Helene Elliott: The Valorie Kondos Field era is over for UCLA women's gymnastics
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Apr 21, 2019
3 minutes
FORT WORTH, Texas - She dabbed at her eyes more than once, but this wasn't a time for sorrow. There were hugs to be doled out and people to thank, words of comfort and encouragement to be whispered before she could think of herself.
And there was music playing. Not a victory song, but rhythms that compelled Valorie Kondos Field to give herself up to the beat, to smile and sway and remember how right her mentor, John Wooden, had been when
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