Author Archives: Frank Portillo

UCLA’s gymnastics team is close to unbeatable ““ the Bruins say so themselves. “For the majority of the country to beat us, we’d have to have some falls and they would have to be completely flawless,” coach Valorie Kondos Field said. “I don’t think there’s any other team that can compete with us physically or […]

After a month of waiting, UCLA’s gymnastics team welcomes back a familiar face. All-American Jamie Dantzscher, who missed every meet this season due to an ankle injury, will make her debut for the Bruins today at Cal State Fullerton, and plans to take part in two to four events. “I’m really pumped,” Dantzscher said. “It’s […]

UCLA’s gymnastics team is filled with Olympians, All-Americans and athletes who have been heavily praised throughout their careers. And then there’s junior Kisha Auld. Auld had been out of gymnastics for five years prior to walking onto the team this season. Her discovery by the UCLA gymnastics program was a stroke of luck. After transferring […]

The UCLA gymnastics team just keeps rolling. Having won five straight, including Sunday’s season-best performance against Stanford, No. 2 UCLA travels to Berkeley today to take on Cal and Seattle Pacific in a triangular meet at 7:30 p.m. in Haas Pavilion. Coach Valorie Kondos Field will take tonight’s meet against two of the team’s more […]

Holly Murdock started the meet off with a big stumble on the vault, but that would be the last of UCLA’s problems. Sunday was a day of season bests in Pauley Pavilion, as the No. 3 UCLA gymnastics team set season high scores on both the vault and overall team score in a 197.975 to […]

After a shaky start to its season, the UCLA gymnastics team has regained its swagger and is beginning to resemble the team that was heavily favored to win the national championship early in the year. Following three consecutive road meets, during which the Bruins reasserted their dominance with two impressive victories, No. 6 UCLA (2-2) is […]

Two weeks ago, the UCLA gymnastics team began its season ranked No. 1 in the nation. Two weeks later, they still have a one in their ranking, but this time it’s followed by a zero. “Being ranked No. 10 doesn’t really mean anything to us,” senior Christy Erickson said. “It gives us incentive to go […]