Saturday, January 11
Oklahoma City, Okla.
5:00 PM (PT)
UCLA
vs
Arkansas
Ciena Alipio
Photo by: Jesus Ramirez
UCLA to Compete in Oklahoma City at Sprouts Collegiate Quad
January 07, 2025 | Gymnastics
No. 12 UCLA at Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quadย
vs. Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio State
Date: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 โ ย 7 pm CT/5 pm PT
Location: Oklahoma City, Okla. (Paycom Center)
TV: ESPN2
Live Stream: espn.com/watch
Live Stats: virti.us
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
BRUINS COMPETE AT SPROUTS COLLEGIATE QUAD SATURDAY NIGHTย
No. 12 UCLA (0-2) will compete in the most prestigious preseason meet of the collegiate season, the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad. The two-day, three-session, 12-team event will take place Jan. 10-11 at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. UCLA will participate in the last session on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 7pm CT/5pm PT against Arkansas, Kentucky and Ohio State, with the meet televised on ESPN2. All three of UCLA's opponents will be competing in their first meet of the season.ย
Session 1 on Jan. 10 at 8pm CT/6pm PT will feature No. 8 NC State, No. 13 Michigan, No. 14 Arizona and Clemson and will be televised on ACC Network. Session 2 with No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 LSU, No. 4 Utah and No. 6 California will take place on Jan. 11 at 3pm CT/1pm PT and will air on ABC. ย
ON THE BIG STAGEย
The Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad is the second consecutive podium meet for the Bruins, who opened at the American Gold Classic in Oceanside. The meet will be televised live on ESPN2. ย ย
BRUIN REUNIONS
Saturday's meet will match up Arkansas coaches Jordyn Wieber and Kyla Ross against their alma mater for the first time. Wieber spent six seasons on UCLA's staff - three as a student manager and three as a volunteer coach - before becoming the head coach at Arkansas in April of 2019. Ross joined the Arkansas staff as a volunteer coach in 2021-22 after completing her degree at UCLA and was promoted to assistant coach for the 2023 season. Wieber and Ross were teammates on the gold medal-winning 2012 U.S. Olympic team before going to UCLA. Wieber coached Ross at UCLA from 2017-19, and the two helped the Bruins win the 2018 NCAA title. Ross, a five-time NCAA champion, is UCLA's all-time leader in All-America honors with 24 and won the Honda Award in 2020.
UCLA graduate student Carissa Clay will be competing against her former team Kentucky. Clay was a four-year letterwinner for the Wildcats from 2021-24 and graduated from Kentucky last spring. She was accepted into UCLA's Graduate School of Education this summer and joined the Bruin squad in September. ย ย ย ย ย
UCLA GOES B1Gย
UCLA, who won 20 Pac-10/Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships between 1987-2024, enters its first year as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Bruins will have their first official Big Ten competition next week at Maryland but will see their first Big Ten opponent this weekend at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad in a non-conference matchup against Ohio State. The Buckeyes finished fourth at the 2024 Big Ten Championships.
UCLA leads all Big Ten institutions with 124 NCAA Championships, seven coming from women's gymnastics. ย ย ย
LAST TIME OUTย
UCLA opened its season with a third-place finish at the American Gold Classic in Oceanside Jan. 4, scoring 195.250. California took first place with a 196.275, and No. 19 Oregon State was second with a 195.775. Two early falls on uneven bars in rotation put the Bruins in a hole early on, and although they kept pace with the other two teams on the final three events, including posting the highest mark on floor exercise, the low mark of 48.200 on bars was too much to overcome. UCLA had meet-winning routines from Olympians Jordan Chiles (9.900 on vault) and Brooklyn Moors (9.900 on floor exercise) and two other 9.900 scores from Chiles on uneven bars and fellow Olympian Emma Malabuyo on balance beam. Freshman Macy McGowan competed on three events and contributed three scores of 9.775 or higher, including a 9.850 on vault.
GOLDEN GIRL RETURNS ย
Olympic gold medalist and two-time Olympian Jordan Chiles made her much-anticipated return to UCLA after a one-year absence to train for the Olympics. Chiles, who rejoined the team on Dec. 14 after the fall quarter ended, has jumped right in with the Bruin squad, competing in three events in the season opener despite limited training time. She earned her first victory of the season with a first-place score of 9.900 on vault. She also posted a 9.900 on uneven bars to tie for third place and debuted a new floor routine that was finalized just that week and scored 9.775. During Chiles' last NCAA season in 2023, she captured the NCAA uneven bars and floor exercise titles and helped lead UCLA to a fifth-place NCAA finish and Pac-12 regular season co-championship.ย
GIMME MOORS ย
2020 Canadian Olympian Brooklyn Moors competed on three events for the first time since Feb. 27, 2022. The graduate student has been mostly a floor specialist the last two seasons while dealing with injuries but has come in strong for her final season, adding vault and beam back into her repertoire. Moors won floor exercise at the season opener with a 9.900 and scored 9.825 on just her second beam routine in three years. She currently ranks third in the nation on floor ย ย
BRUIN DEBUTS ย
Three Bruins made their collegiate debuts last week, with sophomore Sydney Barros and freshmen Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin seeing action in the season opener. Barros, who had not competed in a year and a half after suffering a torn ACL in the summer of 2023, earned a spot in the lineup on uneven bars and contributed a 9.550. McGowan had a strong first meet, earning Top 10 finishes on all three events on which she competed, scoring 9.850 on vault, 9.800 on bars and 9.775 on floor. Webster-Longin showed all four events, competing on vault and floor and performing exhibition routines on bars and beam. She produced UCLA's second-highest mark on floor with a 9.825 and added a 9.775 on her exhibition bars. ย ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGS ย
UCLA has seven gymnasts ranked in the Top 25 of the week one national rankings, which are based on average score. Jordan Chiles is Top 10 on vault (ninth) and bars (seventh). Brooklyn Moors has UCLA's highest individual ranking, tying for third on floor. Three Bruins are ranked on vault and beam, with Chae Campbell and Macy McGowan joining Chiles on vault at 15th and Ciena Alipio and Emily Lee joining Malabuyo on beam at 23rd. As a team, UCLA ranks in the Top 10 on three events - vault (eighth), beam (10th) and floor (sixth). ย ย
CONSISTENCY QUEENS ย
Emily Lee and Madisyn Anyimi enter 2025 having hit every routine in their UCLA careers. Lee has hit all 81 of her routines without a fall, most coming in the leadoff spot, while Anyimi has hit 19-of-19. Katelyn Rosen began her career hitting her first 42 routines before a fluke fall on bars in the Bruins' last meet a year ago. ย ย ย ย
SUPER SENIORS
The Bruins return the services of two fifth-year seniors in Chae Campbell and Frida Esparza for their extra year of Covid-19 eligibility. Campbell is an eight-time All-American, three-time perfect 10 scorer on floor and the 2021 Pac-12 floor exercise co-champion and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. Esparza earned all-conference honors on uneven bars as a freshman and owns career-highs of 9.950 on bars and 9.900 on beam. ย ย
BARROS IS BACK ย
Sophomore Sydney Barros is back in action for her first year of competition in collegiate gymnastics. The 2023 Puerto Rican all-around national champion and World Championships qualifier missed the 2024 NCAA season after tearing her ACL at the 2023 Central American Games and made her Bruin competitive debut at the American Gold Classic, scoring 9.550 on uneven bars. Barros is a former three-time U.S. National Team member and bronze medalist at the 2019 Junior World Championships. ย ย
BABY BRUINSย
UCLA welcomes a five-member freshman class in 2025, led by three-time Level 10 National champions Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin. McGowan won the all-around, vault and floor at both the 2024 Nationals and Region 1 Championships. Webster-Longin was the 2023 all-around, bars and floor Level 10 national champion. She spent her 2024 competing elite with the Belgian National Team, seeing action at the DtB Pokal Competition in Germany and at the European Championships in Italy. Sasha Fujisaka brings in four years of experience at Level 10 Nationals, as well as a perfect 10 score on uneven bars and four Region 1 titles. Bronwyn Hoffman is a two-time Level 10 Nationals competitor and 2023 Region 1 all-around medalist. Riley Jenkins is coming off a strong 2024 season, placing second in the all-around at the 2024 Level 10 All-Stars, second on vault and floor at the Region 1 Championships and winning the state all-around, vault and floor titles. ย ย ย ย ย
NEW STAFF ย
Joining head coach Janelle McDonald and assistant coach BJ Das on the Bruin coaching staff in 2025 are assistant coaches Mark Freeman and Lacy Dagen. Freeman comes to UCLA from Stanford, where he served as an assistant coach of the four-time defending national championship men's team. He coached 2024 Olympic bronze medalists Brody Malone and Asher Hong, as well as 2020 Olympic alternates Akash Modi and Brandon Briones. Dagen was an assistant coach at Arizona State in 2024, helping guide the Sun Devils to the NCAA Regional final and No. 16 national finish. She also coached at her alma mater Oregon State in 2023, as well as at UC Davis in 2022.ย
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR ย ย
The Bruin roster is filled with gymnasts who have represented their countries in international competition. Emma Malabuyo represented the Philippines at the 2024 Olympics and was the 2024 Asian Championships floor exercise champion and all-around bronze medalist. Brooklyn Moors competed at the 2020 Olympics for Canada and was an all-around and floor finalist at three World Championships. Frida Esparza competed for Mexico at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. Sydney Barros qualified for the 2023 World Championships for Puerto Rico and was previously a three-time U.S. National Team member. Freshman Mika Webster-Longin competed with Belgium at the 2024 European Championships. Other U.S. National Team competitors were Ciena Alipio, Emily Lee and Katelyn Rosen.ย
THE GRADUATESย
UCLA has four graduate students on the 2025 roster. Chae Campbell and Carissa Clay are enrolled in UCLA's Transformative Coaching and Leadership program in the School of Education. Frida Esparza is pursuing a postgraduate certificate in marketing, and Brooklyn Moors is pursuing a postgraduate certificate in project management. ย ย
ABOUT THE BRUINS ย
UCLA is led by three Olympians in Jordan Chiles, Emma Malabuyo and Brooklyn Moors, an eight-time All-American in Chae Campbell, and all-conference gymnasts Frida Esparza and Katelyn Rosen. The Bruins, who were affected by Olympic deferrals and absences, finished 17th last season but regain the services of Olympic champion Jordan Chiles, who missed all of 2024 while training for her second Olympic Games, and World Championships qualifier Sydney Barros, who redshirted in 2024 due to injury. UCLA also gains a strong freshman class, led by three-time Level 10 national champions Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin.ย
PRESEASON POLLS AND LISTS ย
UCLA enters the 2025 season ranked No. 10 in the preseason rankings, as voted upon by the coaches of the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). The Bruins have received a Top 10 preseason ranking in every preseason poll of record since 1997. The Big Ten Conference also announced its preseason poll and Watch List. UCLA was picked to finish second in the preseason Coaches' poll, and Jordan Chiles and Emma Malabuyo were named to the Watch List. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES ย
Seven returners and 10 Bruins overall earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors in 2024. Graduate Brooklyn Moors (sociology) and seniors Mia Erdoes (business economics), Emily Lee (physiological science) and Emma Malabuyo (communication) all earned their third-straight honor. Junior Maddie Anyimi (applied mathematics) and senior Chae Campbell (communication) received their second Scholastic All-America distinction, while sophomore Katelyn Rosen (undeclared) earned her first. The WCGA Scholastic All-America team recognizes gymnasts who carry a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade point average or a 3.5 grade point average for the academic year. Additionally, Malabuyo and Moors earned Academic All-District honors, and graduate Frida Esparza (political science) joined the aforementioned seven in receiving Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll acclaim.ย
UCLA SIGNS STELLAR CLASS FOR 2026ย
The Bruins signed four standouts for the 2026 season โ Tiana Sumanasekera, Nola Matthews, Jordis Eichman and Ava-Marie Callahan. Sumanasekera has been one of the United States' top senior gymnasts the last two years, finishing eighth in the all-around at the U.S. Championships in both 2023 and 2024 and earning a spot as a non-traveling alternate at the 2024 Olympics. She won three gold medals (team, all-around and beam) and a silver on floor exercise at the 2023 Pan American Championships. Matthews made her senior elite debut at the 2022 Winter Cup, winning gold on uneven bars and placing fifth in the all-around. She also earned a silver medal on bars at the 2022 U.S. Classic and was fourth on bars at the U.S. Championships that year. A U.S. National Team member from 2021-23, Matthews was awarded USA Gymnastics' Sportsperson of the Year award in 2023 and 2024. Eichman made a strong impression in her first elite meet, placing seventh in the all-around and fifth on balance beam at the 2023 Winter Cup. Prior to qualifying as an elite, she was a standout Level 10 gymnast, winning beam and placing fourth in the all-around and bars at the Development Program Nationals in 2022. Callahan has qualified for the last three Development Program Nationals, winning bronze on uneven bars in 2023 and placing fifth on vault in 2022. ย ย ย ย ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will open Big Ten play on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Maryland. The 7:30pm ET meet will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus.ย
vs. Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio State
Date: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 โ ย 7 pm CT/5 pm PT
Location: Oklahoma City, Okla. (Paycom Center)
TV: ESPN2
Live Stream: espn.com/watch
Live Stats: virti.us
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
BRUINS COMPETE AT SPROUTS COLLEGIATE QUAD SATURDAY NIGHTย
No. 12 UCLA (0-2) will compete in the most prestigious preseason meet of the collegiate season, the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad. The two-day, three-session, 12-team event will take place Jan. 10-11 at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. UCLA will participate in the last session on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 7pm CT/5pm PT against Arkansas, Kentucky and Ohio State, with the meet televised on ESPN2. All three of UCLA's opponents will be competing in their first meet of the season.ย
Session 1 on Jan. 10 at 8pm CT/6pm PT will feature No. 8 NC State, No. 13 Michigan, No. 14 Arizona and Clemson and will be televised on ACC Network. Session 2 with No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 LSU, No. 4 Utah and No. 6 California will take place on Jan. 11 at 3pm CT/1pm PT and will air on ABC. ย
ON THE BIG STAGEย
The Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad is the second consecutive podium meet for the Bruins, who opened at the American Gold Classic in Oceanside. The meet will be televised live on ESPN2. ย ย
BRUIN REUNIONS
Saturday's meet will match up Arkansas coaches Jordyn Wieber and Kyla Ross against their alma mater for the first time. Wieber spent six seasons on UCLA's staff - three as a student manager and three as a volunteer coach - before becoming the head coach at Arkansas in April of 2019. Ross joined the Arkansas staff as a volunteer coach in 2021-22 after completing her degree at UCLA and was promoted to assistant coach for the 2023 season. Wieber and Ross were teammates on the gold medal-winning 2012 U.S. Olympic team before going to UCLA. Wieber coached Ross at UCLA from 2017-19, and the two helped the Bruins win the 2018 NCAA title. Ross, a five-time NCAA champion, is UCLA's all-time leader in All-America honors with 24 and won the Honda Award in 2020.
UCLA graduate student Carissa Clay will be competing against her former team Kentucky. Clay was a four-year letterwinner for the Wildcats from 2021-24 and graduated from Kentucky last spring. She was accepted into UCLA's Graduate School of Education this summer and joined the Bruin squad in September. ย ย ย ย ย
UCLA GOES B1Gย
UCLA, who won 20 Pac-10/Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships between 1987-2024, enters its first year as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Bruins will have their first official Big Ten competition next week at Maryland but will see their first Big Ten opponent this weekend at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad in a non-conference matchup against Ohio State. The Buckeyes finished fourth at the 2024 Big Ten Championships.
UCLA leads all Big Ten institutions with 124 NCAA Championships, seven coming from women's gymnastics. ย ย ย
LAST TIME OUTย
UCLA opened its season with a third-place finish at the American Gold Classic in Oceanside Jan. 4, scoring 195.250. California took first place with a 196.275, and No. 19 Oregon State was second with a 195.775. Two early falls on uneven bars in rotation put the Bruins in a hole early on, and although they kept pace with the other two teams on the final three events, including posting the highest mark on floor exercise, the low mark of 48.200 on bars was too much to overcome. UCLA had meet-winning routines from Olympians Jordan Chiles (9.900 on vault) and Brooklyn Moors (9.900 on floor exercise) and two other 9.900 scores from Chiles on uneven bars and fellow Olympian Emma Malabuyo on balance beam. Freshman Macy McGowan competed on three events and contributed three scores of 9.775 or higher, including a 9.850 on vault.
GOLDEN GIRL RETURNS ย
Olympic gold medalist and two-time Olympian Jordan Chiles made her much-anticipated return to UCLA after a one-year absence to train for the Olympics. Chiles, who rejoined the team on Dec. 14 after the fall quarter ended, has jumped right in with the Bruin squad, competing in three events in the season opener despite limited training time. She earned her first victory of the season with a first-place score of 9.900 on vault. She also posted a 9.900 on uneven bars to tie for third place and debuted a new floor routine that was finalized just that week and scored 9.775. During Chiles' last NCAA season in 2023, she captured the NCAA uneven bars and floor exercise titles and helped lead UCLA to a fifth-place NCAA finish and Pac-12 regular season co-championship.ย
GIMME MOORS ย
2020 Canadian Olympian Brooklyn Moors competed on three events for the first time since Feb. 27, 2022. The graduate student has been mostly a floor specialist the last two seasons while dealing with injuries but has come in strong for her final season, adding vault and beam back into her repertoire. Moors won floor exercise at the season opener with a 9.900 and scored 9.825 on just her second beam routine in three years. She currently ranks third in the nation on floor ย ย
BRUIN DEBUTS ย
Three Bruins made their collegiate debuts last week, with sophomore Sydney Barros and freshmen Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin seeing action in the season opener. Barros, who had not competed in a year and a half after suffering a torn ACL in the summer of 2023, earned a spot in the lineup on uneven bars and contributed a 9.550. McGowan had a strong first meet, earning Top 10 finishes on all three events on which she competed, scoring 9.850 on vault, 9.800 on bars and 9.775 on floor. Webster-Longin showed all four events, competing on vault and floor and performing exhibition routines on bars and beam. She produced UCLA's second-highest mark on floor with a 9.825 and added a 9.775 on her exhibition bars. ย ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGS ย
UCLA has seven gymnasts ranked in the Top 25 of the week one national rankings, which are based on average score. Jordan Chiles is Top 10 on vault (ninth) and bars (seventh). Brooklyn Moors has UCLA's highest individual ranking, tying for third on floor. Three Bruins are ranked on vault and beam, with Chae Campbell and Macy McGowan joining Chiles on vault at 15th and Ciena Alipio and Emily Lee joining Malabuyo on beam at 23rd. As a team, UCLA ranks in the Top 10 on three events - vault (eighth), beam (10th) and floor (sixth). ย ย
CONSISTENCY QUEENS ย
Emily Lee and Madisyn Anyimi enter 2025 having hit every routine in their UCLA careers. Lee has hit all 81 of her routines without a fall, most coming in the leadoff spot, while Anyimi has hit 19-of-19. Katelyn Rosen began her career hitting her first 42 routines before a fluke fall on bars in the Bruins' last meet a year ago. ย ย ย ย
SUPER SENIORS
The Bruins return the services of two fifth-year seniors in Chae Campbell and Frida Esparza for their extra year of Covid-19 eligibility. Campbell is an eight-time All-American, three-time perfect 10 scorer on floor and the 2021 Pac-12 floor exercise co-champion and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. Esparza earned all-conference honors on uneven bars as a freshman and owns career-highs of 9.950 on bars and 9.900 on beam. ย ย
BARROS IS BACK ย
Sophomore Sydney Barros is back in action for her first year of competition in collegiate gymnastics. The 2023 Puerto Rican all-around national champion and World Championships qualifier missed the 2024 NCAA season after tearing her ACL at the 2023 Central American Games and made her Bruin competitive debut at the American Gold Classic, scoring 9.550 on uneven bars. Barros is a former three-time U.S. National Team member and bronze medalist at the 2019 Junior World Championships. ย ย
BABY BRUINSย
UCLA welcomes a five-member freshman class in 2025, led by three-time Level 10 National champions Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin. McGowan won the all-around, vault and floor at both the 2024 Nationals and Region 1 Championships. Webster-Longin was the 2023 all-around, bars and floor Level 10 national champion. She spent her 2024 competing elite with the Belgian National Team, seeing action at the DtB Pokal Competition in Germany and at the European Championships in Italy. Sasha Fujisaka brings in four years of experience at Level 10 Nationals, as well as a perfect 10 score on uneven bars and four Region 1 titles. Bronwyn Hoffman is a two-time Level 10 Nationals competitor and 2023 Region 1 all-around medalist. Riley Jenkins is coming off a strong 2024 season, placing second in the all-around at the 2024 Level 10 All-Stars, second on vault and floor at the Region 1 Championships and winning the state all-around, vault and floor titles. ย ย ย ย ย
NEW STAFF ย
Joining head coach Janelle McDonald and assistant coach BJ Das on the Bruin coaching staff in 2025 are assistant coaches Mark Freeman and Lacy Dagen. Freeman comes to UCLA from Stanford, where he served as an assistant coach of the four-time defending national championship men's team. He coached 2024 Olympic bronze medalists Brody Malone and Asher Hong, as well as 2020 Olympic alternates Akash Modi and Brandon Briones. Dagen was an assistant coach at Arizona State in 2024, helping guide the Sun Devils to the NCAA Regional final and No. 16 national finish. She also coached at her alma mater Oregon State in 2023, as well as at UC Davis in 2022.ย
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR ย ย
The Bruin roster is filled with gymnasts who have represented their countries in international competition. Emma Malabuyo represented the Philippines at the 2024 Olympics and was the 2024 Asian Championships floor exercise champion and all-around bronze medalist. Brooklyn Moors competed at the 2020 Olympics for Canada and was an all-around and floor finalist at three World Championships. Frida Esparza competed for Mexico at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. Sydney Barros qualified for the 2023 World Championships for Puerto Rico and was previously a three-time U.S. National Team member. Freshman Mika Webster-Longin competed with Belgium at the 2024 European Championships. Other U.S. National Team competitors were Ciena Alipio, Emily Lee and Katelyn Rosen.ย
THE GRADUATESย
UCLA has four graduate students on the 2025 roster. Chae Campbell and Carissa Clay are enrolled in UCLA's Transformative Coaching and Leadership program in the School of Education. Frida Esparza is pursuing a postgraduate certificate in marketing, and Brooklyn Moors is pursuing a postgraduate certificate in project management. ย ย
ABOUT THE BRUINS ย
UCLA is led by three Olympians in Jordan Chiles, Emma Malabuyo and Brooklyn Moors, an eight-time All-American in Chae Campbell, and all-conference gymnasts Frida Esparza and Katelyn Rosen. The Bruins, who were affected by Olympic deferrals and absences, finished 17th last season but regain the services of Olympic champion Jordan Chiles, who missed all of 2024 while training for her second Olympic Games, and World Championships qualifier Sydney Barros, who redshirted in 2024 due to injury. UCLA also gains a strong freshman class, led by three-time Level 10 national champions Macy McGowan and Mika Webster-Longin.ย
PRESEASON POLLS AND LISTS ย
UCLA enters the 2025 season ranked No. 10 in the preseason rankings, as voted upon by the coaches of the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). The Bruins have received a Top 10 preseason ranking in every preseason poll of record since 1997. The Big Ten Conference also announced its preseason poll and Watch List. UCLA was picked to finish second in the preseason Coaches' poll, and Jordan Chiles and Emma Malabuyo were named to the Watch List. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES ย
Seven returners and 10 Bruins overall earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors in 2024. Graduate Brooklyn Moors (sociology) and seniors Mia Erdoes (business economics), Emily Lee (physiological science) and Emma Malabuyo (communication) all earned their third-straight honor. Junior Maddie Anyimi (applied mathematics) and senior Chae Campbell (communication) received their second Scholastic All-America distinction, while sophomore Katelyn Rosen (undeclared) earned her first. The WCGA Scholastic All-America team recognizes gymnasts who carry a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade point average or a 3.5 grade point average for the academic year. Additionally, Malabuyo and Moors earned Academic All-District honors, and graduate Frida Esparza (political science) joined the aforementioned seven in receiving Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll acclaim.ย
UCLA SIGNS STELLAR CLASS FOR 2026ย
The Bruins signed four standouts for the 2026 season โ Tiana Sumanasekera, Nola Matthews, Jordis Eichman and Ava-Marie Callahan. Sumanasekera has been one of the United States' top senior gymnasts the last two years, finishing eighth in the all-around at the U.S. Championships in both 2023 and 2024 and earning a spot as a non-traveling alternate at the 2024 Olympics. She won three gold medals (team, all-around and beam) and a silver on floor exercise at the 2023 Pan American Championships. Matthews made her senior elite debut at the 2022 Winter Cup, winning gold on uneven bars and placing fifth in the all-around. She also earned a silver medal on bars at the 2022 U.S. Classic and was fourth on bars at the U.S. Championships that year. A U.S. National Team member from 2021-23, Matthews was awarded USA Gymnastics' Sportsperson of the Year award in 2023 and 2024. Eichman made a strong impression in her first elite meet, placing seventh in the all-around and fifth on balance beam at the 2023 Winter Cup. Prior to qualifying as an elite, she was a standout Level 10 gymnast, winning beam and placing fourth in the all-around and bars at the Development Program Nationals in 2022. Callahan has qualified for the last three Development Program Nationals, winning bronze on uneven bars in 2023 and placing fifth on vault in 2022. ย ย ย ย ย
LOOKING AHEAD
The Bruins will open Big Ten play on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Maryland. The 7:30pm ET meet will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus.ย
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