University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Women's Gymnastics Defeats Cal State Fullerton
January 17, 2000 | Gymnastics
Jan. 17, 2000
FULLERTON, Calif. -- UCLA beat Cal State Fullerton in a non-conference women's gymnastics meet Monday night in Titan Gym despite Fullerton setting a school record for team score.
The Bruins scored a 195.925-193.800 victory while sweeping the top three placings on the floor exercise and vault competitions and posting the top four all-around scores, led by Mohini Bhardwaj with a 39.150. Bhardwaj also won the balance beam with a career-high tying 9.925. UCLA's team leader in victories with seven, she has won the all-around in UCLA's last two meets and has scored 39+ in all three meets.
Heidi Moneymaker captured first place on vault (9.85, tied with Onnie Willis), bars (9.875) and floor (9.9, tied with Lena Degteva). Moneymaker scored a 39.0 in the all-around to place third.
Freshman Kristin Parker set a new career-high with a second-place all-around score of 39.05. She also tied her career-high with a 9.8 on beam. Malia Jones also set new career-highs in the all-around (38.875, fourth place), vault (9.75) and bars (9.75).
Also recording career-best scores were Willis on vault, Doni Thompson on beam (9.8, third place) and Fullerton native Valerie Velasco on beam (9.85, second place).
UCLA's team score was the second-highest in the nation this season, behind its 196.3 scored last Friday at Arizona.
The event results:
Vault 1T. Heidi Moneymaker 9.850 1T. Onnie Willis 9.850 3. Mohini Bhardwaj 9.825 5T. Lena Degteva 9.750 5T. Malia Jones 9.750 7. Kristin Parker 9.725Bars 1. Moneymaker 9.875 2. Katie Antolin (CSF) 9.850 3. Joanna Hughes (CSF) 9.825 4. Parker 9.800 5. Jones 9.750 6. Doni Thompson 9.725 9. Bhardwaj 9.525 11. Willis 8.650
Beam 1. Bhardwaj 9.925 2. Valerie Velasco 9.850 3T. Kelly Mathiasen (CSF) 9.800 3T. Parker 9.800 3T. Thompson 9.800 11. Jones 9.600 12. Moneymaker 9.375
Floor 1T. Degteva 9.900 1T. Moneymaker 9.900 3. Bhardwaj 9.875 4T. Willis 9.800 6. Jones 9.775 8T. Parker 9.725
