2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS
2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS ROSTER & PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Name Year Event Hgt Hometown/High School/Club Dominique D’Oliveira (Dom-in-eek Doll-a-veer-a) Jr. AA 5-5 Johannesburg, South Africa/Redhill HS/Visions Academy of Gymnastics Jessica Duke Fr. AA 5-4 Sandy, Utah/The Waterford School/Olympus Gymnastics Annabeth Eberle (Eb-ber-lee) Sr. AA 5-5 Reno, Nev./Galena HS/Starz Gymnastics Nicolle Ford So. AA 5-2 Binghamton, N.Y./Windsor HS/Southern Tier Gymnastics Gritt Hofmann Sr. AA 5-1 Berlin, Germany/Werner-Seelenbinder/Sport Club Berlin Katie Kivisto (ka-viss-toe) Fr. AA 5-0 Boca Raton, Fla./ Pope John Paul II HS/American Twisters Stephanie Lim So. AA 5-0 The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands HS/Texas Star Texans Natalie Nicoloff (Nick-a-loff) Jr. AA 5-1 Hermitage, Pa./Hickory HS/Flytz USA Gymnastics (Ohio) Gabriella Onodi (Gab-ree-ella OH-no-dee) Jr. AA 5-1 Budapest, Hungary/ Kova’cs Pa’l Gimna’zium/Ujpesti Torna Egylet Ashley Postell (Pah-stell) Fr. AA 5-2 Burke, Va./ Alpha Omega High School/ Capital Gymnastics NTC Kristen Riffanacht (Riff-in-ack) Jr. AA 5-3 Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire HS/Gymnastics Revolution Rachel Tidd So. AA 5-2 Fallbrook, Calif./Calvary Christian HS/SCEGA
Head Coach: Greg Marsden Associate Head Coach: Megan Marsden (21st year) Record/Year at School: 818-140-5/30th Assistant Coach: Aki Hummel (13th year) Career Record/Year: same Volunteer Coach: Mary Wright (2nd year)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Roster/Pronunciation Guide ...... 1 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS SCOREBOARD Season Results ...... 1 RECORD: 12-2 HOME: 8-0 AWAY: 4-2 NEUTRAL 0-0 Press Release ...... 2-8 Utah Hotel Information ...... 2 Date Opponent Site Result/Score Atten. Satellite Highlights ...... 2 Jan. 7 UCLA Salt Lake City W/197.675-197.300 10,064 Tentative Lineup ...... 3 Jan. 14 Utah State Logan, Utah W/195.675-193.850 4,123 Ute Floor Exercise Music ...... 3 Jan. 21 Oregon State Corvallis, Ore. W/195.950-194.250 3,317 2005 Regional Results ...... 4 Jan. 28 Michigan Salt Lake City W/196.875-196.525 10,909 2005 Final Regular Season Rankings ...... 4 Feb. 5 Minnesota Minneapolis W/195.275-194.450 2,114 2005 Ute Winners ...... 5 Feb. 11 Brigham Young Salt Lake City W/196.650-194.350 14,100 2005 Utah Event Scores ...... 6 Feb. 20 Nebraska Lincoln, Neb. L/196.600-196.650 1,993 2005 Team HIghs ...... 6 Feb. 25 Georgia Athens, Ga. L/197.150-197.275 8,172 All-Time Best Utah Scores ...... 7 Mar. 4 Florida Salt Lake City W/197.425-196.450 11,008 Individual Meet By Meet Statistics ...... 9-10 Stanford W/197.425-196.025 2005 Score Sheets ...... 11-14 California W/197.425-191.500 Mar. 11 Washington Salt Lake City W/197.850-195.175 10,505 Athlete/Coach Bios Mar. 18 Arizona State Salt Lake City W, 197.725-196.600 11,212 Head Coach Greg Marsden ...... 15 Mar. 26 Brigham Young Provo, Utah W, 197.450-196.825 2401 Annabeth Eberle ...... 16 Gritt Hofmann ...... 17 Home Attendance Average: 11,300 Dominique D’Oliveira ...... 17 Natalie Nicoloff ...... 18 Gabriella Onodi ...... 18 2005 NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL RESULTS Kristen Riffanacht ...... 19 Salt Lake City, April 9 Nicolle Ford ...... 20 Stephanie Lim ...... 20 1. Utah ...... 196.800 Rachel Tidd ...... 21 2. Brigham Young ...... 195.975 Jessica Duke ...... 21 3. Oregon State ...... 195.675 Katie Kivisto ...... 22 4. Minnesota ...... 193.975 Ashley Postell ...... 22 5. Southern Utah ...... 193.450 6. Iowa ...... 192.350 Newspaper Clips ...... follow page 22
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Jon M. Huntsman Center • 1825 E. South Campus Dr. Associate Athletics Director/SID: Liz Abel Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0900 Associate SID: Mike Lageschulte Phone: 801.581.3511/3510 • Fax: 801.581.4358 Assistant SID: Scott Pettett www.UtahUtes.com Assistant SID: Andy Seeley Office Manager: Sally Anderson
NCAA GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS UP NEXT FOR UTAH • APRIL 21-23 TIMES, TEAMS, SESSIONS Event: 2005 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships Site: Auburn, Ala. (Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum, Auburn University) Thursday, April 21, 1:00 p.m. CDT LSU Nebraska Dates: April 21-23 (Thursday-Saturday) Utah Oklahoma Times: April 21: 1:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. CDT • Qualifying Sessions Michigan Penn State April 22: 7:00 p.m. CDT • Super Six Team Finals April 23: 7:00 p.m. CDT • Individual Event Championships Thursday, April 21, 7:00 p.m. CDT TV: Tape Delayed, Sunday, May 1, 11:00 a.m. MDT, CBS UCLA Brigham Young Web: Live scoring at www.auburntigers.com/2005NCAAGym Alabama Iowa State Florida Georgia QUICKLY The 10-time national champion Utah gymnastics team has qualified for a record Friday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. CDT 30th-consecutive national championship (24th-straight NCAA Championship) Super Six Team Finals … The 2005 NCAA Championships will be held in Auburn, Ala., April 21-23 … Saturday, April 23, 7:00 p.m. CDT Utah earned an automatic berth by winning the North Central Regional Cham- Individual Event Championships pionship—its 23rd regional title and its sixth straight … The NCAA Champion- ships begin on Thursday, April 21 with two qualifying sessions. Utah drew the afternoon session (starting at 1 p.m. CDT), along with LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Utah SID Contact Phones Oklahoma and Penn State. In the evening session are UCLA, Alabama, Florida, Liz Abel, Associate Athletics Director/SID Georgia, Brigham Young and Iowa State … The top three teams from each session Hotel Phone: 205-821-8200 will advance to the Super Six on Friday, April 22. Individual event championships Cell Phone: 801-209-6346 are held on Saturday, April 23. Utah Travel Plans Tuesday, April 19: Depart SLC at 7:30 a.m. TONS OF ONES (Delta #1215). Arrive Atlanta at 1:05 p.m. Bus Three of the four teams that earned a No. 1 national ranking during the regular sea- to Auburn. son are in Utah’s session. They are: Utah (eight weeks), LSU (two weeks) and Ne- Sunday, April 24: Depart Atlanta at 7:05 a.m. braska (once). UCLA, in the evening session, was the top-ranked team in two polls. (Delta #1630) Arrive SLC at 9:02 a.m. Utah finished the regular season atop the rankings for the first time since 1993.
Utah Hotel Accommodations DID YOU KNOW? Auburn University Hotel & Conference Center Utah’s two losses (at Nebraska and at Georgia) were by an average of less than 241 South College Street Auburn, AL 36830 a tenth of a point (.088) … Utah has a World Champion on its roster: Freshman Phone: 205-821-8200 Ashley Postell, the 2002 World Balance Beam Champion, finished the 2005 Fax: 205-826-8755 regular season ranked No. 1 in the NCAA on the beam … As a team, Utah also finished the regular season ranked No. 1 on the beam, but ironically, that is the Utah’s Open Practice Time In Auburn only apparatus where the Utes have counted a fall this year (at Minnesota and at Wednesday, April 20 regionals) … Utah is opening NCAA Championships competition on the bars, 11:00 a.m-12:40 p.m. CDT
Pre-Championships Press Conference NCAA DAY I ROTATION ORDERS (THURSDAY, APRIL 21) Wednesday, April 20 • 12 coaches & athletes) 3:00-4:00 p.m. CDT (Utah 3:40-4:00 p.m.) Session I • 1:00 p.m. CDT Session II • 7:00 p.m. CDT Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum Press Room Nebraska Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor Georgia Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor Michigan Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault BYU Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault Satellite Highlight Feeds Utah Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye UCLA Bars, Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye April 21 and 22 only (Thursday and Friday) Penn St. Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars Iowa St. Beam, Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars 8:30 p.m.-9 p.m. MDT (10:30-11 p.m. EDT) Oklahoma Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam Alabama Bye, Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam Coordinates: AMC09 T 17 LSU Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye Florida Floor, Vault, Bye, Bars, Beam, Bye
2 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS marking the fourth-straight time it has Utah General Information drawn that rotation dating back to the TENTATIVE UTAH LINEUP Location: Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 2003 Super Six … The Utes won the Subject to Change President: Michael Young 2005 women’s gymnastics attendance Athletics Director: Dr. Chris Hill title, averaging 11,300 spectators to their Vault Conference: n/a for gymnastics six regular season home meets, includ- Stephanie Lim Enrollment: 28,437 ing the biggest crowd in the nation to Jessica Duke Nickname: Utes watch a college gymnastics meet this Nicolle Ford Colors: Crimson, White Ashley Postell season (14,100 vs. BYU). Utah has won Website: www.UtahUtes.com Rachel Tidd 21 of the last 24 gymnastics attendance Annabeth Eberle Utah Gymnastics Facts titles. The Utes had the largest crowd to 2004 NCAA Championships Finish: 6th attend a regional meet this year: 6,313. Uneven Bars 2004 NCAA Regional Finish: 1st Katie Kivisto Total National Championships: 10 ON A ROLL Jessica Duke National Championship Years: 1981-86, Utah enters NCAA Championships Annabeth Eberle 1990, 1992, 1994-95 competition on a roll. The Utes have Ashley Postell won 11 straight, including five wins Nicolle Ford Utah Associate A.D./SID Rachel Tidd at the NCAA North Central Regional. Liz Abel O: (801) 581-3511 Utah’s last loss was at Georgia on Feb. Balance Beam H: (801) 596-1650 25 (197.275-197.150). Utah’s two Gabriella Onodi email: [email protected] losses, both nail-biters, came within five Kristen Riffanacht days of each other. On Feb. 20, the Utes Rachel Tidd lost at Nebraska, 196.650-196.600. Nicolle Ford Utah Head Coach Greg Marsden Annabeth Eberle Alma Mater: Central Arkansas, 1972 NEVER BETTER Ashley Postell Career Record: 818-140-5 Utah’s top-ranked gymnastics team has Floor Exercise Regular Season Record: 410-59-2 had to share the limelight in Salt Lake National Championships: 10 Kristen Riffanacht City this year. In fact, the University Rachel Tidd All-Americans: 244 of Utah is enjoying an athletic year NCAA Event Championships: 22 Nicolle Ford unmatched in NCAA history. Utah is Ashley Postell the only school ever to win a BCS bowl Annabeth Eberle game, reach the men’s basketball Sweet Gritt Hofmann 16 and have its women’s basketball team win an NCAA first-round game in All-Around a single season. Only one school other Annabeth Eberle Nicolle Ford than Utah (UCLA in 1967-68) has ever Ashley Postell had a football and men’s basketball Rachel Tidd player win National Player of the Year honors. Utah did so this year with quar- Greg Marsden terback Alex Smith and center Andrew UTAH FLOOR EXERCISE MUSIC College gymnastics’ only Bogut. If Smith and Bogut are the No. Riffanacht These Eyes of Mine 800-win coach 1 picks in the upcoming NFL and NBA Tidd The Mask drafts, as some experts are predicting, Ford Carol of the Bells Returning All-Americans (3) it would mark the first time in NCAA (Trans-Siberia Orchestra) Annabeth Eberle (4): history that one school has produced Postell Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson) 2003–AA (4th-t), VT (6th), UB* (5th-t, QS) two No. 1 picks in the same year. The 2004–VT (2nd) Eberle unknown Utah football team went 12-0 and Hofmann Riverdance finished with a No. 4 national ranking Onodi The Mail Nicolle Ford (3): while, the men’s basketball team went 2004–UB (4th-t), BB (12th), AA* (8th-t, QS) Kivisto Bad to the Bone 29-6 and ranked No. 14. The Ute soccer D’Oliveira Pulp Fiction Kristen Riffanacht (2): and volleyball teams both participated 2003–VT* (6th-t, QS) in the NCAA Tournament, the women’s 2004–BB* (8th-t, QS) basketball team made the NCAA second round and the ski team finished third at *Denotes second team All-American the 2005 NCAA Championships. QS=Qualifying Session
3 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS UTAH VS. THE 2005 NCAA FIELD 2005 NCAA REGION RESULTS The Utes have met six of the 12 NCAA qualifi- FINAL REGULAR SEASON RANKINGS ers already this season and have a combined re- West Region (Seattle, Wash.) cord of 6-2 against them. The Utes beat UCLA, No. Team RQS 1. UCLA ...... 197.025 Michigan, Florida and BYU (three times), and 1. Utah 197.320 2. UCLA 197.090 2. Penn State ...... 195.375 lost to Nebraska and Georgia. Utah’s all-time 3. Washington ...... 195.000 3. LSU 197.025 record against the teams at the 2005 NCAA 4. Stanford ...... 194.750 4. Alabama 196.815 5. Boise State ...... 194.500 Championships follows: 5. Georgia 196.800 6. Central Michigan ...... 194.125 Team Overall/Postseason/Streak 6. Nebraska 196.750 LSU 24-2/19-0/W3 7. Florida 196.685 North Central (Salt Lake City) Michigan 12-9/7-4/W2 8. Michigan 196.595 1. Utah ...... 196.800 Nebraska 31-5-2/26-4-2/L1 9. Iowa State 196.260 2. Oregon State ...... 195.975 Oklahoma 24-1/17-0/W14 10. Oklahoma 196.130 3. Brigham Young ...... 195.675 Penn State 25-6/13-5/W24 11. Penn State 195.900 12. Oregon State 195.715 4. Minnesota ...... 193.975 UCLA 34-13/16-11/W1 5. Southern Utah ...... 193.450 13. Brigham Young 195.625 Alabama 17-18/12-13/L5 6. Iowa ...... 192.350 14. Central Michigan 195.540 Florida 26-5/20-3 /W1 15. Arkansas 195.510 South Central (Lincoln, Neb.) Georgia 19-15-1/15-13-1/L3 16. Utah State 195.370 1. Michigan ...... 196.600 BYU 76-2/24-0/W18 17. Denver 195.310 2. Nebraska ...... 196.300 Iowa State 4-0/1-0/W4 18. Arizona 195.300 3. Missouri ...... 195.100 19. Missouri 195.235 4. Arizona ...... 194.700 COACH GREG MARSDEN 20. Minnesota 195.185 5. Arizona State ...... 194.500 Greg Marsden, head coach at Utah for the 21. Auburn 195.180 22. Southern Utah 195.155 6. Illinois ...... 193.825 past 30 years and the most successful coach 23. Kentucky 195.070 in collegiate gymnastics history, has taken his Central Region (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 24. Washington 195.030 1. Alabama ...... 196.675 program to the national championships every 25. North Carolina 195.000 2. Iowa State ...... 195.625 year. He is college gymnastics’ only 800-win 3. Auburn ...... 194.800 coach (818-140-5). In regular season competi- UTAH’S RANKING BY WEEK 4. Kentucky ...... 193.325 tion, Marsden is 410-59-2. He has spent his Date Rank 5. Kent State ...... 192.500 entire career at Utah and has won 10 national Preseason 5 6. Utah State ...... 192.425 championships, double that of any other coach. Jan. 10 1 Four of those titles came in the ’90s (1990, ’92, Jan. 17 1 Northeast Region (Durham, N.H.) ’94, ’95). Fifteen of his teams have placed in Jan. 24 2 1. LSU ...... 197.125 Jan. 31 1 the top-three at the national championships, 2. Oklahoma ...... 195.500 Feb. 7 1 3. New Hampshire ...... 194.700 most recently in 2000 (second). Marsden is a Feb. 14 1 4. Arkansas ...... 193.950 seven-time National Coach of the Year recipi- Feb. 21 4 5. Pittsburgh ...... 193.100 ent and was named the 2005 North Central Feb. 28 3 6. Rutgers ...... 191.350 Region Coach of the Year. Mar. 7 1 Mar. 14 2 Southeast Region (Gainesville, Fla.) FEARSOME FOURSOME Mar. 21 1 1. Florida ...... 196.575 All four of Utah’s all-arounders finished in the Mar. 28 1 2. Georgia ...... 195.150 top 20 in the final regular season rankings and 3. Denver ...... 194.075 Rankings are determined as follows: three of them placed in the top seven. Leading 4. North Carolina ...... 194.075 Preseason: By vote of the coaches 5. West Virginia ...... 193.675 the way is freshman Ashley Postell (39.535 Jan. 10-17 High Score 6. North Carolina State ...193.575 regional qualifying score), who tied for fourth. Jan. 24-Feb. 14: Total Season Average Close behind in sixth and seventh place are Feb. 21-on: Regional Qualifying Score sophomore Nicolle Ford (39.53 RQS) and se- UTAH REGIONAL CHAMPIONS nior Annabeth Eberle (39.495 RQS). Sopho- more Rachel Tidd (39.33 RQS) is ranked No. Annabeth Eberle 19. The four have combined to hit an amazing All-Around: 39.625 96 percent (182-190) of their routines this sea- Vault: 9.975 son. Eberle, the only Ute to go all-around in Floor: 9.95 every meet, is 50-52, Ford is 48-49, Postell is 47-49 and Tidd is 37-40. They have combined Ashley Postell Bars: 9.925 to win 14 all-around titles, with Postell win- ning 6, Eberle 4, Ford 2 and Tidd 2.
4 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS ON THE JOB TRAINING UTE SPOTLIGHT Utah has three returning All-Americans. Utah will open NCAA Championships Utah has two North Central Region A quick look at each follows: competition on the uneven bars, where Gymnasts of the Year on its roster: Annabeth Eberle is a four-time All- its first two competitors are freshmen. Senior Annabeth Eberle was voted American and the 2004 NCAA vault Leading off for the Utes is rookie Katie best in the region in 2004 and fresh- runner-up. In 2003, she was a first-team Kivisto, followed by Jessica Duke. man Ashley Postell was the pick of the All-American in the all-around (fourth) Senior Annabeth Eberle is the only region coaches this year. Utah’s Greg and on vault (sixth), and a second-team- upperclassman in the Ute bar lineup, Marsden was named the 2005 North er on bars. Including ties, she has eight which also contains freshman Ashley Central Region Head Coach of the Year of Utah’s top 10 all-time all-around Postell and sophomores Nicolle Ford and Megan Marsden was tabbed as the scores. She was the 2005 NCAA North and Rachel Tidd. Assistant Coach of the Year … Postell Central Region all-around, vault and is Utah’s win leader with 22. Other Ute floor champion. NATIONALLY RANKED UTES victors: Annabeth Eberle (19), Rachel Nicolle Ford was Utah’s only three- For the final 25 team rankings, please Tidd (15), Nicolle Ford (13), Gritt time All-American in 2004 as a fresh- see page 4 of this release. In addition to Hofmann (3) and Jessica Duke (1) … man. She made the All-America first Utah’s four top-20 ranked all-arounders Three Utes made it through the regular team on bars (fourth) and beam (12th) (see Fearsome Foursome), several Utes season without a fall: Jessica Duke (15- and aws second-team All-America all- finished well in the individual event 15), Natalie Nicoloff (3-3) and Stepha- arounder. regular season rankings. Ashley Postell nie Lim (3-3) … Postell became the Kristen Riffanacht made the All-Amer- (9.96 RQS) is ranked No. 1 on the bal- first Utah gymnast ever to score back-to- ica second team on vault as a freshman ance beam and Nicolle Ford (9.925) is back 10.0’s on the balance beam. She is and on beam last year as a sophomore. No. 5. Rachel Tidd (9.93 RQS) is No. 3 just one of three Utes to accomplish that on bars, where Nicolle Ford (9.895) is feat on any apparatus: Kristen Kenoyer tied for No. 9. Annabeth Eberle is No. hit back-to-back 10.0’s on vault in 6 on floor (9.920, tie) and No. 8 on vault 1993 and Theresa Kulikowski on bars (9.915) and Postell is tied for ninth on in 2002. vault (9.91). As a team, Utah is ranked No. 1 on beam (49.36 RQS), No. 2 on both vault (49.345) and bars (49.285) and No. 6 on floor (49.33).
2005 UTE WINNERS Annabeth Eberle (19) Rachel Tidd (15) Nicolle Ford (13) All-Around (4) All-Around (2) All-Around (2) Ashley Postell (22) 39.625 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 39.375 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11 39.55 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14 All-Around (6) 39.575 vs. Georgia, Feb. 25 39.575 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 39.625 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4 39.625 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 39.675 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 Vault (4) Vault (3) 39.450 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 39.625 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 9 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 9.875 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 39.375 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 Vault (7) 9.85 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 9.875 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11 39.250 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 9.85 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 9.925 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 9.925 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 39.600 vs. Nebraska, Feb. 20 9.875 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 Bars(5) 39.775 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 9.85 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 Bars (8) 9.875 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14 Vault (4) 9.975 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 9.825 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 9.90 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 9.90 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 9.85 vs. Nebraska, Feb. 20 9.85 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 9.95 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 9.925 vs. Nebraska, Feb. 20 9.975 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 9 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11 9.925 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 Beam (1) 9.925 vs. Georgia, Feb. 25 Beam (2) Bars (3) 9.95 vs. Georgia, Feb. 25 9.925 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4 9.95 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14 9.825 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 Floor (7) 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 9.85 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11 9.95 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 9.925 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 Floor (1) 9.925 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 9 9.925 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 Beam (1) 9.85 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14 Beam (7) 9.90 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11 9.825 vs. Minnesota, Feb. 5 9.875 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 9.95 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 Gritt Hofmann (3) 9.95 vs. Nebraska, Feb. 20 10.0 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 Vault (1) 9.95 vs. Georgia, Feb. 25 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 9.875 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 9.925 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4 9.95 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 9 Floor (2) 10.0 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 9.925 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 10.0 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18 9.975 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 Floor (2) Jessica Duke (1) 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 Vault (1) 9.875 vs. Oregon State, Jan. 21 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18
5 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS REGION RECAP NCAA VETERANS 2005 TEAM HIGHS Senior Annabeth Eberle gave a great Eight of the 12 teams at the 2004 NCAA send-off to a crowd of 6,313 in the Championships are returners from last Total Score Huntsman Center at the North Central year: Utah, UCLA, Georgia, Louisi- 197.850 vs. Washington, Mar. 11 Region Championship on April 9. Eb- ana State, Florida, Alabama, Nebraska Vault erle won the all-around (39.625), vault and Michigan. The number of NCAA 49.600 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26 (9.975) and floor (9.95) to lead Utah to Championship appearances this makes its sixth-straight region title. The Utes for each of the 2005 qualifiers follows Bars scored a 196.80, despite counting a fall (this is the 24th NCAA Championship): 49.500 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28 on the beam, to beat runner-up BYU Utah (24), Alabama (23), Florida (23), (195.975), Oregon State (195.675), Georgia (22), UCLA (22), LSU (17), Beam Minnesota (193.975), Southern Utah Nebraska (15), Michigan (14), Penn 49.550 vs. Georgia, Feb. 25 (193.450) and Iowa (192.350). Fresh- State (15), BYU (9), Oklahoma (5), Floor man Ashley Postell was Utah’s other Iowa State (2). 49.600 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7 region victor, taking the uneven bar competition with a 9.925. Sophomore AND THE WINNERS ARE … 2005 INDIVIDUAL BESTS Nicolle Ford placed second in the all- Four teams have been crowned cham- around (39.425). Utah’s problems on pion in the 23-year history of the NCAA All-Around beam did not extend to the other three Women’s Gymnastics Championships: 39.775, Ashley Postell, Mar. 11 apparatus—all of which the Utes won Utah (9), Georgia (5), UCLA (5) and handily. Alabama (4). Utah’s 10 total national Vault championships includes the 1981 AIAW 9.975, Annabeth Eberle, Mar. 4 UTAH AND THE SUPER SIX title ... There have been eight different 9.975, Annabeth Eberle, Apr. 9 Utah has made the Super Six team finals runners-up at the NCAA Championships Bars 10 times since the format went into ef- since they began in 1982: Alabama (5), 9.95, Rachel Tidd, Jan. 7 fect in 1993. Utah’s Super Six finishes Utah (4), Arizona State (4), Georgia 9.95, Rachel Tiddd, Jan. 28 follow: 1993–3rd, 1994–1st, 1995–1st, (4), UCLA (3), Michigan (2), Florida 9.95, Rachel Tidd, Feb. 11 1996–3rd (tie), 1998–4th, 2000–2nd, (1) and Cal State-Fullerton (1) ... The 9.95, Ashley Postell, Mar. 11 2001–5th (tie), 2002–4th, 2003–6th, closest NCAA Championships ever 2004–6th. The Utes failed to make the were in 1994 and 1989. In 1994, Utah Beam cut for the Super Six by one spot in edged Alabama 196.400-196.350. In 10.0, Ashley Postell, Mar. 11 1997 and 1999–finishing seventh both 1989, Georgia nipped runner-up UCLA 10.0, Ashley Postell, Mar. 18 years. Although they have won two 192.650-192.600 ... The best score ever Floor NCAA Championships under the Super at nationals was UCLA’s 198.125 last 10.0, Annabeth Eberle, Mar. 18 Six format, the Utes’ only qualifying year ... The NCAA champion has won round victory came in 2002. its qualifying session eight times in the 11-year history of the three-day format: Georgia in 1993, 1998 and 1999, Ala- bama in 1996 and 2002, and UCLA in 2005 UTAH EVENT SCORES MEET BY MEET 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004 ... Utah won the NCAA title in 1994 and 1995, after Date Opponent VT UB BB FX finishing second and third, respectively, Jan. 7 UCLA 49.450 49.350 49.275 49.600 Jan. 14 Utah State 49.075 48.925 49.200 48.457 in its qualifying round. UCLA won in Jan. 21 Oregon State 49.025 49.125 48.875 48.925 1997 after placing second in its qualify- Jan. 28 Michigan 49.200 49.500 48.775 49.400 ing round. Feb. 5 Minnesota 49.025 48.875 48.450 48.925 Feb. 11 Brigham Young 49.125 49.375 48.900 49.250 Feb. 20 Nebraska 49.075 49.100 49.250 49.175 Feb. 25 Georgia 49.300 48.975 49.550 49.325 Mar. 4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 49.375 49.275 49.250 49.525 Mar. 11 Washington 49.525 49.325 49.525 49.475 Mar. 18 Arizona State 49.375 49.450 49.425 49.475 Mar. 26 Brigham Young 49.600 49.375 49.325 49.150 Apr. 9 NCAA Regional 49.425 49.325 48.525 49.525
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6 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS SCOUTING SESSION I SCOUTING SESSION II ALL-TIME BEST TEAM SCORES Utah: 12-2 dual meet record. Final reg- UCLA: 20-3 dual meet record. Final 1. 198.600 vs. BYU, 3-19-04 ular season ranking: 1 (197.320 RQS). regular season ranking: 2 (197.090 2. 198.425 vs. BYU, 3-23-02 3. 198.050 vs. Utah State, 2-27-04 Season-best 197.85 on Mar. 11. Won the RQS). Season-best 197.85 on Mar 6. 4. 197.950 vs. Washington, 3-5-04 North Central Regional (196.80). Top Won the West Regional (197.025). 5. 197.925 vs. Stanford, 3-7-97 all-arounders: Ashley Postell (39.775), Top all-arounders: Kristen Maloney 197.925 vs. BYU, 3-23-01 Annabeth Eberle (39.675), Nicolle Ford (39.825), Tasha Schwikert (39.825), 6. 197.900 vs. Arizona State, 2-16-01 (39.65), Rachel Tidd (39.575). Head Kate Richardson (39.625). Head coach 7. 197.875 vs. BYU, 3-25-95 coach Greg Marsden, gymnastics’ only Valorie Kondos Field is 306-62-1 in her 8. 197.850 vs. Washington, 3-11-05 9. 197.825 vs. Utah State, 2-7-03 800-win coach, is 818-140-5 in his 30th 17th year. 10. 197.725 vs. Arizona State, 3-18-05 year. Alabama: 11-3 dual meet record. Final LSU: 25-4 dual meet record. Final regular season ranking: 4 (196.815 ALL-TIME BEST EVENT SCORES regular season ranking: 3 (197.025 RQS). Season-best 197.175 on Jan 21. VT: 49.775, BYU, 3-19-04 RQS). Season-best 197.850 on Mar 11. Won the Central Regional (196.675). UB: 49.70, WAC Championship, 3-20-93 Won the Northeast Regional (197.125). Top all-arounders: Ashley Miles BB: 49.65, BYU, 3-25-95 Top all-arounders: April Burkholder (39.675), Terin Humphrey (39.375), FX: 49.80, BYU, 3-23-01 (39.600), Ashley Clare-Keaney Shannon Hrozek (39.35). Head coach POSTSEASON BESTS (39.525), Kell Phelan (39.400). Head Sarah Patterson is 348-78-4 in her 27th NCAA Championships: 196.950, 2002 coach D-D Breaux is 480-283-7 in her year. NCAA Regional: 197.625, 2004 28th season. Florida: 17-7 dual meet record. Final Michigan: 22-2 dual meet record. Final regular season ranking: 7 (196.685 ALL-TIME BEST ALL-AROUND SCORES regular season ranking: 8 (196.595 RQS). Season-best 197.25 on Mar 26. 1. 39.950, Suzanne Metz, 3-25-95 RQS). Season-best 197.800 on Mar Won the Southeast Regional (196.575). 2. 39.900, Kristen Kenoyer, 3-6-93 3. 39.875, Melissa Vituj, 2-27-04 4. Won the South Central Regional Top all-arounders: Savannah Evans 4. 39.800, Kristen Kenoyer, 4-3-93 (196.600). Top all-arounders: Elise Ray (39.40), Tracey Rai (39.425). Head 39.800, Theresa Kulikowski, 2-15-02 (39.625), Jenny Deiley (39.625). Head coach Rhonda Faehn is 65-21 in her 39.800, Theresa Kulikowski, 3-23-02 coach Beverly Plocki is 311-86 in her third year. 39.800, Melissa Vituj, 3-19-04 16th year. Brigham Young: 10-6 dual meet 5. 39.775, Annabeth Eberle, 3-19-04 Nebraska: 17-2 dual meet record. Final record. Final regular season ranking: 13 39.775, Ashley Postell, 3-11-05 6. 39.750, Kristen Kenoyer, 3-28-92 regular season ranking: 6 (196.750 (195.625 RQS). Season-best 196.825 on 39.750, Kristen Kenoyer, 2-19-93 RQS). Season-best 197.100 on Mar Mar. 26. Runner-up in the North Central 39.750, Annabeth Eberle, 3-28-03 13. Runner-up in the South Central Regional (195.975). Top all-arounders: 39.750, Theresa Kulikowski, 3-20-99 Regional (196.300). Top all-arounders: Jaime Mabray (39.50), Marie-Helene 7. 39.725, Theresa Kulikowski, 2-26-99 Richelle Simpson (39.65), Emily Par- Claveau (39.375), Kacie Capra (39.30). 39.725, Deidra Graham, 2-16-01 sons (39.475). Head coach Dan Kendig Head coach Brad Cattermole is 225- 39.725, Theresa Kulikowski, 3-9-02 is 398-206-3 in his 12 year. 245-1 in his 17th year. 39.725, Deidra Graham, 3-23-02 39.725, Annabeth Eberle, 1-23-04 Penn State: 22-6 dual meet record. Fi- Iowa State: 12-3 dual meet record. 39.725, Annabeth Eberle, 3-5-04 nal regular season ranking: 11 (195.900 Final regular season ranking: 9 (196.260 8. 39.700, Traci Sommer, 3-7-97 RQS). Season-best 196.300 on Jan RQS). Season-best 197.000 on Mar 39.700, Melissa Vituj, 3-5-04 29. Runner-up in the West Regional 18. Runner-up in the Central Regional 9. 39.675, Theresa Kulikowski, 4-22-99 (195.375). Top all-arounder: Corissa (195.625). Top all-arounders: Janet 39.675, Veronique Leclerc, 3-23-01 Pirkl (39.150). Head coach Steve Shepa- Anson (39.525), Erin Dethloff (39.575), 39.675, Theresa Kulikowski, 4-6-02 rd is 177-112-2 in his 12th year. Laura- Kay Powell (39.575). Head 39.675, Melissa Vituj, 2-7-03 39.675, Melissa Vituj, 3-14-03 Oklahoma: 13-5 dual meet record. coach K.J. Kindler is 67-38-1in her fifth 39.675, Annabeth Eberle, 3-21-03 Final regular season ranking: 10 year. 39.675, Annabeth Eberle, 2-6-04 (196.130). Season-best 196.7 on Feb 13. Georgia: 19-4 dual meet record. Final 39.675, Annabeth Eberle, 1-16-04 Runner-up in the Northeast Regional regular season ranking: 5 (196.800). 39.675, Melissa Vituj, 3-12-04 (195.500). Top all-arounders: Erin La- Season-best:197.275 on Feb 25. Runner- 39.675, Rachel Tidd, 3-19-04 Barr (39.60), Brittney Koncak (39.450), up in the Southeast Regional (195.150). 39.675, Melissa Vituj, 4-3-04 39.675, Annabeth Eberle, 3-18-05 Ashley Cooney (39.400). Head coach Top all-arounders: Katie Heenan 10. 39.650, Kristen Kenoyer, 3-9-92 Steve Nunno is 92-47 in his fifth year. (39.625), Kelsy Ericksen, Ashley 39.650, Missy Marlowe, 3-24-92 Kupets (39.550). Head coach Suzanne 39.650, Suzanne Metz, 3-20-95 Yoculan is 685-98-4 in her 22nd year. 39.650, Theresa Kulikowski, 3-27-99 39.650, Melissa Vituj, 2-20-04 39.650, Nicolle Ford, 3-11-05
7 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS UTES WIN NCAA ATTENDANCE CROWN MARSDEN SAYS “I like where our team is both physically Utah has won the 2005 women’s “We’ve learned to never take anything and mentally right now. Of course, we gymnastics attendance title—its 21st for granted so we were thrilled to made two obvious mistakes on beam at in the last 24 years. The 2005 Utes qualify for the championships. I like the regionals, but on the other three events averaged 11,300 spectators to their six session we drew for the championships. we couldn’t have been better. It was regular season home meets, includ- If we can get through that preliminary good to see how this group handled a ing the biggest crowd in the nation to round and into team finals, the afternoon little adversity and came roaring back.” watch a college gymnastics meet this session will allow us the opportunity to season (14,100 vs. BYU). This season’s relax, have a team meal, do treatments, average is the third-highest attendance get to bed at a decent hour and provide average in Utah and NCAA gymnastics the athletes with more time to recover. history. The Utes beat out Alabama, which averaged 10,570 fans to six home “It’s ironic that we drew the starting meets this year for a new Southeastern rotation on bars for the fourth straight Conference record. Utah’s attendance time—going back to team finals at average since 1992 is almost that high Nebraska in 2003—but I guess we’ll (10,533). Utah also holds eight of the keep drawing it until we get it right. It’s top 10 single-meet attendance records. really no big deal. You have to hit all The Utes hosted the largest crowd ever four events and it really shouldn’t matter to watch a collegiate gymnastics meet in what the order is. the United States–15,238 vs. Cal State Fullerton in 1991.
2005 NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL RESULTS 2005 UTAH GYMNASTICS SCOREBOARD Salt Lake City, April 9 RECORD: 12-2 HOME: 8-0 AWAY: 4-2 NEUTRAL 0-0 1. Utah ...... 196.800 Date Opponent Site Result/Score Atten. 2. Brigham Young ...... 195.975 Jan. 7 UCLA Salt Lake City W/197.675-197.300 10,064 3. Oregon State ...... 195.675 Jan. 14 Utah State Logan, Utah W/195.675-193.850 4,123 4. Minnesota ...... 193.975 Jan. 21 Oregon State Corvallis, Ore. W/195.950-194.250 3,317 5. Southern Utah ...... 193.450 Jan. 28 Michigan Salt Lake City W/196.875-196.525 10,909 6. Iowa ...... 192.350 Feb. 5 Minnesota Minneapolis W/195.275-194.450 2,114 Feb. 11 Brigham Young Salt Lake City W/196.650-194.350 14,100 Feb. 20 Nebraska Lincoln, Neb. L/196.600-196.650 1,993 Feb. 25 Georgia Athens, Ga. L/197.150-197.275 8,172 Mar. 4 Florida Salt Lake City W/197.425-196.450 11,008 Stanford W/197.425-196.025 California W/197.425-191.500 Mar. 11 Washington Salt Lake City W/197.850-195.175 10,505 Mar. 18 Arizona State Salt Lake City W, 197.725-196.600 11,212 Mar. 26 Brigham Young Provo, Utah W, 197.450-196.825 2401
Home Attendance Average: 11,300
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DOMINIQUE D’OLIVEIRA GRITT HOFMANN Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA 9.75 1-7 UCLA 9.875 9.35 9.925 1-14 Utah State 9.10 1-14 Utah State 9.30 9.90 9.775 1-21 Oregon State dnp 1-21 Oregon State 9.80 9.30 9.85 1-28 Michigan 9.875 1-28 Michigan 9.875 9.925 2-5 Minnesota 9.625 2-5 Minnesota 9.75 9.30 9.725 2-11 Brigham Young 9.825 2-11 Brigham Young 9.225 9.875 2-20 Nebraska dnp 2-20 Nebraska dnp (wrist) 2-25 Georgia 9.175 2-25 Georgia 9.85 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal dnp 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 9.975 3-11 Washington dnp 3-11 Washington 9.875 9.625 3-18 Arizona State dnp 3-18 Arizona State 9.875 9.875 3-26 Brigham Young dnp 3-26 Brigham Young 9.825 4-9 NCAA Regional dnp 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.925 Career Bests 9.90 Career Bests 9.875 9.925 9.975
JESSICA DUKE KATIE KIVISTO Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA dnp 1-7 UCLA 9.825 1-14 Utah State 9.725 1-14 Utah State 9.825 9.70 9.65 1-21 Oregon State dnp 1-21 Oregon State 9.725 1-28 Michigan dnp 1-28 Michigan 9.775 2-5 Minnesota 9.75 2-5 Minnesota 9.75 9.30 9.70 2-11 Brigham Young 9.775 2-11 Brigham Young 9.90 9.725 2-20 Nebraska 9.75 2-20 Nebraska 9.825 9.175 2-25 Georgia 9.90 2-25 Georgia 9.725 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 9.725 9.75 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 8.750 3-11 Washington 9.90 9.75 3-11 Washington 9.85 3-18 Arizona State 9.925 9.80 3-18 Arizona State 9.85 3-26 Brigham Young 9.825 9.825 3-26 Brigham Young 9.80 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.85 9.725 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.825 Career Bests 9.925 9.825 Career Bests 9.90 9.70 9.725
ANNABETH EBERLE STEPHANIE LIM Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA 39.625 9.90 9.90 9.875 9.95 1-7 UCLA dnp 1-14 Utah State 38.575 9.85 9.85 9.725 9.15 1-14 Utah State dnp 1-21 Oregon State 39.275 9.85 9.80 9.775 9.85 1-21 Oregon State dnp 1-28 Michigan 39.000 9.875 9.925 9.275 9.925 1-28 Michigan dnp 2-5 Minnesota 39.150 9.85 9.70 9.75 9.85 2-5 Minnesota dnp 2-11 Brigham Young 39.300 9.775 9.85 9.775 9.90 2-11 Brigham Young dnp 2-20 Nebraska 39.300 9.90 9.775 9.775 9.85 2-20 Nebraska dnp 2-25 Georgia 39.575 9.90 9.825 9.95 9.90 2-25 Georgia dnp 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 39.200 9.975 9.825 9.825 9.575 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal dnp 3-11 Washington 39.575 9.875 9.875 9.875 9.95 3-11 Washington dnp 3-18 Arizona State 39.675 9.925 9.875 9.875 10.0 3-18 Arizona State 9.825 3-26 Brigham Young 39.400 9.95 9.825 9.675 9.95 3-26 Brigham Young 9.825 4-9 NCAA Regional 39.625 9.975 9.85 9.85 9.95 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.75 Career Bests 39.775 10.0 9.975 9.95 10.0 Career Bests 9.875 9.85 9.925
NICOLLE FORD NATALIE NICOLOFF Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA 39.475 9.80 9.85 9.925 9.90 1-7 UCLA 9.75 1-14 Utah State 39.55 9.875 9.875 9.95 9.85 1-14 Utah State dnp (illness) 1-21 Oregon State 38.45 9.20 9.85 9.825 9.575 1-21 Oregon State 9.625 1-28 Michigan 39.275 9.875 9.925 9.700 9.775 1-28 Michigan 9.725 2-5 Minnesota 9.825 2-5 Minnesota dnp (elbow) 2-11 Brigham Young 39.325 9.875 9.825 9.85 9.775 2-11 Brigham Young dnp (elbow) 2-20 Nebraska 39.05 9.55 9.85 9.85 9.80 2-20 Nebraska dnp 2-25 Georgia 39.425 9.825 9.825 9.925 9.85 2-25 Georgia dnp 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 39.625 9.90 9.90 9.90 9.925 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal dnp 3-11 Washington 39.65 9.925 9.90 9.95 9.875 3-11 Washington dnp 3-18 Arizona State 39.55 9.85 9.925 9.85 9.925 3-18 Arizona State dnp 3-26 Brigham Young 39.500 9.925 9.925 9.925 9.725 3-26 Brigham Young dnp 4-9 NCAA Regional 39.425 9.85 9.85 9.85 9.875 4-9 NCAA Regional dnp Career Bests 39.650 9.925 9.95 9.95 9.925 Career Bests 9.825 9.90 9.80
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GABRIELLA ONODI KRISTEN RIFFANACHT Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA 9.75 9.825 1-7 UCLA 9.80 9.875 1-21 Utah State 9.75 9.85 9.45 1-14 Utah State 38.875 9.70 9.65 9.775 9.75 1-21 Oregon State 9.70 9.80 1-21 Oregon State 9.025 9.775 9.65 1-28 Michigan 9.75 9.775 9.825 1-28 Michigan dnp (hamstring) 2-5 Minnesota dnp (ankle) 2-5 Minnesota 9.775 9.775 9.75 2-11 Brigham Young 9.825 2-11 Brigham Young 9.125 2-20 Nebraska 9.675 9.30 9.75 2-20 Nebraska 9.275 9.85 2-25 Georgia 9.70 9.825 9.725 2-25 Georgia 9.85 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 9.80 9.825 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 9.650 9.80 3-11 Washington 9.80 9.875 9.875 3-11 Washington 9.825 9.85 3-18 Arizona State 9.825 9.275 3-18 Arizona State 9.825 9.95 3-26 Brigham Young 9.85 3-26 Brigham Young 9.30 9.85 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.80 4-9 NCAA Regional 9.70 9.90 Career Bests 9.80 9.875 9.875 Career Bests 38.875 9.95 9.85 9.90 9.95
ASHLEY POSTELL RACHEL TIDD Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX Date Opponent AA VT UB BB FX 1-7 UCLA 39.625 9.925 9.825 9.925 9.95 1-7 UCLA 9.95 9.95 1-14 Utah State 9.90 1-14 Utah State dnp (back injury) 1-21 Oregon State 39.45 9.85 9.85 9.875 9.875 1-21 Oregon State 9.825 9.90 1-28 Michigan 39.375 9.825 9.825 9.825 9.90 1-28 Michigan 39.275 9.75 9.95 9.75 9.825 2-5 Minnesota 39.250 9.80 9.825 9.80 9.825 2-5 Minnesota 39.225 9.85 9.775 9.825 9.775 2-11 Brigham Young 39.375 9.85 9.85 9.70 9.875 2-11 Brigham Young 39.375 9.85 9.95 9.75 9.825 2-20 Nebraska 39.60 9.925 9.825 9.95 9.90 2-20 Nebraska 39.350 9.825 9.825 9.825 9.875 2-25 Georgia 39.40 9.875 9.675 9.95 9.90 2-25 Georgia 39.425 9.80 9.925 9.875 9.825 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 39.60 9.90 9.875 9.925 9.90 3-4 Florida/Stanford/Cal 39.050 9.875 9.925 9.350 9.90 3-11 Washington 39.775 9.90 9.95 10.0 9.925 3-11 Washington 9.925 9.425 3-18 Arizona State 39.45 9.85 9.875 10.0 9.725 3-18 Arizona State 9.825 9.925 3-26 Brigham Young 39.175 9.95 9.875 9.975 9.375 3-26 Brigham Young 39.575 9.95 9.925 9.90 9.80 4-9 NCAA Regional 38.90 9.875 9.925 9.325 9.775 4-9 NCAA Regional 38.950 9.875 9.875 9.325 9.875 Career Bests 39.775 9.95 9.95 10.0 9.95 Career Bests 39.675 10.0 9.95 9.900 9.925
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UTAH VS. UCLA, SALT LAKE CITY, JAN. 7 UTAH VS. UTAH STATE, LOGAN, UTAH, JAN. 14
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.750 Ashley Peckett ...... 9.850 Meagan Nelson ...... 9.675 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.750 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.875 Christie Tedmon ...... 9.850 Katie Omann ...... 9.550 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.700 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.800 Jordan Schwikert ...... 9.875 Rachel Ropelato ...... 9.750 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.300 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.950 Kristen Maloney ...... 9.950 Megan Tschida ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Tasha Schwikert ...... 9.900 Rachel Mandy ...... 9.750 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.90 Kate Richardson ...... 9.925 Jackie Fogli ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 VT: 49.450, Running: 49.450 VT: 49.500, Running: 98.850 VT: 48.775, Running: 48.775 VT: 49.075, Running: 98.000 BARS BARS BARS BARS Dominique D’Oliveira ...... 9.750 Lori Winn ...... 9.825 Meagan Nelson ...... 9.625 Dominique D’Oliveira .....9.100 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.825 Jordan Schwikert ...... 9.800 Katie Rutherford ...... 9.600 Jessica Duke ...... 9.725 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.900 Kate Richardson ...... 9.725 Ashley Barr ...... 9.600 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.650 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Kristen Maloney ...... 9.875 Alex Martin ...... 9.725 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Tasha Schwikert ...... 9.925 Megan Tschida ...... 9.725 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.950 Lindsey Vanden Eykel ...9.925 Rachel Ropelato ...... 9.475 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 UB: 49.350, Running: 98.800 UB: 49.350, Running: 49.350 UB: 48.275, Running: 97.050 UB: 48.925, Running: 48.925 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Natalie Nicoloff ...... 9.750 Christie Tedmon ...... 9.700 Ashley Barr ...... 9.600 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.775 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.800 Lindsey Vanden Eykel ...9.675 Katie Rutherford ...... 9.650 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.700 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.350 Jordan Schwikert ...... 9.900 Alex Martin ...... 9.450 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Tasha Schwikert ...... 9.950 Megan Tschida ...... 9.775 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Kate Richardson ...... 9.950 Jackie Fogli ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.950 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Kristen Maloney ...... 9.875 Liesel Kohler ...... 9.775 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.725 BB: 49.275, Running: 148.075 BB: 49.375, Running: 197.300 BB: 48.550, Running: 145.600 BB: 49.200, Running: 195.675 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.875 Christie Tedmon ...... 9.750 Alex Martin ...... 9.750 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.650 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Ashley Peckett ...... 9.175 Rachel ropelato ...... 9.625 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Jordan Schwikert ...... 9.825 Jackie Fogli ...... 9.625 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.450 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Tasha Schwikert ...... 9.800 Ashley Barr ...... 9.400 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 Kristen Maloney ...... 9.825 Megan Tschida ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.150 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.925 Kate Richardson ...... 9.875 Liesel Kohler ...... 9.275 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.775 FX: 49.600, Running: 197.675 FX: 49.075, Running: 147.925 FX: 48.250, Running: 193.850 FX: 48.475, Running: 146.475 Final Score: 197.675 Final Score: 197.300 Final Score: 193.850 Final Score: 195.675
UTAH VS. OREGON STATE, CORVALLIS, ORE., JAN. 21 UTAH VS. MICHIGAN, SALT LAKE CITY, JAN. 28
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Kim Sedlak ...... 9.525 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.700 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.750 Carol McNamara ...... 9.775 Megan Devencenzi ...... 9.775 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.800 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.875 Lindsey Bruck ...... 9.800 Daylee Ingalls ...... 9.725 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.200 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 Shanna Duggan ...... 9.800 Therese Videan ...... 9.550 Ashley Postell ...... 9.850 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Katie Lieberman ...... 9.825 Heather Justus ...... 9.825 Rachael Tidd ...... 9.825 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.750 Jenny Deiley ...... 9.850 Angela Morales ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Elise Ray ...... 9.775 VT: 48.625, Running: 48.625 VT: 49.025, Running: 98.150 VT: 49.200, Running: 49.200 VT: 49.050, Running: 98.275 BARS BARS BARS BARS Heather Justus ...... 9.700 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.025 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.775 Carol McNamara ...... 9.750 Chelsea Plourde ...... 9.700 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.725 Dominique D’Oliveira ...... 9.875 Nellie Kippley ...... 9.775 Heidi Goehring ...... 9.125 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.800 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.925 Lindsey Bruck ...... 9.850 Lindsay Nelson ...... 9.750 Ashley Postell ...... 9.850 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Jenny Deiley ...... 9.900 Therese Videan ...... 9.850 Rachael Tidd ...... 9.900 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Lauren Mirkovich ...... 9.100 Chrissy Lamun ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.950 Elise Ray ...... 9.950 UB: 48.750, Running: 97.375 UB: 49.125, Running: 49.125 UB: 49.500, Running: 98.700 UB: 49.225, Running: 49.225 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Angela Morales ...... 9.125 Natalie Nicoloff ...... 9.625 Natalie Nicoloff ...... 9.725 Carol McNamara ...... 9.300 Courtney Dennison ...... 9.700 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.775 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.775 Shanna Duggan ...... 9.800 Heidi Goehring ...... 9.775 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.300 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.750 Becca Clauson ...... 9.850 Daylee Ingalls ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.700 Jenny Deiley ...... 9.725 Chrissy Lamun ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.775 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.275 Lindsey Bruck ...... 9.800 Chelsea Plourde ...... 9.775 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Elise Ray ...... 9.900 BB: 48.875, Running: 146.250 BB: 48.875, Running: 195.950 BB: 48.775, Running: 147.475 BB: 49.075, Running: 196.525 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Megan Devencenzi ...... 8.825 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.650 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Nellie Kippley ...... 9.800 Heather Justus ...... 9.725 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.775 Shanna Duggan ...... 9.800 Heidi Goehring ...... 9.150 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.575 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Lindsey Bruck ...... 9.850 Angela Morales ...... 9.675 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Becca Clauson ...... 9.875 Chrissy Lamun ...... 9.650 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.925 Jenny Deiley ...... 9.850 Therese Videan ...... 9.800 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.750 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.925 Elise Ray ...... 9.550 FX: 48.000, Running: 194.250 FX: 48.925, Running: 147.075 FX: 49.400, Running: 196.875 FX: 49.175, Running: 147.450 Final Score: 194.250 Final Score: 195.950 Final Score: 196.875 Final Score: 196.525
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UTAH VS. MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, FEB. 5 UTAH VS. BRIGHAM YOUNG, SALT LAKE CITY, FEB. 11
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Kim Womack ...... 9.650 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.775 Jessica Duke ...... 9.775 Alethea Boon ...... 9.825 Kelly Ganchan ...... 9.675 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.225 Sierra Jacobs ...... 9.775 Ashley Mutchler ...... 9.750 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 Dayna Smart ...... 9.750 Maria Opsahl ...... 9.700 Ashley Postell ...... 9.800 Ashley Postell ...... 9.850 Kirsten Pauga ...... 9.825 Laura Johnson ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.850 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.800 CarolynYernberg ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.775 Marie-Helene Claveau ...9.700 VT: 48.650, Running: 48.650 VT: 49.025, Running: 97.900 VT: 49.125, Running: 49.125 VT: 48.975, Running: 97.575 BARS BARS BARS BARS Kim Womack ...... 9.150 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.750 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.900 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.775 Andrea Cornelius ...... 9.625 Dominique D’Oliveira .....9.625 Dominique D’Oliveira ...... 9.825 Kylee Draper ...... 9.625 Rehana Russell ...... 9.650 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.700 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Cassie Myers ...... 9.025 Maria Opsahl ...... 9.525 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.850 Genevieve Claveau ...... 9.800 Stephanie Funk ...... 9.650 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.825 Candace Bauer ...... 9.625 Laura Johnson ...... 9.675 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.950 Kacie Capra ...... 9.775 UB: 48.125, Running: 96.775 UB: 48.875, Running: 48.875 UB: 49.375, Running: 98.500 UB: 48.600, Running: 48.600 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Amanda Miles ...... 9.100 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.775 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.125 Kacie Capra ...... 9.750 Kelly Ganchon ...... 9.700 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.300 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Candace Bauer ...... 9.650 Ashley Mutchler ...... 9.700 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.300 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.750 Kandis Kelly ...... 9.725 Stephanie Funk ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Genevieve Claveau ...... 9.500 Laura Johnson ...... 9.675 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.775 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.175 Ashley Stanton ...... 9.800 Ashley Postell ...... 9.800 Ashley Postell ...... 9.700 Marie-Helene Claveau ...9.575 BB: 48.650, Running: 145.425 BB: 48.450, Running: 195.275 BB: 48.900, Running: 147.400 BB: 48.200, Running: 194.350 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Kim Womack ...... 9.725 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.700 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.725 Kirsten Pauga ...... 9.700 Ashley Mutchler ...... 9.700 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.775 Kacie Capra ...... 9.600 Ashley Stanton ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Sierra Jacobs ...... 9.575 Laura Johnson ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Genevieve Claveau ...... 9.675 Maria Opsahl ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.900 Marie-Helene Claveau ...9.750 Carolyn Yernberg ...... 9.875 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.725 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.875 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.850 FX: 49.025, Running: 194.450 FX: 48.925, Running: 146.825 FX: 49.250, Running: 196.650 FX: 48.575, Running: 146.150 Final Score: 194.450 Final Score: 195.275 Final Score: 196.650 Final Score: 194.350
UTAH VS. NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FEB. 20 UTAH VS. GEORGIA, ATHENS, FEB. 25
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Brittney Williams ...... 9.750 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.675 Megan Dowlen ...... 9.875 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.700 Desire Sniatynzski ...... 9.800 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Katie Heenan ...... 9.925 Jessica Duke ...... 9.900 Michele Zabawa ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.550 Brittany Smith ...... 9.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.825 Stephanie Carter ...... 9.875 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Michelle Emmons ...... 9.925 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Emily Parsons ...... 9.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Kelsey Ericksen ...... 9.825 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.800 Richelle Simpson ...... 9.875 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.900 Ashley Kupets ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.900 VT: 49.225, Running: 49.225 VT: 49.075, Running: 98.175 VT: 49.475, Running: 49.475 VT: 49.300, Running: 98.275 BARS BARS BARS BARS Emily Parsons ...... 9.725 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.825 Audrey Bowers ...... 9.050 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.725 Michele Zabawa ...... 9.850 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.275 Nikki Childs ...... 9.775 Dominique D’Oliveira .....9.175 Richelle Simpson ...... 9.800 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.775 Megan Dowlen ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Brittney Williams ...... 9.775 Ashley Postell ...... 9.825 Katie Heenan ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.675 Kristi Esposito ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Kelsey Ericksen ...... 9.925 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.825 Desire Sniatynski ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Ashley Kupets ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 UB: 49.000, Running: 98.225 UB: 49.100, Running: 49.100 UB: 49.200, Running: 98.675 .UB: 48.975, Running: 48.975 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Stephanie Carter ...... 9.675 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.300 Kelsey Ericksen ...... 9.275 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Michele Zabawa ...... 9.800 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.850 Megan Dowlen ...... 9.775 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.850 Emily Parsons ...... 9.900 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Brittany Smith ...... 9.900 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Jamie Saas ...... 9.900 Niciolle Ford ...... 9.850 Nikki Childs ...... 9.925 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Richelle Simpson ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.775 Ashley Kupets ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 Kristi Esposito ...... 9.200 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Katie Heenan ...... 9.675 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 BB: 49.175, Running: 147.400 BB: 49.250, Running: 196.600 BB: 49.025, Running: 147.700 BB: 49.550, Running: 197.150 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Kristi Esposito ...... 9.800 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.175 Nikki Childs ...... 9.850 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.725 Jamie Saas ...... 9.775 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.750 Sam Sheehan ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Stephanie Carter ...... 9.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.800 Kelsey Ericksen ...... 9.925 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Brittney Williams ...... 9.750 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Michelle Emmons ...... 9.925 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.900 Emily Parsons ...... 9.925 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Katie Heenan ...... 9.950 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.850 Richelle Simpson ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Ashley Kupets ...... 9.925 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 FX: 49.250, Running: 196.650 FX: 49.175, Running: 147.350 FX: 49.575, Running: 197.275 FX: 49.325, Running: 147.600 Final Score: 196.650 Final Score: 196.600 Final Score: 197.275 Final Score: 197.150
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UTAH VS. FLORIDA, SALT LAKE CITY, MAR. 4 UTAH VS. STANFORD, SALT LAKE CITY, MAR. 4
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Tiffany Murry ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Lauren Elmore ...... 9.600 Jessica Duke ...... 9.725 Breanne King ...... 9.825 Jessica Duke ...... 9.725 Alex Pintchouk ...... 9.775 Ashley Postel ...... 9.900 Katie Rue ...... 9.850 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Stephanie Gentry ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Chantelle Tousek ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Natalie Foley ...... 9.800 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.975 Ashley Reed ...... 9.875 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.975 Liz Tricase ...... 9.800 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.650 Savannah Evans ...... 9.900 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.650 VT: 49.375, Running: 49.375 VT: 49.300, Running: 196.450 VT: 48.825, Running: 98.075 VT: 48.825, Running: 98.075 BARS BARS BARS BARS Katie Kivisto ...... 8.750 Sherie Owens ...... 9.825 Katie Kivisto ...... 8.750 Lauren Elmore ...... 9.850 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Breanne King ...... 9.775 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Stacy Sprando ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Samantha Lutz ...... 9.800 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Natalie Foley ...... 9.775 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Ashley Reed ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Tabitha Yim ...... 9.900 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Orley Szmuch ...... 8.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Liz Tricase ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 Tiffany Murry ...... 9.825 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 Jessica Louie ...... 9.675 UB: 49.275, Running: 98.650 UB: 49.050, Running: 49.050 UB: 49.125, Running: 147.200 UB: 49.125, Running: 147.200 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 Ashley Reed ...... 9.825 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 Lauren Elmore ...... 9.675 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.800 Katie Rue ...... 9.850 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.800 Liz Tricase ...... 9.825 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.350 Erinn Dooley ...... 9.275 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.350 Aimee Precourt ...... 9.675 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Chantelle Tousek ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Natalie Foley ...... 9.775 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Samantha Lutz ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Stephanie Gentry ...... 9.675 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Breanne King ...... 9.900 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Tabitha Yim ...... 9.875 BB: 49.250, Running: 147.900 BB: 49.200, Running: 98.250 BB: 49.250, Running: 147.900 BB: 48.825, Running: 196.025 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Katie Rue ...... 9.800 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Alex Pintchouk ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Breanne King ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Aimee Precourt ...... 9.625 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.900 Tiffany Murry ...... 9.900 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.900 Lauren Elmore ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Ashley Reed ...... 9.900 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Stephanie Gentry ...... 9.825 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.975 Samantha Lutz ...... 9.425 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.975 Natalie Foley ...... 9.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.575 Savannah Evans ...... 9.075 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.575 Liz Tricase ...... 9.900 FX: 49.525, Running: 197.425 FX: 48.900, Running: 147.150 FX: 49.525, Running: 197.425 FX: 49.250, Running: 49.250 Final Score: 197.425 Final Score: 196.450 Final Score: 197.425 Final Score: 196.025
UTAH VS. CALIFORNIA, SALT LAKE CITY, MAR. 4 UTAH VS. WASHINGTON, SALT LAKE CITY, MAR. 11
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Nicki Wells ...... 9.650 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 Lily Le ...... 9.675 Jessica Duke ...... 9.725 Allison Szutu ...... 9.625 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Darcee Schiller ...... 9.725 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Isabel Garcia ...... 9.100 Jessica Duke ...... 9.900 Chelsea Bakken ...... 9.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Siobhan Luce ...... 9.725 Ashley Postell ...... 9.900 Carly Dockendorf ...... 9.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.975 My-Lan Dodd ...... 9.800 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 Tacia LaBatte ...... 9.900 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.650 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Natalie Gillan ...... 9.850 VT: 49.375, Running: 49.375 VT: 47.900, Running: 144.300 VT: 49.525, Running: 49.525 VT: 49.250, Running: 97.925 BARS BARS BARS BARS Katie Kivisto ...... 8.750 Diobhan Luce ...... 8.800 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.850 Raimey Iselin ...... 9.825 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Nicki Wells ...... 9.675 Jessica Duke ...... 9.750 Kim Lewis ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Allison Szutu ...... 9.750 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Tacia LaBatte ...... 8.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 My-Lan Dodd ...... 9.225 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Molly Seaman ...... 9.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Lauren Shipp ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Carly Dockendorf ...... 9.850 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.425 Kelly McDonald ...... 9.400 UB: 49.275, Running: 98.650 UB: 47.200, Running: 191.500 UB: 49.325, Running: 98.850 UB: 48.675, Running: 48.675 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 Isabel Garcia ...... 9.725 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.875 Lily Le ...... 9.100 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.800 Nicki Wells ...... 9.725 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.825 Tori Quandt ...... 9.350 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.350 Siobhan Luce ...... 9.700 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.800 Kelly McDonald ...... 9.850 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.900 Elyse Wong ...... 8.975 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.950 Carly Dockendorf ...... 9.350 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Lauren Shipp ...... 9.775 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Chelsea Bakken ...... 9.750 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 My-Lan Dodd ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 10.00 Molly Seaman ...... 9.875 BB: 49.250, Running: 147.900 BB: 48.750, Running: 48.750 BB: 49.525, Running: 148.375 BB: 48.175, Running: 195.175 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Elyse Wong ...... 9.550 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.850 Tori Quandt ...... 9.725 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Isabel Garcia ...... 9.550 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.875 Raimey Iselin ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.900 Siobhan Luce ...... 9.750 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 Lily Le ...... 9.525 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Nicki Wells ...... 9.575 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Natalie Gillan ...... 9.825 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.975 My-Lan Dodd ...... 9.225 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 Chelsea Bakken ...... 9.875 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.575 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.625 Carly Dockendorf ...... 9.875 FX: 49.525, Running: 197.425 FX: 47.650, Running: 96.400 FX: 49.475, Running: 197.850 FX: 49.075, Running: 147.000 Final Score: 197.425 Final Score: 191.500 Final Score: 197.850 Final Score: 195.175
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UTAH VS. ARIZONA STATE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAR. 18 UTAH VS. BRIGHAM YOUNG, PROVO, MAR. 26
VAULT VAULT VAULT VAULT Stephanie Lim ...... 9.825 Donna Chance ...... 9.725 Kacie Capra ...... 9.700 Stephanie Lim ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Lauren Powell ...... 9.825 Dayna Smart ...... 9.875 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Jessica Duke ...... 9.925 April Boone ...... 9.900 Alethea Boon ...... 9.900 Jessica Duke ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.850 Josie Hancock ...... 9.850 Kirsten Pauga ...... 9.925 Ashley Postell ...... 9.950 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.825 Cassandra Jusino ...... 9.800 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.950 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.925 Marie-Helene Claveau ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 VT: 49.375, Running: 49.375 VT: 49.100, Running: 98.200 VT: 49.450, Running: 49.450 VT: 49.600, Running: 98.975 BARS BARS BARS BARS Katie Kivisto ...... 9.850 Kari Muth ...... 9.775 Marie-Helene Claveau ...... 9.600 Katie Kivisto ...... 9.800 Jessica Duke ...... 9.800 Lisa Lanza ...... 9.525 Candace Bauer ...... 9.700 Jessica Duke ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 Cassandra Jusino ...... 9.800 Cassie Myers ...... 8.500 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 April Boone ...... 9.775 Genevieve Claveau ...... 9.825 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Lauren Powell ...... 9.875 Kacie Capra ...... 9.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 Ashley Kelly ...... 9.875 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.925 UB: 49.450, Running: 98.825 UB: 49.100, Running: 49.100 UB: 48.725, Running: 98.175 UB: 49.375, Running: 49.375 BEAM BEAM BEAM BEAM Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.825 Kari Muth ...... 9.825 Kacie Capra ...... 9.750 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.850 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.825 Lauren Powell ...... 9.825 Candace Bauer ...... 9.525 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.300 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.875 Cassandra Jusino ...... 9.800 Kandis Kelly ...... 9.875 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.900 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Josie Hancock ...... 9.150 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.900 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.875 April Boone ...... 9.800 Marie-Helene Claveau ...... 9.925 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.675 Ashley Postell ...... 10.00 Ashley Kelly ...... 9.950 Dayna Smart ...... 9.950 Ashley Postell ...... 9.975 BB: 49.425, Running: 148.250 BB: 49.200, Running: 196.600 BB: 49.400, Running: 147.575 BB: 49.325, Running: 197.450 FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.950 Lisa Lanza ...... 8.800 Alethea Boon ...... 9.775 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.850 Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.275 Kari Muth ...... 9.825 Kirsten Pauga ...... 9.775 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.800 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.925 Lauren Powell ...... 9.675 Genevieve Claveau ...... 9.725 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.725 Ashley Postell ...... 9.725 Josie Hancock ...... 9.875 Kacie Capra ...... 9.850 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.825 Annabeth Eberle ...... 10.00 April Boone ...... 9.925 Marie-Helene Claveau ...... 9.950 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.875 Cassandra Jusino ...... 9.900 Jaime Mabray ...... 9.900 Ashley Postell ...... 9.375 FX: 49.475, Running: 197.725 FX: 49.200, Running: 147.400 FX: 49.250, Running: 196.825 FX: 49.150, Running: 197.450 Final Score: 197.725 Final Score: 196.600 Final Score: 196.825 Final Score: 197.450
NCAA NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL, SALT LAKE CITY, APR. 9
VAULT VAULT Stephanie Lim ...... 9.750 BYU ...... 49.125 Jessica Duke ...... 9.850 Oregon State ...... 49.100 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Minnesota ...... 48.550 Ashley Postell ...... 9.875 Southern Utah ...... 48.550 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Iowa ...... 47.775 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.975 VT: 49.425, Running: 196.800 BARS BARS Katie Kivisto ...... 9.825 BYU ...... 48.675 Jessica Duke ...... 9.725 Oregon State ...... 48.875 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Minnesota ...... 48.450 Ashley Postell ...... 9.925 Southern Utah ...... 48.150 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Iowa ...... 47.900 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 UB: 49.325, Running: 49.325 . BEAM BEAM Gabriella Onodi ...... 9.800 BYU ...... 49.250 Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.700 Oregon State ...... 48.650 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.325 Minnesota ...... 47.825 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.850 Southern Utah ...... 47.850 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.850 Iowa ...... 47.800 Ashley Postell ...... 9.325 BB: 48.525, Running: 97.850 FLOOR FLOOR Kristen Riffanacht ...... 9.900 BYU ...... 48.925 Rachel Tidd ...... 9.875 Oregon State ...... 49.050 Nicolle Ford ...... 9.875 Minnesota ...... 49.150 Ashley Postell ...... 9.775 Southern Utah ...... 48.900 Annabeth Eberle ...... 9.950 Iowa ...... 48.875 Gritt Hofmann ...... 9.925 FX: 49.525, Running: 147.375 Final Score: 196.800
14 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM UTAH HEAD COACH GREG MARSDEN women’s sports in 1982, the Utes kept win- From 1992-2004, Utah has averaged in ning–capturing five NCAA championships excess of 10,000 spectators to its home in a row before placing second in 1987. meets. The top five single-season attendance GREG MARSDEN Utah achieved similar success in the 1990s, marks are held by Utah, including a national 30th Year winning NCAA Championships in 1990, best average of 13,164 in 1993. The Utes Utah: 818-140-5 ’92, ’94 and ’95. The Utes came close to once competed before 15,238 fans, the best Career: same ushering in the new millennium with yet attended gymnastics meet in NCAA history. another title, taking second behind UCLA Marsden has been recognized for his at the 2000 NCAA Championships. Utah accomplishments many times over and has made the Super Six all five years of the was named National Coach of the Year a current decade. record seven times, most recently in 1995. Greg Marsden has established himself In addition to an unprecedented 10 na- This season, he was voted the NCAA North as the premier coach in college women’s tional championships, the Utes have never Central Region Coach of the Year. In 1986, gymnastics in a career spent entirely at placed lower than 10th in the nation and he was honored by Utah’s biggest rival Utah. Marsden breaks new ground with have more top-five (22), top-three (17) and when Brigham Young University presented each victory he earns. A recent milestone top-two (15) finishes than any other pro- him with the Dale Rex Award, which rec- was becoming college gymnastics first (and gram. Marsden is the only coach in NCAA ognizes annually “The Utahn Contributing only) 800-win coach in 2004. In 30 years history to win a national title at home, on the Most to Athletics.” He was the 1992 TV of coaching against the top teams in the the road and at a neutral site. Guide/Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce nation, Marsden has achieved an amazing Marsden became the first 700-win Sportsman of the Year and the 1992 MS 818-140-5 record. coach in women’s gymnastics’ history in Sports Person of the Year. In eight years Under Marsden, Utah is the only school 2000 and the first 800-win coach at the of conference participation (the Utes have to qualify for all 24 NCAA Championships 2004 NCAA Championships. Included in operated as an independent for most of and for the last 30 national championships, his 818-140-5 career record is the best their history), he was coach of the year five including the AIAW years. He has led Utah regular season ledger (410-59-2) in college times. to an unparalleled 10 national champion- gymnastics history. His record is even more Marsden served on the NCAA ships (double any other coach) and 15 amazing considering he schedules the top gymnastics committee for five years and top-three finishes. teams in the country year in and year out. was president of the college gymnastics He even sets records in the stands. Marsden’s 1993 team was 17-0 in the regu- coaching association for two years. He is A consummate marketer of his sport, lar season and 13 other Utah teams entered currently the regional representative on the Marsden has turned Utah gymnastics into nationals with just one loss. Utah set an women’s Collegiate Program Committee a revenue producer. Utah has led the nation NCAA-record by going 23 years without and the NCAA Division I representative for in gymnastics home attendance in 21 of the a regular season home loss–a streak that the NACGCW. last 24 years, including this year, when the was ended by NCAA champion UCLA in His coaching portfolio includes a stint Utes averaged 11,300 fans per meet. 2003. Utah got a measure of revenge in the as the United States National Women’s Pro- Marsden’s teams also rank among the first meet of 2004 by beating UCLA in Los gram Administrator and U.S.A. National nation’s leaders in the classroom. From Angeles. Women’s Team coach in 1987. As the 2000-03, Utah’s gymnastics team placed He has always stressed a team ap- National Team coach, Marsden led the U.S. in the top three in the National Association proach, but Marsden is also unrivaled on to a gold medal at the 1987 Pan American of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women an individual front. His gymnasts have Games. The World Championships team he (NACGC/W) academic standings. In won the most All-America awards (244) of coached finished sixth. each case, Utah boasted the highest GPA any program and their 22 individual event He was a floor manager at the 1984 of the teams that qualified for the NCAA championships ranks second. Ute gymnasts Summer Olympics and a coordinator at the Championships. In 2000, the Utes won the have claimed NCAA titles on every event 1979 World Championships. He brought Scholastic Academic championship with and in the all-around. the 1979 USGF World Championship a 3.72 team GPA–a year in which they Missy Marlowe, whose four NCAA Trials, the 1980 and ’82 USGF Champi- finished second at the NCAA Champion- individual championships in a single year onships of the USA, and the 1993 World ships. Marsden also coached two first-team (1992) has been matched by just one other University Games Trials to Salt Lake City. CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in that gymnast, remains the only gymnast ever In 1988, he was on the organizing com- span—Theresa Kulikowski (2002-03) and to win the Honda Broderick Cup, which mittee for the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Shannon Bowles (2002)—and Kulikowski recognizes the nation’s top female col- Trials, also held in Salt Lake City. was the 2003 Academic All-American legiate athlete. Kulikowski, a three-time Marsden, 54, a native of Clarksville, of the Year. Last year, Melissa Vituj was NCAA Champion, was selected from the Ark., was born Nov. 8, 1950. He received selected as a CoSIDA third-team Academic entire field of NCAA student-athletes (over his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in All-American. 360,000) as the 2003 CoSIDA Academic physical education from Central Arkansas On the competition floor, Utah has All-American of the Year. No other gym- (1972) and Arkansas State (1973), respec- never missed a national championship un- nast has ever won the award. tively. He is married to the former Megan der Marsden, dating back to his inaugural Almost as legendary as Utah’s com- McCunniff, a two-time NCAA all-around year in 1976. In 1981, the final year of the petitive feats is its success in the stands–an- champion and his assistant coach for the AIAW, Utah won its first national champi- other credit to Marsden, whose marketing past 21 years. They have two sons, Mon- onship. When the NCAA began sponsoring efforts have equaled his coaching exploits. tana and Dakota.
15 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS her first meet back, scored a perfect 10.0 PERSONAL: Daughter of Bindee on vault and a 39.725 in the all-around Eberle and Joe Eberle (pronounced eb- at Washington … four wins against both er-lee) … father ran track at University Nebraska and BYU (all-around, vault, of Nevada … mother was a cheerleader beam and floor) … scored 10.0 on vault at Nevada and is now a personal trainer three times and had two 9.975 vaults … and sports nutritionist … sister Aleise … “hit” 45-47 routines … Inside Gymnas- nickname is A.B. … full name is Anna tics’ NCAA Athlete of the Week for Jan. Elisabeth Eberle … born April 14, 1983. 19. 2003–Sensational sophomore season Eberle’s Career Highs culminated with first-team All-America A-A 39.775 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 ANNABETH EBERLE Vault 10.0 vs. UCLA, Jan. 10, 2004 Senior, 5’5” honors in the all-around (fourth-tie) and 10.0 vs. Washington/Iowa/I-C, Mar. 5, 2004 Reno, Nev. vault (sixth) … second-team All-Ameri- Bars 9.975 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 Galena HS can on bars … 39.475 all-around score Beam 9.950 vs. Florida, Mar. 21, 2003 on first night of NCAA Championships 9.950 vs. Brigham Young, Jan. 2, 2004 Starz Gymnastics Floor 10.00 vs. Arizona State, Jan. 24, 2003 Exercise & Sport Science/Physical Therapy tied for second in session and 9.95 on 10.00 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 28, 2003 vault tied for first … scored 39.275 in 10.00 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18, 2005 UTAH: Four-time All-American is con- the all-around in Super Six team finals sidered a serious contender for NCAA … 9.95 on vault both nights of team honors in the all-around and on all four competition at NCAA’s and 9.8565 in events … two-time Utah co-MVP was individual event finals … NCAA North also voted team co-captain for the sec- Central Region all-around champion ond straight year … including ties, has (39.45) … team co-MVP competed 8 of Utah’s all-time top 10 all-around all-around in every meet … season-best scores … 6 career 10.0 scores (3 on 39.750 all-around score … twice scored vault, 3 on floor) … 65 career wins … 10.0 on floor … 20 victories was second has “hit” 186-202 career routines. on team … “hit” 55-59 routines. 2005–NCAA North Central Regional 2002–All-arounder peaked in post- champion in the all-around (39.625), season competition, “hitting” all 12 vault (9.975) and floor (9.95) … fin- routines at regionals and nationals … ished the regular season ranked No. 7 NCAA West Region vault champion had in the nation in the all-around (39.495 season-best 9.925 … sixth all-around RQS), No. 6 on floor (tie, 9.92) and No. at regionals with season-best 39.325 8 on vault (tie, 9.915) … one perfect … scored 39.075 in opening session 10.0 this year (on floor) and two 9.975 of NCAA Championships (11th) and scores (both on vault) … 19 wins ranks improved to 39.225 in Super Six … won second on the team and includes four her very first collegiate vault attempt … all-around victories … has “hit” 50-52 5 total wins (3 on vault, 1 on bars, 1 on routines. floor) … “hit” 36-44 routines. 2004–NCAA vault runner-up and first- team All-American scored 9.9188 in CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Seven-year NCAA vault finals … tied for first on U.S. National Team member … finished vault (9.95) across both sessions the first eighth all-around and third on beam at day of the NCAA Championships … 1999 World Championships Trials … North Central Region Gymnast of the 19th all-around at 2000 USA Gymnas- Year … Utah co-captain was team’s co- tics Championships … won vault at MVP … finished the regular season tied 2000 Bluewater Invitational in Canada for sixth in the nation in the all-around … also competed for U.S. team at meet (39.650 RQS) … career-high 39.775 in the Netherlands in 2000 … trained all-around score vs. BYU on Mar. 19 is under coach Derick Moellenbeck at the fifth-best ever at Utah … “hit” her Starz Gymnastics … member of Na- first 37 routines of the season before fall tional Honor Society. off bars at regionals … led team with 21 victories despite missing two and a half meets with an ankle injury … won four straight all-around, vault and floor competitions before Feb. 14 injury … in
16 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Member of German National Team from 1994-2001 … competed at 2001 World Champion- ships … placed first on floor, second on beam and fourth in all-around at 2000 German Championships … second on vault, beam and floor at 1998 national championships … 14th all-around at 1998 European Championships … 1997 German all-around champion also won GRITT HOFMANN vault, bars and floor … 1995 junior na- DOMINIQUE D’OLIVEIRA Senior, 5’1” tional all-around champion … competed Junior, 5’5” Berlin, Germany for Germany at European Champion- Johannesburg, South Africa Werner-Seelenbinder HS ships in 1996, ’98 and 2000 … club Redhill HS Sport Club Berlin team Sport Club Berlin (SCB) was Visions Academy of Gymnastics Interior Design national team champion in 1995, ’96, Sociology/Pre-Med ’97 and 2000 … trained with Sport Club UTAH: One of the most exciting floor Berlin (coaches Wolfgang Riedel and UTAH: Part-time lead-off on bars in her performers in the nation … should finish Heidrun Effler), same club as former three seasons at Utah … has “hit” 20-26 Utah’s floor set and is a possibility on Ute All-American Angelika Schatton. career routines. beam … has “hit” 56-66 career routines. 2005–Alternate on bars for the NCAA 2005–Full-time starter on floor has also PERSONAL: Daughter of Ruth and Championships has competed on bars in competed to count on vault and beam … Dietrich Hofmann … parents are en- six meets … season-best 9.875 on Jan. missed the Nebraska meet with a wrist gineers … mother is a former gymnast 28 … has “hit” 4-6 routines. injury … also competed several weeks … enjoys drawing and reading … one 2004–Competed on bars in every with a broken finger … has scored a brother (Frank) … interior design major meet but one and led off 11 times … 9.925 on floor three times, including … nickname is Gritty … full name is Utah’s very first competitor at the a runner-up finish at regionals … tied Gritt Alexandra Hofmann … born Aug. NCAA Championships scored a 9.80 career highs this season on vault (9.875) 17, 1980. on the bars … tied career bar high of and floor (9.975) … season-best 9.90 on 9.90 twice—one of those coming at beam … 3 wins this season and 5 career Hofmann’s Career Highs the NCAA regional championships … victories … has “hit” 19-24 routines. Vault 9.875 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7, 2005 scored 9.80 or better 10 times … com- 9.875 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28, 2005 2004–Tied for NCAA regional floor title Beam 9.925 vs. Utah State, Feb. 7, 2003 peted to count twice on floor … “hit” with a 9.90 … finished season strong af- Floor 9.975 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 11-15 routines … NACGC Scholastic ter spending six weeks on sidelines with 9.975 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4, 2005 All-American. hip and back injuries … performed on 2003–Came back from December ankle floor at the NCAA Championships and surgery to make Utah’s NCAA uneven scored a 9.825 in Super Six competition bar lineup … scored 9.825 as Utah’s … 9.975 floor routine on Mar. 19 was very first competitor at the NCAA career best … 2 victories were both on Championships … also scored 9.825 floor … member of beam lineup prior to from lead-off position in the Super Six injuries scored season-best 9.85 on Jan. … in abbreviated season, “hit” 5-5 in 10 … “hit” 11-11 routines … NACGC routines and averaged 9.85 … NACGC Scholastic All-American. Scholastic All-American. 2003–Utah’s Most Improved Gymnast contributed regularly for beam and floor CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Member lineups … scored 9.90 on beam at re- of South African National Team from gionals … 9.825 on floor during NCAA 1998-2003 … fifth in the all-round at Super Six … career high 9.925 on beam 2002 Como Cup in Italy … in 2001 SA at Utah State on Feb. 7 … season-best International Cup, placed second all- 9.85 on floor and 9.80 on vault … “hit” around, first on bars and second on vault 27-32 routines … NACGC Scholastic … South Africa’s top finisher at 2001 All-American. World Championships in Ghent, Bel- 2002–Joined team at semester break gium … at 2000 South African Nation- … vaulted in the second meet … back als, placed third all-around, won floor, injury ended her season … NACGC was second on bars and third on vault … Scholastic All-American had 4.0 GPA. at 2000 National Trials, won all-around,
17 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS vault, beam and floor and finished 2005–Set back by illness and injury Nicoloff’s Career Highs second on bars … team won gold at early in the season, she has competed on Bars 9.825 vs. Arizona State, Jan. 24, 2003 African Championships in 1998 and beam three times … season-best 9.75 vs. Beam 9.900 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 12, 2003 Floor 9.800 vs. Brigham Young, Jan. 17, 2003 2000 and she was fourth on beam … UCLA … scored a 9.725 vs. Michigan 9.800 vs. Arizona State, Jan. 24, 2003 competed in the 2000 Como and Monte … … 3-3 this season. 9.800 vs. Michigan, Feb. 14, 2004 Forte Cups in Italy … placed fourth on 2004–Did not count a fall the entire beam and helped team to third-place fin- season … did a great job leading off the ish at 1998 Pre-Commonwealth Games beam lineup, scoring a 9.80 or higher in … fourth all-around, third on beam and eight meets … 9.775 on beam in NCAA bars at 1999 Leverkusen Cup … trained Super Six competition … season-best for Visions Academy of Gymnastics in 9.875 on Mar. 19 … competed on floor Johannesburg, South Africa, for coach at Michigan and scored career-tying Michelle Theocharis … won awards for 9.80 … “hit” 15-15 routines … NACGC math, science, biology and Afrikaans Scholastic All-American. as a student at Redhill High School … 2003–Competed in every meet but two matriculated with four distinctions. to count and went exhibition in other two meets … “hit” both beam routines GABRIELLA ONODI PERSONAL: Daughter of Catherine at the NCAA Championships as Utah’s Junior, 5’1” Errington and William D’Oliveira … lead-off performer … career-best 9.90 Budapest, Hungary last name is pronounced doll-a-veer-a … on beam at NCAA regional champion- Ujpesti Torna Egylet enjoys music, reading and dancing … ships … did three bar, eight beam and Kova’cs Pa’l Gimna’zium interested in becoming an airline pilot or five floor routines total … made lineup Communication a career in forensics and criminal inves- on bars, beam and floor against Arizona tigation … sociology major is complet- State on Jan. 24 and scored season highs UTAH: Utah’s most improved gym- ing pre-med requirements … born Jan. bars (9.825) and floor (9.80) … “hit” nast seems to have resolved the con- 19, 1984 in Cape Town, South Africa. 14-16 routines … NACGC Scholastic sistency problems that plagued her in All-American. previous years … competed in twice D’Oliveira’s Career Highs as many events this season as the rest Bars 9.90 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 28, 2003 CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Two-year 9.90 vs. Oregon State, Mar. 12, 2004 of her career combined … Excellent 9.90 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 3, 2004 Level 10 national qualifier … 2002 beam worker needs only to improve her Level 10 region balance beam champion consistency … also has a competitive also placed third on floor … 2002 Level floor routine … has “hit” 30-37 career 10 Ohio state all-around, beam and floor routines. champion (second on vault and third 2005–Outstanding beam lead-off also on bars) … 1999 state floor exercise competed in all but four meets on floor, champ and 2001 state balance beam where she is the No. 1 alternate for champ … Pennsylvania resident trained nationals … missed two meets with an for club team Flytz USA Gymnastics in ankle injury … competed seven times Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, under coaches on vault … had career-bests on all three Terry Gray and Irina Milogradova … events on Mar. 11 (9.80 on vault, 9.875 graduated from Hickory High School on beam and 9.875 on floor) … has NATALIE NICOLOFF (Pa.) … set school record (boys and “hit” 23-26 routines. Junior, 5’1” girls) for most push-ups with 200 … 2004–Part-time starter competed on Hermitage, Pa. National Honor Society … French beam in 10 meets and had four 9.85 Hickory HS National Honor Society … Presidential scores … Utah’s second performer on Flytz USA Gymnastics Fitness Award. beam both days at the NCAA Champi- Behavioral Science and Health onships scored a 9.8 on opening night PERSONAL: Daughter of Cindy and … competed to count on floor on Feb. UTAH: Utah’s lead-off beam worker as Dave Nicoloff … youngest of three 27 but fell … “hit” 7-11 routines. a freshman, sophomore and the first part children … has brother Jason and sister 2003–Arrived in Salt Lake City on of this season, she has not been able to Jennifer … enjoys piano and putting Christmas night and joined the team for break back into the lineup after missing scrapbooks together … behavioral sci- second semester … competed in exhibi- four meets with illness or injury … has ence and health major … nickname is tion on beam on Feb. 14 at Arizona and “hit” 18 straight routines dating back to Nat … full name is Natalie Rose Nicol- received 9.725 … back problems kept the 2003 season and is 32-34 in career off … born May 22, 1984. her out for remainder of the season … routines. NACGC Scholastic All-American.
18 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Member 2003–Second-team All-American on of Hungarian National Team from vault tied for sixth in qualifying session 1995-2003 was a three-time Hungarian at NCAA Championships … 9.875 vault Masters all-around champion (Mas- score ranked ninth across both sessions ters includes the best six junior and … scored a 9.85 on vault in Super Six senior national team members) … won … Utah’s most productive freshman Hungarian all-around titles in 1998, competed on three events at regionals 1999 and 2000 … also won 1998 floor and received a 9.80 on vault and bars and beam titles, 1999 floor, beam and and 9.75 on floor … scored 9.90 on bar titles and 2000 floor title … placed vault (4 times) and floor … 9.85 high on sixth on floor and 12th all-around at the KRISTEN RIFFANACHT bars … won vault at Utah State on Feb. 1998 European Championships … 49th Junior, 5’3” 7 (9.90) … “hit” 37-41 routines. all-around at the 1999 World Champion- Cheshire, Conn. ships … competed at the 2000 European Cheshire HS CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year Championships and 2002 World Cham- Gymnastics Revolution qualifier to Junior Olympic national pionships … took 2001 season off after Exercise and Sport Science championships … two-year Internation- attempting to qualify as an individual al Elite qualifier … ninth all-around and to the Olympic Games … trained for UTAH: Two-time All-American and second on vault at 2002 J.O. national club team Ujpesti Torna Egylet (UTE) team co-captain will compete on beam championships … 2002 region all- under coaches Judit Juha’sz and Kaptay and floor and maybe more at nationals around, vault, bars and beam champion Jozsef … graduated from Kova’cs Pa’l … has “hit” 94-104 career routines. was runner-up on floor … 2002 state Gimna’zium. 2005–Three-event starter at the begin- all-around, vault and beam cham- ning of the season was set back by pion placed second on floor … third PERSONAL: Daughter of Gabriella ongoing hamstring and shoulder injuries all-around, second on bars and vault Sipos Onodine and the late Odon Onodi … missed one meet with injury … solid at 1998 J.O. national championships … name is pronounced Gab-ree-ella as the No. 2 beam worker, she has also … trained for club team Gymnastics OH-no-dee … younger sister Erika won the starting job as Utah’s lead- Revolution in Brookfield, Conn., under plays handball, a sport also played by off on floor … placed third on floor at coaches Brian Bakalar and Russell her mother … enjoys reading, embroi- regionals, scoring a 9.90 from the first Wallace … graduated from Cheshire dering, dancing and skating … com- position … has competed to count eight High School with honors … President’s munication major … nickname is Gabi times on floor, including the last four Award for Academic Excellence … … full name is Gabriella Onodi … born meets … is also prepared to compete honored for making honor roll every se- Nov. 2, 1982. on bars and vault if needed … scored a mester for four-year high school career. 38.875 in her first collegiate all-around Onodi’s Career Highs on Jan. 14 … season bests are 9.775 PERSONAL: Daughter of Nancy and Vault 9.80 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 on vault, 9.65 on bars, 9.85 on beam James Riffanacht … last name is pro- Beam 9.875 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 Floor 9.875 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 and 9.95 on floor … has “hit” 22-26 nounced riff-in-ack … one sister, Karen routines. … enjoys volleyball, watching tennis 2004–Second-team All-American on the and art … exercise and sport science balance beam scored a 9.85 on open- major … nickname is Riff or Riffy … ing night of the NCAA Championships full name is Kristen Blair Riffanacht … … 9.85 tied for eighth in the evening born March 25, 1984. session and ninth across both sessions of NCAA opening day competition … Riffanacht’s Career Highs “hit” 6-7 routines at the NCAA Cham- Vault 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 Bars 9.850 vs. Arizona State, Jan. 24, 2003 pionships … fall at NCAA’s (bars) was Beam 9.90 vs. Washington/Iowa/I-C, Mar. 5, 2004 her only fall all year … won Diane Floor 9.95 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18, 2005 Ellingson award for Utah Most Inspi- rational Gymnast … regular on vault, beam and floor went all-around once (at the NCAA Championships) … joined beam lineup midway through season and in first-ever routine to count, scored a 9.80 at Arizona State … “hit” 35-36 routines with career highs on three events: 9.95 on vault, 9.90 on beam and 9.925 on floor.
19 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS included a 39.575 at BYU and 39.525 at Arizona State … 3 victories … scored 9.925 or better on all four apparatus … has “hit” 44-49 routines.
CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year International Elite competed at 2000-01 U.S. National Championships … 20th in the all-around at the 2001 U.S. National Championships … competed at J.O. NICOLLE FORD nationals four years … as national elite, STEPHANIE LIM Sophomore, 5’2” placed fifth in the all-around at the U.S. Sophomore, 5’0” Binghamton, N.Y. Challenge … fourth all-around at the The Woodlands, Texas Windsor HS 2002 SCEGA Invitational … trained for The Woodlands HS Southern Tier Gymnastics coaches Daile VanPatten and Natalia Texas Star Texans Physical Therapy Laschenova at Southern Tier Gymnas- International Studies tics. UTAH: Three-time All-American as UTAH: Will likely lead off Utah’s vault a freshman should contend for the PERSONAL: Daughter of Lori and set at nationals … has “hit” 27-30 career NCAA all-around title and on all four Charles Ford … one brother, Matt … routines. individual events this year … has it all: pre-physical therapy major … nick- 2005–Broke into the starting lineup on power, dance, execution and difficulty names are Nikki and Queenie … full vault with two weeks left in the regular … 16 career victories … has “hit” 92-98 name is Nicolle Marie Ford … born season … scored season-best 9.825 in career routines. March 29, 1985. back-to-back meets … has “hit” 3-3 2005–Finished the regular season routines. ranked No. 6 in the nation in the all- Ford’s Career Highs 2004–Competed five routines as a fresh- around (39.53 RQS), No. 5 on beam A-A 39.65 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 man at the NCAA Championships and Vault 9.925 vs. Brigham Young, Jan. 23, 2004 (9.925) and No. 9 on bars (tie, 9.895) … 9.925 vs. Minnesota, Jan. 30, 2004 scored a 9.80 or better on four of them has gone all-around in every meet but 9.925 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 … starter on vault and floor also com- one (bruised heel in warm-ups at Min- 9.925 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26, 2005 peted on bars in seven meets … season- nesota and could only compete on bars) Bars 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 best scores of 9.925 on floor, 9.875 on 9.95 at NCAA Regionals, Apr. 3, 2004 … set all-around best in back-to-back Beam 9.95 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14, 2005 vault and 9.85 on bars … scored 9.925 meets, scoring a 39.625 on Mar. 4 and a 9.95 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 twice on floor … scored 9.85 on floor at 39.65 on Mar. 11 … 39.65 career mark Floor 9.925 vs. Michigan, Feb. 14, 2004 regionals … “hit” 24-27 routines. is tied for the 10th best in school history 9.925 vs. Florida/Stanford/Cal, Mar. 4, 2005 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18, 2005 … 13 victories is third on the team … CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: 2003 Senior has “hit” 48-49 routines. International Elite … won the all-around 2004–Utah’s only two-time first-team at 2002 J.O. regionals and placed All-American also won second-team seventh at nationals … 13th all-around honors in the all-around … tied for at 2001 J.O. Nationals … Texas state fourth on bars and finished 12th on all-around and uneven bar champion in beam in NCAA event finals … in team 2002 and all-around champion in 2001 qualifying competition at the NCAA … trained at Texas Star Texans Club for Championships, tied for eighth across coaches Debbie Kaitschuch and Deana both sessions with a 39.525 all-around Parish … graduated cum laude. score … qualified for finals on bars and beam with 9.925 and 9.875 scores, PERSONAL: Daughter of Barbara respectively … won Coaches’ Award, and Frank Lim … brother William and which honors the team’s most improved sister Jennifer … nickname is Steph … gymnast … went all-around in the first nursing major hopes to become a nurse seven meets until a back injury on Feb. anesthesiologist … born Aug. 15, 1985 27 caused her to miss one meet and lim- in Colorado. ited her to bars and beam in two meets … in her first all-around competition in Lim’s Career Highs five weeks, she placed third at region- Vault 9.875 vs. Utah State, Feb. 27, 2004 Bars 9.85 vs. Nebraska, Jan. 16, 2004 als with a 39.550 … season-best 39.625 Floor 9.925 vs. Utah State, Feb. 27, 2004 all-around vs. Iowa … other big scores 9.925 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004
20 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year U.S. National Team member … placed fourth in the all-around at the 2001 USA Championships and was on U.S. World Championships team that took bronze at World Championships … placed eighth on beam at 2001 World Championships … 10th all-around at 2000 Olympic Trials … 12th all-around at 2000 USA Championships and 15th in 1999 … RACHEL TIDD other international competitions include JESSICA DUKE Sophomore, 5’2” 1999 USA vs. France and 2000 Blue Freshman, 5’4” Fallbrook, Calif. Water Invitational … trained at Southern Sandy, Utah Calvary Christian HS California Elite Gymnastics Academy The Waterford School Southern California Elite Gymnastics Academy (SCEGA) … club coaches included Olympus School of Gymnastics Undeclared former Utah All-American Meredith Undeclared King-Paulicivic, as well as Tim Garrison UTAH: One of the nation’s top gym- and Kathy Strate. UTAH: Scheduled to compete second nasts as a freshman, she missed the on both vault and bars at nationals … 2004 NCAA Championships due to PERSONAL: Daughter of Susan and best instate gymnastics recruit since for- mononucleosis … has battled illness and Michael Tidd … one of 10 children: mer Ute All-American Diedra Graham. back problems throughout this season sisters are Mikala, Samantha, Olivia, 2005–Has competed in the last nine … if her back holds up, she will go Ashley, Holly and Nicole; brothers are meets on vault and six times on bars … all-around at the NCAA Championships Steven, Taylor and Brian … enjoys three 9.90 or better vault scores, includ- … outstanding on all four events, she singing … full name is Rachel Michelle ing a season-best 9.925 on Mar. 18 … 1 should challenge for the NCAA title on Tidd … born May 20, 1984. victory (on vault) … has scored a 9.725 bars … has 23 career victories … has or better in all six bar starts, including “hit” 73-82 career routines. Tidd’s Career Highs a career-best 9.825 on Mar. 26 … has 2005–Finished the regular season A-A 39.675 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 “hit” 15-15 routines. Vault 10.0 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 ranked No. 3 in the nation on the bars Bars 9.95 vs. Utah State, Feb. 27, 2004 (9.93 RQS) and No. 19 in the all-around 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7, 2005 CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: International (39.33) … season-high 9.95 on vault and 9.95 vs. Michigan, Jan. 28, 2005 Elite qualifier in 2000 … 2000 Junior bars, 9.90 on floor and 9.90 on beam… 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11, 2005 Olympics national all-around champion Beam 9.90 vs. Nebraska, Jan. 16, 2004 won the all-around at BYU with season 9.90 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 19, 2004 … 10th in the all-around at the 2003 best 39.575 … 15 victories (8 on bars, 2 9.90 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26, 2005 JO Championships and 14th in 2004 … all-around) … has “hit” 37-40 routines. Floor 9.925 vs. Arizona State/AFA, Feb. 20, 2004 competed for Region I team that took 2004–Incredible freshman campaign first at both the 2003 and ’04 JO Cham- was marred by shin injury and mono— pionships … sixth on bars and eighth the latter which cost her a chance to on floor at 2004 JO’s … won floor and compete at nationals … region vault placed third on bars and fifth in the champion tied for first with a 9.95 … all-around at the 2003 Utah-Moscow also scored a 9.90 on bars at regionals Games in Moscow, Russia … trained … Dahl Award winner as the team’s at Olympus School of Gymnastics most accomplished combination stu- under coaches Mary Wright (also a Ute dent-athlete, she earned a 4.0 GPA her volunteer coach) and Ryan Kirkham … first semester and finished the year with graduated from The Waterford School. a 3.91 cumulative GPA … all-arounder when healthy … 39.675 all-around best PERSONAL: Daughter of Joy and Jeff is tied for ninth all-time at Utah …10.0 Duke … both parents graduated from on vault vs. BYU on Mar. 19 … two BYU … three brothers (David, Daniel, 9.975 vault scores … other personal Matthew) and two sisters (Jamie, Mad- bests included a 9.95 on bars, 9.925 on eline) … nickname is Jess … full name floor and 9.90 on beam … despite inju- is Jessica Marie Duke … born Oct. 5, ries, finished third on team in victories 1985 in Illinois. with 8 (4 on bars, 3 on vault, 1 on beam ) … “hit” 36-42 routines … NACGC Duke’s Career Highs Scholastic All-American. Vault 9.925 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18, 2005 Bars 9.825 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26, 2005
21 WWW.UTAHUTES.COM 2005 UTAH BIOS Kivisto) on balance beam named after CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: U.S. Senior her … full name is Katia Helena Kivisto National Team member from 1998-2004 … born Dec. 10, 1985. was the World balance beam champion in 2002 … competed at both the 2002 Kivisto’s Career Highs and 2003 World Championships … Bars 9.90 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11, 2005 2003 U.S. champion on floor exercise Beam 9.70 vs. Utah State, Jan. 14, 2005 Floor 9.725 vs. Brigham Young, Feb. 11, 2005 also placed second on beam and fourth in the all-around and on bars at the 2003 USA Championships … trained for coaches Tatiana Perskaia, Victor Vetrov KATIE KIVISTO and Marina Gerasimova at Capital Freshman, 5’0” Gymnastics NTC … home schooled Boca Raton, Fla. (received degree from Alpha Omega Pope John Paul II HS High School). American Twisters Pre Law PERSONAL: Daughter of Linda and Gary Postell … brothers Eric and Kyle UTAH: Freshman will start off Utah’s and sister Territa … Kyle has a football NCAA Championships competition as scholarship to Duquesne University … the lead-off on the bars … is an alter- ASHLEY POSTELL career goal is to become a doctor … full nate on beam and floor … has a skill on Freshman, 5’2” name is Ashley Blair Postell … born the balance beam named after her (the Burke, Va. June 9, 1986. Kivisto). Alpha Omega HS 2005–Began the season second up on Capital Gymnastics NTC Postell’s Career Highs bars, but has developed into a high-scor- Undeclared A-A 39.775 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 Vault 9.95 vs. Brigham Young, Mar. 26, 2005 ing lead-off on the event … also com- Bars 9.95 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 peted twice on beam and four times on UTAH: One of Utah’s top recruits ever, Beam 10.0 vs. Washington, Mar. 11, 2005 floor … placed second on bars vs. BYU she was the 2002 World Balance Beam 10.0 vs. Arizona State, Mar. 18, 2005 on Feb. 11, scoring a career-best 9.90 … Champion, the 2003 U.S. floor exercise Floor 9.95 vs. UCLA, Jan. 7, 2005 career-high 9.725 on floor and 9.70 on champion and a seven-year U.S. Senior beam … has “hit” 16-19 routines and is National Team member … arguably the 12-13 on bars. best freshman in the nation this year, she will challenge for the NCAA all-around CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Five-year title. International Elite gymnast competed 2005–Finished the regular season for the U.S. Senior National Team from ranked No. 4 in the nation in the all- 2001-02 … 11th in the all-around at the around (tie, 39.535 RQS), No. 1 on 2001 USA Gymnastics Championships beam (9.96) and No. 9 on vault (tie, … member of the USA Junior National 9.91) … won the North Central Region Team from 1999-2000 … 1999 JO floor bar championship with a 9.925 … career exercise champion … third in the all- all-around best of 39.775 on Mar. 11 is around at 1999 JO Championships … tied for the fifth best in school history placed third all-around and first on beam and the best by a Ute this season … at the Puerto Cup … trained for coaches 39.625 on Jan. 7 vs. UCLA set a Ute Tim and Toni Rand at American Twist- freshman record for best all-around ers … American Twisters is the club debut and tied her for first place … that produced former Ute All-American two 10.0 scores on the balance beam Suzanne Metz (1992-95). Ute assistant in back-to-back weeks was a Utah first coach Aki Hummel coached there prior … team-best 22 victories includes 6 to coming to Utah in 1993. all-around wins (did not go all-around vs. Utah State due to illness) … “hit” 43 PERSONAL: Daughter of Sharon and straight routines before a fall on floor Jussi Kivisto … last name is pronounced in the final regular season meet … has ka-visto … sisters both compete in “hit” 47-49 routines. gymnastics … Brigitte, 15, is Level 10; Hanna, 10, is Level 5 … academic goal is to attend law school … has a skill (the
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