Saturday, January 13
West Valley City, UT
1:00 PM
UCLA
vs
LSU, Oklahoma, Utah
Katelyn Rosen
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UCLA Gymnastics to Compete in Quad Meet on ABC Saturday
January 12, 2024 | Gymnastics
UCLA at Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad
vs. No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Utah, No. 5 LSU
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 – 1 pm PT
West Valley City, Utah (Maverik Center)
TV - ABC
Live Stats - statbroadcast.com
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Friday, Jan. 12
Session 1 - 7pm (ACC Network)
Arizona, Boise State, Nebraska, North Carolina
Saturday, Jan. 13
Session 2 - 2pm (ABC)
LSU, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah
Session 3 - 7pm (ACC Network)
BYU, California, Michigan State, NC State
UCLA TO FACE THREE TOP 5 TEAMS SATURDAY
No. 12 UCLA will face three of the nation's Top 5 teams on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad in West Valley City, Utah. The second of three sessions on the weekend will showcase four of the Top 5 teams from the 2023 NCAA Championships - defending champion Oklahoma, third-place Utah, fourth-place LSU and fifth-place UCLA. Oklahoma continues to lead the pack in the national rankings, sitting at No. 1. Utah ranks No. 2, and LSU ranks No. 5. The quad meet will be televised live at 2pm MT/1pm PT on ABC.
ON THE BIG STAGE
The Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad is the second consecutive podium meet for the Bruins, who opened at the Super 16 Gymnastics Championships in Las Vegas. The meet will be televised live on ABC, marking UCLA's first-ever appearance on the network.
LAST TIME OUT
UCLA placed fourth in the season-opening Super 16 Gymnastics Championships on Jan. 6, scoring 196.550 to finish behind Alabama (197.125), California (196.850) and Auburn (196.600). The Bruins led at the halfway point after scoring 49.325 on vault and 49.275 on bars but had to count a fall on beam, dropping them to fourth place. UCLA rebounded with a meet-high 49.55 on floor, but it wasn't enough to move up the standings. Three Bruins won events - Chae Campbell with a perfect 9.95 on vault, Selena Harris with a 9.95 on bars, and Emily Lee with a 9.9 on beam. Harris finished tied for second in the all-around with a score of 39.550.
WELCOME BACK
UCLA welcomed back seniors Frida Esparza and Sara Ulias to competition after long absences due to injuries. Esparza sat out the 2023 season after undergoing shoulder surgery and last competed at the NCAA Regionals on Apr. 2, 2022. She debuted a new uneven bars routine, highlighted by a Bhardwaj (full-twisting Pak salto), at the Super 16. Ulias has been out even longer, her last competition coming on Feb. 12, 2022, when she tore her ACL while dismounting on uneven bars. She hit a solid uneven bars exhibition routine at the Super 16, scoring 9.775.
NEW FACES
UCLA welcomes a graduate transfer and four freshmen and a graduate transfer onto the squad in 2024. Nya Reed brings four years of experience at the University of Florida, where she was a six-time All-American with career-high scores of 9.975 on vault and 10.0 on floor. The freshman class is a mix of national team members in Sydney Barros and Katelyn Rosen and Level 10 standouts in Paige Anastasi and Alex Irvine. Barros is a three-time U.S. national team member and current Puerto Rican all-around champion. Rosen was a member of the 2020 U.S. National Team and the 2022 U.S. Classic floor champion. Anastasi is a four-time Level 10 nationals competitor and the 2023 Region 6 all-around, vault and bars champion. Irvine won a bronze medal on vault at the 2022 Level 10 nationals.
Reed, Rosen and Anastasi made their Bruin debuts at the Super 16. Reed scored 9.85 on vault and 9.9 on floor. Rosen scored 9.8 on bars and 9.85 in a pressure situation on beam. She also performed exhibitions on vault (9.725) and floor (9.875). Anastasi hit for a 9.825 on vault.
BACK FOR MORE
The Bruins return the services of three 2023 seniors - Emma Andres, Margzetta Frazier and Chloe Lashbrooke - for their extra year of Covid-19 eligibility. Andres competed in three meets as a freshman in 2020 and in every meet in 2021 before an injury derailed her 2022 season. She came back in 2023 to perform a total of three exhibition routines, scoring highs of 9.850 on beam and 9.700 on floor in the regular season finale. Frazier is back in her sixth year with the program after redshirting in 2022 with a foot fracture. She enters her final year having hit all 131 routines in her career without a fall, a streak she extended to 132 after her 9.875 on bars at the Super 16. Last year, Frazier earned first-team All-America honors on floor after finishing fourth overall at the NCAA Championships with a career-best 9.9500. Frazier is also a three-time All-American on uneven bars and the 2021 Pac-12 bars champion. After missing all of the 2021 season and most of 2022 with an Achilles injury, Lashbrooke came back in 2023 to compete on floor in three meets and exhibition in two others, posting a high of 9.875 against Iowa State. She holds a career average of 9.839 on the event.
OLYMPIC YEAR DEFERRALS
The Bruins will be without the services of Jordan Chiles and Ana Padurariu in 2024 as they pursue their Olympic dreams. Chiles is training for her second Olympic spot after winning team silver at the 2020 Olympics and team gold and vault and floor silver at the 2022 World Championships. She also recently won team gold, vault silver and all-around bronze at the Pan American Games. The nine-time All-American had a banner 2023 season, winning the NCAA and Pac-12 bars and floor titles and scoring five perfect 10s (three on bars, two on floor). She was also named the WCGA West Region Gymnast of the Year and College Gym News Sportswoman of the Year. Padurariu is training in hopes of qualifying for her first Olympic berth with Team Canada. A member of Canada's national team from 2015-20 and a World silver medalist on beam in 2018, Padurariu was on the 2020 Olympic path before an ankle injury changed her course. After a successful 2023 collegiate campaign, during which she scored career-highs of 9.95 on bars and beam, Padurariu returned to the elite scene, demoing at the 2023 Canadian National Championships in May and participating in national team training camps in Canada. Emma Malabuyo will also be pursuing an Olympic berth under the Philippines flag but is remaining on the team and competing with the Bruins between qualifying competitions.
MALABUYO MAKES HISTORY FOR PHILIPPINES
Junior Emma Malabuyo made history for the Philippines this past summer at the Asian Championships, recording the highest-ever placement by a Filipina gymnast with her silver medal-winning performance on floor exercise. Malabuyo scored 13.166 in the event finals, just 0.067 off first place. She also competed in the balance beam final, placing fifth overall with a score of 12.166. The Asian Championships were Malabuyo's first elite competition since the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, after which she was selected as an alternate for the Olympic Games. Her silver medal was her first international medal since winning silver on balance beam and floor exercise at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy.
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
The Bruin roster is filled with gymnasts who have represented their countries in international competition. Emma Malabuyo now represents the Philippines but was a U.S. national team member for five years and an alternate for the U.S. at the 2020 Olympics. Brooklyn Moors competed at the 2020 Olympics for Canada and was an all-around and floor finalist at three World Championships. Frida Esparza competed for Mexico at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. Sydney Barros qualified for the 2023 World Championships for Puerto Rico and was previously a three-time U.S. National Team member. Other U.S. National Team competitors were Ciena Alipio, Margzetta Frazier, Emily Lee and Katelyn Rosen.
LATEST VIRAL STAR
It took just one preseason meet for a Bruin to go viral. Graduate transfer Nya Reed has the honors this season, with a partial video of her Meet the Bruins floor exercise routine, which pays tribute to her sorority Delta Sigma Theta, surpassing three million views on social media. She has been featured on ESPN, BET, Essence and more. Reed's floor music features music by 2 Chainz ("Money Maker", Too Short ("Blow the Whistle"), CeeLo Green ("I'll Be Around"), Cameo ("Candy") and Cheryl Lynn ("Got To Be Real").
ABOUT THE BRUINS
UCLA returns four All-Americans from a 2023 team that finished fifth in the nation and won a share of the regular season Pac-12 title. Chae Campbell, Margzetta Frazier, Selena Harris and Emma Malabuyo each earned first-team All-America acclaim at the NCAA Championships last season, with Campbell placing fifth on vault, Frazier and Harris tying for fourth on floor, Harris finishing sixth in the all-around and Malabuyo placing fourth on beam. The Bruins are coming off a record-setting 2023 season that saw the team set a new school record for most meets in a season without a fall (12). UCLA had an incredible hit rate of 98.81%, the highest in the NCAA over the last 15 years. Eleven Bruin gymnasts hit every competitive routine without a fall during the year, including Selena Harris with 55 hit routines, Emily Lee with 43, Margzetta Frazier with 39, Ciena Alipio with 14 and Maddie Anyimi with 12, and no one had more than one fall on the year.
PRESEASON POLLS AND LISTS
UCLA enters the 2024 season ranked No. 5 in the preseason rankings, as voted upon by the coaches of the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). The Bruins have received a Top 10 preseason ranking in every preseason poll of record since 1997. The Pac-12 Conference also announced its preseason poll and Watch List. UCLA was picked to finish second in the preseason Coaches' poll, and Chae Campbell was named to the Preseason Watch List, while Katelyn Rosen was selected to the Newcomer Watch List.
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Seven returners and eight Bruins overall earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors in 2023. Current senior Katie McNamara (labor studies) earned her third career honor. Juniors Mia Erdoes (business economics), Emily Lee (physiological science), Emma Malabuyo (communication), Brooklyn Moors (sociology) and Ana Padurariu (psychology) all earned their second-straight honor. Sophomore Maddie Anyimi (applied mathematics) and senior Chae Campbell (communication) each received their first Scholastic All-America distinction. The WCGA Scholastic All-America team recognizes gymnasts who carry a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade point average or a 3.5 grade point average for the academic year. Additionally, senior Sara Ulias (molecular, cellular, & development biology) was named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll, one of a program-best 10 Bruins to earn that distinction in 2023.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will return to the Rocky Mountains next Sunday, Jan. 21 for a quad meet at Denver against the Pioneers, Oklahoma and Stanford.
vs. No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Utah, No. 5 LSU
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 – 1 pm PT
West Valley City, Utah (Maverik Center)
TV - ABC
Live Stats - statbroadcast.com
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Friday, Jan. 12
Session 1 - 7pm (ACC Network)
Arizona, Boise State, Nebraska, North Carolina
Saturday, Jan. 13
Session 2 - 2pm (ABC)
LSU, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah
Session 3 - 7pm (ACC Network)
BYU, California, Michigan State, NC State
UCLA TO FACE THREE TOP 5 TEAMS SATURDAY
No. 12 UCLA will face three of the nation's Top 5 teams on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad in West Valley City, Utah. The second of three sessions on the weekend will showcase four of the Top 5 teams from the 2023 NCAA Championships - defending champion Oklahoma, third-place Utah, fourth-place LSU and fifth-place UCLA. Oklahoma continues to lead the pack in the national rankings, sitting at No. 1. Utah ranks No. 2, and LSU ranks No. 5. The quad meet will be televised live at 2pm MT/1pm PT on ABC.
ON THE BIG STAGE
The Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad is the second consecutive podium meet for the Bruins, who opened at the Super 16 Gymnastics Championships in Las Vegas. The meet will be televised live on ABC, marking UCLA's first-ever appearance on the network.
LAST TIME OUT
UCLA placed fourth in the season-opening Super 16 Gymnastics Championships on Jan. 6, scoring 196.550 to finish behind Alabama (197.125), California (196.850) and Auburn (196.600). The Bruins led at the halfway point after scoring 49.325 on vault and 49.275 on bars but had to count a fall on beam, dropping them to fourth place. UCLA rebounded with a meet-high 49.55 on floor, but it wasn't enough to move up the standings. Three Bruins won events - Chae Campbell with a perfect 9.95 on vault, Selena Harris with a 9.95 on bars, and Emily Lee with a 9.9 on beam. Harris finished tied for second in the all-around with a score of 39.550.
WELCOME BACK
UCLA welcomed back seniors Frida Esparza and Sara Ulias to competition after long absences due to injuries. Esparza sat out the 2023 season after undergoing shoulder surgery and last competed at the NCAA Regionals on Apr. 2, 2022. She debuted a new uneven bars routine, highlighted by a Bhardwaj (full-twisting Pak salto), at the Super 16. Ulias has been out even longer, her last competition coming on Feb. 12, 2022, when she tore her ACL while dismounting on uneven bars. She hit a solid uneven bars exhibition routine at the Super 16, scoring 9.775.
NEW FACES
UCLA welcomes a graduate transfer and four freshmen and a graduate transfer onto the squad in 2024. Nya Reed brings four years of experience at the University of Florida, where she was a six-time All-American with career-high scores of 9.975 on vault and 10.0 on floor. The freshman class is a mix of national team members in Sydney Barros and Katelyn Rosen and Level 10 standouts in Paige Anastasi and Alex Irvine. Barros is a three-time U.S. national team member and current Puerto Rican all-around champion. Rosen was a member of the 2020 U.S. National Team and the 2022 U.S. Classic floor champion. Anastasi is a four-time Level 10 nationals competitor and the 2023 Region 6 all-around, vault and bars champion. Irvine won a bronze medal on vault at the 2022 Level 10 nationals.
Reed, Rosen and Anastasi made their Bruin debuts at the Super 16. Reed scored 9.85 on vault and 9.9 on floor. Rosen scored 9.8 on bars and 9.85 in a pressure situation on beam. She also performed exhibitions on vault (9.725) and floor (9.875). Anastasi hit for a 9.825 on vault.
BACK FOR MORE
The Bruins return the services of three 2023 seniors - Emma Andres, Margzetta Frazier and Chloe Lashbrooke - for their extra year of Covid-19 eligibility. Andres competed in three meets as a freshman in 2020 and in every meet in 2021 before an injury derailed her 2022 season. She came back in 2023 to perform a total of three exhibition routines, scoring highs of 9.850 on beam and 9.700 on floor in the regular season finale. Frazier is back in her sixth year with the program after redshirting in 2022 with a foot fracture. She enters her final year having hit all 131 routines in her career without a fall, a streak she extended to 132 after her 9.875 on bars at the Super 16. Last year, Frazier earned first-team All-America honors on floor after finishing fourth overall at the NCAA Championships with a career-best 9.9500. Frazier is also a three-time All-American on uneven bars and the 2021 Pac-12 bars champion. After missing all of the 2021 season and most of 2022 with an Achilles injury, Lashbrooke came back in 2023 to compete on floor in three meets and exhibition in two others, posting a high of 9.875 against Iowa State. She holds a career average of 9.839 on the event.
OLYMPIC YEAR DEFERRALS
The Bruins will be without the services of Jordan Chiles and Ana Padurariu in 2024 as they pursue their Olympic dreams. Chiles is training for her second Olympic spot after winning team silver at the 2020 Olympics and team gold and vault and floor silver at the 2022 World Championships. She also recently won team gold, vault silver and all-around bronze at the Pan American Games. The nine-time All-American had a banner 2023 season, winning the NCAA and Pac-12 bars and floor titles and scoring five perfect 10s (three on bars, two on floor). She was also named the WCGA West Region Gymnast of the Year and College Gym News Sportswoman of the Year. Padurariu is training in hopes of qualifying for her first Olympic berth with Team Canada. A member of Canada's national team from 2015-20 and a World silver medalist on beam in 2018, Padurariu was on the 2020 Olympic path before an ankle injury changed her course. After a successful 2023 collegiate campaign, during which she scored career-highs of 9.95 on bars and beam, Padurariu returned to the elite scene, demoing at the 2023 Canadian National Championships in May and participating in national team training camps in Canada. Emma Malabuyo will also be pursuing an Olympic berth under the Philippines flag but is remaining on the team and competing with the Bruins between qualifying competitions.
MALABUYO MAKES HISTORY FOR PHILIPPINES
Junior Emma Malabuyo made history for the Philippines this past summer at the Asian Championships, recording the highest-ever placement by a Filipina gymnast with her silver medal-winning performance on floor exercise. Malabuyo scored 13.166 in the event finals, just 0.067 off first place. She also competed in the balance beam final, placing fifth overall with a score of 12.166. The Asian Championships were Malabuyo's first elite competition since the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, after which she was selected as an alternate for the Olympic Games. Her silver medal was her first international medal since winning silver on balance beam and floor exercise at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy.
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
The Bruin roster is filled with gymnasts who have represented their countries in international competition. Emma Malabuyo now represents the Philippines but was a U.S. national team member for five years and an alternate for the U.S. at the 2020 Olympics. Brooklyn Moors competed at the 2020 Olympics for Canada and was an all-around and floor finalist at three World Championships. Frida Esparza competed for Mexico at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. Sydney Barros qualified for the 2023 World Championships for Puerto Rico and was previously a three-time U.S. National Team member. Other U.S. National Team competitors were Ciena Alipio, Margzetta Frazier, Emily Lee and Katelyn Rosen.
LATEST VIRAL STAR
It took just one preseason meet for a Bruin to go viral. Graduate transfer Nya Reed has the honors this season, with a partial video of her Meet the Bruins floor exercise routine, which pays tribute to her sorority Delta Sigma Theta, surpassing three million views on social media. She has been featured on ESPN, BET, Essence and more. Reed's floor music features music by 2 Chainz ("Money Maker", Too Short ("Blow the Whistle"), CeeLo Green ("I'll Be Around"), Cameo ("Candy") and Cheryl Lynn ("Got To Be Real").
ABOUT THE BRUINS
UCLA returns four All-Americans from a 2023 team that finished fifth in the nation and won a share of the regular season Pac-12 title. Chae Campbell, Margzetta Frazier, Selena Harris and Emma Malabuyo each earned first-team All-America acclaim at the NCAA Championships last season, with Campbell placing fifth on vault, Frazier and Harris tying for fourth on floor, Harris finishing sixth in the all-around and Malabuyo placing fourth on beam. The Bruins are coming off a record-setting 2023 season that saw the team set a new school record for most meets in a season without a fall (12). UCLA had an incredible hit rate of 98.81%, the highest in the NCAA over the last 15 years. Eleven Bruin gymnasts hit every competitive routine without a fall during the year, including Selena Harris with 55 hit routines, Emily Lee with 43, Margzetta Frazier with 39, Ciena Alipio with 14 and Maddie Anyimi with 12, and no one had more than one fall on the year.
PRESEASON POLLS AND LISTS
UCLA enters the 2024 season ranked No. 5 in the preseason rankings, as voted upon by the coaches of the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). The Bruins have received a Top 10 preseason ranking in every preseason poll of record since 1997. The Pac-12 Conference also announced its preseason poll and Watch List. UCLA was picked to finish second in the preseason Coaches' poll, and Chae Campbell was named to the Preseason Watch List, while Katelyn Rosen was selected to the Newcomer Watch List.
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Seven returners and eight Bruins overall earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors in 2023. Current senior Katie McNamara (labor studies) earned her third career honor. Juniors Mia Erdoes (business economics), Emily Lee (physiological science), Emma Malabuyo (communication), Brooklyn Moors (sociology) and Ana Padurariu (psychology) all earned their second-straight honor. Sophomore Maddie Anyimi (applied mathematics) and senior Chae Campbell (communication) each received their first Scholastic All-America distinction. The WCGA Scholastic All-America team recognizes gymnasts who carry a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade point average or a 3.5 grade point average for the academic year. Additionally, senior Sara Ulias (molecular, cellular, & development biology) was named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll, one of a program-best 10 Bruins to earn that distinction in 2023.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will return to the Rocky Mountains next Sunday, Jan. 21 for a quad meet at Denver against the Pioneers, Oklahoma and Stanford.
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