UCLA is the top seed in women’s March Madness. It only took 36,000 miles to get there
New York TimesThe most remarkable number to define UCLA’s season is not No. “It really did start with prioritizing sleep schedules.” This meant ensuring “nap time” on longer flights, assuming the Bruins’ flight and travel time to the hotel allowed for that, so players could maintain a West Coast sleep schedule no matter where games took them. Leger-Walker’s pages read: 4,635 Before each road trip, players were given a small travel bag that included snacks, water bottles, eye masks and the Bruins’ secret weapon for prioritizing sleep, tart cherry juice concentrate. “We just made some tweaks the last couple weeks about things that we’re just not going to do live anymore, to sort of minimize some of the wear and tear.” A lot of those off days came after cross-country trips, so players didn’t always feel like it was an off day, but Jaquez said that using those days for recovery — however that looked for each player — has been paramount to the Bruins’ success. “Getting older and playing so many basketball games, I think I’ve just tried to focus on a lot of recovery and not doing too much to my body.” Establishing norms and schedules was paramount this season as seemingly every other factor — air travel, schedules, hotel stays — put stress on the Bruins’ bodies.
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