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2008 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 2008EIGHT-TIME NATIONAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS CHAMPS - 2008 | 2006 | 2005 | 2003 |2002 | 1991 | 1978 | 1977 OKLAHOMA MEN’S GYMNASTICS 1977 | 1978 | 1991 | 2002 | 2003 | 2005 | 2006 | 2008 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 2009 SCHEDULE SOONERS SEEK NINTH NATIONAL TITLE DAY ...DATE ......OPPONENT ...........LOCATION............ TIME/ RESULTS NORMAN, Okla.-- After finishing second at the MPSF Championship the No. 2 Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team heads to Minneapolis, Minn., in search of the program’s ninth Sat. ........Jan. 10 ........Rocky Mountain Open ......Colorado Springs, Colo. ...........First, 355.000 national title. The 2009 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships will take place April 16-18 at Sports Pavilion on the campus of University of Minnesota. Sun. .......Jan. 18 ........Nebraska..........................Lincoln, Neb. ...............W (354.300-337.600) “Hopefully, all the teams will be ready to go at it and have a great competition,” said head Sat. ........Jan. 31 .......TEXAS ..............................NORMAN .................... W (349.050-304.950) coach Mark Williams. “Our intention is to be familiar with the surroundings and not be intimidated by going in there to compete for a national championship.” Thurs......Feb. 5-7 .......Winter Cup .......................Las Vegas, Nev. .................Individual Results The 2009 NCAA Championships will begin on Thursday, April 16 with two qualifying Sat. ........Feb. 21 ........IOWA ...............................NORMAN .................... W (354.250-336.000) sessions at 1 and 7 p.m. (CDT). The Sooners will compete in session two with No. 3 Illinois, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Minnesota, No. 10 Illinois-Chicago, and No. 11 Iowa. The top three Sat. ........Feb. 28 ........NEBRASKA ......................NORMAN .................... W (358.300-342.400) teams from each session will earn berths in Friday night’s team and all-around Finals, scheduled for a 7 p.m. start. Individual national champions will be determined at the event Sat. ........March 7 .......Minnesota/ Stanford ........Minneapolis, Minn. .... W (357.850-356.400) finals on Saturday night at 7 p.m. APRIL 16-18, 2009 | NEWS AND NOTES 2009 | NEWS APRIL 16-18, Sat. ........March 14 .....OHIO STATE .....................NORMAN .................... W (357.450-353.150) The Sooners have previously competed this year at the site of the 2009 National Champion- ship in Minneapolis, Minn. when they faced No. 1 Stanford and No. 7 Minnesota. Oklahoma Sat. ........March 21 .....PENN STATE ....................NORMAN .................... W (366.850-356.300) won the meet with a team score of 357.850. Sophomore Steven Legendre claimed the event title on vault with a 16.200 and senior co-captain Chris Brooks claimed the high bar Sat. ........April 4 .........MPSF Conference Meet ....Palo Alto, Calif. .................Second (358.350) title with a 15.100 and the all-around with career high score of 90.200. Thurs......April 16 .......NCAA Team Qualifiers ......Minneapolis, Minn.............................7 p.m. “The fact that we competed at Minnesota, put it on a neutral floor for both Stanford and ourselves. I was encouraged by the competition we had there earlier this year, where we did Fri. .........April 17 .......NCAA Team Finals ............Minneapolis, Minn.............................7 p.m. well,” said head coach Mark Williams. Sat. ........April 18 .......NCAA Event Finals ............Minneapolis, Minn.............................7 p.m. In 2008, Oklahoma won its eighth National Championship and now owns the most titles of any OU athletics program. Jonathan Horton, became the Sooners’ sixth Nissen-Emery Award winner and earned All-America status on three events (AA, SR, PB) to bring his career SETTING THE SCENE total to 18, a program record. 2009 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS The Sooners have won five of the last seven NCAA crowns, all under Williams. WHAT: 2009 NCAA Championships SOONER GYMNAST TO WATCH WHERE: Sports Pavilion; Minneapolis, Minn. STEVEN LEGENDRE WHEN: April 16-18, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. (CST) LIVE SCORES: Saturday night’s meet will be broadcast live on Minnesota All-Access. Fans can access the feed on the Web Casts page by going to www.gophersports.com TICKETS: All-session adult tickets, which include four competition sessions, are priced at $35, with all-session student tickets available for $25. Single-session tickets are priced at $15 for adults and $8 for students. Special single-session packages for groups of 15 or more are also available and are priced at $5 per ticket. Sophomore Steven Legendre won individual national championships on floor exercise and vault, earning All-America honors on both events as well as on high bar, at the 2008 National Championships. Legendre became just the fourth Sooner to earn multiple NCAA titles in a season and the first freshman in school history to win national crowns on at least two events. The official site of OU Athletics supplies Sooner fans worldwide with the latest news and fea- tures on Oklahoma athletics direct from Norman. The site provides the latest press releases, rosters, bios, schedules, statistics, notes, quotes, athlete blogs, photo galleries and audio and video available to both Sooner fans and the media. 2009 OKLAHOMA MEN’S GYMNASTICS NOTES 2008 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS ALPHABETICAL ROSTER AND PRONUNCIATIONS Name Yr. Ht. Hometown (High School) (Club) Pronunciation Chris Brooks Sr. 5-8 Houston, Texas (Cypress Creek HS) (Houston North Gymnastics) Garrett Carr Jr. 5-11 Mandeville, La. (Fountainbleau HS) (Aces) Chad Crumley Fr. 5-11 Long Grove, Ill. (Stevenson HS) (Buffalo Grove Gymnastics Center) CRUHM-lee Russell Czeschin Sr. 6-3 Independence, Mo. (Fort Osage HS) (Great American Gymnastics Express) shuh-SHEEN Corey English Jr. 5-7 Covington, La. (St. Paul’s HS) (Mandeville Sports Complex) David Finning Fr. 5-4 Claremore, Okla. (Cy Falls HS) (Cypress Academy) C.J. Grimes So. 5-5 Ulysses, Kan. (Ulysses HS) (Littlestar Gymnastics) Ian Jackson Jr. 5-6 Harrisburg, Pa. (Central Dauphin HS) (Artistic Sports Academy Plus) Jason Laughton Sr. 5-6 Northridge, Calif. (Sunland Christian School) (SCATS Gymnastics) lawton Steven Legendre So. 5-6 Port Jefferson, N.Y. (Spring Creek Academy) (World Olympic Gymnastics Academy) la-ZHAHN-druh Benjamin Mayer Fr. 5-10 Houston, Texas (Home School) (Cypress Academy) MAY-er Kyle McNamara Sr. 5-7 Littleton, Colo. (Heritage HS) (5280 Gymnastics) MAC-nuh-mare-uh Jacob Messina Sr. 5-6 Matthews, N.C. (East Mecklenburg HS) (G&J Speedway) Troy Nitzky Fr. 5-6 Southampton, Pa. (William Tennent HS) (Temple Boys Gymnastics) Anthony Naddour So. 5-11 Gilbert, Ariz. (Highland HS) (USA Flairs) na-DOOR Patrick Piscitelli Fr. 5-11 Charlotte, N.C. (Charlotte Catholic HS) (G & J Speedway) PISK-uh-telly Reed Pitts Jr. 5-9 Allen, Texas (Allen HS) (Eagle’s Wings Athletics) Bobby Shortle So. 5-2 Brunswick, Ohio (Brunswick HS) (Gym World) SHORT-uhl APRIL 16-18, 2009 | ROSTER, NEWS AND NOTES AND NOTES 2009 | ROSTER, NEWS APRIL 16-18, Head Coach Mark Williams 10th Season Nebraska, 1980 Assistant Coach Rustam Sharipov Fourth Season Kharkov State, 1997 roos-TOM SHARE-ee-pahv Assistant Coach Daniel Furney Fourth Season Oklahoma, 2004 OKLAHOMA MEN’S GYMNASTICS NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY AND NOTES 2008 NCAA CHAMPIONS 2003 NCAA CHAMPIONS 1977 NCAA CHAMPIONS HOSTED BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOSTED BY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSTED BY ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY The Sooners won their fifth title in the last seven season The Sooners won their second straight title in 2003 under Four years into the Paul Ziert era, OU won its first national while finishing the season 28-1. Senior Jonathan Horton Mark Williams with a perfect 26-0 record. Daniel Furney title. The Sooners (7-1) tied Indiana State for the national won the still rings title while freshmen Steven Legendre (Nissen Award winner) was the all-around and parallel bars crown. It remains the only tie in NCAA team captured the floor and vault titles. The Sooners rounded out champion. Josh Landis won titles on the floor and pommel championship history. the 2008 season with 11 All-America honors, second highest horse. in the nation. Total National Championships... 2002 NCAA CHAMPIONS Penn State (12) 2006 NCAA CHAMPIONS HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Illinois (9) HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA OU won its fourth national championship on its home floor OKLAHOMA (8) OU won its fourth NCAA crown in five years while after suffering just one defeat in the 2002 season. The Nebraska (8) compiling a perfect 31-0 record. Jonathan Horton captured Sooners, guided by Mark Williams, went 28-1 one year after *Southern Illinois (4), California (4) the all-around, as well as individual titles on the parallel finishing as NCAA runners-up. *Iowa State (3), Michigan (3), Ohio State (3), Stanford (3) bars and high bar. The Sooners again led the nation in All- *Florida State (2), * UCLA (2) America honors, setting a school record with 14 honorees. 1991 NCAA CHAMPIONS HOSTED BY PENN STATE UNIVERSITY * indicates school no longer sponsors a men’s gymnastics 2005 NCAA CHAMPIONS Head coach Greg Buwick produced OU’s third national title program HOSTED BY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY and his first of three Nissen Award winners with Jarrod The Sooners won their third title in four years under Mark Hanks in 1991. Buwick’s Sooners went 15-1 and also won A Perennial Title Contender... Williams, finishing 21-2 on the season and leading the na- the Big Eight title. Since 2000, The University of Oklahoma men’s gymnastics tion with 13 All-America honors. David Henderson was the program is the only collegiate men’s gymnastics program to still rings champion and Jonathan Horton brought home five 1978 NCAA CHAMPIONS4 finish in the top four every year at the NCAA Championships. All-America honors. HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Head Coach Paul Ziert and the Sooners won their second Since their fourth-place finish in 2000, the Sooners have straight national title with a 10-1 season. OU was led by finished no lower than second in their quest for the national All-American Bart Conner who won his second straight title under head coach Mark Williams.