2023 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Kalyany Steele
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Colorado Connections Academy
- Hometown:
- Colorado Springs, Colo.
Career Highlights
Scored career-high 9.925 on bars to tie for second against Utah 2/23/20
Four-time Director's Honor Roll member
Two-time P&G Championships competitor
Attended three U.S. National Team camps
2016 Level 10 state all-around and vault champion
Best Marks
UB - 9.925, 2/23/20
2023
Competed on bars in 11 meets and averaged 9.799, scoring 9.825 or higher six times … Scored 9.775 at the NCAA Regional Final to help the Bruins qualify for the NCAA Championships … Scored 9.875 against Iowa State on Senior Day … Set a new season-high with a 9.9 against Stanford Mar. 5 … Placed fourth on bars at Arizona, scoring 9.8 … Scored a then-season-high 9.85 against Oregon State … Tied for fourth on bars at Washington with a 9.825.
2022
Made her season debut on Feb. 27 vs. Washington, scoring 9.675 on uneven bars … Scored her season-best on uneven bars on Mar. 6 with a 9.800 … Named to the Director’s Honor Roll in Winter and Spring 2022 … Served for a second year on the Pac-12 Gymnasts for Peace, Action, and Change (G-PAC).
2021
Competed in two meets on uneven bars and exhibitioned in two others … Top competitive score was 9.75 at Utah, and she earned a high of 9.8 in an exhibition routine against Oregon State … Member of the Pac-12 Gymnasts for Peace, Action, and Change (G-PAC).
2020
Scored no lower than 9.85 on uneven bars in her last four meets and earned a career-high 9.925 to tie for second place against Utah … Placed third on bars with a 9.85 at Arizona State for her first Top 3 finish … Earned 9.85 on bars against Arizona, tying for fourth place … Scored 9.8 on bars in her collegiate debut … Named to the Director’s Honor Roll in Winter and Spring 2020.
Club
Placed 13th in the all-around at the 2017 P&G Championships … Third in the all-around and eighth on beam at the 2017 U.S. Classic … Was in sixth place in the all-around junior division at Day One of the 2016 P&G Championships before injuring her ankle on Day Two … Placed third on vault and sixth on beam in the junior division of the 2016 U.S. Classic … Fifth all-around at the 2016 American Classic … Attended three developmental camps and three national team camps … Won the all-around and vault championships at the 2016 Level 10 state meet … Trained at Colorado Aerials.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is uneven bars … The athletes she admires are Kyla Ross, Madison Kocian and all of her UCLA teammates, along with former Florida gymnast Kiersten Hines, who was her gymnastics big sister since she was 10 … Chose UCLA because it was important to be part of a team where her coaches/staff, teammates and support system care deeply about the whole person, not just the “athlete” … Hobbies include writing, dancing and singing … Full name is Kalyany Mllyse Steele … Born in Walnut Creek, Calif. … Parents: Darrin and Phoracsothy … Has a younger sister Akarea and younger brother Darrin Khan … Father Darrin and his twin brother Dan competed for USA Bobsled at the 1998 and 2002 Olympic Games … English major with a Creative Writing concentration.
