top Canadian gymnasts sign with UCLA

Canadians love the warm weather. Many, over the years, have gone to UCLA. (Yvonne Tousek, Kate Richardson)

Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs and Marci Bernholtz, Canadian National Team members, were planning to defer enrollment with UCLA until 2008-09.

Canada did not qualify a full team to the Beijing Olympics. Will both still train for Olympic qualification? Or start preparing for the NCAA?

… Hopfner-Hibbs, who will defer enrollment at UCLA until the 2008-09 school year, won the bronze medal on balance beam at the 2006 World Championships, becoming the first Canadian woman ever to win a medal at the World Championships. …

Bernholtz, who will be competing in her second consecutive World Championships, is the 2007 Canadian national champion on the uneven bars and the bronze medalist in the all-around and on balance beam. She was also a double bronze-medalist at the 2005 National Championships, placing third in the all-around and on floor exercise, and an alternate at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Two Bruin Signees To Compete For Canada At World Gymnastics Championships – Canada needs Top 12 placement to send full team to 2008 Olympics.