UCLA Women's Volleyball: Bruins Win Latest Tournament In Convincing Fashion

The Women of Troy are looking sharp.

Your UCLA Bruins women's volleyball team is sitting pretty, thanks to an early 7-1 record and its ongoing three-game win streak. That streak happens to have coincided with UCLA's occupancy of Hawaii during the latter state's Outrigger Volleyball Challenge.

Rahaf Abumansour and Nicole Augusta of The Daily Bruin, UCLA's student paper, supplied the details of the three victories.

On Thursday, the Bruins bested 1-6 Pepperdine. The club then took down the 7-1 Liberty University Lady Flames. 

Senior outside/opposite hitter Iman Ndiaye was generally the star of the show. She logged double digit kills in all three of her team's aforementioned wins at the Outrigger Event. Ndiaye and outside hitter Cheridyn Leverette were both named to the competition's All-Tournament Team. Ndiaye was also named the MVP of the event.

“I think our strategy for this game was being really tough and to outlast the other team, keep having endurance,” Ndiaye said cagily.

As a strategy, I've seen worse. The UCLA program's strategy to essentially pull a Floyd Mayweather, waiting for the opposition to strike first on offense, has certainly proven to be beneficial to be successful in boxing. It will be fascinating if this style on defense (the ol' "keep-away") survives the inevitable game planning that is doubtless headed their way against the Bruins.