Cami Bea Austin, L10 at River City Gymnastics, has committed to Centenary. This season she placed 1st AA at the Blues and BBQ Invitational (1st V/FX) and at the Crimson Classic (1st V/BB). She won vault and floor at the Atlanta Paws for a Cause and she placed 7th AA at the St. Louis Classic.
We've passed the mid-point of the season and we're approaching the final stretch. With March we see a mad dash to secure coveted Regional Seeds and qualifying spots. The National Rankings have now switched to the Regional Qualifying Score or RQS. The RQS is computed by taking a team's top three away meet scores and assembling the next highest three scores (home or away). The high is discarded and the results are averaged. The Top 36 teams qualify to the Regionals, and the Top 18 are seeded and distributed among the six Regional sites (more on this later).
Rachel Dugan, L10 at Bartlett Gymnastics in Illinois, has committed to Pitt. She has placed in the top 5 all around at three meets this season: St.Judes, Bravo Classic and Circle of Stars. She recently won a bars title at the Chicago Style.
Logan and Leighton Varnadore expect to graduate early and join the USU team for the 2017-18 season. They compete at Level 10 for Aiken Gymnastics. Leighton placed 1st AA and swept the events at the Louisville Holiday Classic. She placed 1st AA and 1st on vault and bars at the Hilton Head Invitational and 8th AA at the Fiesta Bowl.
Logan has only competed at the Louisville Holiday Classic this season, placing 2nd AA.
OU is the top squad in the Men's CGA National Rankings for the week of February 29th, taking all 18 first place votes. Stanford is 2nd and Ohio State is third.
Host Oregon State came from behind to defeat Stanford in the Monday night Pac 12 meet of the week. Frosh McKenna Singley won the FX to lead a pack of five Beavers in front. Teammates Risa Perez and Madeline Gardiner shared the BB title with Stanford's Elizabeth Price and Rachel Daum. On UB, OSU's Katyanna McMillan shared the crown with Price. Price also won VT and the AA (39.55).
Link: Stanford Release
Rachael Flam, L10 at Stars Gymnastics, has committed to Stanford according to her gym's website. Rachael has earned three 1st place finishes this season: the Sand Dollar, Gliders Invitational and the Charleston Cup. She has also earned four vault titles, two bars titles and three floor titles.
USAG bio with video links
Aleeza Yu, Canadian International Elite, has committed to Stanford. Aleeza has competed internationally for several years. She recently placed 7th AA; 3rd Beam and 8th Floor at Elite Canada.
The Women's National Rankings are in their second week of using the Regional Qualifying Score, or RQS. However, OU remains #1 and UF #2, just ahead of Bama. We're seeing quite a bit of movement as the teams race to qualify for Regionals. The RQS takes the top three AWAY scores and combines them with the next three highest HOME or AWAY scores, tosses out the HIGH, and AVERAGES the rest.
Kent State used a consistent effort to defeat host CMU. Rachel Stypinski led the way, winning BB and tying for the FX title with CMU's Taylor Bolender. For CMU, Kasey Janowicz won the AA (39.15) and the VT. Teammate Megan Lamphere won the UB.
Link: CMU Release
Drew Aldridge, L10 at All Olympia, has announced her commitment to North Carolina. Drew competed to a 2nd place finish at the Chow's Challenge and earned the vault title. She also placed picked up the vault title at the Gymnastics Legends and 4th in the all around
Season-highs abounded as host GWU posted a 196.6 to overcome strong outings from Maryland, Rutgers, and Towson. Cami Drouin-Allaire led the way, winning the VT and FX and tying for the AA title with teammate Jillian Winstanley (39.35). Winstanley tied for the UB title with Towson's Tyra McKellar. GWU's Liz Pfeiler tied for the BB title with Towson's Mary Elle Arduino.
Link: Release
Host UC Davis posted a 195.225 to defeat the Seawolves. Six Aggies shared the four events: Katy Nogaki won the VT while Miranda Holder and Dani Judal tied for the UB title. On BB, Alexis Brown and Stephanie Stamates shared top honors, while on FX, Yasmine Yektaparast won the title.
Link: UAA Release
Illinois posted a solid road score of 195.85 in a win over Lindenwood. They picked up a pair of wins from Gianna O'Connor and Sunny Kato. Kato won the UB title and shared the BB title with teammate Lizzy LeDuc. O'Connor won the AA with a 39.375 and shared the VT title with teammate Erin Buchanan. Lindenwood's Rachel Zabawa won the FX.
Link: Release
MSU posted an important 195.1 road score in a quad meet win at Illinois State. Lisa Burt led the way, winning UB and the AA (39.25). She also tied for the FX title with Illinois State's Meredith LaRoche. WMU's Anna Corbett won another VT title while Illinois State's Amanda Mohler won BB.
Link: WMU Release
Brown and host Cornell tied for the Ivy Classic, defeating Yale and Penn. Brown was led by Jorden Mitchell, who won FX and the AA (38.85). Cornell was led by Kaitlin Green, who won BB and tied for the UB title with Penn's Elyse Shenberger. Cornell frosh Malia Mackey won VT.
Link: Release