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All eight Pac-12 women's gymnastics programs were in action last weekend and the league saw a pair of historic performances at ESPN's Collegiate Quad event in Salt Lake City. Arizona posted its highest season-opening score in program history in winning the first session at the Maverik Center, while California won the third session with its seventh-highest team score all-time. The two-day three-session event featured some of the top programs in the country, including four (Arizona, California, UCLA and Utah) from the Pac-12, with Saturday's second session airing live in front of a nationally televised audience on ABC.

Week three will see seven of eight teams competing with Pac-12 conference meets officially kicking off as No. 2 California visits Washington on Saturday, January 20 at 12 p.m. PT. The meet will air live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Washington. 

Heading into the weekend six of eight Pac-12 teams are ranked in the top 25 of latest Road to Nationals rankings, led by California claiming its highest spot in the rankings in program history at No. 2. 

LAST WEEK

• No. 2 California showed its a force to be reckoned with in 2024 after besting No. 14 Michigan State, No. 18 BYU and North Carolina State in Salt Lake City on Saturday with a season-high 197.875, which was the seventh-highest team score in program history and the second-highest in the nation this season. The highlights didn't stop there as the Bears set a program record on the vault with a 49.525 and sophomore eMjae Frazier broke her own program mark in winning the all-around with a 39.775. That came in large part to her earning just the second 10.0 on beam in program history, becoming the only gymnast in Cal history to earn a 10.0 on two different events after she posted the score on the floor as a freshman last year. The historic performance earned Frazier her first Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honor.
• No. 5 Utah didn't have its best outing at the Collegiate Quad Saturday in Salt Lake City, finishing in fourth behind No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 5 LSU and No. 12 UCLA at the Maverik Center. Freshman Camie Winger was a highlight of the day, tying for first on the vault among the loaded field with a 9.950 in just her second collegiate event, earning her Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week honors. The Utes bounced back nicely on Monday, returning the Maverik Center for the Rio Tinto Best of Utah meet against BYU, No. 25 Southern Utah and Utah State, where they won for the fifth straight year with a season-high score of 197.725, tied for third-highest score in the country this year. 
• No. 11 UCLA had a strong showing at the Collegiate Quad Saturday afternoon finishing in third with a 197.100, just narrowly behind second-place LSU (197.150). No. 1 Oklahoma won the meet with a 197.900 with Utah coming in fourth. Last year's Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Selena Harris impressively won the all-around with a score of 39.650 to go along with vault and beam titles after posting a 9.950 on each event.
• No. 17 Arizona couldn't have asked for a better start to its season, winning the first session of ESPN's Collegiate Quad over No. 16 Nebraska, Boise State and North Carolina with a score of 196.475, the Wildcats' highest season-opening score in program history. The GymCats earned scores of 49.000 and above on every event during the meet while junior Alysen Fears won the all-around with a 39.250.
• No. 21 Oregon State picked up three wins at the Rutgers Quad Meet, posting a 195.850 to finish first over host Rutgers, Southern Connecticut State and Utica. Junior Jade Carey won her second straight Pac-12 Specialist of the Week honor after recording a 9.975 on bars to finish first on the event and added a 9.750 on beam to finish tied for fourth. Junior transfer Sage Thompson earned this week's Pac-12 Coaches' Choice award after three second-place finishes at the event, tying career highs on vault (9.850) and floor (9.850) and adding a score of 9.925 on bars.
• No. 24 Arizona State had a challenge at No. 10 Denver on Sunday, dropping the dual meet with the top-10 ranked foe 196.900-196.375. Senior Anaya Smith won the vault title with a 9.925 and sophomore Kayla Lee earned her first event title of her career, finishing first on beam with a career-high 9.925.
• Washington and Stanford were each in Big 10 territory over the weekend with the Huskies falling at Iowa (196.400 -196.250) and the Cardinal dropping its dual meet at No. 20 Michigan (197.725 - 193.625).

THIS WEEK

• No. 24 Arizona State heads back out on the road traveling north to Cedar City, Utah for SUU's Tri-Meet, featuring the Sun Devils, host No. 25 Southern Utah and Utah State. The meet begins at 6 p.m. PT/7 p.m. MT on Friday, January 19. 
• No. 2 California and Washington will be the first conference foes to go head-to-head in 2024 with the Bears visiting the Huskies on Saturday, January 20 at 12 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Washington. The two schools did not compete in a dual meet last year with their scores from the LSU Quad Meet counting as their 2023 meeting, but the Huskies will be looking for their first win over the Bears since 2020. 
• No. 17 Arizona will host Sacramento State in its 2024 home opener at 12 p.m. PT on Sunday, January 21 at the McKale Center. 
• For the third straight week, No. 11 UCLA will face some stiff competition, this time at the Denver Quad, which includes No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 10 Denver, the Bruins and Stanford. The event gets underway at 1 p.m. PT/ 2 p.m. MT on Sunday, January 21 and will be available to watch on Denver's Live Stream. 
• No. 21 Oregon State wraps up the week three slate hosting Brown at Gill Coliseum at 2 p.m. PT on Sunday afternoon.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE (Full Schedule)

ROAD TO NATIONALS RANKINGS - JAN. 15

• The Road to Nationals National Qualifying Scores (NQS) rankings, which track official NQS scores throughout the season, released its second rankings on Monday, January 15 and six of eight Pac-12 programs rank in the top 25.
• Team Overall
  • California climbed to No. 2 after its performance in Salt Lake City last weekend, marking the Bear's highest ranking in in program history. 
  • Utah stayed a No. 5 but will have a chance to move up in next week's rankings after posting a season-high 197.725 in winning the Rio Tinto Best of Utah meet, which happened after this week's rankings were released.
  • UCLA sits just outside the top 10, followed by Arizona at No. 17, Oregon State at No. 21 and Arizona State at No. 24. Washington is at No. 31 and Stanford is No. 52.
• Top-10 Event Rankings - Team
  • Vault: 1. California (49.425 average, 49.525 No. 1 single score);  3. UCLA (49.363), T7. Utah (49.275
  • Bars: T1. Oregon State (49.538); 4. California (49.525)
  • Beam: 5. Utah (49.275); 9. Arizona State (49.213).
  • Floor: T6. Arizona (49.400); T6. Utah (49.400).
• Top-10 Event Rankings - Individual
  • All-Around: 1. Mya Lauzon, CAL (39.625); 6. Selena Harris, UCLA (39.600); T10. Chloe Widner, STAN (39.525).
  • Vault: T1. Mya Lauzon, CAL (9.963); T4. Chae Campbell, UCLA (9.925); T7. Makenna Smith, UTAH (9.912); T7. Selena Harris, UCLA (9.912).
  • Bars: 1. Jade Carey, OSU (9.975); T4. Maddie Williams (CAL (9.938); T4. Selena Harris, UCLA (9.938); T8. Gabby Perea, CAL (9.925).
  • Beam: T5. Chloe Widner, STAN (9.950); T10. Claire Dean, STAN (9.925).
  • Floor: T1. Mya Lauzon, CAL (9.950); T10. Brooklyn Moors, UCLA (9.925).

PERFECT 10s

• The Pac-12 has seen three Perfect 10s through the first two weekends of competition. 
  • Utah's fifth-year senior and reigning NCAA Beam Champion Maile O'Keefe earned her 11th career 10.0 on beam against the Broncos on Friday, Jan. 5. She added her 12th career 10.0 on beam in the Rio Tinto Best of Utah meet on Jan. 15 and is the only student-athlete in the country to earn more than one 10.0 during the 2024 season. 
  • Cal sophomore eMjae Frazier scored a 10.0 on beam on Saturday, Jan. 13 at ESPN's Collegiate Quad meet in Salt Lake City, just the second 10.0 on beam in Cal history.

BY THE NUMBERS

• On Saturday, Jan. 13, No. 2 California finished first in the third session of ESPN's Collegiate Quad with a team score of 197.875, second-highest in the country this season behind two-time defending National Champion Oklahoma.
• Utah's 197.725 team score in winning the Rio Tinto Best of Utah meet on Monday 1/15 is tied for third-highest score in the nation this season.

PRESEASON RANKINGS

• For a second consecutive year, all 8 Pac-12 women's gymnastics teams are ranked in the top 25 of the 2024 Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Preseason Poll, voted on annually by Division I women's gymnastics coaches. The eight teams in the top 25 are tied for the most with the SEC.
• Utah, which won its third consecutive Pac-12 title in 2023 and finished third at the National Championships for a third straight year, is the Conference's top-ranked team coming in at No. 4 with a pair of first-place votes. 
• Joining Utah in the top 10 is UCLA at No. 5 and California at No. 7. Oregon State checks in at No. 13, followed by Arizona State at No. 19, Stanford at No. 20, Washington at No. 21 and Arizona at No. 22. 

KEY RETURNERS & NEWCOMERS 

• Utah senior Maile O’Keefe is back for a fifth year looking to defend her NCAA titles in the All-Around and Beam from last spring, while Olympic Gold Medalist and two-time Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year Jade Carey returns for Oregon State. Carey will be simultaneously competing for the Beavers and preparing for next summer’s Paris Olympics.
• UCLA’s Selena Harris, the 2023 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, returns for the Bruins.
• In all, 13 of 17 NCAA All-Americans from last season are back in 2024:
  • California: eMjae Frazier, Maya Lauzon, Andi Li, Maddie Williams; Oregon State: Jade Carey; Stanford: Chloe Widner; UCLA: Chae Campbell, Margzetta Frazier, Selena Harris, Emma Malabuyo; Utah: Maile O’Keefe, Grace McCallum, Makenna Smith.
• Four Pac-12 programs - Utah (No. 6) Oregon State (No. 8), Arizona (No. 9) and Washington (No. 10) - are ranked in the top 10 of College Gym News’ Freshman Class of 2024 Rankings. Classes are highlighted by Utah’s trio of five stars Ella Zirbes, Elizabeth Gantner and Camie Winger; Oregon State’s Sophia Esposito, Arizona’s Abigayle Martin and Washington’s five-star Kristin Lin.

PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL & WATCH LISTS

• In a polling of the league’s eight women’s gymnastics head coaches, defending Pac-12 champion Utah was selected as the preseason favorite to claim a fourth straight conference title in 2024.
• Utah, who became the first team to win three straight Pac-12 titles since the league expanded in 2011 and won its sixth Pac-12 crown overall last spring, received 46 points, including five first-place votes, to edge out runner-up UCLA, who collected 43 total points and the other three first-place votes. The two programs have taken turns capturing conference titles since 2014, with Utah winning in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and UCLA winning in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
• California finished third in the poll with 40 points, while Oregon State checked in at fourth with 30 points. Arizona State (22 points) came in fifth followed by Stanford (19 points) in sixth, Washington (14 points) in seventh and Arizona (10 points) in eighth to round it out.
• The Pac-12 released its Preseason Watch List and Newcomer Watch List ahead of the 2024 campaign, which features 16 total student-athletes across the eight programs as nominated by the league's coaches. 
  • The 2024 Preseason Watch List includes 11 returning student-athletes: Jade Carey, Oregon State; Chae Campbell, UCLA; Alysen Fears, Arizona; eMjae Frazier, California; Skylar Killough-Wilhelm, Washington; Mya Lauzon, California; Jada Mangahas, Arizona State; Amelia Morgan, Utah; Lana Navarro, Washington; Hannah Scharf, Arizona State; Chloe Widner, Stanford.
  • The 2024 Newcomer Watch List features five freshmen: Sophia Esposito, Oregon State; Abigayle Martin, Arizona; Sienna Robinson, Stanford; Katelyn Rosen, UCLA; Ella Zirbes, Utah.

OLYMPIC STRENGTH

• Pac-12 lineups this upcoming season will feature three Olympic medalists from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, all whom are training for a chance to again represent their countries at the upcoming Paris Olympics. In Tokyo, reigning two-time Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, Oregon State's Jade Carey (USA) won an individual gold medal in the floor exercise, Utah's Grace McCallum was a silver medalist in the team competition with the United States and Utah's Amelie Morgan helped Great Britain to team bronze, which was its first gymnastics medal since 1928.
• Rounding out the Pac-12 with Olympic ties are UCLA's Brooklyn Moors, who competed for Canada in Tokyo, and Emma Malabuyo, who was an alternate for the United States.
• Of note: Former UCLA gymnast and Olympian Jordan Chiles, who won the 2023 NCAA titles in the uneven bars and floor exercise, has paused her collegiate career to exclusively train for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

BEST IN THE WEST

• For the second consecutive year and second time in Pac-12 history, all eight Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics programs were selected to compete at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Regionals last season.
• Six of eight Pac-12 teams advanced to Regional Finals, which was the most of any conference in the nation. Utah and UCLA finished first and second at the LA Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships and California won the Pittsburgh Regional, its first regional title in program history, to advance to Nationals as well.
• After winning its third consecutive Pac-12 Championship in 2023, Utah went on to its 47th-consecutive national championship meet after winning the LA Regional, and is the only program in the nation to qualify for every national championship, including all 41 NCAA Championships. The Utes advanced to the NCAA Finals and finished third overall for the third consecutive year in 2023.
• All eight teams finished in the Top 21 in the final 2023 Road to Nationals rankings - No. 3 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 7 California, No. 12 Oregon State, No. 15 Arizona State, No. 16 Washington, No. 19 Stanford and No. 21 Arizona.

THE RISE OF COLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS 

• More eyes are on the sport than ever before:
  • Last year’s National Championship broke the 1 million viewer mark for the first time and viewership is only expected to rise, especially in the lead up to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  • ESPN launched its own invitational meet that will feature 12 total teams, with the main session including four of the sport’s top teams and airing on ABC in its prime time slot. Called the “Collegiate Quad", the meet will take place at the Maverik Center - site of the last two Pac-12 Women’s Gym Championships - on January 12-13, 2024 and include four Pac-12 programs - Utah and UCLA, California and Arizona - among 12 total teams competing over the two days, including defending national champion Oklahoma.

ON TV 

• A total of 20 women’s gymnastics competitions are scheduled to air on Pac-12 Networks, including Oregon State at Utah on Friday, Feb. 2 at 5 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. MT. Two-time defending Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year Jade Carey and the Beavers look to knock off the three-time defending Pac-12 Champion Utes in Salt Lake City. 
• Utah and UCLA will compete in EPSN's Collegiate Quad on Saturday, January 13th on ABC at 1 p.m. PT. The Utes and Bruins will also meet in their head-to-head Pac-12 competition on Monday, February 19 at 2:30 p.m. PT on ESPNU. 

2024 PAC-12 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Tickets for the 2024 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Championships, presented by Sprouts, are on sale now at Pac-12.com/tickets. The one-day, two-session event returns to the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah on Saturday, March 18.

2024 Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Weekly Awards