SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER now in its seventh season as UCLA’s home . SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER The UCLA women’s water polo team begins also has four platforms on a diving tower, at achievements, record-holders and Olympians. its seventh season playing at Spieker Aquatics heights of three, five, seven-and-one-half, and Separate men’s and women’s locker rooms Center, which is part of the Jackie Robinson 10-meter platforms, as well as one and three- house enough lockers for all team members, with Athletics and Recreation Complex. Over the past meter springboards. In addition, the aquatics shower space and bathroom stalls and sinks for six seasons, UCLA has logged a 36-6 record at center features a warming pool for divers directly each team. Equipment needed for meets and its modern, state-of-the-art home facility. behind the tower. matches have storage capacity on the facility’s Spieker Aquatics Center opened in Adjacent to Sunset Canyon Recreation Center south side. September 2009, in time for the start of on the northwest portion of campus, the Spieker When walking through the public entryway the men’s water polo season that fall. PCL Aquatics Center was made possible thanks to a to the center, visitors first notice the Donor Wall. Construction broke ground on the facility in July generous lead gift from former student-athlete Tod All donors who generously made gifts to the 2008. The athletics department officially opened Spieker and his wife, Catherine. Tod, a 1971 UCLA Spieker Aquatics Center are recognized on this Spieker Aquatics Center on Sept. 26, 2009, as graduate and All-American, swam for the Bruins wall. Additionally, over 50 former UCLA water the men’s water polo team defeated UC Irvine, from 1968-71 and still competes successfully in polo players, swimmers and divers made gifts 10-4, after a dedication ceremony that evening. Master’s Swimming. to “name” a locker. Those names will forever be In 2016, UCLA has scheduled six games at The main pool, Dirks Pool, is named after part of the locker rooms in the new facility. SAC and it will host the 2016 NCAA Women’s Carolyn Dirks, who provided the lead gift for the The facility brings together all three of UCLA’s Water Polo Championship. The facility swimming pool. Dirks Pool has also been used intercollegiate aquatic sports – water polo, hosted the 2010 MPSF Women’s Water Polo for special events and Masters Swim meets. swimming and diving – to one venue. The aquatics Tournament, the 2011 MPSF Men’s Water Polo The signature feature of the Spieker Aquatics center features event lighting and permanent Tournament, the 2013, 2014, and 2015 UCLA Center is the diving tower, which stands at the seating with the possibility of additional temporary Invitationals, and the 2015 NCAA Men’s Water west end of the pool. The east end of the pool seating for larger events. Polo Championship. UCLA’s programs won houses the scoreboard, an LED, state-of-the-art each tournament. piece of electronics, making scores, statistics and Entering its seventh full season as UCLA’s messages easily visible to all in attendance. home pool, Spieker Aquatics Center features a Next to the scoreboard is the “Wall of 52-meter by 25-yard all-deep water pool with a Champions,” showcasing all of UCLA’s water dividing bulkhead, allowing races to take place polo, swimming and diving national championship at varying distances (meters or yards). The pool teams, as well as all individual student-athletes’ 28 MEDIA INFORMATION NEWSPAPERS UCLABRUINS.COM Los Angeles Times For the latest information about UCLA’s 202 West First St. women’s water polo program and the Los Angeles, CA 90012 Bruins’ 25 additional varsity sports, 213/237-7145, 213/237-7876 (f) visiting uclabruins.com. 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UCLA celebrates its 2009 NCAA Championship victory against USC. 29 UCLA ADMINISTRATION Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he specializes in circadian biology, which deals GENE with the functioning of 24-hour rhythms in higher organisms. Previously, Chancellor Block served as vice president and provost of the BLOCK University of Virginia, where he held the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Pro- fessorship in Biology and directed the National Science Foundation’s Science CHANCELLOR • 9th Year and Technology Center for Biological Timing. He also headed an NIH graduate Alma Mater: Stanford ’70 training program aimed at increasing the number of scientists from underrep- resented groups. Dr. Gene Block became chancellor of UCLA in August 2007. As chief A native of Monticello, N.Y., Chancellor Block holds a bachelor’s degree executive officer, he oversees all aspects of the university’s three-part mission in psychology from Stanford University and a master’s and Ph.D. in psychology of education, research and service. from the University of Oregon. A champion of public universities, Chancellor Block has called for UCLA to The inventor of a number of devices, Chancellor Block holds a patent for deepen its engagement with Los Angeles, a city that offers a microcosm of the a non-contact respiratory monitor for the prevention of Sudden Infant Death global community, and to increase access for students from underrepresented Syndrome, and he is an avid collector of vacuum-tube radios. populations. An advocate of interdisciplinary scholarship, he emphasizes broad- Chancellor Block and his wife, Carol, have two children.