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GARRETT WAITSports Editor Pepperdine women’s soccer  Head Coach Tim Ward is one of the youngest head coaches at the university. His eight-year tenure has taken the Waves from a team struggling to reach .500 to a program that competes for the West Coast Conference title and in the national tournament year in and year out. He’s also a husband and father of two as well as a … [Read more...] about Women’s soccer coach strums to a different tune

JANE LEEAssistant Sports Editor Last week Head Coach Gualberto Escudero boldly announced that if his No.-8 women’s tennis team knocked off the No.-1 team in the country, he would get a tattoo on his arm. A few days before the much-anticipated match between Pepperdine and Stanford, Escudero began a search for tattoo parlors in Marina del Ray. He was even ready to go back to a … [Read more...] about Waves fall short against Stanford

JEN ISOStaff Writer One of Pepperdine’s journalism graduates, Dave Morgan, has decided to leave his job at the Los Angeles Times to work as an executive editor at Yahoo! Sports. Morgan said that after 20 years of deputy sports editing with the Times, he was ready to move on. Although it was hard leaving his co-workers, with whom he had formed strong relationships, Morgan knew … [Read more...] about Alum Morgan moves on to Yahoo! Sports

GARRETT WAITSports Editor If the Pepperdine baseball team members had anything wrong with them after the first game of the weekend series against Dartmouth University, the coaching staff made sure it didn’t come back for the two final games of the series. The Waves came out cold in the game, losing to the Big Green 3-2 in 11 innings despite a stellar 10-inning pitching … [Read more...] about Pep roughs up Dartmouth, Fullerton

JANE LEEAssistant Sports Editor The ball was tipped, and there they were. The Pepperdine women’s basketball team was running down the court against a nationally-acclaimed basketball program that is Oklahoma. No one thought the Waves from Malibu would make it to the NCAA Tournament, which hosts 64 teams every year. After covering and closely following their season, I honestly … [Read more...] about Denver: a city of dreams