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UCLA ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Mohini Bhardwaj (1998-2001)
Hall of Fame Class of 2013
Mohini Bhardwaj became the
second gymnast
in as many years
to be inducted on
Oct. 12, 2013.
Bhardwaj won
two NCAA team
and two NCAA
individual titles
from 1998-2001
and finished her
career as an 11time All-American and 2001 Honda Award
winner.
Bhardwaj set numerous scoring records at UCLA,
including scoring the second-highest all-around
total in NCAA history, 39.975, in 2001. She led
UCLA to NCAA team titles in 2000 and 2001 and
won the uneven bars in 2000 and floor exercise
in 2001. Along with winning the Honda Award in
2001, she was also the Pac-10 and West Region
Gymnast of the Year and the AAI Award-winner
as the nation’s top senior gymnast.
Bhardwaj continued her gymnastics career after
graduation, winning the 2001 U.S. National
Championship on vault and helping the U.S. win a
bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships.
In 2004, she earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic
Team, where she served as team captain and led
the U.S. to a silver medal. She also qualified for
event finals on floor exercise, where she placed
sixth. Bhardwaj is now the co-owner and club
director at OOA Gymnastics in Bend, Oregon
and began competitive weightlifting in 2018.
Onnie Willis (2000-03)
Hall of Fame Class of 2014
Onnie Willis
received gymnastics’ thirdstraight induction when she
joined the class
of 2014 on Oct.
10, 2014. Willis
was a superstar
on the competition floor and in
the classroom.
During her four years at UCLA, she won three
NCAA team championships (2000, 2001, 2003),
three Pac-10 team titles (2001-03) and four
NCAA Regional team titles. In 2001, she became
UCLA’s first-ever NCAA all-around champion,
and as a senior in 2003 won the Honda Award
as the best collegiate gymnast in the nation.
The 2003 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year held
the school record for NCAA All-America honors
with 16 and has a share of the school record on
vault and floor, having scored a pair of perfect
10s on each event.
Academically, she received the 2003 NCAA Top
VIII Award as well as a NCAA Post-Graduate
Scholarship, and she earned Scholastic AllAmerican honors and CoSIDA Academic AllDistrict acclaim three times. Willis went on to
earn a Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at NYU.
help the Bruins win another NCAA team title in
record-breaking fashion, and in 2005 she was
the Honda Award winner, as well as the National,
West Region and Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year.
She won three events and the all-around at the
2005 Pac-12 Championships and finished her
career by winning the vault and beam titles at
the NCAA Championships.
Jamie Dantzscher (2001-04)
Hall of Fame Class of 2016
Tasha Schwikert (2005-08)
Jamie Dantzscher
was inducted into
UCLA Athletics’
Hall of Fame on
Sept. 30, 2016.
Dantzscher, an
Olympic bronze
medalist in 2000,
cemented herself
in Bruin lore the
very first time she
chalked up for a
routine, scoring a
perfect 10 on uneven bars in her collegiate debut.
She is believed to be the first NCAA gymnast ever
to score a perfect 10 on her first routine, and
she went on to earn a school-record 28 10.0s
in her career, including a national record seven
in a row on floor exercise in 2002.
Hall of Fame Class of 2020
Pac-12 Gymnast
of the Century
Tasha Schwikert
made histor y
as UCLA’s first
two-time NCAA
all-around champion, bookending
her career with
wins as a freshman in 2005 and
as a senior in
2008. She also
added the NCAA uneven bars title in 2008.
A 12-time All-American, Schwikert won six Pac10 titles in her career, including a near-sweep in
2007 with the all-around, vault, balance beam
and floor exercise championships. She also won
the Pac-10 all-around and uneven bars titles
in 2005 and earned Pac-10 Freshman of the
Year honors. In 2007, she was awarded Pac10 Gymnast of the Year. Schwikert totaled four
perfect 10s in her career, two each on uneven
bars and floor exercise.
Dantzscher led UCLA to three NCAA team titles
(2001, 2003 and 2004) and won four NCAA
individual titles of her own, including the 2002
all-around, vault and floor exercise crowns, and
the 2003 uneven bars title. She also won the
Pac-10 bars and floor titles in 2002 and the
floor title in 2001 and was the 2002 Pac-10
Gymnast of the Year and a three-time Pac-10 AllAcademic honoree. The 15-time All-American
and 2004 AAI Award winner was named to the
Pac-12 All-Century Team in the all-around and
floor exercise.
Prior to arriving at UCLA, Schwikert helped
lead the U.S. to a bronze medal at the 2000
Olympics and to a gold medal at the 2003
World Championships. She was a two-time U.S.
national all-around champion and was inducted
into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2012.
Kristen Maloney (2001-05)
Kate Richardson (2003-06)
Hall of Fame Class of 2021
Canadian standout Kate Richardson came to
UCLA two years
after her first
Olympic Games
and made history
after her sophomore season in
2004 by becoming the first-ever
Bruin gymnast to
make an Olympic
team while competing for UCLA. Richardson
also became the first Canadian woman ever to
qualify for event finals on floor exercise, where
she placed seventh.
As a Bruin gymnast, Richardson won two NCAA
team titles in 2003 and 2004 and three NCAA
individual titles, capturing the 2003 uneven bars
and balance beam titles and the 2006 floor
crown. She won a multitude of honors at UCLA,
including 13 All-America awards, 14 All-Pac-10
awards, and three Academic All-America honors.
She was named the 2003 Pac-10 Freshman of
the Year, 2006 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year and
a 2006 NCAA Today’s Top VIII Award-winner.
She scored nine perfect 10s in her career,
including 10.0s on floor to win the 2003 and
2004 Pac-10 Championships. She also won
the 2003 Pac-10 all-around title with a score
of 39.825, a Pac-10 record that held for 16
years. Richardson was selected to the Pac-12
All-Century Team for floor exercise.
After graduating from UCLA, Richardson earned
a master’s degree in physical therapy from the
University of British Columbia.
Hall of Fame Class of 2017
Kristen Maloney’s legacy
with UCLA Gymnastics can be
summed up in
the team award
that was named
after her - the
Kristen Maloney
Heart of a Champion Award. The
2000 Olympic
bronze medalist fought through multiple surgeries and a
nearly career-ending bone infection to become
a five-time NCAA champion and nine-time
All-American.
Maloney helped lead UCLA to the 2001 NCAA title
as a freshman but was forced to sit out both the
2002 and 2003 seasons due to complications
from the surgeries. She returned in 2004 to
Tasha Schwikert at the 2020 Hall of Fame Induction ceremony with fellow inductees Adam Wright,
Mike Powell, Noelle Quinn, Lauren Cheney and Keira Goerl.
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