UCLA Kicks Off NCAA Gymnastics Regionals Friday Night

Friday, April 3

Corvallis, Ore.

7:00 PM PT

UCLA

NCAA Regionals Second Round

Sydney Barros

Photo by: Jesus Ramirez

UCLA Kicks Off NCAA Gymnastics Regionals Friday Night

April 01, 2026 | Gymnastics

Meet Notes (PDF)

No. 4 UCLA at NCAA Regional Second Round
Date: Friday, April 3, 2026 – 7pm PT
Location: Corvallis, Ore. (Gill Coliseum)
Broadcast: ESPN+
Talent: Jason Ross, Kennedy Baker
Live Stats: virti.us

UCLA BEGINS REGIONAL ACTION FRIDAY
Big Ten champion and No. 4 seed UCLA (26-2) will kick off NCAA Regional competition on Friday, April 3 at the NCAA Corvallis Regional second round. The Bruins will compete against No. 13 seed Minnesota, unseeded Iowa and the winner of the San Jose State/Washington first round matchup in the evening session at 7 p.m. PT. No. 5 seed Alabama, No. 12 seed Utah, Denver and host Oregon State will compete in the afternoon session at 1 p.m. PT. The top two teams from each session will advance to the NCAA Regional Final on Sunday, April 5 at 5 p.m. PT. The top two teams from the Regional Final, along with the top individual all-arounder and event finishers not on a qualifying team, will move on the NCAA Championships. All sessions of the Regionals will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

ROTATION ORDER
UCLA will have Olympic order for Friday's meet and will begin on vault and end of floor exercise. Iowa will start on uneven bars. San Jose State/Washington will begin on beam, and Minnesota begins on floor.

A LOOK AT THE FIELD
Minnesota is ranked No. 13 in the nation and finished in third place at the Big Ten Championships for the second-straight season. The Gophers are led by Big Ten Freshman of the Year and vault co-champion Arianna Ostrum and Big Ten co-uneven bars champions Jordyn Lyden and Emma Slevin. Minnesota has qualified to the NCAA Championships six times, most recently in 2022. Iowa ranks No. 19 in the nation overall and No. 12 on uneven bars and holds a season-high team total of 197.225. The Hawkeyes finished in fifth place at the Big Ten Championships and won one individual title when Aurelie Tran tied for the uneven bars title. San Jose State ranks No. 29 nationally and finished third at the MPSF Championships, with Samantha Macasu winning the uneven bars title with a 9.900. Washington ranks No. 35 nationally and finished ninth at Big Ten Championships. The Huskies are led by second-team All-Big Ten honoree Lilly Tubbs.

REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
The Bruins have won 24 NCAA Regional titles, most recently in 2019. Last season, the Bruins placed first in their second round matchup and second in the Regional Final to qualify for the NCAA Championships, where they finished second overall. This is the third consecutive year UCLA has been with Denver at the same regional and the second consecutive year with Utah and Minnesota.

ALL-AMERICAN SENIORS
UCLA seniors Jordan Chiles and Ciena Alipio earned first-team regular season All-America honors - Chiles on all four events and the all-around and Alipio on balance beam. Chiles becomes just the first second Bruin ever to earn the maximum five first-team regular season All-America honors, joining Kyla Ross who achieved this in 2019. Chiles now has a total of 21 All-America honors, three away from Ross' school record of 24. Alipio is now a three-time All-American and two-time first-team All-American. UCLA has collected a total of 93 regular season All-America honors since the WCGA added the regular season awards in 2013.

UCLA SWEEPS BIG TEN REGULAR SEASON, CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES AGAIN
For the second consecutive year, UCLA ran the table in the conference, going unbeaten with a 9-0 record to capture the Big Ten regular season title and the Big Ten Championships. The Bruins won the 2026 Championship meet with a score of 198.100, while winning every event and the all-around. Jordan Chiles won the all-around, beam and floor and tied for first on bars along with Sydney Barros. Riley Jenkins tied for first on vault. The Bruins are 18-0 all-time in Big Ten play and have not lost to any Big Ten opponent in any competition since joining the conference a year ago. UCLA Gymnastics has now won 24 conference titles, including four in the Big Ten.

CHILES, MCDONALD EARN BIG TEN INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
UCLA's Jordan Chiles and Janelle McDonald were awarded Big Ten Gymnast and Coach of the Year honors, respectively, by the conference's 12 head coaches.

Chiles dominated the conversation in the Big Ten and the nation in 2026, winning a record 10 of the 11 Gymnast of the Week awards and capturing the Big Ten all-around title with a championship-record score of 39.825. She also won the floor exercise title with a perfect 10 for the second consecutive year, a feat no one has accomplished on floor in the history of the conference, and claimed the balance beam title and a share of the uneven bars crown. Her four individual championships this season tied the Big Ten's single-season record. The AAI Award finalist has totaled 43 event wins this year and 125 in her career. Chiles is the first Bruin to win gymnast of the year honors in the Big Ten, and she earned UCLA's 22nd all-time conference gymnast of the year award.

The Big Ten Coach of the Year award is McDonald's second consecutive. The fourth-year head coach led UCLA to back-to-back regular season and conference championships. The Bruins posted a 9-0 record in conference play for the second-straight year and have not lost to a Big Ten opponent in any competition since joining the league a year ago. McDonald graduated more than half of the team's routines from last year's NCAA runner-up squad but took a young squad to a 26-2 overall record and the No. 4 NCAA seed. The Bruins have won 10 consecutive meets since placing third at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad on Jan. 10.

BRUINS CLAIM BIG TEN HONORS
Janelle McDonald repeated as Big Ten Coach of the Year, and Jordan Chiles earned her first conference Gymnast of the Year award in 2026. A total of four Bruins earned All-Big Ten honors - first-team honorees Chiles and freshmen Ashlee Sullivan and Tiana Sumanasekera, along with second-team selection Ciena Alipio. UCLA was the only school with multiple All-Freshman Team honorees - Sullivan and Sumanasekera. Additionally, junior Katelyn Rosen was UCLA's honoree for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. Several Bruins also earned Big Ten All-Championship Team honors - Chiles on all four events and the all-around, Sumanasekera in the all-around and on beam, Riley Jenkins on vault, Sydney Barros on bars, and Ashlee Sullivan on floor.

CONSISTENCY IS KEY
UCLA has been a consistent force all season, averaging 197.542 as a team, with nothing under 196.950. The Bruins have scored over 197.500 in seven of its last eight meets and joins Oklahoma as the only two teams who have scored over 49.000 on every event in every meet this season. The Bruins have hit 286 of 288 routines without a fall this year, a 99.3% hit percentage.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA finishes the regular season ranked No. 4 and was ranked in the Top 5 for the final 10 weeks of the season. The Bruins ranked in the Top 10 on all four events - No. 4 on vault and beam, No. 5 on bars and No. 8 on floor. Jordan Chiles ends the year ranked No. 1 on floor exercise for the second-straight year, and she also ranks No. 2 in the all-around, No. 3 on vault and No. 4 on bars and beam. She is the only gymnast in the NCAA this year to finish the regular season ranked in the Top 5 on all four events and the all-around. Ciena Alipio is No. 5 on beam and has been in the Top 5 for nine-straight weeks. Tiana Sumanasekera ranks 17th on beam and 18th in the all-around, and Ashlee Sullivan ranks No. 18 on floor.

LAST TIME OUT
UCLA won its second consecutive Big Ten Championship, scoring 198.100 to remain unbeaten all-time as a member of the Conference. Jordan Chiles won the all-around with a conference-record score of 39.825 and scored her seventh perfect 10 of the season with a 10.0 to repeat as floor champion. She also won the balance beam title with a 9.950 and tied with teammate Sydney Barros and three others on uneven bars with a 9.950. Sophomore Riley Jenkins tied for the vault title with a career-high 9.950. The Bruins started the meet with a 49.425 on beam but found themselves in second place behind Michigan, who scored 49.550 on floor. UCLA took over the lead by 0.325 in the next rotation after scoring 49.675 on floor, led by Chiles' 10 and Ashlee Sullivan's 9.950, then ripped a 49.450 on vault, thanks to stuck vaults from Mika Webster-Longin and Jenkins. UCLA recorded three scores of 9.900 or higher to secure the win on uneven bars with a 49.550 in the final rotation. Three Bruins finished in the Top 5 in the all-around - champion Chiles, runner-up Sumanasekera (career-high 39.575) and fifth-place finisher Webster-Longin (career-high 39.550).

PERFECT 10 WATCH
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 18 career 10s - one on vault, six on uneven bars and 11 on floor exercise - and ranks in the Top 10 nationally and Top 3 at UCLA for career perfect 10s. Chiles' 11 floor 10s rank second all-time at UCLA behind only Jamie Dantzscher, who had 14. Chiles' six bars 10s rank third behind Kyla Ross (11) and Dantzscher (7). 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. Every campus UCLA has visited this season has seen record-setting attendance with the Bruins in town - at Washington Jan. 2 (8,403), at Michigan State Jan. 25 (9,887), at Minnesota Feb. 7 (5,081), at Illinois Feb. 22 (6,813) and at Stanford March 7 (7,024). The Bruins set a school record of their own in the home finale on March 14, with 13,089 fans in attendance. UCLA had also set program records for home opener attendance (7,814 on Jan. 13) and for Friday night home meets (7,567 in attendance at the Big Four meet on Feb. 27). 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.