National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships
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NATIONAL COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK 2017 Championship 2 History 4 National Seeds 18 Regionals 20 Brackets 22 2017 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Oklahoma repeats as national champions with stunning performance: One of the things Oklahoma coach K.J. Kindler wanted from her team after the semifinal was to be calm at the start of the 2017 Women’s National Collegiate Gymnastics Championships. As the cliché goes, the Sooners were calm, cool and collected when they hit the floor on the uneven parallel bars Saturday evening in front of a charged-up crowd of 6,057 at Chaifetz Arena. They scored a 49.5875 and the Sooners’ best came in the next rotation. “They were completely at ease,” Kindler said. “They got in that place and they were in a special place.” Capped by a perfect 10 from freshman Maggie Nichols, Oklahoma scored a national championship record of 49.70 on the balance beam, eclipsing the old mark of 49.60 by UCLA in 2004. “It was amazing to get that 10 just because I had that mistake yesterday,” Nichols said. “I wanted to show everyone I could help our team.” LSU later broke the balance beam record with a score of 49.725, but it wasn’t near enough to help the Tigers close in on Oklahoma. That was how special the Sooners’ performance was Saturday evening. The first two events the Sooners competed in gave the Sooners a lead that they did not relinquish as they repeated as national champions. The Sooners have now won three national titles in the last four years. They shared the title with Florida in 2014. Oklahoma finished with a score of 198.3875, followed by LSU with a score of 197.7375 and Florida finished third with a score of 197.700. “We did have a feeling it was going to be a special night,” said Oklahoma senior Chayse Capps. “For this entire championship, our saying has been, ‘end on empty,’ and that is exactly what we wanted to do. Going out there and being able to accomplish that was incredible.” After sparkling performances in their first two events, the Sooners were just as dynamic in the floor exercise. Senior Charity Jones got it rolling with a 9.875 and it only got better from there. “I am so blessed to be on this team and to win back-to-back national championships is something we worked hard for all season,” Jones said. “This team is truly special.” Junior Natalie Brown and sophomore Brenna Dowell followed Jones and each scored 9.9. Capps took it up another notch with a 99.125 and Nichols topped that by scoring 9.95. Junior AJ Jackson concluded the floor exercise for Oklahoma with a 9.9. “I love our seniors,” Jackson said. “They are one of a kind. They push us to be our best and they led us to be here.” The consistently strong performance by Oklahoma on the floor exercise earned the Sooners a 49.6125. Oklahoma finished its evening on the vault and the final two were nearly flawless. Jackson scored a 9.95 and Nichols a 9.9625. Before the championship round started Saturday evening, the Sooners knew they had to be better than they were in the semifinals on Friday. After they com- peted in Semifinal #1, they watched what LSU did in semifinal #2. “We saw how amazing LSU was and they really knocked it out of the park,” Kindler said. “Our coaching staff really worked hard to come up with a way to flip the switch for our team, coming off kind of an average performance for us yesterday.” To get mentally ready to face the challenge of LSU, the Sooners met on four separate occasions to get focused for Saturday. When Capps scored a 9.85 as the first gymnast to perform for Oklahoma in the uneven parallel bars, Kindler knew the Sooners were ready to roll. “The very first bar routine, that first dismount was going to be huge for us,” Kindler said. “Chayse set the tone for the whole meet. She was having trouble on her dismount in warmups. At meet time, she flipped the switch and nailed the dismount.” And what happened after that. “They were just rolling,” Kindler said. “We had just amazing performance after amazing performance. It felt crazy. I almost felt I wasn’t here. It was that amaz- ing.”2017 Results Team Semifinal (Note: Top three teams from each semifinal advanced to the Super Six team final.) Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final Session 1 1. Oklahoma 49.4875 49.5875 49.7000 49.6125 198.3875 Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final 2. LSU 49.3000 49.3875 49.7250 49.3250 197.7375 3. Florida 49.3625 49.5375 49.3000 49.5000 197.7000 1. Oklahoma 49.3500 49.5250 49.5000 49.3500 197.7250 4. UCLA 49.0000 49.4375 49.4875 49.3375 197.2625 2. UCLA 49.2375 49.3625 49.3625 49.5375 197.5000 5. Utah 49.0625 49.3125 49.1500 49.0625 196.5875 3. Utah 49.0875 49.0875 49.3875 49.4875 197.0500 6. Alabama 49.1625 48.8875 48.6250 49.3250 196.0000 4. Washington 49.0250 49.0375 49.1875 49.3125 196.5625 5. Denver 48.9500 49.3000 48.9875 49.2375 196.4750 6. Oregon St. 49.0000 48.9125 49.3625 49.0875 196.3625 Session 2 Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final 1. LSU 49.5625 49.4125 49.5875 49.7125 198.2750 2. Florida 49.5125 49.4250 49.3875 49.4875 197.8125 3. Alabama 49.3625 49.4875 49.3625 49.3875 197.6000 4. Nebraska 49.2500 49.2500 49.3000 49.4125 197.2125 5. Michigan 48.9750 49.3000 48.8125 49.3750 196.4625 6. Georgia 48.9125 49.1625 48.5000 49.2250 195.8000 2017 Championship 2 2017 Individual Results Pl. Name, Team Score (Note: All results taken from team semifinal competition day) Alexandra Yacalis, Washington 9.8125 44. Abby Armbrecht, Alabama 9.8000 All-around Julia Ross, Denver 9.8000 Jennie Laeng, Nebraska 9.8000 Pl. Name, Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Score Erika Aufiero, Oregon St. 9.8000 1. Alex McMurtry, Florida 9.9750 9.9500 9.9375 9.9500 39.8125 Mary Jacobsen, Oregon St. 9.8000 2. MyKayla Skinner, Utah 9.9000 9.8375 9.9125 9.9625 39.6125 Macey Roberts, Utah 9.8000 3. Kiana Winston, Alabama 9.8750 9.9000 9.8875 9.9375 39.6000 Shani Remme, Boise St. 9.8000 4. Sarah Finnegan, LSU 9.7750 9.9500 9.9125 9.9500 39.5875 Camille Drouin-Allaire, George 9.8000 Myia Hambrick, LSU 9.8625 9.8375 9.9375 9.9500 39.5875 Washington 6. Kyla Ross, UCLA 9.8375 9.9500 9.9625 9.8250 39.5750 Alexis Mattern, Ohio St. 9.8000 7. Madison Kocian, UCLA 9.8750 9.8750 9.8625 9.9375 39.5500 53. Morgan Reynolds, Georgia 9.7875 8. Alicia Boren, Florida 9.9000 9.8625 9.8875 9.8500 39.5000 Sydney Snead, Georgia 9.7875 9. Maddie Karr, Denver 9.8750 9.8750 9.8375 9.8875 39.4750 Paige Zaziski, Michigan 9.7875 10. Mollie Korth, Kentucky 9.8875 9.9250 9.8000 9.8375 39.4500 Grace Williams, Nebraska 9.7875 11. Olivia Karas, Michigan 9.9000 9.8250 9.8500 9.8500 39.4250 Madeline Gardiner, Oregon St. 9.7875 12. Amelia Hundley, Florida 9.8500 9.8625 9.8250 9.8750 39.4125 Monica Riley, Washington 9.7875 13. Nicole Artz, Michigan 9.7125 9.9000 9.8750 9.9125 39.4000 Chelsea Raineri, George Washington 9.7875 Baely Rowe, Utah 9.7625 9.8375 9.8750 9.9250 39.4000 60. Nikole Addison, Denver 9.7750 Hailey Burleson, Washington 9.8375 9.8000 9.8875 9.8750 39.4000 Sarah Finnegan, LSU 9.7750 16. Chayse Capps, Oklahoma 9.9000 9.8250 9.9500 9.7125 39.3875 Kaytianna McMillan, Oregon St. 9.7750 MaKenna Merrell, Utah 9.7750 9.8125 9.9000 9.9000 39.3875 MaKenna Merrell, Utah 9.7750 18. Jennie Laeng, Nebraska 9.8000 9.8250 9.8750 9.8750 39.3750 Briannah Tsang, Penn St. 9.7750 19. Taylor Houchin, Nebraska 9.7375 9.8750 9.8625 9.8875 39.3625 Haylee Young, Iowa St. 9.7750 Madeline Gardiner, Oregon St. 9.7875 9.7875 9.9125 9.8750 39.3625 66. Beth Roberts, Georgia 9.7625 Shani Remme, Boise St. 9.8000 9.8500 9.8250 9.8875 39.3625 Brenna Dowell, Oklahoma 9.7625 22. Joslyn Goings, Washington 9.8250 9.7750 9.8875 9.8500 39.3375 Baely Rowe, Utah 9.7625 23. Angel Metcalf, Iowa 9.7250 9.8375 9.8750 9.8750 39.3125 Madison Copiak, Washington 9.7625 24. Julia Ross, Denver 9.8000 9.8875 9.7625 9.8375 39.2875 Sabrina Garcia, Penn St. 9.7625 25. Kaytianna McMillan, Oregon St. 9.7750 9.7375 9.8625 9.9000 39.2750 71. Kaitlyn Schou, Denver 9.7500 26. Alexis Mattern, Ohio St. 9.8000 9.7875 9.7625 9.8500 39.2000 Rachel Fielitz, Denver 9.7500 27. Alex Hyland, Kentucky 9.7375 9.7625 9.8250 9.8625 39.1875 GiGi Marino, Georgia 9.7500 Haylee Young, Iowa St. 9.7750 9.7250 9.8125 9.8750 39.1875 Sabrina Gill, Oregon St. 9.7500 29. Maggie Nichols, Oklahoma 9.9000 9.9500 9.3500 9.9250 39.1250 Erika Muhaw, Utah 9.7500 30.