In the first half of its season, UCLA gymnastics has seen its ranking steadily fall, to the point that it goes into this weekend’s competition in Pauley Pavilion barely holding onto a spot in the top 10. The team has steadily slid away from its No. 4 preseason ranking and, despite being originally picked to […]
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UCLA gymnastics bests California in high-pressure meet
In two of its past three meets, UCLA gymnastics’ lowest event total has come from beam. Performances on that event have been plagued by mistakes and falls to the point that coach Valorie Kondos Field doubled the amount of time each of her athletes spent on beam in practice. So when the team faced beam […]
UCLA gymnastics to battle No. 22 California in Berkeley
The moment then-freshman Danusia Francis made history as the first to attempt and land a unique side aerial on the beam in last year’s NCAA individual finals, UCLA gymnastics’ future on beam looked bright. It seemed even brighter when, in the team’s first meet this year, redshirt junior Samantha Peszek returned from an Achilles injury […]
Clutch performance propels Bruin gymnasts past Beavers
As No. 6 UCLA gymnastics entered the last rotation of Sunday’s meet against No. 14 Oregon State , the Beavers had cut the Bruins’ lead to .525. After uncharacteristic falls plagued the Bruins on beam and allowed the Beavers to close the gap, the UCLA team needed its performance on floor to be error-free to […]
UCLA gymnast Hallie Mossett competes after overcoming years of injuries
Three years ago, as she sat in the passenger seat of a car navigating the relatively slow surface streets of Los Angeles gridlock, UCLA gymnastics freshman Hallie Mossett seemed about as sheltered as she could possibly be from a career-altering injury. It wasn’t an uneven bars dismount gone wrong or even a high-flying vault that […]
Bruins to face Gators in gymnastics opener at UCLA
On Saturday, UCLA gymnastics starts this season off exactly as it finished 2013 – squaring off against Florida on the mats of Pauley Pavilion. And, in an exact mirroring of the way both finished the 2013 season, UCLA comes in ranked No. 4 after placing fourth at the NCAA championships, while Florida, coming off its […]
UCLA gymnastics begins promising season with young, bonded team
UCLA gymnastics starts the year ranked in thetop five of the preseason coaches poll and, for the third straight year, first in the preseason Pac-12 poll. These rankings come at the heels of the team’s higher-than-expected fourth-place finish at last year’s NCAA championships and its recent string of NCAA titles under coach Valorie Kondos Field. […]