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Mater Dei strikes it rich on signing day

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Eleven Mater Dei athletes will sign national letters of intent Wednesday morning at 8 in a ceremony at the school’s athletic complex.

Those expected to sign are boys’ basketball players Travis and David Wear (North Carolina) and Andy Brown (Stanford); girls’ basketball players Lyndsay Heard (Long Beach State) and Mya Olivier (Cal State Fullerton); baseball player Ian McCarthy (Oklahoma State); softball player Brittany Schutte (Florida); girls’ golfer Desiree Dubreuil (Texas); boys’ tennis player Chris Freeman (Wisconsin); boys’ volleyball player Connor Hughes (UC Irvine); and girls’ volleyball player Marissa Hughes (Northern Colorado).

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--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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