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UCLA GYMNASTICS UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 / (310) 206-8140 Gymnastics Contact: Liza David ([email protected]) 2019 SCHEDULE No. 2 UCLA at NCAA Semi! nal January Friday, Apr. 19, 2019 – 12 p.m. CT Fri. 4 #11 Nebraska W 197.250-195.700 Fort Worth, Texas Sat. 12 at Collegiate Challenge 1st 197.700 MEET INFORMATION ROTATION ORDER - SEMIFINAL 1 vs. #9 California, #14 UC Davis, #33 Michigan State Venue: Fort Worth Convention Center Arena Rotation V UB BB FX Mon. 21 #19 Arizona State W 197.775-196.125 TV: ESPN2 1 UCLA MICH LSU UTAH Sun. 27 at #24 Stanford W 197.225-195.125 TV Talent: Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson-Clarke, Holly Rowe 2 UTAH UCLA MICH LSU Live Stats: ncaa.com 3 LSU UTAH UCLA MICH February 4 MICH LSU UTAH UCLA Sat. 2 at #20 Oregon State W 197.900-197.450 Sun. 10 at #15 Washington W 197.600-196.000 TITLE DEFENSE BEGINS APRIL 19 Sat. 16 #25 Arizona W 198.025-194.975 The No. 2 UCLA Gymnastics team will defend its NCAA title Apr. 19-20 at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships at Sat. 23 at #4 Utah W 198.025-197.625 the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena. The Bruins (19-1) will compete in the ! rst semi! nal of the NCAA semi! nals March on Friday, Apr. 19 at 12 p.m. CT, along with No. 3 LSU, No. 6 Utah, and No. 7 Michigan. Competing in the second Sun. 3 at #1 Oklahoma L 197.575-197.775 semi! nal at 6 p.m. CT will be No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 5 Denver, No. 8 Georgia and No. 13 Oregon State. The top two Sun. 10 #24 Stanford W 198.325-196.275 teams from each session will advance to Saturday’s ! nal at 6 p.m. CT. The all-around and individual event champions will be determined during Friday’s semi! nals. Sat. 16 Utah State W 197.575-194.850 Sat. 23 at Pac-12 Champs. 1st 198.400 FOLLOW LIVE All three sessions at the NCAA Championships will be televised live on the ESPN Networks. The ! rst semi! nal will April be on ESPN2, while the second semi! nal will air on ESPNU and switch to ESPN2. The ! nal will air live on ESPNU. Fri. 5 at NCAA Regional Semi! nal 1st 197.675 Live stats will be available at ncaa.com, and live updates can be found on Twitter by following @UCLAGymnastics. Sat. 6 at NCAA Regional Final 1st 198.075 Fri. 19 at NCAA Semi! nals ESPN2 10 a.m. ROTATION ORDER (Fort Worth, Texas) The rotation order for the national semi! nals was determined by blind draw prior to the selections. The Bruins will Sat. 20 at NCAA Super Six ESPNU 4 p.m. begin the semi! nals on vault in rotation one and will end on " oor exercise. Michigan will start on bars, LSU will begin on beam, and Utah starts on " oor. (Fort Worth, Texas) All times are listed in PT. NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY The Bruins have won seven NCAA championships, including last season’s improbable comeback win in St. Louis CAREER-BEST MARKS when UCLA edged Oklahoma by 0.0375 after a NCAA Championships record 49.750 on balance beam in the ! nal Gymnast V UB BB FX AA rotation. UCLA’s NCAA titles came in 1997 at Florida, 2000 at Boise State, 2001 at Georgia, 2003 at Nebraska, Dennis 9.950 9.950 9.975 9.975 39.425 2004 at UCLA, 2010 at Florida and 2018 in St. Louis. This is UCLA’s 35th overall appearance in the 38 NCAA Flatley 9.750 9.975 9.925 9.750 39.275 Championships. Frazier 9.825 9.950 – 9.950 – A. Glenn 9.900 9.875 9.900 – – UCLA’s INDIVIDUAL NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY G. Glenn 9.750 9.350 9.950 – – A total of 20 Bruins have won 38 NCAA titles to rank second behind only Georgia (42) in individual NCAA titles. UCLA Hano 9.950 9.875 9.825 10.00 38.650 has won four titles in the past two seasons and seven individual titles in the last four seasons, with Katelyn Ohashi Kocian 9.875 10.00 9.950 9.950 39.625 winning " oor and Christine Peng-Peng Lee winning beam in 2018, Kyla Ross winning bars and beam in 2017, Kooyman – 9.875 – 9.825 – Danusia Francis winning the beam title in 2016, and Samantha Peszek winning the all-around and beam in 2015. Kramer 9.925 – – 9.950 – Nguyen – – 9.900 9.900 – Since 2000, the Bruins have captured 27 individual titles, the most of any school during that time period. UCLA has Ohashi 9.875 9.950 10.00 10.00 39.575 won the beam title in each of the last four years. Poston 9.800 – 9.850 8.950 – NEW FORMAT Ross 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 39.850 Sanchez – 9.750 9.750 – – After 26 years of the Super Six Team Final format, 2019 marks the ! rst year of the new championship format Savvidou 9.800 9.900 9.825 9.925 – featuring eight teams in the semi! nals and four teams advancing to the ! nals. The championship quali! ers were Toronjo – 9.800 9.850 9.950 – the top two teams and top all-arounder at each of the four Regionals, along with the top event specialist in each Tratz 9.925 – – 9.950 – event (not on an advancing team or an all-arounder). The top two teams in each semi! nal will advance to Saturday’s Wright 9.875 – – 9.775 – championship ! nal. Individual all-around and event winners will be determined after the second semi! nal on Friday. Team 49.725 49.825 49.750 49.875 198.875 A LOOK BACK AT 2018 SEASON-BEST MARKS UCLA turned in a performance for the ages at the 2018 NCAA Super Six Team Final, using a NCAA Championship Gymnast V UB BB FX AA and school record balance beam score of 49.750 in the ! nal rotiation to come from behind to win its seventh NCAA Dennis 9.950 9.950 9.975 9.925 38.850 team title. The Bruins trailed two-time defending champion Oklahoma by .325 at the halfway mark but rallied with Flatley 9.750 9.975 9.925 9.750 39.275 Frazier 9.825 9.950 – 9.950 – huge marks on uneven bars (49.6375, the second-highest bars total in NCAA Championship history) to cut the de! cit A. Glenn – 9.875 9.850 – – to .175 going into the ! nal rotation. While Oklahoma was totaling 49.5375 on uneven bars to pad its lead, the Bruins G. Glenn 9.750 9.350 9.950 – – had an uphill battle to climb after a fall in the two spot following Grace Glenn’s 9.9375 leadoff balance beam mark. Hano 9.950 9.875 – 9.950 – But rather than sinking under the pressure, UCLA thrived. Brielle Nguyen, in her only routine of the night, followed Kocian – 10.00 9.875 – – the fall with a 9.875. Katelyn Ohashi answered with a 9.95, and Kyla Ross contributed a 9.9875, earning four of six Kooyman – 9.775 – – – perfect scores. It all came down to Christine Peng-Peng Lee in the ! nal routine of the night. Although she and most Kramer 9.850 – – 9.950 – of her teammates did not know at the time, Lee needed to score 9.975 on her ! nal collegiate routine to clinch the Nguyen – – 9.900 – – victory. She did one better, scoring her second perfect 10 in as many routines that night to claim the title for the Bruins. Ohashi 9.800 – 9.975 10.00 – Poston 9.800 – 9.850 – – NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES Ross 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 39.850 *Only six teams have ever won the NCAA title in the 37 years of the Championships - Georgia (10), Utah (9), UCLA Toronjo – 9.800 – 9.850 – (7), Alabama (6), Florida (3) and Oklahoma (3). For the ! rst 15 years of the Championship, only Utah, Georgia and Tratz 9.900 – – 9.950 – Wright 9.875 – – 9.775 – Alabama had ever won the team title. UCLA broke the stranglehold in 1997. It took 16 years for another new team - Team 49.450 49.700 49.700 49.825 198.400 Florida in 2013 - to win a title, and Oklahoma joined the party in 2014, tying with Florida for the championship before 2019 UCLA GYMNASTICS FINAL REGULAR SEASON TOP 25 RANKINGS winning outright in 2016 and again in 2017. RK TEAM Team NQS Avg. Score *Five schools (42%) return from the 12-team 2018 NCAA Championships ! eld - UCLA (1st place), Oklahoma (2nd), 1 Oklahoma 198.115 197.808 LSU (4th), Utah (5th), and Georgia (7th). Back in the championship ! eld after a one-year absence are Michigan and 2 UCLA 198.010 197.781 Oregon State. Denver is making its ! rst appearance since 2017 and just its ! fth overall. 3 LSU 197.810 197.327 4 Florida 197.760 197.605 *There are eight reigning or former individual champions in the ! eld, including at least one on each event. The 5 Denver 197.545 197.175 reigning champions are 2018 all-around champion Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma), vault co-champions Brenna Dowell 6 Utah 197.535 197.371 (Oklahoma) and MyKayla Skinner (Utah), bars co-champion Nichols, and " oor co-champions Katelyn Ohashi (UCLA) 7 Michigan 197.320 196.842 and Nichols.