UCLA posted a 197.5625 to edge LSU's 197.475 and advance to the Super Six Finals. Nebraska posted a 197.0125 to secure the third and final spot. A trio of teams from the SEC completed the round: UGA at 196.6875, Bama at 196.625 and Arkansas 196.425. UCLA's Kyla Ross posted the top AA mark at a 39.6375. She also held the top mark on UB (9.95), while teammates Peng-Peng Lee (9.9875) leads on BB and Katelyn Ohashi (9.9625) leads on FX. On vault, UGA's Sydney Snead and NU's Taylor Houchin were tied at 9.9
PSU redshirt junior Noah Roberson won the Elite 90 Award for Men's Gymnastics, which goes to the athlete at the finals (with sophomores or above) with the highest cumulative GPA. He won last season as well. He holds a 4.0 GPA with a double major in biomedical and mechanical engineering.
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Ohio State's Sean Melton won the Nissen-Emery Award for 2018. It honors the top senior male.
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Florida officially announced that Trinity Thomas has signed her NLI for 2018-2019. They also confirmed that Halley Taylor will join the squad for next season. The commits of both were covered in prior news items.
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Stanford's Elizabeth Price was named winner of the AAI Award, the award given to the top senior student-athlete.
NU's Dani Breen won the Elite 90 award, the award given to the athlete at the Finals with the highest cumulative GPA.
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TWU's Schyler Jones continued her dominant ways in winning VT and tying for first on BB and FX at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals. She also tied for 2nd on BB and won the AA last Friday. Yale's Jessica Wang won UB while TWU's Alyssa Kelly shared the BB title. Air Force's Tyler Davis and Bridgeport's Maya Reimers shared the FX title.
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TWU won its 11th USA Gymnastics Collegiate National title, posting a record score of 196.525. Lindenwood posted a 195.8 for 2nd, just ahead of Air Force's 195.675. Cornell was 4th at 193.65. TWU was led by newly crowned AA champion (on Friday) Schyler Jones, who posted a 39.425 AA and the top night's top marks on VT and FX.
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Here are the Top 7 finishers (qualifiers to JO Nationals) from Regional meets throughout the country, in the Senior Age Group, with their schools. Only gymnasts with scores over 35.0 are shown. The list will be updated throughout the weekend.
The final field is set for the USA Collegiate Gymnastics Championships, with four teams advancing to finals on Saturday. Air Force, Lindenwood, TWU and Cornell will battle it out for the team title. TWU's Schyler Jones won the AA with a record 39.6.
Rutgers has announced that Louis Levine's contract has not been renewed. Assistant Coach Anne Meade will serve as interim Head Coach pending a new hire.
Jasmine Gutierrez from SCEGA has committed to ASU. She finished 1st AA at the 2016 L9 Western Championships. After competing just two events in her 2017 meets,she was back in the all around this season. She recently placed 9th AA at her SoCal meet.
Navy posted a 405.5 to win the ECAC Championships in front of a home crowd.
Champions were crowned at the B1G Gymnastics Event Finals.