University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Mohini Bhardwaj
June 21, 1999 | Gymnastics
Freshman
Cincinnati, OH
Brown's Gymnastics/Alexander Smith Academy
Club -- Three-year national team member who placed third at the 1997 U.S. Championships to qualify for the World Championships team ... Took fifth place on vault at the World Championships, the highest finish for an American on that event since Kerri Strug placed fifth in 1992 and the highest placing by any US gymnast that year ... Won the all-around and vault crowns at the 1996 Pacific Alliance Championships in Malaysia ... Placed 10th at the 1996 Olympic Trials ... Finished second on beam, fourth on vault and bars and sixth on floor at the 1996 National Championships ... Third-place finisher at the 1996 U.S. Classic ... Won the all-around, vault, bars and floor and placed second on beam at the 1996 Capital Cup ... Swept all four individual event titles at the 1996 Buckeye Classic and placed second in the all-around ... Placed fourth in the all-around, third on vault and beam and second on bars at the 1996 World Star competition in Moscow ... Won the vault at the 1995 Atlanta Gymnastics Invitational, the pre-Olympic event at the Georgia Dome ... Competed on the gold medal team at the 1995 Olympic Festival and won silvers on vault and beam ... Placed second on vault and third on beam at the 1994 Puerto Rico Cup ... Runner-up on bars at the 1992 Junior Nationals ... Coached by Rita Brown and former Soviet national team coach Alexander Alexandrov at Brown's Gymnastics from 1993-97 ... Trained at Queen City Gymnastics from 1982-92 under coaches Gary Warren and Pat Jones Warren.
Personal -- Name means "illusion" in Indian ... Moved to her own apartment in Houston, TX to train at the Brown's facility there ... Favorite apparatus is vault ... Hobbies include reading and dancing ... Describes her biggest athletic thrill as qualifying to the 1997 World Championships ... Full name is Mohini Bhardwaj ... Born September 29, 1978 in Philadephia, PA ... Undeclared major.
