Andy Rose
- School
- UCLA
- Position
- Midfielder/Defender
- Major
- Sociology
- G
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- A
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- PTS
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Classroom
Rose has upheld a 3.233 cumulative grade point average in Sociology and is on track to graduate after the Fall quarter after just three years and one quarter. He has twice earned Pac-10 All-Academic honors and has been on the UCLA Athletic Director’s Honor Roll seven times in his first three years.
Character
Rose has been the team captain for the Bruins since his junior season. In 2010, he stepped into a leadership role for a team that lost 12 lettermen and 7 starters and was heavy on underclassmen with 10 freshmen and 9 sophomores. With his leadership and influence, the young Bruin team won 16 games and advanced all the way to the NCAA Quarterfinals. Rose played in every minute of every game in 2010. In 2009, the UCLA team adopted as an honorary captain an 11 year-old boy who was having surgery for a brain aneurysm at the UCLA Medical Center. Rose and his teammates visited the boy on several occasions both before and after his surgery.
Community
Included amongst the community service ventures Rose has volunteered for: UCLA’s I’m Going To College program, giving campus tours and doing autograph signings for the collegiate community outreach effort; Adopt-A-Classroom, in which players correspond and meet with elementary school children; and Marathon Kids, a school and community-based fitness program. He also volunteered at an AIDS Awareness day during his freshman year and worked at a free training camp with kids for Big Sunday Weekend in 2009. Additionally, he helps coach a new youth soccer club, the Los Angeles Soccer Academy.
Competition
Playing at both defense and midfield, Rose has led UCLA to two consecutive NCAA Quarterfinal appearances and to Pac-10 team titles in both 2008 and 2009. As a freshman in 2008, he totaled two goals and three assists and was voted the team’s Rookie of the Year. He was also one of just four freshmen named to the All-Pac-10 squads, receiving honorable mention honors. In 2010, he earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and assisted on two game-winning goals in overtime and totaled one goal and four assists on the year.
