The end is near.

Saturday will be the last hurrah for Pac-12 gymnastics.

No. 11 UCLA gymnastics will compete at the Pac-12 championships in West Valley City, Utah on Saturday in the night session. The Bruins will match their team score to eight Pac-12 teams, including two top-5 teams in the nation – No. 2 California and No. 5 Utah.

The Pac-12 hosted its first conference championship in 1987, after which the Bruins were crowned champions for the event’s first four years. And ever since, UCLA has won 19 Pac-12 championships and seven NCAA championships while in the conference.

The Bruins last clinched the Pac-12 championship in 2019. They earned two perfect 10s on floor and one on bars from then-senior Katelyn Ohashi, 2019 Pac-12 Specialist of the Year, and then-junior Kyla Ross – 2019 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year.

Valorie Kondos Field led UCLA at the time, and current graduate student Margzetta Frazier was just starting her first of six years in Westwood.

“This program is so special and it’s legendary, down to Kerri Strug, like there’s so many legends and there’s so much history, it’s absolutely iconic,” Frazier said. “You have no choice but to be successful when you step foot into this program.”

She added that the program is in good hands and is only going up from here.

Last weekend, UCLA earned the third-highest team score in program history. Frazier made her season debut on floor, and senior Chae Campbell returned to floor for the first time since January – earning her first perfect 10 on the event this season.

Coach Janelle McDonald said the pair’s previous absence in the lineup prevented the team from feeling calm.

“Having those veteran competitors back in the lineup, it really just makes everybody feel like we can attack what we do wholeheartedly and really go after our best performance,” McDonald said.

Competing against two top-5 nationally ranked gymnastics programs will likely require a similar performance.

Cal – back-to-back Pac-12 regular season co-champions – has two of the top-5 all-arounders in the nation, eMjae Frazier and Mya Lauzon, who rank second and fifth, respectively. Utah has won the last three consecutive Pac-12 championships and four regular season titles before Cal broke that winning streak this season.

Sophomore Selena Harris contributed to last weekend’s historic performance with her own history-making all-around score of 39.900 – the highest all-around figure in the Pac-12 this season and on par with the second-highest all-around score in program history.

The Las Vegas local said she equates training with her veteran teammates to training with United States Olympian Simone Biles.

“I’ve watched them (the seniors and graduate students) on YouTube since I was like 11,” Harris said. “They’re just so strong-willed women, like they are going to get the job done.”

With consistency from Harris and veteran presence in its lineups, UCLA could etch itself into Pac-12 history as the conference’s first and last champion.