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This is Utah Gymnastics Red Hot Ticket Nation’s Leader in Attendance Meet Attendance Records 1. 15,238 Utah vs. Cal CS-Fullerton, 2-11-91 2. 15,168 Utah vs. Boise St./Washington, 3-6-93 3. 15,162 Alabama vs. Florida, 1-20-06 4. 15,075 Alabama vs. Auburn, 1-26-07 5. 15,072 Utah vs. BYU/USU./So. Utah, 1-20-92 6. 15,040 Alabama vs. Georgia, 2-1-97 7. 14,978 Utah vs. Penn State, 3-9-92 8. 14,679 Utah vs. BYU, 1-21-94 9. 14,407 Utah vs. BYU, 3-24-06 10. 14,285 Utah vs. BYU, 3-23-02 11. 14,263 Alabama vs. Georgia, 2-10-06 12. 14,100 Utah vs. BYU, 2-11-05 13. 14,097 Alabama vs. Georgia, 2-13-99 14. 14,044 Utah vs. BYU, Arkansas, SUU 15. 13,956 Utah vs. BYU, 1-30-93 Season Attendance Champions 1992 ...... Utah ............................. 12,557 Red Hot Ticket Red Hot 1993....... Utah ............................. 13,164 1994....... Utah ............................. 10,511 1995....... Utah ............................. 10,292 1996....... Utah ............................. 9,790 NCAA Championship Attendance 2006-07 Attendance Leaders 1997....... Alabama ...................... 9,815 Utah ............................. 9,773 1998....... Utah ............................. 10,211 Three-Day Format, 1993-present Gymnastics Teams 1999....... Utah ............................. 10,568 Year ....... Host .................................... Attendance Rank ..Team ....................................... Attendance 2000....... Utah ............................. 9,808 1993....... Oregon State ...................... 16,092 1.........Utah ......................................... 11,297 2001....... Georgia ........................ 9,855 1994....... Utah .................................... 29,172 2.........Alabama .................................. 11,284 Utah ............................. 9,594 1995....... Georgia ............................... 20,999 3.........Georgia .................................... 9,518 2002....... Utah ............................. 9,921 1996....... Alabama ............................. 29,467 4.........Florida ...................................... 4,563 2003....... Utah ............................. 9,851 1997....... Florida ................................. 22,699 5.........Oregon State ........................... 3,421 2004....... Alabama ...................... 10,274 1998....... UCLA .................................. 13,413 6.........Kentucky .................................. 2,820 Utah ............................. 10,125 1999....... Utah .................................... 25,631 7.........UCLA ....................................... 2,812 2005....... Utah ............................. 11,300 2000....... Boise State ......................... 18,992 8.........L.S.U. ....................................... 2,791 2006....... Utah ............................. 12,747 2001....... Georgia ............................... 20,331 9.........Auburn .................................... 2,673 2007....... Utah ............................. 11,297 2002....... Alabama ............................. 22,987 10.......Iowa State ................................ 2,464 2003....... Nebraska ............................ 18,902 11. ......Missouri ................................... 2,355 2004....... UCLA .................................. 18,477 12.......Arkansas .................................. 2,318 Did You Know? 2005....... Auburn ................................ 11,959 13.......Penn State ............................... 2,265 In the last 16 years, Utah has averaged 10,719 fans 2006....... Oregon State ...................... 15,583 14.......Nebraska ................................. 2,119 a season to its home meets. 2007....... Utah .................................... 36,655 15.......North Carolina State ................ 2,094 Two-Day Format, 1982-92 All Women’s College Teams Year ....... Host .................................... Attendance Rank ..Team ....................................... Attendance 1982....... Utah .................................... 14,030 1.........Tennessee Basketball .............. 14,678 1983....... Utah .................................... 17,203 2.........Utah Gymnastics ..................... 11,297 1984....... UCLA .................................. 9,562 3. .......Alabama Gymnastics ............... 11,284 1985....... Utah .................................... 13,844 4.........Connecticut Basketball ............ 10,802 1986....... Florida ................................. 14,299 5.........Texas Tech Basketball ............. 10,668 1987....... Utah .................................... 16,470 6.........Oklahoma Basketball ............... 10,437 1988....... Utah .................................... 12,325 7.........New Mexico Basketball ........... 9,582 1989....... Georgia ............................... 9,078 8.........Maryland Basketball ................ 9,533 1990....... Oregon State ...................... 16,867 9.........Georgia Gymnastics ................ 8,518 1991....... Alabama ............................. 15,284 10.......Iowa State Basketball .............. 8,906 1992....... Minnesota ........................... 14,377 11. ......Purdue Basketball ................... 7,585 12.......Hawai’i Volleyball ..................... 7,186 13.......Michigan State Basketball ....... 6,389 14.......Notre Dame Basketball ............ 6,364 15.......Baylor Basketball ..................... 6,295 6 1 0 - T I M E N A T I O N A L C H A M P I O N S Media Exposure Utah Gymnastics is Front Page News The Utah gymnasts receive more media exposure than any team in the nation. Last year, newspapers published 265 stories on the Ute gymnasts! Salt Lake Tribune Website: www.slltrib.com Beat Writer: Lya Wodraska [email protected] Media Exposure Deseret Morning News Website: www.deseretnews.com Beat Writer: Linda Hamilton [email protected] Daily Utah Chronicle Website: www.dailyutahchronicle.com Newspapers seen in 72 million homes nationwide. The Sports Editor: Tony Pizza For over 30 years, the Salt Lake City Mtn., a regional channel devoted to Moun- [email protected] newspapers have assigned full-time beat tain West Conference sports, is co-owned Beat Writer: Jon Gilbert writers to cover the Utah gymnastics by Comcast – the largest cable operator in [email protected] program. Linda Hamilton, a reporter for the United States. the Deseret Morning News, has reported Four network affiliates are based in Salt on Utah gymnastics since 1977. Lya Lake City (ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX) Wodraska, now in her fourth year as the and all provide extensive coverage of Utah gymnastics beat writer for the Salt Lake gymnastics. Tribune, first began covering college gym- nastics as a student at Georgia. In addition Internet to reporting on the Utes, Wodraska writes UtahUtes.com hosts live scoring and a weekly national gymnastics page entitled video streaming for all Utah gymnastics The Gymnastics Insider. The student paper, meets free of charge. Live scoring and the Daily Utah Chronicle, assigns its beat text commentary are available for road writers annually. This year’s gymnastics meets on the schedule/results section of the reporters are Tony Pizza and Jon Gilbert. Utah gymnastics website, while free live broadband streaming for all home meets is Television included in the UtahUtes.com All-Access The University of Utah enjoys national package. (CSTV and VERSUS), regional (The Mtn.) Road meets can be viewed on-demand and local (KTVX- ABC 4) television part- within 48 hours of the meet on the popular nerships. ABC 4 will produce and tape-de- gymnastics multi-media site, accessed from lay air four 2008 Utah home meets on the UtahUtes.com. The Utah gymnastics multi- Sunday following the event. The broadcast media site also hosts Ute gymnastics photo schedule includes Georgia (Jan. 13, 11:30 galleries and daily practice videos. a.m.), Minnesota (Feb. 3, 11 a.m.), Oregon State (Mar. 9, 11 a.m.) and BYU (Mar. 30 (2 p.m.). The meets will also be rebroadcast regionally on The Mtn. and nationally on CSTV. Go to UtahUtes.com for updated listings. CSTV is a 24-hour college sports network owned by CBS Corporation. It is the fastest growing independent cable network and is available in 65 million homes. VERSUS is 1 0 - T I M E N A T I O N A L C H A M P I O N S 7 Program of Champions The Facts Utes are 10-Time National Champions • Utah has won a record 10 national champion- ships. The Utes have placed in the top two 17 times, including three runner-up finishes this decade (2000, 2006 and 2007). • Utah has produced more All-Americans than any other program. • Utah is the only school to qualify for every NCAA Utah has taken second place at the last two NCAA Championships. Championship. The Famous Program of Champions Program • Former Ute NCAA Champion and U.S. Olympian Missy Marlowe is the only gymnast in history to win the Honda Broderick Cup. • Sue Stednitz, Megan McCunniff, Missy Marlowe and Theresa Kulikowski won NCAA all-around championships. • Theresa Kulikowski is the only gymnast ever named the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year (from 360,000 NCAA athletes). • Ute Head Coach Greg Marsden has been named National Coach of the Year a record seven times. Greg Marsden Sue Stednitz Megan McCunniff Missy Marlowe Theresa Kulikowski The Fans • Utah competes before more spectators than any team in the nation. Since 1992, the Ute gymnasts have averaged 10,719 fans to their meets in the Huntsman Center. • Utah owns virtually every gymnastics attendance record, including most fans to attend a meet (15,238) and highest average attendance for a season