Dana McDonald
Dana McDonald

Player Profile
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Piedmont, Calif.
High School:
Piedmont HS
Height:
5-3
Club:
Darrell Boykins Gymnastics

03/17/2013

UCLA Ties Season High in 197.425-196.6 Win over Arkansas

Vanessa Zamarripa scores eighth career perfect 10 on vault.

03/13/2013

No. 8 UCLA Hosts No. 15 Arkansas in Regular Season Finale

Bruins welcome Razorbacks to Pauley Pavilion for Senior Day.

03/10/2013

Bruin Gymnasts Post 197.075 to Place Second in Quad Meet

UCLA hits 24-for-24 and scores season-highs on vault, bars.

03/01/2013

UCLA Gymnasts Drop Dual Meet to Alabama, 197.075-196.375

Zamarripa wins vault, bars.

02/27/2013

No. 6 UCLA Wraps Up Three-Meet Road Swing at No. 4 Alabama

Bruins face two-time defending national champions.

02/13/2013

UCLA vs. Utah, 1-12-13

UCLA Gymnastics vs. Utah, 1-12-13 (Photos by Don Liebig, UCLA Photography)

01/26/2013

UCLA vs. Southern Utah (Photos by Christy Linder)

UCLA vs. Southern Utah, 1-16-13

12/11/2012

2012-13 Meet the Bruins

The UCLA gymnastics team held its annual Meet the Bruins event on Dec. 9, 2012

06/29/2012

UCLA vs. Stanford

UCLA vs. Stanford, 2-5-12 (Photos by Jeff Sipsey and Jim Scieszinski)

04/19/2012

NCAA Gymnastics Podium Training (Photos by Heather Maynez)

Podium training at the 2012 NCAA Gymnastics Championships in Duluth, Ga. (Photos by Heather Maynez)

2012
Performed exhibition routines in five meets before rupturing her Achilles tendon on a floor exhibition in Chicago on Feb. 10 ... Exhibition high scores were 9.8 on vault, 9.55 on beam and 9.7 on floor

Club
Member of the 2007 Junior Olympic National Team ... Fourth in the all-around and on beam, fifth on vault and seventh on bars at the 2007 Level 10 Nationals ... In 2007, was the Level 10 Region 1 all-around, vault, beam and floor champion and the State all-around and floor champion ... Won the NorCal Level 10 State beam title in 2009 ... Earned Top 10 finishes in the all-around and on vault (fourth), beam (fifth) and floor (seventh) at the 2009 Level 10 Regionals ... Won the vault and floor titles and placed third in the all-around at the 2009 Level 10 NIT ... Trained under coach Darrell Boykins.

Personal
Hobbes include painting and art ... Lists vault and floor as her favorite apparatus ... Parents: Michael and Vivian McDonald ... Younger brother Michael is a highly-ranked international junior tennis player ... Father, grandfather and uncle all attended UCLA ... Full name is Dana Christie Lowe McDonald ... Born December 27, 1992 in Palm Springs, CA ... Art History major.

Bank of the West CLick for Bruin Video

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