Senior spinter/hurdler Shawn Toney traverses a dune in Morocco while holding a sandboard. Toney suffered a hamstring injury in 2025 that kept him out of all but one meet his junior campaign. (Courtesy of Shawn Toney)
UCLA track and field athletes typically spend the first quarter of their final collegiate season training at Drake Stadium.
But senior Shawn Toney spent it almost 6,000 miles away.
When the starting gun fired at the Tyson Invitational and Husky Classic, the line between collegiate and professional ranks all but disappeared.
UCLA track and field shared the track with world-class athletes and Olympic gold medalists over the weekend in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Seattle, Washington, offering a benchmark to assess where the Bruins stand against elite competition before returning to the collegiate stage.
This post was updated Feb. 11 at 12:12 a.m.
Time is rarely an ally in life.
Moments pass – whether they are seized or not – and opportunities are often defined by how quickly they are met.
Coast-to-coast reach is hard to achieve.
Although Snoop Dogg and Run-D.M.C. captured national attention, their regional fame outweighed their coast-to-coast popularity, with the former commanding the Los Angeles music scene and the latter embodying the New York style.
Swim & Dive
Most meets for the Bruins begin with a dance party on the pool deck.
And the last conference competition of the regular season will start no differently – no matter the opponents’ storied history.
This post was updated Feb. 7 at 8:32 p.m.
Definitions can be subjective, objective or ever-changing.
And the Bruins are already shaping their definition of record-breaking only two meets into the 2026 season.
This post was updated Jan. 26 at 7:10 p.m.
There is no easing into a season when you start at the top.
After both the men’s and women’s track and field teams claimed first-place finishes in their opening meet, the Bruins will return to competition facing a new challenge: racing with a target on their backs.
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