{"id":209937,"date":"2026-03-08T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:55:09","slug":"bruins-open-outdoor-campaign-with-two-wins-at-beach-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209937\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Open Outdoor Campaign With Two Wins at Beach Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Sydney Johnson<\/a> (women’s long jump) and Hannah Slover<\/a> (women’s high jump) each captured event wins to lead UCLA at the 2026 Beach Opener in the squad’s first meet of the outdoor season. <\/p>\n

Besides those two wins, the Bruins had five other top-three finishes for a two-day total of seven medalists. <\/p>\n

Thrower Derek Smith<\/a> just missed out on becoming the lone Bruin with a pair of top-three finishes, as he was third in the men’s shot put (17.03m \/ 57-8.25) but finished fourth in the discus despite establishing a new personal best at 52.47m (172-1). Likewise, Johnson was fourth in the women’s 200m (24.23).<\/p>\n

Grad transfer Maya Rush<\/a> was the Bruins’ big standout on day one of the meet, as she reached a mark of 46.51m (152-7) in the women’s javelin on Friday afternoon. That mark was good for third place at the meet and put her at No. 9 in UCLA history.<\/p>\n

Smith and Slover were the Bruins’ standouts on Saturday morning, earning top-three finishes in the SP and HJ.<\/p>\n

Slover had a max clearance of 1.73m (5-8) to notch her first-collegiate event win. Right behind her was teammate Amia Witt<\/a> whose mark of 1.66m (5-5.25) earned a second-place result. <\/p>\n

Next up was Johnson, who picked up the gold medal in the long jump with a mark of 6.18m (20-3.5). She was the only entrant to break six meters. Freshman Dior Scholz<\/a> placed fourth in that event at 5.50m (17-6-75) in her Bruin debut.<\/p>\n

Johnson and Ameen Tokhi<\/a> were UCLA’s standouts in the sprints, with the latter posting a PB at 10.44 to finish fifth in the men’s 100m dash. <\/p>\n

Terrence Sweetman<\/a> (14.59m \/ 47-10.5) and Mackenzie Kirk<\/a> (12.45m \/ 40-10.25) closed out the weekend for the Bruins by finishing third in their respective triple jumps. <\/p>\n

UCLA returns to action next week at a pair of competitions, with seven qualifiers heading to Fayetteville, Ark. for the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships on Mar. 13-14 and a small group of Bruins trekking south for the Aztec Coastal Classic in San Diego on Mar. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Sydney Johnson (women’s long jump) and Hannah Slover (women’s high jump) each captured event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-209937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}