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UCLA Women’s Basketball Stars Perform in Halftime Show
After winning the first Big Ten regular season title in program history, three UCLA women’s basketball stars made a special appearance in a halftime show performance with UCLA’s dance team.
Two weeks ago, graduate student guard Charlisse Leger-Walker posted a YouTube video where she and Jaquez learned the choreography for one of the dance team’s halftime performances. At the end of the video, Leger-Walker said she and Jaquez would perform at the UCLA men’s basketball game against Nebraska if the video received 1,000 likes.
The video not only reached 1,000 likes, committing Leger-Walker and Jaquez to the halftime performance. But the pair also recruited Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, Lauren Betts.
“Lauren and I have been wanting to take a dance class in L.A. for a long time,” Jaquez told ESPN. “We both grew up dancing, and we love to dance in the locker room and stuff. But this wasn’t just like a TikTok dance, it was the real thing. So when Charlisse came up with this idea, we were all-in.”
The Bruins just came off an undefeated Big Ten conference season and will now turn their focus to the Big Ten Tournament this weekend. UCLA has a chance to win a national championship, and Betts said the performance shows how much chemistry the Bruins have in and out of basketball.
“This team is all about fun,” Betts said to ESPN. “And this is the type of fun that we like to have. We genuinely love doing things like this together. I never thought something like this would happen but here we are. And I think it just shows the type of chemistry that this team has. Like look at us out here dancing and then winning basketball games.”
Jaquez Also Made Appearances With The UCLA Softball Team
In addition to performing at halftime with the UCLA dance team, Jaquez joined the UCLA softball team for the 2024 season.
She made her debut with the Bruins’ softball team as a pinch runner against Georgia in NCAA Super Regionals. Jaquez also scored one run for UCLA when then-sophomore infielder Jordan Woolery hit a three-run home run while Jaquez was on base.
Before coming to UCLA, she played on Adolfo Camarillo’s softball team alongside UCLA redshirt junior utility Rylee Pinedo.
Photo Credit: ESPN
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