2014 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Mikaela Gerber
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- Galt Collegiate Institute
- Hometown:
- Cambridge, Ontario
Career Highlights
Three-time NACGC/W Scholastic All-American
Three-time Pac-12 All-Academic
Finished her career with 37 consecutive hit routines
2011 World Championships competitor
Two-time silver medalist at 2011 Pan American Games
Best Marks
V - 9.625 (ex.), 3/1/14
BB - 9.925, 3/6/16
FX - 9.850, last 3/21/15
2017
Went 11-for-11 for the season and finished her career with 28-straight hit beam routines and 37-straight hit routines overall … First-team Pac-12 All-Academic honoree … Scored a season-best 9.9 at Pac-12 Championships to lead UCLA to a season-high 49.575 beam score … Had a competition streak of 24-straight meets snapped on Feb. 18 at Utah when she injured her foot in warmups and was held out of competition for three meets … Returned to competition Mar. 5 vs. Cal and scored 9.8 on beam to lead UCLA to a then-season-high score of 49.55 … Five of her 11 leadoff beam routines scored 9.85 … Earned her first career victory, tying for first on beam with a 9.85 vs. Arkansas in the leadoff spot … Earned the Athletic Director’s Academic Excellence Award and was named to the UCLA All-Academic Team.
2016
NACGC/W Scholastic All-American with a 3.81 GPA for the year … Second-team Pac-12 All-Academic … Scored 9.8 or higher on 10 of her last 11 leadoff beam routines, including two scores of 9.9 or higher … Scored 9.875 as the beam leadoff at the NCAA Super Six … Led UCLA to a 49.575 beam score at Pac-12 Championships with a leadoff score of 9.9 … Scored a career-high 9.925 on beam vs. Stanford/Georgia to place third and also added a season-high-tying 9.825 on floor … Tied for third on beam with a 9.825 and recorded a season-high 9.825 on floor vs. ASU … Scored a career-high 9.875 on beam at Washington to tie for third place … Led UCLA to a then-season-high 49.5 team beam score against Oregon State with a 9.825 leadoff score … Tied her career-high on beam at Cal with a second-place score of 9.85 and also made her season debut on floor as a last-minute sub and scored 9.8 … Earned a then-career-high 9.85 on beam as the leadoff at Florida.
2015
NACGC/W Scholastic All-American with a 3.70 GPA for the year … Honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic … Averaged 9.814 on floor … Scored 9.8 five times on beam, including twice in the leadoff position … Scored career-highs of 9.85 on floor in three of her last five performances, including at the Pac-12 Championships and on Mar. 7 vs. Stanford to help the Bruins earn a season-high team score of 49.625 … Hit her first 10 routines of the year and 17 of 18 overall … Scored 9.8 on both beam and floor at the NCAA Regionals … Scored 9.8 on beam in the Feb. 21 quad meet to help the Bruins score a season-high 49.525 … Earned a career-high 9.85 on floor at Stanford … Recorded her third 9.8 score on beam in the win over Cal … Tied her career-best on floor at Utah with a 9.825 and recorded a leadoff 9.675 on beam … Tied her career-high on beam (9.8) and set a new best on floor (9.825) vs. Arizona … Scored a career-high 9.8 on beam and 9.725 on floor to place fifth on each event at Oregon State.
2014
NACGC/W Scholastic All-American with a 3.5 GPA … Made her UCLA debut with an exhibition beam performance at Cal that scored 9.375 … Competed for the first time vs. ASU and scored 8.8 on beam … Hit two exhibition routines at Arizona, scoring 9.75 on beam and 9.625 on vault … Scored 9.625 on beam and 9.5 on vault in exhibition performances Mar. 16.
Club
Key member of the Canadian National Team that placed 11th at the 2011 World Championships … Two-time silver medalist at the 2011 Pan American Games, capturing second place on floor and in the team competition … Placed 12th in the all-around, fourth on beam and eighth on vault at the 2012 Canadian Championships … Fifth on bars, fourth on floor and seventh in the all-around at the 2012 Elite Canada … Won the floor exercise title at the 2010 Elite Canada and was fifth in the all-around and on bars and beam … At the junior level, she was a silver all-around medalist at the 2010 and 2009 Canadian Championships … Honored in 2013 with a KW Oktoberfest Rogers Woman of the Year award … Trained at Oakville Gymnastics Club.
Personal
Hobbies include reading, dancing and singing … Older sister Aisha Gerber competed at UCLA from 2009-12 and was a three-time All-American … Full name is Mikaela Dawn Gerber … Parents: Keith and Joan Gerber … Has two older siblings, Aisha and Zach … Born in Cambridge, Ontario … Psychology major … Has career aspirations to be a neuro-researcher.
