Valorie Kondos Field was on a roll. The UCLA gymnastics coach, sitting in between Oklahoma coach K.J. Kindler and Utah’s Tom Farden, wasn’t just talking about what she saw in the first NCAA semifinal Friday afternoon. Kondos Field was also raving and gushing about everything else gymnastics: the camaraderie of the sport, the rapidly growing […]
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UCLA gymnastics earns fourth-place finish at NCAA Super Six
ST. LOUIS — The scores kept getting bigger and bigger for UCLA gymnastics. In the hunt for the program’s seventh national championship, the Bruins came out slow on vault before building momentum and hitting their routines over the final three rotations. “(Vault) is our weakest event, and in order to do really well we just […]
UCLA gymnastics heads to Super Six after standout semifinal routines
This post was updated April 14 at 10 p.m. ST. LOUIS — Even the always-dancing coach Valorie Kondos Field felt it when her team went to balance beam. Watching the high-level gymnastics at Chaifetz Arena was offset by nervousness in competing alongside five of the nation’s top 12 teams for three spots in the NCAA […]
Practice sessions see gymnastics optimistic about Super Six chances
Last year, UCLA gymnastics pushed through the national semifinals to reach the Super Six, where the team finished in fifth place. Now, the Bruins are again one step away from returning to the Super Six and coach Valorie Kondos Field believes her team’s training sessions in preparation for the trip to St. Louis had championship-level […]
Gymnastics qualifies for NCAA semifinals despite low-scoring meet
No. 5 UCLA gymnastics advanced to the national semifinals in St. Louis with the lowest score of the six regional champions. The other five scored above 197, while the Bruins posted a 196.8, far below the school’s regular season average of 197.121. Regardless, the team felt like it had a good meet. “We felt like […]
Gymnastics takes home first place at NCAA regional meet
No. 5 UCLA gymnastics needed one more victory to get to St. Louis, the site of the 2017 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships. Despite score-killing miscues on the balance beam to open the meet, the team navigated the tricky NCAA regional waters on Saturday, scoring a 196.800 and claiming a spot in national semifinals with […]
UCLA gymnastics stumbles in Pac-12 championship, earns third place
Gymnastics is not a sport structured around halves, but No. 3 UCLA looked like two different teams in the first two rotations and second two rotations. The team in the first half of Saturday’s Pac-12 women’s gymnastics championship looked tense and uptight. As such, the Bruins (9-2, 5-1 Pac-12) were mistake-prone and finished tied for […]