VALORIE KONDOS FIELD Head Coach / 27Th Season / UCLA ‘87
Coaches Biographies VALORIE KONDOS FIELD Head Coach / 27th Season / UCLA ‘87 UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field has positioned her Bruins as one of the premier programs in collegiate gymnastics. Not only has she consistently recruited and coached some of the top talent in the world, but she has produced the results. The Bruins won their fi rst NCAA championship in 1997 under Kondos Field and won again in back-to-back seasons in both 2000-2001 and 2003-2004. In 2010, UCLA won its sixth NCAA title with a 24-for-24 performance in the Super Six. UCLA has remained the Leader of the Pac under Kondos Field's tenure, winning 13 conference titles, including the inaugural Career Highlights Pac-12 title in 2012, to go along with 17 NCAA Regional titles. In 2015, UCLA won the NCAA • 2010, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1997 NCAA Regional title, and senior Samantha Peszek Championships won the NCAA all-around and beam titles, and • 2001, 2000, 1997, 1996 National Coach of the Year in 2016, UCLA won the Pac-12 team title, and senior Danusia Francis won a share of the NCAA • 4-time Conference Coach of the Year beam championship. • 17 Pac-12 Championships and 20 Regional Cham- Kondos Field has been selected by her peers pionships as head and assistant coach as the NACGC/W National Coach of the Year • Coached 17 athletes to 32 NCAA Individual Champi- four times (1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001) and onships as head and assistant coach was also named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 1995, 2000, 2003 and 2012.
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