She has parlayed her fame as one of the original ’90s supermodels - having appeared on no less than 16 American Vogue covers - into a role as one of the most active and outspoken voices for climate change and sustainability in the industry. Now 46, it is her role as a fashion renegade for which she is best known. This is a twice-monthly column focusing on non-revenue Division I sports at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Cal State Long Beach and Loyola Marymount.From left: STELLA McCARTNEY dress, $2,900. The women’s regional will be held at California, and the men’s will be held at New Mexico. The UCLA men’s and women’s gymnastics teams will compete next in the NCAA West Regionals on April 11. Oregon State won the team competition with a 194.85. The UCLA women scored 193.65 for their highest team score of the year. Keswick also won the rings with a 9.90, the parallel bars with a 9.9 and was in a three-way tie for third place in the vault with a 9.60 with teammate Brad Hayashi and Stanford’s Jair Lynch. Scott Keswick repeated as Pac-10 all-around champion with a 115.10 score, but the Bruins were unable to defend their team title, scoring 279.4 to Stanford’s 286.6.
The UCLA men’s gymnastics team finished second this weekend at the Pac 10 men’s gymnastics championships at Stanford, and the Bruin women finished third at the conference women’s championships at Arizona. Her mother, Katalin Makray, won a silver medal in gymnastics in the 1964 Olympics, and her father, Pal Schmitt, was a two-time Olympic gold medal winner in fencing (19). Schmitt, who was accustomed to clay courts and had to change her game for the much faster hard courts in the United States, seems destined to be a star. Also, Schmidt defeated Arizona State’s top player, Krista Amend, on Friday. Schmitt twice has defeated UCLA’s Mamie Ceniza and defeated No. 1 singles, Schmitt often plays the nation’s top players, and she has held her own. Schmitt could form the foundation of a better era for USC (7-8, 1-4 in the conference). Under Borelli’s replacement, fourth-year Coach Cheryl Woods, USC had its worst season a year ago, finishing 7-18, 0-10 in the Pac-10, and failing to make it to the NCAA tournament. USC has struggled since the 1989 resignation of coach Dave Borelli, who led the team to seven national titles in twelve years. Petra Schmitt, a freshman from Budapest, has played well.
“We figured we played better with him out here, so we kind of created a position for him,” Ratelle said. Long Beach (22-1) began the season with 6-foot-8 Mike Nelson in their starting lineup, but recently made the move to the 6-4 Schroeder. Schroeder finally found a starting role at middle blocker this season. He’s not one of two best passers to be one of our primary passers. “He’s just not big enough to be a (middle blocker). “Brett is just an in-between type player,” Coach Ray Ratelle said. Schroeder’s problem is that he can do everything fairly well, but nothing extremely well. Unfortunately, that is usually not such a good thing in this age of specialization, and Schroeder has also spent plenty of time on the bench the past three seasons. 1 Cal State Long Beach men’s volleyball team. “I’m glad I decided not to get a job,” McGill says, laughing.īrett Schroeder has been a jack-of-all-trades for the No. They gave her the ultimatum: get a job, pull weeds in the garden or go play golf. McGill chose golf because her parents had tired of her lounging around the house and going to the pool as a teen-ager. She didn’t make it her freshman year, but tried again her sophomore year and the coach let her on, even though she wasn’t one of the better players.īut after Cherry Creek established a girls’ team, McGill won all 20 tournaments it entered during her junior and senior seasons, including the 19 Colorado state girls’ high school championships. She attended Cherry Creek High in Denver, which didn’t have a girls’ golf team. “It has been really good to be part of a team that is on the building blocks,” she said.
17-ranked Jill McGill is one of three sophomores, including Heidi Voorhees and Camie Hoshino, upon whom the USC women’s golf team’s comeback depends.Īlthough USC had one of its worst seasons a year ago, when it finished ranked 39th in the nation and last in the Pacific-10 Conference, McGill doesn’t mind the challenge.
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