Saturday, January 21
Seattle, WA
2:00 PM
UCLA
at
Washington
Chloe Lashbrooke
Photo by: Tim Broussard
UCLA Competes at Washington Saturday in First Pac-12 Meet
January 19, 2023 | Gymnastics
MEET INFORMATION
TV: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson, Alisa Mowe
Live Stats: gohuskies.comย
BRUINS OPEN PAC-12 PLAY SATURDAY AT WASHINGTONย
No. 4 UCLA begins Pac-12 Conference play on Saturday afternoon at No. 22 Washington. The meet will take place at 2pm at Alaska Airlines Arena and will be televised live on Pac-12 Network. This is third consecutive week UCLA and Washington have competed in the same arena. They both opened the season at the Super 16 in Las Vegas in different sessions, and then went head-to-head in the first session of the Wasatch Classic last weekend in Utah. The Bruins outscored the Huskies in both meets. ย ย ย ย ย
HOME STATE VISIT ย
Three Bruins will be returning to their home state of Washington this weekend. Sophomore Jordan Chiles hails from Vancouver and graduated from Prairie High School. Head coach Janelle McDonald is from Federal Way, and assistant coach BJ Das is a Seattle native and former member of the UW gymnastics team. ย
IN THE RANKINGS ย
UCLA has moved up two spots to No. 4 in the national rankings, averaging 197.563. This is UCLA's highest team ranking since the final ranking of the 2020 Covid-shortened season. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on all four events, checking in at third on uneven bars, fourth on floor exercise, fifth on vault and eighth on balance beam. Individually, three Bruins rank in the Top 20 in the all-around - No. 3 Jordan Chiles, No. 6 Selena Harris and No. 16 Chae Campbell. On vault, Chiles ranks eighth, while Campbell and Harris are tied for 11th. Three Bruins rank in the Top 10 on uneven bars - No. 3 Chiles, No. 9 Harris and No. 10 Margzetta Frazier. On balance beam, Chiles ranks No. 11, with Emma Malabuyo close behind at No. 15. Three rank in the Top 3 on floor exercise, with Campbell at No. 3, Harris at No. 18 and Chiles at No. 25. ย ย ย ย
LAST TIME OUTย
UCLA scored 49.500 or higher on its first three events to run away with the victory in the first session of the Wasatch Classic in Utah. The Bruins earned 13 9.9+ scores and finished with a team total of 197.850, their best away effort since 2019. Jordan Chiles and Selena Harris tied for first in the all-around with scores of 39.725 and placed either first or second on every event. Chae Campbell won floor exercise with a 9.950, leading the Bruins to a 49.600 team total, the second-highest floor score in the nation. ย ย ย ย ย ย
SUPER STARTย
First-year head coach Janelle McDonald is off to a super start, with the Bruins moving up to No. 4 in the national rankings with a two-meet average of 197.563. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on all four events, and their 197.850 at the Wasatch Classic last week ranks as the third-highest score in the nation this year and their highest away score since the 2019 season. Additionally, UCLA's season-opening total of 197.725 at the Super 16 was the highest by a UCLA team in a season opener since the 2005 team scored 197.300 in a dual meet at Utah. It was also just the fourth time in school history that a UCLA team has scored 197 in the first meet of the year. ย ย ย ย ย
HARRIS REPEATS AS PAC-12 FRESHMAN OF WEEK HONORSย
For the second consecutive week, Selena Harris has been named the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week. A week after debuting with UCLA's highest all-around mark by a freshman in a season opener in 18 years, a 39.550, Harris improved her mark to a 39.725 to tie for first place at the Wasatch Classic. That total ranks as the fourth-best score in the nation by any gymnast and is the highest among all freshmen. Harris scored 9.9 or higher on all four events and placed either first of second on each, winning the uneven bars with a 9.975 and tying for first on beam with a 9.925. She now ranks No. 6 nationally in the all-around, No. 9 on bars, No. 11 on vault, and No. 18 on floor.
DEBUT PERFORMANCES ย
Four Bruins made their collegiate debuts at the season opener on Jan. 11. Selena Harris had a smashing debut in her hometown city of Las Vegas, scoring 9.9 on her first three events and an all-around total of 39.500. Sophomore Emily Lee, who missed all of 2022 while recovering from an Achilles injury sustained at the Olympic Trials, competed on three events and hit a 9.850 on vault on her first-ever collegiate routine. Freshman Maddie Anyimi debuted with a 9.775 on vault and Ciena Alipio came in on beam as a late sub and scored 9.750. ย ย
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK ย
Two returners who missed most of 2022 have come back with a vengeance. Redshirt senior Margzetta Frazier, who fractured her foot in the season opener a year ago, has returned to compete in three events in each of the first two meets. She already has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and 9.925 on floor exercise and currently ranks No. 10 in the nation on bars. The three-time All-American has now hit all 98 of her collegiate routines without a fall. Senior Chloe Lashbrooke, who ruptured her Achilles in January 2021, performed an exhibition routine on floor exercise at the Wasatch Classic and recorded a 9.875. It was her first time doing full tumbling at a meet since Feb. 29, 2020. her return to competition after missing most of 2022 with a fractured foot suffered in the season opener. ย ย ย ย
CHILES CONTINUES SUCCESS ย
After spending the summer and fall winning multiple medals in national and international competition, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles has continued her success in NCAA competition, scoring 39.650 in the season opener and 39.725 in week two at the Wasatch Classic. Her season all-around average of 39.688 puts her in third in the national rankings, and she also ranks in the Top 25 on all four events, checking in at No. 3 on uneven bars, No. 8 on vault, No. 11 on balance beam and No. 25 on floor exercise.ย
Chiles competed at her first-ever World Championship in the fall and helped lead the U.S. to the team gold medal with a strong all-around performance before adding two silver medals in the individual event finals, on vault and floor exercise. The Bruin sophomore also won the floor exercise title and finished second on vault at the Paris World Challenge Cup in the summer and was a three-time bronze medalist (all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise) at the 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships. ย ย
CAMPBELL EXTENDS FLOOR STREAK ย
Four-time All-American Chae Campbell has scored 9.950 on floor in both meets this year, extending her 9.950 scoring streak to four consecutive meets. She has scored 9.950 or higher in seven of her last eight floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell is tied for third in the nation on floor and also ranks 16th in the all-around and 11th on vault. She had a streak of 10 consecutive 9.9+ vaults snapped last week with a 9.875 at the Wasatch Classic but has 15 9.9+ vaults in her career, averaging 9.891. On floor, her career average is 9.911, and she has posted 17 scores of 9.9 or higher. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
NEW ERA BEGINS UNDER MCDONALDย
Head coach Janelle McDonald begins her first season leading the Bruins. McDonald came to UCLA in May 2022 with two decades of coaching experience under her belt, including four successful seasons as an assistant coach at California (2019-22), where she helped coach California to its first-ever Pac-12 regular season title in 2022 and a program-best seventh-place NCAA finish in 2021. Serving as the team's uneven bars head coach, McDonald coached Maya Bordas to California's first-ever NCAA individual championship in 2021, while the uneven bars squad finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation and tied a NCAA record with a team score of 49.825. McDonald was honored in 2020 and 2021 as the WCGA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year and was part of the 2021 College Gym News Coaching Staff of the Year. She began her coaching career in 1999 while in high school and has extensive coaching experience at the club level, including a six-year (2012-18) tenure at WOGA.
McDonald also brought in two new coaches in assistant coach Kyle Grable and volunteer assistant Autumn Grable. The Grables came to UCLA from Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center (JPAC) in Indianapolis, where they served as co-head coach for elite development the last five years. Under their guidance, JPAC was awarded J.O. Club of the Year honors nationally in 2019 and in Region 5 in 2021. Kyle coached uneven bars for Levels 6-10, while Autumn coached balance beam and floor exercise. Together, they coached a Level 10 national all-around champion in 2019, three Level 10 uneven bars national champions, a 2021 Level 10 National beam champion, two Level 10 national all-around runners-up and qualified athletes to the Nastia Liukin Cup the past four years.
One previous coach remained on staff. BJ Das returned to the Bruins in a full-time role after serving three seasons as a volunteer assistant from 2020-22. Each year as the Bruins' choreographer, Das created floor exercise routines that went viral, including two routines from Nia Dennis that each amassed over 11 million views just on Twitter alone. Das also put together two routines that won Pac-12 floor exercise championships (Chae Campbell and Pauline Tratz in 2021) and three routines that scored perfect 10s (Gracie Kramer in 2020, Campbell twice in 2022 and Jordan Chiles twice in 2022). UCLA's floor exercise squad ranked first in the nation at the conclusion of the 2020 season.ย
UCLA TO HOST NCAA REGIONALS ย
For the first time in 13 years, UCLA will host the NCAA Regionals in Pauley Pavilion. The three-day, nine-team competition will begin on March 29 with a first round dual meet between the two lowest-seeded teams. The winner will advance to the second round, which will take place on March 30 with two quad meets. The top two teams from each of the two quad meets will meet in the regional final on April 1, with the top two finishers advancing to the NCAA Championships. Tickets for the NCAA Regionals are on sale now at uclabruins.com/tickets. The complete field for the Regional will be announced on March 20. UCLA had been scheduled to host the Regionals in 2020 before the season was canceled due to the pandemic. ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins compete at home for the first time in 2023 on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3pm against Oregon State.ย
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TV: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson, Alisa Mowe
Live Stats: gohuskies.comย
BRUINS OPEN PAC-12 PLAY SATURDAY AT WASHINGTONย
No. 4 UCLA begins Pac-12 Conference play on Saturday afternoon at No. 22 Washington. The meet will take place at 2pm at Alaska Airlines Arena and will be televised live on Pac-12 Network. This is third consecutive week UCLA and Washington have competed in the same arena. They both opened the season at the Super 16 in Las Vegas in different sessions, and then went head-to-head in the first session of the Wasatch Classic last weekend in Utah. The Bruins outscored the Huskies in both meets. ย ย ย ย ย
HOME STATE VISIT ย
Three Bruins will be returning to their home state of Washington this weekend. Sophomore Jordan Chiles hails from Vancouver and graduated from Prairie High School. Head coach Janelle McDonald is from Federal Way, and assistant coach BJ Das is a Seattle native and former member of the UW gymnastics team. ย
IN THE RANKINGS ย
UCLA has moved up two spots to No. 4 in the national rankings, averaging 197.563. This is UCLA's highest team ranking since the final ranking of the 2020 Covid-shortened season. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on all four events, checking in at third on uneven bars, fourth on floor exercise, fifth on vault and eighth on balance beam. Individually, three Bruins rank in the Top 20 in the all-around - No. 3 Jordan Chiles, No. 6 Selena Harris and No. 16 Chae Campbell. On vault, Chiles ranks eighth, while Campbell and Harris are tied for 11th. Three Bruins rank in the Top 10 on uneven bars - No. 3 Chiles, No. 9 Harris and No. 10 Margzetta Frazier. On balance beam, Chiles ranks No. 11, with Emma Malabuyo close behind at No. 15. Three rank in the Top 3 on floor exercise, with Campbell at No. 3, Harris at No. 18 and Chiles at No. 25. ย ย ย ย
LAST TIME OUTย
UCLA scored 49.500 or higher on its first three events to run away with the victory in the first session of the Wasatch Classic in Utah. The Bruins earned 13 9.9+ scores and finished with a team total of 197.850, their best away effort since 2019. Jordan Chiles and Selena Harris tied for first in the all-around with scores of 39.725 and placed either first or second on every event. Chae Campbell won floor exercise with a 9.950, leading the Bruins to a 49.600 team total, the second-highest floor score in the nation. ย ย ย ย ย ย
SUPER STARTย
First-year head coach Janelle McDonald is off to a super start, with the Bruins moving up to No. 4 in the national rankings with a two-meet average of 197.563. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on all four events, and their 197.850 at the Wasatch Classic last week ranks as the third-highest score in the nation this year and their highest away score since the 2019 season. Additionally, UCLA's season-opening total of 197.725 at the Super 16 was the highest by a UCLA team in a season opener since the 2005 team scored 197.300 in a dual meet at Utah. It was also just the fourth time in school history that a UCLA team has scored 197 in the first meet of the year. ย ย ย ย ย
HARRIS REPEATS AS PAC-12 FRESHMAN OF WEEK HONORSย
For the second consecutive week, Selena Harris has been named the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week. A week after debuting with UCLA's highest all-around mark by a freshman in a season opener in 18 years, a 39.550, Harris improved her mark to a 39.725 to tie for first place at the Wasatch Classic. That total ranks as the fourth-best score in the nation by any gymnast and is the highest among all freshmen. Harris scored 9.9 or higher on all four events and placed either first of second on each, winning the uneven bars with a 9.975 and tying for first on beam with a 9.925. She now ranks No. 6 nationally in the all-around, No. 9 on bars, No. 11 on vault, and No. 18 on floor.
DEBUT PERFORMANCES ย
Four Bruins made their collegiate debuts at the season opener on Jan. 11. Selena Harris had a smashing debut in her hometown city of Las Vegas, scoring 9.9 on her first three events and an all-around total of 39.500. Sophomore Emily Lee, who missed all of 2022 while recovering from an Achilles injury sustained at the Olympic Trials, competed on three events and hit a 9.850 on vault on her first-ever collegiate routine. Freshman Maddie Anyimi debuted with a 9.775 on vault and Ciena Alipio came in on beam as a late sub and scored 9.750. ย ย
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK ย
Two returners who missed most of 2022 have come back with a vengeance. Redshirt senior Margzetta Frazier, who fractured her foot in the season opener a year ago, has returned to compete in three events in each of the first two meets. She already has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and 9.925 on floor exercise and currently ranks No. 10 in the nation on bars. The three-time All-American has now hit all 98 of her collegiate routines without a fall. Senior Chloe Lashbrooke, who ruptured her Achilles in January 2021, performed an exhibition routine on floor exercise at the Wasatch Classic and recorded a 9.875. It was her first time doing full tumbling at a meet since Feb. 29, 2020. her return to competition after missing most of 2022 with a fractured foot suffered in the season opener. ย ย ย ย
CHILES CONTINUES SUCCESS ย
After spending the summer and fall winning multiple medals in national and international competition, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles has continued her success in NCAA competition, scoring 39.650 in the season opener and 39.725 in week two at the Wasatch Classic. Her season all-around average of 39.688 puts her in third in the national rankings, and she also ranks in the Top 25 on all four events, checking in at No. 3 on uneven bars, No. 8 on vault, No. 11 on balance beam and No. 25 on floor exercise.ย
Chiles competed at her first-ever World Championship in the fall and helped lead the U.S. to the team gold medal with a strong all-around performance before adding two silver medals in the individual event finals, on vault and floor exercise. The Bruin sophomore also won the floor exercise title and finished second on vault at the Paris World Challenge Cup in the summer and was a three-time bronze medalist (all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise) at the 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships. ย ย
CAMPBELL EXTENDS FLOOR STREAK ย
Four-time All-American Chae Campbell has scored 9.950 on floor in both meets this year, extending her 9.950 scoring streak to four consecutive meets. She has scored 9.950 or higher in seven of her last eight floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell is tied for third in the nation on floor and also ranks 16th in the all-around and 11th on vault. She had a streak of 10 consecutive 9.9+ vaults snapped last week with a 9.875 at the Wasatch Classic but has 15 9.9+ vaults in her career, averaging 9.891. On floor, her career average is 9.911, and she has posted 17 scores of 9.9 or higher. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
NEW ERA BEGINS UNDER MCDONALDย
Head coach Janelle McDonald begins her first season leading the Bruins. McDonald came to UCLA in May 2022 with two decades of coaching experience under her belt, including four successful seasons as an assistant coach at California (2019-22), where she helped coach California to its first-ever Pac-12 regular season title in 2022 and a program-best seventh-place NCAA finish in 2021. Serving as the team's uneven bars head coach, McDonald coached Maya Bordas to California's first-ever NCAA individual championship in 2021, while the uneven bars squad finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation and tied a NCAA record with a team score of 49.825. McDonald was honored in 2020 and 2021 as the WCGA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year and was part of the 2021 College Gym News Coaching Staff of the Year. She began her coaching career in 1999 while in high school and has extensive coaching experience at the club level, including a six-year (2012-18) tenure at WOGA.
McDonald also brought in two new coaches in assistant coach Kyle Grable and volunteer assistant Autumn Grable. The Grables came to UCLA from Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center (JPAC) in Indianapolis, where they served as co-head coach for elite development the last five years. Under their guidance, JPAC was awarded J.O. Club of the Year honors nationally in 2019 and in Region 5 in 2021. Kyle coached uneven bars for Levels 6-10, while Autumn coached balance beam and floor exercise. Together, they coached a Level 10 national all-around champion in 2019, three Level 10 uneven bars national champions, a 2021 Level 10 National beam champion, two Level 10 national all-around runners-up and qualified athletes to the Nastia Liukin Cup the past four years.
One previous coach remained on staff. BJ Das returned to the Bruins in a full-time role after serving three seasons as a volunteer assistant from 2020-22. Each year as the Bruins' choreographer, Das created floor exercise routines that went viral, including two routines from Nia Dennis that each amassed over 11 million views just on Twitter alone. Das also put together two routines that won Pac-12 floor exercise championships (Chae Campbell and Pauline Tratz in 2021) and three routines that scored perfect 10s (Gracie Kramer in 2020, Campbell twice in 2022 and Jordan Chiles twice in 2022). UCLA's floor exercise squad ranked first in the nation at the conclusion of the 2020 season.ย
UCLA TO HOST NCAA REGIONALS ย
For the first time in 13 years, UCLA will host the NCAA Regionals in Pauley Pavilion. The three-day, nine-team competition will begin on March 29 with a first round dual meet between the two lowest-seeded teams. The winner will advance to the second round, which will take place on March 30 with two quad meets. The top two teams from each of the two quad meets will meet in the regional final on April 1, with the top two finishers advancing to the NCAA Championships. Tickets for the NCAA Regionals are on sale now at uclabruins.com/tickets. The complete field for the Regional will be announced on March 20. UCLA had been scheduled to host the Regionals in 2020 before the season was canceled due to the pandemic. ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins compete at home for the first time in 2023 on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3pm against Oregon State.ย
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