75: Classic Episode with UCLA's Miss Val

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🗓️ 5 February 2014

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

UCLA's six-time NCAA Championship winning coach, Valorie Kondos-Field.
Copyright Christy Linder 2014

It's a Classic Episode with UCLA's ballet-dancer turned six-time NCAA Championships winning coach, Valorie Kondos-Field. Miss Val chats with Dvora Meyers, Blythe Lawrence, Jessica, and Uncle Tim about:

The power of an athlete identity as retirement looms
Collegiate gymnastics as one big life skills class
The problems with basing self-esteem on performance
Incentivizing artistry
Her most embarrassing moment as a dancer
Why so many of her athletes have the desire to go back to elite after college
The actual dollar amount and experiential cost of losing NCAA eligibility
What advice she gave Jordyn Wieber about going pro
We discover how Miss Val and her former roommate inspired one of the creators of the television show Will and Grace
Why Canadians thrive in NCAA
Lastly, she tells the story of the amazing wedding gift she gave to a fan

The Bruin Gymnastics YouTube channel. 15 years of UCLA routines, including the fan favorite, "Floor Files"; individual playlists featuring each gymnasts' routines for all four years.

Miss Val on Twitter.

UCLA Gymnastics website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 75, a classic all-interview episode for you today.
0:05.0	We had a scheduling conflict with Ali Raisman, so don't worry though, she will be back and we will ask her all of your burning gymnastics
0:13.9	questions when we interview her. This episode that we're airing today
0:17.5	originally aired in December of 2012. Next week is our Valentine's Day show and we have something very special planned for you.
0:27.0	And I want to ask you guys if you would send in your, like a Valentine letter to your favorite coach ever, the coach who you still think
0:36.1	about today, the coach that changed your life, the coach that made you who you are today.
0:41.1	Maybe you've never thanked them. Maybe you've never told them how meaningful and how important
0:45.1	they were in your life. And we would like to read some of those letters in our Valentine's Day
0:49.1	show. So send us those letters at gymnastic at gmail.com against gymnastic at gmail.com against Jimcastic at gmail
0:55.0	and let us read one of those on the air maybe you're coachable here it so work on
1:00.4	those while you watch the Olympics which start and you know Nastia is going to be there, so we all have to be watching.
1:06.0	In the meantime, enjoy our interview with Miss Valle from December 2012. Whoa.
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1:29.1	Welcome to Gymcastic the greatest gymnastics podcast on Earth.
1:33.7	I'm here with...
1:34.7	Blythe Lawrence from the Gymnastics Examiner.
1:37.1	Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Tarks Men's Gym.
1:40.0	D'Lora Myers from Unorthodox Gymastics.
1:43.0	And I'm Jessica Byrne from Masters-gymatics.com.
1:47.0	This week's classic episode with Ms. Val is sponsored by Tumbletrack.
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