2022 Women's Gymnastics Roster

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Kyla Bryant

  • Position All-Around
  • Height 4-11
  • Class Fifth Year
  • High School Bridgeway Academy
  • Hometown Athens, Ga.
  • Major Science, Technology and Society

Biography

In The News

Career Accolades

  • NCAA First Team All-American (2022)
  • Recorded Stanford’s best score ever at an NCAA Championship meet on floor (in its current format)- 9.9375 (2022) 
  • 61 career individual event titles (2018-2022)
  • AAI Award Finalist (2022)
  • AAI Award Nominee (2021, 2022)
  • All-Pac-12 First Team- Floor (2020, 2022), All-Around (2020)
  • All-Pac-12 Second Team- Floor (2019), All-Around (2019)
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention- All-Around (2022)
  • Pac-12 champion - floor (2021)
  • WCGA Second-Team All-American - floor (2020)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2022)
  • Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 18, 2022)
  • Pac-12 Newcomer of the Week (Feb. 13, 2018)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention (2019)

As a Super Senior (2022)

  • NCAA First Team All-American
  • Recorded Stanford’s best score ever at an NCAA Championship meet on floor (in its current format)- 9.9375
  • AAI Award Finalist
  • All-Pac-12 First Team- Floor
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention- All-Around
  • Pac-12 GPAC member
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2022)
  • Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 18)
  • Stanford Women’s Gymnastics 2022 MVP Award Winner
  • Earned 12 of Stanford's 20 individual event titles throughout the 2022 regular season
    • Event titles (12)
      • Vault (3): vs. Cal, Feb. 4 | at Washington Tri Meet, March 6 | vs. San Jose State, March 30
      • Bars (1): at Cal, Jan. 16
      • Beam (2): at Cal, Jan. 16 | Stanford Quad Meet, Feb. 21
      • Floor (4): at Cal, Jan. 16 | vs. Cal, Feb. 4 | vs. UCLA, Feb. 12 | at Washington Tri Meet, March 6
      • All-Around (2): at Cal, Jan. 16 | vs. UCLA, Feb. 12
  • Competed in 14 meets throughout the season, 13 for the Cardinal and one as an individual competitor at the NCAA Championships
  • Owned the Cardinal's 2022 season top scores on all four events and all-around 
  • Recorded new career bests on vault (9.925), beam (9.975), and all-around (39.675), and matched career-best scores on bars (9.95) and floor (9.975) during her 2022 campaign
    • Bryant's career-best matching 9.975 on floor was earned against UCLA on Feb. 12 (in the anchor spot of Stanford's final rotation), sealing the Cardinal's first win over the Bruins since 2016
  • Did not record a score less than 9.90 on floor in all 2022 meets
As a Senior (2021)
  • AAI Award Nominee
  • Pac-12 champion - floor
  • Accounted for six of Stanford's 14 individual event titles
  • Produced session-high marks on floor (9.950) and all-around (39.475) at Pac-12 Championships (March 20), claiming title on floor and becoming Stanford's first Pac-12 champion since Elizabeth Price in 2018
  • Matched career best on vault (9.900) against San Jose State (March 10)
As a Junior (2020)
  • WCGA Second-Team All-American - floor 
  • All-Pac-12 First Team - floor, all-around
  • Accounted for 12 of Stanford's 14 individual event titles
  • Ranked No. 11 in nation on floor by posting a NQS of 9.925, achieving personal-best 9.975 against Arizona State (March 2)
  • Finished with seven floor routines of 9.900 or better and captured four event titles
  • Ranked No. 17 in nation in all-around by posting NQS of 39.375, totaling career-best 39.550 at Utah (March 5)
  • Also produced career-high totals on vault (9.900), bars (9.950) and beam (9.925)
As a Sophomore (2019)
  • All-Pac-12 Second Team - floor, all-around
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
  • Contributed team-high 17 event titles, including seven in all-around
  • Recorded 10 scores of 9.900 or higher
  • Scored season-high 39.525 in all-around at Pac-12 Championships (Feb. 15)
As a Freshman (2018)
  • Pac-12 Newcomer of the Week (Feb. 13)
  • Won first all-around title (39.400), tied for first on beam (9.875) and finished first on bars (9.825) at Arizona (Feb. 11)
  • Won first beam title (9.875) against California (Feb. 17)
  • Tied for first on floor (9.875) and bars (9.900) at Washington (Feb. 24)
Prior to Stanford
  • A 2017 graduate of Bridgeway Academy in Lake Oconee, Georgia
  • Trained at the Junior Olympic National Team Camp at Karolyi Ranch in Texas (2015-16)
  • Trained at Georgia Elite Gymnastics (2013-17)
  • Won five consecutive Georgia State Level 10 Team Championships (2013-17)
  • Won the all-around, bars and floor at the 2016 Junior Olympic National Championships
  • Two-time Junior Olympic National Team member (2015, 2016)
  • Finished first on floor and second on vault at the 2016 Level 10 Regional
  • Won the 2016 Level 10 State All-Around Championship finishing first in each event
  • Finished first on bars and 10 in the all-around at the 2016 Nastia Liukin Cup in Newark, N.J.
  • All-around champion at the 2016 Fiesta Bowl Invitational, scoring 39.000
  • Finished second on floor, and eighth in the all-around at the 2014 Women's Junior Olympic Level 10 National Championships in Jackson, Miss.
  • Won floor and placed third in the all-around and vault at the 2014 Level 10 Regionals
  • All-around, vault and floor Level 10 State champion in 2014
  • Silver medalist on bars and beam at the 2014 Level 10 State competition
  • Silver medalist on vault and floor at the 2013 Level 10 Regional competition
  • Won the all-around, vault, beam and floor at the 2013 Level 10 State championships
  • Claimed consecutive Georgia State Level 10 All-Around titles from 2013-2016
  • Level 10 Regional Qualifier in 2012
  • Silver medalist on vault at the 2012 Level 10 State competition
  • Earned 22 state and regional individual titles
  • Team Leader at Georgia Elite Gymnastics 
Personal
  • Daughter of Sherman and Kita Bryant
  • Has a brother, Kaleb
  • Volunteers with the Greensboro Food Pantry Collection and Distribution
  • Member of the Interact Club Food Collection for children in Haiti
  • Graduated high school with honors
  • In 2014, participated in a Sony Lifetime movie as the main gymnastics stunt double for the lead actress (Imani Hakim) in The Gabrielle Douglas Story, and spent four weeks filming in Winnipeg and Manitoba, Canada
  • Enjoys playing the violin, spending time on the lake with friends and family, dancing and reading poetry

Career Scores
Year Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around
2018 Season Highs 9.875 9.900 9.900 9.925 39.475
2019 Season Highs 9.875 9.900 9.900 9.925 39.525
2020 Season Highs 9.900 9.950 9.925 9.975 39.550
2021 Season Highs 9.900 9.900 9.875 9.950 39.475
2022 Season Highs 9.925 9.950 9.975 9.975 39.675
Career Highs 9.925 9.950 9.975 9.975 39.675

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Freshman

    All-Around
    4'11"
  • 2019Sophomore

    All-Around
    4'11"
  • 2020Junior

    All-Around
    4'11"
  • 2021Senior

    All-Around
    4'11"
  • 2022Fifth Year

    All-Around
    4'11"