!!!!!!!!!!~One Hundred (100)~!!!!!!!!!!

by Nestor on May 13, 2007 7:13 PM PDT in Other Sports

BRUINS BRING HOME CHAMPIONSHIP NUMBER 100!!
Worth the wait. The night belongs to Emily Feher (below) and her team-mates from UCLA womens' water polo program. They just beat Stanford and brought home CHAMPIONSHIP NUMBER 100:

Photo Credit: Jack Rosenfeld aka Bruin Civil

From all account it sounded like an intense, competitive, nerve wracking game. Bruins went up by a score 3-0 and stayed up the whole game. But as you can tell by the live updates (and our special game thread) Stanford being the great team they are kept making their own runs and closed the game within 5-4. Feher was golden making one clutch saves/stops after another.

Number 100 is now ours. And we can officially call UCLA the greatest program in the history of college athletics.

The greatest school ever.

UPDATE (Nestor):

Go to the official site to check out the entry page for the Most Accomplished Athletic Program in NCAA History

UPDATE II (Menelaus):

The wait is over. UCLA has reached an amazing milestone, capturing their 100th NCAA national championship.

The woman's water polo team, winners of NCAA championships in 2005 and 2006, make it three in a row to reach trip-dig for UCLA.

The lady Bruins got it done with a 5-4 nailbiting win against first seeded Stanford. With the win, the Bruins have won the national title in an astounding five of the last seven years, having also won it all in 2001 and 2003.

This is also coach Adam Krikorian's eighth NCAA championship in nine years as head coach of both the men's and women's water polo teams. With the exception of 2002, Krikorian has not gone a full year without winning at least one NCAA championship since he took over as head coach in 1999.

It's an amazing day for the lady Bruins. Congratulations to them on a well deserved national championship.

I know we've been hoping for this one for a little while. But let's not lose perspective about what this means. UCLA has won 100 freaking national championships.

That's 1-0-0, one-hundred. Only 2 other schools even have over 50. Amazing.

GO BRUINS.

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Greatest ever!

That is, until someone beats us to 200. :)
What an amazing time to be a bruin.

Duke and North Carolina called: They want Steve Lavin back. GO BRUINS!!

by Allofmybros on May 13, 2007 7:16 PM PDT 0 recs

After Stanford and USC

Nobody is at all close to us. I think fourth place has 44 or something close to that.

by SuperBruinMan on May 13, 2007 7:18 PM PDT up 0 recs

A great birthday present!

Thanks women's H2O Polo!

by MOlson on May 13, 2007 7:17 PM PDT 0 recs

A little out of date but...

UCLA: 99
Stanford: 93
Southern California: 84
Oklahoma State: 48
Arkansas: 43
LSU: 40
Texas: 39
Michigan: 32
North Carolina: 32
Penn State: 30

by SuperBruinMan on May 13, 2007 7:21 PM PDT 0 recs

Stanford

Is catching up! Auuugh!

by jatteratious on May 14, 2007 3:51 PM PDT up 0 recs

Florida too

They now have 16

by SuperBruinMan on May 14, 2007 4:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

Wow

Never ever I thought I would get so worked up over a women's waterpolo game. This is amazing accomplishment on their part and our great university.

First to 100 gear alreay available in the official site.

Congrats again to our ladies. They are amazing athletes.

GO BRUINS.

by Nestor on May 13, 2007 7:32 PM PDT 0 recs

Fantastic!

While I would have loved for basketball to have won #100, I'm thrilled that it was a women's team that took it home. Though I know everyone here has made a great effort in promoting our women's teams, I just wish they would get more press in the MSM.

by bruinbabe2000 on May 13, 2007 8:14 PM PDT 0 recs

Congratulations!

Wow ...awesome.... congrats to the ladies -- soak it all in.. this is your moment!

by ucsbbruinfan on May 13, 2007 8:30 PM PDT 0 recs

It's a great milestone

which really speaks to the mind boggling depth of our athletic department considering how many sports contributed to the total.

There are other teams still in the hunt for national titles of their own, and this could work out to their advantage. Now that the monkey is off our backs, they can just concentrate on adding to the total. 101 is a beautiful number too.

by Tydides on May 13, 2007 9:40 PM PDT 0 recs

Spread the credit for all this

Don't forget the lesser programs, like football. No, wait ... OK, forget it.

by Fox 71 on May 14, 2007 8:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

Being there

It was simply incredible. Crowd was amped up and packed (I was actually standing since I got there late) and it got pretty nerve-wracking when Stanford scored on their first three possessions of the 4th period to make it 5-4 us. Then we just held and pulled out the win, which felt like a massive weight had been lifted (and I'm not even an athlete). They had a huge "1st to 100 sign" which was actually too tall for them to stand up straight in the team picture, so it is at an angle.

All in all, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

by dprodigy19 on May 14, 2007 12:17 AM PDT 0 recs

congratulations to all our athletes!!!

what an awesome tribute to the strength of our community!

by DumpDorrell on May 14, 2007 4:13 PM PDT 0 recs

Big congrats

to the ladies. Although I know virtually nothing about the sport, you can tell how much it means to the players by how excited and happy they look in the photos. I am sure they worked very, very hard to reach this point.

by Barnes2JJ on May 15, 2007 8:01 AM PDT 0 recs