No. 4 UCLA Hosts No. 9 Michigan on Saturday

Saturday, February 14

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4:00 PM PT

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No. 4 UCLA Hosts No. 9 Michigan on Saturday

February 12, 2026 | Gymnastics

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No. 4 UCLA vs. No. 9 Michigan
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 – 4pm PT
Location: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial
Broadcast: B1G+
Talent: Evan Heiter, JaNay Honest
Live Stats: virti.us
Tickets: uclabruins.com/tickets; UCLA students free w/ valid Bruin Card
Theme: Alumni Meet

N0. 4 UCLA HOSTS NO. 9 MICHIGAN SATURDAY
No. 4 UCLA (8-2, 4-0 in the Big Ten) will host No. 9 Michigan (5-2, 2-2) in a Top 10 matchup on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 4pm PT. The meet will take place in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial and will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus.

ALUMNI MEET
UCLA Gymnastics will honor its alumni throughout Saturday's Alumni Meet. NCAA champion and Honda Award winner Peng-Peng Lee will sing the national anthem. Recent UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame inductee Brittani McCullough will be recognized before the third rotation, and all gymnastics alumni will be recognized on the floor at the conclusion of the meet. Additionally, UCLA's Honda Cup and Honda Award winners will be honored before the second rotation as UCLA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards. UCLA has had seven Honda Award winners in gymnastics - Sharon Shapiro (1981), Jill Andrews (1990), Mohini Bhardwaj (2001), Onnie Willis (2003), Kristen Maloney (2005), Peng-Peng Lee (2018) and Kyla Ross (2020).

ABOUT THE WOLVERINES
Michigan enters the week ranked No. 9 in the nation with an average team score of 197.035. The Wolverines rank No. 3 on beam with a 49.430 average and have scored as high as 49.650 on the event. They rank No. 11 on bars and No. 14 on vault and floor. Sophomore Kayli Boozer ranks sixth in the nation on beam with a 9.930 average and has won beam in five consecutive meets. The Wolverines have two gymnasts who remain from their 2021 NCAA Championship team - graduate students Carly Bauman and Reyna Guggino. Bauman won the Big Ten uneven bars title in 2023 and a NCAA Regional title on bars in 2025. Guggino made history in 2022 when she became just the second gymnast ever to score a leadoff 10 on vault. Michigan is led by first-year head coach Maile'ana Kanewa-Hermelyn.

LAST TIME OUT
UCLA maintained its unbeaten record in Big Ten Conference play with a 197.550-197.275 win at No. 17 Minnesota on Feb. 7. Jordan Chiles scored her third consecutive perfect 10 on floor exercise and her fourth 10 overall this season on her way to an all-around victory. The Bruins trailed after the first rotation, scoring 49.300 on bars to Minnesota's 49.425 on vault, but UCLA took a one-tenth lead after the second rotation by scoring 49.400 on vault to Minnesota's 49.175 on bars and added another tenth with a 49.425 on floor that was buoyed by Chiles' 10 and Ashlee Sullivan's 9.950. The Bruin beam squad sealed the victory with a 49.425 on floor. Katelyn Rosen and Sydney Barros set the tone with leadoff 9.900s, and Ciena Alipio closed with a 9.925 to secure the win.

CONSISTENCY IS KEY
UCLA has been a consistent force all season, averaging 197.404 as a team and averaging 49.300 or higher on all four events - 49.417 on beam, 49.363 on bars, 49.325 on floor and 49.300 on vault. The Bruins have scored 49 or higher on every event this year and have hit 143 of 144 routines on the year.

CHILES PERFECT FOR FOURTH-STRAIGHT MEET
For the fourth consecutive week, Jordan Chiles scored a perfect 10, earning her third consecutive 10 on floor exercise. Her first career 10 on vault on Jan. 17 started the streak. She now has 15 career 10s - one on vault, five on uneven bars and nine on floor exercise. She is now in sole possession of third place on UCLA's career perfect 10 list. Only Jamie Dantzscher (28) and Kyla Ross (22) have more. Chiles' nine floor 10s rank tied for second with Katelyn Ohashi, behind only Dantzscher, who had 14. Chiles is looking to become just the 15th gymnast in NCAA history to achieve a Gym Slam, which is a perfect 10 on all four events. Only two Bruins have done this - Kristen Maloney in 2005 and Ross in 2019. Chiles just needs a 10.0 on balance beam to join the exclusive group. In six meets this season, she has earned a 10 from one judge three times.

CHILES, SULLIVAN WIN BIG TEN WEEKLY HONORS
UCLA's Jordan Chiles and Ashlee Sullivan keep UCLA's Big Ten weekly awards streak alive, earning Gymnast and Freshman of the Week honors, respectively. Chiles earns her conference-record sixth consecutive award and remains the only gymnast in the Big Ten to win Gymnast of the Week honors this season. Sullivan receives her second Freshman of the Week award. With her sixth award in 2026, Chiles runs her career total of conference Gymnast of the Week awards to a UCLA record 17, including 12 in the Big Ten. She is one shy of the single-season school record of seven set by Kyla Ross in 2019 and the Big Ten single-season record set by Sierra Brooks of Michigan in 2024. Chiles won the all-around for the fourth consecutive week and fifth time overall this season, scoring 39.625. She recorded a perfect 10 for the fourth-straight week and third-straight time on floor exercise, bringing back her Prince routine from 2025 to Minneapolis, the home of the music icon. She also placed second on uneven bars with a 9.900 and third on vault with a 9.875. Chiles has accumulated 22 victories in six meets this year. Sullivan won the uneven bars and earned Top 3 finishes on three events at Minnesota. She scored a career-high 9.925 on uneven bars to take home her second bars victory of the year and finished in second place on floor exercise with a career-high-tying 9.950, her second-straight 9.950 on the event. She also tied for third on vault with a 9.875.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA moved up one spot to No. 4 in the national rankings after three-straight weeks atw No. 5. The Bruins are ranked in the Top 10 on all four events - No. 3 on bars, No. 4 on beam, No. 5 on vault and No. 8 on floor. Jordan Chiles remains No. 1 in the all-around and is Top 10 on every event - No. 2 on vault, bars and floor and No. 8 on beam. UCLA has three athletes ranked in the Top 25 on beam - No. 3 Ciena Alipio, No. 8 Chiles and No. 24 Sydney Barros. Tiana Sumanasekera ranks No. 14 in the all-around and is the second-highest ranked freshman in the nation.

BEST SHOW IN LA AND NATION-WIDE
UCLA Gymnastics is proving to be not only the Best Show in LA, but also nation-wide. The Bruins have been a part of three road meets with record-setting attendance - at Washington Jan. 2 (8,403), at Michigan State Jan. 25 (9,887), and at Minnesota Feb. 7 (5,081). UCLA's home opener on Jan. 13 was contested in front of 7,814 fans, a new record for a UCLA home opener. The Bruins' Feb. 22 meet at Illinois was moved to the Chase Center in anticipation of a large crowd. Last season, the Bruins competed in front of school record crowds at Maryland (7,287) and Ohio State (3,695) and in front of a sold-out crowd of 15,558 at Utah, as well as a crowd of 11,314 at Michigan.

DANCING AND GYMNASTICS QUEEN
Fresh off a third-place showing on Season 34 of "Dancing with the Stars" this fall, Jordan Chiles has dominated the NCAA Gymnastics season, ranking No. 1 in the nation in the all-around and earning Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honors for each of the first six weeks of the season. She kicked off her senior season on Jan. 3 with a show-stopping performance at the Best of the West Quad. Chiles placed first on all four events and won the all-around with a score of 39.725, UCLA's highest all-around score in a season opener since Kyla Ross also recorded that score in 2020. In week 2 at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad, she placed second in the all-around with a 39.575 and won floor exercise for the second-straight week with a 9.925. In week 3, she scored her first perfect 10 of the season and first career 10 on vault en route to winning the all-around with a 39.675 in the Bruins' home opener. And in week 4, she one-upped all of that by recording the highest all-around score in the nation - 39.875 - with a perfect 10 on floor, 9.975 on vault and 9.950s on bars and beam to lead UCLA to a season-high team total of 197.425. She matched her all-around score and scored another perfect 10 five days later, leading UCLA to its first 198 of the season (198.150). Chiles made it four meets in a row with a 10 on Feb. 7, bringing back her 2025 Prince floor routine at Minnesota for her 15th career perfect 10.

Dancing with pro Ezra Sosa this fall, Chiles became the first female gymnast to make the "Dancing with the Stars" finale since Laurie Hernandez in season 23 in 2016. Chiles competed on the show while simultaneously training for the 2026 gymnastics season and taking a full set of classes at UCLA. The two-time Olympian and 2024 gold medalist enters her senior year as a three-time NCAA Champion, 16-time All-American and reigning Big Ten floor exercise champion. Chiles has scored 15 perfect 10s in her career - nine on floor exercise, five on uneven bars and one on vault - and 26 9.975s. She holds career-highs of 10.0 on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise, 9.975 on balance beam and 39.900 in the all-around.

FROM BEAMER TO THREE-EVENT STAR
After competing exclusively on balance beam her first three seasons due to injuries, senior Ciena Alipio has taken the leap to multi-event star during her senior season, competing on floor exercise and uneven bars this season for the first time in her collegiate career. She made her floor exercise debut at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad on Jan. 10 and scored 9.800. She won two events a week later against Nebraska, scoring 9.975 on beam and a career-best 9.875 on floor. At Michigan State on Jan. 25, Alipio competed on three events for the first time, making her collegiate debut on uneven bars. She tied for third place on bars with a score of 9.875, scored 9.850 on floor exercise, then completed her day with a meet-winning beam score of 9.950. She improved on those marks five days later against Washington, scoring a leadoff 9.950 on bars, a meet-winning 9.950 on beam and a career-high 9.900 on floor to earn Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week honors for the third time. Alipio has won balance beam in four consecutive meets and has not scored lower than 9.925 all season. In the national rankings, she is currently ranked No. 3 on beam and was ranked as high as No. 7 on bars.

Alipio is a two-time first-team All-American on beam and won the Big Ten balance beam title in 2025 with her first career perfect 10. Prior to her senior season, the only other non-beam routine that she had performed in college came in an exhibition on floor exercise in the 2025 season opener. As an elite gymnast, Alipio placed third in the all-around at her last international event, the 2022 Arthur Gander Memorial in Switzerland. She was also ninth in the all-around and sixth on floor exercise at the 2022 U.S. Classic.

LEADOFF QUEEN
Junior Katelyn Rosen has taken over leadoff duties for the Bruins on as many as three events this season and has set the tone for some of UCLA's top performances on those events. On Jan. 30 against Washington, she led off on floor exercise with a season-high 9.925, paving the way for a team season-high total of 49.700, the highest floor score in the NCAA this season. Rosen also has lead-off high marks of 9.900 on balance beam twice and 9.875 on uneven bars. Her 9.900 on beam on Jan. 17 led to a team season-high of 49.625, and her 9.875 on bars on Jan. 10 led to the team's second-highest bars score, a 49.425. Rosen has competed on at least three events in every meet this season and competed in the all-around in the Bruins' first four meets, with a season-high of 39.325 and season average of 39.150. She holds a career all-around average of 39.332 and has hit 39+ in all 11 all-around attempts. In her last two meets, she has scored no lower than 9.850 on six routines, with three scores of 9.9 or higher.

BARROS RAISES THE BAR
Junior Sydney Barros, who missed all of 2024 while rehabbing a knee injury and competed just once in 2025, has made a huge splash the last three meets, with five of her eight routines scoring 9.900 or better. In her first extensive action of her career, she scored a pair of 9.900s on uneven bars and floor exercise and added a 9.850 in a beam exhibition to boot at Michigan State on Jan. 25. Barros was making just her third appearance in the competitive lineup on bars, and she finished in second place behind only Jordan Chiles' 9.950. Her floor routine marked her competitive debut, and she finished in fourth place. In the Bruins' home meet against Washington Jan. 30, she competed on three events and scored a career-highs on bars (9.925) and floor (9.900) and earned a 9.850 in her beam debut. On Feb. 7 at Minnesota, she contributed a third-place career-high mark of 9.900 and also scored 9.850 on uneven bars. Barros currently ranks No. 24 in the nation on beam and had been previously ranked on her other two events in the prior two weeks. Barros was the all-around champion at the 2023 Puerto Rican National Championships and placed eighth in the all-around at the 2023 Pan American Championships, qualifying to the World Championships. She was unable to compete at Worlds, however, after suffering a knee injury at the Central American Games.

SENIOR STRIDES FROM ANYIMI
Madisyn Anyimi is having a senior glow-up, recording career-best marks on three events, either in competition or in exhibition. Anyimi has seen the most competition time on vault, competing in five of six meets, and posted a career-high 9.900 on Jan. 30 against Washington to place second, her first career Top 3 finish on an event. Also in that meet, she scored a career-high 9.875 in a floor exercise exhibition. At Minnesota on Feb. 7, she scored another career-high in an exhibition, earning 9.875 on uneven bars. Anyimi enrolled at UCLA before walking onto the team in the 2023 season and has competed in 21 meets in her career, mostly on vault. She has hit all 25 routines she has competed, with highs of 9.900 on vault, 9.850 on bars in 2024 and 9.625 in her one floor appearance in 2023. Anyimi is a three-time WCGA Scholastic All-American, 2025 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award-winner and 2025 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar.

SUPER START BY SUMANASEKERA
Freshman Tiana Sumanasekera has had a superb start to her season, competing 23 of a possible 24 routines and competing in the all-around in five of the team's six meets. She scored season-highs of 39.425 in the all-around and 9.925 on floor in the Bruins' Jan. 30 meet against Washington. At Minnesota on Feb. 7, she earned UCLA's top mark on vault in the leadoff spot with a careeer-high 9.900. Sumanaskera ranks 14th nationally, third in the Big Ten and is the second-highest-ranked freshman in the nation in the all-around. The five-time U.S. National Team member and 2024 Olympic alternate has season-bests of 9.9 or higher on every event - 9.950 on beam, 9.925 on floor and 9.900 on vault and bars. In the season opener, Sumanasekera scored 9.950 on beam, the highest by a UCLA freshman in her collegiate debut in over 20 years, matching Tasha Schiwkert in 2005. Sumanasekera also became the first Bruin ever to win BIg Ten Freshman of the Week honors with her season-opening performance. In the home opener, she earned her first career victory, tying for first on floor with a 9.875.

SULLIVAN HITTING HER STRIDE
Freshman Ashlee Sullivan is hitting her stride, scoring career-high marks of 9.925 to win bars and 9.950 to place second on floor at Minnesota on Feb. 7. She has scored 9.950 on floor in two consecutive meets. Sullivan had her breakout meet on Jan. 17 against Nebraska, recording career-highs on all three events in which she competed and earning Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, her first of two so far this season. She won bars with a 9.900 and floor with a 9.875 and placed second on vault with a 9.900. Sullivan's event victories were the first of her career. She is now averaging over 9.825 on vault (9.838), bars (9.863) and floor (9.858) and ranks fifth in the Big Ten in the all-around.

FABULOUS FRESHMEN
UCLA's acclaimed freshman class has accounted for 38% (55 of 144) of the Bruins' routines so far in 2026, with Tiana Sumanasekera competing 23 routines, Ashlee Sullivan 19, Nola Matthews nine and Jordis Eichman four. Sumanasekera, a 2024 U.S. Olympic alternate, has contributed 21 9.8+ scores, including highs of 9.950 on beam, 9.925 on floor and 9.900 on vault and bars. She was the first Bruin underclassman to compete in the all-around this year and is averaging 39.375 in her five all-around appearances. Sullivan, fresh off a win at the Arthur Gander Memorial in November, has competed at least three events in every meet and made her all-around debut on Jan. 25, scoring 39.200. She has three event victories this season - two on bars and one on floor - and holds season-bests of 9.950 on floor, 9.925 on bars, 9.900 on vault and 9.775 on beam. Four-time U.S. National Team member Matthews has highs of 9.875 on bars and 9.850 on beam and is averaging 9.825 on bars. Jordis Eichman, who competed at the 2025 U.S. Championships, made her collegiate debut on Jan. 25 at Michigan State and scored 9.825 on beam and 9.750 on vault and added a 9.775 exhibition on bars. She earned her first Top 3 finish on Jan. 30 against Washington with a 9.875 on beam to place third.

SCHOLAR ATHLETES
UCLA Gymnastics earned a team GPA of 3.532 in the fall quarter, with 14 team members making the Director's Honor Roll (3.0 or higher term GPA in at least 12 units). Additionally, six Bruins earned 4.0s in the quarter.

ABOUT THE BRUINS
UCLA returns three-time NCAA Champion Jordan Chiles, All-American and Big Ten beam champion Ciena Alipio, all-conference performers Katelyn Rosen and Macy McGowan, and Big Ten All-Championships team member Mika Webster-Longin while welcoming U.S. National Team members in freshmen Nola Matthews, Ashlee Sullivan and Tiana Sumanasekera. The Bruins, under the direction of 2025 Big Ten Coach of the Year Janelle McDonald, are coming off a second-place finish at the NCAA Championships and an unbeaten Big Ten Conference season, complete with sweeps of the regular season and Conference Championship titles.

LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA will compete at Illinois at the Chase Center on Sunday, Feb. 22. The meet will be televised on Big Ten Network.