Monday Update — Bruins at the Olympics

UCLA medalists so far: Mark Hunter, gold (rowing, lightweight double sculls); Kim Vandenberg, bronze (swimming, 4×200 relay); Lauren Cheney, medal TBD (women’s soccer is in the gold medal game); The Bruin USA softballers (Andrea Duran, Lisa Fernandez, Tairia Flowers, Stacey Nuveman and Natasha Watley), medal TBD (they can’t do any worse than 3rd).

WHAT TO LOOK FOR TONIGHT & EARLY TOMORROW:

6:40 p.m. — Track and Field: Long Jump qualifying rounds (Rhonda Watkins)
11:20 p.m. — Women’s Water Polo, Semfinals: USA vs. Australia (Golda, Hipp, Baker coach)
7:30 a.m. — Track and Field: 100m Hurdles Finals (Harper)

MONDAY UPDATE:

Correction: While UCLA’s Sheena Tosta did finish fifth in her heat in the 400m Hurdles, she did qualify for the semifinals after all. And she won her semfinal, which puts her in the finals and gives her a chance for a medal. (Finals: Wed., 7:35 a.m.)

Women’s Soccer: USA 4, Japan 2 (Semfinals) — The U.S. advances to the gold medal game to face Brazil (Thursday, 6 a.m.). Lauren Cheney got into the game as a sub.

Track and Field: Bruin Dawn Harper finished second in her 100m Hurdles semifinal, which qualifies her for the finals. Harper’s time was 12.66 seconds and the finals are Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. UCLA’s Jessica Cosby competed in the hammer throw, but received a NM in all three throws (No Mark?).

Men’s Water Polo: USA 8, Germany 7 — With the win, the U.S. wins their group and gets a bye to the semifinals. UCLA’s Adam Wright scored two goals including what ended up being the game-winner, and Bruin Brandon Brooks appeared in his first game at the Olympics.

Softball: USA 9, China 0 — Bruins Andrea Duran and Tairia Flowers each hit doubles, and Flowers added two RBIs. Team USA finishes group play 7-0, advances to the #1 vs. #2 semifinal to play Japan. The U.S. can do no worse than a bronze medal, even if they lose out. Australia 4, Canada 0 – Bruin Tanya Harding got her 2nd win at the Olympics, pitching five shutout innings and giving Australia the #3 seed in the semifinals.

REST OF THE SCHEDULE BY DAY:

Tuesday, Aug. 19

6:30 p.m. — Softball: #1 vs. #2 Semfinal, USA vs. Japan (Duran, Flowers, Nuveman, Watley)
9 p.m. — Softball #3 vs. #4 Semifinal, Australia vs. Canada (Harding)

Wednesday, Aug. 20

*2 a.m. — Softball: Bronze Medal game (Duran, Fernandez, Flowers, Nuveman, Watley, Harding)
5:40 a.m. — Track and Field: Pole Vault qualifying rounds (Yoo Kim)
7:35 a.m. — Track and Field: Women’s 400m Hurdles finals (Tosta)
6:50 p.m. — Track and Field: High Jump qualifying rounds (Amy Acuff)

Thursday, Aug. 21

TBD — Women’s Water Polo: Gold/Bronze Medal games (Golda, Hipp, Baker coach)
6 a.m. — Women’s Soccer: Gold Medal game (Cheney, Ellis coach)
*3:30 a.m. — Softball: Gold Medal game (Duran, Fernandez, Flowers, Nuveman, Watley, Harding)

Friday, Aug. 22

3:20 or 4:40 a.m. — Men’s Water Polo: Semfinals (Brooks, Wright)
*4:20 a.m. — Track and Field: Long Jump finals (Watkins)
4:40 a.m. — Track and Field: 4×400 Relay round 1 (Monique Henderson)
*5:45 a.m. — Track and Field: Pole Vault finals (Kim)

Saturday, Aug. 23

*4 a.m. — Track and Field: High Jump finals (Acuff)
*5:40 a.m. — Track and Field: 4×400 Relay finals (Henderson)

Sunday, Aug. 24

TBD — Men’s Water Polo: Gold/Bronze Medal games (Brooks, Wright)

FULL LISTINGS BY SPORT:

TRACK AND FIELD (10 Bruins)

Amy Acuff (High Jump), Jeanette Bolden (Head Coach, team USA), Jessica Cosby (Hammer), Dawn Harper (100m Hurdles), Monique Henderson (4×400 relay), Yoo Kim (Pole Vault, Korea), Suzy Powell-Roos (Discus), Sheena (Johnson) Tosta (400m Hurdles), Rhonda Watkins (Long Jump, Trinidad and Tobago), Jonathan Williams (400m Hurdles, Belize)

Aug. 15 — Discus qualifying rounds (Suzy Powell-Roos — 15th)
Aug. 15 — Men’s 400m Hurdles round 1 (Jonathan Williams — 4th in heat)
Aug. 17 — 100m Hurdles round 1 (Dawn Harper — 2nd in heat, qualifies for semis)
Aug. 17 — Women’s 400m Hurdles round 1 (Sheena Tosta — 5th in heat)
Aug. 17 — Hammer throw qualifying rounds (Jessica Cosby — NM)
*Aug. 18, 4:40 a.m. — 100m Hurdles Semis (Harper)
Aug. 18 — Women’s 400m Hurdles Semis (Tosta wins semifinal)
*Aug. 18, 7 a.m. — Men’s 400m Hurdles finals (Williams)
Aug. 18, 6:40 p.m. — Long Jump qualifying rounds (Rhonda Watkins)
*Aug. 19, 7:30 a.m. — 100m Hurdles finals (Harper)
Aug. 20, 5:40 a.m. — Pole Vault qualifying rounds (Yoo Kim)
*Aug. 20, 7:35 a.m. — Women’s 400m Hurdles finals (Tosta)
Aug. 20, 6:50 p.m. — High Jump qualifying rounds (Amy Acuff)
*Aug. 22, 4:20 a.m. — Long Jump finals (Watkins)
Aug. 22, 4:40 a.m. — 4×400 Relay round 1 (Monique Henderson)
*Aug. 22, 5:45 a.m. — Pole Vault finals (Kim)
*Aug. 23, 4 a.m. — High Jump finals (Acuff)
*Aug. 23, 5:40 a.m. — 4×400 Relay finals (Henderson)

SOFTBALL (6 Bruins)

Players on Team USA: Andrea Duran, Lisa Fernandez, Tairia (Mims) Flowers, Stacey Nuveman, Natasha Watley
On Australia: Tanya Harding (I couldn’t find their schedule)

Note: A lot of these games are at 9 p.m., watchable for us West Coasters.

Aug. 11 — USA 11, Venezuela 0 (Watley home run — link to video highlights)
Aug. 12 — USA 3, Australia 0 (Watley RBI single)
Aug. 14  — USA 8, Canada 1 (Duran 2 RBI, link to video)
Aug. 14 — USA 7, Japan 0 (Watley home run, link to video)
Aug. 15 — USA 7, Chinese Taipei 0
Aug. 17 — USA 8, Netherlands 0 (Flowers home run, link to video)
Aug. 17 — USA 9, China 0 (Flowers 2 RBI)

Australia: Finished 5-2, third place in group play.

Aug. 19, 6:30 p.m. — Semifinal #1 vs. #2 — USA vs. Japan
Aug. 19, 9 p.m. — Semifinal #3 vs. #4 — Australia vs. Canada
*Aug. 20, 2 a.m. — Bronze Medal game
*Aug. 21, 3:30 a.m. — Gold Medal game

MEN’S SOCCER (3 Bruins)

Players on Team USA: Benny Feilhaber, Patrick Ianni, Marvell Wynne

Aug. 7 — USA 1, Japan 0 (Wynne assist, link to video)
Aug. 10 — USA 2, Netherlands 2
Aug. 13 — Nigeria 2, USA 1 (USA eliminated)

WOMEN’S SOCCER (3 Bruins)

On USA: Lauren Cheney, Jillian Ellis (assistant coach)
On Canada: Kara Lang

Aug. 6 — Norway 2, USA 0
Aug. 6 — Canada 2, Australia 1 (Kara Lang scored game-winning goal)
Aug. 9 — USA 1, Japan 0
Aug. 9 — Canada 1, China 1
Aug. 12 — USA 4, New Zealand 0
Aug. 12 — Sweden 2, Canada 1
Aug. 15 — Quarterfinals: USA 2, Canada 1
Aug. 18 — Semifinals: USA 4, Japan 2

Aug. 21, 6 a.m. — Gold Medal game vs. Brazil

WOMEN’S WATER POLO (3 Bruins)

On Team USA: Natalie Golda, Jaime Hipp, Guy Baker (head coach)

Aug. 11, — USA 12, China 11 (Golda scored four goals — video highlights)
Aug. 13 — USA 9, Italy 9
Aug. 14 — USA 12, Russia 7 (Golda scored three goals)

Aug. 18, 11:20 p.m. — Semifinals: USA vs. Australia
*Aug. 21, TBD — Medal games

MEN’S WATER POLO (2 Bruins)

On Team USA: Brandon Brooks, Adam Wright

Aug. 10 — USA 8, China 4  (Wright assist, link to video)
Aug. 11 — USA 12, Italy 11 (Wright goal)
Aug. 13 — Serbia 4, USA 2
Aug. 15 — USA 7, Croatia 5 (Wright goal)
Aug. 17 — USA 8, Germany 7 (Wright two goals, USA gets bye to semfinals)

*Aug. 22, 3:20 or 4:40 a.m. — Semifinals
*Aug. 24, TBD — Medal games

TENNIS (2 Bruins)

Bruins competing: Mark Knowles (Bahamas), Marcin Matkowski (Poland)

Both are competing in doubles. Knowles’ parter is Devin Mullings, Matkowski’s partner is Maruisz Fyrstenberg. There are 32 doubles teams in the single-elimination tournament.

Aug. 12 — First Round: Matkowski/Fyrstenberg def. Yu/Zeng (CHN) 6-3, 6-4.
Aug. 12 — First Round: Knowles/Mullings lose to Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan 6-2, 6-1.
Aug. 13 — Round of 16:  Matkowski/Fyrstenberg def. Damm/Vizner (CZE) 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5.
Aug. 14 — Quarterfinals: Matkowski/Fyrstenberg lose to Aspelin/Johansson (SWE) 7-6 (5), 6-4.

SWIMMING (2 Bruins)

Bruins competing: Kim Vandenberg, 4×200m relay (USA), Nicolette Teo, 100/200 breast, relays (Singapore)

Aug. 10 –100m Breaststroke heats (Nicolette Teo 1:10.75 — 7th in heat)
Aug. 13 — 200m Breaststroke heats (Teo 2:34.60 — 6th in heat)
Aug. 13 — 4×200m Relay heats (Vandenberg’s team wins heat, 7:52.43)
Aug. 13 — 4×200m Relay finals (Vandenberg not in final race where team won bronze, but she gets a bronze medal anyway.)

BEACH VOLLEYBALL (3 Bruins)

Bruin competing: Elaine Youngs
Bruins coaching: Bob Alejo, Liz Masakayan

Elaine Youngs and her partner Nicole Branagh are in Group E. Each group has four teams, the top two teams and some third-place teams go to the Round of 16.

Aug. 9 — Youngs/Branagh def. Kadjik/Mooren (NED) 21-19, 27-25. (link to video)
Aug. 11 — Youngs/Branagh def. Pohl/Rau (GER) 21-17, 21-16
Aug. 13 — Youngs/Branagh def. Ribalta/Crespo (CUB) 21-19, 13-21, 15-12. (link to video)
Aug. 14 — Round of 16: Youngs/Branagh def. Grasset/Peraza (CUB) 21-15, 21-13.
Aug. 17  — Quarterfinals: Youngs/Branagh lose to Xue/Zhang Xi (CHN) 21-17, 21-13.

ROWING (2 Bruins)

Bruins competing: Mark Altman (USA), Lightweight Fours; Mark Hunter (Great Britain), Lightweight Double Sculls

Aug 10 — Heats: Bruin rowing assistant coach Mark Hunter easily won his heat with partner Zac Purchase, advancing to the semifinals. The other Bruin, Mark Altman’s team finished fourth in their heat.
Aug. 12 — Repechage: Altman’s team finsihed third, which looks like enough to advance to the semifinals. (Link to video)
Aug. 15 — Semifinals: Hunter/Purchase won their semifinal (link to video).
Aug. 17 — Finals: Hunter/Purchase WIN THE GOLD MEDAL! (link to video)

GYMNASTICS (1 Bruin)

Bruin competing: Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (Canada)

Aug. 10 — Women’s Qualifiers — Hopfner-Hibbs finished 19th in the All-Around (out of 98), which as freesia39 pointed out in the comments, is good enough to advance to the finals.

Aug. 14 —Women’s Individual finals: Hopfner-Hibbs finished 16th overall. Very impressive, and she’s just going to be an incoming freshman this year.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL (1 Bruin)

John Speraw is an assistant coach for Team USA. Since there are no Bruins actually competing, I’m just going to list the games here, not in the daily schedule:

Aug. 9, 9:30 p.m. — USA vs. Venezuela
Aug. 11, 9:30 p.m. — USA vs. Italy
Aug. 14, 7 a.m. — USA vs. Bulgaria
Aug. 16, 7 p.m. — USA vs. China
Aug. 18, 7 a.m. — USA vs. Japan
*Aug. 20, TBD — Quarterfinals
*Aug. 22, TBD — Semifinals
*Aug. 24, TBD — Medal games

(My sources were UCLABruins.com, NBC, USA Softball, USA Water Polo and the official Beijing 2008 site.)