While spring practice is in full swing and UCLA football’s future seems to be taking center stage on social media, a group of former Bruins are preparing to begin their journeys at the next level.

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Joey Aguilar is headed to Tennessee. Madden Iamaleava is circling back to Westwood. And in the span of a day, the trajectory of UCLA football’s quarterback room has been completely rewritten. 
ESPN’s Chris Low announced Monday afternoon that Aguilar, the redshirt senior who transferred to UCLA from Appalachian State in late December, plans to transfer to Tennessee – less than four months after taking first-team reps as the Bruins’ starting quarterback. 
Just about an hour later, Low reported that Madden Iamaleava – newly-arrived five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava’s younger brother – informed his now-former Arkansas coaches that he was headed to UCLA to reunite with his brother in Westwood. 
The back-to-back moves cap a 26-hour sequence for UCLA and Tennessee, which have effectively swapped quarterbacks.

It was one of those weeks where headlines could have hijacked the narrative.
The online rumor mill didn’t sleep for three days – whispers that former five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava was en route to Westwood from Tennessee reverberated across social media.

Former Tennessee starting quarterback Nico Iamaleava has committed to UCLA football, he announced Sunday afternoon via Instagram. 
The former five-star quarterback officially entered the transfer portal Wednesday morning – the first day of the spring transfer window – with a “do not contact” tag, signaling he either had a destination in mind or was letting his agent handle the process. 
For the past four days, rumors swirled about Iamaleava potentially transferring to UCLA, but it wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that the quarterback took to Instagram to officially reveal his decision. 
Iamaleava’s entry into the portal came as little surprise after his split from Tennessee last week, due to a deteriorating relationship with the program. 
Name, image and likeness played a major factor in his departure – per On3’s Pete Nakos.

Mikey Matthews didn’t walk into the Bruins’ receiver room looking to ease in. The first thing on his to-do list was to give his group one command.

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UCLA women’s basketball juniors guard Londynn Jones and forward Janiah Barker entered the transfer portal Thursday morning, according to Bruin Report Online.

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Cori Close’s leaders rose from the press conference podium after taking the toughest loss of their careers. And then the coach turned her head with one thing to say.

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TAMPA, Fla. – If there’s one thing on every UCLA scouting report, it’s to find a way – any way – to survive the forest of limbs in the paint.

Denise Curry was a freshman the first time the Bruins reached the Final Four. A teenager still figuring out where to stand on the court. Sitting alongside already-Olympian Ann Meyers Drysdale may not have helped.

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UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close has been named the 2025 Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year, and junior center Lauren Betts has been awarded the Naismith Women’s College Defensive Player of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday. 
The prestigious pair of national honors for the top-seeded team in the country comes after a historic season for the Bruins, who posted one of the most dominant campaigns in women’s basketball history.