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#2 UCLA Gymnastics Opens 2013 Season with a win over SUU

The #2 ranked UCLA Bruins opened their 2013 season today at Pauley Pavillion against Southern Utah. The Bruins aimed to avoid a repeat of the 2011 match up where #5 UCLA was upset by #23 Southern Uta...

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Allison 2 years ago

Allison Taylor has a scholarship to UCLA, she also has one of (if not THE) highest GPA's on the team. She is extremely intelligent, hard working and talented!

Danielle 2 years ago

would've argued*

Danielle 2 years ago

This thread contains a post from her mother in which she alludes to the fact that Allison has a scholarship when she refers to it as "her [Allison's] scholarship." Surely, her mother would argue that the negative comments regarding Allison's right to a scholarship were irrelevant if Allison did not, in fact, have a scholarship. Her username "ATsMom."

collegegymnasticsboard.yuku.com/reply/17020/t/UCLA-Bruin-Allison-Taylor.html#reply-17020

AllieHH 2 years ago

So basically, you guys have no definite proof that she is on scholarship? The point of this is not to start an argument. I'm just establishing that it is not published anywhere or anything like that. You just have to infer.

Danielle 2 years ago

Oh, I would pay money to see that floor routine. I so wish it got recovered! Anyone out there in the meet audience who happened to tape this thing? Anyone, anyone???

I would also pay to see that routine... I really hope someone taped it!

Megan 2 years ago

Oh, I would pay money to see that floor routine. I so wish it got recovered! Anyone out there in the meet audience who happened to tape this thing? Anyone, anyone???

Kyle From Gymnastike 2 years ago

Notice UCLA never travels Greig, Shannon, Kozai...even when there's room... UCLA doesn't bring non-scholarship, non-performers to away meets. Never has. Tom, Sato, and sometimes Kushynski travel because they are used in line-ups/exhibitions. Pritchett and Hyland get to go somewhere like Cal once a year. Scholarship girls typically travel, performing or not, unless there's a specific situational reason leave them behind.

Tom, Sato always travel. Kozai has traveled to every meet this year. Taylor had a good floor routine.. just one of the few routines I couldn't recover!:(

Tkatchev 2 years ago

Notice UCLA never travels Greig, Shannon, Kozai...even when there's room... UCLA doesn't bring non-scholarship, non-performers to away meets. Never has. Tom, Sato, and sometimes Kushynski travel because they are used in line-ups/exhibitions. Pritchett and Hyland get to go somewhere like Cal once a year. Scholarship girls typically travel, performing or not, unless there's a specific situational reason leave them behind.

Jason from Gymnastike 2 years ago

Tkatchev- the travel squad in college gymnastics is 15 gymnasts and only 12 can be on scholarship, though you are right that Allison is on scholarship, there are gymnasts that travel that aren't on scholarship. Now not all programs travel 15 athletes but that is what they are allowed. So to say because she is traveling she is on scholarship is not correct on every occasion (except for Utah most years as they rarely have more then 12-13 on their team).

Tkatchev 2 years ago

Do you think she is on a academic scholarship now. [?]

Nope. I know for certain that she is on *athletic* scholarship. People who keep up generally know this. But if it helps you understand, one way you can 'tell' is that she gets to travel to away meets in which she does not perform (either compete or exhibition). Only girls on athletic scholarship get that privilege as the travel budget does not extend to non-performing walk-ons.

calvarado 2 years ago

Do you think she is on a academic scholarship now.

Any ways, i love the girl. She is a true bruin.

Tkatchev 2 years ago

@ Hay
No one has attacked her personality by any stretch of the imagination. Nor has anyone suggested that the responsibility for assigning scholarships falls to anyone other than Miss Val. There is an onus on athletes, however, for the state of their training and performance. The facts of her athletic career and the manner in which she represents UCLA are in the public domain and up for discussion, period. If you can't cope with that, discontinue reading.
AT's mother is a long-running contributor on GGMB, a far less kid-gloved forum. She doesn't get defensive or try to play censure. I reckon you don't need to either.

Cynthia Ro 2 years ago

I wonder if Allison has dirt on Miss Val. This has blackmail written all over it!

Hay 2 years ago

I understand that it may not be fair, considering I was a non scholarship athlete myself but to attack her personally and to talk poorly of her on here is wrong. No matter what the situation is, I'm sure that she is not at fault. Sure there may be girls who contribute more and they probably should get the scholarship.. its just not fair to bash her on here when she has obviously done nothing wrong, the coaches are responsible for deciding who gets to keep their scholarships.

Syd 2 years ago

This year the 12 scholarships are: McCullough, Taylor, Zamarripa, EHH, Gerber, Frattone, Baer, De la Torre, Wong, Peszek, Courtney, Sawa.

Liz 2 years ago

Just curious, how do you know which athletes are on scholarship and which aren't?

Megan 2 years ago

Well the reason we don't leave her alone, Hay, is because we obviously think there is something wrong with this picture. Apparently you do not. I guess this situation is acceptable to you.

I'm sure Allison is a nice girl and all and it's nothing personal. But facts are facts, and the fact is, Allison doesn't compete much, and usually when she does, she messes up. This is not true of all athletes - it's not "normal" for everyone. I think it is quite natural to feel it is incorrect that she receives $40K a year for this.

Hay 2 years ago

Will everyone just leave this girl alone! first of all the part of the routine she messed up is actually not an easy combination, lots of girls aren't able to uphill out of a blind half straddle hand, competing it at one point, i know it is not an easy combination. And the fact that she is on scholarship is the coaches doing and she is not going to just give up her education being paid for at a school like UCLA, none of you would either! So why dont you leave her alone and worry about yourselves.

thelastword 2 years ago

Well ladies and gentlemen- the fact that Miss Val keeps athletes like this (while likely VERY pleasant and supportive) whom are unable to achieve the high scores is part of the reason that teams such as SUU are able to maximize their abilities and WIN over the reigning national champions. Good work Scott Bauman on recruiting athletes are get it done in the gym AND the classroom.

Megan 2 years ago

I don't understand Allison's mistake there. She makes her Tkatchev and falters on a transition to high bar?

I was at a home meet last year where she also competed (only other time I saw her compete) and she really had a tough time. Two falls I think.

I want to believe she is on scholarship for a good reason, but I can't really reconcile that in my mind when I look at her results.

fan 2 years ago

I thought Niki did get a scholarship? You go on the UCLA website and ask Miss Val about the Allison Taylor scholarship.

Syd 2 years ago

If she's having a good experience and isn't bringing down the team, well then live and let live.

That's a nice warm and fuzzy mantra, but it ignores some of the realities of the situation that have understandably caused consternation.

Scholarships to UCLA have a value circa 40k per year. They are not awarded so that their recipients can have a jolly time. They're given in exchange for hard work and athletic contributions. A scholarship is subject to annual renewal; it's not a 4 year deal. Coaches of top teams expect their scholarship athletes to contribute regularly to the line-up and team score. When when situations arise where athletes fail to do so, adjustments are typically made. For example, last season Greg Marsden did not renew Megan Whtney or Katelyn Mohr... both were promising recruits on video who ultimately were nowhere near being able to help the Utah team score after getting to campus. UGA usually gives girls 2 years to adjust to college. Jay's comments in the press indicate he expects Kati Breazeal to get it together this year. In the past, Valorie Kondos regularly removed athletes from the roster/scholarship who didn't have it together. Allison's situation is unique. No one in the history of the team has been able to remain on scholarship for 4 years and contribute so little actual gymnastics. Valorie has been tight lipped about Ally in the press. She wasn't so mum about past non-contributors and problem children. Moreover, Nikki Tom and Mizuki Sato, walk ons, picked up the slack and contributed to the team score on multiple events week in and week out without being duly rewarded. It's beyond ridiculous that Taylor has been on scholarship while these 2 haven't. So that begs the question: Why? Anyone close to the program will tell you: because she's from WOGA.

The criticisms and frustrations are warranted. But at the end of the day Ally is laughing her way to the bank... so don't feel too bad for her. Maybe if she uses that sociology degree to become a millionaire, she'll remember her good buddies Nikki and Mizuki.

Jess 2 years ago

She just needs more experience competing in college. I believe she's been injured which is why she hasn't performed much. no need for negative comments...just leads to bad karma.

Alison Taylor is a senior in college. She has demonstrated the same problems with lack of fitness, lack of focus and weak performances through her entire career. If she came from some obscure gym she'd have been out of a scholarship sophmore year, tops.

Outsider 2 years ago

In interviews, she seems very nice, team oriented, and supportive of her teammates. While she may not contribute in the lineup, it seems she contributes in other ways. If she's having a good experience and isn't bringing down the team, well then live and let live.

Syd 2 years ago

She has not been seriously injured. Had that been the case, medical retirement would've been an option since she essentially has not competed for 3 seasons. Ally herself stated in interviews/ Bruin diary pieces she wrote as a sophomore and junior that she was healthy. Ironically, the one year she did have an injury was the same season that she actually appeared in line-ups. As a freshman she had a stress fracture in her foot shortly after arriving on campus, but it healed in time for her to compete in January.

Experience isn't the issue with her either. Two years ago her teammates complained that she was focused on her boyfriend and didn't work as hard as the rest of the group. As a recruit, she looked very promising on video... yurckenko 1.5, double arabian on floor, etc. By the time she got to campus she was regressing gymnastics-wise. She stopped training vault and beam altogether, but that failed to give her the advantage anticipated on her other two events. Bars is her best, and her difficulty is there nowhere near the rest of the team / what it needs to be to be used in the post-season. Basically, she can do a Tkatchev. Her bail never got close to HS, so they changed it to a straddle back, but she still tends to miss HS. No second release, no stalder work, no transition from low to high, and the dismount is too easy especially given the composition of the rest of the routine. The scoring potential just isn't there. Basically she's never gotten it together and hasn't been able to contribute to the team score for 3 years. However, she contributes in other ways. Her relationship with WOGA/Nastia has been instrumental in the logistical arrangements of the summer camp. She's oft been tasked with the making of little multimedia pieces. And she moves mats and brings Miss Val water with sunshine and rainbows.

sportsfan 2 years ago

She just needs more experience competing in college. I believe she's been injured which is why she hasn't performed much. no need for negative comments...just leads to bad karma.

AchieversDonny 2 years ago

very very true :)

Danielle 2 years ago

Sometimes having an athlete on your team who is dedicated, movtivated, hard worker, and all about the team can be just important as someone always in the line up :) just my thoughts :)

Sure, but they don't have to be PAID to be on the team =)

AchieversDonny 2 years ago

Sometimes having an athlete on your team who is dedicated, movtivated, hard worker, and all about the team can be just important as someone always in the line up :) just my thoughts :)

AchieversDonny 2 years ago

I've known this kid since her DGC days! I have always loved this kid! A hard worker, dedicated athlete and an excellent role model! Good for you Alison for finishing out your goal and getting a great education along with it :)

I enjoyed watcing this video. Thanks for posting!

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