2018 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Brielle Nguyen
- Height:
- 5-0
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Foothill
- Hometown:
- Tustin, Calif.
- Previous School:
- Illinois
Career Highlights
2019 second-team All-American (BB)
2019 Pac-12 All-Academic
2019 UCLA Athletic Director's Academic Excellence Award
2018 NCAA Team Champion
2017 second-team All-Big Ten
Best Marks
BB - 9.900, 8x, last 4/5/19
FX - 9.900, 3/11/17
2019
Earned second-team All-America honors on balance beam … Received honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic honors … Recipient of the Athletic Director’s Academic Excellence Award for making the Director’s Honor Roll every quarter at UCLA … Averaged 9.843 on beam … Scored 9.9 on beam four times, including at the NCAA Regional Semifinal and at the Pac-12 Championships … Hit 21 consecutive beam routines to end her career … Scored 9.875 as the leadoff at Oregon State.
2018
Hit a clutch beam routine under pressure at the NCAA Super Six, following a fall and scoring 9.875 to help the Bruins record a NCAA Championships and school record 49.750 to win the team title … Tied her career-high on beam with a 9.9 to tie for third at the Pac-12 Championships … Leadoff on beam for eight meets, where she tied her career-high of 9.9 vs. Oklahoma … Moved to the No. 3 spot on Mar. 11 at Stanford and scored 9.85 … Made her UCLA debut at Elevate the Stage, tying for second on beam with a leadoff 9.825.
2017 (Illinois)
Received second-team All-Big Ten honors … Received team’s Most Improved Gymnast award … Earned her first career individual event title during the season opener at Missouri, scoring 9.875 on beam … Hit a career-high 9.900 on beam against Minnesota and at Iowa … Hit a career-best 9.900 on floor at the B1G Five Meet, where the Illini recorded the program’s second-highest team score on floor … Competed in all 14 meets on beam and floor, helping Illinois hit the program’s third, fifth, seventh and 10th-highest scores on beam during the season.
2016 (Illinois)
Hit her season-high floor score of 9.850 at the State of Illinois Classic … Did not score below 9.700 in her five routines on floor … Recorded her season-best beam score of 9.75 at the NCAA Regional … Made her collegiate debut on beam against Rutgers, scoring 9.550.
Club
Won balance beam title at the 2014 Level 10 State Championships … Placed fifth on beam at the 2015 Level 10 Regionals after placing seventh the year prior … Finished sixth on beam at the 2015 Level 10 State meet … Trained at Gym-Max.
Personal
Used to be a competitive ice skater … Wanted to attend UCLA to be part of a team culture that was associated with John Wooden’s ideas … Describes her greatest athletic thrill as seeing all of her teammates doing so well and placing second at the Big Ten Championships in 2017 … Hobbies include going to the beach and hiking … Lists beam and floor as her favorite apparatus … Parents: Quyen Hua and Hoa Nguyen … Full name is Brielle Nguyen ... Born in Newport Beach, Calif. … Sociology major.
