2021 LSU Gymnastics - Week15 2NCAA at Arkansas INDIVIDUAL TITLES 8 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS APPEARANCES 2021 30 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS APPEARANCES 266 ALL-AMERICA HONORS
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2021 LSU Gymnastics - Week15 2NCAA at Arkansas INDIVIDUAL TITLES 8 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS APPEARANCES 2021 30 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS APPEARANCES 266 ALL-AMERICA HONORS atJanuary #6 15, 2021 Arkansas• 7:30 p.m. CT • Fayetteville, Ark. • Barnhill Arena 2 Live Stats: LSUsports.net • TV/Video: SEC Network) #5 LSU (1-0, 0-0 SEC) BREAKDOWN DATE OPPONENT LSU /OPP. SCORE JANUARY (1-0) Arkansas 8 #15 Arkansas W 196.550-196.350 Record 1-0, 0-0 SEC Record 0-1, 0-0 SEC 15 * at Arkansas 7:30 p.m. Ranking No. 5 Road to Nationals Top 25 Ranking No. 6 Road to Nationals Top 25 Last Meet January 8, 2021 vs. Arkansas 22 * Georgia 7:30 p.m. Last Meet January 8, 2021 at LSU W, 196.550-196.350 29 at Auburn 4 p.m. W, 196.550-196.350 Head Coach Jay Clark Head Coach Jordyn Wieber LSU Record 1-0/1st Season FEBRUARY 0-0) Career Record 2-8/2nd season Career Record 50-28-2 12 * Florida 6:30 p.m. 19 * at Alabama 7:30 p.m. 26 * at Kentucky 6 p.m. MATCHUP MARCH (0-0) LSU Arkansas 5 * Missouri 7:30 p.m. Overall Team Average (Ranking) 196.550 (5) Overall Team Average (Ranking) 196.350 (6) 20 SEC Championship Team Vault Average (Ranking) 49.175 (4) Team Vault Average (Ranking) 49.175(9) (TBD) Team Bars Average (Ranking) 49.200 (4) Team Bars Average (Ranking) 49.200 (3) Team Beam Average (Ranking) 48.825 (8) Team Beam Average (Ranking) 48.825 (5) APRIL (0-0) Team Floor Average (Ranking) 49.350 (1) Team Floor Average (Ranking) 49.100 (8) 2 -3 NCAA Regional Overall Team High 196.550 Overall Team High 196.350 Team Vault High 49.175 Team Vault High 49.175 16-17 NCAA Championship Team Bars High 49.200 Team Bars High 49.200 (Fort Worth, Texas) Team Beam High 48.825 Team Beam High 48.825 Team Floor High 49.350 Team Floor High 49.100 BROADCAST TEAM Next Up TV: SEC Network Bart Conner, play-by-play No. 5 LSU Gymnastics Travels to Take on No. 6 Arkansas Kathy Johnson Clarke, Analyst The fifth-ranked LSU Gymnastics team will travel to Fayetteville to take on No. 6 Arkansas in the 46th meeting between the schools. The meet will be televised live on the SEC Network with Bart WHO TO CONTACT Conner and Kathy Johnson Clarke on the call. The Tigers competed against Arkansas a week ago and earned a 196.550-196.350 victory over the Razorbacks. This is the first road meet for the Assistant SID/Gymnastics Contact squad this season. Freshman Haleigh Bryant shined in her debut on Jan. 8 with a 9.975 on floor, Brandon Berrio 9.90 on vault and 9.85 on bars. Bryant earned the victory on vault and finished second on floor. Email: [email protected] Sophomore Kiya Johnson carried on from her stellar freshman year with a 9.85 on vault, 9.825 Cell: 225-726-3056 • Office: 225-578-7678 on bars and 10.00 on floor. STORYLINES CONNECT TO LSU GYM • LSU owns the all-time series • LSU relied on four of the • Kiya Johnson became the first LSUsports.net/gymnastics over Arkansas, 39-5-1 with a team’s five freshmen in the gymnast to score a perfect 10 LSUgym.com record of 31-4-1 in the regular opening meet of 2021. The when she did it on floor to “walk Facebook.com/LSUgym season. The Tigers are 7-1- group accounted for 8 of 24 off” the meet. Haleigh Bryant’s Twitter.com/LSUgym against the Razorbacks in routines and hit seven of them. 9.975 on floor was the highest Fayetteville and have won 20 for a freshman in 2021. straight in the series. • The squad posted strong scores on three of four events • Haleigh Bryant was selected • This will be the first that rank among the top five as the SEC Freshman of Southeastern Conference meet in the nation. LSU’s 39.350 the Year after her strong counted toward the regular on floor tops the nation. The performance in the opener season standings. Every team floor team was led by Haleigh against Arkansas. will compete twice against one Bryant’s 9.975 and Kiya league foe in 2021 with the Johnson’s 10.00 eight meet league schedule. 1 2021 LSU Gymnastics - Week 2 at Arkansas JAYHEAD COACH CLARK • 1ST SEASON Jay Clark, a 30-year veteran of college gymnastics LSU earned another Top-5 national ranking and one of the best recruiters in the sport, is in his on bars in 2016 with an average score of 49.252. first season as the head coach of the LSU gymnastics Finnegan, Priessman and Myia Hambrick combined program. to tally four All-America honors during the historic Clark was tabbed as the third head coach season. in program history in August 2020 following the The Tigers posted a Top-5 national ranking on retirement of D-D Breaux. Clark is in his ninth season bars in 2015, and the team totaled the second-highest overall at LSU following his hiring as the Tigers’ bars total in school history with a 49.600 against associate head coach in 2012. Iowa. The Tigers also accumulated the second-best Clark is regarded as one of the best recruiters season average on bars in school history with a 49.288 in the sport and the top bars coach in collegiate average. gymnastics history. The Tigers’ associate head As a team LSU produced four All-America coach for eight seasons and co-head coach for one, honors on bars in 2015 with three gymnasts Clark’s leadership and expertise has helped bring (Rheagan Courville, Randii Wyrick and Shae Zamardi) unprecedented success on the recruiting trail and in earning First-Team All-America honors at the NCAA the gym. Championships. It marked the first time in program During the time since Clark’s arrival, LSU has history that three gymnasts secured First-Team All- earned the best performances in school history as the America honors on bars in one season. NCAA Runner-Up in 2016, 2017 and 2019, appearances Under Clark’s direction, LSU shattered the school in the NCAA Championship Finals in six of seven record with a 49.330 average on bars and finished seasons, numerous school records, produced seven the 2014 season ranked No. 5 nationally in the event. NCAA individual national champions, and five SEC In addition, the Tigers tallied three of the top-10 bars meet and regular season championships. scores in school history, including a 49.600 that ranks His work with the Fighting Tigers of LSU has not as the second best, and LSU produced three All- gone unnoticed. Clark has been named the Central America honors on bars. Region Co-Assistant Coach of the Year along with Clark coached Courville to a First-Team All- fellow LSU assistant Bob Moore five times. America honor at the 2014 NCAA Championships, COLLEGE COACHING EXPERIENCE Clark also earned the 2014 and 2017 National and Courville went on to finish fifth in the event at the 2021-present – Head Coach, LSU Co-Assistant Coach of the Year award with Moore. It NCAA Individual Finals. 2019-20 – Co-Head Coach, LSU marked the third time in his distinguished coaching LSU reached the Super Six in the 2013 season, 2012-2019 – Associate Head Coach, LSU career he has garnered the nation’s top award. He and under Clark’s guidance the Tigers finished the 2009-2012 – Head Coach, Georgia was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Region 8 Hall season with a 49.260 regional qualifying score on 2005-2009 – Associate Head Coach/Recruiting of Fame in 2018. Because of his recruiting success, bars, the highest final RQS in that event since the 2009 Coordinator, Georgia ESPNU and ESPN the Magazine selected Clark as the season. 1998-2004 – Assistant Coach/Recruiting ninth-best recruiter in all of collegiate athletics in 2011. Clark coached Morrison and Wyrick to First-Team Coordinator, Georgia In the gym, Clark is viewed as the top bars coach All-America honors on bars in his first season with the 1990-1996 – Assistant Coach, Georgia in collegiate gymnastics history. Clark has coached Tigers, and it marked the first season LSU produced at the Tigers to 30 All-America honors on bars, four of least two All-Americans on bars since 2010. JAY CLARK’S HONORS the five highest bars team scores in school history Before Clark joined LSU after he spent 20 seasons and the top two bars title winners in LSU history. In his at the University of Georgia where he helped guide • Named the Ninth-Best Recruiter in College illustrious career, Clark has coached nine NCAA bars the Gym Dogs to seven NCAA National Titles and 14 Athletics by ESPN The Magazine (2011) champions and two during his time in Baton Rouge. Southeastern Conference Championships. • USA Gymnastics Region 8 Hall of Fame Clark tutored Sarah Finnegan, who ended her Clark primarily coached bars at Georgia, and he • 2018 Region Co-Assistant Coach of the Year career in April 2019 as one of the greatest gymnasts coached the Gym Dogs to 64 All-America honors and • 2017 National Co-Assistant Coach of the Year in LSU history. Finnegan became the first NCAA seven NCAA individual national titles on bars, including • 2017 National Region Co-Assistant Coach bars champion in school history in 2017 and earned two-time champions Courtney Kupets and Kat Ding.