Utah Gymnastics • 44 National Championship Appearances • 373 Ncaa All-Americans • 10 National Championships • Four Pac-12 Championships
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UTAH GYMNASTICS • 44 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES • 373 NCAA ALL-AMERICANS • 10 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS • FOUR PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021 SCHEDULE No. 4 UTAH vs. No. 9 CALIFORNIA DATE OPPONENT TIME (MT)/RESULT Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 • 7 p.m. MT • Pac-12 Networks Jan. 9 vs. #17 BYU W, 196.900-195.700 Salt Lake City • Jon M. Huntsman Center vs. Utah State W, 196.900-194.350 UTAH CALIFORNIA vs. #23 SUU W, 196.900-194.325 (7-1 Overall, 4-0 Pac-12) (4-0 Overall, 3-0 Pac-12) Jan. 17 at #2 Oklahoma L, 196.550-197.025 Head Coach: Tom Farden Co-Head Coach: Justin Howell Record at Utah: 108-34-1 Jan. 23 vs. Arizona W, 197.075-195.650 Record at Cal: 142-103 Career Record: 179-82-1 Co-Head Coach: Jan. 30 vs. Washington W, 197.475-193.500 EIGHTWEEK Elisabeth Crandall-Howell Feb. 6 at #16 Arizona State W, 197.450-197.150 Record at Cal: 32-17 Feb. 15 at Stanford Canceled MEET WEEK Feb. 19 vs. UCLA W, 197.225-197.100 No. 4-ranked Utah gymnastics (7-1, 4-0 Pac-12) will close out its home conference Feb. 26 vs. California 7 p.m. slate this Friday night, welcoming the No. 9-ranked California Golden Bears (4-0, Mar. 5 at Oregon State TBD 3-0 Pac-12) to the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The meet between the two remaining undefeated teams in Pac-12 play will begin at 7 p.m. MT and will air on the Pac-12 Mar. 12 vs. Utah State TBD Networks. Brian Webber will serve as the play-by-play announcer, while the color Mar. 20 Pac-12 Championships TBD analyst has yet to be determined. NCAA Postseason Schedule IN THE RANKINGS April 1-3 NCAA Regionals TBD Utah slid one spot to No. 4 in the nation heading into the final week of rankings being based on season average scores. Starting on Monday, March 1, rankings April 16-17 NCAA Championships TBD will be determined on National Qualifying Score (NQS). A team’s NQS this year will be an average of four scores – two which must be road or neutral site scores. The Utes rank No. 3 on beam, tied for No. 4 on floor, No. 6 on vault, and No. 9 on Media Opportunities This Week bars. Maile O’Keefe leads the Red Rocks individually, ranking No. 3 on beam and M, 2.21 ................................12:30-12:55 p.m. Interviews No. 9 in the all-around. Sydney Soloski is tied for No. 12 on floor and Cristal Isa is TU, 2.22 .............................12:30-12:55 p.m. Interviews No. 15 on bars. *All interviews will be via Zoom or phone. CHALK TALK • Utah is No. 1 in the Pac-12 on vault, beam and floor, and is No. 2 on bars. Utah is the only school in the conference to rank in the top-two on each event. Utah is the UTAH GYMNASTICS COACHES only Pac-12 school to rank in the top-10 nationally on every event. Head Coach: Tom Farden • Four Red Rocks hit or surpassed a career-high mark on an event against UCLA. Year at Utah: 6th/11th Matching career highs were Alexia Burch (VT), Abby Paulson (FX) and Lucy Stan- Record at Utah: 108-34-1 (6th year) hope (VT, FX), while Jaylene Gilstrap posted a career-high 9.875 on floor. Career Record: 179-82-1 (11th year) • Utah has hit 137-144 routines this season. Gymnasts who have hit every routine are Maile O’Keefe (23-23), Cristal Isa (20-20), Lucy Stanhope (13-13), Adrienne Assistant Coaches: Randall (9-9), Sydney Soloski (6-6) and Jaylene Gilstrap (4-4). Carly Dockendorf (3rd/4th overall) • Individual event winners this season are O’Keefe (10), Burch (4), Soloski (3), Hall (2), Isa (2), and Paulson (2). Garrett Griffeth (2nd year) • Pac-12 award winners this season for Utah are O’Keefe as Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 21, Feb. 2, Feb. 9); Soloski (Jan. 21), Paulson (Feb. 2) and Burch (Feb. 9) as Volunteer Assistant Coach: Specialists of the Week; and Rucker (Jan. 21, Feb. 9) and Burch (Feb. 2) as the Courtney McCool Griffeth (2nd year) Coaches’ Choice winners. UTAH GYMNASTICS STAFF FEELING IT ON FLOOR Director of Operations: Hailee Corry (1st year) Utah has been extremely consistent in 2021 on floor and ranks No. 4 in the nation Director of New Media: Misty-Jade Carlson (2nd despite shuffling the lineup in all but one meet from the previous week. The Utes year) have changed the order in all but one outing, but have scored between a 49.300 Athletic Trainer: Melissa Linstrom (1st year) and 49.450 in all six meets. Utah ranks No. 1 in the Pac-12 on floor and is coming off a season-high 49.450 effort against UCLA that went on to win the meet. The Strength Coach: Cody Lockling (2nd year) 49.450 is the highest floor score in the Pac-12 this season. Soloski leads the group with three floor titles and has scored a 9.90 or higher in all but the season opener, marking five five-straight scores of 9.90-plus, including her 9.925 against UCLA to UTAH ATHLETICS COMMUNCIATIONS win the meet. Last meet, Utah collected 9.875s from Jaylene Gilstrap, Lucy Stan- Assistant Director (GYM Contact): Mady White hope and Jaedyn Rucker, a 9.90 from Abby Paulson and Soloski’s 9.925 to close Phone: 801-458-8347 • [email protected] out the meet at home. utahutes.com • @utahgymnastics MEET 7: UTAH vs. CALIFORNIA SERIES SHORTS MY OH MAI QUICK FACTS Utah leads the all-time series with Cal 26- Maile O’Keefe has emerged as a na- Location ...................................Salt Lake City, Utah 2, including a 9-0 record in Salt Lake City. tional force in the all-around, ranking Founded ................................................................. 1850 The Utes have won six straight against No. 9 nationally. O’Keefe has picked up a Enrollment ......................................................... 33,047 the Golden Bears and are coming off a team-leading 10 event titles this season. President ................................. Dr. Ruth V. Watkins 197.550-197.325 win in Berkeley last sea- Against Washington, O’Keefe posted the Director of Athletics ........................ Mark Harlan son. Utah and Cal were tied through three nation’s first and only 10.0 on beam to this Conference ....................................................... Pac-12 rotations before the beam team earned a point. She won her fourth-straight beam Nickname ............................................................... Utes whopping 49.625, which saw 9.95s from title, as well as second all-around victory Mascot ................................................................ Swoop Adrienne Randall, Maile O’Keefe and with a 39.525 at Arizona State. She is No. Arena ............................. Jon M. Huntsman Center Abby Paulson, to outscore Cal’s floor ef- 1 in the conference on beam and No. 2 in Website .............................................. UtahUtes.com fort and win the meet. the all-around. She is No. 3 in the nation on beam, where she has not scored be- SCOUTING CALIFORNIA low a 9.875. She has posted career-highs TEAM INFORMATION Co-Head Coaches: Justin Howell, on three events and in the all-around this 2020 Overall Record ............................................. 11-0 Elisabeth Crandall-Howell season. 2020 Dual Meet Record ............8-0 (7-0 Pac-12) 2020 NCAA Finish: No. 9 2020 High Score ............................................. 198.075 National Ranking: No. 9 OFF THE CHARTS Pac-12 Finish ..............................................First Place Record: 4-0, 3-0 Pac-12 Utah gymnastics broke its season NCAA Finish ............................................................N/A Notes: California heads into the matchup average attendance record in the 2020 Routines Returning/Lost .................................. 14/7 after posting the fourth-best score in season, averaging a nation-leading 15,273 All-Americans Returning/Lost .........................4/2 school history, scoring a 197.425 against fans per meet. The new school record of Letterwinners Returning/Newcomers .......10/3 Oregon State for its first win in Corval- 15,273 also sets the new NCAA gymnas- lis … Cal has improved its score in every tics record for season average atten- outing this season and is undefeated to dance. This season marked Utah’s 36th ROSTER BREAKDOWN this point … Cal is ranked No. 8 on bars, gymnastics attendance title and its 10th By Year: No. 10 on beam and No. 12 on vault in the all-women’s sports attendance title. Utah Seniors (3) ...........Alexia Burch, Emilie LeBlanc, nation … Kyana George, Maya Bordas gymnastics would have finished No. 14 Sydney Soloski and Nevaeh DeSouza lead the team as for average attendance in Division I Men’s Juniors (3) ....................... Cammy Hall, Cristal Isa, all-arounders … George is ranked No. 10 Basketball for the 2019-20 season. Adrienne Randall in the all-around and holds the Pac-12’s Sophomores (4) .. Jillian Hoffman, Maile O’Keefe, highest score (39.650), while Bordas is SPECIALISTS STRIVING Abby Paulson, Jaedyn Rucker No. 16 in the nation. Utah has had many specialists step up Freshman (3) .. Jaylene Gilstrap, Alani Sabado, this season, highlighted by seniors Alexia Lucy Stanhope UP NEXT Burch and Sydney Soloski. Burch has Utah gymnastics will close out the 2021 collected four vault wins, while Soloski conference season on the road against has tallied three titles on floor. Burch has By State/Country: Oregon State next Friday, March 5 in scored a 9.90 or higher on vault in four Arizona (1) ...........................................Jaedyn Rucker Corvallis, Ore. The time for the road meet meets and Soloski has hit the 9.90-mark California (3) .....................................Jillian Hoffman, is TBD. or better in five meets of the six.