CMU won the quad meet at UW Eau Claire, improving from Sunday's opener. CMU's Karlee Teet while teammate Taylor Bolender won the FX, both with 9.825s. Katy Clement led a 1-4 CMU sweep on the BB, as the team improved from their issues on the event Sunday. Frosh Kasey Janowicz won the AA again, posting a 38.625. UW Whitewater's Chloe Rehberg won the VT with a 9.75.
Link: CMU Release
Utah defeated BYU in front of a huge crowd of 15,023 on opening night in Huntsman. The Utes were led by Baely Rowe's 9.925 UB win. Teammate Kailah Delaney won the VT while frosh Sabrina Schwab took the FX with a 9.9. Utah's Maddy Stover tied for the BB with BYU's Makenzie Johnson Halliday (Who was married in the offseason to Utah's placekicker). Halliday won the AA with a 38.875.
Link: Utah Release
Host Missouri defeated #15 Illinois on Friday night. They were led by Shauna Miller, who won VT with a 9.85. Teammate Britney Ward, a frosh tied with Illinois' Giana O'Connor for the BB title while Tiger Kennedi Harris tied with O'Connor for the FX title. O'Connor won the AA with a 39.275. Teammate Mary Jane Horth won the UB with a meet-high 9.9.
Link: Mizzou Release
Head Coach Tabitha Yim scored her first victory as the new leader of the Arizona program. The Wildcats had five different athletes share event titles: Frosh Lauryn Mattson tied with Madison Cintric for the VT title. Another frosh, Skyler Sheppard, won the BB. Wildcat Gabby Laub tied for the UB title with MSU's Lisa Burt. Arizona's Kennady Schneider tied with MSU's Kira Frederick for the FX title. MSU's Elena Lagoski posted a 38.4 in the AA.
Link: Release
UK frosh Sidney Dukes won the AA to lead the Wildcats to an opening meet win over Ball State. UK competed three frosh in the AA. Dukes also won the UB and tied for the vault title with classmate Katie Stuart. Fellow frosh Alex Hyland won the BB while UK junior Taylor Puryear won the FX.
Link: UK Release
CMU frosh Kasey Janowicz won the AA in her debut with a 38.975 to lead the Chippewas to the win. She also tied for the FX title with teammate Taylor Bolender. CMU completed a sweep, with Karlee Teet winning vault, Bryttany Kaplan and Megan Lamphere winning UB, and Jordan Charrette taking the BB. CMU took a blow before the meet started when they lost standout Kiki Petzold to an injury.
Link: CMU Release
Michigan posted a huge 196.975 to blow away the competition at the Cancun Classic. Arkansas posted a 195.15 and Iowa 192.35. Michigan's Nicole Artz led the way, posting a 9.9 to win UB and a 9.95 to win FX. She amassed a 39.525 to win the AA. Super frosh Olivia Karas was just behind, posting 3 scores above 9.9 for a 39.475 AA. She won BB and VT in her debut.
Note: Different results sheets and press results are showing different tallies for Arkansas and Iowa. These final tallies are what is being shown on the official NCAA score sheets.
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The season begins this evening with the Cancun Classic! Arkansas, Iowa, and Michigan meet at 6pm Central.
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Greg Marsden, Samantha Peszek and Alicia Sacramone Quinn join PAC-12 Network broadcast team as analysts.
The Capsule Previews for the Top 25 Women's Teams, as determined by the Preseason Coaches' Poll, are now available. In each case, we have summarized the rosters and list of newcomers, and quickly summarized their prospects and challenges. But who will challenge? And which 12 teams are in the best position to make Nationals this April?
Oklahoma tops the Women's Preseason Coaches' Poll, with Florida 32 points behind in second. Bama is third, just four points ahead of Utah. OU amassed 29 first place votes, while Florida has 15. Utah has 14 first place votes. The Poll is now administered by RoadToNationals (replacing Troester.com).
Former UCLA signee Simone Biles won golds on BB and FX, blowing away the field, to win her third and fourth golds of the Championships. OU commit Maggie Nichols picked up a bronze on BB. Former OU Sooner Chris Brooks was 6th on HB. The USA's Donnell Whittenburg won the bronze on VT (Ri Se Gwang of PRK won the Gold) while teammate Danell Leyva won the Silver on HB (Kohei Uchimura won the Gold). Leyva was also sixth on PB.
Link: USA Gymnastics
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UCLA signee Madison Kocian tied for the UB gold at the World Championships. She tied with Yilin Fan of China and Russia's Viktoria Komova and Daria Spiridonova. The USA's Gabrielle Douglas was fifth, and LSU commit Ruby Harrold was 7th. Simone Biles of the USA won the Bronze on VT; Maria Paseka of Russia won the gold.
Former OU Sooner Alex Naddour was seventh on the PH, while former Ohio State standout Brandon Wynn was fifth on the Rings. The USA's Donnell Whittenburg was 8th on Rings. Japan's amazing Kenzo Shirai won FX, while the UK went 1-2 on PH with Max Whitlock winning the Gold. Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias joyfully won his country's first gold on Rings, qualifying to the Olympics in the process.
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King Kohei (Uchimura) of Japan won his sixth straight World AA title. Cuba's Manrique Larduet was 2nd while China's Shudi Deng was 3rd. Donnell Whittenburg of the US was 8th while teammate Danell Leyva was 17th.
Link: USA Gymnastics