Sports Illustrated Covers

Bruins have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 146 times, among the highest totals of any school in the country. UCLA Athletics has been represented on the cover at least once in 52 of the last 58 years. Below is the complete list of UCLA’s representation.

1. UCLA vs. USC Football (Nov. 26, 1956) 2. Rafer Johnson (Jan. 5, 1959) 3. Gary Cunningham (March 19, 1962) 4. C.K. Yang (Dec. 23, 1963) 5. Walt Hazzard (March 30, 1964) 6. Gail Goodrich (March 29, 1965) 7. Doug McIntosh (Dec. 6, 1965) 8. Arthur Ashe (Aug. 29, 1966) 9. Gary Beban (Sept. 19, 1966) 10. Lew Alcindor (Dec. 5, 1966) 11. Lew Alcindor (April 3, 1967) 12. Gary Beban (Nov. 20, 1967) 13. Lew Alcindor (Jan. 29, 1968) 14. Lew Alcindor (April 1, 1968) 15. Lew Alcindor (March 31, 1969) 16. Lew Alcindor (Oct. 27, 1969) 17. Lew Alcindor (March 9, 1970) 18. John Vallely (March 16, 1970) 19. Sidney Wicks (March 30, 1970) 20. Lew Alcindor (April 27, 1970) 21. Sidney Wicks (Nov. 30, 1970) 22. Lew Alcindor (Feb. 8, 1971) 23. Steve Patterson (April 5, 1971) 24. Lew Alcindor (April 19, 1971) 25. James McAlister (May 17, 1971) 26. Gail Goodrich (Dec. 13, 1971) 27. Bill Walton (March 7, 1972) 28. Bill Walton (April 3, 1972) 29. Lew Alcindor (April 24, 1972) 30. Tommy Prothro (July 24, 1972) 31. John Wooden (Dec. 25, 1972) 32. Bill Walton (Feb. 5, 1973) 33. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Feb. 19, 1973) 34. Bill Walton (March 26, 1973) 35. Bill Walton (Dec. 10, 1973) 36. Bill Walton (Feb. 25, 1974) 37. Jimmy Connors (March 4, 1974) 38. Bill Walton (March 25, 1974) 39. Bill Walton (April 1, 1974) 40. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (May 20, 1974) 41. Jimmy Connors (July 15, 1974) 42. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton (Oct. 14, 1974) 43. David Meyers (Feb. 17, 1975) 44. Jimmy Connors (May 5, 1975) 45. Arthur Ashe (July 14, 1975) 46. Dwight Stones (June 14, 1976) 47. Shirley Babashoff (July 19, 1976) 48. Jimmy Connors (Sept. 20, 1976) 49. Bill Walton (Dec. 23, 1976) 50. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Feb. 14, 1977) 51. Sidney Wicks (April 25, 1977) 52. Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (May 27, 1977) 53. Bill Walton (June 13, 1977) 54. Bill Walton (Aug. 21, 1978) 55. Jimmy Connors (Sept. 18, 1978) 56. Bill Walton (Oct. 15, 1979) 57. Darren Daye (March 31, 1980) 58. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (May 5, 1980) 59. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Dec. 15, 1980) 60. Wendell Tyler (Aug. 24, 1981) 61. Jimmy Connors (July 12, 1982) 62. Jimmy Connors (Sept. 20, 1982) 63. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (May 9, 1983) 64. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Feb. 1984) 65. Dwight Stones (July 2, 1984) 66. Rafer Johnson (Aug. 6, 1984) 67. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (June 10, 1985) 68. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (June 17, 1985) 69. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Dec. 23, 1985) 70. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (May 26, 1986) 71. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (June 22, 1987) 72. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Sept. 14, 1987)

75. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith Joyner (Oct. 10, 1988) 76. Florence Griffith Joyner (Dec. 26, 1988) 77. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Jan. 23, 1989) 78. Troy Aikman (Aug. 29, 1989) 79. Troy Aikman (Aug. 27, 1990) 80. Mike Powell (Sept. 9, 1991) 81. Jimmy Connors (Sept. 16, 1991) 82. Jay Schroeder (Dec. 16, 1991) 83. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (July 22, 1992) 84. Gail Devers (Aug. 10, 1992) 85. Arthur Ashe (Dec. 21, 1992) 86. Troy Aikman (Feb. 8, 1993) 87. Arthur Ashe (Feb. 15, 1993) 88. Troy Aikman (1993 Year in Pictures) 89. Troy Aikman (Aug. 1, 1994) 90. Troy Aikman (Jan. 16, 1995) 91. Ed O’Bannon (April 10, 1995) 92. Tyus Edney, NCAA Title, Commemorative (April 1995) 93. Steve Bono (Sept. 2, 1996) 94. Cameron Dollar, Regional Basketball Preview (Nov. 1996) 95. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Nov. 11, 1996) 96. Jackie Robinson (May 5, 1997) 97. Joy Fawcett, USA Soccer (Dec. 20, 1999) 98. Baron Davis (May 21, 2001) 99. Troy Glaus, World Series Commemorative (Oct. 2002) 100. Dan Guerrero (May 5, 2003) 101. John Wooden (March 22, 2004) 102. U.S. Olympic Softball Team (Aug. 30, 2004) 103. 50th Anniversary Issue (Sept. 27, 2004) 104. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Dec. 27, 2004) 105. Dijon Thompson, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 21, 2005) 106. Ben Olson (Oct. 31, 2005) 107. Jordan Farmar, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 20, 2006) 108. Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame Commemorative (July 26, 2006) 109. Chase Utley (Aug. 14, 2006) 110. Jonathan Ogden (Sept. 25, 2006) 111. Faces in the Crowd (Dec. 15, 2006) 112. NCAA Basketball Preview (March 19, 2007) 113. Kevin Love (Nov. 19, 2007) 114. Kevin Love (March 24, 2008) 115. Kevin Love (March 31, 2008) 116. Kevin Love (April 7, 2008) 117. Maurice Jones-Drew, NFL Preview (Sept. 1, 2008) 118. College Football Commemorative (Sept. 2008) 119. Josh Shipp, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 23, 2009) 120. Kenny Washington (Oct. 12, 2009) 121. Jasmine Dixon, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 22, 2010) 122. John Wooden (June 14, 2010) 123. Reeves Nelson, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 21, 2011) 124. Reeves Nelson, Regional Bask. Preview (Nov. 11, 2011) 125. Kyla Ross, Olympics Preview (July 23, 2012) 126. Travis Wear, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 4, 2013) 127. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 6, 2013) 128. Kevin Love (Oct. 27, 2014) 129. Brett Hundley (Aug. 4, 2014) 130. Brett Hundley, College Football Preview (Aug. 10, 2014) 131. Russell Westbrook (April 6, 2015) 132. Sydney Leroux, USA Soccer (June 8, 2015) 133. Lauren Holiday, World Cup Digital Cover (July 7, 2015) 134. Lauren Holiday, World Cup Commemorative (July 20, 2015) 135. Sydney Leroux, World Cup Commemorative (July 20, 2015) 136. Jill Ellis, World Cup Commemorative (July 20, 2015) 137. Russell Westbrook, “Flip Cover” (April 18, 2016) 138. Josh Rosen (Aug. 14, 2016) 139. Russell Westbrook, NBA Preview (Oct. 24, 2016) 140. Lonzo Ball, NCAA Tourn. Preview (March 20, 2017) 141. Russell Westbrook (July 24, 2017) 142. Wooden, Hazzard, Alcindor & Walton (March 12, 2018) 143. Abby Dahlkemper, World Cup (June 3, 2019) 144. Samantha Mewis, Mallory Pugh, World Cup (June 3, 2019) 145. Gerrit Cole (Oct. 7, 2019) 146. Russell Westbrook, NBA Preview (Oct. 28, 2019)