Sophina DeJesus (UCLA) Floor 2016 vs Utah 9.925She MURDERED it! Sophina DeJesus of UCLA, everybody.
Posted by Marcus Cheatham on Saturday, February 6, 2016
While most of the country’s politics fans were following election results from New Hampshire, the rest of the world was sharing a Facebook video of UCLA gymnast Sophia DeJesus taking the sport to a whole new level of hip-hop goodness.
As of this posting, the video showing DeJesus’ floor exercise from Saturday has eclipsed 25 million views on Facebook and another five million on YouTube. It even led to another video from the PAC 12 where DeJesus explains her routine and the online reaction to it:
As DeJesus’ Internet fame grows, people are getting to know more about her. According to her own Ask.fm profile, DeJesus identifies as Black and Puerto Rican. In addition —and this is perhaps the coolest tidbit— as child DeJesus was a dancer on the show “Hip Hop Harry.”
We thought she looked familiar ?@uclagymnastics' Sophina DeJesus was a child ? on the hit TV show "Hip Hop Harry!" pic.twitter.com/Oox77ypuD1
— Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) February 6, 2016
DeJesus might have gotten a score of 9.925 on Saturday, but so far it’s been all 10s for her this week.