Nia Dennis (photo by Richard Quinton)Nia Dennis (photo by Richard Quinton)
Richard Quinton

Nia Dennis (photo by Richard Quinton)

UCLA Earns Top Seed at Pac-12 Championships

Gymnastics

The Bruins will compete in Olympic order, starting on vault and ending on floor exercise.

The No. 3-ranked UCLA Gymnastics team will enter Saturday's Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships at Arizona as the top seed for the second consecutive year. The Bruins will compete in Session 2 of the Championships, along with No. 2 seed Utah, No. 3 seed Washington and No. 4 seed California. Competition begins on March 24 at 6:00 pm in the McKale Center.

Competing in Session 1 at 1:00 pm will be No. 5 seed Oregon State, No. 6 seed Arizona State, No. 7 seed Stanford and No. 8 seed Arizona. Both sessions will be televised live on Pac-12 Network.

Seedings are determined by NCAA Regional Qualifying Scores.

As the top seed, UCLA has chosen to start the meet on vault and end on floor exercise, giving the Bruins Olympic order for the third-straight year. The Bruins are ranked No. 1 in the nation on floor exercise, No. 2 on vault and beam and No. 4 on bars.

Utah chose to start on uneven bars, Washington chose to begin on floor exercise, and California will start on balance beam. In Session 1, Oregon State starts on vault, Arizona State on uneven bars, Stanford on balance beam and Arizona on floor exercise.

UCLA has won a conference-best 17 Pac-12 team titles and 89 individual titles in 31 years. The Bruins' last team title came in 2016 in Seattle. UCLA has two former Pac-12 individual champions on the current squad - 2017 beam champion Kyla Ross and 2016 bars co-champion JaNay Honest.

All-session and single-session tickets for the Pac-12 Championships are on sale now. Visit pac-12.com/tickets to purchase.