Lichelle Wong
Lichelle Wong

Player Profile
Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Ossendrecht, Holland

High School:
OSG Sevenwolden

Height:
5-4

Club:
TSH Heerenveen

02/10/2012

UCLA Wins IGI/Chicago Style NCAA Invitational

Bruin gymnasts score 196.85 to win team title.

02/09/2012

Ask The Bruin Gymnastics Team - Feb. 9, 2012

Bruin team will answer fan questions every Thursday.

02/08/2012

UCLA Gymnastics Travels To IGI/Chicago Style Classic

Bruins to face Top 20 teams Boise State, Illinois, Missouri Friday at Navy Pier.

02/07/2012

Zamarripa Receives Pac-12 Honors

Junior honored for second time this season.

02/05/2012

UCLA Gives Super Performance in Win over Stanford

Bruins record 197.25 despite lineup adjustments.

12/11/2011

Lichelle Wong - FX (Meet the Team)

Lichelle Wong - 2012 FX Preview

12/12/2011

2011-12 UCLA Gymnastics Meet the Team

UCLA introduced its 2012 Gymnastics Team at its Meet the Team event on Dec. 11, 2011 (Photos by Jeff Sipsey)

03/26/2011

UCLA vs. Minnesota, Denver

UCLA hosted Minnesota and Denver on Feb. 27, 2011 (Photos by Don Liebig, UCLA Photography)


2011
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award winner ... Honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic ... Hit her last four beam routines either in competition or exhibition ... Led off on vault with a 9.8 on Mar. 6 ... Scored a career-high 9.85 with a stuck vault vs. NC State ... Tied her season-high on floor at the IGI/Chicago-Style with a 9.85 ... Earned a season-high 9.8 on bars at Stanford ... Competed on bars for the first time this season at Southern Utah and scored 9.775 to tie for second ... Tied for fourth on beam at SUU with a 9.8 ... Tied for seventh on floor at the Pac-10 Showcase with a 9.85 ... Scored a career-high 9.825 to place third on beam at Utah and also tied for fifth on floor with a 9.75.

2010
Competed on bars and floor in 10 meets before being sidelined at NCAA Regionals and Championships with a sprained ankle ... Earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors on bars and ranked 25th in the nation on the event ... Had five Top 5 finishes on bars and scored career-bests of 9.9 on three occasions, most recently on Mar. 14 ... Scored 9.8 or better on eight of 10 routines ... Season-high on floor is 9.9, set Jan. 31 vs. ASU ... Scored 9.85 or better on floor four times ... Season-highs on vault and beam were 9.75

Club
Dutch all-around champion in 2006 and 2009 and vault champion in 2008 ... Uneven bars and floor exercise national champion and vault runner-up in 2006 ... Runner-up in the all-around at the 2005 and 2007 national championships ... Also placed second in 2007 on bars and beam and third on floor ... Competed at the 2007 and 2006 World Championships ... Eighth on uneven bars at the 2007 European Championships ... Had three fourth-place showings on uneven bars in World Cup competitions (2008 Moscow, 2007 Paris and Shanghai) and was also fifth on the event at Stuttgart and Maribor in 2007 ... High marks include 15.45 on bars and 15.15 on beam ... Trained at TSH Heerenveen under coaches Gerben Wiersma and Jose v.d. Veen.

Personal
Hobbies include trying to play instruments ... Favorite apparatus is uneven bars ... Biggest athletic thrills are traveling around the world to compete in different countries and coming to UCLA ... Full name is Lichelle Julisa Wong ... Parents: Donald and Cuthmila Wong ... Has an older sister Gianta ... Born January 25, 1990 in Nijmegen, Netherlands ... Mathematics-Applied Science major.

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