![One-on-one competitions and a new defensive coordinator have energized the Bruins during spring practices One-on-one competitions and a new defensive coordinator have energized the Bruins during spring practices](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LDN-L-UCLA-FBC-0403_20-1.jpg?w=132)
UCLA football’s defense embracing physicality, competition
One-on-one competitions and a new defensive coordinator have energized the Bruins during spring practices
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Haley Sawyer covers UCLA and high school sports for the Southern California News Group. She’s a Los Angeles transplant who has lived most of her life in Pennsylvania, where she got her start covering Pittsburgh high school sports and college hockey. Sawyer graduated from Robert Morris University in 2015 with a B.A. in communication. When she's not writing, Haley is usually at a boxing gym, ballet studio or teaching journalism at Cal State Northridge.