Nine New Members to Join UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2025
May 29, 2025 | Baseball, Men's Basketball, Men's Tennis, Swimming & Diving, Track & Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Gymnastics, Bruin Athletics
Nine new members will be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame this fall during on-campus festivities. The members of the Class of 2025 are: Tracey Milburn Bailey (women's soccer), Brandon Crawford (baseball), Mike Franks (men's tennis), Cyndi Gallagher (women's swimming & diving), Jason Kapono (men's basketball), Brittani McCullough (women's gymnastics), Kimberly Po (women's tennis), Sheena Johnson Tosta (women's track & field) and Lisa Willis (women's basketball).
The new Hall of Fame members combined to win five NCAA Championships and 20 All-America honors. Included in the group are a two-time World Series champion (Crawford), an NBA champion (Kapono), an Olympic medalist (Johnson Tosta) and a Wimbledon champion (Po).ย
Following are biographies on the 2025 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame members, who will be recognized at halftime of the Oct. 4 UCLA vs. Penn State football game.
Tracey Milburnย Bailey (Women's Soccer, 1998-2000)
Tracey Milburnย Bailey became the first African-American Bruin to earn All-America honors in women's soccer, receiving second-team honors as a forward from the coaches' association in 2000. She was also named the Pac-10 Player of the Year and a Honda Award finalist and finished the year with 13 goals, six assists and 32 points. She helped lead the Bruins to their first-ever College Cup and first national championship game in 2000. Bailey played three seasons at UCLA and earned first-team All-Pac-10 acclaim each year. She led the Bruins in scoring with 11 goals during her sophomore year and ranked second on the team in scoring as a junior with 24 points. Bailey went on to play professionally with the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Association and is now a color analyst for Big Ten Network and on the radio broadcast team for Angel City FC. She will join her husband Toby Bailey (2017) in the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, making them just the second married couple to both be inducted.ย
Brandon Crawford (Baseball, 2006-08)
A two-time World Series champion, three-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner with the San Francisco Giants, Brandon Crawford established himself as one of the most accomplished shortstops in Major League Baseball over the last decade. As a Bruin, he helped lead UCLA to three-straight NCAA Regional appearances for the first time in school history and was a NCAA Regional All-Tournament selection in 2008. As a freshman, he earned first-team Freshman All-America honors from Baseball America, and he was an All-Pac-10 selection in 2007. He led the Bruins in hits and stolen bases in 2006 and 2007. He finished his collegiate career with a .319 career batting average, 230 hits, 20 home runs and 136 RBI. He still ranks third in UCLA history with 13 career triples. At the Major League level, Crawford won the Silver Slugger in 2015 and finished fourth in NL MVP voting in 2021 after hitting .298/.373/.522 with 24 home runs and 90 RBI, all career bests. He won gold with the U.S. at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
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Mike Franks (Men's Tennis, 1956-58)
A two-time All-American in 1957 and 1958 and UCLA's No. 1 singles player throughout his three-year career, Mike Franks helped lead UCLA to the 1956 NCAA team championship. UCLA went 30-3 across his three seasons, earning at least a share of the conference title each year. Franks also had success in the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the fourth round of the 1958 U.S. Open singles tournament and the third round in 1956, 1957 and 1960. He also advanced to the third round of singles at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1964. Franks was a junior member of the United States' 1956 Davis Cup team and won the doubles championship and was the singles runner-up at the Maccabiah Games in 1961 and 1965. This is the third Hall of Fame induction for Franks. He was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and into the ITA Men's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 2023.
Cyndi Gallagher (Women's Swimming & Diving, Coach 1988-2019, Student-Athlete 1979-83)
Cyndi Gallagher totaled 38 years as a UCLA student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach and ended her 31-year tenure as head coach as the winningest coach in program history with a 202-107-2 overall record in dual meets. Gallagher led UCLA to Pac-10 titles in 2001 and 2003 and steered UCLA to top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships in nine separate seasons. She was twice named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year, first in 1990 when the Bruins finished fifth at the NCAA Championships and then again in 2003 after UCLA secured its second league championship in three years. Her tenure in Westwood produced a number of internationally renowned swimmers and divers, including 11 Olympians, 21 conference champions, and 91 All-Americans who won a total of 205 All-America awards. She coached UCLA's first-ever NCAA individual swimming champion, Annette Salmeen, who won the 200 Fly in 1996 and went on to win Olympic gold in 1998. Gallagher was an All-American herself as a swimmer and was selected UCLA's Most Outstanding Athlete in women's swimming and diving in 1980-81. She also won a bronze medal in the 800m Free at the 1979 World University Games and competed at two Olympic Trials.
Jason Kapono (Men's Basketball, 2000-03)
The No. 3 scorer in UCLA men's basketball history and the No. 9 scorer in Pac-12 history, Jason Kapono finished his Bruin career with 2,095 points in 127 games, averaging 16.5 points per game. He is tied on UCLA's all-time scoring list with Reggie Miller (2,095 points) and is one of four standouts to have scored at least 2,000 points in a Bruins' uniform. He was the first Bruin to lead UCLA in scoring and earn first-team All-Pac-10 honors all four years. He also helped UCLA advance to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 2000, he was named the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year after leading the conference in three-point field goal percentage with a 47.4% shooting average, a percentage that still ranks No. 6 on UCLA's all-time list. Kapono still ranks in UCLA's Top 10 for career three-point percentage (No. 2, 44.6%), three-pointers made (No. 2, 317), three-pointers attempted (No. 2, 710), free throw percentage (No. 6, 83.0%), field goals made (No. 7, 699), minutes played per game (No. 2, 34.0) and points scored per game (No. 7, 16.5). He was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 2003 NBA Draft as the No. 31 overall pick and played in 509 NBA games over a nine-year career. Kapono helped the Miami Heat to the 2005-06 NBA title and became the first player ever to lead the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage in back-to-back years. He shot 51.4% from 3-point distance in 2006-07 with Miami and 48.3% in 2007-08 with Toronto. He also won the NBA's Three-Point Contest in each of those years. In 2006-07, he averaged a career-best 10.9 points per game and led the league in three-point field goal percentage (.514).
Brittani McCullough (Women's Gymnastics, 2008-11)
Brittani McCullough was a standout in the gym and in the classroom, winning two NCAA titles and earning Scholastic All-America honors while being the first student-athlete in UCLA's nursing program. Despite suffering two season-ending injuries during her time at UCLA, she earned a total of four first-team All-America honors (2011 on vault and floor, 2010 on floor and 2009 on floor) and four All-Pac-10 honors (2011 in the all-around, 2010 on vault and floor and 2009 on vault). She was named the 2008 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, won the Pac-10, NCAA Regional and NCAA floor exercise titles in 2010, and was a finalist for the Honda Award in 2011, as well as UCLA's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. She also helped UCLA win the 2010 NCAA team title and a pair of Pac-10 team titles. McCullough accomplished all of this while juggling nursing school and clinical hours and being unable to train at the same time as her team. Following graduation, she worked as a NICU nurse at UCLA for three years and then returned to school at UCLA to become a pediatric nurse practitioner.
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Kimberly Po (Women's Tennis, 1990-91)
One of the most successful Bruins on the WTA Tour, Kimberly Po held the distinction for over two decades of owning the highest rankings of any UCLA women's tennis player, reaching No. 6 in doubles and No. 14 in singles. She is still the only former UCLA player to reach the Top 15 in the WTA singles and doubles rankings. As a Bruin, Po played No. 1 singles and doubles as a sophomore in 1991 and won the Pac-10 doubles title with Stella Sampras and finished as runner-up at the NCAA Championships. Po earned All-America status in singles and doubles and was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection and Pac-10 All-Academic honoree in 1991. She turned pro after two seasons at UCLA and won the Mixed Doubles title with Donald Johnson at Wimbledon in 2000 a year after finishing as runner-up at the U.S. Open. Po was also runner-up in women's doubles at the 2001 U.S. Open. ย
Sheena Johnson Tosta (Women's Track & Field, 2001-04)
A two-time Olympian, two-time NCAA champion and 10-time All-American, Sheena Johnson Tosta is one of the most accomplished hurdlers in UCLA history. She won a pair of NCAA Outdoor 400m Hurdles titles in 2003 and 2004, with the latter setting a world-best time and collegiate record of 53.54. Additionally, she totaled six Pac-10 titles, including the 400m Hurdles in 2001, 2002 and 2003. After winning the 400m Hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Trials with a personal best and then-World best time of 52.95, Tosta placed fourth at the Olympic Games. She made a return trip to the Olympics in 2008 and captured the silver medal. Tosta also won gold in the 2007 Pan American Games and competed in the World Championships in 2007 and 2009.
Lisa Willis (Women's Basketball, 2003-06)
The MVP of the 2006 Pac-10 Tournament, Lisa Willis led UCLA to its first-ever conference tournament title, scoring 20 points with six steals, five rebounds and four assists in the championship game after totaling 27 points and six steals in the semifinal and 14 points and seven steals in the quarterfinal. She set a tournament record with 19 steals and tied the record with 11 made three-pointers. Willis was named an honorable mention AP All-American and a third-team All-American by Women's Basketball News Service in 2006. She earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors twice and led the conference in steals in each of her last three seasons, becoming the first player in UCLA history to record three-straight seasons with 100 or more steals. Willis finished her career as UCLA's all-time leader in three-point shots made (256, second all-time in the Pac-10 at the time) and the Pac-10's all-time leader in steals (368). Her 1,677 career points still ranks 15th all-time at UCLA. In 2005, she won gold with Team USA at the World University Games, scoring 13 points in the gold medal match. Willis was selected by the Los Angeles Sparks as the fifth pick overall in the 2006 WNBA Draft and played in the league for four seasons, leading the WNBA in three-pointers in 2008 while playing for the New York Liberty. She moved into coaching following her playing career and served as head coach of Montreat College in 2014. In 2019, she became the first female hired by the New York Knicks in a coaching capacity when she was hired as an assistant for their G League team, the Westchester Knicks.
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The new Hall of Fame members combined to win five NCAA Championships and 20 All-America honors. Included in the group are a two-time World Series champion (Crawford), an NBA champion (Kapono), an Olympic medalist (Johnson Tosta) and a Wimbledon champion (Po).ย
Following are biographies on the 2025 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame members, who will be recognized at halftime of the Oct. 4 UCLA vs. Penn State football game.
Tracey Milburnย Bailey (Women's Soccer, 1998-2000)
Tracey Milburnย Bailey became the first African-American Bruin to earn All-America honors in women's soccer, receiving second-team honors as a forward from the coaches' association in 2000. She was also named the Pac-10 Player of the Year and a Honda Award finalist and finished the year with 13 goals, six assists and 32 points. She helped lead the Bruins to their first-ever College Cup and first national championship game in 2000. Bailey played three seasons at UCLA and earned first-team All-Pac-10 acclaim each year. She led the Bruins in scoring with 11 goals during her sophomore year and ranked second on the team in scoring as a junior with 24 points. Bailey went on to play professionally with the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Association and is now a color analyst for Big Ten Network and on the radio broadcast team for Angel City FC. She will join her husband Toby Bailey (2017) in the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, making them just the second married couple to both be inducted.ย
Brandon Crawford (Baseball, 2006-08)
A two-time World Series champion, three-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner with the San Francisco Giants, Brandon Crawford established himself as one of the most accomplished shortstops in Major League Baseball over the last decade. As a Bruin, he helped lead UCLA to three-straight NCAA Regional appearances for the first time in school history and was a NCAA Regional All-Tournament selection in 2008. As a freshman, he earned first-team Freshman All-America honors from Baseball America, and he was an All-Pac-10 selection in 2007. He led the Bruins in hits and stolen bases in 2006 and 2007. He finished his collegiate career with a .319 career batting average, 230 hits, 20 home runs and 136 RBI. He still ranks third in UCLA history with 13 career triples. At the Major League level, Crawford won the Silver Slugger in 2015 and finished fourth in NL MVP voting in 2021 after hitting .298/.373/.522 with 24 home runs and 90 RBI, all career bests. He won gold with the U.S. at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
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Mike Franks (Men's Tennis, 1956-58)
A two-time All-American in 1957 and 1958 and UCLA's No. 1 singles player throughout his three-year career, Mike Franks helped lead UCLA to the 1956 NCAA team championship. UCLA went 30-3 across his three seasons, earning at least a share of the conference title each year. Franks also had success in the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the fourth round of the 1958 U.S. Open singles tournament and the third round in 1956, 1957 and 1960. He also advanced to the third round of singles at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1964. Franks was a junior member of the United States' 1956 Davis Cup team and won the doubles championship and was the singles runner-up at the Maccabiah Games in 1961 and 1965. This is the third Hall of Fame induction for Franks. He was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and into the ITA Men's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 2023.
Cyndi Gallagher (Women's Swimming & Diving, Coach 1988-2019, Student-Athlete 1979-83)
Cyndi Gallagher totaled 38 years as a UCLA student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach and ended her 31-year tenure as head coach as the winningest coach in program history with a 202-107-2 overall record in dual meets. Gallagher led UCLA to Pac-10 titles in 2001 and 2003 and steered UCLA to top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships in nine separate seasons. She was twice named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year, first in 1990 when the Bruins finished fifth at the NCAA Championships and then again in 2003 after UCLA secured its second league championship in three years. Her tenure in Westwood produced a number of internationally renowned swimmers and divers, including 11 Olympians, 21 conference champions, and 91 All-Americans who won a total of 205 All-America awards. She coached UCLA's first-ever NCAA individual swimming champion, Annette Salmeen, who won the 200 Fly in 1996 and went on to win Olympic gold in 1998. Gallagher was an All-American herself as a swimmer and was selected UCLA's Most Outstanding Athlete in women's swimming and diving in 1980-81. She also won a bronze medal in the 800m Free at the 1979 World University Games and competed at two Olympic Trials.
Jason Kapono (Men's Basketball, 2000-03)
The No. 3 scorer in UCLA men's basketball history and the No. 9 scorer in Pac-12 history, Jason Kapono finished his Bruin career with 2,095 points in 127 games, averaging 16.5 points per game. He is tied on UCLA's all-time scoring list with Reggie Miller (2,095 points) and is one of four standouts to have scored at least 2,000 points in a Bruins' uniform. He was the first Bruin to lead UCLA in scoring and earn first-team All-Pac-10 honors all four years. He also helped UCLA advance to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 2000, he was named the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year after leading the conference in three-point field goal percentage with a 47.4% shooting average, a percentage that still ranks No. 6 on UCLA's all-time list. Kapono still ranks in UCLA's Top 10 for career three-point percentage (No. 2, 44.6%), three-pointers made (No. 2, 317), three-pointers attempted (No. 2, 710), free throw percentage (No. 6, 83.0%), field goals made (No. 7, 699), minutes played per game (No. 2, 34.0) and points scored per game (No. 7, 16.5). He was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 2003 NBA Draft as the No. 31 overall pick and played in 509 NBA games over a nine-year career. Kapono helped the Miami Heat to the 2005-06 NBA title and became the first player ever to lead the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage in back-to-back years. He shot 51.4% from 3-point distance in 2006-07 with Miami and 48.3% in 2007-08 with Toronto. He also won the NBA's Three-Point Contest in each of those years. In 2006-07, he averaged a career-best 10.9 points per game and led the league in three-point field goal percentage (.514).
Brittani McCullough (Women's Gymnastics, 2008-11)
Brittani McCullough was a standout in the gym and in the classroom, winning two NCAA titles and earning Scholastic All-America honors while being the first student-athlete in UCLA's nursing program. Despite suffering two season-ending injuries during her time at UCLA, she earned a total of four first-team All-America honors (2011 on vault and floor, 2010 on floor and 2009 on floor) and four All-Pac-10 honors (2011 in the all-around, 2010 on vault and floor and 2009 on vault). She was named the 2008 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, won the Pac-10, NCAA Regional and NCAA floor exercise titles in 2010, and was a finalist for the Honda Award in 2011, as well as UCLA's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. She also helped UCLA win the 2010 NCAA team title and a pair of Pac-10 team titles. McCullough accomplished all of this while juggling nursing school and clinical hours and being unable to train at the same time as her team. Following graduation, she worked as a NICU nurse at UCLA for three years and then returned to school at UCLA to become a pediatric nurse practitioner.
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Kimberly Po (Women's Tennis, 1990-91)
One of the most successful Bruins on the WTA Tour, Kimberly Po held the distinction for over two decades of owning the highest rankings of any UCLA women's tennis player, reaching No. 6 in doubles and No. 14 in singles. She is still the only former UCLA player to reach the Top 15 in the WTA singles and doubles rankings. As a Bruin, Po played No. 1 singles and doubles as a sophomore in 1991 and won the Pac-10 doubles title with Stella Sampras and finished as runner-up at the NCAA Championships. Po earned All-America status in singles and doubles and was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection and Pac-10 All-Academic honoree in 1991. She turned pro after two seasons at UCLA and won the Mixed Doubles title with Donald Johnson at Wimbledon in 2000 a year after finishing as runner-up at the U.S. Open. Po was also runner-up in women's doubles at the 2001 U.S. Open. ย
Sheena Johnson Tosta (Women's Track & Field, 2001-04)
A two-time Olympian, two-time NCAA champion and 10-time All-American, Sheena Johnson Tosta is one of the most accomplished hurdlers in UCLA history. She won a pair of NCAA Outdoor 400m Hurdles titles in 2003 and 2004, with the latter setting a world-best time and collegiate record of 53.54. Additionally, she totaled six Pac-10 titles, including the 400m Hurdles in 2001, 2002 and 2003. After winning the 400m Hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Trials with a personal best and then-World best time of 52.95, Tosta placed fourth at the Olympic Games. She made a return trip to the Olympics in 2008 and captured the silver medal. Tosta also won gold in the 2007 Pan American Games and competed in the World Championships in 2007 and 2009.
Lisa Willis (Women's Basketball, 2003-06)
The MVP of the 2006 Pac-10 Tournament, Lisa Willis led UCLA to its first-ever conference tournament title, scoring 20 points with six steals, five rebounds and four assists in the championship game after totaling 27 points and six steals in the semifinal and 14 points and seven steals in the quarterfinal. She set a tournament record with 19 steals and tied the record with 11 made three-pointers. Willis was named an honorable mention AP All-American and a third-team All-American by Women's Basketball News Service in 2006. She earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors twice and led the conference in steals in each of her last three seasons, becoming the first player in UCLA history to record three-straight seasons with 100 or more steals. Willis finished her career as UCLA's all-time leader in three-point shots made (256, second all-time in the Pac-10 at the time) and the Pac-10's all-time leader in steals (368). Her 1,677 career points still ranks 15th all-time at UCLA. In 2005, she won gold with Team USA at the World University Games, scoring 13 points in the gold medal match. Willis was selected by the Los Angeles Sparks as the fifth pick overall in the 2006 WNBA Draft and played in the league for four seasons, leading the WNBA in three-pointers in 2008 while playing for the New York Liberty. She moved into coaching following her playing career and served as head coach of Montreat College in 2014. In 2019, she became the first female hired by the New York Knicks in a coaching capacity when she was hired as an assistant for their G League team, the Westchester Knicks.
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