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. […]

UCLA seniors compete in Pro Gymnastics Challenge

Last weekend at the Pro Gymnastics Challenge in Pennsylvania, seniors Alyssa Pritchett and Vanessa Zamarripa didn’t know whether they were competing as gymnasts for the last time in their lives or for the very first time as professionals. That’s because last weekend’s competition was the equivalent of a pilot episode for a new professional gymnastics […]

Gymnastics unexpectedly falls short in several individual events at NCAA finals

Standing sideways on the balance beam, freshman Danusia Francis paused, her focus visible on her face. She took a deep inhale before flipping through the air in an inverted aerial, a move never before tried in a college competition – and one she only decided to try the night before.

Mansi Sheth: Hard end to a tough season for gymnastics

I blinked for a second during Vanessa Zamarripa’s vault in Saturday’s team finals. She landed on her knees and I blinked again. Wait, what? Was that practice? Did they not adjust the vault correctly? So many mouths in Pauley were open in sheer disbelief. If there was one thing that I never thought I would […]

UCLA finishes day three of NCAA gymnastics competition

After a roller-coaster two days of team competition, UCLA’s gymnasts had an equally mixed bag of results in today’s individual event championships. Freshman Danusia Francis had one of the day’s more dramatic moments during her performance on balance beam. Instead of doing a flip along the length of the beam, she attempted the more challenging […]