Gymnastics
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- bdas@athletics.ucla.edu
Professional choreographer and dancer BJ Das begins her seventh season on UCLA’s coaching staff and fourth as a full-time assistant after serving as the volunteer assistant coach from 2020-22. She was promoted to Associate Head Coach in June 2025.
Das has helped UCLA earn three conference titles in the last three seasons, along with a 2025 NCAA runner-up finish. In her first season as full-time assistant coach in 2023, she was honored by the WCGA as Co-Assistant Coach of the Year in the West Region. Additionally, the UCLA coaching staff was selected College Gym News’ Coaching Staff of the Year.
She has been instrumental in the Bruins maintaining their status as the best floor team in the nation. Das has choreographed two NCAA Championship floor exercise routines (Brooklyn Moors in 2025 and Jordan Chiles in 2023), four conference championship routines (Chae Campbell and Pauline Tratz in 2021 and Moors and Chiles in 2025) and seven routines that have scored perfect 10s (Gracie Kramer in 2020; Campbell in 2022 and 2024; Chiles in 2022, 2023 and 2025; and Moors in 2025). Das has also created multiple floor exercise routines that have gone viral, including two routines from Nia Dennis that each amassed over 11 million views just on X alone.
UCLA has finished the year ranked No. 1 in the nation on floor in three of Das’ six seasons as Bruin coach (2025, 2023 and 2020), and the Bruins will enter the 2026 season having scored 49+ in a school record 52 consecutive meets. Das’ floor squads have produced the school’s fourth-ranked floor score of all-time (49.800 twice in 2025 and once in 2020), the Big Ten’s highest floor score ever in a conference meet (49.800 at the 2025 Big Ten Championships), and UCLA’s highest-ever postseason floor score (49.7125 at the 2023 NCAA Semifinals).
As a professional dancer, Das has performed live with Beyonce, P!nk and Usher and toured with Avril Lavigne. Her music video credits include Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)”, Ariana Grande’s “Baby I” and Justin Bieber/Nicki Minaj’s “Beauty and a Beat”. Das has also performed live at the 2019 Grammy Awards, the 2018 American Music Awards and on "The Ellen Show", "The Voice" and "Late Show with James Corden", among others. Additionally, Das has choreographed for TV shows "GLOW", "Fresh Off the Boat" and "The Masked Singer", along with the Emmy Awards and Radio Disney Music Awards. She also served as an assistant choreographer for the Gold Over America Tour in 2021 and 2024. Her first Hollywood experience was as a gymnast on the movie "Stick It". Das has been signed to Bloc Talent Agency as a dancer and choreographer since 2007.
Das was the volunteer assistant coach and choreographer at the University of Utah in 2019, when the Utes ranked in the Top 5 in the nation on floor exercise.
A 2006 graduate of the University of Washington, Das earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology. She competed on the Husky gymnastics team for two years.
