Valorie Kondos Field

Valorie Kondos Field
Sport(s) Gymnastics
Current position
Title Head coach
Team UCLA
Conference Pac-12
Biographical details
Born August 20, 1959
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1983–1990
1991–present		 UCLA (Asst.)
UCLA
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

NCAA national championship (1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010)
Pac-12 championship (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012)

Awards

NACGC/W National Coach of the Year (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001)
Pac-12 Coach of the Year (1995, 2000, 2003, 2012)

Valorie Kondos Field (born August 20, 1959), née Valorie Kondos, often referred to as Miss Val, is an American gymnastics coach, and former ballet dancer and dance coach. She is the current head coach of the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Field's Bruins teams have won six national championships during her tenure as head coach.

Early life

Kondos (Field's maiden name) trained as a ballet dancer and trained at Sacramento Ballet, Capital City Ballet, and Washington, D.C. Ballet.[1] She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a student coach and choreographer for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team starting in 1983.

Coaching career

Field has 24 years experience as a collegiate gymnastics head coach. She's coached the Bruins to six NCAA national championships and 15 Pacific-12 Conference championships.[2]

Personal life

Valorie is married to UCLA Associate Athletic Director, Bobby Field. She trained as a professional ballet dancer and has performed with ballet companies such as Sacramento Ballet, Capital City Ballet and Washington, D.C. Ballet.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Power Panelist". Alumniday.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  2. ↑ "Valorie Kondos Field Biography - UCLA Bruins Official Athletic Site". UCLABruins.com. 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  3. ↑ http://www.uclabruins.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30500&ATCLID=207914419