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Momentum vaults Bruins to NCAAs

By Daily Bruin Staff

April 3, 1997 9:00 p.m.

Friday, April 4, 1997

W. GYMNASTICS:

Pac-10 champion Bruins seeded No. 1 at West RegionalsBy Lisa
Quon

Daily Bruin Contributor

With the end of their season in sight, the sixth-ranked UCLA
women’s gymnastics team is at the top of its game. On March 22 at
the Pac-10 Championships, UCLA scored 196.55 to win the meet and
earn a No. 1 seed at the NCAA West Regionals on Saturday in Boise,
Idaho.

Senior Leah Homma is ending her college gymnastics career with a
bang. Her perfect 10 on the uneven bars was her second perfect mark
of the season. The other was on vault on Feb. 21. Homma is only the
second UCLA gymnast ever to score a 10 on bars and the second to
score more than one 10 in her career, along with Kareema
Marrow.

Homma now holds school records on four of five events: vault
(10.0), bars (10.0), beam (9.975) and all-around (39.75). Her
stellar performances this year have earned her the title of Pac-10
Gymnast of the Year. She also won the award in 1995.

The Bruins have now won 28 individual Pac-10 event titles, more
than any other school. They have defeated 21 straight opponents in
their past six meets.

This weekend at the NCAA West Regionals, UCLA will face (in
order of seed): Stanford, Washington, Oregon State, Boise State,
California and Cal State Fullerton. The winner of the competition
will receive an automatic spot in the NCAA Championships, to be
held April 17-19 in Florida. The remaining teams must score high
enough to be one of the top seven teams in the nation, excluding
top qualifiers in each region, in order to receive a bid to the
competition.

UCLA will aspire to win its fifth straight NCAA West Regional
title and its sixth in this decade. Luisa Portocarrero and Amy
Smith will be attempting to defend their individual event titles at
the regionals on beam and floor, respectively. These all are team
efforts to claim a spot at the national championships this
April.

GENEVIEVE LIANG/Daily Bruin

Leah Homma, Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year, competes on the uneven
bars.

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