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2010
Won the NCAA vault championship with a final average score of 9.925 ... Earned first-team All-American honors in the all-around (tied for seventh place), vault (first) and floor (tied for seventh) ... Won the all-around and placed second on all four events at the NCAA Los Angeles Regional ... Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year ... First-team All-Pac-10 in the all-around for the second-straight year ... Won the Pac-10 all-around and vault titles and placed second on beam ... Earned three Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week awards (Feb. 16, Feb. 23 and Mar. 16) and two Pac-10 Special Performance of the Week honors (Jan. 26 and Mar. 2) ... Finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the all-around and on vault, No. 2 on bars, No. 4 on beam and No. 10 on floor ... Hit 52 of 53 routines on the year, with 37 of her 53 routines scoring 9.9 or higher ... Led the team with 25 individual wins, including team-bests of eight in the all-around, seven on beam and five on vault ... Averaged 39.578 in the all-around and scored 39.55 or better in eight of her 10 all-around attempts ... Recorded a career-high 39.7 in a tri-meet Mar. 14 and scored 39.675 four times on the year ... Scored a perfect 10 on vault, the fourth of her career, at Cal State Fullerton on Feb. 26 ... Averaged 9.9375 on her last eight vaults and 9.908 overall ... Scored 9.9 or better on all but two uneven bars routines and averaged 9.914 on the year ... Earned a career-high 9.975 on bars at the NCAA Regionals ... Recorded a career-high 9.975 on beam at Stanford Jan. 24 ... Averaged 9.878 on the event and scored 9.85 or better on 13 of 15 routines ... Scored 9.9 or better on nine of her last 10 floor routines and posted a career-best 9.95 twice.
2009
Placed third in the all-around at the NCAA Championships ... Earned first-team All-America honors in the all-around, vault, balance beam and floor exercise and second-team acclaim on uneven bars ... Only the sixth UCLA gymnast ever to earn the maximum five All-America honors in one season ... First-team All-Pac-10 in the all-around ... Scored a perfect 10 on vault three times ... Scored her first 10 on Jan. 23 at Cal State Fullerton and scored back-to-back 10s on Feb. 15 at the UCLA quad meet and on Feb. 22 at the Masters Classic ... Earned Pac-10 Special Performance of the Week honors each week she scored a perfect 10 ... Led UCLA with 13 event wins, including six on vault, and 35 Top 3 finishes ... At the NCAA Regionals, she placed third in the all-around (39.4), tied for second on bars (9.85) and tied for third on vault (9.9) ... Scored a career-high 9.9 on beam to tie for second place en route to a third-place all-around finish (39.4) at the Pac-10 Championships ... Captured first place on vault (9.95) and bars (9.9) and second on floor (career-high 9.925) against Nebraska and scored the equivalent of a 39.625 in the all-around when taking her 9.85 exhibition beam into account ... Scored a career-high 9.925 on floor to tie for second and posted 9.925 on vault and 9.9 on bars against Georgia ... Won the all-around at Oregon State with a 39.375 and scored a career-high 9.875 on beam to tie for first on that event ... Won the vault with a perfect 10 and tied for first on bars at Cal State Fullerton with a 9.85 ... Came back two days later to score career-highs in the all-around (39.5), bars (9.95) and floor (9.875) against Cal ... Won the all-around with a career-high 39.4 and tied for first on vault with a 9.9 against Arizona and was named the Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week, as well as the UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week ... Also set then-career-highs on bars (9.85), beam (9.825) and floor (9.825) in the meet ... Ranked first nationally on vault with a 9.955 RQS.
Club
One of the most accomplished gymnasts in Junior Olympic history, winning nine Level 10 individual national titles from 2003-07 ... Won the 2007 Senior A national all-around and beam titles, as well as consecutive Junior national all-around titles from 2003-04 ... Three-time Region 5 Athlete of the Year and all-star team member ... 2008 Level 10 State and Regional all-around champion ... In 2005, won the Level 10 national vault title and placed second in the all-around ... Won the all-around, vault and uneven bars crowns at the 2004 Level 10 National Championships and set a JO national record with a score of 9.825 on vault ... Won the all-around, vault and beam at the 2004 American Challenge and was named the Region V JO Athlete of the Year ... All-around, vault and floor champion at the 2003 Level 10 Nationals ... Had career-best marks of 9.875 on vault, 9.85 on beam, 9.775 on bars and 9.75 on floor ... Trained at Midwest Twisters under coaches Mickey Orr and Jenny Haden.
Personal
Lists her biggest athletic thrill as receiving a full scholarship to UCLA ... Hobbies include hanging out with friends and dancing ... Broke her high school team's pole vault record less than a week after she began training ... Admires Olympic gold medalist Kerri Strug ... Full name is Vanessa Ann Zamarripa ... Parents: John and Delia ... Has four brothers, John, Anthony, Kenneth and Andrew ... Born August 1, 1990 in Redlands, CA ... Undeclared major with a career interest in sports medicine.
