UCLA Gymnastics dominated the Pac-12 All-Century Team, with 12 Bruins selected to the 16-gymnast roster, in addition to current head coach Valorie Kondos Field being named Coach of the Century and Tasha Schwikert being selected the Gymnast of the Century.

Also selected to the All-Century team from UCLA were Jill Andrews (balance beam), Mohini Bhardwaj (all-around, uneven bars, floor exercise), Jamie Dantzscher (floor exercise, all-around), Kim Hamilton (floor exercise), Kristen Maloney (vault), Heidi Moneymaker (vault), Samantha Peszek (balance beam, all-around), Kate Richardson (floor exercise), Schwikert (all-around), Sharon Shapiro (all-around), Stella Umeh (floor exercise) and Vanessa Zamarripa (vault).

Four different decades are represented among the 16 gymnasts. Seven all-century team members have competed in the Olympics, winning a total of five medals (two silver, three bronze). Additionally, all 16 gymnasts have won at least one NCAA/AIAW individual championship, winning a total of 36 NCAA individual titles.

Kondos Field has been with the Bruins as a head coach since 1991. She coached UCLA to six NCAA titles (1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010), and is a four-time NACGC/W National Coach of the Year (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001) and four-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (1995, 2000, 2003, 2012). She has won 12 Pac-12 titles and 17 Regional titles, and UCLA gymnasts have won 27 NCAA individual titles since she has been head coach. She entered the 2016 season with an overall regular season record of 468-109-2 (.809 winning percentage) and was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010, becoming just the second active head coach ever to be inducted.

Schwikert competed for the Bruins from 2005-08 and won two NCAA all-around titles, as well as the 2008 NCAA uneven bars title. She captured her first title as a freshman in 2005, and, as a senior in 2008, she won the all-around again and also captured the uneven bars title, placed second on floor exercise and eighth on vault. Prior to UCLA, Schwikert was a member of the 2000 Olympic Team, where she helped Team USA win bronze. She was also the 2004 Olympic Alternate for Team USA. In all, Schwikert is a two-time NCAA all-around champion (2005, 2008), 2008 NCAA bars champion, a 12-time All-American (2005 all-around, vault, bars, beam, floor; 2007 all-around, vault, bars; 2008 all-around, vault, bars, floor), a seven-time Pac-10 champion (2005 all-around, bars; 2007 all-around, vault, beam, floor; 2008 bars) and the 2007 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year. In 2008, she became the first UCLA gymnast and only the seventh woman ever to win multiple NCAA all-around titles.

Andrews (1987-90) won NCAA titles on vault in 1988 and balance beam in 1989 and was the 1990 Honda Award winner and the 1988 and 1990 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year. She earned first-team All-America honors eight times, won six Pac-10 titles and won the NCAA Top VI Award in 1990. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.

Bhardwaj (1998-2001) holds the second-highest all-around score in NCAA history with a 39.975. She won the Honda Award and the AAI Award in 2001 and captured NCAA titles on uneven bars in 2000 and on floor exercise in 2001. She was the first gymnast in Pac-12 history to win back-to-back conference titles in the all-around and on vault, accomplishing that feat in 2000 and 2001. Following her collegiate career, Bhardwaj was co-captain of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, leading the squad to a silver medal. The 11-time All-American is a member of two Halls of Fame – the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Dantzscher (2001-04) won a total of four NCAA individual championships, capturing the all-around, vault and floor titles in 2002 and the bars title in 2003. She holds the UCLA school record for most career perfect 10 routines with 28, most perfect 10s on floor with 17 on floor and most on bars with seven. She also set a national record with seven consecutive perfect 10s on floor in 2002. A 2000 Olympic bronze medalist, Dantzscher was the 2002 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and a three-time Pac-10 event champion. She won a total of 15 All-America honors.

Hamilton (1987-90) still remains the only woman in history to win three consecutive NCAA titles on floor exercise, winning from 1987-89. She also won the NCAA vault title in 1989 and was a six-time first-team All-American. She won a school record-tying seven NCAA regional titles over her career, including three each in the all-around and on floor exercise, and she also was a two-time Pac-10 uneven bars and floor exercise champion. Hamilton was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000.

Nine-time All-American Maloney (2001-05) captured the NCAA vault and balance beam titles as a fifth-year senior in 2005 en route to winning the Honda Award. She was also the West Region and Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and won the Pac-10 all-around, vault, uneven bars and floor exercise titles in 2005. She scored 10 perfect 10s in her career and became the first gymnast in UCLA history to score a perfect 10 on every apparatus. Maloney, a bronze medalist at the 2000 Olympics, was also the first gymnast to win Pac-10 individual titles on every event and the all-around over her career.

Moneymaker (1997-2000) helped lead UCLA to its first two NCAA Championships in 1997 and 2000. She also won the NCAA uneven bars crown in 1998 and the vault title in 1999 while competing one of the hardest vaults in the competition on two sprained ankles. The 2000 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year was a 12-time All-American and a three-time Pac-10 champion.

Peszek (2011-15) finished her UCLA career last season as a 17-time All-American and a three-time NCAA champion. She captured the 2015 NCAA all-around and balance beam titles and the 2011 balance beam crown. She also won a school-record-tying seven NCAA Regional titles and was a three-time Pac-12 champion, winning balance beam in 2014 and 2015 and floor exercise in 2015. Peszek is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame as part of the 2007 World Championship team. She also captured silver at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Richardson (2003-06) is a three-time NCAA individual champion, winning uneven bars and balance beam as a freshman in 2003 and floor exercise as a senior in 2006. The 13-time All-American and 2006 NCAA Top VIII Award winner was the 2006 Pac-10 Gymnast of the year and won the Pac-10 all-around and floor exercise titles in 2003 and the floor exercise crown in 2002. Richardson ranks third all-time at UCLA with nine perfect 10s, including a school-record four on balance beam. She competed at her second Olympic Games while at UCLA in 2004 and was a finalist on floor exercise.

Shapiro (1980-82) remains the only gymnast ever to sweep the all-around and all four events at the national championships in the same year, doing so at the 1980 AIAW Championship. She won the Honda Award in 1981 after repeating as AIAW national all-around and vault champion. In 1999, Shapiro became the first UCLA female gymnast to be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Umeh (1995-98) helped lead UCLA to its first NCAA team title in 1997 and started and ended her career as the NCAA floor exercise champion in 1995 and 1998. The 1998 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year won a total of seven Pac-10 titles, including two all-around crowns, and was a 10-time All-American. Umeh, who competed at the 1992 Olympics, was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

UCLA’s all-time leader in All-America honors with 19, Zamarripa (2009-13) won the 2010 NCAA vault title while competing one of the hardest vaults ever done in NCAA competition (Yurchenko half on, front layout half). She also led UCLA to the NCAA team title that season and was a two-time Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year (2010 and 2013). Zamarripa scored nine perfect 10s on vault in her career and made the U.S. National Team in 2010 while still competing for the Bruins.

Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics All-Century Team
Samantha Peszek – UCLA, 2011-15 (Balance Beam, All-Around)
Joy Selig – Oregon State, 1988-91 (Balance Beam)
Jill Andrews – UCLA, 1987-90 (Balance Beam)
Kim Hamilton – UCLA, 1987-90 (Floor Exercise)
Stella Umeh – UCLA, 1995-98 (Floor Exercise)
Jamie Dantzscher – UCLA, 2001-04 (Floor Exercise, All-Around)
Kate Richardson – UCLA, 2003-06 (Floor Exercise)
Georgia Dabritz – Utah, 2012-2015 (Uneven Bars)
Jackie Brummer – Arizona State, 1983-86 (Uneven Bars)
Carly Janiga – Stanford, 2007-10 (Uneven Bars)
Vanessa Zamarripa – UCLA, 2009-13 (Vault)
Kristen Maloney – UCLA, 2001-05 (Vault)
Heidi Moneymaker – UCLA, 1997-2000 (Vault)
Tasha Schwikert – UCLA, 2005-08 (All-Around)
Mohini Bhardwaj – UCLA, 1998-2001 (All-Around, Floor Exercise, Uneven Bars)
Sharon Shapiro – UCLA, 1980-82 (All-Around)

Coach of the Century
Valorie Kondos Field – UCLA, 1991-present

Gymnast of the Century
Tasha Schwikert – UCLA, 2005-08