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Pac-12 Championships - Session #2
UCLA Wins 19th Pac-12 Gymnastics Championship
March 23, 2019 | Gymnastics
West Valley City, Utah - No. 2 UCLA posted a Pac-12 Gymnastics Championship record and season-high 198.400 to capture its 19th Pac-12 title. Bruins won all four events and the all-around, with Kyla Ross winning her second all-around title and first outright, defending her bars championship with a perfect 10 and sharing the floor exercise title with Katelyn Ohashi and Utah's MyKayla Skinner with a 10.0. Ohashi tied with teammate Grace Glenn for the balance beam title, and Felicia Hano tied for first on vault with a 9.95.
The Bruins started the meet on vault with a team score of 49.425, just .025 off their season high. Felicia Hano led the vault squad with a 9.95, her second-straight 9.95 score, and Ross scored 9.9. Margzetta Frazier (9.8) and Gracie Kramer (9.85) recorded season-high marks, Nia Dennis added a 9.875, and Pauline Tratz scored 9.850. UCLA's score put the Bruins .150 behind Utah, who earned a season-high 49.575 on uneven bars.
UCLA moved to uneven bars in rotation two and busted out a 49.650 to take over the lead from Utah, 99.075-98.875. Frazier set the tone with a lead-off 9.95 to tie her career-high. Dennis followed with a 9.9, and Hano tied her career-best with a 9.875. Norah Flatley scored 9.85 before UCLA's two Olympic gold medalists came up to close the rotation. Madison Kocian scored 9.925, and Ross recorded her fifth perfect 10 on bars this season and the 10th of her career.
Kyla Ross is just another way to say "perfect ??."
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) March 24, 2019
The #Pac12Gym Championships were no different, as the @uclagymnastics star earned a ?? for the eighth week in a row.
Watch to see who takes the #Pac12Gym crown live on Pac-12 Now. https://t.co/xwo1fJXEFR pic.twitter.com/CWuXvsHgGR
Another strong leadoff score catapulted the Bruins in rotation three. Grace Glenn's leadoff 9.95 that tied her career-high led the way to a 49.550 beam total. Brielle Nguyen also tied her career-best, scoring 9.9 in the two spot. After Kocian and Flatley each contributed 9.85s, Ohashi earned a 9.95, and Ross closed with a 9.9. Utah, however, closed the gap with a 49.7 on floor, led by MyKayla Skinner's perfect 10.
The Bruins held a slim 148.625-148.575 lead over Utah going into the final rotation but used perfect 10s by Ross and Ohashi and a pair of 9.95s from Kramer and Tratz to pull away. UCLA scored 49.775 on floor while the Utes totaled 49.450 on vault.
DROP THAT MIC. ??@katelyn_ohashi debuted her new floor routine and music at tonight at the #Pac12Gym Championships.
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) March 24, 2019
Oh yeah, and she won...with a ??, of course. ???????
The @uclagymnastics senior takes home the @OpusBank #12Best moment of the meet. pic.twitter.com/V8oQb25eAC
Ross was voted the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, Ohashi earned her second consecutive Specialist of the Year award, and UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field was selected the Pac-12 Coach of the Year.
Congratulations to 2019 @pac12 Gymnast of the Year @kyla_ross96, Specialist of the Year @katelyn_ohashi and Coach of the Year @OfficialMissVal! pic.twitter.com/zSinxgupNf
— UCLA Gymnastics (@uclagymnastics) March 24, 2019
Final Standings
1. UCLA 198.400
2. Utah 198.025
3. Oregon State 196.600
4. California 196.575
5. Arizona State 196.400
6. Washington 196.175
7. Stanford 195.925
8. Arizona 193.900
Vault Winners - 1T. Felicia Hano, UCLA; MyKayla Skinner, Utah - 9.950
Bars Winner - 1. Kyla Ross, UCLA - 10.0
Beam Winners - 1T. Katelyn Ohashi, UCLA; Grace Glenn, UCLA - 9.950
Floor Winners - 1T. Kyla Ross, UCLA; Katelyn Ohashi, UCLA; MyKayla Skinner, Utah, 10.0
All-Around Winner - 1. Kyla Ross, UCLA 39.800
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