Bay Area Battle Brewin' Saturday

Saturday, February 18

Berkeley, CA

2:00 PM

UCLA

California

Margzetta Frazier

Photo by: Don Liebig/ASUCLA

Bay Area Battle Brewin' Saturday

February 16, 2023 | Gymnastics

Meet Notes (PDF)

No. 6 UCLA at No. 7 California
Date: Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023 – 2pm PT
Location: Berkeley, Calif. (Haas Pavilion)
Broadcast: Pac-12 Network
Talent:   Brian Webber, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: statbroadcast.com

UC BATTLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
No. 6 UCLA (5-4-1, 2-1-1 in the Pac-12) will travel to No. 7 California (9-0-1, 3-0-1) for a Saturday afternoon showdown at Haas Pavilion Pauley Pavilion. The meet will take place on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 2pm and will be televised by Pac-12 Network, with Brian Webber and JaNay Honest on the call.

FRAZIER FAMILY REUNION
UCLA redshirt senior Margzetta Frazier and California freshman eMjae Frazier will have their first head-to-head matchup as collegiate gymnasts this Saturday. The sisters competed in the same meet twice already this season, at the Super 16 and the Wasatch Classic, but in different sessions. Margzetta is a three-time All-American and the 2021 Pac-12 uneven bars co-champion who has hit 106 consecutive routines as a Bruin. She was a member of the U.S. National Team in 2017-18. eMjae was a U.S. National Team member from 2019-21 and competed at the 2021 World Championships.

McDONALD RETURNS TO BERKELEY
UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald returns to Berkeley for the first time to face her former team. McDonald was an assistant coach at Cal from 2019-22 and helped coach the Golden Bears to unprecedented success, including a Pac-12 regular season title in 2022 and a seventh-place NCAA finish in 2021. The last time the Bruins competed in Haas Pavilion, in 2021, McDonald's uneven bars squad tied an NCAA record with a team score of 49.825.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA remained at No. 6 in the national rankings despite recording its second-highest score of the season and improving its season average to 197.360. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 11 on all four events, checking in at second on floor exercise, fourth on uneven bars, 10th on vault and 11th on balance beam. Selena Harris ranks in the Top 20 on all four events and the all-around, ranking seventh in the all-around and on uneven bars, 14th on vault, 17th on beam and 20th on floor. Jordan Chiles ranks in the Top 5 in the all-around (fourth), bars (third) and floor (fourth) and 24th on vault. Chae Campbell ranks sixth on floor and 13th on vault.

LAST TIME OUT
Jordan Chiles' perfect 10 on floor and career-high 39.825 all-around score catapulted No. 6 UCLA to a 197.800-196.900 victory over No. 20 Arizona State on Feb. 11. Chiles won the all-around for the second consecutive meet and nearly swept the events, winning vault (9.950), uneven bars (9.975) and floor (10.0). Bruin freshman Selena Harris broke Chiles' stranglehold, taking first place on balance beam with a career-high-tying 9.950. The Bruins trailed Arizona State after the first rotation, 49.425-49.125, but claimed a 0.150 lead in the following rotation after posting a season-high 49.575 on uneven bars. UCLA upped its lead slightly after scoring 49.425 on beam and blew it open with a season-best 49.675 on floor exercise in the final rotation.

CHILES WINS SECOND-STRAIGHT PAC-12 GYMNAST OF WEEK HONOR
Sophomore Jordan Chiles captured her second consecutive and third overall Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award of the season after scoring her first perfect 10 of the season, on floor exercise, and totaling a career-high and national season-best-tying 39.825 to win the all-around against Arizona State. The 2020 Olympic medalist and 2022 World Champion also took first-place honors on three events for the second-straight meet, with a 10.0 on floor, 9.975 on bars and 9.950 on vault. She added a 9.900 on beam to tie for second place. Chiles' marks contributed to the Bruins' second-highest team score of the season, a 197.800, and to season-bets on bars (49.575) and floor (49.675). The Vancouver, Wash. native now ranks No. 4 in the nation in the all-around and on floor, No. 3 on bars and No. 24 on vault. She has recorded scores of 9.9 or higher on 20 of 24 routines this season.

CAMPBELL HONORED WITH COACHES CHOICE AWARD
Junior Chae Campbell earned her first-ever Coaches Choice Award and her fifth overall weekly honor after displaying the heart of a champion following a difficult week. Campbell returned to competition after being out for a week and hit three top-scoring routines for her team. She placed second on vault with a 9.850, hit a season-high 9.850 as the leadoff on uneven bars, and finished with a 9.925 on floor exercise. Her scores helped her team record season-bests on bars and floor, and the team's total of 197.800 ranks as its second-highest score of the season.

A LOOK AT THE GOLDEN BEARS
California enters the week unbeaten with a 9-0-1 record. The Golden Bears tied Oregon State in their last meet, 197.375-197.375, and have scored 197+ in all but one meet this season. As a team, they rank No. 7 overall, No. 3 on bars, No. 5 on beam and No. 15 on vault and floor. Three Cal gymnasts rank in the Top 20 in the all-around - No. 14 Andi Li, No. 16 Mya Lauzon and No. 19 Nevaeh DeSouza. Li ranks No. 5 in the nation on uneven bars with an average of 9.946. Lauzon tied Cal's school record two weeks ago with a 39.700 all-around score.

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 six weeks of competition. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 12 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 109 consecutive routines and counting. The three-time All-American has not had a single score dip below 9.500 in her 42 meets. Frazier has career averages of 9.886 on bars, 9.870 on floor, 9.800 on beam and 9.796 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 six meets. She already has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and floor exercise. The three-time All-American has now hit all 109 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 four meets after competing just twice in 2022 and twice in 2021. She is averaging 9.819, scoring 9.825 or higher three times, with a season-best of 9.850 against Oregon State. 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 four of six meets, with a career-high of 39.825 set last week against Arizona State. She scored her first perfect 10 of the year Feb. 11 with her third career 10 on floor exercise, and she has posted five scores of 9.975 this season and a team-high 11 scores of 9.95 or greater. Her season all-around average of 39.650 puts her at fourth in the national rankings, and she ranks third on uneven bars and fourth 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.

FRESHMAN HARRIS COMPETING LIKE A VETERAN
From day one, freshman Selena Harris has been competing like a seasoned veteran, hitting all 24 routines she has competed this season for 9.8 or higher and posting all-around scores of 39.5 or better in every meet. She ranks in the Top 20 nationally on each event and is the highest-ranked freshman in the all-around at No. 7. Harris has seven individual victories this season, second-most on the team, and is averaging over 9.9 on bars, beam and floor and 9.892 on vault. She tied a Pac-12 record with five consecutive Freshman of the Week awards to start the season.

LEE-DOFF STRENGTH
Sophomore Emily Lee has come up big in the leadoff position on balance beam the last three 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 has also been successful in the leadoff position on floor, scoring 9.850 on her first-ever floor routine against Oregon State. Last week against Arizona State, she scored a new career-high of 9.900, setting the table for a team season-high score of 49.675. In her last five meets leading off on beam, Lee is averaging 9.865. She has also been solid in the middle of the vault lineup, averaging 9.804, 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 five meets she has competed this year, averaging 9.940 to rank sixth nationally. She has scored 9.925 or higher in 10 of her last 11 floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell also ranks 13th on vault with an average of 9.895. 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 9.891. On floor, her career average is 9.914, and she has posted 20 total scores of 9.9 or higher.