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UCLA Women's Gymnastics - NCAA Championships (7)

2018 Championship

2018

Trailing two-time defending champion Oklahoma by .175 heading into the final rotation of the night, UCLA turned in a performance for the ages at the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships on Saturday evening, scoring an NCAA Championship record 49.75 on balance beam to earn the 2018 NCAA title at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis on April 21. The win marked the seventh NCAA gymnastics championship for UCLA, as the Bruins ended the evening with an overall score of 198.075, unseating the Sooners by 0.0375. The championship was decided on the event's final routine, where UCLA sixth-year senior Christine Peng-Peng Lee needed to score at least a 9.975 to give UCLA the title. She went a step further, scoring a perfect 10 to secure the program's first title since 2010. Prior to Lee's performance, Kyla Ross kept UCLA in it with an impressive 9.9875. Lee, competing in her final collegiate meet, tallied two perfect 10s on the night, also scoring one on the uneven bars, the second time this season she has scored two 10s in one meet. She finished her career with 10 perfect 10s.

2010 Championship

2010

UCLA had a near-perfect run in postseason competition, hitting 95 of 96 routines over four postseason meets en route to first-place finishes at the Pac-10 Championships, NCAA Regionals, NCAA Prelminaries and finally the NCAA Super Six Team Championships in Gainesville, Fla., site of UCLA's first-ever NCAA Gymnastics Championship win. In the team finals, the Bruins hit every routine without any major mistakes and outscored their nearest competitor by nearly half a point, recording 197.725 to runner-up Oklahoma's 197.25. UCLA needed to score 49.1 on floor exercise in the final rotation to win the title and did that with ease, scoring 49.55. Leadoff performer Tauny Frattone got things started with a 9.875, and the final four Bruins scored 9.9 or better to wrap up UCLA's sixth NCAA Women's Gymnastics title and UCLA's 105th overall NCAA crown. The Bruins added two more NCAA titles at the individual event finals when sophomore Vanessa Zamarripa won the vault crown and junior Brittani McCullough captured the floor exercise title.

2004 Championship

2004

Competing in front of a home crowd at Pauley Pavilion, UCLA won its fifth NCAA title with a record-breaking performance. The Bruins headed into the Championships on a bit of a mini-slump, having lost the Pac-10 Championships and having to count a fall in the final rotation at Regionals. Once at the NCAA Championships, however, the Bruins cast aside any doubt. UCLA qualified to the Super Six after a first-place showing in the team prelims and then put together a near-perfect display of gymnastics in the Super Six, hitting 24-for-24 routines, with 15 scores of 9.9 or higher to set an NCAA Super Six record of 198.125. UCLA scored 49.5 or higher on three of the four events, including a 49.6 on beam in its final rotation to sew up the victory with one rotation still to be completed.

2003 Championship

2003

With perhaps the greatest collection of gymnasts ever assembled on one collegiate team, UCLA claimed its third title in four years in Lincoln, Neb. The Bruins pulled away from a tight competition with a sparkling beam rotation. After struggling on beam in the preliminaries, Bruin head coach Valorie Kondos Field employed a brilliant strategy, putting in the extremely consistent Onnie Willis as the leadoff competitor. In the first leadoff beam performance of her career, Willis was not only steady but spectacular, scoring a 9.925 to set the table perfectly for her teammates, who responded by totaling a 49.525 to take a .475 lead over second-place Georgia after the fourth rotation. Alabama closed to within three-tenths of a point during rotation five, and the Bruins moved to floor with the chance to close it out. A fall in the middle of the rotation put pressure on the Bruins, but there was little doubt that the final two competitors would not respond like champions, and they did just that. Willis, the eventual Honda Award winner, scored a 9.9, and Jamie Dantzscher clinched the win with a 9.975. Individually, Richardson claimed the beam title and tied with Dantzscher for the bars title. Seniors Malia Jones, Kristin Parker, Carly Raab, Doni Thompson and Onnie Willis - the "Fab Five" - ended their careers with three NCAA team Championships.

2001 Championship

2001

UCLA continued its winning ways in 2001, scoring an amazing 20 perfect 10s during the season and capturing the NCAA title for the second consecutive year and claiming three individual nationals champions - UCLA's first all-around champion Onnie Willis, Yvonne Tousek on bars and Bhardwaj on floor. Bhardwaj went on to win the Honda Award as the nation's top gymnast, and Kondos earned her fourth national coach of the year title.

2000 Championship

2000

The Bruins were the nation's most dominant team in 2000, emerging as Pac-10, NCAA regional and NCAA national champions. UCLA hit 48 of 48 routines to win the NCAA competition in Boise, Idaho. Lena Degteva won an individual title on the balance beam and Mohini Bhardwaj took first place on the bars. Five Bruins earned a school-record 18 All-America honors. Valorie Kondos was the co-coach of the year.

1997 Championship

1997

The Bruins came up with a big performance on the uneven parallel bars to rally from behind and edge Pac-10-rival Arizona State 197.150-196.850 for their first NCAA women's gymnastics title, held in Gainesville, Florida. UCLA, the top-ranked team in the nation entering the season, won the Pac-10 championship behind the all-around performance of conference gymnast of the year Leah Homma. The Bruins then won the West Regionals with a meet-record score on the strength of individual titles from Amy Smith on the vault, Heidi Moneymaker on bars, and Lena Degteva on the beam. Coach Valorie Kondos' squad was the first team other than Georgia, Alabama, or Utah ever to win the NCAA crown.