75: Classic Episode with UCLA's Miss Val
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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šļø 5 February 2014
ā±ļø 103 minutes
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Summary
UCLA's six-time NCAA Championship winning coach, Valorie Kondos-Field.
Copyright Christy Linder 2014
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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 mostĀ embarrassingĀ moment as a dancer
- Why so many of her athletes have the desire to go back to elite after college
- TheĀ 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.
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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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