Saturday, February 11
Los Angeles, CA
2:00 PM
UCLA
vs
Arizona State
Ana Padurariu
Photo by: Maleah Pearson
Gymnastics Hosts ASU Saturday in Blue-Out
February 10, 2023 | Gymnastics
No. 6 UCLA vs. No. 20 Arizona State
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 – 2pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
Broadcast: Pac-12 Insider
Talent: Nick Koop, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: uclabruins.com
UCLA HOSTS ASU SATURDAY AFTERNOON
No. 6 UCLA (4-4-1, 1-1-1 in the Pac-12) will host No. 20 Arizona State (4-4, 1-2) in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 2pm. The meet will be streamed on Pac-12 Insider, with Nick Koop and JaNay Honest on the call. Fans are being encouraged to wear blue for the Blue Out.
PROMOTIONS
All Wooden Athletic Fund and Bruin Varsity Club members can request up to four free general admission tickets to Saturday's game. UCLA students are free and can enter to win a TCL TV. Student giveaways include Bruin Blue light sticks for the first 150 students and ice cream for the first 300 students. General admission seats are available at uclabruins.com/tickets for a discounted price of $5 using the promo code BRUINS.
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA dipped one spot to No. 6 in the national rankings despite improving its season average to 197.350. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 13 on all four events, checking in at second on floor exercise, fifth on uneven bars, ninth on vault and 13th on balance beam. Selena Harris ranks in the Top 20 on all four events and the all-around, ranking sixth in the all-around, seventh on uneven bars, 11th on vault and 14th on floor and 20th on beam. Jordan Chiles ranks in the Top 10 in the all-around (eighth), bars (third) and floor (sixth). Chae Campbell ranks third on floor and 12th on vault.
LAST TIME OUT
Competing short-handed in front of nearly 14,000 fans at the Huntsman Center, No. 5 UCLA delivered its second-highest team score of the season, 197.450, but it was not enough to overtake No. 4 Utah, who used a 49.775 on beam to rocket to a 198.200 final score. Sophomore Jordan Chiles won the all-around with a season-best 39.775, recording a 9.975 on vault on a stuck Yurchenko double full, 9.950s on uneven bars and floor exercise and a 9.900 on balance beam. The Bruins were competing without Chae Campbell, who was not in attendance due to a family emergency, but her replacements all stepped up to contribute hit routines in what was their season debuts on those events. Two freshmen walk-ons made competitive debuts on their respective events, with Maddie Anyimi scoring 9.750 on uneven bars and 9.625 on floor exercise and Clara Wren hitting a 9.725 on vault. Ana Padurariu competed on balance beam for the first time and scored 9.750 and also added a career-high 9.900 on bars. The Bruins hit 24-for-24 routines without a fall for the fourth time in five meets.
HARRIS WINS RECORD-TYING FIFTH-STRAIGHT PAC-12 AWARD
Selena Harris remains the only winner of the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week award, taking the honor for the fifth time in as many weeks to tie the conference record set in 2015 by California's Toni-Ann Williams for most consecutive Freshman/Newcomer of the Year awards. The Las Vegas native scored 39.650 to place third at Utah, and she also earned a career-best 9.950 on balance beam. Harris has totaled three scores of 9.9 or higher in every meet this season and has scored 9.9 or higher on 17 out of 20 routines, the most on the Bruin team. She has hit every routine this season, with no score lower than 9.8. She averages team-bests of 9.910 on vault and 9.895 on beam, along with 9.930 on bars and 9.915 on floor, and holds Top 20 rankings on every event while ranking fifth nationally in the all-around.
CHILES CAPTURES PAC-12 GYMNAST OF WEEK HONORS
Sophomore Jordan Chiles captured her second Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award of the season after scoring a season-high 39.775 to win the all-around at Utah. The 2020 Olympic medalist and 2022 World Champion also took first-place honors on three events, scoring a career-best 9.975 on a stuck double-twisting Yurchenko vault and 9.950s on uneven bars and floor exercise. She added a 9.900 on beam to help UCLA earn a season-high beam total of 49.575. Chiles' marks contributed to the Bruins' second-highest team score of the season, a 197.450. The Vancouver, Wash. native now ranks No. 8 in the nation in the all-around, No. 3 on vault and No. 6 on floor. She has recorded scores of 9.9 or higher on 16 of 20 routines this season.
A LOOK AT THE SUN DEVILS
Arizona State tied for the regular season Pac-12 title a year ago and is currently 1-2 in conference play. The Sun Devils have scored season-highs of 196.800 in their last two meets and have hit 196 in four-straight contests. All-American Hannah Scharf has competed all-around in every meet and has a season-high of 39.525. Junior Emily White was the winner of the Pac-12 Coaches Choice award after recording a season-high 39.400 in the all-around and a career-high 9.900 last weekend at Cal.White leads the team in event titles with five.
SUPER START
First-year head coach Janelle McDonald is off to a super start, with the Bruins ranking in the Top 6 each of the first five weeks of competition. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 20 on all four events, and their 197.850 at the Wasatch Classic Jan. 14 ranks as 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.
CENTURY MARK
Redshirt senior Margzetta Frazier hit the century mark for consecutive routines without a fall after landing her vault at Washington on Jan. 21 and has since extended her streak to 106 consecutive routines and counting. The three-time All-American has not had a single score dip below 9.500 in her 41 meets. Frazier has career averages of 9.885 on bars, 9.868 on floor, 9.800 on beam and 9.797 on vault. Another Bruin also hit the 100 mark for consecutive hit routines this season. Junior Chae Campbell's 9.925 vault and 9.825 uneven bars against Oregon State on Jan. 29 gave her 99 and 100 straight hits without a fall. Her streak ended there, however, after a fall on beam, just her second fall in 28 meets.
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
After competing a combined total of just three routines a year ago due to injuries, the 2023 senior class is back with a vengeance. Margzetta Frazier, who fractured her foot in the season opener a year ago, has returned to compete on at least two events in each of the first five meets. She already has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and 9.925 on floor exercise. The three-time All-American has now hit all 106 of her collegiate routines without a fall. Chloe Lashbrooke, who ruptured her Achilles in January 2021, returned to the floor lineup at Washington on Jan. 21 for the first time since Feb. 29, 2020 and scored 9.850. Kalyany Steele has competed on bars in the last three meets and is averaging 9.817. During her season debut at Washington, she hit a 9.825 on bars in just her third competitive routine since the start of the 2022 season. She improved her mark to 9.850 the following week against Oregon State and hit a leadoff 9.775 at Utah. Emma Andres performed an exhibition on beam at Washington and scored 9.700. It was her first routine since the 2021 NCAA Regional Final and her first time on beam since Feb. 9, 2020.
CHILES CONTINUES SUCCESS
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 39.7 or higher in three of five meets, with a season-high of 39.775 set at Utah a week ago. She has posted four scores of 9.975 this season and a team-high eight scores of 9.95 or greater. Her season all-around average of 39.615 puts her in eighth in the national rankings, and she ranks third on uneven bars and sixth on floor exercise.
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.
LEE-DOFF STRENGTH
Sophomore Emily Lee has come up big in the leadoff position on balance beam the last two weeks, starting the Bruins' beam rotation with a bang with scores of 9.900. Her 9.900 at Utah keyed the Bruins' season-high total of 49.575. Lee was also successful in the leadoff position on floor against Oregon State, scoring 9.850 on her first-ever floor routine and setting the table for a season-high 49.625. In her last four meets leading off on beam, Lee is averaging 9.856. She has also been strong in the middle of the vault lineup, averaging 9.815, with a pair of 9.85s. This season marks the first time Lee has competed since 2021, as she missed all of 2022 recovering from a ruptured Achilles at the Olympic Trials.
CAMPBELL CONSISTENCY
Four-time All-American Chae Campbell has scored 9.925 or higher on floor exercise in all four meets she has competed this year, averaging 9.944 to rank second nationally. She has scored 9.925 or higher in nine of her last 10 floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell also ranks 12th on vault with an average of 9.906. She had a streak of 10 consecutive 9.9+ vaults snapped with a 9.875 at the Wasatch Classic but has 17 9.9+ vaults in her career, averaging 9.893. On floor, her career average is 9.914, and she has posted 19 total scores of 9.9 or higher.
UCLA TO HOST NCAA REGIONALS
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.
LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA will compete at California on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 2pm. This meet will mark the first for UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald against her former team. McDonald was an assistant coach at Cal from 2019-22. It is also the first head-to-head matchup for the Frazier sisters - UCLA senior Margzetta Frazier and California freshman eMjae Frazier.
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 – 2pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
Broadcast: Pac-12 Insider
Talent: Nick Koop, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: uclabruins.com
UCLA HOSTS ASU SATURDAY AFTERNOON
No. 6 UCLA (4-4-1, 1-1-1 in the Pac-12) will host No. 20 Arizona State (4-4, 1-2) in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 2pm. The meet will be streamed on Pac-12 Insider, with Nick Koop and JaNay Honest on the call. Fans are being encouraged to wear blue for the Blue Out.
PROMOTIONS
All Wooden Athletic Fund and Bruin Varsity Club members can request up to four free general admission tickets to Saturday's game. UCLA students are free and can enter to win a TCL TV. Student giveaways include Bruin Blue light sticks for the first 150 students and ice cream for the first 300 students. General admission seats are available at uclabruins.com/tickets for a discounted price of $5 using the promo code BRUINS.
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA dipped one spot to No. 6 in the national rankings despite improving its season average to 197.350. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 13 on all four events, checking in at second on floor exercise, fifth on uneven bars, ninth on vault and 13th on balance beam. Selena Harris ranks in the Top 20 on all four events and the all-around, ranking sixth in the all-around, seventh on uneven bars, 11th on vault and 14th on floor and 20th on beam. Jordan Chiles ranks in the Top 10 in the all-around (eighth), bars (third) and floor (sixth). Chae Campbell ranks third on floor and 12th on vault.
LAST TIME OUT
Competing short-handed in front of nearly 14,000 fans at the Huntsman Center, No. 5 UCLA delivered its second-highest team score of the season, 197.450, but it was not enough to overtake No. 4 Utah, who used a 49.775 on beam to rocket to a 198.200 final score. Sophomore Jordan Chiles won the all-around with a season-best 39.775, recording a 9.975 on vault on a stuck Yurchenko double full, 9.950s on uneven bars and floor exercise and a 9.900 on balance beam. The Bruins were competing without Chae Campbell, who was not in attendance due to a family emergency, but her replacements all stepped up to contribute hit routines in what was their season debuts on those events. Two freshmen walk-ons made competitive debuts on their respective events, with Maddie Anyimi scoring 9.750 on uneven bars and 9.625 on floor exercise and Clara Wren hitting a 9.725 on vault. Ana Padurariu competed on balance beam for the first time and scored 9.750 and also added a career-high 9.900 on bars. The Bruins hit 24-for-24 routines without a fall for the fourth time in five meets.
HARRIS WINS RECORD-TYING FIFTH-STRAIGHT PAC-12 AWARD
Selena Harris remains the only winner of the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week award, taking the honor for the fifth time in as many weeks to tie the conference record set in 2015 by California's Toni-Ann Williams for most consecutive Freshman/Newcomer of the Year awards. The Las Vegas native scored 39.650 to place third at Utah, and she also earned a career-best 9.950 on balance beam. Harris has totaled three scores of 9.9 or higher in every meet this season and has scored 9.9 or higher on 17 out of 20 routines, the most on the Bruin team. She has hit every routine this season, with no score lower than 9.8. She averages team-bests of 9.910 on vault and 9.895 on beam, along with 9.930 on bars and 9.915 on floor, and holds Top 20 rankings on every event while ranking fifth nationally in the all-around.
CHILES CAPTURES PAC-12 GYMNAST OF WEEK HONORS
Sophomore Jordan Chiles captured her second Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award of the season after scoring a season-high 39.775 to win the all-around at Utah. The 2020 Olympic medalist and 2022 World Champion also took first-place honors on three events, scoring a career-best 9.975 on a stuck double-twisting Yurchenko vault and 9.950s on uneven bars and floor exercise. She added a 9.900 on beam to help UCLA earn a season-high beam total of 49.575. Chiles' marks contributed to the Bruins' second-highest team score of the season, a 197.450. The Vancouver, Wash. native now ranks No. 8 in the nation in the all-around, No. 3 on vault and No. 6 on floor. She has recorded scores of 9.9 or higher on 16 of 20 routines this season.
A LOOK AT THE SUN DEVILS
Arizona State tied for the regular season Pac-12 title a year ago and is currently 1-2 in conference play. The Sun Devils have scored season-highs of 196.800 in their last two meets and have hit 196 in four-straight contests. All-American Hannah Scharf has competed all-around in every meet and has a season-high of 39.525. Junior Emily White was the winner of the Pac-12 Coaches Choice award after recording a season-high 39.400 in the all-around and a career-high 9.900 last weekend at Cal.White leads the team in event titles with five.
SUPER START
First-year head coach Janelle McDonald is off to a super start, with the Bruins ranking in the Top 6 each of the first five weeks of competition. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 20 on all four events, and their 197.850 at the Wasatch Classic Jan. 14 ranks as 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.
CENTURY MARK
Redshirt senior Margzetta Frazier hit the century mark for consecutive routines without a fall after landing her vault at Washington on Jan. 21 and has since extended her streak to 106 consecutive routines and counting. The three-time All-American has not had a single score dip below 9.500 in her 41 meets. Frazier has career averages of 9.885 on bars, 9.868 on floor, 9.800 on beam and 9.797 on vault. Another Bruin also hit the 100 mark for consecutive hit routines this season. Junior Chae Campbell's 9.925 vault and 9.825 uneven bars against Oregon State on Jan. 29 gave her 99 and 100 straight hits without a fall. Her streak ended there, however, after a fall on beam, just her second fall in 28 meets.
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
After competing a combined total of just three routines a year ago due to injuries, the 2023 senior class is back with a vengeance. Margzetta Frazier, who fractured her foot in the season opener a year ago, has returned to compete on at least two events in each of the first five meets. She already has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and 9.925 on floor exercise. The three-time All-American has now hit all 106 of her collegiate routines without a fall. Chloe Lashbrooke, who ruptured her Achilles in January 2021, returned to the floor lineup at Washington on Jan. 21 for the first time since Feb. 29, 2020 and scored 9.850. Kalyany Steele has competed on bars in the last three meets and is averaging 9.817. During her season debut at Washington, she hit a 9.825 on bars in just her third competitive routine since the start of the 2022 season. She improved her mark to 9.850 the following week against Oregon State and hit a leadoff 9.775 at Utah. Emma Andres performed an exhibition on beam at Washington and scored 9.700. It was her first routine since the 2021 NCAA Regional Final and her first time on beam since Feb. 9, 2020.
CHILES CONTINUES SUCCESS
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 39.7 or higher in three of five meets, with a season-high of 39.775 set at Utah a week ago. She has posted four scores of 9.975 this season and a team-high eight scores of 9.95 or greater. Her season all-around average of 39.615 puts her in eighth in the national rankings, and she ranks third on uneven bars and sixth on floor exercise.
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.
LEE-DOFF STRENGTH
Sophomore Emily Lee has come up big in the leadoff position on balance beam the last two weeks, starting the Bruins' beam rotation with a bang with scores of 9.900. Her 9.900 at Utah keyed the Bruins' season-high total of 49.575. Lee was also successful in the leadoff position on floor against Oregon State, scoring 9.850 on her first-ever floor routine and setting the table for a season-high 49.625. In her last four meets leading off on beam, Lee is averaging 9.856. She has also been strong in the middle of the vault lineup, averaging 9.815, with a pair of 9.85s. This season marks the first time Lee has competed since 2021, as she missed all of 2022 recovering from a ruptured Achilles at the Olympic Trials.
CAMPBELL CONSISTENCY
Four-time All-American Chae Campbell has scored 9.925 or higher on floor exercise in all four meets she has competed this year, averaging 9.944 to rank second nationally. She has scored 9.925 or higher in nine of her last 10 floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell also ranks 12th on vault with an average of 9.906. She had a streak of 10 consecutive 9.9+ vaults snapped with a 9.875 at the Wasatch Classic but has 17 9.9+ vaults in her career, averaging 9.893. On floor, her career average is 9.914, and she has posted 19 total scores of 9.9 or higher.
UCLA TO HOST NCAA REGIONALS
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.
LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA will compete at California on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 2pm. This meet will mark the first for UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald against her former team. McDonald was an assistant coach at Cal from 2019-22. It is also the first head-to-head matchup for the Frazier sisters - UCLA senior Margzetta Frazier and California freshman eMjae Frazier.
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