Bru-105: UCLA Women Gymnastics Brings Home Another Championship
by Nestor on Apr 24, 2010 10:07 AM PDT
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Championship number 105 (emphasis ours):
Gainesville, Fla. - Needing to score 49.1 on floor exercise in the final rotation to win the NCAA Championship, UCLA scored 49.55 to easily win the title with a 197.725. The gymnastics championship was UCLA's sixth in school history and its first since 2004. UCLA has now won a national-best 105 NCAA titles.
Oklahoma finished in second place with 197.25. Alabama was third with 197.225, followed by Stanford with 197.1, Florida with 197.0 and Utah with 196.225.
The Bruins had 11 scores of 9.9 or better, including a 9.95 on floor from Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs and a 9.95 on vault from Brittani McCullough. Vanessa Zamarripa's all-around score of 39.625 was the highest of the night, followed by Anna Li's 39.575.
Read rest of the release here.
Congrats to Coach Valorie Kondos Field and her entire staff for another amazing season. As A noted earlier this week Coach Kondos and Coach John Wooden are good friends (unlike the imaginary friendship former men's basketball coach often played up in the press) and she often uses many of his coaching techniques. Suffice to say if she keeps this up she will carve out her special place in the UCLA lore. Actually she already has.
Amazing coach whose team put together an electric performance to cap another amazing team this season.
GO BRUINS.
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Congrats to all the team
for an incredible season. We’re all very proud of our Bruins!!
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
These Bruin women deserve this chance to shine.
They are everything good about sports at UCLA.
Too bad we don’t have a men’s team, or a men’s crew team, et cetera, because of the Federal government’s continued, formulaic, “zero sum” interpretation of Title 9 that forces great schools like UCLA to eliminate men’s teams under the name of “equality.”
This is not the fault of these sensational Bruin athletes of whom we all can and should be proud, but of a misguided government policy. Hopefully, sanity will return and the men’s teams will be restored, too, just not in my lifetime.
GO BRUINS!
Congrats Ladies
Well deserved
EGO TROIORUM MALLEUS SUM
UCLLLA
Congratulations bruins! UCLA bringing home NCAA Championship #105 sounds great. Go Bruins!!
by UclaCO2007 on Apr 24, 2010 1:08 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Our. Bruins. ROCK.
I still have a hard time with sports that have such subjective scoring (gymnastics, figure skating, etc., because a hard routine should be scored like a hard routine whether you’re 1st or 6th in rotation) but I certainly admire and respect the way Coach Val gets our Bruins to perform at such high-pressure level of competition.
Coach Val is a worthy successor to the legacy of Coach JRW. Coach Val motivates and mentors her kids, and even if the scores don’t always show it, I’ve been to more than few meets with my wife and kids, and there is something in how they prep, perform, and support each other, something intangible in how they compete every time.
That is EXCELLENCE. Pure and simple.
CONGRATS, BRUINS!!! WAY TO STICK THE LANDING!
M
"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008
And McCullogh did this while being in a grueling Nursing program.
(Not taking ballroom dancing and Senora Ross.)
Congrats yet again
Ms Kondos-Field and hr fantastic Bruin ladies have once again elevated UCLA to the top. Other info concerning this team showcased their academic achievements truly showing the term student-athlete AND in its rightful order. So we do not have mens gymnastics or mens crew we have football. Remember more than 50 % of worlds population is female and they control over 54% of the wealth. Give the ladies their props without sniveling about lack of certain mens teams.
Congratulations, Ladies and Coach Val!
We are all proud of your athletic accomplishments as student-athletes, especially this year. Likewise, we are proud that aside from high athletic goals, the high GPA/academic expectations are not lost in the shuffle. That’s what makes a true Bruin student-athlete.
Sincerely,
UCLAngels ’08
Congratulations on the national championship!
While I regret that the five-time defending national champion Gym Dogs did not even make it to the NCAA Championships, some of the sting was taken out of Georgia’s sub-par gymnastics season by the Bruins’ victory.
Thanks for vanquishing Alabama and Florida for us. We’ll see y’all at the NCAA Championships in 2011.
Go 'Dawgs!
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