Author Archives: Anand Gandhi

With their entire season on the line, the Bruins know that it will take nothing less than perfection to win it all in Utah as they compete for the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship.

Last season, the UCLA women’s gymnastics team failed to qualify for the NCAA Championships for the first time in 15 seasons. This year, the team was determined not to let failure haunt their dreams once again. “Out of all my years of coaching, this one means more to me than ever before,” coach Valorie Kondos […]

Every team works hard for one ultimate goal and no matter how many injuries they face, no matter how much they have trained, and no matter what they accomplished in the season, only one thing matters at the end ““ the championship. Coming fresh off its best performance of the season, the Pac-10-champion women’s gymnastics […]

After a big victory at the Pac-10 Championships, the women’s gymnastics team hoped to land a spot in a regional close to home. Instead, the eighth-ranked Bruins received a trip across the nation to West Virginia for the NCAA Southeast Regionals. “It is just a long day,” coach Valorie Kondos Field said. “We have to […]

With one final rotation remaining and Pac-10 rival Stanford putting on the pressure, the UCLA women’s gymnastics team decided that it had come too far to let this one slip away. The Bruins entered the Pac-10 Championships in Tempe, Ariz., coming off of a disappointing loss to the Cardinal, and after losing to them twice […]

No matter how hard they try, it seems as if the UCLA women’s gymnastics team just cannot dodge adversity. In fact, they have dealt with it so many times this season that the team has become quite good at dealing with it. “Everyone is just prepared to do what they have to do regardless of […]

A week after defeating SEC rival Georgia, the fifth-ranked UCLA gymnastics team will head to the South to take on fourth-ranked Alabama in yet another dual meet against the SEC. The Bruins are coming off of their best performance of the season, posting a season-high team score of 197.15. The team had a tremendous meet, […]