Kyla Bryant Season 2022
EventsAA
Height4-11
Academic YearFifth Year
HometownAthens, Ga.
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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
- Event titles (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 |
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