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 UCLA’s NCAA, NCAA Regional and Pac-12 Championship squad … 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 … Performed exhibition routines on bars five times, with a high of 9.85 against Arizona, a score that would have matched her career-high … 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 … 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 … 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 … Made her competitive debut on bars vs. Oregon State, scoring 9.725 … Averaged 9.7125 in four exhibition bars performances prior to her competitive debut, with a high of 9.8 set at Cal … 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 … Also performed an exhibition on bars at ASU and scored 9.675.
Club
Five-time JO National Championships qualifier (2010-14) … Highest finish was seventh in the all-around and uneven bars and fifth on floor exercise at the 2012 JO Nationals … Placed ninth on floor at the 2014 JO Nationals … Uneven bars and floor champion at the 2012 Region 6 Championships … Repeated as floor champion and also won the all-around at the 2013 Region 6 Championships … New York State all-around, bars and floor champion in 2013 … Won the uneven bars titles at the 2014 state and region meets … Trained at Gold Medal Gymnastics Huntington.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is floor exercise … Hobbies include shopping, hanging out with friends, listening to music and going to the beach … Admires basketball player Skylar Diggins … Names her greatest athletic thrill as placing seventh at the 2012 JO National Championships … Helped mentor a class of elementary school children in Liberia, Africa during the summer … Full name is Rechelle Alyse Dennis … Parents: Rich and Martha Dennis … Has an older sister, Julienne, and two younger sisters, Sophia and Isabella … Born in Long Island, N.Y. … Political Science major.
