2023 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Ana Padurariu
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Sinclair Secondary School
- Hometown:
- Whitby, Ontario, Canada
- Previous School:
- Sinclair Secondary School
2023 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
2022 WCGA Scholastic All-American
2018 World beam silver medalist
Two-time World Championships beam finalist
2019 Canadian uneven bars champion
Best Marks
UB - 9.950, 3/5/23
BB - 9.950, 2/26/23
2023
Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll … Averaged 9.877 on bars, with all 13 routines scoring 9.8 or better and six of her last nine scoring 9.9 or higher … Recorded a season average of 9.826 on beam … Scored 9.800 on bars and 9.778 on beam at the NCAA Semifinals … Earned scores of 9.9 on bars at the NCAA Regional Second Round and Pac-12 Championship meets … Scored a new career-high of 9.95 on bars against Stanford … Recorded career-highs on both events she competed at Arizona, earning her first event victory with a 9.95 on beam and placing second on bars with a 9.9 … Scored 9.9 on beam at Cal to tie her career-high and help UCLA record a season-high total of 49.625 … Scored 9.875 on uneven bars against Oregon State and made her beam debut with an exhibition that scored 9.725 … Following the 2023 season, demo’d on beam at the Canadian Championships, her first elite competition in over three years.
2022
WCGA Scholastic All-American … Scored 9.900 in the leadoff position on beam in four meets, including at the Pac-12 Championships … Averaged a team-best 9.850 on beam and had five Top 3 finishes on the event … Earned a career-high 9.900 on uneven bars at the NCAA Regional Second Round to help UCLA record a season-best 49.475 on the event … Tied her then-career-high on uneven bars against Washington with a 9.850 to tie for third place and also placed third on beam with a 9.875 … Earned career-bests of 9.850 on uneven bars and 9.900 on balance beam against Utah (Feb. 4) … Scored 9.900 as leadoff on beam at Oregon State to lead the team and place third; also scored 9.775 on an exhibition bars performance … Scored 9.825 as leadoff on beam in the season opener at Minnesota.
Club
Canadian National Team member from 2015-20 … 2018 World silver medalist on balance beam … Also qualified for beam finals at the 2019 World Championships … All-around silver medalist at the 2019 World Cup in Stuttgart … Won four medals at the 2019 Canadian National Championships, winning uneven bars, placing second in the all-around and on beam and placing third on floor exercise … Also won gold medals in the all-around, bars, beam and floor at the 2019 Elite Canada … Repeated her all-around and beam wins at the 2020 Elite Canada and also placed second on floor … Won gold on uneven bars at the 2019 International Gymnix … Placed second in the all-around at the 2018 Elite Canada and was runner-up on uneven bars at the Canadian National Championships … Competing in the junior level, she swept the all-around and all four events at the 2017 Elite Canada and at the Canadian Championships … Won beam gold and vault bronze at the 2017 Jesolo Trophy … All-Around silver and floor bronze medalist at the 2017 Gymnix Junior Cup … Won four gold medals (all-around, bars, beam and floor) at the 2016 Pan American Championships … Won the 2016 Canadian junior all-around, bars and beam titles … Trained at Gemini Gymnastics.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is balance beam … Describes her greatest athletic thrill as landing her beam routine in the finals of the 2018 World Championships … Admires Ellie Black … Chose UCLA because of its prestige academically and its gymnastics atmosphere between athletes and coaches … Fluent in three languages (English, French and Romanian) … Full name is Anne-Marie Padurariu … Parents: Cristinel and Aida Padurariu … Has an older brother, Rares … Will be studying Physiological Science.
