Kyla Bryant Season 2020

In The News

• 10/4/19: Chalk Talk with Kyla Bryant (GoStanford.com)

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