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    No soccer experience, but she still got a spot on elite UCLA team in admissions scandal

    by Matthew Ormseth and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Mar 19, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Lauren Isackson's athletic credentials were dwarfed by those of her teammates. She joined the vaunted UCLA women's soccer program in 2017 alongside members of the U.S. and Canadian national teams - elite athletes accustomed to dominating the high school and club circuits, being the best in their leagues, their states, even their entire home countries.

    Isackson's biography on the UCLA roster, meanwhile, lists her as an honorable mention all-league selection in 2014 for the West Bay Athletic League in Northern California.

    But even that was false, according to federal prosecutors who have implicated Isackson's parents in a broad conspiracy to sneak the children of wealthy and powerful families into top-flight universities they may not have

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