UCLA Basketball Ad 8.375x10.875-Bleed-10-2016_Layout 1 10/26/16 4:08 PM Page 1 BRUIN BLUE WINTER 2016 THE INSIDER’S VIEW WELCOME FROM ATHLETICS DIRECTOR s I’ve mentioned before in this space, I receive e-mails … lots and lots of e-mails. INSIDE THIS ISSUE WINTER 2016 Some are friendly. Others, well, not so much. Many are eloquent in their prose. CHAMPIONS Others are decidedly less eloquent but no UCLA ATHLETICS IN PHOTOS ....... 2 / 6 / 8 / 12 Aless colorful in their language. All of them, however, SUPER FROSH: MEN’S BASKETBALL .............. 14 share one thing in common — they were sent to deliver GOLDEN GIRLS: GYMNASTICS ...................... 18 a message. IMPACT FRESHMEN: UP CLOSE WITH In my inbox yesterday, one e-mail in particular stood THE BEST, BRIGHTEST NEW BRUINS ............ 22 BANK out. It was from my daughter, Katie. DAN GUERRERO “Hey Pops,” it began. After a brief explanation HOOPS DNA: KARI KORVER ......................... 24 accompanied by a couple of links, she pasted an e-mail BRUINS IN AUSTRALIA ............................. 28 from her friend Anthony that read: SUPPORTING UCLA: JODY CHAPMAN ............. 32 COVER PHOTO BY KATIE MEYERS HERE “Hey Katie, I’m reaching out with a favor. My brother was killed by a drunk driver on Sunday while walking back to his college dorm. He loved sports more than anything and lived for lacrosse. Since his death THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF UCLA ATHLETICS #teamthree and #rs3 have been trending with all the college lacrosse and VOL 3 • ISSUE 2 • WINTER 2016 athletics programs, creating awareness for kids not to drink and drive. Robert Flores from ESPN even posted. If you could share his with your WRITERS: CHRIS FOSTER, EMILY LERNER dad and the UCLA program it would mean so much to me. Thank you!” MANAGING EDITOR: DANNY HARRINGTON [email protected] Anthony’s brother was a young man named Robby Schartner, a junior studying LAYOUT AND DESIGN: IMG COLLEGE marketing at Manhattanville College, who wore #3 for the school’s men’s lacrosse KRISTY MARQUES, SARAH JANE SNOWDEN, MATT COY, KRISTIN PRATT, MATT MONTAVON BECOME A BRUIN team. The driver — a 24-year-old young woman who was allegedly more than three ADVERTISING: IMG COLLEGE BLUE SUBSCRIBER BY times over the legal limit at the time of the incident. DAMON DUKAKIS • (310) 825-0328 JOINING THE WOODEN ATHLETIC FUND, CALL The message of the e-mails from Katie and Anthony was clear — please use your [email protected] influence and your platform to create awareness. 310-206-3302. And I wasn’t the only one receiving this message. From Plattsburg women’s hockey, to Neuman University men’s lacrosse, to Eastchester football to University of Maryland volleyball and scores of other for NCAA reform and in doing so, trend worldwide on Twitter, or they can ‘whip/ programs, #teamthree and #rs3 spread across social media like wildfire. nae nae’ at a gymnastics meet and wind up on “Ellen.” The world is watching. What A movement born out of tragedy, this seemingly simple act of sending an e-mail we do with our platform is up to us, but our voice has never been more amplified. demonstrated the power of what one individual can do to affect awareness. An e-mail Ever hear of the Ice Bucket Challenge? Inspired by Pete Frates, a former Boston from Anthony to my daughter. An e-mail from my daughter to me. And a plea College baseball star suffering from ALS (better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), it resulting in hundreds of tweets and the AD’s message in this magazine. This chain was pushed out through social media by the Eagles and resulted in everyone from was not even possible when I was a student-athlete here at UCLA — or for a good Taylor Swift to Justin Bieber to Tom Cruise to President Obama participating in portion of my adulthood for that matter. But just look at the results. the act of dumping ice cold water over their respective heads. And now thanks to Today, we are all aware of the power of social and digital media. We are also aware some $220 million raised, an important gene discovery has been made by a doctor of the power of sports and the platform it provides. at UMass Medical School. With more scrutiny on the young men and women who compete at UCLA than I’m grateful my daughter shared Anthony’s e-mail with me. My heart breaks for ever before in this University’s long and storied history, the platform for their voice his family, for his brother Robbie’s teammates and the entire Manhattanville College has never been greater. community. As AD of the nation’s all-time winningest athletic program with 113 NCAA Tragedy touches all of our lives at one point or another. It’s how we handle the Championships and a nearly $100 million budget, my platform has never been adversity that ultimately defines us. In this case, thanks to one brother’s determination, greater. tens of thousands of people are more aware today of the dangers and lives destroyed And with access to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other emerging technologies, as a result of drunk driving. your platform has never been greater either. The world is watching. It’s up to each and every one of us as to what we want it You could read this article, tweet about it, a friend of your great aunt could see to see. it, start a Go Fund Me campaign and raise six figures for the Schartner family in If we heed the advice of Coach Wooden and “Make each day your masterpiece,” I the click of a mouse. Never before in the history of our society has the ‘average Joe’ think that would be a pretty good place to start. #BetterBanking4Bruins had more of a voice. Public opinion can now be shaped through a friend of a friend of a friend, hence the entire ‘viral’ concept. It’s simply remarkable how the society Go Bruins! marches forward, continually re-imagining itself. At UCLA, we encourage our student-athletes to have an educated voice in social discourse. College is a time for personal discovery, where you find out who you 1-888-8WESCOM (1-888-893-7266) are, both through your triumphs and your mistakes. For intercollegiate athletics in wescom.org particular, this is an unprecedented time. Our student-athletes can publicly lobby Dan 1 BRUIN BLUE WINTER 2016 BRUIN BLUE WINTER 2016 RECENT NBA CHAMPION KEVIN LOVE OF THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS LED UCLA FANS IN AN 8-CLAP DURING UCLA’S GAME AGAINST STANFORD AT THE ROSE BOW ON SEPT. 24. LOVE WAS BEING RECOGNIZED FOR A MAJOR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION — THE LARGEST EVER BY A FORMER MEN’S BASKETBALL STUDENT-ATHLETE — TO THE MO OSTIN BASKETBALL CENTER. IN HONOR OF HIS GIFT, UCLA’S BASKETBALL-SPECIFIC STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING FACILITY WITHIN THE NEW BUILDING WILL BE KNOWN MOVING FORWARD AS THE KEVIN LOVE STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING CENTER. (PHOTO: KATIE MEYERS). INSET: UCLA ATHLETICS DIRECTOR DAN GUERRERO PRESENTS KEVIN LOVE WITH A SPECIAL FRAMED MOMENTO CONTAINING RENDERINGS OF THE NEW KEVIN LOVE STRENGTH AND CON- DITIONING CENTER. 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MEMBERS OF THIS DISTINGUISHED CLASS ARE (L-R): NATALIE GOLDA (WOMEN’S WATER POLO), JULIE ADAMS (SOFTBALL), CHRIS HENDERSON (MEN’S SOCCER), WENDELL TYLER (FOOTBALL), MIKE MARSH (TRACK & FIELD), ADAM KRIKORIAN (WATER POLO), JAMIE DANTZSCHER (WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS) AND BARON DAVIS (MEN’S BASKETBALL).