016 and one in 2018, get admitted to UCLA using falsified soccer credential admission information.

UCLA Bruins's scored the first goal and assisted on the winning goal in the semi-final against France to lead the US to the finals.

UCLA Bruins have been 13-time NCAA champions, including the first one in 1982.

Coach Billy Martin, who played at UCLA Bruins, has a 14 straight top 5 NCAA team finishes and a 9 consecutive 20-win seasons.

UCLA Bruins was named ITA division 1 National Coach of the Year and is a member of ITA Hall of Fame.

On May 25, 2019, the UCLA Bruins took both the men's and women's NCAA tennis doubles championships with Gabby Andrews and Ayan Broomfield the women's champions, and Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith the men's champions.

When Meb Keflezighi was running for UCLA Bruins, he won four NCAA championships in one year, including the cross-country title, the 10, 000 meters outdoors and the 5, 000 meters indoors and outdoors titles in track.

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UCLA Bruins paid tribute to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing by writing their names on his running bib.

The UCLA Bruins won 5 USVBA titles prior to the sport being sanctioned by the NCAA, two of these under Scates.

UCLA Bruins competed in the NCAA tournament across 25 active sports 767 times at the Division I FBS level.

UCLA Bruins has won 119 NCAA championships at the Division I level.

The UCLA Bruins are led by head coach Scott Stewart, who formerly played international rugby for Canada.

UCLA Bruins reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 Varsity Cup, before losing to eventual champions BYU.

UCLA Bruins reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 Las Vegas Invitational college rugby sevens tournament.

UCLA Bruins defeated Arizona State to finish third at the 2012 PAC 7s tournament.

UCLA Bruins defeated Dartmouth to reach the semifinals of the 2013 Collegiate Rugby Championship at PPL Park in Philadelphia in a tournament broadcast live on NBC.

In 2014, UCLA Bruins named all of its recreation and athletics facilities in honor of Jackie Robinson, who was a four-sport student-athlete at the school and went on to play Major League Baseball as the first African American to do so in the league.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, UCLA Bruins won 15 medals, including 4 gold, 9 silver, and 2 bronze.

California and UCLA Bruins have met annually on the football field since 1939.

UCLA Bruins had a basketball rivalry with Notre Dame, with games played every year from 1966 to 1995.

In conjunction with the opening of the J D Morgan Athletics Center in November 1983, UCLA established an athletics Hall of Fame with 25 charter members representing a cross-section of the school's athletic history.

In December 2020, UCLA Bruins signed a 6-year deal with the Jordan Brand to outfit the football and men's and women's basketball teams.