UK's Audrey Harrison led her squad to a big win in the quad meet, posting a 39.075 AA win. Harrison also won BB and tied for the FX title with teammate Kayla Hartley and PSU's Sidney Sanabria-Robles and Randi Lau. WVU's Jaida Lawrence won the vault, while teammate Alexa Goldberg won UB.
Link: WVU Release
Towson's Samantha Lutz won the AA with a 38.1 but it wasn't enough as Pitt powered to wins on all four events. Brittney Harris won VT and Bars while teammate Katie O'Rourke won BB and tied for the FX title with teammate Lindsay Offutt.
Link: Pitt Release
ASU Head Coach John Spini will retire at the end of this season, according to a school release. He has led ASU for the last 34 years, including four 2nd place finishes at the National Championships. He coached individuals to 10 NCAA titles and 81 All American honors.
Link: ASU Release
Stanford won the NorCal Challenge Sunday afternoon, defeating North state rivals Cal, UC Davis, San Jose State and host Sacramento State. Stanford was led by Kristina Vaculik's meet-high 9.875 UB win. Teammates Melissa Chuang, frosh Sophia Lee, and Cal's Serena Leong tied for the vault title. Another teammate, Taylor Rice, tied for the FX title with UC Davis' Stephanie Stamates, SJSU's Julia Greer, and Cal's Alicia Asturias. Asturias took the AA title (39.175) and tied for the beam title with Stanford's Amanda Spinner, Greer, and Sac State's Kailey Hansen and Kalliah McCartney.
Link: Results and UC Davis Release
Penn State used an advantage on vault and FX to hold off the hosts. They were led by LSU transfer Randi Lau, who won vault. ISU's Caitlin Brown won the AA with a 38.9; she also tied for the beam title with teammate Alex Marasco. Teammate Henrietta Green won the UB with a 9.825 and tied for the FX title with teammate Milan Ivory.
Link: PSU Release
CMU swept at least the top four places in every event to an impressive 194.45 opening tally. Four different Chippewas claimed an event victory: Brittany Petzold on Vault, Karlee Teet on UB, Taylor Noonan on BB, and Halle Moraw with a meet-high 9.875 on FX.
Link: UW EC Release
Illinois State's Samantha King won the AA with a 39.0. King also won the BB and FX. For Ball State, Erin Patchey won the vault while teammate Angela Durkac tied with Illinois State's Jenna Bossle for the UB title.
Link: Illinois St Release
The season kicked off with UW La Crosse's win over host UW Oshkosh on Friday night. Kari Willett won the vault and beam to lead the Eagles, while teammate Ali Berry won the floor exercise. Oshkosh's Stefanni Meusburger won the UB.
Link: UW LC Release
The Capsule Previews Top 25 Women's Teams as determined by the Preseason Coaches' Poll are now available. In each case, we summarized the rosters and list of newcomers, and we've quickly summarized their propsects and challenges. Defending Champion Florida seeks to retain their title. But who will challenge? And which 12 teams are in the best position to make Nationals this April?
The NCAA has announced Regional and National sites through 2018. Here's the video: Link
Troester GymInfo has released the Preseason Coaches' poll and to no one's surprise, Florida tops the rankings. Alabama, Oklahoma, UCLA and LSU round out the top five. Florida received 21 first place votes. #2 Bama received none, but #3 OU received 7. UCLA received one and Utah two.
SUU, USU, Boise State, Denver and BYU have announced the formation of a new five team gymnastics conference.
Do your part to help save Temple Men's Gymnastics, which is proposed to be cut after this season by their administration. They have less than 2,700 signatures left to their goal of 10,000.