It’s been almost a year-and-a-half since former UCLA gymnast Christine “Peng-Peng” Lee performed her perfect-10 balance beam routine at the 2018 NCAA National Championships, helping her team clinch the national title. For Peng, that beam routine was a fairytale ending to a decorated sports career spanning 18 years....
Louise Yang, a recent graduate from UC Santa Cruz, was a figure skater in her past life. Now, at age 21, she reflects upon her 13 years on the ice and how being a figure skater has impacted her life today. A NorCal native, Louise began skating at the ripe age of 5 at Belmont Iceland, a local skating rink. As with all...
Serena Lu is a big name in the world of rhythmic gymnastics. She was a USA national team gymnast for seven years, rhythmic Sportsperson of the Year in 2016 and 2017, and competed at the 2014 and 2015 World Championships and the 2017 University Games. In 2016, Serena began her first year at Princeton University....
Known by many to be the greatest ballroom dancer of this generation, Victor Fung is a giant in the world of competitive ballroom dancing, just as Michael Jordan is to basketball and Tiger Woods is to golf. He and his current dance partner, Anastasia Murayeva, have won multiple national and world titles throughout...
I met UCLA gymnast Anna Glenn back in fall 2017. She and her identical twin sister, Grace, were both in my discussion section for Life Science 15, a prerequisite course for the psychology major. One afternoon, I was walking behind the twins as we exited the classroom, when my eyes fell upon their matching blue...
Rebecca Sereda is a household name in the world of rhythmic gymnastics, a sport that combines elements of gymnastics, dance, contortion, and manipulation of hand apparatus. She is the 4-time Junior Olympic champion, 6-time US National Champion, and finalist at the 2013 World Championships. Everyone expected her to...