THIS SEASON:
Bruce Aiken enters his first active season on the men's tennis team... Was a team manager in 2004... Posted a 2-4 record in the fall, competing at ITA Regionals and the USD Surf & Volley.

PREP EXPERIENCE:
Aiken is a 2003 graduate of El Camino Real High in Woodland Hills, Calif. ... A four-year letterwinner on the tennis team, he was named team MVP as a sophomore, junior and senior... Named to the 2003 CIF Los Angeles Times All-Los Angeles City first team and the 2003 Los Angeles Daily News Player of the Year... Led his prep team to four-straight CIF Los Angeles City Section Championships, never dropping a league match... Was the 2002 LA City Section runner-up.

PERSONAL:
Bruce Milton Aiken was born on March 4, 1985, in Torrance, Calif. ... The son of Bruce and Patti Aiken, he has one brother, Troy, and one sister, Dana... He is the fifth member of his family to attend USC, including his father, both grandfathers, Augustus Aiken Jr. and Jessie Lee Roy Tillman, and one cousin, Tommy Cochee... His cousin, Tommy, was a four-year letterwinner (1973-76) on the Trojan Track & Field team... A business major who hopes to pursue a career in business finance.