UCLA Gymnastics Hosts Stanford Sunday

Sunday, March 5

Los Angeles, CA

12:00 PM

UCLA

Stanford

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UCLA Gymnastics Hosts Stanford Sunday

March 02, 2023 | Gymnastics

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No. 5 UCLA at No. 21 Stanford
Date: Sunday, Mar. 5, 2023 – 12pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
Broadcast: Pac-12 Los Angeles, Pac-12 Bay Area
Talent: Jim Watson, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: uclabruins.com

UCLA HOSTS STANFORD SUNDAY
No. 5 UCLA (6-4-2, 3-1-2 in the Pac-12) will compete at home for the last two weeks of the regular season, first hosting No. 21 Stanford (8-6, 3-3) in the Pac-12 regular season finale on Sunday, Mar. 5. The meet is UCLA's Alumni Meet and Title IX Celebration and will take place Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom at 12pm PT. Doors for this meet will open early at 10:30am. The meet will be televised on Pac-12 Los Angeles and Pac-12 Bay Area, with Jim Watson and JaNay Honest on the call.

ALUMNI CELEBRATION
Alumni from various UCLA women's and men's gymnastics teams will be honored during the meet. Fittingly, the Bruins will be competing against Stanford, where UCLA alumna Hallie Mossett is an assistant coach. Mossett, a two-time All-American on floor exercise in 2017 and an undergraduate assistant coach on UCLA's 2018 NCAA Championship team, is in her first season at Stanford after coaching for two years at Long Island University.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA maintained its No. 5 national ranking for the second consecutive week. The Bruins are now ranked in the Top 8 on all four events, ranking No. 1 on floor exercise, No. 6 on uneven bars and balance beam and No. 8 on vault. Jordan Chiles and Selena Harris ranks top 20 on all four events and the all-around. Chiles is No. 1 on uneven bars, No. 2 in the all-around, No. 3 on vault, No. 5 on floor and No. 12 on beam. Harris is No. 7 in the all-around, No. 8 on beam, No. 12 on vault, No. 13 on bars and No. 19 on floor. Additionally, Chae Campbell ranks No. 7 on floor and No. 11 on vault.

LAST TIME OUT
No. 5 UCLA posted its second consecutive 197.9 score on Feb. 26, downing No. 27 Arizona, 197.900-195.325. The Bruins improved on their scores throughout each rotation, starting with a 49.325 on bars, then hitting a season-high-tying 49.400 on vault and ending with a 49.575 on floor and a 49.600 on beam. Sophomore Jordan Chiles recorded a career-high 39.850 in the all-around, earning two 9.975s on vault and bars and two 9.950s on beam and floor to win all four events. Ana Padurariu scored career-highs of 9.900 on uneven bars and 9.950 on balance beam, tying Chiles on beam for her first career victory.

CHILES CONTINUES SUCCESS
After spending the summer and fall winning multiple medals in national and international competition, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles has seen continued success in NCAA competition, scoring 39.650 or higher in seven of eight meets this season, with a career-high of 39.850 set in her last meet on Feb. 28 at Arizona. She has two 39.8 scores in the last three weeks, scoring 39.825 on Feb. 11 against Arizona State. Chiles scored her first perfect 10 of the year Feb. 11 with her third career 10 on floor exercise, and she has posted seven scores of 9.975 this season and a team-high 17 scores of 9.950 or greater. She also leads the team with 22 individual event victories. Chiles ranks in the Top 12 nationally on every event and the all-around, ranking No. 2 in the all-around, No. 1 on uneven bars, No. 3 on vault, No. 5 on floor and No. 12 on beam.

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.

PADURARIU PADDING STATS
Sophomore Ana Padurariu has been having a stellar season and was spectacular in her last meet at Arizona, tying her career-high with a 9.900 on uneven bars and setting a new season-high of 9.950 on balance beam. The 2018 World silver medalist on beam and 2019 Canadian champion on bars has recorded five 9.9+ scores on 11 routines and averages 9.868 on bars and 9.831 on beam, averages that rank third-best on the squad behind only Jordan Chiles and Selena Harris.

A LOOK AT THE CARDINAL
Stanford is coming off a season-high score of 197.575 set last week in a loss to Oregon State. The score, though, was the Cardinal's fifth-best regular season score of all-time. Chloe Widner and Anna Roberts each recorded career-best all-around marks, scoring 39.625 and 39.575, respectively. Roberts was named the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week for her efforts. Stanford enters the week ranked No. 21 overall and is No. 13 on bars, No. 14 on beam, No. 18 on floor and No. 23 on vault. Roberts is the Cardinal's top-ranked all-arounder at No. 25.

SUPER START
First-year head coach Janelle McDonald is off to a super start in her coaching career, with the Bruins ranking in the Top 6 each of the first eight weeks of competition. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 8 on all four events, including No. 1 on floor exercise, and their 197.975 at California on Feb. 18 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. The Bruins have scored 197+ in all but one meet this season, just missing by one-tenth on Jan. 21.

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 114 consecutive routines and counting. The three-time All-American has not had a single score dip below 9.500 in her 44 meets. Frazier has career averages of 9.881 on bars, 9.873 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 eight meets. She has season highs of 9.950 on uneven bars and floor exercise. The three-time All-American has now hit all 114 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. She has also done two exhibition routines and one competitive routine the last three weeks. Kalyany Steele has competed on bars in the last six meets after competing just twice in 2022 and twice in 2021. She is averaging 9.817, scoring 9.825 or higher four 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.

FRESHMAN HARRIS COMPETING LIKE A VETERAN
From day one, freshman Selena Harris has been competing like a seasoned veteran, hitting all 31 routines she has competed this season and posting all-around scores of 39.5 or better in every meet she has done all four events. She ranks in the Top 20 nationally on each event (No. 8 on beam, No. 12 on vault, No. 13 on bars and No. 19 on floor) and No. 5 in the all-around. Harris has eight individual victories this season, second-most on the team, and is averaging over 9.9 on bars, beam and floor and 9.872 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 this season, recording leadoff 9.9+ scores five times. On beam, she has four scores of 9.900 or higher, including a 9.925 at Cal that led UCLA to a season-high of 49.625, the fifth-highest beam score in school history. Lee has also been successful in the leadoff position on floor, scoring 9.850 on her first-ever floor routine against Oregon State and earning a new career-best of 9.900 against Arizona State, which led to a team season-high score of 49.675. Leading off on vault at Arizona last week, she scored a career-high 9.875, helping the Bruins tie their season-high score of 49.400. 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 9.900 or higher on floor exercise in all seven meets she has competed this year, averaging 9.936, and she ranks No. 7 in the nation on the event. She has scored 9.900 or higher in 12 of her last 13 floor routines, including two perfect 10s. Campbell also ranks 11th nationally on vault and averages 9.900 on a Yurchenko full vault that holds a start value of 9.950. She had a streak of 10 consecutive 9.9+ vaults snapped with a 9.875 at the Wasatch Classic but has 19 9.9+ vaults in her career, averaging 9.893. On floor, her career average is 9.915, and she has posted 22 total scores of 9.9 or higher. Campbell made history last week by becoming the first gymnast in Pac-12 history to win at least one of the conference's four weekly awards. After being named the Pac-12 Specialist of the Week for the first time, she completed her set. She also won one Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award in 2022, three Freshman of the Week honors in 2021 and one Coaches Choice award in 2023.

FRAZIER NOMINATED FOR AAI AWARD
Senior Margzetta Frazier was announced as one of 39 nominees for the AAI Award, presented to the nation's top senior gymnast. A three-time All-American and the 2021 Pac-12 uneven bars co-champion, Frazier has hit all 114 routines in her collegiate career without a fall, including all 22 this season. She has posted career-high-tying scores of 9.950 on both uneven bars and floor exercise this season and is averaging 9.881 on bars and 9.873 on floor in her career. She holds career-best marks of 39.550 in the all-around, 9.925 on balance beam and 9.875 on vault. Frazier has shown tremendous resiliency over her collegiate career, coming back strong in 2023 after a fractured ankle suffered in the first meet of the 2022 season kept her out of competition for the duration of the year. She was also limited to just uneven bars for the majority of 2020 with an ankle injury and came back the following season to compete all-around in every meet. In 2023, she has competed on at least two events in every meet for the Bruins, securing season-bests of 9.950 on uneven bars and floor exercise and 9.825 on vault.

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.