UCLA to Compete at NCAA Gymnastics Championships This Week

Thursday, April 16

Fort Worth, Texas

6:00 PM (PT)

UCLA

NCAA Semifinals vs. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota

Sydney Barros

Photo by: Ross Turteltaub

UCLA to Compete at NCAA Gymnastics Championships This Week

April 14, 2026 | Gymnastics

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No. 4 UCLA at NCAA Semifinals
Date/Time: Thursday, April 16, 2026 – 8pm CT/6pm PT
Location: Fort Worth, Texas (Dickies Arena)
Date/Time: Semifinal 1: April 16, 3:30 pm CT / 1:30 pm PT; Semifinal 2: April 16, 8 pm CT / 6 pm PT; Final: April 18, 3 pm CT / 1 pm PT
Broadcast: ESPN2 (semifinals); ABC (final)
TV Talent: John Roethlisberger, Samantha Peszek, Aly Raisman, Taylor Davis (sideline)
Live Stats: virti.us
Tickets: www.ncaatickets.com
Team Streams: ESPN+
Talent: Kennedy Baker, Bridget Sloan, Trinity Thomas, Anastasia Webb

BRUINS TO COMPETE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
The UCLA Gymnastics team (32-2) will make its 38th NCAA Championship appearance when it competes in the NCAA semifinal on Thursday, April 16 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The No. 4 seed Bruins will compete in semifinal 2 at 8pm CT/6pm PT, along with No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 9 Arkansas and No. 13 Minnesota. Competing in semifinal 1 at 3:30pm CT/1:30pm PT will be No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Florida, No. 6 Georgia and No. 7 Stanford. The top two teams from each session will advance to Saturday's final at 3pm CT/1pm PT. The all-around and individual event champions will be determined during Thursday's semifinals.

FOLLOW LIVE
All three sessions of the NCAA Championships will be televised live on the ESPN family of networks. The semifinals will be on ESPN2, while the final will air live on ABC. Team feeds for all sessions will be available on ESPN+. Live stats will be available at virti.us.

ROTATION ORDER
UCLA will begin on uneven bars and end on vault at Thursday's semifinal. Oklahoma has Olympic order and will start on vault. Minnesota begins on beam, and Arkansas starts on floor.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
The Bruins have won seven NCAA championships, most recently in 2018, winning after a perfect 10 on beam by Peng-Peng Lee on the final routine of the meet. Her score gave the Bruins a 0.0375 win over second-place Oklahoma. UCLA's NCAA titles came in 1997 at Florida, 2000 at Boise State, 2001 at Georgia, 2003 at Nebraska, 2004 at UCLA, 2010 at Florida and 2018 in St. Louis. This is UCLA's 38th overall appearance in the 44 NCAA Championships and fourth in the new eight-team format that debuted in 2019. UCLA placed second last season, with Jordan Chiles and Brooklyn Moors capturing the NCAA uneven bars and floor exercise titles, respectively.

UCLA's INDIVIDUAL NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
UCLA ranks first all-time with 44 NCAA individual titles. Brooklyn Moors became the 23rd Bruin to win an NCAA individual championship after winning the floor exercise title in 2025. Jordan Chiles captured her third individual title, winning uneven bars for the second time in her career. Since 2000, the Bruins have captured 33 individual titles, the most of any school during that time period.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
*Only eight teams have ever won the NCAA title in the 44 years of the Championships - Georgia (10), Utah (9), UCLA (7), Oklahoma (7), Alabama (6), Florida (3), Michigan (1) and LSU (1). For the first 15 years of the Championship, only Utah, Georgia and Alabama had ever won the team title. UCLA broke the stranglehold in 1997. It took 16 years for another new team - Florida in 2013 - to win a title, and Oklahoma joined the party in 2014, tying with Florida for the championship. Michigan won its first in 2021, and LSU won its first in 2024.
*Four of the eight schools who qualified for the 2025 Championships return in 2025 - Oklahoma (1st place), UCLA (2nd), LSU (5th) and Florida (7th). The remaining four teams - Missouri (3rd), Utah (4th), Michigan State (6th) and Alabama (8th) - did not advance. Back in the championship field after a one-year absence are Arkansas and Stanford. Minnesota returns for the first time since 2022, and Georgia is making its first appearance since 2019.
*There are three reigning or former individual champions in the field. Among the reigning champions are 2025 uneven bars champion Jordan Chiles, who also won bars and floor exercise for UCLA in 2023. Also returning are 2025 vault champion Kailin Chio (LSU), 2024 vault champion Anna Roberts (Stanford) and 2024 balance beam champion Faith Torrez (Oklahoma).
*UCLA has won either a team or an individual NCAA title in each of the last seven Championships it has attended as a team: 2025 - Jordan Chiles (UB), Brooklyn Moors (FX); 2023 - Jordan Chiles (UB, FX); 2019 - Kyla Ross (V, FX); 2018 - Team, Peng-Peng Lee (BB), Katelyn Ohashi (FX); 2017 - Kyla Ross (UB, BB); 2016 - Danusia Francis (BB); 2015 - Samantha Peszek (AA, BB).
*UCLA leads all schools with 44 individual titles, followed by Georgia (42), Utah (32), Alabama (28) and Florida (24).
*Six of the Top 8 teams in the final regular season rankings qualified for the NCAA Championships - No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 UCLA, No. 6 Georgia and No. 7 Stanford. Advancing out of the Top 8 were No. 9 Arkansas and No. 13 Minnesota.

A LOOK AT THE SEMIFINAL OPPONENTS
Oklahoma won the Lexington Regional, its 16th consecutive Regional title. The Sooners are the reigning national champion and have won seven overall, tied for third-most all-time with UCLA. Arkansas finished second to the Sooners at Regionals and will be making its 10th NCAA appearance. The Gymbacks are coached by a pair of UCLA graduates in head coach Jordyn Wieber and assistant coach Kyla Ross. Wieber was a volunteer assistant coach on UCLA's last championship squad in 2018, and Ross was a sophomore on that squad and a five-time NCAA champion and 24-time All-American for the Bruins. Minnesota finished one-tenth of a point behind the Bruins at the Corvallis Regional, qualifying to the NCAA Championships for the seventh time and first time since 2022.

UCLA vs. NCAA FIELD
The Bruins have matched up against four of the seven other teams in the NCAA field this season. The Bruins are 4-0 vs. Minnesota, 1-0 vs. Stanford, 0-1 vs. Oklahoma and 0-1 vs. LSU.

NCAA EXPERIENCE
The Bruins return six gymnasts who competed at last year's NCAA Championships - Ciena Alipio, Jordan Chiles, Riley Jenkins, Macy McGowan, Katelyn Rosen and Mika Webster-Longin. Chiles has the most Championships experience on the team, having competed in three previous years - with the team in 2023 and 2025 and as an individual on bars and floor in 2022. In 2023, Chiles won the uneven bars title in 2023 with a perfect 10 and the floor title with a nearly-perfect 9.9875. She was also 0.05 away from winning the all-around, placing second with a score of 39.7125. In 2025, she won her second uneven bars crown with a 9.9750. Alipio has competed in two previous Championships, in 2023 and 2025. Jenkins, McGowan, Rosen and Webster-Longin each competed in 2025.

TEXAS TIES
A total of six Bruin gymnasts have ties to Texas, having trained in the state during their club careers. Three trained at World Champions Centre in Houston - Jordan Chiles, Tiana Sumanasekera and Jordis Eichman. Sydney Barros is from Lewisville, Texas and trained at Texas Dreams. Ashlee Sullivan is from Richardson, Texas and trained atw Metroplex Gymnastics. Katelyn Rosen is from Boerne, Texas. Graduate student assistant coach Emma Malabuyo also trained in Texas, at Texas Dreams.

REGIONAL FINAL RECAP
UCLA won its first NCAA Regional title since 2019, jumping up from third place (tied for second but trailing in the tiebreaker) into first after finishing the meet with a 49.625 team total on floor exercise in the final rotation. The Bruins scored 197.725, one-tenth ahead of second-place Minnesota and .225 ahead of third-place Utah, who scored 197.500. UCLA and Minnesota were tied for second place with a 148.100 going into the final rotation, half a tenth behind Utah, who had just pulled into the lead with a 148.150. But the Utes could not hold on to the lead, scoring just 49.350 on vault while Minnesota scored 49.525 on beam and UCLA 49.625 on floor. Ashlee Sullivan's 9.900 clinched UCLA's advancement, and Jordan Chiles' perfect 10 secured the Regional victory for UCLA.

REGIONAL ROUND 2 RECAP
The Bruins kept their two-year unbeaten record against Big Ten opponents intact, placing first in the NCAA Regional second round with a score of 197.450, ahead of Minnesota (196.975), Iowa (196.750) and Washington (195.850), to advance to the Regional Final. The Bruins took the lead after the second rotation and did not relinquish it, growing their advantage to two-tenths after beam and locking it down with a 49.550 on floor to finish comfortably ahead of the second and third place squads. Freshman Tiana Sumanasekera had a career night, tying for the highest all-around score of the session with a career-high 39.625 and tying for the floor exercise title with Jordan Chiles another career-high of 9.950. Chiles also claimed the Regional vault title with a 9.950.

ALL-AMERICAN SENIORS
UCLA seniors Jordan Chiles and Ciena Alipio earned first-team regular season All-America honors - Chiles on all four events and the all-around and Alipio on balance beam. Chiles becomes just the first second Bruin ever to earn the maximum five first-team regular season All-America honors, joining Kyla Ross who achieved this in 2019. Chiles now has a total of 21 All-America honors, three away from Ross' school record of 24. Alipio is now a three-time All-American and two-time first-team All-American. UCLA has collected a total of 93 regular season All-America honors since the WCGA added the regular season awards in 2013.

CHILES, MCDONALD EARN WEST REGION, BIG TEN INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
UCLA's Jordan Chiles and Janelle McDonald were awarded WCGA West Region Gymnast and Coach of the Year honors, respectively, their second career honors. They previously earned the award in 2023. Chiles ranked in the Top 2 in the all-around all season long and finished the regular season No. 1 on floor exercise. She earned the maximum five first-team regular season All-America honors and is the only gymnast in the nation ranked in the Top 5 on all four events and the all-around, ranking No. 1 on floor, No. 2 in the all-around, No. 3 on vault and No. 4 on bars and beam. Chiles won the Big Ten all-around, bars, beam and floor titles, tying the Big Ten record for most individual titles at a conference championship. She also captured the NCAA Regional vault and floor crowns to set a new school record with 10 Regional titles. Her Regional floor title was the fourth of her career, making her the first Bruin to accomplish this feat. Chiles has scored eight perfect 10s this season – six on floor, one on vault and one on bars – and has 19 in her career, ranking 10th all-time in the NCAA. The AAI Award finalist and Big Ten Gymnast of the Year has totaled 48 event wins this year and 130 in her career.

In her fourth season as UCLA head coach, McDonald led UCLA to back-to-back regular season and conference championships. The Bruins posted a 9-0 record in conference play for the second-straight year and have not lost to a Big Ten opponent in any competition since joining the league a year ago. McDonald, the two-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, graduated more than half of the team's routines from last year's NCAA runner-up squad but took a young squad to a 32-2 overall record and the No. 4 NCAA seed. The Bruins have won 12 consecutive meets since placing third at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad on Jan. 10. McDonald is one win away from her 100th career coaching victory.

UCLA SWEEPS BIG TEN REGULAR SEASON, CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES AGAIN
For the second consecutive year, UCLA ran the table in the conference, going unbeaten with a 9-0 record to capture the Big Ten regular season title and the Big Ten Championships. The Bruins won the 2026 Championship meet with a score of 198.100, while winning every event and the all-around. Jordan Chiles won the all-around, beam and floor and tied for first on bars along with Sydney Barros. Riley Jenkins tied for first on vault. The Bruins are 18-0 all-time in Big Ten play and have not lost to any Big Ten opponent in any competition since joining the conference a year ago. UCLA Gymnastics has now won 24 conference titles, including four in the Big Ten.

BRUINS CLAIM BIG TEN HONORS
A total of four Bruins earned All-Big Ten honors - first-team honorees Chiles and freshmen Ashlee Sullivan and Tiana Sumanasekera, along with second-team selection Ciena Alipio. UCLA was the only school with multiple All-Freshman Team honorees - Sullivan and Sumanasekera. Additionally, junior Katelyn Rosen was UCLA's honoree for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. Several Bruins also earned Big Ten All-Championship Team honors - Chiles on all four events and the all-around, Sumanasekera in the all-around and on beam, Riley Jenkins on vault, Sydney Barros on bars, and Ashlee Sullivan on floor.

CONSISTENCY IS KEY
UCLA has been a consistent force all season, averaging 197.548 as a team, with nothing under 196.950. The Bruins have scored over 197.500 in nine of its last 10 meets and joins Oklahoma as the only two teams who have scored over 49.000 on every event in every meet this season. The Bruins have yet to count a fall this season, and they have hit 331 of 336 routines without a fall, a 98.5% hit percentage.

PERFECT 10 WATCH
Jordan Chiles has collected eight perfect 10s this season - six on floor exercise, one on vault and one on uneven bars. Chiles had a run of five consecutive weeks with a perfect 10 from Jan. 17 through Feb. 14. Her first career 10 on vault on Jan. 17 against Nebraska started the streak, and she went on to roll off four-straight perfect 10s on floor on Jan. 25 at Michigan State, Jan. 30 vs. Washington, Feb. 7 at Minnesota and Feb. 14 vs. Michigan. She currently has 19 career 10s - one on vault, six on uneven bars and 12 on floor exercise - and ranks in the Top 10 nationally and Top 3 at UCLA for career perfect 10s. Chiles' 12 floor 10s rank second all-time at UCLA behind only Jamie Dantzscher, who had 14. Chiles' six bars 10s rank third behind Kyla Ross (11) and Dantzscher (7). Chiles is looking to become just the 15th gymnast in NCAA history to achieve a Gym Slam, which is a perfect 10 on all four events. Only two Bruins have done this - Kristen Maloney in 2005 and Ross in 2019. Chiles just needs a 10.0 on balance beam to join the exclusive group. She has earned a 10 from one beam judge three times this season.

BEST SHOW IN LA AND NATION-WIDE
UCLA Gymnastics is proving to be not only the Best Show in LA, but also nation-wide. Every campus UCLA visited during the regular season saw record-setting attendance with the Bruins in town - at Washington Jan. 2 (8,403), at Michigan State Jan. 25 (9,887), at Minnesota Feb. 7 (5,081), at Illinois Feb. 22 (6,813) and at Stanford March 7 (7,024). The Bruins set a school record of their own in the home finale on March 14, with 13,089 fans in attendance. UCLA had also set program records for home opener attendance (7,814 on Jan. 13) and for Friday night home meets (7,567 in attendance at the Big Four meet on Feb. 27). Last season, the Bruins competed in front of school record crowds at Maryland (7,287) and Ohio State (3,695) and in front of a sold-out crowd of 15,558 at Utah, as well as a crowd of 11,314 at Michigan.

DANCING AND GYMNASTICS QUEEN
Fresh off a third-place showing on Season 34 of "Dancing with the Stars" this fall, Jordan Chiles has dominated the NCAA Gymnastics season, ranking No. 1 in the nation in the all-around for the first eight weeks of the season and No. 2 for the other four weeks, and earning Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honors in nine consecutive weeks and 10 of 11 weeks overall. She is a finalist for the AAI Award, which honors the top senior gymnast in the nation, was named the WCGA West Region and Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, and received the maximum five first-team regular season All-America honors.

Chiles kicked off her senior season on Jan. 3 with a show-stopping performance at the Best of the West Quad, placing first on all four events and winning the all-around with a 39.725, UCLA's highest all-around score in a season opener since Kyla Ross also recorded that score in 2020. Chiles has not slowed down since. She scored her first perfect 10 of the season and first career 10 on vault on Jan. 17 then recorded the nation's highest all-around score with a 39.875 on Jan. 25 at Michigan State, including a perfect 10 on floor and a 9.975 on vault. Just five days later, she matched that 39.875 all-around score and added another 10 on floor. Chiles made it four meets in a row with a 10 on Feb. 7, bringing back her 2025 Prince floor routine at Minnesota for her 15th career perfect 10, and then hit her 10th career 10 on floor on Feb. 14 against Michigan. On March 7, she scored her first 10 of the season on uneven bars. At the Big Ten Championships, she scored a perfect 10 on floor for the second consecutive year and went on to capture the all-around, bars and beam titles as well. Her most recent 10 came in the NCAA Regional Final, where her perfect score on floor in the final rotation secured the Bruins' first regional title since 2019.

Paired with pro dancer Ezra Sosa this fall, Chiles became the first female gymnast to make the "Dancing with the Stars" finale since Laurie Hernandez in season 23 in 2016. Chiles competed on the show while simultaneously training for the 2026 gymnastics season and taking a full set of classes at UCLA. The two-time Olympian and 2024 gold medalist is as a three-time NCAA Champion, 21-time All-American and five-time Big Ten individual champion. Chiles has scored 19 perfect 10s in her career - 12 on floor exercise, six on uneven bars and one on vault - and 27 9.975s. She holds career-highs of 10.0 on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise, 9.975 on balance beam and 39.900 in the all-around. Chiles' high-level consistency has been incredible, as she has scored 9.800 or higher on all 56 of her routines this year and 9.900 or higher on 44. She also has 29 scores of 9.950 or higher. Chiles has hit 94 routines in a row without a fall, with 71 straight routines scoring 9.800 or higher.

FROM BEAMER TO THREE-EVENT STAR
After competing exclusively on balance beam her first three seasons due to injuries, senior Ciena Alipio has taken the leap to multi-event star during her senior season, competing on floor exercise and uneven bars this season for the first time in her collegiate career. She has become a mainstay in the lineup on those three events, competing in all 14 meets on beam, 13 on floor and eight on bars. She made her floor debut at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad on Jan. 10 and scored 9.800. She won two events a week later against Nebraska, scoring 9.975 on beam and 9.875 on floor. At Michigan State on Jan. 25, Alipio competed on three events for the first time, making her collegiate debut on uneven bars. She tied for third place on bars with a score of 9.875, scored 9.850 on floor exercise, then completed her day with a meet-winning beam score of 9.950. She improved on those marks five days later against Washington, scoring a leadoff 9.950 on bars, a meet-winning 9.950 on beam and a career-high 9.900 on floor to earn Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week honors for the third time. Alipio scored a career-high 9.950 on floor on Feb. 14, receiving a 10.0 from one judge. She finished the regular season ranked No. 5 on beam and earned first-team All-America honors. Alipio is tied for the team lead with seven beam victories.

Alipio is a three-time All-American on beam and won the Big Ten balance beam title in 2025 with her first career perfect 10. Prior to her senior season, the only other non-beam routine that she had performed in college came in an exhibition on floor exercise in the 2025 season opener. As an elite gymnast, Alipio placed third in the all-around at her last international event, the 2022 Arthur Gander Memorial in Switzerland. She was also ninth in the all-around and sixth on floor exercise at the 2022 U.S. Classic.

RAISING THE BAR-ROS
Junior Sydney Barros, who missed all of 2024 while rehabbing a knee injury and competed just once in 2025, has made a huge splash this season. A total of 29 of her 33 routines have scored 9.800 or higher, and 12 have scored 9.900 or higher, including her career-high 9.950 on bars to win a share of the Big Ten title She has not scored lower than 9.825 on beam all season, averaging 9.863, which ranks second-best on the team. In her first extensive action of her career at Michigan State on Jan. 25, she scored a pair of 9.900s on uneven bars and floor exercise and added a 9.850 in a beam exhibition. In the Bruins' home meet against Washington Jan. 30, she competed on three events and scored a career-highs on bars (9.925) and floor (9.900) and earned a 9.850 in her beam debut. On Feb. 7 at Minnesota, she contributed a third-place career-high mark of 9.900 on beam. She scored a pair of 9.90s against Michigan on Feb. 14, tying for second on beam and floor, and she picked up her first career victory at the Big Four meet on Feb. 27, tying for first on bars with a 9.900. Barros was the all-around champion at the 2023 Puerto Rican National Championships and placed eighth in the all-around at the 2023 Pan American Championships, qualifying to the World Championships. She was unable to compete at Worlds, however, after suffering a knee injury at the Central American Games.

TIANA TAKES OFF
Freshman Tiana Sumanasekera has been superb for the Bruins this year, competing 53 of a possible 56 routines and going all-around in 11 of the team's 14 meets. She won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors a conference-best four times and earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and All-Freshman acclaim. Sumanasekera shined at the Big Ten Championships, scoring a then-career-high 39.575 to finish tied for second in the all-around and placing second on beam with a 9.925. She also won a NCAA Regional floor title, tying for first with a career-high 9.950. The five-time U.S. National Team member and 2024 Olympic alternate has season-bests of 9.9 or higher on every event - 9.950 on beam and floor, 9.925 on floor and bars and 9.900 on vault - and 39.625 in the all-around. In the season opener, Sumanasekera scored 9.950 on beam, the highest by a UCLA freshman in her collegiate debut in over 20 years, matching Tasha Schiwkert in 2005. Sumanasekera also became the first Bruin ever to win Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors with her season-opening performance.

SULLIVAN STRENGTH
Freshman Ashlee Sullivan continues to provide three strong routines in the five spot on vault, bars and floor. She has also competed in the all-around twice, most recently on March 7 at Stanford, scoring her season-high of 39.325. Since February, over her last nine meets, 18 of her 33 scores have gone 9.875 or higher, including 13 of 9.900 or higher. She has scored 9.900 or higher on eight of her last 10 floor routines, with four 9.950s. Sullivan won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors three times this season, and she earned Event Specialist of the Week in the final week of the regular season after winning vault with a 9.975 and scoring two other 9.900s in the win over Utah. She is averaging over 9.85 on her three main events - 9.859 on vault and bars and 9.880 on floor.

MIKA MAGIC
Sophomore Mika Webster-Longin returned to competition in a big way on Feb. 27, making her 2026 vault debut at the Big Four meet in a pivotal moment. With the Bruins clinging to a .150 lead in the final rotation, the sophomore stepped in for injured teammate Katelyn Rosen and hit her Yurchenko 1.5 vault for a 9.800. It was her first vault since last season's NCAA semifinal, and the Big Four meet was her first time in the competition lineup since an illness kept her out for three meets (Jan. 25-Feb. 7). Webster-Longin has soared since, competing in the all-around in four of the last five meets and averaging 39.475 in those meets. She made her all-around debut at Stanford and earned a career-high 39.425 to place third overall. She also tied for first on floor with a career-best 9.925 and added a season-high 9.900 on bars. She one-upped her performance a week later against Utah, scoring a career-high 39.450 in the all-around and recording a season-high 9.900 on vault. At the Big Ten Championships, she scored 39.550 to place fifth and also added a season-high 9.900 on bars and career-high-tying 9.925 on floor. At the NCAA Regional Second Round, she finished fourth overall in the all-around with a 39.475 and tied for third on floor with a career-high-tying 9.925. Webster-Longin holds career-highs of 9.950 on vault, 9.925 on bars and floor and 9.875 on beam. The Belgian National Team member had a strong freshman season, being selected to the Big Ten All-Championship team after contributing a 9.925 on vault and 9.900 on bars to the Bruins' title run.

ROSEN RISING
Junior Katelyn Rosen is on the rise after returning from an injury that kept her out of the lineup for the team's last two dual meets. She has competed on vault and beam in each of the Bruins' three postseason meets so far and excelled at the NCAA Regional Final, scoring a career-high-tying 9.900 on vault and leading off with a season-high-tying 9.900 on beam. Rosen is averaging over 9.800 on three events this season - 9.832 on vault, 9.844 on beam and 9.811 on floor. She competed in the all-around four times at the beginning of the season, posting a high of 39.325.

JENKINS VAULTS TO SUCCESS
Sophomore Riley Jenkins has had an stellar sophomore campaign, winning the Big Ten vault title with a career-high 9.950. She has competed on vault in every meet this season and is averaging 9.827, with three scores of 9.900 or higher. Her previous high coming into this season was 9.850. Jenkins had three straight weeks of stuck Yurchenko 1.5s, placing second at Stanford with a then-career-high 9.900, matching that score against Utah a week later, and then capturing her first-ever event title with a 9.950 at the Big Ten Championships. As a freshman, Jenkins competed in seven meets, including the last three postseason competitions.

NO ONE LIKE NOLA
Freshman Nola Matthews has shown tremendous work on uneven bars this season, totaling eight marks of 9.850 or higher, including four at 9.900 or higher. She has competed in 13 of the Bruins' 14 meets and is averaging 9.821. Her career-high is 9.950, set at Stanford on March 7, and she has one bars victory, taking first with a 9.900 at the Big Four Meet on Feb. 27. The five-time U.S. National Team member won gold on uneven bars and floor exercise at the 2025 Varna World Challenge Cup and also won gold on bars at the 2023 Pan American Championships and 2022 Winter Cup. Matthews has also competed on floor exercise three times this year, with a high of 9.875, and balance beam three times, scoring a high of 9.850.

FABULOUS FRESHMEN
UCLA's acclaimed freshman class has accounted for 37% (123 of 336) of the Bruins' routines so far in 2026, with Tiana Sumanasekera competing 53 routines, Ashlee Sullivan 44, Nola Matthews 19 and Jordis Eichman seven. Sumanasekera, a 2024 U.S. Olympic alternate, has contributed 38 9.8+ scores, including highs of 9.950 on beam and floor, 9.925 on bars and 9.900 on vault. She is averaging 39.402 in her 11 all-around appearances. Sullivan has competed at least three events in every meet and has had two all-around opportunities, with a high of 39.325 set at Stanford March 7. She has four event victories and holds season-bests of 9.975 on vault, 9.950 on floor, 9.925 on bars and 9.775 on beam. Matthews has highs of 9.950 on bars, 9.875 on floor and 9.850 on beam and one event victory on bars. Eichman made her collegiate debut on Jan. 25 at Michigan State and scored 9.825 on beam and 9.750 on vault. She earned her first Top 3 finish on Jan. 30 against Washington with a third-place mark of 9.875 on beam and had a clutch performance at the NCAA Regional Final as a late sub, scoring 9.800 in her first competitive performance in a little over a month.

FUTURE BRUINS SHINE AT LEVEL 10 REGIONALS
Future Bruins Cami Tassone and Brooke Katz each qualified to the Development Program National Championships after strong performances at their respective Level 10 Regional meets last weekend. Tassone, who is a two-time DP National champion, won her third consecutive Region 5 all-around title and swept all four events. Katz won her third consecutive Region 1 uneven bars title and was runner-up on floor exercise. The duo will join two-time U.S. National Team member and 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials participant Zoey Molomo and Mexican National Team member and four-time Pan American Championships medalist Michelle Pineda in the 2027 freshman class.