Stanford posted a 421.488 to win the first Semi-Final at the Men's NCAA Championships. Nebraska was 2nd at 410.124 and Illinois was 3rd at 405.524. All three teams advance to the finals, along with various individual qualifiers. Air Force posted a 399.222 for 4th, followed by Navy (392.491) and Army (384.523).
Link: Results
Link: Stanford Release
The USA Gymnastics Development Program Level 10 Regionals are this weekend, creating a packed few days of competition. The future NCAAers are all trying to advance to the WDP Nationals in May. Here are the Top 7 finishers (over 35.0 AA) and event winners, along with their schools. The Top 7 automatically advance to Nationals (as long as they post a 35+ AA). Additional AAers will be assigned where there are less than seven qualifiers from other regions, based on the three regions with the largest number of competitors. After the Regional Teams have been filled out, two additional AAers (over 35.0) for each age group in the Region will be added as Wildcard competitors. In addition, the top five event scorers from each Region (across all age groups) will be invited as a Wildcard Individual Event Specialists. We are showing only the 2023 and 2024 grads.
At the conclusion of the second semi-final, NCAA Champions were crowed in the individual events. AA: Maile O'Keefe, Utah, 39.7625 VT: Olivia Tratuman, OU, 9.95 UB: Jordan Chiles, UCLA, 10 BB: O'Keefe, 10 FX: Chiles, UCLA, 9.9875
Utah posted a 198.225 to win Semi-Final #2. OU was just behind at 198.1625. UCLA was 3rd at 197.9125, held back by just a 49.175 on VT. Kentucky was 4th at 197.125. Utah's Maile O'Keefe won the AA with a 39.7625, ahead of UCLA's Jordan Chiles (39.7125) and LSU's Haleigh Bryant (39.6875 in the 1st session).
LSU stayed the most consistent overall to win Semi-Final #1 with a score of 197.475. Florida was second at 197.4, after posting a shakey (but no-fall) 49.0875 on BB. UB was Cal's problem event, with a counting fall while DU struggled on BB (48.55). LSU's Haleigh Bryant was the top AAer in Semi-Final 1 at 39.6875. Top marks by event: VT - Lynnzee Brown, DU & Courtney Blackson, Boise St 9.925; UB - Trinity Thomas, UF, 9.95; BB -- Chloe Widner, Stanford 9.95; FX -- Leanne Wong, UF and Aleah Finnegan, LSU 9.9625. The AA and event champions will be determined after Semi-Final #2 tonight.
Link: Results
OU junior Meilei Sullivan has been award the NCAA Elite 90 Award for Women's Gymnastics. The award is given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at the Championships. She holds a 4.0 GPA with a major in Arts & Sciences Planned Major.
Link: Release
Michigan's Sierra Brooks has been named the winner of the 2023 AAI Award. The award is given to the top senior athlete.
Link: Release
The Event Finals at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals crowned event champions on each event. TWU's Daisy Woodring won Vault. Lindenwood's Kaylee Cooper won the UB while teammate Nya Kraus won BB. Brown's Julia Bedell won FX.
In a thrilling and close finale, Lindenwood took the USAG Collegiate Natonial title. They posted a 195.325 to defeat last year's champ TWU, at 194.9. SEMO was just a sliver behind at 194.875, and Air Force just 0.05 behind in 4th at 194.825.
Link: Results and LU Release
Iowa State has announced a coaching change: Head Coach Jay Roynane will depart after 17 years. The Cyclones failed to make Regionals for only the 2nd time since 1996-1997 (excluding the abbreviated 2019-2020 season).
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Session 1 winner Lindenwood (195.625) and Air Force (193.85) will join Session 2 winner TWU (195.475) and SEMO (194.3) in the Finals at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals. The Finals will be held Friday. Air Force's Velandra Brochi won the AA title, edging Lindenwood's Jaly Jones with a 39.125 to 39.1. SEMO's Lydia Webb was third.
Pitts has announced a coaching change and that former Head Coach Samantha Snider will be departing the program. Pitt failed to qualify for Regionals, an event they hosted. Pitt AD Heather Lyke said, "Watching the NCAA Gymnastics Regional Championships at the Petersen Events Center this past weekend only reinforced my belief that our program can be a major contender in the ACC and nationally". This begins the annual post-season coaching shuffle, as well as the potential recruiting shuffles.
Link: Release
OU placed first in the final National Rankings for the week of March 20th, as compiled by RoadToNationals.com. The teams are ordered by taking their last Regionals score and adding it to their final NQS score. The teams are clustered by how far they advanced through the Championships: Top 8, Top 16, Top 32, Top 36 and final NQS.