Did you know?
UCLA track and field coach Jeanette Bolden is the head coach for the Olympics in Beijing, but She is the first U.S. head coach to have won a gold medal as an athlete. She won gold as a member of the 400-meter relay team in Los Angeles in 1984. She also finished fourth in the 100-meter dash. I'll have a feature on her this summer in anticipation of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Trials are June 27-July 6 in Eugene, Ore.
About Inside UCLA
This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
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