UCLA Hosts Big Four Meet Friday Night

Friday, February 27

Los Angeles, CA

7:00 PM PT

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UCLA Hosts Big Four Meet Friday Night

February 26, 2026 | Gymnastics

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No. 5 UCLA vs. No. 18 Iowa, No. 19 Ohio State, No. 25 Maryland
Date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 – 7pm PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial)
Broadcast: FS1
Talent: Olivia Karas, Dean Linke
Live Stats: virti.us
Tickets: uclabruins.com/tickets; UCLA students free w/ valid Bruin Card

N0. 5 UCLA HOSTS BIG FOUR MEET FRIDAY
No. 5 UCLA (10-2, 6-0 in the Big Ten) will host No. 18 Iowa (7-4, 4-2), No. 19 Ohio State (3-4, 3-3) and No. 25 Maryland (7-3, 3-3) in the Big Four meet on Friday, Feb. 27. The meet will take place in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial at 7pm PT. UCLA will begin the meet on uneven bars and finish on vault.

BRUINS DEBUT ON FS1
Friday's quad meet will be the first collegiate gymnastics meet televised on FS1. UCLA also participated in the first NCAA gymnastics meet on FOX a year ago, a dual meet at home against Michigan State. Dean Linke and Olivia Karas will be on the call.

BIG TEN REGULAR SEASON TITLE UP FOR GRABS
UCLA sits atop the Big Ten standings with a 6-0 conference record. Three teams are in second place with 4-2 records - Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan State. A first or second-place finish in the Big Four meet on Friday will give UCLA the regular season title for the second consecutive year. The Bruins are 15-0 in Big Ten play since joining the conference a year ago.

ABOUT THE OPPONENTS
All three of UCLA's opponents on Friday are ranked in the Top 25 - No. 18 Iowa, No. 19 Ohio State and No. 25 Maryland. Iowa holds a season-high score of 197.225 and is coming off a 197.075-196.525 win over Pen State. The Hawkeyes have two athletes in the Top 12 in the all-around rankings - No. 9 Aurelie Tran (season-high 39.550) and No. 12 Sophie Schriever (season-high 39.475). Ohio State's season-high score is 197.075. The Buckeyes ar ranked No. 10 in the nation on floor and are led by JJ Coleman, who ranks No. 9 nationally on the event. She has a season-high of 9.950. Tory Vetter ranks No. 17 nationally in the all-around and holds a season-high of 39.525. Maryland's season-high score is 196.675, which they achieved at Penn State. on Jan. 24. At that meet, the Terrapins set a new school record on floor with a 49.575, led by a pair of 9.975s by Madeline Komoroski and Aine Reade.

LAST TIME OUT
In front of an program-record crowd of 6,813, UCLA defeated the Illini, 197.675-195.475. Jordan Chiles won the all-around (39.650), vault (9.950) and floor exercise (9.975), and Ciena Alipio won balance beam (9.950). UCLA's freshmen were outstanding again. Ashlee Sullivan stuck her Yurchenko 1.5 vault for a career-high 9.925 and tied her career-high on floor exercise with a 9.950 to place second on both events. She also posted a team-best 9.875 on uneven bars. Tiana Sumanasekera tied her career-high on vault with a 9.900 – her third-straight meet with that score – and added a 9.925 on beam. Nola Matthews scored a career-best 9.875 on floor and scored 9.850 on bars, and Jordis Eichman scored 9.775 on beam. The Bruins posted a season-high 49.450 on vault and added scores of 49.500 on floor, 49.475 on beam and 49.250 on bars to record their highest away score of the season.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA remains ranked No. 5 for the second-straight week and have been ranked in the Top 5 for six weeks in a row. The Bruins rank in the Top 10 on all four events - No. 3 on beam, No. 5 on vault and bars and No. 7 on floor. Jordan Chiles remains No. 1 in the all-around and on floor and also ranks No. 3 on vault, No. 4 on bars and No. 6 on beam. Ashlee Sullivan ranks in the Top 25 on all three of her events, checking in at No. 22 on floor and No. 23 on vault and bars. Tiana Sumanasekera remains the highest-ranked freshman in the all-around, at No. 11. She is also No. 19 on vault. Ciena Alipio is No. 3 on beam for the fourth-straight week.

CHILES SETS BIG TEN RECORD WITH EIGHTH GYMNAST OF WEEK AWARD
Jordan Chiles set a new conference record with her eighth Big Ten Gymnast of the Week award. She remains the only gymnast in the Big Ten to win the award this season, and she has a total of 19 career conference gymnast of the week honors, which is a UCLA record. Chiles breaks the Big Ten single-season mark set by Michigan's Sierra Brooks in 2024. Her total of 13 career Big Ten Gymnast of the Week awards in just two seasons ranks second all-time behind the 21 earned by Minnesota's Lexy Ramler from 2018-22.

In the Bruins' victory at Illinois, Chiles won the all-around for the sixth week in a row and seventh time overall, scoring 39.650. She also won vault and floor exercise to bring her season total to 27 victories in eight meets. On vault, she performed a Lopez for the first time as a collegiate athlete and scored 9.950 to earn her fifth vault win of the year. She took her fifth-straight and seventh overall floor victory with a 9.975. As she has been all season, Chiles remains ranked No. 1 in the nation in the all-around with a NQS of 39.710. Her season average is 39.703, and she has scored 39.6 or higher in six straight meets. Every routine she has performed this season has scored 9.800 or higher. Fifteen have scored 9.95 or higher, and 24 of her 32 routines have scored 9.900 or higher.

SULLIVAN EARNS THIRD FRESHMAN OF WEEK HONOR
Ashlee Sullivan earned Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week honors after her outstanding performance at Illinois. Sullivan set a new career-high on vault after sticking her Yurchenko 1.5 vault for a 9.925. She also tied her career-best on floor with her third 9.950 this season and finished with the Bruins' best mark on uneven bars with a 9.875. Sullivan is one of just two freshmen ranked in the Top 25 nationally on three or more events. The Freshman of the Week award is her third, tying her with teammate Tiana Sumanasekera for most honors this season.

CONSISTENCY IS KEY
UCLA has been a consistent force all season, averaging 197.478 as a team, with just one score dipping under 197 - a 196.975 in the season opener. The Bruins have scored over 197.500 in four consecutive meets and have scored over 49.000 on every event in every meet, hitting 191 of 192 routines on the year, a 99.5% hit percentage. UCLA has hit 160 consecutive routines without a fall.

CHILES PERFECT FOR FIVE STRAIGHT WEEKS
For five consecutive weeks from Jan. 17 through Feb. 14, Jordan Chiles found perfection. Her first career 10 on vault on Jan. 17 against Nebraska started the streak, and she went on to roll off four straight perfect 10s on floor on Jan. 25 at Michigan State, Jan. 30 vs. Washington, Feb. 7 at Minnesota and Feb. 14 vs. Michigan. She currently has 16 career 10s - one on vault, five on uneven bars and 10 on floor exercise and is in sole possession of third place on UCLA's career perfect 10 list. Only Jamie Dantzscher (28) and Kyla Ross (22) have more. Chiles' 10 floor 10s rank second 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. She has earned a 10 from one beam judge three times this season.

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 four road meets with record-setting attendance - at Washington Jan. 2 (8,403), at Michigan State Jan. 25 (9,887), at Minnesota Feb. 7 (5,081) and at Illinois Feb. 22 (6,813). UCLA's home opener on Jan. 13 was contested in front of 7,814 fans, a new record for a UCLA home opener, and a season-high 10,032 were in attendance for Saturday's home meet against Michigan. 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 eight 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, and then hit her 10th career 10 on floor on Feb. 14.

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 16 perfect 10s in her career - 10 on floor exercise, five on uneven bars and one on vault - and 27 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 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 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. Her latest accomplishment was scoring a career-high 9.950 on floor on Feb. 14, receiving a 10.0 from one judge. In the national rankings, she is currently ranked No. 3 on beam, where she has not scored lower than 9.900 all season, and was ranked as high as No. 7 on bars in early February.

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 sets the tone for the Bruins as the leadoff performer on vault and floor and has excelled in that role. 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, at the time 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 a 49.425. Rosen has competed on at least three events in seven meets 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 four meets, she has scored no lower than 9.850 on 11 routines, with four 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 five meets, with seven of her 14 routines scoring 9.900 or better. This season, 14 of her 15 routines have scored 9.800 or higher. In her first extensive action of her career at Michigan State on Jan. 25, she scored a pair of 9.900s on uneven bars and floor exercise and added a 9.850 in a beam exhibition. 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 on that event, 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. She scored a pair of 9.90s against Michigan on Feb. 14, tying for second on beam and floor. 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.

SULLIVAN STRENGTH
Freshman Ashlee Sullivan joins senior Jordan Chiles as the only Bruins ranked in the Top 25 on multiple events. Sullivan is No. 22 on floor exercise and No. 23 on vault and uneven bars. She is also one of just two freshmen to rank in the Top 25 on three or more events. In her last three meets, she is averaging 9.903 on her nine routines, with five 9.9+ scores and nothing under 9.850. She has scored 9.950 on three of her last four floor routines. Sullivan has won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors three times this season, most recently after recording career-highs on vault (9.925) and floor (9.950) at Illinois. She also won following the Nebraska meet on Jan. 17 after winning bars and floor and recording career-highs on all three events in which she competed and again after the Minnesota meet on Feb. 7 after she won bars with a career-high 9.925 and placed second on floor with a career-high-tying 9.950. She is averaging 9.85+ on vault (9.850), bars (9.869) and floor (9.872).

TIANA TOPS FRESHMEN ALL-AROUNDERS
Freshman Tiana Sumanasekera holds the distinction of being the highest-ranked freshman in the nation, ranking No. 11 with a NQS of 39.375. Sumanasekera has been superb for the Bruins this year, competing 31 of a possible 32 routines and going all-around in seven of the team's eight meets. She has won Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors three times and scored a career-high in the all-around with a 39.475 against Michigan on Feb. 14. Sumanasekera scored three 9.900s in the meet and won vault for the first time in her career. She has scored 9.900 as the leadoff vaulter in three consecutive meets. 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.

FABULOUS FRESHMEN
UCLA's acclaimed freshman class has accounted for 38.5% (74 of 192) of the Bruins' routines so far in 2026, with Tiana Sumanasekera competing 31 routines, Ashlee Sullivan 25, Nola Matthews 12 and Jordis Eichman six. Sumanasekera, a 2024 U.S. Olympic alternate, has contributed 27 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 39.382 in her seven 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 - two on bars and one on floor - and holds season-bests of 9.950 on floor, 9.925 on vault and bars and 9.775 on beam. Four-time U.S. National Team member Matthews has highs of 9.925 on bars, 9.875 on floor and 9.850 on beam. She has competed on bars in seven meets and is averaging 9.843 on that event. She earned a second-place career-high mark of 9.925 against Michigan on Feb. 14. 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 third-place mark of 9.875 on beam.

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.

LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA will travel to Stanford for a dual meet on Saturday, March 7 at 2pm in Maples Pavilion before returning home the following week for Senior Day against Utah on Saturday, March 14 at 7:30pm.