SUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICS Arizona State Women’s Gymnastics SUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICS 2001 Sun Devil Schedule/Results No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 25 Arizona State 1/5 at Maui Invitational January 26, 2001 • 7:30 p.m. UCLA (196.2) Nebraska (194.95), ASU (191.525) Wells Fargo Arena • Tempe, Ariz. 1/19 ASU (193.75), OSU (193.725) 1/26 UCLA 7:30 p.m. This Week -- 2/2 Washington 7:30 p.m. The No. 25 Arizona State women’s gymnastics squad (1-2) will attempt to defend its 2/9 at Stanford 7:30 p.m. 21-meet home winning streak against defending national champion and current No. 1 2/16 at Utah 7:00 p.m. UCLA (5-0), Friday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Wells Fargo Arena. 2/23 UNO’s Classic 7:00 p.m. Boise State Recent Results -- California Needing a win to avoid being the first Sun Devil team to start 0-3 under head coach UC Santa Barbara John Spini, ASU defeated Oregon State on the road for the first time since 1993. They 3/2 at Arizona 7:30 p.m. did so by a mere .025 points, 193.750-193.725. Laura Moon led the way for ASU with an 3/9 Auburn 7:30 p.m. all-around winning performance of 38.875. 3/16 Iowa 7:00 p.m. Kentucky The Streak -- Nebraska 4/23-24 Pac-10 Champ. TBA If it appears as if ASU’s home winning streak grew in the off-season, it did. Contrary to 4/6-8 NCAA Regionals TBA many recent reports, further statistical review shows that the Sun Devils have won 4/18-22 NCAA Championships TBA their last 21 home meets, defeating 33 opponents. The last team to defeat ASU in Tempe * All times local to site was Utah, which bested the Sun Devils 193.875-193.25, Feb. 2, 1996. That loss was ASU’s first in its last eight home meets, and its first since Utah had snapped a nine- Sun Devils . . . meet home wining streak, Feb. 11, 1994. Thus, ASU has won 37 of its last 39 home 2001 Overall Record: 1-2 meets, defeating 56 opponents. The last team to beat the Sun Devils at home other than vs. Pac-10 Opponents: 1-1 Utah was Oregon State (192.7-192.55) Feb. 7, 1992. vs. Ranked Opponents: 0-2 UCLA (5-0) -- Head Coach John Spini -- Coached by , the defending national champion UCLA Bruins are This is Spini’s 21st year with Arizona ranked as the nation’s top team for a reason. Included on the squad are U.S. Olympi- State. His lifetime record of 252-87-1 is ans in Alyssa Beckerman, Jamie Dantzcher and , Canadian Olympian among the all-time bests at ASU. His and the 2000 NCAA bars and all-around champion, . Sun Devil teams have won four con- Armed with such talent, the Bruins have already posted six perfect 10s and have a ference titles, placed among the top-8 season-high team total of 197.5 (vs. Utah). Bhardwaj leads the way in the individual at the NCAA Championships 13 times national rankings, where she is tops in the all-around and , third on bars and beam and finished runner-up to a national and eighth on . In only five collegiate meets, Dantzcher has notched half of the crown on four occasions. In 1982 and Bruins’ aforementioned perfect 10s, setting the UCLA record. 1983 he was named the WCAA Coach of the Year, and in 1996 was the Pac- UCLA, Rank and File -- 10’s co-winner. Included in Spini’s After beginning the year at No. 1 in the coaches’ poll, the Bruins watched Utah slip coaching staff is Kristen Smyth. This ahead of them after the first week of the season. However, Jan. 21, UCLA put up a is Smyth’s second year as Associate whopping 197.5 to defeat Utah (195.7) and regain the nation’s top spot. UCLA was also Head Coach, but her fifth with the pro- pegged as the pre-season No. 1 by Sports Illustrated for Women. gram. Bruce McGehee will spend his third year as Spini’s assistant coach. Roe Kreutzer is a volunteer assistant. Last Time vs. UCLA -- At the 2001 season opener, the (pre-season) No. 11 Sun Devils were greeted by No. 1 Media Information -- UCLA and No. 6 Nebraska. Stumbling to a team total of 191.525, ASU watched as Media in need of information regard- UCLA finished with a meet-high 196.2, ahead of runner-up Nebraska’s 194.95. En route ing ASU women’s gymnastics, or those to victory, UCLA picked up three perfect 10s. The Sun Devils’ team score was their wishing to schedule an interview, lowest in almost three years and was the third-lowest ASU total in the last decade, just should contact Jason Bellamy, Assistant below the 191.575 it posted at UCLA in its 2000 meeting with the Bruins. Media Relations Director. Phone: (480) 965-4987 All-Time vs. UCLA -- Fax: (480) 965-5408 ASU is 13-15 all-time against UCLA, but the Bruins have won three of the last four. E-Mail: [email protected] The last time UCLA defeated ASU in Tempe was Feb. 11, 1990 (189.5-187.3). Website: www.thesundevils.com -- page one of two -- www.thesundevils.com SUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICS Arizona State Women’s Gymnastics -- Page 2 SUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICSSUNDEVILGYMNASTICS NCAA Rankings Moon Rising -- Rank Team Team High Laura Moon -- a junior from Scottsdale, Ariz. -- transferred to ASU after two MVP seasons at 1. UCLA 196.862 Maryland. As good as those seasons were, Moon wasted no time showing improvement as a 2. Alabama 196.650 3. Georgia 196.500 Sun Devil. Despite being limited to one event at the Maui Invitational because of an ankle 4. Utah 196.375 injury, Moon lifted her career-high on bars from 9.925 to 9.95 -- a mark that ranks her in a six- 5. Michigan 196.200 way tie for third nationally in that event. The following meet, against Oregon State, Moon 6. Illinois State 196.000 competed in the all-around to a ASU season-best 38.875. 7. Ohio State 195.575 8. Florida 195.550 Fab Frosh -- 9. Nebraska 195.500 10. Stanford 195.300 The only Sun Devil to compete in all four events at the Maui Invitational, freshman Maggie Oklahoma 195.300 Germaine performed a team-best 9.775 on the , added another 9.775 on the floor, 12. California 195.175 hit a 9.8 on bars and added a 9.425 on vault to finish with an all-around score of 38.775. The 13. Iowa State 195.075 following week she totaled a 37.975 in ASU’s victory over Oregon State. 14. Oregon State 194.900 15. Minnesota 194.850 Wojciak Attack -- 16. Penn State 194.825 Bowling Green 194.825 Sophomore Margaret Wojciak has already increased her contribution since her freshman sea- 18. Illinois 194.650 son. Against Oregon State, Wojciak made her collegiate debut in the all-around and finished 19. Utah State 194.450 with a 38.475, higher than any ASU all-around performance in 2000. 20. Brigham Young 194.325 21. Denver 194.175 To The Point -- 22. Iowa 194.100 23. Wstn. Michigan 193.850 The Sun Devils’ margin of victory over Oregon State of .025 (193.75-193.725) was the closest 24. New Hampshire 193.800 decision in a regular-season ASU meet since the Sun Devils defeated Southern Utah on the 25. Arizona State 193.750 road by the same .025 (191.875-191.85) to pick up their third win of the 1999 season (Jan. 29).

ASU Week-by-Week Aloha Means Good-bye -- Date Rank High Score Don’t be surprised if the Sun Devils do their best to stay away from Hawai’i in the future. Jan. 1 11th (points) 398 ASU’s third-place finish at the Maui Invitational in the season opener was the result of the Sun Jan. 15 n/r n/a Jan. 22 25th 193.750 Devils’ worst team score (191.525) in almost three years. That previous three-year low total of Jan. 29 191.175 (Jan. 18, 1998) included a loss to UCLA and was just eight days after ASU had com- Feb. 5 bined for only 191.0 -- albeit in victory -- at the Maui Invitational. Feb. 12 Feb. 19 Starting Slow -- Feb. 26 ASU has good reason to believe it will rebound in the coming weeks. Of the last 15 season Note about the rankings: openers dating back to 1986, 10 have seen the Sun Devils struggle to their lowest team totals of 1/1 -- Ranked by Vote of Coaches 1/15, 1/22 -- Ranked by Highest Score the year (Years in which they did not: 1989, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000). 1/29 - 2/19 -- Ranked by Total Season Avg. 2/26 -- Ranked by Regional Qualifying Score Rule Change -- Unlike previous years in which gymnasts were allowed two attempts on the vault (with the 2001 Individual Bests higher score counting), this year athletes will only be allowed one attempt at the apparatus. Vault Stewart (@ Maui)...... 9.725 Up Next -- Bars The Sun Devils remain at home to face Pac-10 opponent Washington. Competition at Wells Moon (@ Maui) ...... 9.95 Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz., is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. (MST). Beam Robinette (@ OSU)...... 9.825 2001 Arizona State Women’s Gymnastics Roster Floor Fanning (@ Maui) ...... 9.85 Name Ht Yr/Ex Hometown (High School/Club Team) Becky Acker 5-3 Sr/3V Phoenix, Ariz. (Mountain Pointe/Desert Lights) All-Around Kelly Cowley 5-3 Sr/2V Tempe, Ariz. (Corona del Sol/Desert Devils) Moon (@ OSU) ...... 38.875 Jada Cox 5-5 Fr./HS Union City, Ga. (Westlake/Atlanta School of Gymn.) Ashley Ellsberry 5-3 So/1V Cincinnati, Ohio (Sycamore/Queen City) 2001 Team Bests Kristin Fanning 5-4 Sr/3V Scottsdale, Ariz. (Paradise Valley/Arizona Sunrays) Shannon Geary 5-1 So./1V Honolulu, Hi. (Punahou/Hawaiian Island Twisters) Vault Maggie Germaine 5-8 Fr/HS Mesa, Ariz. (Mountainview/Desert Lights) @ OSU (1/19) ...... 48.200 Amber Giorgianni 5-6 Fr/HS San Jose, Calif. (Santa Teresa/Airborne) Bars Laura Moon 5-3 Jr/TR Scottsdale, Ariz. (Saguaro (Ariz.)/Desert Devils/U. Maryland) Rhonda Robinette 5-2 Jr/2V Mesa, Ariz. (Red Mountain/Desert Lights) @ Maui Invit. (1/5) ...... 49.075 Kim Skinner 5-5 Sr/3V Tucson, Ariz. (Sabino/Gymnastics World East) Beam Ashley Stewart 5-3 Jr/2V Houston, Texas (Westfield/Cypress) @ OSU (1/19) ...... 48.700 Cassidy Vreeke 5-4 So/1V Salt Lake City, Utah (Murray/Rocky Mountain) Floor Margaret Wojciak 5-5 So/1V Lockport, Ill. (Lockport Township/Gym-Kinetics) @ OSU (1/19) ...... 48.175 Head Coach: John Spini (21st year) Total Associate Head Coach: Kristen Smyth (5th year) @ OSU (1/19) ...... 193.750 Assistant Coach: Bruce McGehee (3rd year) www.thesundevils.com