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UCLA Travels to Stanford Sunday, Hosts SJSU Tuesday
March 09, 2018 | Gymnastics
No. 3 UCLA at Stanford
Sunday, Mar. 11, 2018 โ 1 p.m. (PT)
Stanford, Calif. (Maples Pavilion)
Television: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson (play-by-play), Amanda Borden (analyst)
Live Stats: gostanford.com
Tickets: Free Admission
No. 3 UCLA vs. San Jose State
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2018 โ 7 p.m. (PT)
Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion)
Television: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Jim Watson (play-by-play), Amanda Borden (analyst)
Live Stats: uclabruins.com
Tickets: $12 (UCLA students are free)
Ticket Promotion: $3 ticket with promo code GOBRUINS
Postmeet Autographs: Sophomore class
Giveaways: Wahoo's Tacos free taco coupon
UCLA HEADS NORTH FOR SUNDAY DUAL AT STANFORD
No. 3 UCLA (13-2) will travel to the Bay Area for a Sunday afternoon dual meet at Stanford (8-10) on Mar. 11 at 1pm. The meet will take place at Maples Pavilion and will be televised live on Pac-12 Network. Admission is free.
ABOUT THE CARDINAL
Stanford holds a season-high score of 196.425, set Feb. 17 against Cal. The Cardinal is just out of the Top 25 in the national rankings, checking in at No. 27. The team's lone senior, Elizabeth Price is ranked No. 2 in the nation in the all-around with a RQS of 39.645. She holds a season-high all-around score of 39.775 and has scored a perfect 10 on bars and on floor. One of the most accomplished gymnasts in the nation, Price won the 2015 NCAA vault title and was the 2016 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and 2015 Pac-12 Specialist of the Year.
BRUIN SENIORS HONORED IN LAST HOME MEET TUESDAY NIGHT
Following the Stanford meet, the Bruins wrap up the regular season with a Tuesday, Mar. 13 meet against San Jose State in Pauley Pavilion. The Senior Day meet will air live on Pac-12 Network at 7pm. UCLA's senior gymnasts Rechelle Dennis, Napualani Hall, JaNay Honest, Christine Peng-Peng Lee and Sonya Meraz and managers Karli Dugas and Melissa Metcalf will be honored in postmeet ceremonies.
TICKETS AND PROMOTIONS
Tickets for the UCLA-San Jose State meet are on sale now at the UCLA Central Ticket Office and on Ticketmaster. Use the offer code "GOBRUINS" to unlock special $3 tickets. Senior citizens can get $1 tickets with the offer code "SENIORS". UCLA Faculty and Staff can receive four free admissions by showing UCLA ID at the door. Military service members and veterans can also receive free admission, plus four additional tickets for guests, by showing valid ID at the door. As always, UCLA students are free with ID and eligible to win a raffle prize each home meet. Following the senior ceremony, the Bruin sophomore class of Anna Glenn, Grace Glenn, Felicia Hano, Madison Kocian, Gracie Kramer, Giulianna Pino, Kyla Ross and Mercedez Sanchez will sign autographs on Wooden Way.
SCOUTING THE SPARTANS
San Jose State is coming off a season-high performance last week when it scored 195. 050 to win a home quad meet. Taylor Chan won vault and floor in that meet, scoring 9.875 and 9.9, respectively. San Jose State's seniors are Alisa Bogdan and Kaitlin Won. The Spartans will compete at Arizona on Saturday, Mar. 10 before visiting the Bruins.
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA improved its Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) to 197.650 but dropped one spot to No. 3 nationally behind Oklahoma and LSU. The RQS takes teams' Top 6 scores, three of which must be on the road, throwing out the high and averaging the remaining five. UCLA is No. 2 on balance beam and floor exercise, No. 3 on vault and No. 4 on uneven bars. Christine Peng-Peng Lee moved back into No. 1 on beam and is joined in the Top 10 by teammates Katelyn Ohashi (No. 3) and Grace Glenn (No. 7). Ohashi and Felicia Hano rank in the Top 10 on floor at No. 3 and No. 6, respectively. Kyla Ross and Lee rank in the Top 10 on bars at No. 3 and No. 8, respectively, and Ross also stands at No. 6 in the all-around. Napualani Hall ranks No. 9 on vault.
UCLA WINS MASTERS CLASSIC
UCLA won the Masters Classic title with a score of 197.500, outscoring host Nebraska (197.175), Iowa State (195.575) and Kent State (194.700) to become the first visiting team in 25 years to win the tournament. The Bruins earned nine scores of 9.9 or better, including first-place scores of 9.95 from Kyla Ross on uneven bars, Christine Peng-Peng Lee on balance beam and Felicia Hano and Katelyn Ohashi on floor exercise. Ross won the all-around with a 39.575. UCLA set a new meet record on uneven bars with a 49.475 and tied the meet record on floor with a 49.575.
BRUINS BREAK 198 BARRIER
UCLA broke through the 198 barrier for the first time this season on Feb. 25, defeating Oregon State, 198.075-196.525. The Bruins actually got off to a slow start, trailing the Beavers after one rotation, 49.15-49.125. After rallying with a 49.45 on bars in rotation two, UCLA scored an astronomical 99.5 points in the final two rotations, going 49.725 on beam despite a fall in the leadoff position and 49.775 on floor. The beam score tied UCLA's all-time record, set on Feb. 16, 2003 at Arizona State, and the floor score was the third-highest in school history and the highest in the nation on floor so far this season. UCLA scored four 9.975s during the meet (Kyla Ross on bars; Katelyn Ohashi and Christine Peng-Peng Lee on beam; and Nia Dennis on floor) and closed the competition with a 10.0 on floor by Ohashi.
BEAM QUEENS
UCLA ranks No. 2 in the nation on balance beam with a RQS of 49.520 and season average of 49.419. The Bruins have a national-best three gymnasts in the Top 10 - No. 1 Christine Peng-Peng Lee (9.960), No. 3 Katelyn Ohashi (9.930) and No. 7 Grace Glenn (9.915). Reigning NCAA beam champion Kyla Ross ranks 21st (9.890). All six gymnasts who have been regulars in the beam lineup have scored at least 9.9 this year. Brielle Nguyen has a career-best of 9.9 in the leadoff position. Madison Kocian has a season-high of 9.925 and career-high of 9.95. Grace Glenn has scored 9.95 three times this year. Ohashi has scored two perfect 10s in her career and has a season-high of 9.975. Ross also has two career perfect 10s and a season-best of 9.975, and Lee has scored three beam 10s, including two this year.
FLOORS UP
UCLA's highest season average on any one event is 49.447, on floor exercise. The Bruins have scored 49.4 or higher in six meets, with a national season-high of 49.775 set Feb. 25 vs. Oregon State. That mark was the third-highest floor score in school history and the highest since the Bruins scored a school record 49.875 on Feb. 22, 2004. Every Bruin in the lineup scored 9.9 or above to achieve the 49.775 team score - Madison Kocian with a 9.9 leadoff on her first floor routine of the season, Gracie Kramer with a career-high 9.95, Kyla Ross with a career-high-tying 9.9, Nia Dennis with a career-high 9.975, Felicia Hano with a 9.95 and Katelyn Ohashi with her second perfect 10 of the year. Four Bruins have season averages of 9.875 or better on floor this year - Hano (9.932), Ohashi (9.909), Napualani Hall (9.9), Kocian (9.9) and Ross (9.886). UCLA tumbling on floor has been impressive, with Gracie Kramer doing a front double full-punch front, Kocian with a front double full, Ross starting with a whip-double back, Hall a 1.5 through to a double back, Hano and Ohashi starting with double layouts, Dennis with a piked full-in and Pauline Tratz with a tucked full-in.
LEE TIES RECORD FOR PAC-12 SPECIALIST OF WEEK
With four wins this season and eight in her career, UCLA senior Christine Peng-Peng Lee has tied the record for most career Pac-12 Specialist of the Week awards. She shares the record with UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa and Utah's Georgia Dabritz. UCLA had won the first eight Specialist of the Week awards until this week when the Bruins' streak of 13 consecutive wins was snapped. However, the eight wins is already the most by any program ever in one season. In addition to Lee's four awards, Katelyn Ohashi, Napualani Hall, Grace Glenn and Felicia Hano have each won once.
PERFECT 10 NOTES
Katelyn Ohashi is the first Bruin to score two 10s on floor in a season since Tasha Schwikert in 2005 โฆ Ohashi is just the fourth Bruin ever to score a perfect 10 on both beam and floor, joining Kristen Maloney, Mohini Bhardwaj and Kate Richardson โฆ The three 10s scored by the Bruins' Christine Peng-Peng Lee (beam), Felicia Hano (floor) and Ohashi (floor) on Feb. 4 were the most in a single meet since three were scored on Mar. 7, 2004 by Jeanette Antolin (vault and floor) and Yvonne Tousek (bars) โฆ Hano and Ohashi became the first pair of Bruins to score back-to-back 10s on floor since Richardson and Antolin on Feb. 22, 2004 โฆ The six 10s were the most in Pauley Pavilion since there were eight scored by five gymnasts at the 2002 UCLA Invitational, including three by UCLA's Jamie Dantzscher โฆ Lee scored her second consecutive perfect 10 on beam, joining Ohashi as the only Bruins ever to record perfect 10s on beam in consecutive meets โฆ Lee has three perfect 10s on beam in her career, one off the school record of four set by Richardson โฆ Lee's five overall perfect 10s is tied for sixth-most in school history โฆ Around the country, Hano had the first perfect 10 of the season on floor, and Ohashi is the first gymnast to record multiple 10s on floor this year โฆ Lee was the first gymnast in the nation to record multiple 10s on beam this season.
HONORING A LEGACY
Felicia Hano's floor exercise routine this season is a legacy routine originally performed by All-American Sydney Sawa in 2014 and passed down to Hano. Sawa scored a perfect 10 on that routine on Feb. 22, 2014 and was, in fact, the last UCLA gymnast to score a perfect 10 on floor until Hano did it with the same routine on Feb. 4, 2018. Hano leads UCLA this season with a 9.932 season average on floor.
DENNIS GOES FULL IN
Freshman Nia Dennis had a breakthrough on floor exercise on Feb. 25, scoring a career-high 9.975 after changing her first tumbling pass to a piked full-in. Dennis had been competing a double Arabian for her opening pass but had problems with consistency on the landing. She changed to a piked full-in a few days later in training and then hit it successfully in competition. In her last three meets, Dennis has scored career-highs on vault (perfect 9.95), bars (9.925) and floor (9.975).
SEEING DOUBLE
Identical twins Anna and Grace Glenn competed in a meet together for the first time as Bruins on Feb. 10 at Cal. Anna made her collegiate competitive debut on vault, scoring 9.8. Grace, who has competed on beam in every meet this year, tied for first place on beam with a career-high-tying 9.95 to capture her second beam victory of the season. Both competed again on Feb. 18 against Utah, with Anna scoring 9.8s on vault and on exhibition bars and beam performances and Grace scoring 9.875 on beam. Anna made her competitive debut on bars on Feb. 25, scoring 9.875 to tie for third place, and she has competed on vault in each of the last four meets, with a career-high of 9.875 set Mar. 4. The twins sat out all of last season with torn labrums, which were injured on the same skill in preseason.
KOCIAN BACK ON TWO EVENTS
Two-time Olympic medalist and three-time World champion Madison Kocian took another big step forward in her recovery process, competing on floor exercise for the first time on Feb. 25 and scoring 9.9. Kocian, who has been competing on beam since Jan. 20, is also now cleared to train on uneven bars. The four-time All-American has competed in the last seven meets on balance beam and scored 9.875 or higher four times, with a season-high of 9.925 at Cal on Feb. 10. Kocian had an impressive freshman campaign despite competing with a torn labrum that she suffered at the 2016 Olympic Trials. She competed in the all-around in all but two meets in 2017 and amassed a total of 16 individual victories, including the NCAA Regional bars and floor titles.
FOLLOW THE LEADOFF
Nia Dennis put the lead in leadoff against Utah Feb. 18, starting the Bruins out on both vault and uneven bars with meet-winning scores of 9.95 and 9.925, respectively. Dennis kicked off the meet with a perfect score on her Yurchenko layout full vault, which has a start value of 9.95, helping the Bruins take the first rotation lead with a 49.45. On uneven bars in rotation two, she led off with a career-high 9.925 to take first place and lead UCLA to a team score of 49.3. The event wins were the first of her career. Dennis also led off on bars on Feb. 25 against Oregon State and scored 9.9 to place second.
BY THE NUMBERS
UCLA has scored 49+ on beam in its last 22 meets and 49+ on floor in its last 16 meets โฆ The Bruins have scored 49.4 or better on beam in seven straight meets โฆ JaNay Honest has competed in 37 straight meets โฆ Christine Peng-Peng Lee has won beam in eight of her last nine meets dating back to last season โฆ Kyla Ross has scored 9.9 or higher on bars in 17 of her last 19 meets โฆ Since changing her last pass on floor exercise at the Metroplex Challenge, Katelyn Ohashi has averaged 9.970 with two 10s and a 9.975 โฆ Associate head coach Chris Waller improved to 3-1 in his career as acting head coach when he led the Bruins to a season-opening win over Ohio State as head coach Valorie Kondos Field was out with the flu.
KONDOS FIELD EARNS CAREER WIN 500
UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field surpassed 500 career coaching victories with the Bruins' win at Metroplex Jan. 27. The Pac-12 Gymnastics Coach of the Century now holds a career coaching record of 507-120-3 (.807) in 28 years as UCLA's head coach. Kondos Field has won six NCAA Championships and four national coach of the year honors, and in 2010, she became the second active coach ever to be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame.
PAULEY PACKED
Bruin fans have been attending home meets in record numbers this year. UCLA's average home attendance is currently 8,678, sixth-best in the nation and ahead of last year's program-best average of 7,568. A season-high 11,085 fans attended the UCLA-Utah meet on Feb. 18, and 9,611 came on Super Bowl Sunday to watch UCLA and Oklahoma in its Together We Rise meet.
FRESH FACES
UCLA's newcomers have been strong this season. Nia Dennis has averaged 39.233 in the all-around, with a high of 39.425 set Feb. 10 at Cal, where she also recorded career-highs on bars (9.9) and beam (9.875). She had a standout meet on Feb. 18 against Utah, scoring career-highs of 9.95 on vault and 9.925 on bars to win her first two career events, and she scored a career-high 9.975 on floor against Oregon State on Feb. 26. Pauline Tratz averages 9.850 on vault and 9.863 on floor and has career-highs of 9.925 on each event. Redshirt freshman Grace Glenn has competed on beam in each meet, averaging 9.861, and won Pac-12 Specialist of the Week honors after scoring a career-high 9.95 at Arizona. Anna Glenn has scored career-bests of 9.875 on vault and bars. Junior transfer Brielle Nguyen tied for second on beam with a 9.825 leadoff routine at Elevate the Stage in her UCLA competitive debut and tied her career-high with a 9.9 vs. Oklahoma. Savannah Kooyman made her competitive debut at the Metroplex Challenge and contributed a clutch 9.825 as the anchor on bars. Kooyman competed in two events at Cal, scoring a career-high 9.875 on bars and 9.825 in her floor debut.
ROLLING IN THE DEEP
UCLA continues to showcase its depth, competing 14 gymnasts against Utah and at Metroplex and a season-high 15 in the win at Cal. A total of 17 Bruins performed at Cal, with Mercedez Sanchez and Kendal Poston performing exhibition routines. At Arizona, 13 Bruins competed, with six different gymnasts taking home individual titles (Katelyn Ohashi in the all-around with a career-high 39.45 and on beam with a 9.95; Felicia Hano on vault and floor with 9.9s; Kyla Ross on bars with a 9.925, Grace Glenn and Christine Peng-Peng Lee tying for first with Ohashi on beam, and Pauline Tratz tying Hano for first on floor).
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