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Three 2008 NCAA championship teams from UCLA - women's water polo, women's tennis and men's golf - will be in Washington D.C. on Tuesday afternoon, June 24, to be honored at a White House ceremony featuring 2007-08 NCAA champions from schools around the country.

Win #100 by the women's water polo team was UCLA's "only" team championship in 2007. Fittingly, the Bruins' championship drought ended spectacularly when the women won their fourth consecutive water polo NCAA title, leading to UCLA's May 2008 championship trifecta as the women's tennis team and the men's golf team added #102 and #103.

Read the full story here.

All true Bruin fans know we're at #103 even though our official website hasn't been updated since #100. The presentation of the championships on the website really doesn't do justice to our accomplishments, so I decided to do some number crunching and came up with these facts:

  • currently on an active streak of 14 consecutive years with at least one championship (missed only one year, 1994, in the last 22 years)
  • if we win a championship in 2009, this will be the first decade in which we've had at least one win in every year of the decade.
  • with one more year to go, we have won more championships (24) in this decade than in any previous decade (23 during both 1980-1989 and 1970-1979)
  • since the women's first championships in 1982 (softball, track&field (outdoor)), the women have won 32 versus 31 for the men.
  • since 1970 we have averaged nearly 2.3 championships per year; compared to our overall average of nearly 1.8 per year.
  • we have double-digit championship wins in four sports: basketball-11, softball-10, men's tennis-16, and men's volleyball-19. If we combine women's and men's together, we have one more double-digit sport: water polo-14 (6-women's plus 8-men's).
  • we have won five championships in a single year four times: 2004, 1984, 1982, 1971.
  • the last time we went two consecutive years without a championship was 1962-1963; the only other time we went more than one year without a championship was 1957-1958-1959.

I also put together a pdf you can download that has charts breaking down our championships by year, sport and men's versus women's programs. Now you have no excuse not to know all about what #103 means.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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Really great work

The .pdf looks awesome and really does a good job of breaking down how our championships have come.

Maybe if more people saw this they’d quit writing us off as a “basketball-only” school.

I mean, we can’t help it Bruins succeed at, well, everything.

by norcald503 on Jun 21, 2008 5:25 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

One of the things I love most about BN

Is that everyone gets behind every team. Yes, football and men’s basketball will get more attention, but iwe have great contributors who follow certain teams (Rye, Daynuh, etc) and share that information with everyone. We don’t see athletes as men and women, football players and golfers, etc. Everyone is a Bruin and that is enough to captivate the attention of BN.

by bruinbabe2000 on Jun 21, 2008 6:17 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

What?

I though BN was a “single issue” blog made up of bunch of haters?

by Nestor on Jun 22, 2008 7:33 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

That's just tremendous

The pdf is epic. Nice work.

by Menelaus on Jun 21, 2008 8:26 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Unbelievable.

That is amazing, Tele. Thank you. I’ll be printing the .pdf, and likely showing it to some “friends”.

greg in denver

by gbruin on Jun 22, 2008 2:26 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Yes!

I am posting this in my stateroom (yay for getting internet at sea!) for the UCLA-deniers to see. I work with a few bandwagon ‘SC fans and it’s always nice to add a little ammo to the “arguments” of UCLA’s undeniable superiority to that other school (and every other school in the nation).

GO BRUINS!

by impaulv on Jun 22, 2008 10:47 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Awesome

Amazing work.

by gilbert on Jun 23, 2008 9:07 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

If Only...

...we could have kept some of the men’s programs like swimming and gymnastics that were competing at NC levels.

by bru79 on Jun 23, 2008 9:42 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Tele,

Thank you so much! I have printed and posted your awesome Championship Breakdown on my office wall underneath my “First to 100” banner. (So now, all these Jayhawks fans around here can see how it’s really done, when it’s done well.)

Love My Bruins

by Bruingirl83 on Jun 24, 2008 9:18 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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