Christine Peng-Peng Lee (photo by Bailey Holiver)Christine Peng-Peng Lee (photo by Bailey Holiver)
Bailey Holiver

Christine Peng-Peng Lee (photo by Bailey Holiver)

Lee Wins Fifth Pac-12 Specialist of the Week Award

Gymnastics

Lee scored perfect 10s on her two routines at Stanford to win her record-setting ninth career award.

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UCLA senior Christine Peng-Peng Lee has been named Pac-12 Specialist of the Week for the fifth time this season and for a conference record ninth time in her career.

The reigning Pac-12 Specialist of the Year was truly perfect in the Bruins' 197.800-196.650 win at Stanford, scoring perfect 10s in the only two events in which she competed. Lee scored her first perfect 10 of the season on uneven bars in the first rotation, the first of back-to-back 10s by the Bruins, who also received one from Kyla Ross. Lee also ended the meet with a perfect 10 on balance beam, her nation-leading third of the season.

Lee now has seven perfect 10s in her career and leads the nation with four perfect marks this year. She has tied Kate Richardson's UCLA school record for career 10s on beam with four. Lee also broke the Pac-12 record for career Specialist of the Week awards, which was previously held by UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa and Utah's Georgia Dabritz.

UCLA has won nine of 10 Pac-12 Specialist of the Week awards this season, the most by any program in one season ever. In addition to Lee's five awards, Katelyn Ohashi, Napualani Hall, Grace Glenn and Felicia Hano have each won once.

Stanford's Elizabeth Price was selected the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week for the third time this year, and Oregon State's Kaitlyn Yanish earned her first Freshman/Newcomer of the Week honor.

Third-ranked UCLA wraps up the regular season tonight against San Jose State at 7pm.

Also Nominated:
Gymnast of the Week:
Victoria Ortiz, ARIZ; Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Toni-Ann Williams, CAL; McKenna Singley, OSU; Kyla Ross, UCLA; MyKayla Skinner, UTAH; Hailey Burleson, WASH.
Specialist of the Week: Justine Callis, ASU; Alicia Gallarzo, CAL; Destinee Davis, OSU; Zoey Schaefer, WASH.
Freshman/Newcomer of the Week: Kyana George, CAL; Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Pauline Tratz, UCLA.

2018 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week
Jan. 9: MyKayla Skinner, Utah; Jan. 16: MyKayla Skinner, Utah; Jan. 23: Elizabeth Price, Stanford; Jan. 30: Kyla Ross, UCLA; Feb. 6: MaKenna Merrell-Giles, Utah; Feb. 13: MyKayla Skinner, Utah; Feb. 20: MyKayla Skinner, Utah; Feb. 27: Toni-Ann Williams, California; Mar. 6: Elizabeth Price, Stanford; Mar. 12: Elizabeth Price, Stanford.

2018 Pac-12 Specialist of the Week
Jan. 9: Christine Peng-Peng Lee, UCLA; Jan. 16: Christine Peng-Peng Lee, UCLA; Jan. 23: Grace Glenn, UCLA; Jan. 30: Christine Peng-Peng Lee, UCLA; Feb. 6: Felicia Hano, UCLA; Feb. 13: Napualani Hall, UCLA; Feb. 20: Katelyn Ohashi, UCLA; Feb. 27: Christine Peng-Peng Lee, UCLA; Mar. 6: Sofie Seilnacht, California; Mar. 12: Christine Peng-Peng Lee, UCLA.

2018 Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week
Jan. 9: Kyana George, California; Jan. 16: Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Jan. 23: Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Jan. 30: Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Feb. 6: Rachael Flam, Stanford; Feb. 13: Kyla Bryant, Stanford; Feb. 20: Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Feb. 27: Cairo Leonard-Baker, ASU; Mar. 6: Kyana George, California; Mar. 12: Kaitlyn Yanish, Oregon State.