OU retains its lead at the top of the GymInfo Women's National Rankings for the week of January 20th. LSU is 2nd and Florida is third and is the top team on BB. UGA is the leader on UB and Utah is the top team on vault. UCLA leads the FX.
UCLA held off Oregon State, overcoming problems on BB to post a 49.45 on FX and take the meet. Sydney Sawa won VT and FX (9.975) to lead the Bruins. Teammates Sophina DeJesus and Danusia Francis won UB and BB, respectively.
Link: Results
Stanford scored a tri-meet win on Sunday, led by Kristina Vaculik's 39.425 AA win. Vaculik also won the UB and shared the FX title with teammate Pauline Hanset. Teammate Amanda Spinner won the BB. Arizona's Shelby Edwards and Kristin Klarenbach tied for the vault title with Stanford's Nicolette McNair.
Link: Arizona Release
Ursinus scored an easy win at home, led by wins from Kristina Steffenhagen and Kristin Aichele on floor and vault, respectively. For Ithaca, Shilanna Gallo won UB and Lara Haberle won BB.
Link: Release
Wisconsin Whitewater rolled to the win, led by a 1 go 6 sweep of the UB, led by Cici Talcott. That was enough to offset Hamline, who was powered by Courtney Benson. Benson won the AA (37.925), BB and FX. Teammate Kambria Blakely won the VT.
Link: UW Whitewater Release
Rutgers continued its roll of 195+ meets with a win over host Ohio State. Luisa Leal again led the way for Rutgers, winning the AA with a 39.25. She tied for the FX title with Melanie Shaffer of Ohio State. Teammate Jenna Williams tied for the BB title with Ohio State's Victoria Aepli. Aepli also won the UB. The Buckeyes Sarah Miller won the VT.
Link: Ohio State Release
Lindsay Mable of Minnesota won the Vault and tied for the FX title with teammate Kylie Schermann en route to a 39.45 AA win. Teammate Cierra Tomson won the UB. UNH's Kayla Gray won the BB, as the Wildcats outpointed the Gophers on that event.
Link: UNH Release
Kent State's Marie Case won the floor and tied for the UB title (with NC States Brittni Watkins and Stephanie Ouellette) to lead the hosts to the win. Watkins won the VT, BB and AA (39.4) to pace the Wolfpack.
Link: Kent State Release
Raine Gordon, L10 at Waller's in California, has accepted a scholarship offer from UNC. Last seasn Raine qualified to regionals. So far this season she has competed to a 3rd place finish on floor at the OC Classic (9th AA) and the Texas Prime (5th AA).
A final rotation comeback lifted Michigan to a win in a close team race at the Windy City Invite. Ohio State and Illinois tied for second at 436.05, just behind Michigan's 437.5. Minnesota was fourth at 424.8, Iowa fifth at 417.7, and UIC sixth at 395.5.
Event winner:
FX: Chandler Eggleston, Illinois, 15.1
PH: Michael Newburger, Ohio State, 16.25
R: CJ Maestas, Illinois and Drew Moling, Ohio Statee, 15.5
VT: Larry Mayer, Ohio State, 15.8
PB: Misha Koudinov, Ohio State and Adrian de los Angeles, Michigan, 15.15
HB: Jordan Valdez, Illinois, 15.45
AA: Ellis Mannon, Minnesota, 87.05
Link: UIC Release
TWU set a home opener record in a win over Air Force. For TWU, TWU Brittany Johnson led the way, posting a win on UB and BB. Teammates Bethany Larimer and Brittany Montalbano won the vault and floor, respectively.
Link: TWU Release
The hosts won the meet to move to 3-0 for the season. Frosh Majesta Valentine won the BB and FX en route to a 37.425 AA win to lead her squad. Teammate Emily Seigel won the UB.
For Cortland State, Meghan Goyden won VT.
Nebraska posted a 196.25 to hold off Bama at 196.05. Kentucky posted a 194.65.
Nebraska was led again by Emily Wong, who posted a 39.55 to win the AA. She also won the FX and tied for the UB title with Bama's Kaitlyn Clark. Teammate Jennifer Lauer claimed the BB crown. For Bama, Lauren Beers added a win on VT.
Link: UK Release
Winners by event:
FX: Ismael Sanabria, PSU 15.1
PH: Conner Venrick, Army, 14.6
R: Ryan Ponce, Springfield, 15.3
V: Tristan Duverglas, PSU, 15.2
PB: Landon Funiciello, W&M, 14.85
HB: Matt Felleman, PSU, 14.95
Link: W&M Release
Sooner Kanji Oyama won the AA (88.55) and tied for the PB title with teammate Presten Ellsworth as OU rolled to an easy win.
Link: OU Release
Stanford frosh Akash Modi posted a huge 90.1 to win the AA and lead his team to a win.
Link: Cal Release