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Jordan Chiles

Jordan Chiles Named West Region Gymnast of Year

Gymnastics

Sophomore has competed in the all-around in every meet and posted the highest all-around score in the nation this season.

Sophomore Jordan Chiles was selected the West Region Gymnast of the Year, as voted by members of the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). Chiles, a 2020 Olympic medalist and 2022 three-time World Championship medalist, has competed in the all-around in every meet this season, scoring 39+ in all 13 contests and averaging 39.679. Her all-around score of 39.900 vs. Iowa State on March 11 is the highest score in the nation this season and the No. 5 mark of all-time. She finished the regular season ranked No. 2 in the nation in the all-around with a NQS of 39.810, the highest ever by a UCLA gymnast.

Chiles finished the regular season ranked in the Top 4 nationally on three events, standing at No. 1 on uneven bars with a 9.980 NQS, the highest year-end NQS on the event in four years. She was also No. 3 on vault with a 9.950 NQS, No. 4 on floor exercise with a 9.965 NQS and No. 18 on beam with a 9.935 NQS. She earned first-team regular season All-America and All-Pac-12 honors in the all-around and on vault, bars and floor, along with honorable mention All-Pac-12 acclaim on beam. At the NCAA Los Angeles Regional, she won the all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise titles and helped the Bruins qualify to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2019.

The 2023 Pac-12 bars and floor champion leads UCLA with 38 individual event victories, 51 Top 3 finishes, 30 scores of 9.95 or higher and 45 scores of 9.9 or higher. She won Pac-12 titles on uneven bars and floor exercise and five Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week awards and has scored four perfect 10s this season – two on bars and two on floor – along with 15 9.975s.