Oregon State’s Jade Carey competes on the uneven bars in the course of the NCAA girls’s gymnastics championships in Fort Value, Texas, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photograph/Tony Gutierrez)
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Vancouver native and Prairie Excessive Faculty alum Jordan Chiles gained the NCAA gymnastics title on the uneven bars as she helped her UCLA Bruins advance to the Closing 4 on the NCAA girls’s gymnastics championships on Thursday.
Utah clinched its fifth straight Closing 4 look, becoming a member of the opposite semifinal winners Oklahoma and Missouri.
The Utes, who posted a prime rating of 197.7625, are searching for so as to add to their NCAA-leading 9 championship titles on Saturday — with their first win since 1995. UCLA (197.7375) goes for its eighth nationwide title.
LSU, the No. 1 general seed and defending champion, was denied an opportunity at a repeat. The Tigers moved into second after the third rotation when Amari Drayton, Aleah Finnegan and Haleigh Bryant every notched scores of 9.9 or higher on ground.
Emma Malabuyo secured UCLA’s bid to the championship after posting a 9.9750 on beam. The Bruins turned three straight 9.9s to shut the rotation.
Utah’s bar rotation counted scores had been all above 9.9.
Chiles, an alum of Naydenov Gymnastics, adopted UCLA teammate Frida Esparza’s 9.9250 on uneven bars with a 9.9750 to take the highest spot. Chiles joined teammate Brooklyn Moors (ground) as particular person champions.
Jordan Bowers’ all-around rating of 39.7125 from the afternoon session held as much as develop into a champion for Oklahoma.
Oregon State’s Jade Carey wanted 9.9375 on the vault to tie Bowers for the all-around title however had a hop on the touchdown and completed fourth.
For Chiles, who was fifth within the all-around, successful the uneven bars title was her third particular person NCAA crown having gained uneven bars and ground train in 2023.
LSU freshman Kailin Chio claimed the vault championship with a 9.975 to develop into the nineteenth particular person champion by a Tiger and the eighth within the vault competitors.
First semifinal
Oklahoma (197.550) is headed to the finals for the eleventh time within the final 12 years — looking for a seventh nationwide title. Missouri (197.3000) earned a spot within the NCAA last for the primary time in program historical past, with their earlier greatest end of fifth in 2022.
A 49.275 on vault secured the victory for the Sooners.
Helen Hu posted a 9.9875 on beam to clinch the Tigers’ spot in dramatic vogue.
Florida was in second place behind Oklahoma coming into the third rotation. However the Gators turned in a season-low vault rating of 49.0750, permitting Missouri to maneuver into second heading to the ultimate rotation.
