Valorie Kondos Field
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140 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And I knew if I did this well enough, that champion mentality would translate to the competition floor
And it did.
The key ingredient was to develop trust through patience, respectful honesty and accountability.
All of the ingredients that go into tough love.
Speaking of tough love, Caitlin Ohashi is a perfect example of this.
You may have all seen her floor routine.
It has had over 150 million views.
And the consensus is her performance is pure joy.
However, when Caitlin came to UCLA, she was broken in body, mind and spirit.
She had grown up in a stereotypical, very high-level athletic world.
And she was damaged.
So when Caitlin came to UCLA her freshman year, she found her inner rebel quite well, to the point where she was no longer able to do gymnastics at the level at which she was recruited.
And I will never forget a team meeting we had halfway through her freshman season.
We were in there with the team, the coaching staff, the support staff, sports psychologist, and Caitlin very clearly and unapologetically said,
I just don't want to be great again.
I felt like I got sucker-punched.
My first thought was, then why the heck am I going to honor your scholarship?
It was a really snarky thought, and thankfully I didn't say it out loud, because then I had clarity.
Caitlin didn't hate gymnastics.
Caitlin hated everything associated with being great.
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