UCLA gymnastics team places second in regional, advances to NCAA championships

UCLA continues to be dancing.

With their finest ground rotation of the season, the Bruins superior to the NCAA championships for the primary time since 2019 by ending second in Saturday’s NCAA regional remaining at Pauley Pavilion.

Utah completed first with a rating of 198 factors, whereas the Bruins charged again from a two-tenth deficit on the midway level of the meet to edge out Missouri for second place. UCLA totaled 197.925 factors, whereas the Tigers, who stored the Bruins out of nationals by 0.025 factors final season, had a rating of 197.6. Washington, the one unranked group within the nation to make a regional remaining this season, completed with 195.65 factors.

Although the No. 4 Bruins entered the regional remaining with the highest qualifying rating from the semifinals, they obtained off to a sluggish begin on the bars and beam. They mustered only one rating higher than a 9.9 on the beam, a 9.925 from freshman Selena Harris, and had their worst beam rotation since Jan. 29 with a 49.325 whole. UCLA fell into third place.

The Bruins made their transfer on their signature occasion, the ground train, the place they charged again with 5 scores of 9.9 or higher on the ground train. Jordan Chiles anchored the lineup with an ideal 10 that cemented UCLA’s whole rating of 49.7.

Needing a stable efficiency on their lowest-scoring occasion of the season, the Bruins delivered on the vault with a 49.5, their second-highest rating within the occasion this season. The whole trailed solely Thursday’s semifinal rating. Harris starred with the primary 10 of her profession.

UCLA advances to the NCAA championships April 13-15 in Fort Price. The Bruins will finish the longest nationals drought in class historical past and check out for his or her first nationwide title since 2018.