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Meet 11 // April 20-21, 2018 // NCAA Championships // Chicago, Illinois // 7 p.m. 2018 PENN STATE MEN’S GYMNASTICS 1 12 NCAA Championship Titles // 3 Big Ten Championships // 6 Nissen-Emery Award Winners // 319 All-America Citations 2018 Schedule / Results at NCAA Championships January Friday, April 20-Saturday April 21 Chicago, Illinois Jan . 12-13 at West Point Open $ 406 .850 (1st of 6) Last Year: 4th of 6 (Qualifi er) Jan. 20 ARMY WEST POINT W, 407.600-384.100 410 .500 April 21-22 • West Point, New York Jan. 27 ILLINOIS (DD) * L, 412.500-405.900 Live Results: UICFlames .com Video: N/A February Feb . 9 at Ohio State (DD) * W, 417 .400-414 .900 Feb . 15 & 17 at Winter Cup % NTS 2018 EVENT LEADERS Feb. 24 MINNESOTA (DD) * L, 404.350-402.400 FLOOR POMMEL STILL VAULT PARALLEL HIGH ALL-AROUND EXERCISE HORSE RINGS BARS BAR March March 3 at Iowa * w/ Arizona St . 396 .550 (2nd of 3) March 10 at Arizona State w/Navy 402 .450 (1st of 3) JOSHUA SMITH STEPHEN NEDOROSCIK NOAH ROBERSON JOSHUA SMITH SAM ZAKUTNEY SAM ZAKUTNEY SAM ZAKUTNEY March 17 NEBRASKA * L, 404.500-401.550 JUNIOR SOPHOMORE JUNIOR JUNIOR SOPHOMORE SOPHOMORE SOPHOMORE March 24 at Michigan * W, 407 .350-405 .050 2018 BEST: 14.650 2018 BEST: 15.000 2018 BEST: 14.400 2018 BEST: 14.600 2018 BEST: 14.800 2018 BEST: 14.450 2018 BEST: 81.350 April NOTES AND HEADLINES April 6-7 Big Ten Championships ^ 406 .350 (3rd of 7) MEN’S GYMNASTICS READY FOR NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS April 20-21 NCAA Championships # 7 p .m . The Penn State men’s gymnastics team is in search of its nation-leading 13th National Championship Friday, April 20-Saturday, April 21 at UIC . The Nittany Li- BOLD CAPS - Home Meets ons will compete in session I with the fi rst event slated for 1 p .m . The top three * - Big Ten Meet | $ - West Point, N .Y . | teams of session I and session II will qualify for the team event fi nals on Saturday, % - Las Vegas, Nev . | ^ Ann Arbor, Mich . April 21 starting at 7 p .m . at the UIC Pavilion . # - Chicago, Ill . All Times Eastern SESSION II COMPETITION Penn State will be in the second session Friday, April 20 and will compete to earn a top-three spot for the team fi nals on Saturday, April 21 . The Nittany Lions will go Following #PennStateMGYM up against No . 1 Oklahoma, No . 4 Illinois, No . 5 Ohio State, No . 9 Iowa, and No . Get all the up-to-date news, behind the scenes 12 California to compete for a spot in the team fi nals . stories, videos and photos by following Penn State Men’s Gymnastics online at ROTATION ORDER GoPSUsports .com and on social media The Blue and White will start on the vault before moving to the parallel bars and fi nishing the third rotation on the high bar . Penn State will compete on the fl oor exercise in rotation four, the pommel horse in the fi fth rotation and close out the meet on the still rings . /PennStateMensGymnastics NITTANY LIONS IN THE POSTSEASON IN CHICAGO Penn State has not had a lot of experience in Chicago, Illinois in the postseason, having just competed there two times in the history of the program . The Nittany @PennStateMGYM Lions captured the 1948 National Championship and placed fi fth in the 1949 Na- tional AAU but has not seen any other postseason competition hosted by UIC at the Pavilion . PennStateMGYM 2 2018 PENN STATE MEN’S GYMNASTICS QUICK FACTS 2018 ROSTER GENERAL INFORMATION Name Event Yr. Ht. Hometown/High School Location . University Park, Pa . Jack Baldwin PH Fr. 5-10 Mexico, N.Y./Mexico Founded . 1855 Brayden Borromeo FX/SR/VT So. 5-6 Littlestown, Pa./Littlestown Senior Enrollment . 47,261 Michael Burns PH/SR/PB/HB Jr. 5-9 Baltimore, Ohio/Liberty Union Colors . Blue and White Paker Clayton AA Fr. 5-5 Fishers, Ind./Homeschooled Conference . Big Ten Colin Coates PH Sr. 5-8 Emmaus, Pa./Emmaus Nickname . Nittany Lions Benjamin Cooperman * PH/SR Sr. 5-7 Southborough, Mass./Algonquiny President . Dr . Eric J Barron Director of Athletics . Sandy Barbour Alex Frack AA Fr. 5-4 Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth Athletic Website . www .GoPSUsports .com Issac Hammett SR So. 5-4 Sacramento, Calif./Jesuit Quest Hayden AA Sr. 5-9 Harrisburg, Pa./Homeschooled COACHING STAFF Stephen Nedoroscik PH So. 5-5 Worcester, Mass./Worcester Technical Head Coach . Randy Jepson Brennan Pantazis AA Fr. 5-5 Sparks, Nev./Edward C. Reed 27th Season (Penn State ‘82) Noah Roberson SR R-Jr. 5-4 Williamsville, N.Y./Williamsville South Record at Penn State . 364-73 Chris Sands FX/SR/VT/PB/HB Jr. 5-10 Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Catholic Assistant Coach . Carlos Vasquez Joshua Smith FX/VT Jr. 5-5 Baton Rouge, La./Homeschooled Sixth Season (Temple ‘84) Greg Tamargo FX/SR/VT Jr. 5-8 Kennett Square, Pa./Unionville Assistant Coach . Tony Beck Alex Thomason FX/VT/PB/HB R-So. 5-5 Houston, Texas/James E. Taylor Third Season (Penn State, 2013) Wyatt Tyndall AA Jr. 5-6 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada/Holy Cross Favian Valdez AA So. 5-6 Kearny, N.J./Kearny TEAM INFORMATION Captain . Benjamin Cooperman Sam Zakutney AA So. 5-6 Ottawa, Ontario.E.S.C. Franco Cite Twitter . PennStateMGYM Facebook . Penn State Men’s Gymnastics Head Coach: Randy Jepson (Penn State, 1982; 27th Season) Assistant Coach: Carlos Vazquez (Temple, 1984; Sixth Season) 2017 RECAP Assistant Coach: Tony Beck (Penn State, 2013; Third Season) 2017 Record . 11-4-0 * - Team Captain 2017 Big Ten Finish . Fourth (411 .200) 2017 All-Big Ten Honors . Two 2017 NCAA Finish (Qualifier) . Fourth (410 .500) 2017 All-American Honors . Three PROJECTED LINEUP ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS FLOOR EXERCISE VAULT MGYM Contact . Megan Samassa Brayden Borromeo Greg Tamargo Greg Tamargo Brayden Borromeo Office Phone . 814-865-7993 Joshua Smith Wyatt Tyndall Cell Phone . 814-321-3804 Chris Sands Brennan Pantazis E-mail . mps5768@psu .edu Brennan Pantazis Joshua Smith Fax . 814-863-3165 POMMEL HORSE PARALLEL BARS Address . 101 Bryce Jordan Center Alex Frack Alex Thomason University Park, PA 16802 Jack Baldwin Alex Frack Michael Burns Brennan Pantazis Colin Coates Michael Burns PRONUNCIATIONS Stephen Nedoroscik Sam Zakutney Brayden Borromeo . Bore-o-mayo Stephen Nedoroscik . Ned-o-rah-sick STILL RINGS HIGH BAR Michael Burns Alex Frack Brennan Pantazis . Pan-tah-zis Isaac Hammett Chris Sands Noah Roberson . Row-bur-son Greg Tamargo Wyatt Tyndall Wyatt Tyndall . Tin-dal Chris Sands Michael Burns Noah Roberson Sam Zakutney Favian Valdez . Fa-vee-ON Sam Zakutney . Za-coot-knee 2018 PENN STATE MEN’S GYMNASTICS 3 NATIONAL POLL NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: NEWS & NOTES COLLEGE GYMNASTICS ROBERSON LOOKING FOR SECOND-STRAIGHT ELITE 90 AWARD ASSOCIATION NATIONAL POLL Redshirt-junior Noah Roberson is one of the 2018 men’s gymnastics Elite 90 as of: April 9, 2018 nominees after exhibiting hard work on the mat and in the classroom . Roberson captured the award in the 2017 campaign and was a finalist in 2016 . The ELITE 90, # Team NQA an award founded by the NCAA, recognizes the true essence of the student-ath- 1 Oklahoma 414 lete.713 by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the 2 Minnesota 409.463 national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest 3 Michigan 408.588 academic standard among his or her peers . The Elite 90 is presented to the stu- 4 Illinois 408.463 dent-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the 5 Ohio State 408.350 finals site for each of the NCAA’s 90 championships . 6 Stanford 407 Roberson.775 has a 4 .0 cumulative grade point average as a double major in bio- 7 Nebraska 407.175 medical and mechanical engineering . The Williamsville, New York native has com- 8 Penn State 407 .038 9 Iowa 402.850 peted on the still rings 10 times this season for the Blue and White taking home 10 Navy 401.550 three event victories and competing in the Big Ten Championships in the individual 11 Air Force 396 .625 event finals . 12 California 395 .275 13 William & Mary 394.025 14 Arizona State * 392.275 DEFENDING A TITLE 15 Army 392.113 Sophomore Stephen Nedoroscik heads to the 2018 NCAA Championships as the 16 Springfield 383.350 reigning pommel horse national champion, scoring a 14 .900 to earn the victory in 17 Washington * 369 .850 the 2017 campaign . One year ago, Nedoroscik was the first routine of the evening 18 UIC 369 .650 19 SC United * 330 .588 as his score held for the remainder of the meet allowing him to capture the title 20 Temple * 192.863 as a freshman . This year, Nedoroscik will look to join Brandon Stefaniak and Mark 21 NorCal United 175 .650 Sohn as repeat national champions for Penn State on the pommel horse . Stefaniak won the title in both 1999 and 2000, while Sohn captured the title for four-straight 2018 Opponents in Bold seasons from 1989-1991 . Nedoroscik bested his score from the national champi- * - NCAA onship when he scored a 15 .000 to earn the title at the West Point Open to kick off the season . The Worcester, Massachusetts native has taken home seven titles in his second year donning the Blue and White, including becoming the 2018 Big Ten Pommel Horse Champion . Nedoroscik currently ranks third nationally and will have to go up against Brandon Ngai of Illinois, who comes in at No . 1 and Alec Yoder of Ohio State, who ranks No .