Saturday, January 27
Los Angeles, CA
6:00 PM
UCLA
vs
Washington
Nya Reed
Photo by: Jesus Ramirez
Bruins Host Washington in Home Opener Saturday Night
January 25, 2024 | Gymnastics
#15 UCLA vs. Washingtonย
Date/Time: Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024 โ ย 6 pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
TV: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: uclabruins.comย
Meet Theme: Blue Outย
UCLA HOSTS WASHINGTON IN HOME OPENERย
After starting the season with three straight road trips, No. 15 UCLA returns for its first home meet of the season on Saturday, Jan. 27 against Washington. The meet is also UCLA's Pac-12 opener. Doors open at 5pm, with the competition beginning at 6pm. It will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks. ย ย ย
PROMOTIONSย
Saturday's home opener is a Blue Out. Fans are encouraged to wear blue. UCLA schedule posters will be available to the first 2,000 fans in attendance. The first 300 UCLA students will receive free pizza from Fresh Brothers. UCLA Health and UCLA employees can purchase general admission tickets for $5. Pre-meet festivities begin at 5:45pm and include the debut of the Bruins' 2024 intro video. ย ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGSย
UCLA dropped four spots to No. 15 in the national rankings after scoring 196.550 at Denver last week. The Bruins ย rank No. 6 on vault, No. 7 on floor, and No. 24 on beam. Individually, Selena Harris ranks No. 10 in the all-around, No. 9 on bars and No. 15 on vault. Chae Campbell ranks No. 6 on vault, and Brooklyn Moors is No. 18 on floor. ย
LAST TIME OUTย
Competing in their third consecutive road quad meet, UCLA placed third at Denver, scoring 196.550. No. 1 Oklahoma placed first with a national-best 198.325, No. 10 Denver was second with a 197.100, and Stanford placed fourth with a 196.100. The Bruins used a season-high 49.575 on floor to climb into second place after two events and held onto its position after scoring 49.175 on vault in rotation three. However, the Bruins had struggles with low bar transitions in the final rotation and had to count a fall, dropping UCLA into third place. Emma Malabuyo had a standout performance, recording a career-high 9.9 on bars and season-bests of 9.925 on beam and 9.875 on floor. ย ย ย ย
A LOOK AT THE HUSKIES ย
Washington enters the week with a 1-4 record and is coming off a 197.875-196.050 dual meet loss to Cal in the teams' Pac-12 opener. ย The Huskies, who posted a season-high score of 196.250 on Jan. 12 in Iowa, currently rank No. 31 nationally. Their highest event rank is No. 20 on beam, where they are averaging 49.025, with a high of 49.325. Senior Skylar Killough-Wilhelm ranks No. 15 on beam with a 9.9 average. Last season, Washington made its first NCAA Regional Final appearance since 2018 after upsetting Auburn and Southern Utah in the second round. The Huskies are coached by Jen Llewellyn, who is in her third season in Seattle. ย ย
NEW FACESย
UCLA welcomes a graduate transfer and four freshmen 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.ย
Reed, Rosen and Anastasi have competed in all three of UCLA's meets this season. Reed is averaging over 9.9 on floor exercise and over 9.8 on vault. Rosen averages over 9.8 on all three events on which she has competed - 9.85 on vault, 9.833 on bars and 9.817 on beam. She has highs of 9.9 on bars and 9.85 on vault and beam. Anastasi has a high of 9.825 on vault. Irvine made her debut in Denver with an exhibition uneven bars routine that scored 9.7.ย
BACK FOR MOREย
The Bruins returned 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. She has earned a spot in the beam lineup the last two meets and recorded a memorable 9.9 in her competitive debut at the Collegiate Quad. Four-time All-American and 2021 Pac-12 bars champion Margzetta Frazier is back in her sixth year with the program after redshirting in 2022 with a foot fracture. She went 133 routines in her career before her first-ever fall. Frazier's streak lasted from Jan. 4, 2019 to Jan. 21, 2024. Last year, Frazier finished fourth overall on floor at the NCAA Championships with a career-best 9.9500. 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. ย
OLYMPIC YEAR DEFERRALSย
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. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
MALABUYO MAKES HISTORY FOR PHILIPPINES ย ย
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. Malabuyo plans to compete on the World Cup circuit in hopes of qualifying for the Olympics. Her first scheduled meet is at the Cairo World Cup Feb. 15-18. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR ย ย
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.ย
LATEST VIRAL STAR ย
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"). ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
ABOUT THE BRUINS ย
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. ย ย ย ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will remain at home on Sunday, Feb. 4 for a Pride Meet matchup against Arizona.ย
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Date/Time: Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024 โ ย 6 pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom)
TV: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: uclabruins.comย
Meet Theme: Blue Outย
UCLA HOSTS WASHINGTON IN HOME OPENERย
After starting the season with three straight road trips, No. 15 UCLA returns for its first home meet of the season on Saturday, Jan. 27 against Washington. The meet is also UCLA's Pac-12 opener. Doors open at 5pm, with the competition beginning at 6pm. It will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks. ย ย ย
PROMOTIONSย
Saturday's home opener is a Blue Out. Fans are encouraged to wear blue. UCLA schedule posters will be available to the first 2,000 fans in attendance. The first 300 UCLA students will receive free pizza from Fresh Brothers. UCLA Health and UCLA employees can purchase general admission tickets for $5. Pre-meet festivities begin at 5:45pm and include the debut of the Bruins' 2024 intro video. ย ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGSย
UCLA dropped four spots to No. 15 in the national rankings after scoring 196.550 at Denver last week. The Bruins ย rank No. 6 on vault, No. 7 on floor, and No. 24 on beam. Individually, Selena Harris ranks No. 10 in the all-around, No. 9 on bars and No. 15 on vault. Chae Campbell ranks No. 6 on vault, and Brooklyn Moors is No. 18 on floor. ย
LAST TIME OUTย
Competing in their third consecutive road quad meet, UCLA placed third at Denver, scoring 196.550. No. 1 Oklahoma placed first with a national-best 198.325, No. 10 Denver was second with a 197.100, and Stanford placed fourth with a 196.100. The Bruins used a season-high 49.575 on floor to climb into second place after two events and held onto its position after scoring 49.175 on vault in rotation three. However, the Bruins had struggles with low bar transitions in the final rotation and had to count a fall, dropping UCLA into third place. Emma Malabuyo had a standout performance, recording a career-high 9.9 on bars and season-bests of 9.925 on beam and 9.875 on floor. ย ย ย ย
A LOOK AT THE HUSKIES ย
Washington enters the week with a 1-4 record and is coming off a 197.875-196.050 dual meet loss to Cal in the teams' Pac-12 opener. ย The Huskies, who posted a season-high score of 196.250 on Jan. 12 in Iowa, currently rank No. 31 nationally. Their highest event rank is No. 20 on beam, where they are averaging 49.025, with a high of 49.325. Senior Skylar Killough-Wilhelm ranks No. 15 on beam with a 9.9 average. Last season, Washington made its first NCAA Regional Final appearance since 2018 after upsetting Auburn and Southern Utah in the second round. The Huskies are coached by Jen Llewellyn, who is in her third season in Seattle. ย ย
NEW FACESย
UCLA welcomes a graduate transfer and four freshmen 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.ย
Reed, Rosen and Anastasi have competed in all three of UCLA's meets this season. Reed is averaging over 9.9 on floor exercise and over 9.8 on vault. Rosen averages over 9.8 on all three events on which she has competed - 9.85 on vault, 9.833 on bars and 9.817 on beam. She has highs of 9.9 on bars and 9.85 on vault and beam. Anastasi has a high of 9.825 on vault. Irvine made her debut in Denver with an exhibition uneven bars routine that scored 9.7.ย
BACK FOR MOREย
The Bruins returned 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. She has earned a spot in the beam lineup the last two meets and recorded a memorable 9.9 in her competitive debut at the Collegiate Quad. Four-time All-American and 2021 Pac-12 bars champion Margzetta Frazier is back in her sixth year with the program after redshirting in 2022 with a foot fracture. She went 133 routines in her career before her first-ever fall. Frazier's streak lasted from Jan. 4, 2019 to Jan. 21, 2024. Last year, Frazier finished fourth overall on floor at the NCAA Championships with a career-best 9.9500. 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. ย
OLYMPIC YEAR DEFERRALSย
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. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
MALABUYO MAKES HISTORY FOR PHILIPPINES ย ย
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. Malabuyo plans to compete on the World Cup circuit in hopes of qualifying for the Olympics. Her first scheduled meet is at the Cairo World Cup Feb. 15-18. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR ย ย
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.ย
LATEST VIRAL STAR ย
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"). ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
ABOUT THE BRUINS ย
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. ย ย ย ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will remain at home on Sunday, Feb. 4 for a Pride Meet matchup against Arizona.ย
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