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UCLA ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Sharon Shapiro (1980-82)
Jill Andrews (1987-90)
Hall of Fame Class of 1999
Hall of Fame Class of 2001
On Oct. 30,
1999, Sharon
Shapiro became
the first women’s
gymnastics Hall
of Fame inductee. Shapiro enjoyed an illustrious and historic
athletic career for
the Bruins. She
remains the only
gymnast ever to
capture national titles on all four events and
the all-around in the same year, a feat she
accomplished at the 1980 AIAW National
Championships her freshman season.
Jill Andrews was
inducted into in
the Hall of Fame
on Oct. 13, 2001.
In 1990,Andrews
became UCLA
gymnastics’ second Honda Award
winner, capping
off a career in
which she won
an NCAA title on
vault in 1988 and
on beam in 1989. Andrews earned eight firstteam All-America honors in her career and was
a two-time Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year.
In 1981, Shapiro won the prestigious Broderick
Award, given to the country’s top female gymnast.
As a sophomore that season, she defended
her all-around title and also won the individual
vault crown. The following year, she earned
All-America honors in the all-around, vault and
balance beam.
Shapiro has remained a key alumna, supporter,
and ambassador for UCLA and her sport since
her graduation.
Kim Hamilton (1987-90)
Hall of Fame Class of 2000
Kim (Hamilton)
Anthony became
UCLA’s second
inductee on Oct.
21, 2000. Like
Shapiro, Hamilton also set a
national record
that has yet to
be duplicated
when she won
three consecutive NCAA floor
exercise titles from 1987-1989. She also won
the NCAA vault title in 1989.
At the regional level, she won a school-record
tying seven titles, including three each in the
all-around and floor. She also won Pac-10
championships on bars and floor in both 1989
and 1988. In her career, she earned six AllAmerica honors.
Anthony has also remained a major figure in the
sport, having maintained a successful career as
a sports commentator for ESPN and Fox Sports
and as the host of the Miami TV show “County
Connection.” She is also an inspirational/motivational speaker, specializing in the area of Identity
Attunement. She has worked with Athletes in
Action for 20 years and is now the Executive
Director of MomsHope, Inc. Anthony published
a book, Unfavorable Odds, a memoir about her
journey from a background filled with drugs
and violence to a Hall of Fame career at UCLA.
named UCLA’s All-University Female Athlete of
the Year and was a Honda Award nominee. She
also excelled in the classroom, earning Pac-10
All-Academic honors on three occasions
Prior to UCLA, she was a member of the Canadian
National Team and the 1991 Canadian champion
in the floor exercise. Homma left her eternal
mark in gymnastics with three moves named
after her in the international code of points: the
Homma Flip on beam and the Homma Flairs on
beam and floor.
Valorie Kondos Field (1983-2019)
Hall of Fame Class of 2010
Valorie Kondos
Field became just
the second head
coach ever to be
inducted while
still coaching at
UCLA, earning
induction on October 1, 2010.
Andrews excelled academically as one of UCLA’s
all-time great student-athletes. In 1990, she
earned an NCAA post-graduate scholarship
and was awarded the NCAA Top Six Award.
In addition, she was a Woody Hayes National
Scholar-Athlete Award winner. She was also
honored by the Bruin gymnastics team with an
award named after her, the annual Jill Andrews
award for integrity.
Upon arriving at
UCLA in 1983 as
a student coach,
Valorie Kondos Field ascended the ranks as an
assistant coach and choreographer, co-head
coach (1991-94) and then sole head coach
from 1995-2019. As head coach, Kondos
Field positioned UCLA as the premier program
in collegiate gymnastics by guiding it to an
overall record of 843-215-5 with 15 Pac-12
titles, 20 Regional crowns and seven NCAA
titles (1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010
and 2018), as well as 32 NCAA individual titles
during her tenure.
Andrews, who graduated from the Northwestern
University School of Law in 1994, was a Deputy
City Attorney in San Francisco for six years,
handling labor and employment litigation on
behalf of the city and now works in legal counsel
for AC Transit.
Leah Homma (1994-97)
Hall of Fame Class of 2008
Leah Homma
was inducted into
the Hall of Fame
on Oct. 3, 2008.
Homma competed for four
years (1994-97),
leading the Bruins to their first
NCAA team title
in 1997. Head
Coach Valorie
Kondos Field said
Homma played “was a quiet leader who always
led by example, was an unwavering hard worker,
enthusiastic about her training, and always
quick to help out her teammates in a quiet and
unassuming manner.” Homma finished fourth
in the 1997 NCAA All-Around to help bring the
title to Westwood.
Kondos Field’s 2018 squad won the NCAA
title in dramatic comeback fashion, using a
record-setting beam total of 49.750 in the final
rotation to capture the victory. In 2010, UCLA
won NCAA, Regional and Pac-10 championships
and produced two NCAA individual champions.
In 2003, the Bruins recorded an unprecedented
five team scores of 198.0 or better en route to
the NCAA title. The 2004 team set an NCAA
Championship record by scoring 198.125 in the
Super Six Team Finals. In 2001, UCLA gymnasts
won the NCAA floor, uneven bars and all-around
events, and every Bruin who competed earned
All-America honors. That year, Kondos Field was
voted the NACGC National Coach of the Year for
the fourth time.
Kondos Field was honored in 2016 as the Pac-12
Gymnastics Coach of the Century, and in 2019,
she received the UCLA Professional Achievement
award for her superior achievements in the field.
Stella Umeh (1995-98)
Hall of Fame Class of 2012
An Oct. 12, 2012 inductee, Stella Umeh was a
key member of UCLA’s first NCAA Championship
team in 1997.
A 10-time AllAmerican, Umeh
captured the
1995 and 1998
NCAA floor exercise titles and
was dominant at
the 1995 Pac-10
Championships,
winning the allaround, uneven
bars, balance
beam and floor exercise titles. In 1998, she
captured her second Pac-10 individual allaround title, along with individual titles in floor
and beam.
During her career, Umeh was a member of Pac10 Championship teams in 1995 and 1997, was
named the 1998 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year
and earned a total of seven All-Pac-10 honors
and 10 All-America honors.
Prior to arriving at UCLA, she competed for
Canada at the 1992 Olympic Games and at
the World Championships from 1991-93. In
1992, she qualified for event finals at the World
Championships on both vault (8th place) and
beam (5th place), and in 1993, she was 15th
in the all-around and eighth on floor. At the
national level, she was a two-time Canadian vault
champion. After graduation, Umeh performed for
five years with Cirque du Soleil.
Homma’s other accomplishments included the
1994 and ‘97 Pac-10 all-around titles as well
as the 1996 and ‘97 Pac-10 uneven bar crowns.
She was twice named Pac-10 Gymnast of the
Year (1995 and ‘97) and was also an eight-time
All-American. During her career, she set and
reset UCLA records in the all-around and was
the second UCLA gymnast to receive 10.0s
in two different events. In 1997, Homma was
Kim Hamilton, Amy Thorne, Sharon Shapiro, Jill Andrews, Valorie Kondos Field, Nan Wooden, Bobby
Field, Janet Ferrari, Amy Smith, Trishna Patel, Kristina Comforte, Randy Lane and Megan Fenton at
the 2010 Hall of Fame Induction.
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