--- title: UCLA Gymnast Sophina DeJesus Nae Naes in Routine: Video description: Someone needs to put her in a Beyonce video immediately canonical: https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T16:23:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:50.531Z og:title: Watch This College Gymnast's Incredible Routine Filled With Dance Moves og:description: Someone needs to put her in a Beyoncé video immediately og:url: https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This College Gymnast's Incredible Routine Filled With Dance Moves twitter:description: Someone needs to put her in a Beyoncé video immediately twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This College Gymnast's Incredible Routine Filled With Dance Moves by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 9, 2016 4:23 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 9, 2016 4:23 PM UTC UCLA gymnast Sophina DeJesus dazzled the crowd with her nearly-flawless floor routine over the weekend. Sure, her layouts and back handsprings were excellent, but it was her hip hop dance moves that really stole the show. Things start off a little awkward when the announcer calls her by the name of one of her teammates, but soon, everyone forgets all about that. Between her tumbling passes,[ she whips, she nae naes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW8wmF5VWc), she [dabs](http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/11/16/nfl-nba-dab-dance-cam-newton-lebron-james). She radiates confidence. She belongs in a Beyoncé video. In the meantime, someone set DeJesus’s routine to Kanye West’s “Facts.” It works quite well: > [](https://twitter.com/StreetTeamAC/status/696955898087002112) “I love dancing,” DeJesus[ told](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/sports/olympics/ucla-gymnastics-whip-nae-nae-sophina-dejesus.html?%5Fr=0) the New York _Times_. “I wanted to end my senior year with a bang.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/"},"headline":"Watch This College Gymnast's Incredible Routine Filled With Dance Moves","datePublished":"2016-02-09T16:23:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:50.531Z","description":"Someone needs to put her in a Beyoncé video immediately","url":"https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4213627/ucla-gymnast-sophina-dejesus-dance-routine/","name":"Watch This College Gymnast's Incredible Routine Filled With Dance Moves"}}]}] ```