Beavers Welcome Defending Champion Bruins Saturday

Saturday, February 2

Corvallis, OR

11:30 AM

Oregon State

UCLA

Photo by: Karl Maasdam/Oregon State Athletics

January 29, 2019 | Women's Gymnastics

OSU vs UCLA notes

By: Athletic Communications

ON TAP
No. 19 Oregon State (4-1) returns to Gill Coliseum this Saturday to host No. 3 UCLA, the defending national champions. The meet is slated for a 11:30 a.m. start.

DAM WORTH IT
Saturday's meet has been designated as OSU gymnastics' Dam Worth It game. Dam Worth It is a campaign started by former OSU gymnast Taylor Ricci and current soccer player Nathan Braaten with the goal to destigmatize and raise awareness about student-athlete mental health issues. Read more about
Dam Worth It here.

TICKETS AND PROMOTIONS
• Single meet and season tickets are available by visiting BeaverTickets.com/gymnastics or by calling 1-800-GO-BEAVS.
• Fans with ticket stubs from Friday's women's basketball game against Colorado can redeem them on Saturday for a free general admission ticket to the OSU gymnastics meet.
• Jr. Beavs members receive a free general admission ticket to the meet. Sign up in the lobby to get your child signed up to be a Jr. Beav.
• The team will host a short dance party on the competition floor with children from the crowd following the meet.

TV/LIVE VIDEO
• The meet is slated to air live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Los Angeles. Rich Burk will have the call and Samantha Peszek will provide analysis.
• Fans with subscriptions to the Network can also watch the meet on Pac-12.com, or via the Pac-12 Now app.

LIVE RESULTS
• Live results will be available for the meet and can be found by visiting the gymnastics schedule page on osubeavers.com.
• To access live stats, via your computer, smartphone, or tablet, visit osubeavers.com.

NEW LAYOUT
Oregon State gymnastics will unveil a new floor layout this week against UCLA. The Beavers host NCAA Regionals in April when four judges will preside over each apparatus. To accommodate judges on each side of the vault table, OSU will move the vault from the south side of Gill Coliseum to the north side and the scorer's table from the north to the south ... the vault table will now be situated in the northeast corner of Gill near the uneven bars dismount area.

THE BRUINS
• UCLA senior Katelyn Ohashi went viral three weeks ago, totaling 109 million views of her perfect 10 floor routine from Jan. 12 (42M on Twitter, 35M on Facebook and 32M on YouTube).
• The Bruins have three perfect 10s already in 2019. Kyla Ross achieved a perfect 10 on the uneven bars in the season-opener against Nebraska ... Katelyn Ohashi followed with her own 10 two rotations later on the floor exercise ... Madison Kocian earned a perfect 10 on the bars on Jan. 21.
• UCLA also boasts a pair of gold medal winning Olympians in Madison Kocian and Kyla Ross. Ross earned her medal as a member of the Fierce Five in 2012, while Kocian won team gold in 2016 as a member of the Final Five.
• The Bruins have opened the season 6-0 and are coming off a win at Stanford, 197.225-195.125.
• UCLA has scored 49+ in 75 straight rotations dating back to the 2018 season opener.

QUICK STICKS
• All four of OSU's lineups are currently ranked among the top 25 in the nation. The floor lineup is the highest ranked for the Beavers at No. 6 (49.175, season average), beam is next at No. 17 (48.842), bars is tied for 24th (48.717) and vault ranks 25th (48.858).
• Oregon State has 'hit' 92 out of 96 (95.8%) routines in 2018.
• Oregon State opened the season on the road for the third straight season ... the Beavers now have a 5-0 record in those road season-openers.
• Eleven of OSU's 15 regular season opponents on the 2019 schedule are ranked in this week's Top 36, including three among the top five.
• Oregon State hosts NCAA Regionals April 4-6. It is the first time OSU has hosted the regional round since 2013 ... this year's regional will be the first season with the new format that includes three days (four meets) of competition.
• Seventeen OSU gymnasts earned a 3.0 GPA or better during fall term - 11 of those were 3.5 or above including two 4.0s. The Beavers represent seven different colleges among their majors and two study in the Honors College.

LAST WEEK AT WASHINGTON
• Oregon State notched a season-high 196.100 despite to knock off then-No. 11 Washington (195.900) in Seattle.
• OSU scored 49+ points on the floor exercise (49.175) for the third consecutive week and now ranks No. 6 in the nation on the apparatus.
• The Beavers also registered a season-high 49.275 on the balance beam to win the meet.
• Junior Maela Lazaro established a new career-high with a 9.925 in the anchor spot of the beam lineup to secure the win in Seattle. Lazaro, competing in the anchor spot for the first time, won the event for the second straight week and the third time in her career.
• Sophomore Kaitlyn Yanish registered a career-best in the all-around (39.250). Along the way, Yanish produced career-bests on the bars (9.75) and beam (9.80) and season-highs on vault (9.80) and floor (9.90).
• Freshman Madi Dagen continued her strong start to her OSU career setting a personal-mark on the beam (9.85) and tying her high on the vault (9.825).

GETTING BY
• Oregon State continues to get by despite missing several routines due to injury ... Destinee Davis, who finished 2018 in three lineups, has yet to compete for the Beavers while recovering from injury but has exhibitioned twice on the beam ... Sabrina Gill, who was an all-arounder six times in 2018, has battled illness and injury early in the season and has not been available the last two weeks ... Alyssa Minyard, who performed in the bars and beam lineups most of the season last year, will miss the 2019 season due to injury ... Lena Greene, who was featured in the vault lineup last season, has not been in the competition lineup yet in 2019, although she exhibitioned on bars at UW.

RETURNING FOR 2019
• The Beavers return 22 out of 24 routines from the 2018 NCAA Regionals lineup. Both graduated routines by (Dani Dessaints and Shireen Khamedoost) were on the uneven bars.
• OSU had two gymnasts perform as all-arounders at various times in 2018 and both, Sabrina Gill and McKenna Singley, return.
• Four walk-ons made significant contributions to the squad in 2018 - Alyssa Minyard was a regular in the bars and beam lineups, Maela Lazaro was a consistent bright spot in the beam lineup, Lena Greene was a key component in the back half of the vault lineup and Niya Mack filled in several times on the floor exercise. As a group, the foursome hit 38 out of 41 routines.
• In addition, to 13 contributors returning, two others - Lacy Dagen and Colette Yamaoka - performed a total of 11 exhibitions for the Beavers as well.
• Kaitlyn Yanish earned Pac-12 second team honors on the floor exercise and was named an NACGC/W Regular Season All-American on floor in her first season at OSU.
• There were several notable improvements by previously unsung gymnasts in 2018 ... Destinee Davis contributed one routine as a freshman in 2017 worked her way into three lineups by season's end converting 21 out of 22 routines as a sophomore ... Alyssa Minyard, who didn't perform a single exhibition as a freshman in 2017, was a regular in the bars and beam lineups this season hitting 18-19 routines ... Maela Lazaro, who earned one exhibition at the end of the '17 season, jumped into the beam lineup in the season's third meet with a 9.90 and became a fixture in the lineup ... Lena Greene, who missed 2017 due to injury returned to make her debut at Washington with a 9.90 on the vault and became a mainstay in the back end of the vault lineup the rest of the way this year ... Halli Briscoe returned from her own injury late in the 2018 season to make her college debut on the bars where she too became a key to the lineup.

THE ROSTER
Here are some quick hitters about the 2019 Oregon State gymnastics roster:
• The Beavers have three seniors on the team (Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Mary Jacobsen and McKenna Singley). The trio had combined to perform 224 routines in their career entering the season.
• There were four additions to the squad this fall with the arrivals of freshmen Leah Bivrell, Madi Dagen, Alex McClung and Kristina Peterson.
• Thirteen of the 21 gymnasts on the 2019 team competed in at least one meet for the Beavers last season
• Redshirt junior Lacy Dagen and sophomore Lexie Gonzales as well as freshmen Madi Dagen and Kristina Peterson made their Beaver debuts in the season opener at Illinois ... Sophomore Colette Yamaoka made her career debut against Utah.
• The Beavers have three gymnasts that hail from the state of Oregon - Lena Greene (Tigard), Jaime Law (Corvallis) and Alex McClung (Salem).
• OSU also has three gymnasts from outside the United State - Mariana Colussi-Pelaez and Sabrina Gill (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) and Isis Lowery (Melbourne, Australia).
• The Beavers return 22 out of 24 routines from the 2018 NCAA Regionals lineup. Both graduated routines by (Dani Dessaints and Shireen Khamedoost) were on the uneven bars.

A LOOK BACK AT 2018
• OSU advanced to the postseason for the 44th consecutive season.
• The Beavers traveled to Raleigh, N.C. for NCAA Regionals in April as the third seed. Oregon State counted two falls, the first of the season, on the balance beam in the final rotation and finished sixth in meet. OSU's final ranking was No. 27.
• All four of OSU's lineups were ranked among the top 25 in the nation. The floor lineup was the highest ranked for the Beavers at No. 7 (49.380 regional qualifying score), vault was 18th (49.135), beam was also ranked 18th (49.165) and bars finished at No. 21 (49.200).
• Oregon State 'hit' 274 out of 288 (95.1%) routines in 2018.
• Kaitlyn Yanish (FX) earned NACGC/W Regular Season Second Team All-America. Yanish was also named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Second Team on the floor exercise as a freshman in 2018.
• Dani Dessaints was named as one of 10 finalists for the AAI Award, annually given to the top senior gymnast in the nation.
• Oregon State went an undefeated 5-0 at Gill Coliseum in 2018 including four wins over Top 25 teams - No. 23 Stanford, No. 12 Arizona State, No. 24 Arizona and No. 21 BYU.

LOADING UP FOR 2020
In November, three gymnasts signed the National Letters of Intent to join the Oregon State gymnastics program for the 2019-20 academic year. Kayla Bird (Chandler, Ariz.), Jenna Domingo (Honolulu, Hawai'i) and Jane Poniewaz (Henderson, Nev.) are scheduled to enroll at Oregon State this coming summer ... In addition, 2018 signee Jade Carey (Phoenix, Ariz.), who has deferred her enrollment this year to train for the U.S. National Team, plans to attend OSU in the future. Carey earned a pair of silver medals for Team USA at the 2017 World Championships.