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Career -- Led UCLA to three NCAA Championships in four years ...Finished her career with four NCAA individual championships, a school-record 28 perfect 10s, 15 All-America honors, three Pac-10 individual titles and eight NCAA regional titles.
2004 -- AAI American Award winner as the nation's top senior gymnast ...First-team All-American on uneven bars and second-team All-American on floor exercise ... Missed the first seven meets of the year with an ankle injury but returned on Feb. 20 to compete on bars and floor at Cal State Fullerton ...Scored a 9.9 on bars in her first routine of the year and later added a 9.9 on floor ...Recorded her first perfect 10 of the season on Feb. 22 vs. Oregon State, earning her seventh perfect 10 on bars in her career ...Averaged 9.905 on floor prior to the NCAA Championships ...Had three individual victories on bars and two Top 3 finishes on floor ... Honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic selection for the third straight year.
2003 -- NCAA uneven bars co-champion with a winning score of 9.9 ...Placed second in the all-around, vault and floor ...Earned first-team All-America honors in the all-around, vault, bars and floor and second-team honors on beam ... In her career, she has totaled 13 All-America honors, including a school record-tying 11 first-team nods ...Honda Award nominee ...Hit all 40 routines in team competition with no score lower than 9.775 and 34 scores of 9.9 or better ...Earned a school-record tying 10 perfect 10s and now has 27 in her career ...Averaged a team-high 39.697 in all-around action and earned three consecutive scores of 39.775 to start the year (Jan. 2, 10 and 19) ...In her first competition in over a month (she sat out the prior two meets due to injury and illness), she won the NCAA South Central Regional all-around (39.75), bars (9.95), beam (tied, 9.925) and floor (10.0) titles ...Scored perfect 10s on vault in consecutive meets (Feb. 9 vs. Washington and Feb. 16 at ASU) ...Earned three perfect 10s on bars (Jan. 19, Feb. 7 and Feb. 16) and averaged a national-best 9.954 with no scores lower than 9.9 ...Averaged 9.869 on beam with a career-high of 9.925 set in the season opener and matched at the NCAA Regionals ...Scored five perfect 10s on floor (Jan. 2, Jan. 19, Feb. 9, Feb. 23 and Apr. 12) and scored no lower than 9.95 all year ...Earned multiple 10s in three meets ... Ledthe Bruins with 31 individual victories, including 11 on bars and 10 on floor ...Has placed first on floor in 21 consecutive team competitions ...Earned Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention honors for the second straight year ...Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week or Feb. 2-8 ... Twice named the UCLA/MET-Rx Student-Athlete of the Week, tying the all-time school record with eight honors in her career ... Ranked first in the nation on bars (9.975 RQS) and floor (9.985).
2002 -- NCAA all-around, vault and floor champion ...Scored a 39.675 to capture the all-around crown, the second consecutive by a UCLA gymnast ...Averaged 9.957 on vault to place first and scored a 9.95 on floor to tie for first with LSU's Nicki Arnstad ...Earned the maximum five first-team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships ...Honda Award finalist ...West Region Gymnast of the Year ...Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year ...Set a national record with seven consecutive perfect 10s on floor from Jan. 18-Mar. 3 ...Held an RQS of 10.0 on floor to rank first nationally and become the first gymnast in five years to hold an RQS of 10.0 on any event ...Overall average on floor was 9.941 ...Also ranked No. 1 in the nation on bars with an RQS of 9.975 ...Scored 9.95 or better on bars in 10 of 14 meets, including a perfect 10 on Mar. 3 at the UCLA Invitational ...Owned a team-best 11 bars victories and 13 Top 3 finishes ...Tied for second in the national rankings on vault (9.945) ... Scored perfect 10s at Georgia on Jan. 13 and at the UCLA Invitational on Mar. 3 ...Led the Bruins with nine vault victories ...Emerged as a solid beam worker, posting three career-best scores of 9.9 and averaging 9.766 ... Picked up her first season victory on beam at Washington on Mar. 1, scoring 9.875 ... Recorded a career-high 39.9 in the all-around Mar. 3, the fourth-highest score in NCAA history ... Earned 10.0s on vault, bars and floor and a 9.9 on beam in that meet to become only the third gymnast ever to score three 10s in a single meet (joining Georgia's Karin Lichey in 1996 and former Bruin Mohini Bhardwaj in 2001) ...Averaged 39.625 in all-around action ...NCAA South Central Regional all-around, vault, bars and floor champion ...Closed the year by hitting her last 30 routines in team competition, with no score lower than 9.8 ...First-team All-Pac-10 selection on bars and floor for the second consecutive year ...Selected to the Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention team ...Twice named the Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 22, Feb. 10) ... Earned UCLABruins.com Student-Athlete of the Week honors four times, more than any other UCLA athlete in 2001-02 ... Team co-captain.
2001 -- Made an immediate impact on the Bruin squad, recording a pair of perfect 10s on each routine she competed in her first-ever collegiate meet ... With those two 10s on floor and bars, she became the first UCLA gymnast ever to record two 10s in the same meet and the first to record a 10 in her first ever meet ... She is also believed to be the first gymnast in NCAA history to score a 10 on her first-ever routine ... Earned another perfect 10 in her next meet, on floor at Stanford Jan. 19, to become the first Bruin to score a perfect 10 in consecutive meets ... Achieved that feat again Feb. 16 and Mar. 4 with consecutive 10s on floor ...Scored her fifth 10 on floor at the Pac-10 meet to claim the championship ...Holds the school freshman record with seven perfect 10s (two on bars, five on floor) ...Earned first-team All-America honors on bars and floor and second-team acclaim on vault ... Placed second on floor at the NCAAs ...Ranked first nationally on bars and floor and 19th on vault ...Ranked second on the team with 17 individual victories and led the team with eight wins each on bars and floor ... Placed first on all three events in which she entered at the Bruin Classic, winning the vault (career-high 9.925), bars and floor (10) ... Earned Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week honors that week (Feb. 28-Mar. 4) ...Placed second at the UCLA Invite with a then-school freshman record 39.55 in her only all-around appearance ... Averaged team-bests of 9.853 on vault and 9.917 on bars and was second on the team in floor average with a 9.939 ...Enrolled in the Winter Quarter and joined the Bruin team shortly after Christmas ...Spent the Fall Quarter on the post-Olympic gymnastics tour and took first place at the Rock 'N Roll Gymnastics Championships.
Club -- 2000 U.S. Olympic Team member ... Six-year national team member ...Had a breakthrough performance at the 2000 U.S. Championships, taking third place in the all-around ... Placed fifth at the Olympic trials ... U.S. national champion on bars and fifth-place finisher in the all-around in 1999 ... Earned a spot on the 1999 World Championships team after placing fourth in the all-around at the World Team Trials ... Helped the U.S. win a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games and placed in the Top 10 in the all-around competition ... Placed second on floor, sixth on vault and ninth in the all-around at the 1998 National Championships ... Helped the team to a first-place finish at the 1998 International Team Championships ... Competed at the 1998 Goodwill Games ...Took first on vault and second in the all-around and floor at the 1998 American Classic ... Tied for third place on bars and sixth in the all-around at the 1997 National Championships ... Her sixth-place showing qualified her for the World Championships team, but she was unable to compete due to age restrictions ... Took second place in the all-around at the 1997 American Classic ... At her first junior national championship in 1995, she placed first on vault, second on bars and sixth in the all-around ... Trained at Charter Oaks Gliders under coaches Steve and Beth Rybacki.
Personal -- Parents: John and Joyce Dantzscher ... Has four sisters, Jennifer, Joanne, Jalynne and Janelle; and two brothers, Jeremy and Johnny ... Twins Jalynne and Janelle are also elite gymnasts ...Full name is Jamie Annette Dantzscher ...Born May 2, 1982 in Canoga, CA ...Psychology major.
