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The first full weekend of Pac-12 duals provided some high scores and strong individual performances, led by No. 2 California posting the fourth-highest team score in the country in 2024 with a 197.950 in the win over No. 16 Oregon State. In addition to the Bears, Arizona State, UCLA and Arizona each recorded season-high teams scores as well. 

Six Pac-12 programs enter the weekend ranked in the top 25 of the latest Road to Nationals Rankings with California holding onto its highest ranking in program history at No. 2, followed by Utah at No. 4, UCLA at No. 11, Oregon State at No. 16, Arizona at No. 18 and Arizona State at No. 23. Heading into week five, three of the four Pac-12 meetings feature top-25 matchups, kicking off with the Beavers visiting Utah on Friday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network.

LAST WEEK

• No. 2 California continued its surge through the first month of the season, winning its Pac-12 opener over No. 16 Oregon State. After back-to-back weeks of posting a 197.875 to match the seventh-highest score in program history, the Bears bested that with a 197.950 against the Beavers for the sixth-highest all-time. Sophomore eMjae Frazier and junior Mya Lauzon shared the all-around title with a 39.700, with Lauzon also winning the vault (9.925), beam (9.975), and floor (9.975) en route to her second straight Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honor. As a team, Cal recorded the second-best beam score in program history (49.675) and tied for the third-best mark on the floor (49.600). Beaver senior Sydney Gonzales turned in the best score of the meet for the Beavers, a 9.875 on vault.
• No. 4 Utah hosted then-No. 28 Arizona State and avenged last season's loss to the Sun Devils, 197.675 - 196.700. The Utes took the top spot in each event, with sophomore Ashley Glynn earning her first event title of her career on vault, fifth-year senior Abby Paulson winning the beam and floor for the first time in her career and junior Grace McCallum securing her third bars victory of 2024 and sharing the floor title with Paulson. Despite the loss, ASU posted a season-high team score, while fifth-year senior Hannah Scharf earned a share of the floor title with a 9.925.
• After starting the season with three straight weeks on the road, No. 11 UCLA returned to LA to take on Washington in its home opener. The Bruins dominated 197.825 - 196.300 behind season-high totals on all four events. Reigning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Selena Harris won the all-around with a 39.625 and took first on bars with a 9.9. Senior Chae Campbell's pair of 9.95s on vault and floor gave her two event wins and the Pac-12 Specialist of the Week award. Junior Brooklyn Moors shared the floor title with Campbell and fellow junior Emma Malabuyo's 9.95 on beam was a meet-high on the event. UCLA freshman Katelyn Rosen made her all-around debut and finished third with a score of 39.250, earning her the Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Week honor. Senior Skylar Killough-Wilhelm led Washington with a season-high 39.475 all-around score.
• No. 18 Arizona continued its strong start to the 2024 campaign, opening its Pac-12 slate with the Wildcats' first win over Stanford since 2020 (197.000 - 196.000). The GymCats reached the 197 mark for the first time this year with the 197.000 flat marking the seventh-highest score in program history, while their team score of 49.475 on the bars tied the program record. Freshman Abigayle Martin posted a meet-and-career-high 9.975 to win the bars with teammates Malia Hargrove (vault), Elena Deets (beam), Emily Mueller (floor) and Caroline Henry (floor) also picked up event titles. Stanford's Brenna Neault won the all-around title (39.275), while sophomore Porsche Trinidad anchored the beam in her Cardinal debut after suffering an ACL injury last year and posted a 9.800 to finish tied for seventh, earning her this week's Pac-12 Coaches' Choice Award.

THIS WEEK

• No. 16 Oregon State visit No. 4 Utah this week hoping to repeat last year's result in Corvallis that saw the Beavers post their second-highest score in program history, earn a share of the 2023 Pac-12 Regular Season Title and end a streak of 12 straight losses to the Utes. The Friday night top-25 showdown at the Jon M. Huntsman Center will air live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Mountain and Pac-12 Oregon at 6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT.
• No. 2 California and No. 23 Arizona State compete in the Maroon Monsoon Tri-Meet hosted by the Sun Devils that also include No. 1 Oklahoma. The meet will count as the head-to-head results between ASU and Cal. It will be a good litmus test for both Pac-12 squads going up against the two-time defending national champion Sooners, whose No. 1 spot in the Road to National rankings is just .325 higher than the Bears. The meet will air live on Friday night at Pac-12 Insider at 7 p.m. MT/6 p.m. PT with the Bears looking to win two straight in the series against the Sun Devils.
• In the third top-25 meeting of the weekend, No. 18 Arizona heads West to take on No. 11 UCLA on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. PT live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Arizona and Pac-12 Los Angeles. The Wildcats are seeking their first win against the Bruins since 2006.
• Washington and Stanford wrap up the weekend slate on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. PT at Maples Pavilion. The two teams met in duals twice last season with Stanford winning both over the Huskies.

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ROAD TO NATIONALS RANKINGS - JAN. 29

• The Road to Nationals National Qualifying Scores (NQS) rankings, which track official NQS scores throughout the season, released its fourth rankings on Monday, January 29 and six of eight Pac-12 programs rank in the top 25. Through the first six weeks of the season, the scores are straight averages, but once enough meets have been logged the scores then switch to the National Qualifying Scores or NQS (six best regular-season meet scores of which three must be away). To obtain the NQS, the high score is eliminated and the remaining five scores are averaged.
• Team Overall
  • California continues to put up high scores and stayed in the No. 2 spot at a 197.638 average, trailing only Oklahoma's 197.963. The Bears have been at No. 2 for three straight weeks, marking their highest ranking in program history. 
  • Utah moved up one spot from No. 5 to No. 4, with their average of 197.419 jumping slight ahead of No. 5 LSU's 197.369.
  • UCLA jumped four spots from No. 15 to No. 11 (197.006) thanks to their season-high score of 197.825 in the win over Washington last weekend. Oregon State is tied for 16th (196.681), followed by No. 18 Arizona (196.658), who climbed one spot. No. 23 Arizona State (196.250) moved into the top 25 with its season-high 196.700 in a loss at Utah, while Washington sits at No. 29 (195.900) and Stanford rounds it out at No. 38 (195.242).
• Top-10 Event Rankings - Team
  • Vault: 3. California (49.381);  6. UCLA (49.325).
  • Bars: 3. California (49.488); 5. Oregon State (49.381); 10. Utah (49.319)
  • Beam: 3. Utah (49.388); 4. California (49.344).
  • Floor: T4. Utah (49.475); T4. UCLA (49.475); 7. California (49.425).
• Top-10 Event Rankings - Individual
  • All-Around: 2. Mya Lauzon, CAL (39.706); 9. Selena Harris, UCLA (39.575).
  • Vault: T1. Mya Lauzon, CAL (9.944); 5. Chae Campbell, UCLA (9.919); T7. Makenna Smith, UTAH (9.900).
  • Bars: 6. Madelyn Williams, CAL (9.919); 9. Grace McCallum, UTAH (9.913); 10. Selena Harris, UCLA (9.912).
  • Beam: 6. Mya Lauzon, CAL (9.933); T8. Abby Paulson, UTAH (9.917).
  • Floor: 1. Mya Lauzon, CAL (9.950); Brooklyn Moors (9.925).

PERFECT 10s

• The Pac-12 has seen three Perfect 10s during the 2024 season so far.
  • 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. After earning a 10.0 on floor as a freshman last season, she is now the only Bear in Cal history to earn a Perfect 10 in two different events during a career.

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, besting No. 14 Michigan State, No. 18 BYU and North Carolina State with the seventh-highest team score in program history. The Bears also set a program record on the vault with a 49.525 at the event while freshman eMjae Frazier set a program record for the all-around with a 39.775, breaking the old mark she set as a freshman a year ago. A week later in its conference opener at Washington, Cal matched its season-high team score of 197.875, which ranks fourth-highest in the country this season, while junior Mya Lauzon tied Frazier's mark in her all-around win.
• Utah's 197.725 team score in winning the Rio Tinto Best of Utah meet on Monday 1/15 is tied for fifth-highest score in the nation this season.
• Arizona began its 2024 winning the first session of ESPN's Collegiate Quad over No. 16 Nebraska, Boise State and North Carolina on Feb. 12 with a score of 196.475, the Wildcats' highest season-opening score in program history. 

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