2018 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Rechelle Dennis
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Half Hollow Hills
- Hometown:
- Dix Hills, N.Y.
Career Highlights
2018 NCAA team champion
Scored career-high 9.85 on bars to place third vs. ASU 2/27/16
5-time JO Nationals qualifier
Won five career Region 6 individual titles
Best Marks
V - 9.725, 2/21/16
UB - 9.85, 2/27/16
BB - 9.4 (ex.), 2/27/16
2018
Member of UCLAโs NCAA, NCAA Regional and Pac-12 Championship squad โฆ Did not compete after suffering a torn achilles in preseason training.
2017
Earned 9.8 on bars vs. North Carolina in her first counting routine of the season โฆ Performed exhibition routines on bars five times, with a high of 9.85 against Arizona, a score that would have matched her career-high โฆ Scored 9.775 on an exhibition uneven bars routine at Oklahoma and 9.725 in an exhibition at Oregon State.
2016
Saw action in seven meets and competed three times on bars and twice on vault before she was forced out of action Mar. 6 with a sprained ankle โฆ Recorded a career-best 9.85 to place third on bars vs. ASU and also competed on vault and made her exhibition debut on beam โฆ At Washington, she set a new career-high on bars with a 9.8 to tie for third, and she also competed on vault for the first time in her career, scoring 9.725 โฆ Made her competitive debut on bars vs. Oregon State, scoring 9.725 โฆ Averaged 9.7125 in four exhibition bars performances prior to her competitive debut, with a high of 9.8 set at Cal โฆ Also scored 9.75 on bars in an exhibition at Florida, 9.675 vs. Utah and 9.625 vs. Alabama.
2015
Made her UCLA debut with an exhibition bars routine at the Feb. 21 quad meet and scored 9.825 โฆ Also performed an exhibition on bars at ASU and scored 9.675.
Club
Five-time JO National Championships qualifier (2010-14) โฆ Highest finish was seventh in the all-around and uneven bars and fifth on floor exercise at the 2012 JO Nationals โฆ Placed ninth on floor at the 2014 JO Nationals โฆ Uneven bars and floor champion at the 2012 Region 6 Championships โฆ Repeated as floor champion and also won the all-around at the 2013 Region 6 Championships โฆ New York State all-around, bars and floor champion in 2013 โฆ Won the uneven bars titles at the 2014 state and region meets โฆ Trained at Gold Medal Gymnastics Huntington.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is floor exercise โฆ Hobbies include shopping, hanging out with friends, listening to music and going to the beach โฆ Admires basketball player Skylar Diggins โฆ Names her greatest athletic thrill as placing seventh at the 2012 JO National Championships โฆ Helped mentor a class of elementary school children in Liberia, Africa during the summer โฆ Full name is Rechelle Alyse Dennis โฆ Parents: Rich and Martha Dennis โฆ Has an older sister, Julienne, and two younger sisters, Sophia and Isabella โฆ Born in Long Island, N.Y. โฆ Political Science major.
