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No. 3 UCLA Hosts No. 11 Washington Friday Night
January 30, 2020 | Gymnastics
No. 3 UCLA vs. No. 11 Washington
Date/Time: Friday, Jan. 31, 2020 โ 7 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
TV: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: Jim Watson, Amanda Borden
Live Stats: uclabruins.com
Tickets: $20 reserved/$12 general admission (UCLA students are free)
Ticket Promos: Up to 4 free admissions for UCLA Faculty/Staff
Giveaways: UCLA Gymnastics Centennial Pin (2,000)
Postmeet Photos: Andres, Flatley, G. Glenn, Steele, Tratz
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
No. 3-ranked UCLA (6-1) begins a two-meet homestand on Friday, Jan. 31 against No. 11 Washington (3-1). The meet will take place at 7 p.m. PT in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom and will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks with Jim Watson and Amanda Borden on the call. Doors open at 6 p.m. Be in your seats by 6:45 p.m. for the pre-meet festivities.
TICKETS/PROMOTIONS
Tickets for the UCLA-Washington meet, as well as season tickets for the Bruins' home schedule, are on sale now at the UCLA Central Ticket Office and at Ticketmaster. UCLA students are free with ID and eligible to win a raffle prize each home meet. This week's prize is a TCL television. UCLA Faculty and Staff can receive up to four free tickets to Friday's meet. Additionally, fans who attend the Jan. 30 UCLA-Colorado men's basketball game can present their game ticket to the box office for free admission to Friday's meet. The giveaway item for Friday is a UCLA Gymnastics Centennial pin for the first 2,000 fans. Following the meet, Bruins Emma Andres, Norah Flatley, Grace Glenn, Kalyany Steele and Pauline Tratz will be available for photos on the concourse.
BRUIN LIGHTS
Fans attending the home meets in 2020 can be part of a light show during the pre-meet festivities. To participate, download the UCLA Bruins app and select Bruin Lights in the dropdown menu. Hold up your phone during the intro video, and the lights will automatically sync to the music.
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Pauley Pavilion continues to implement a clear bag policy which limits the size and type of bags that may be brought into the arena. One large clear bag, either a one gallon Ziploc style bag or a 12' by 6" by 12" clear bag, or a small clutch may be allowed into the arena. Increased screening through the use of electronic security equipment will be used at all entry gates. For more information, visit uclabruins.com/pauleygamedayinfo.
UCLA CONTINUES CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
UCLA's year-long celebration of its first 100 years continues at Friday night's meet, which is the designated gymnastics centennial meet. The first 2,000 fans in attendance will receive a Gymnastics Centennial Pin, one in a set of 13 from various sports. An additional giveaway is a souvenir mosaic poster that features personal photos submitted by UCLA fans. The Bruins will be wearing a new Centennial leotard during the competition.
UCLA POSTS SEASON-HIGH 197.575 AT STANFORD
UCLA opened up Pac-12 play on Monday night with a season-high team score of 197.575 in a dual meet victory at No. 25 Stanford. The Bruins hit 24-for-24 routines, with 22 scores going 9.800 or higher, including eight that went 9.9+. Kyla Ross won the all-around for the fourth consecutive meet, scoring 39.575. She also took first place on uneven bars (9.950) and floor exercise (9.975) and tied for first with Nia Dennis on vault (9.900). Grace Glenn earned a leadoff score of 9.975 on beam to take first place.
NEWCOMERS ROCK-SOLID IN SEASON DEBUT
Four Bruin gymnasts made their season debuts on their respective events at Stanford. On vault, Pauline Tratz and Chloe Lashbrooke each scored 9.825 on their first attempts of the year, and Felicia Hano scored 9.900 on her first floor exercise appearance. But it was Nicki Shapiro who had the longest layoff, going three and a half years between routines and scoring 9.800 on balance beam. Shapiro had not competed since the 2016 NCAA Championships and was out of gymnastics until this past summer.
ROSS, GLENN WIN PAC-12 HONORS
Kyla Ross won the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award for the third time in four weeks this season, while Grace Glenn captured her second career Specialist of the Week award. Ross won the all-around, vault, bars and floor to help the Bruins to a team season-high total of 197.575 at Stanford. The all-around victory kept her unbeaten on the season, and she now has 15 individual wins this year out of a possible 25. Glenn tied her career-high on the balance beam with a 9.975 in the leadoff position to capture her second event win of the year. Her score helped the Bruins tie their season-best on beam with a 49.375.
ROSS RECORD WATCH
Kyla Ross recorded her 21st career perfect 10 on uneven bars Jan. 18 at BYU, moving into a tie for fourth on the NCAA's all-time perfect 10 list. She is now seven away from tying the all-time record of 28 held by UCLA's Jamie Dantzscher (2000-03) and Kentucky's Jenny Hansen (1993-96). Ross extended her NCAA record to 11 career perfect 10s on bars (10 of her 11 were scored on the road). Last season, Ross set NCAA records with 10 consecutive meets with a perfect 10 and 14 10s overall in the season. This year, she became the first gymnast in the nation to record multiple 10s, having scored two in a row on uneven bars in weeks two and three.
KOCIAN RETURNS
Madison Kocian made a welcomed return to the lineup at BYU, making her season debut on both bars and floor after sitting out the first two meets with shoulder soreness. The 2016 Olympic gold and silver medalist, scored 9.950 on bars to place second and 9.850 on floor to finish third. She competed on bars again at Stanford, scoring 9.9 to tie for second. Kocian has not competed on floor since 2018, and her last competitive appearance prior to the BYU meet was at the 2019 NCAA final. She is averaging 9.866 on bars and 9.892 on floor over her career, with highs of 10.0 and 9.950, respectively, and currently ranks No. 2 in the nation on bars.
GLENN CLOSE TO ELUSIVE LEADOFF 10
With two scores of 9.975 on balance beam this season, senior Grace Glenn is inching closer and closer to recording an elusive leadoff perfect 10, a feat that is believed to never have happened in NCAA Gymnastics. Glenn, the reigning Pac-12 beam co-champion, scored her first 9.975 while leading off Jan. 12 against Boise State at home. Two weeks later, she matched that mark at Stanford with another near-flawless routine that led to her winning the Pac-12 Specialist of the Week award. Glenn has seven beam scores of 9.950 or better in her career, along with five career event wins.
KRAMER TAKES FIRST WIN OF 2020
Senior Gracie Kramer took home top honors on floor exercise at BYU, scoring a career-high-tying 9.950. The event win was her first of the season and just the second of her career. Competing in the beginning or middle of a lineup that featured 2019 Pac-12 floor co-champions Katelyn Ohashi and Kyla Ross throughout her career have made victories hard to come by, but Kramer took her first-ever outright floor title with her nearly flawless routine on Jan. 18. Kramer's only other event win came in the 2018 season opener when she tied for first on floor with Ross.
FLOORED ON FLOOR
UCLA remains ranked No. 1 in the nation on floor exercise, averaging 49.513. The Bruins have three athletes ranked in the Top 10 - No. 4 Kyla Ross (9.950 average), No. 5 Gracie Kramer (9.919) and No. 6 Margzetta Frazier (9.925).The Bruins posted a 49.725 on floor exercise against Boise State on Jan. 12, the sixth-highest floor score in school history and the highest event score on any event in the nation this season. Nia Dennis started the set with a bang, with her Beyonce Homecoming tribute igniting the Pauley Pavilion crowd of 7,147 and scoring 9.925. Pauline Tratz matched her score with a 9.925, and freshman Chloe Lashbrooke followed with a 9.875 in her collegiate debut. Kramer and Frazier went back-to-back with 9.95s, and Ross finished the set with a 9.975.
UCLA SHOWCASES DEPTH
The Bruins have been showcasing their depth during the first month of the season, competing anywhere from 12-14 gymnasts in each of their meets. Five underclassmen (freshmen Chloe Lashbrooke and Kalyany Steele and sophomores Norah Flatley, Margzetta Frazier and Samantha Sakti) competed a total of nine routines against Boise State on Jan. 12. Adding on to the 14 who competed in that meet, two others - redshirt seniors Nicki Shapiro (uneven bars) and Macy Toronjo (floor exercise) - performed exhibition routines, seeing their first action of the season. UCLA's depth has been especially strong on floor exercise, where 11 athletes (Emma Andres, Nia Dennis, Flatley, Frazier, Felicia Hano, Madison Kocian, Gracie Kramer, Lashbrooke, Kyla Ross, Macy Toronjo and Pauline Tratz) have shown floor routines either in competition or in exhibition.
FRESHMEN LOOK STRONG IN COLLEGIATE DEBUTS
Three freshmen made strong collegiate debuts on January 4 at the Collegiate Challenge. Kalyany Steele was the only freshman to break the competitive lineup, and she scored 9.8 on uneven bars to help the Bruins take the first rotation lead with a 49.425. Emma Andres and Chloe Lashbrooke performed exhibition routines on balance beam and floor exercise, respectively. Andres scored 9.7 on beam, while Lashbrooke posted a 9.8 on floor. Lashbrooke improved her mark on Jan. 12 in the scoring lineup, recording a mark of 9.875. Andres made her floor debut at BYU on Jan. 18, scoring 9.825 in an exhibition performance.
BY THE NUMBERS
UCLA has scored 49+ on floor exercise in 42 consecutive meets, its last sub-49 score coming on Feb. 20, 2017 โฆ On bars, UCLA's 49+ streak stands at 38, with its last sub-49 coming at the 2017 Pac-12 Championships โฆ UCLA has scored 49+ on vault in 34-straight meets since the 2018 season opener โฆ In her last 18 meets, Nia Dennis is averaging 9.872 on vault โฆ Norah Flatley has hit 20 consecutive uneven bars routines โฆ Margzetta Frazier has hit every routine she has competed in her career, with 43 of her 44 routines scoring 9.8 or higher โฆ Grace Glenn has scored 9.9 or higher on beam on 16 of 30 routines โฆFelicia Hano has hit 39 consecutive vaults โฆ Madison Kocian has hit 32 consecutive uneven bars routines, 18 of those going 9.9 or higher, and 21 consecutive floor exercise routines โฆ Gracie Kramer has hit 33 floor routines in a row, with 20 of those routines earning 9.9 or higher โฆ Kyla Ross has scored 39+ in the all-around 30 times in her career โฆ On balance beam, Ross has hit 37 consecutive routines, 27 of them for 9.9 or higher โฆ Pauline Tratz has hit 61 of 62 routines without a fall in her career, including 54 in a row.
SETTING NEW ACADEMIC STANDARDS
Fourteen members of the Bruin squad were part of the UCLA-record total of 415 student-athletes to make the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in Fall 2019. Sixty-two percent of all UCLA student-athletes earned honor roll recognition, with 28 earning perfect 4.0 GPAs, including Macy Toronjo and Pauline Tratz. The 12 other Bruins to make the Director's Honor Roll last quarter were Emma Andres, Norah Flatley, Anna Glenn, Felicia Hano, Madison Kocian, Gracie Kramer, Chloe Lashbrooke, Kendal Poston, Kyla Ross, Samantha Sakti, Mercedez Sanchez and Sara Taubman.
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Washington enters the week ranked No. 11 in the nation with a season average of 196.223. The Huskies have been on a rapid incline since the beginning of the season, starting their year with a 195.350 at Michigan, improving to a 196.275 against Boise State on Jan. 20 and then to 197.225 in a win over California on Jan. 26.. The Huskies rank 12th on vault (49.058), 10th on bars (49.142), 23rd on beam (48.842) and eighth on floor (49.242). Last weekend, the Huskies edged California, 197.225-197.075 after Kristyn Hoffa's meet-clinching 9.975 on floor on the last routine of the meet. Washington is coached by 2000 Olympic medalist Elise Ray-Statz.
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 750,000. The Bruins rank first among all NCAA gymnastics teams on Instagram (345k), Facebook (354k) and Twitter (67.4k). 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, Twitter and Snapchat and on Facebook at facebook.com/uclagymnastics.
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