For Immediate Release // Wednesday, January, 13, 2016 Contact // Liz Beadle ([email protected])

PAC-12 GYMNASTICS SQUADS OFF TO IMPRESSIVE START The Pac-12 went 11-4 in the first week of the 2016 season. The opening weekend was highlighted by UCLA’s win over then-No. 3 Alabama. CALIFORNIA took home a meet victory 2016 PAC-12 CONFERENCE at the annual NorCal classic and now sits at 4-0 to start the GYMNASTICS STANDINGS season. Conference Overall W L PCT W L PCT This coming weekend will feature more tough non-conference California 0 0 .000 4 0 1.000 competition for Pac-12 squads as No. 5 UCLA travels to No. 3 Arizona 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Florida, No. 11 CALIFORNIA travels to No. 4 Oklahoma, and UCLA 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 No. 22 STANFORD travels to No. 15 Georgia. Utah 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Stanford 0 0 .000 3 1 .750 Arizona State 0 0 .000 1 1 .500 STANFORD’s Elizabeth Price is tied for the national lead in Oregon State 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 the all-around after scoring a 39.500 in the NorCal Classic. Washington 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 UCLA’s and Christine Peng Peng Lee are tied for first nationally on the beam. As a team, UTAH leads the nation on the bars so far this season. NATIONAL TOP 25 RANKINGS UPCOMING SCHEDULE (RANKINGS REPORTED BY ROAD TO NATIONALS) RANKINGS AS OF JAN. 13 Fri., Jan. 15 #5 UCLA at #3 Florida 3:45 p.m. PT #12 OREGON STATE at Lindenwood 4 p.m. PT RANK TEAM with Bridgeport, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Illinois State 1. LSU #11 CALIFORNIA at #4 Oklahoma 4:45 p.m. PT 1. Michigan #7 UTAH at Southern Utah 6 p.m. PT 3. Florida 4. Oklahoma Sun., Jan 17 5. UCLA #10 ARIZONA at Texas Woman’s University 11 a.m. PT 6. Alabama 7. Auburn Mon., Jan. 18 7. George Washington #22 STANFORD at #15 Georgia 11 a.m. PT 7. Utah WASHINGTON at ARIZONA STATE 6 p.m. PT 10. Arizona 11. California 12. Oregon State 13. Denver RECENT RESULTS 14. Missouri 15. Georgia Fri., Jan. 8 16. Arkansas BYU at #7 UTAH UTAH, 196.175-193.850 16. Kent State Michigan State at #10 ARIZONA ARIZ, 195.700-193.775 18. New Hampshire ARIZONA STATE vs Nebraska, Bowling Green ASU 2nd, 192.700 19. Illinois-Champaign 20. Eastern Michigan Sat., Jan 9 21. Kentucky Ohio State at WASHINGTON Ohio State, 194.275-193.725 22. Stanford 23. North Carolina State Sun., Jan. 10 23. Minnesota NorCal Classic: #22 STANFORD, #11 CAL, CAL 1st 195.575, 25. Maryland- College Park with San Jose State, UC Davis, Sacramento State #6 Alabama at #5 UCLA UCLA, 196.550-196.300 #7 Auburn at #12 OREGON STATE Auburn, 195.425-196.175 PAC-12 VS. PAC-12 COACHES OTHER CONFERENCES

Big Ten...... 1-2-0 ARIZ...... UCLA...... Big 12...... 0-0-0 ...... 1st season ...... 26th Season East Atlantic Gymnastics League...... 0-0-0 ...... NCAA Appearances: 0 ...... NCAA Appearances: 23 Eastern College Athetlic...... 0-0-0 Mid-American...... 1-0-0 ASU...... RENE LYST UTAH...... TOM FARDEN Midwest Independent...... 0-0-0 ...... 2nd season ...... 1st season Mountain Pacific Sports Federation...... 6-0-0 ...... NCAA Appearances: 0 ...... NCAA Appearances: 0 Mountain Rim...... 1-0-0 Southeastern...... 1-1-0 CAL...... JUSTIN HOWELL UTAH...... Western Athletic...... 0-0-0 ...... 4th season ...... 7th season Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic...... 0-0-0 ...... NCAA Appearances: 2 ...... NCAA Appearances: 6 Independent...... 0-0-0 Total-All...... 0-0-0 OSU...... WASH...... JOANNE BOWERS ...... 19th Season ...... 10th Season ...... NCAA Appearances: 11 ...... NCAA Appearances: 2 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS SIDS STAN...... KRISTEN SMYTH ...... 15th season *NCAA Appearances denotes NCAA appear- ARIZ...... www.arizonawildcats.com ...... Danielle Bracamonte ...... NCAA Appearances: 12 ances made as head coach of current ...... [email protected] school ...... 520-621-4163

ASU...... www.thesundevils.com ...... Kathryn Roberts ...... [email protected] ...... 480-965-1237 UTAH VOTED PRESEASON FAVORITE IN PAC-12 COACHES POLL CAL...... www.calbears.com ...... Mara Rudolph SAN FRANCISCO – In a poll taken by the Conference’s eight women’s gymnastics, UTAH ...... [email protected] was voted the preseason favorite to win the 2016 Pac-12 regular season, the Conference an- ...... 510-643-5846 nounced today.

OSU...... www.osubeavers.com Utah received 49 points and six first-place votes. The Utes were also voted fourth in the ...... Jason Amberg national preseason coaches’ poll where they received 14 first-place votes. Utah holds the top ...... [email protected] ...... 541-230-0706 spot in the preseason Pac-12 coaches’ poll for the second year in a row after UCLA had domi- nated the No. 1 spot for three years before that. This season, Utah will be looking to capture STAN...... www.gostanford.com its third Pac-12 championship in a row, following their back-to-back championship seasons in ...... Greg Marsh 2014 and 2015...... [email protected] ...... 650-736-7635 UCLA came in second in the Pac-12 poll, tallying 41 points. Additionally, the Bruins are ranked sixth in the national preseason coaches’ poll. UCLA...... www.uclabruins.com STANFORD sits in third place in the Pac-12 with 39 2016 Pac-12 Women’s ...... Liza David points in the poll, and received one first-place vote. The Gymnastics Poll ...... [email protected] Cardinal are one of three Pac-12 squads ranked in the ...... 310-621-8398 1. Utah (6)...... 49 national top ten, coming in at No. 8. 2. UCLA ...... 41 UTAH...... www.utahutes.cstv.com 3. Stanford (1)...... 39 ...... Liz Abel OREGON STATE came in fourth place in the Pac-12 4. Oregon Sate...... 30 ...... [email protected] coaches’ poll with 30 points. Rounding out the poll were 5. California...... 24 ...... 801-209-6346 CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, WASHINGTON, and ARIZONA 6. Arizona...... 21 STATE with 24, 21, 13, and 7 points respectively. 7. Washington...... 13 WASH...... www.gohuskies.com 8. Arizona State...... 7 ...... Justin Green Six of eight Pac-12 teams are ranked in the top 25 ...... [email protected] nationally heading into the 2016 season. No. 12 Oregon ...... 801-473-7376 State and No. 14 California join Utah, UCLA, and Stanford in the top 15. Arizona, Washington, and Arizona State are ranked 18th, 30th, and 36th respectively. PAC-12...... www.pac-12.com ...... Liz Beadle ...... [email protected] The 2016 season is set to begin on Friday, Jan. 8. Pac-12 gymnastics will be featured on Pac- ...... 415-549-2858 12 Networks throughout the season, including the 2016 Pac-12 Championship to take place on March 19, 2016 in Seattle. Visit www.pac-12.com for a full schedule of televised Pac-12 events.

PAC-12 GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE // January 13, 2016 2 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS ON PAC-12 WEEKLY NOTES PAC-12 NETWORKS Pac-12 in the rankings: This week’s top-25 features six Pac-12 Pac-12 Networks will begin its fourth season of women’s gymnastics squads, including five in the top 12. UCLA, Utah, Arizona, Califor- coverage starting on Friday, January 8 at 5 p.m. with Michigan State at nia, and Oregon State are all ranked among the top 12 teams in the Arizona. nation.

Pac-12 Networks will air 26 women’s gymnastics meets, five more than Bruins vs. the SEC: Last week UCLA defeated Alabama when the last season. Each Pac-12 program will appear on the Networks at least Tide was the No. 3 team in the nation. This week, the Bruins will four times: Arizona (6), Arizona State (5), California (5), Oregon State have their second chance in a row to knock off the No. 3 team in (7), Stanford (4), UCLA (10), Utah (9) and Washington (5). the country as they travel to No. 3 Florida to take on the Gators.

In addition to Michigan State, five other non-Conference opponents will Non-conference challenges on the road: After a weekend of be shown on the Networks: Brigham Young at Utah (Jan. 8 at 5 p.m.); competition against ranked teams such as Alabama, Auburn, Ohio Alabama at UCLA (Jan. 10 at 2 p.m.); Auburn at Oregon State (Jan. 10 State, and Nebraska, the tough non-conference competition will at 2 p.m.); Georgia at UCLA (Mar. 6 at 2 p.m.); Georgia at Utah (Mar. 12 continue this week, and this time Pac-12 teams will be taking the at 4 p.m.); and Oklahoma at UCLA (Mar. 13 at 2 p.m.). show on the road. No. 5 UCLA is traveling to Gainesville to take on No. 3 Florida, No. 22 STANFORD will travel to No. 15 Georgia, and Both sessions of the 2016 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Championships No. 11 CALIFORNIA will travel to No. 3 Oklahoma. will also be part of the Networks’ telecast schedule on Saturday, March 19 from Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle. Looking to repeat: Coming off back to back Pac-12 Championships in 2014 and 2015, UTAH has been picked by Pac-12 gymnastics Returning broadcasters this year include: play-by-play experts Jim Wat- coaches to win the conference title yet again this year. The #4 Red son and Brian Webber, in addition to analyst Amanda Borden, a former Rocks open the season at home against rival BYU this Friday. American Gymnast and U.S. Gold Medalist from the 1996 summer U.S. Olympic team. Pac-12 competition begins: Pac-12 competition will get underway this coming Monday as Washington travels to Arizona State. The New to the Networks this year are: former Utah women’s gymnastics meet will be broadcast on Pac-12 Networks at 6p.m. PT. head coach Greg Marsden and Olympians and Quinn.

The Pac-12 Networks consists of one national and six regional networks TWITTER devoted solely to the Pac-12. In addition to the hundreds of live televised Pac-12 sporting events, Pac-12 Networks subscribers will have access Follow Pac-12 women’s gymnastics teams on Twitter for all the lat- to Pac-12 Now, the TV Everywhere platform, which provides access to all est news, and use hashtag #Pac12Gym to join in the conversation. Pac-12 Networks programming on any device through their broadband service. Arizona: @AZGymnastics Stanford: @StanfordWGYM Arizona State: @ASUGymnastics UCLA: @UCLAgymnastics California: @calwgym Utah: @UtahGymnastics : @OregonStateGym : @UWGymnastics FULL PAC-12 NETWORKS BROADCAST SCHEDULE Oregon State Washington

Jan. 8 Michigan State at Arizona P12A 5 p.m. PT Jan. 8 BYU at Utah P12N 5 p.m. PT Jan. 10 Alabama at UCLA P12N 2 p.m. PT Jan. 10 Auburn at Oregon State P12O 2 p.m. PT Jan. 18 Washington at Arizona State P12N 6 p.m. PT ROSTER BREAKDOWN Jan. 23 UCLA at Arizona P12N 12 p.m. PT Jan. 23 Oregon State at Utah P12N 2 p.m. PT Fresh. Soph. Junior Senior Feb. 1 Arizona at Utah P12N 5 p.m. PT Feb. 1 UCLA at California P12N 7 p.m. PT Arizona 5 3 3 4 Feb. 6 Utah at UCLA P12N 1 p.m. PT Arizona State 5 0 2 4 Feb. 8 Arizona at California P12N 7 p.m. PT California 4 4 8 2 Feb. 8 Oregon State at Washington P12N 7 p.m. PT Oregon State 4 2 5 3 Feb. 13 Washington at Utah P12N 6 p.m. PT Stanford 4 1 4 4 Feb. 13 Stanford at Arizona P12N 6 p.m. PT UCLA 6 5 4 3 Feb. 13 Oregon State at UCLA P12N 8 p.m. PT Utah 4 4 1 4 Feb. 15 California at Arizona State P12N 6 p.m. PT Washington 3 4 6 1 Feb. 20 Utah at Stanford P12N 2 p.m. PT Feb. 20 California at Oregon State P12O 2 p.m. PT Feb. 21 UCLA at Washington P12N 1 p.m. PT Feb. 22 Arizona at Arizona State P12N 6 p.m. PT Feb. 27 Utah at California P12N 1 p.m. PT Feb. 27 Arizona State at UCLA . P12N 1 p.m. PT Feb. 29 Stanford at Oregon State . P12N 7 p.m. PT Mar. 6 UCLA, Georgia, Stanford P12N 12 p.m. PT Mar. 12 Georgia at Utah P12N 4 p.m. PT Mar. 13 Oklahoma at UCLA P12N 2 p.m. PT Mar. 19 Pac-12 Championships P12N 1 p.m. PT, 6 p.m. PT

PAC-12 GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE // January 13, 2016 3 PAC-12 IN THE NATIONAL PAC-12 ANNOUNCES WEEKLY GYMNASTICS HONORS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS STANFORD’s Elizabeth Price named Gymnast of the Week (as of Jan. 13) UTAH’s Sabrina Schwab named Freshman/Newcomer of the Week All-Around UCLA’s Hallie Mossett named Specialist of the Week 1. Elizabeth Price...... Stanford 15. Madeline Gardiner...... Oregon State Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Price earned Gymnast of the Week honors for the 15. Allison Northey...... Washington first time in her career after her performance in the Cardinal’s second place finish at the NorCal Classic featuring CALIFORNIA, San Jose State, UC- Davis, and Sac- ramento State on Jan. 10. 5. Dani Dessaints...... Oregon State 21. Ton-Ann Williams...... California Despite Stanford’s second-place finish, Price swept individual event victories, finishing first in all four events and the all-around. Her meet-best performance on 21. Elizabeth Price...... Stanford beam was crucial with the Cardinal missing two routines in the event and needing 21. Megan Jimenez...... Oregon State a big score. It was the second beam performance of her career. This was also only 21. Angi Cipra...... UCLA the second time Price has competed in the all-around in her career; she’s earned 21. Kailah Delaney...... Utah the indi-vidual victory both times.

Bars Her 39.500 all-around score also has her tied for best in the nation so far this sea- 3. Baely Rowe...... Utah son. In her freshman season, Price was named the 2015 Pac-12 Specialist of the 4. Elizabeth Price...... Stanford Year and won an NCAA individual champion-ship on the vault. 15. Nicolette McNair...... Stanford 15. Kassandra Lopez...... Utah Utah freshman Sabrina Schwab earned Freshman/Newcomer of the Week honors 22. ...... Stanford for her performance in the Red Rocks’ season-opening win over BYU. In her first 22. Taylor Rice...... Stanford college appearance, Sabrina Schwab wowed a crowd of 15,023 while winning the 22. Gabby Laub...... Arizona exercise with a score of 9.90. 22. Dani Dessaints...... Oregon State 22. Breanna Hughes...... Utah Schwab was not scheduled to compete to count and was slated to go exhibition 22. Kaitlyn Duranczyk...... Washington until the touch warm-up just prior to the event. She scored her 9.90 on the floor from the No. 2 position in the lineup, and also scored a 9.75 on bars. Beam 1. Danusia Francis...... UCLA UCLA junior Hallie Mossett earned Specialist of the Week honors for her perfor- 1. Christine Peng Peng Lee...... UCLA mance in the Bruins’ win over then-No. 3 Alabama. This is Mossett’s first Pac-12 weekly honor since she was named Fresh-man/Newcomer of the Week twice in Floor 2014. 2. Sadiqua Bynum...... UCLA Mossett scored a career-high 9.95 on floor to help lead UCLA to a come-from- 2. Hallie Mossett...... UCLA behind win over the Crim-son Tide. UCLA trailed Alabama by .05 going into the 6. Angi Cipra...... UCLA final rotation, and Mossett stepped up and delivered her best floor routine of her 10. Elizabeth Price...... Stanford UCLA career just when her team needed it. She earned a 10.0 from one judge and 10. Sabrina Schwab...... Utah a final score of 9.95, shattering her previous career-high of 9.875 and giving her 23. Jessica Howe...... California a first-place finish, the first win of her career on floor. Her score helped the Bruins 23. Jamie Rademacher...... Oregon State total 49.475 on floor, tied for the second-highest floor score in the nation so far this 23. Allison Northey...... Washington season.

PAC-12 IN THE NATIONAL TEAM RANKINGS (AS OF JAN. 13)

Vault Beam Bars Floor 5. Oregon State 2. UCLA 1. Utah 2. UCLA 11. California 11. Utah 5. Stanford 8. California 14. Arizona 12. Arizona 18. Arizona 9. Utah 15. Utah 16. Oregon State 21. Oregon State 20. Arizona 18. UCLA 17. California 24. California 22. Washington 23. Stanford 21. Stanford 25. UCLA

2016 PAC-12 WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS

Gymnast Freshman/Newcomer Specialist Jan. 12 Elizabeth Price, STANFORD Sabrina Schwab, UTAH Hallie Mossett, UCLA

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ARIZONA WILDCATS Overall: 1-0 // Pac-12: 0-0 Overall: 1-1 // Pac-12: 0-0

JANUARY JANUARY 8 vs. Michigan State W, 195.700-193.775 8 vs. Nebraska, Bowling Green 2nd, 192.700 17 at Texas Women’s University 12 p.m. MT 18 vs. Washington* P12N 7 p.m. MT 23 vs. UCLA* P12N 1 p.m. MT 22 at Oklahoma TBA 30 at Oregon State* 5 p.m. MT FEBRUARY 1 at Utah* P12N 6 p.m. MT FEBRUARY 8 at California* P12N 8 p.m. MT 8 at Stanford* 7 p.m. MT 13 vs. Stanford* P12N 7 p.m. MT 15 vs. California* P12N 7 p.m. MT 22 at Arizona State* P12N 7 p.m. MT 22 vs. Arizona* P12N 7 p.m. MT 27 vs. Washington* 4 p.m. MT 27 at UCLA* P12N 2 p.m. MT

MARCH MARCH 4 at Oklahoma 5:45 p.m. MT 4 vs. Penn State 7 p.m. MT 11 vs. BYU 6 p.m. MT 11 at Auburn TBA

* Pac-12 Conference Meet. * Pac-12 Conference Meet. All times Mountian Time. All times Mountain Time.

CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Overall: 4-0 // Pac-12: 0-0 Overall: 0-1 // Pac-12: 0-0

JANUARY JANUARY 10 at San Jose State (NorCal Classic) 1st 195.575 10 vs. Auburn L, 195.425-196.175 with Stanford, UC Davis, and Sacramento State 15 at Lindenwood 3 p.m. PT 15 at Oklahoma 4:45 p.m. PT 23 at Utah* P12N 2 p.m. PT 24 vs. Stanford, San Jose State 2 p.m. PT 30 vs. Arizona State* 4 p.m. PT

FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 1 vs. UCLA* P12N 7 p.m. PT 8 at Washington* P12N 7 p.m. PT 8 vs. Arizona* P12N 7 p.m. PT 13 at UCLA* P12N 8 p.m. PT 15 at Arizona State* P12N 6 p.m. PT 20 vs. California* P12O 2 p.m. PT 20 at Oregon State* P12O 2 p.m. PT 29 vs. Stanford* P12N 7 p.m. PT 27 vs. Utah* P12N 1 p.m. PT MARCH MARCH 4 vs. SPU, Ball State 7 p.m PT 4 vs. Michigan State, Southern Utah, Lindenwood 7 p.m PT 14 vs. Texas Woman’s University, LSU 4 p.m. PT 11 at UC Davis 7 p.m. PT * Pac-12 Conference Meet. * Pac-12 Conference Meet. All times Pacific Time. All times Pacific Time.

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STANFORD CARDINAL UCLA BRUINS Overall: 3-1-0 // Pac-12: 0-0 Overall: 1-0 // Pac-12: 0-0

JANUARY 10 at San Jose State (NorCal Classic) 2nd, 194.800 JANUARY 10 vs. Alabama W, 196.550-196.300 with California, UC Davis, and Sacramento State 18 at Georgia 11 a.m. PT 15 at Florida 3:45 p.m. PT 24 vs. San Jose State and California 2 p.m. PT 23 at Arizona* P12N 12 p.m. PT 30 Metroplex Challenge (Fort Worth, TX) 5 p.m. PT FEBRUARY 1 at California* P12N 7 p.m. PT FEBRUARY 8 vs. Arizona State* 6 p.m. PT 6 vs. Utah* P12N 1 p.m. PT 13 at Arizona* P12N 6 p.m. PT 13 vs. Oregon State* P12N 8 p.m. PT 20 vs. Utah* P12N 2 p.m. PT 21 at Washington P12N 1 p.m. PT 29 at Oregon State* P12N 7 p.m. PT 27 vs. Arizona State* P12N 1 p.m. PT

MARCH MARCH 6 vs. UCLA, Georgia P12N 12 p.m PT 6 vs. Georgia, Stanford P12N 12 p.m. PT 13 vs. Oklahoma P12N 2 p.m. PT * Pac-12 Conference Meet. All times Pacific Time. * Pac-12 Conference Meet. All times Pacific Time.

UTAH UTES Overall: 1-0 // Pac-12: 0-0 Overall: 0-1 // Pac-12: 0-0

JANUARY JANUARY 9 vs. Ohio State L, 194.275-193.725 8 vs. BYU W, 196.175-193.850 18 at Arizona State* P12N 6 p.m. PT 15 at Southern Utah 7 p.m. MT 23 at Denver 5 p.m. PT 23 vs Oregon State* P12N 3 p.m. MT 30 Metroplex Challenge (Fort Worth, TX) 5 p.m. PT

FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 1 vs. Arizona* P12N 6 p.m. MT 8 vs. Oregon State* P12N 7 p.m. PT 6 at UCLA* P12N 2 p.m. MT 13 at Utah* P12N 6 p.m. PT 13 vs. Washington* P12N 7 p.m. MT 21 vs. UCLA* P12N 1 p.m. PT 20 at Stanford* P12N 3 p.m. MT 27 at Arizona* 3 p.m. PT 27 at California* P12N 2 p.m. MT MARCH MARCH 5 vs. Western Michigan 6 p.m. PT 4 at Michigan 5 p.m. MT 7 at Seattle Pacific 6 p.m. PT 12 vs. Georgia P12N 5 p.m. MT 12 vs. Denver, Seattle Pacific 6 p.m. PT

* Pac-12 Conference Meet. * Pac-12 Conference Meet. All times Moutain Time. All times Pacific Time.

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