Valorie Kondos Field Archives

Gymnast to Coaching: Embracing New Roles in a New Chapter

Throughout a twenty-year career in the sport, beginning with the first gymnastics class and ending with the last competition, the

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that sports are more fun when you have a team to root for (or against,

There’s an extra burden the head coach of UCLA gymnastics carries that no other coach in the sport does: They’re

What a surprising bit of news! In case you’ve been offline the past couple of days, UCLA announced Cal assistant

California assistant coach Janelle McDonald has been announced as UCLA’s next head gymnastics coach, the school announced Monday. McDonald succeeds

2022 is a special year—it marks the 40th anniversary of NCAA gymnastics. Since its first season in 1982, many teams

Unless you’ve been watching The Weather Channel 24/7 this week, you’ve probably been one of the 12-plus million viewers who

There’s a lot that happens on the gymternet each week. So much so that it can be hard to keep

“That coach seems like one of the good ones.” We have probably all, at one time or another, thought that

Everyone loves looking at pictures from meets and of their favorite gymnasts, so much so that we needed a part