Before giving its home crowd at Pauley Pavilion one final encore performance, UCLA gymnastics made sure to revisit its theme of the season. “Our theme for the year is to be maniacal … when it comes to details,” said coach Valorie Kondos Field. Read more...
Photo: Freshman Sonya Meraz said she is eager to save her best performance for the last home meet of the year Saturday. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The final score sheet is never the full story of a college gymnastics meet. What it displays is the six scores from every one of the four events. Read more...
Photo: Freshman Sonya Meraz started her rookie season performing exhibition routines, but she managed to translate that experience into a starting role, sometimes in all four apparatuses. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UCLA gymnastics team appeared to be switching up the lineup all over the place, but it was part of a plan. The meet against Arizona State on Saturday included a few noticeably altered lineup lists, which introduced some new faces on most events. Read more...
Photo: Freshman Sonya Meraz competed in three events against Arizona State. Meraz scored a 9.8 on the uneven bars, a 9.825 on the floor exercise and a 9.85 on the balance beam. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Bruin gymnasts lined up on the side of the floor exercise mat, cheering on their teammate who was performing a floor routine. The atmosphere in Yates Gymnasium on Thursday was just like that in Pauley Pavilion on a meet day. Read more...
Photo: Freshman Sonya Meraz and the rest of the UCLA gymnastics team have reached the goal of sticking 50 percent of their dismounts and have now upped the ante to 60 percent for the rest of the season. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Editor’s note: Each week, Daily Bruin Sports is offering an in-depth look at each of the four apparatuses in women’s competitive gymnastics through the perspectives of the UCLA gymnasts and coaches. Read more...
Photo: Amid speakers blasting the theme from the James Bond movies, the British-born junior Danusia Francis incorporates gestures that harken to the fictional British secret agent. Her dance elements, which include mimicking the firing of a handgun, have delighted the Pauley Pavilion crowd throughout the season. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
It came down to the last round of UCLA’s final rotation on floor to decide the winner of the gymnastics quad meet Saturday. The Bruins’ two leaders in the floor exercise – redshirt junior Sadiqua Bynum and junior Danusia Francis – rose to the occasion, posting career highs and leading UCLA to its first win over a top-10 team this year. Read more...
Photo: Junior Danusia Francis scored a career-best 9.950 on the floor exercise, leading UCLA to a quad meet win Saturday. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The floor at Pauley Pavilion will be a little bit different this weekend – a bit more crowded than usual. No. 9 UCLA gymnastics will host its first quad meet of the season Saturday, which means that four teams will be competing at once. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore Christine Peng-Peng Lee said the key for Bruins in their first quad meet of the season is to focus on their own team and not who they’re facing. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
