Gabriela Jaquez is the star of UCLA's championship victory
Camarillo High graduate Gabriela Jaquez did it all in the NCAA women’s championship game for UCLA, finishing with a game-high 21 points in the Bruins’ rout of South Carolina.
The legend of Gabriela Jaquez won’t stop growing. In the final basketball game of her UCLA career, “All-Gas Gabs,” the pride of Camarillo and Westwood, propelled her team to a 79-51 rout of South Carolina in the women’s college basketball championship game on Sunday, April 5, to help the program secure its first national championship in the NCAA era. “I imagined this moment,” a tearful Jaquez told ESPN’s Holly Rowe after the game.
“I imagined it so many times. I am just so, so proud. All the fans being here to support us, my family being here, it just means everything.
Celebrating with this group. Oh my God, I am so happy. ” In her storybook four-year career at UCLA, Jaquez became the winningest women’s basketball player in program history with a 124 victories.
She got to end it with a masterpiece of a final chapter. The Camarillo High graduate, who was named the 2021-22 Ventura County Star Basketball Player of the Year, was phenomenal on the championship stage in Phoenix. She led all scorers with 21 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out five assists.