UCLA
Oregon State
Bruins Battle Beavers in Corvallis Saturday
January 31, 2019 | Gymnastics
No. 3 UCLA at No. 20 Oregon State
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 โ 11:30 a.m. (PT)
Corvallis, Ore.
MEET INFORMATION
Venue: Gill Coliseum
Time: 11:30 a.m. PT
Television: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: Rich Burk, Samantha Peszek
Live Stats: osubeavers.com
Tickets: $13 reserved/$8 general admission
UCLA ON THE ROAD AGAIN AT OREGON STATE
No. 3 UCLA (6-0) continues its three-game road swing with a Saturday morning meet at No. 20 Oregon State (4-1). The Bruins and Beavers will compete on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Gill Coliseum at 11:30 am. The meet will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks, with Rich Burk and Samantha Peszek calling the action.
HOTTEST TICKET
UCLA Gymnastics continues to draw crowds everywhere they go. A few days after drawing 10,270 fans to a Monday afternoon meet in Pauley Pavilion, UCLA attracted a Stanford record sell-out crowd of 6,000 fans. The new attendance record was nearly double that of the previous record. Oregon State is also expecting a big crowd on Saturday, with reserved seats nearly sold out by Monday.
OHASHI GOES MEGA-VIRAL WORLD-WIDE
Senior Katelyn Ohashi went mega-viral two weeks ago, totaling nearly 110 million views of her perfect 10 floor exercise routine from Jan. 12 (42M on Twitter, 35M on Facebook and 31M on YouTube). The reach of her routine extended world-wide, and her video was shared by celebrities such as Janet Jackson, Sara Bareilles, and Sophia Bush; politicians like Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jesse Jackson; and athletes like Troy Aikman and Laurie Hernandez. Her routine was also imitated by comedienne Ali Wong and talk show host Stephen Colbert. Ohashi was interviewed on Access Hollywood and on the Ryan Seacrest Show, where she discussed her dream of being on Dancing with the Stars and was surprised with a phone call on-air with the show's casting director. Ohashi and UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field also made an appearance on Good Morning America, where Ohashi recited some of her poetry and talked about rediscovering her joy in gymnastics.
PERFECT TRIO
Four weeks into the season and the Bruins already have three perfect 10s. Kyla Ross scored the first on Jan. 12 with her fourth uneven bars perfect 10 and sixth overall perfect 10. Katelyn Ohashi followed two rotations later with her now famous perfect 10 on floor exercise. The 10 was also her fourth on the event and sixth overall in her career. Madison Kocian notched her second career 10.0 on uneven bars on Jan. 21. UCLA gymnasts have totaled 129 perfect 10s all-time. Ross and Ohashi are tied for seventh-most in school history.
LAST TIME OUT
In front of a sold-out Stanford record crowd of 6,000, UCLA defeated Stanford, 197.225-195.125. The Bruins captured individual wins on every event, with freshman Sekai Wright taking her first collegiate victory on vault with a 9.875, Kyla Ross winning uneven bars wit a 9.900, and Katelyn Ohashi winning both beam and floor with scores of 9.975. UCLA scored a season-best 49.525 on beam, with five Bruins netting season-high scores - Ohashi (9.975), Ross (9.925), Norah Flatley (9.900), Nia Dennis (9.875) and Kendal Poston (9.850 on her first collegiate beam routine).
SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN
UCLA freshmen Norah Flatley, Margzetta Frazier and Sekai Wright have been posting top scores for the Bruins this season. In her last two meets, Flatley has posted season-bests of 9.975 on bars and 9.900 on beam. Flatley ranks No. 17 nationally on beam with a 9.875 average. Frazier is tied for No. 6 on floor with a 9.917 average and ranks No. 14 on bars with a 9.894 average in the leadoff position. Wright made her collegiate debut on Jan. 21 after sitting out the first two meets with an ankle injury and has scored 9.875 on her Yurchenko 1.5 vault in each of the last two meets. She captured her first event victory on Jan. 27 at Stanford.
OHASHI WINS THIRD PAC-12 SPECIALIST OF THE WEEK HONOR
Katelyn Ohashi has been selected the Pac-12 Gymnastics Specialist of the Week for the third time this season and sixth time in her career. Ohashi, the 2018 Pac-12 Specialist of the Year, captured both events in which she competed, scoring 9.975 on both balance beam and floor exercise during the Bruins' 197.725-195.125 win at Stanford. Ranked No. 1 in the nation on beam and floor, Ohashi has been nearly flawless this season, averaging 9.950 on beam and 9.969 on floor. She has won all seven events she has competed this season, totaling three tiles on beam and four on floor..
RECORD-SETTING START FOR BRUINS
The Bruins have set a new standard by recording 197+ scores in the first four meets of the year for the first time ever. UCLA began the year with a 197.250, scored 197.700 in week two, 197.775 in week three and 197.225 in week four. Only the 2003 squad had ever scored 197+ in its first two meets.
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA dipped slightly to No. 3 in the national rankings with a season average of 197.488. The Bruins are ranked No. 1 on floor exercise, No. 3 on uneven bars and balance beam, and No. 8 on vault. Four Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on floor - No. 1 Katelyn Ohashi, No. 3 Kyla Ross, No. 6 Margzetta Frazier and No. 10 Gracie Kramer. Ohashi leads four Bruins ranked on beam, standing at No. 1, while Ross is tied for 15th, and Grace Glenn and Norah Flatley are tied for 17th. Ross is No. 3 on bars, while Frazier is No. 14 and Flatley No. 17. Sekai Wright is the lone Bruin in the Top 25 on vault, ranking at No. 11.
FLOORED BY FLOOR
UCLA's floor exercise squad has been exceptional so far this season, averaging 49.563, with a high of 49.700 set at the Collegiate Challenge on Jan. 12. The 49.700 was the fifth-highest floor score in school history, and it was highlighted by Katelyn Ohashi's now-viral perfect 10 that was preceded by back-to-back-to-back-to-back 9.925s from Gracie Kramer, Kyla Ross, Margzetta Frazier and Pauline Tratz. The Bruins are ranked No. 1 in the nation on floor and have four athletes ranked in the Top 10 - defending NCAA floor champion Ohashi is No. 1, Ross is No. 3, Frazier is No. 6, and Kramer is No. 10.
34 STRAIGHT
With the victory over Stanford, UCLA has now outscored 34 straight opponents over its last 12 meets. The Bruins lost just two meets last season by a total of .225 points (.1 loss to Oklahoma Feb. 4, .125 loss to Utah Feb. 18).
MORE STREAKS
UCLA has scored 49+ in 75 straight rotations, the team's last sub-49 score coming in the first rotation of the 2018 season opener โฆ The Bruins scored 49.5 or better on 25 of those 75 rotations โฆ UCLA's streak of 18 straight meets scoring 49+ on all four apparatus is the longest active streak in the nation and the third-longest in NCAA history โฆ UCLA has scored 49+ on beam in its last 32 meets (the longest active streak in the nation and the second-longest in NCAA history) and 49+ on floor in its last 26 meets.
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
Oregon State is coming off a season-high score of 196.100, set at Washington last weekend in come-from-beind win by two-tenths of a point at Washington. second-half rally. The Beavers hit 23 out of 24 routines and recorded their top beam score of the year, 49.275, in the final rotation. Oregon State is led by head coach Tanya Chaplin, who was a six-time All-American and two-time Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year at UCLA. Associate Head Coach Michael Chaplin also competed at UCLA and was a teammate of Bruin Associate Head Coach Chris Waller on UCLA's 1987 NCAA men's gymnastics championship team.
FAREWELL SEASON
The 2019 season will be the swan song for legendary head coach Valorie Kondos Field, who will retire from coaching at the conclusion of the season. Kondos Field has led UCLA to all seven of its NCAA Championships, along with 14 conference and 19 NCAA Regional championships. She enters her 29th and final season with a career record of 516-120-3. In 2010, Kondos Field became just the second active coach ever inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, and she was also named the Pac-12 Gymnastics Coach of the Century and was selected by her peers as the National Coach of the Year four times in her career. Kondos Field recently wrote her first book, Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance, which is available in bookstores nationwide, as well as digitally. Through personal stories and anecdotes, she shares insights and advice on how to use uniqueness and authenticity to achieve success.
NO. 1 IN SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS
UCLA Gymnastics has the largest social media followings in all of women's collegiate sports, ranking No. 1 across all women's sports in combined followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, a total over 600,000. The Bruins rank first among all NCAA gymnastics teams on Instagram (272k), Facebook (246k) and Twitter (58k). Among all UCLA teams, gymnastics ranks first on Instagram and Facebook, and UCLA Gymnastics is the most followed collegiate women's team Instagram account in the nation. Follow the Bruins at @UCLAGymnastics on Instagram and Twitter and on Facebook at facebook.com/uclagymnastics.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will compete at Washington on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in a meet televised live on ESPN2.
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