Campbell, Harris to Compete for NCAA Individual Titles Thursday
NCAA Championships
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Session I (Campbell, FX): 3:30 p.m. CT / 1:30 p.m. PT
Session II (Harris, BB): 8 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. PT
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Dickies Arena
TV: ESPN2
Event Feeds: watchespn.com
Live Stats: ncaa.com
CAMPBELL, HARRIS VIE FOR INDIVIDUAL TITLES
UCLA qualified two gymnasts as individual competitors at the 2024 NCAA Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. Senior Chae Campbell will compete on floor exercise in the first session of the semifinals at 3:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. PT. She will rotate with Arkansas, who competes on floor in the second rotation. Sophomore Selena Harris will compete on balance beam in the second semifinal session at 8 p.m. CT/6 p.m. PT. Harris will rotate with Utah and compete in the first rotation.
FOLLOW LIVE
The first day of competition at the NCAA Championships will be televised live on ESPN2 on Thursday, April 18. The first semifinal begins at 3:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. PT. The second semifinal starts at 8 p.m. CT/6 p.m. PT. Both will be televised live on ESPN2. Additionally, event feeds for all four apparatus will be available on espn.com. Live results can be found at ncaa.com.
COMPETITION FORMAT
All competitors will be in action on Thursday, April 18 in the team semifinals and individual event and all-around championships. Individual event winners and the all-around champion will be determined after both semifinals are completed. The Top 2 teams from each semifinal will advance to the Team Finals on Saturday, April 20. Teams competing in the first semifinal are LSU, California, Arkansas and Stanford. Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Alabama will compete in the second semifinal.
UCLA'S INDIVIDUAL NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
UCLA has won a total of 42 NCAA titles, tied with Georgia for most in NCAA history. A total of 21 Bruins have won individual titles, including four-time champions Kim Hamilton, Jamie Dantzscher and Kyla Ross. UCLA has won 11 individual titles in the last eight championships. Ross has accounted for most of those titles, winning vault and floor exercise in 2019 and uneven bars and balance beam in 2017. Jordan Chiles won a pair of titles in 2023, capturing the uneven bars and floor exercise crowns. UCLA has won 12 NCAA floor titles, with Chiles being the most recent. The Bruins have won 10 beam titles, including four in a row from 2015-18 by Samantha Peszek, Danusia Francis, Ross and Peng-Peng Lee.
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
*This is just the sixth time that UCLA has not qualified as a team to the NCAA Championships. The other years UCLA did not qualify were 1985, 1991, 2006, 2021 and 2022.
*Only seven teams have ever won the NCAA title in the 41 years of the Championships - Georgia (10), Utah (9), UCLA (7), Alabama (6), Oklahoma (6), Florida (3) and Michigan (1). For the first 15 years of the Championship, only Utah, Georgia and Alabama had ever won the team title. UCLA broke the stranglehold in 1997. It took 16 years for another new team - Florida in 2013 - to win a title, and Oklahoma joined the party in 2014, tying with Florida for the championship before winning outright in 2016, 2017 and 2019. Michigan became the latest new champion in 2021.
*Five of the schools return from the 2023 NCAA Championships field - Oklahoma (1st place), Florida (2nd), Utah (3rd), LSU (4th) and California (7th). Alabama returns after a one-year hiatus. Arkansas makes its first appearance since 2018, and Stanford is back for the first time since 2016.
*At least one new team will qualify to the Four on the Floor team final, as LSU is the only team in the first semifinal who has qualified to the finals in the new championship format. In the second semifinal, Oklahoma, Utah and Florida all have at least three Four on the Floor appearances in the four years of the competition.
*There are four returning individual champions in the field - Utah's Maile O'Keefe (2022 all-around, 2021 bars and floor) and Jaedyn Rucker (2022 vault), LSU's Haleigh Bryant (2021 vault), Alabama's Luisa Blanco (2021 beam).
*UCLA is tied for first among all schools with 42 individual titles, tied w Georgia, whose last titles came in 2016. Utah ranks third with 32, followed by Alabama (28) and Florida (23).
*UCLA has won either a team or an individual NCAA title 16 times since the 2000 season, most recently picking up two individual championships in 2023, courtesy Jordan Chiles' uneven bars and floor exercise titles.
HOW THEY GOT HERE ...
Chae Campbell and Selena Harris earned individual spots in the NCAA Championships by recording the top score from a non-advancing team at the NCAA California Regional second round. Each tied for first on their respective events with scores of 9.950 and won the tiebreakers based on the total of the four judges' scores. Campbell had one perfect 10 and three 9.95s, and Harris scored 9.95s across the board.
IN THE RANKINGS
Selena Harris ranks No. 13 on beam with a 9.940 RQS, and Chae Campbell ranks No. 59 with a 9.910 RQS.
POST-SEASON HONORS
Selena Harris earned four regular season All-America and five All-Pac-12 honors in 2024, while Chae Campbell earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors on vault. Harris was a first-team All-American in the all-around and on vault and a second-team selection on bars and beam. She also earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors in the all-around and all four events for the second consecutive year and was named the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year.
HARRIS NAMED PAC-12 GYMNAST OF YEAR
UCLA sophomore Selena Harris was selected the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, the Bruins' 21st award and first since 2020 when Kyla Ross won her second consecutive. Harris, who won the Pac-12 all-around title with a conference championship record 39.825 score, averaged 39.629 in the all-around this season, with a high of 39.900, and compiled a total of eight all-around wins on the year. The Las Vegas native has four perfect 10s this season, three on vault and one on uneven bars, and five in her career. Harris has hit all 48 of her routines this season and all 103 in her career and leads the Bruin team with 29 event victories, 39 Top 3 finishes, and 31 scores of 9.900 or higher, including 23 scores of 9.950 or higher. She finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation on vault, No. 5 in the all-around, No. 10 on uneven bars, No. 13 on balance beam and No. 20 on floor exercise. In the Pac-12, she ranked No. 1 on vault, No. 2 in the all-around, No. 4 on uneven bars and floor exercise and No. 6 on balance beam.
HISTORIC PERFORMANCE BY HARRIS
Sophomore Selena Harris had a historic performance against Clemson on March 16, posting the second-highest all-around total in school history with a 39.900. She started the meet by scoring perfect 10s on vault and bars, her third of the season on vault, and her first-ever perfect mark on bars. She also added 9.95s on beam and floor to help UCLA record a team total of 198.550, the third-highest team score in school history. Harris received a total of five 10.0 scores out of a possible eight from the judges, as she also earned a 10 from one of the two judges on floor. She now has five perfect 10s in under two years to rank No. 10 all-time at UCLA for most career 10s. Her performance led her to be chosen the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week for the third time this season, and she was also named UCLA's Student-Athlete of the Week.
HARRIS JOINS ELITE COMPANY
Sophomore Selena Harris became just the third Bruin ever to total three or more 9.95s in a meet in three consecutive competitions when she did so against Arizona on Feb. 4, Oregon State on Feb. 9 and Utah on Feb. 19. The only other Bruins to ever record three or more were Jordan Chiles (2023) and Mohini Bhardwaj (2001). Harris already has the second-most meets with three or more 9.95s, with six, including five this year. Jeanette Antolin holds the UCLA record with seven.
CAMPBELL SCORES THIRD CAREER 10
Senior Chae Campbell returned to the floor lineup on March 16 against Clemson, marking her first appearance on the event since Jan. 27. In her return, she scored her third career perfect 10 and UCLA's first floor 10 of the year. It was her first 10 since March of 2022. She has competed on floor just seven times this year but has four victories in those seven meets and is averaging 9.929 on the year and 9.919 over her career. Campbell, who also scored a leadoff 9.900 on bars at the Clemson meet, was named Inside Gymnastics' Gymnast of the Week for Week 11. The senior from Carrollton, Texas was strong on vault as well, earning first-team All-Pac-12 honors and ranking 21st in the nation with a NQS of 9.910. She scored a perfect 9.95 on vault twice this year and seven times in her career. Campbell ranks second on the team in event victories with eight - four on floor, three on vault and one on bars. This season, she has posted career-high marks on all four events with a 10.0 on floor, 9.95s on vault and bars and a 9.925 on beam.
PAST NCAA PERFORMANCES
This will be the third NCAA Championship for Chae Campbell and second for Selena Harris. Campbell competed as an individual all-arounder in her freshman season of 2021 and competed on three events with the Bruin team in 2023. In 2021, Campbell finished 14th overall and eighth in her session in the all-around with a 39.550. She had her highest individual event finish on balance beam, tying her career-high with a 9.925 and finishing fifth overall and fourth in her session. On floor exercise, she placed seventh overall and fifth in her session with a 9.9375. Campbell earned first-team All-America honors on beam and second-team acclaim in the all-around and on floor. In 2023, she finished fifth overall and third in her session on vault with a 9.900, becoming the only competitor with a 9.95 start value to earn first-team All-America honors. She also earned second-team All-America honors with an eighth-place finish in her session on floor, scoring 9.9375.
In Harris' NCAA debut a year ago, she earned first-team All-America honors in the all-around after placing third in her session and sixth overall with a score of 39.600 and on floor with a then-career-high 9.950 that gave her a fourth-place overall finish. Harris was also a second-team All-American on beam after placing seventh in her session and eighth overall with a 9.9375.