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2010 Meet Notes • Contact: Jason Amberg [email protected] • 541.737.7469 - office • 541.230.0706 - cell 2010 SCHEDULE Date Opponent / Meet Time/Score No. 3 Gymnastics Faces No. 9 UCLA in 1/8 Salbasgeon Suites Invitational1 195.625 1/16 @ Ohio State 196.125 First of Four Straight on the Road 1/22 Washington 195.700 THE MEET ... The No. 3 Oregon State gymnastics 1/29 Stanford & Seattle Pacific 196.225 team (9-0) is back on the road this week to face MEET 7 • AWAY MEET 3 2/7 @ California 196.375 No. 9 UCLA (6-2) at Pauley Pavilion, Sunday at 2 #3 OREGON STATE (9-0) 2/12 Arizona 196.725 p.m. The trip to Southern California is the first of 2/21 @ UCLA 2 p.m. four straight road trips to face top 25 teams for the at 2/26 @ Arizona State 6:30 p.m. Beavers. #9 UCLA (6-2) 3/5 @ LSU 5 p.m. February 21, 2010 • 2 p.m. 3/12 @ Utah2 6 p.m. THE SERIES ... The Beavers trail the all-time series with the Bruins 23-69 and lost to the Pac-10’s tradi- Los Angeles, California 3/19 Kentucky 7 p.m. Pauley Pavilion 3/27 @ Pac-10 Championships 4 p.m. tional powerhouse in all three of the teams’ meetings 4/10 @ NCAA Regionals TBD in 2009. However, OSU did knock off UCLA at the Live Webcast . www.uclabruins.com 4/22-24 @ NCAA Championships TBD Pac-10 Championships in 2008 ... OSU has beaten Live Stats . www.uclabruins.com UCLA at Pauley four times with the most recent road 1 - vs. Illinois, Air Force & Alaska-Anchorage win coming at Pac-10’s in 1991. The ‘91 Beavers RANKINGS 2 - @ Utah w/ Penn State & Southern Utah had beaten the Bruins in Pauley earlier that season Oregon State . .#3 All Times Pacific as well. UCLA . .#9 WE’RE NO. 3 ... Oregon State is ranked No. 3 in the THE SERIES osubeavers.com OSU-UCLA Series . .OSU trails, 23-69 nation this week according to GymInfo. This is the Visit osubeavers.com, the official website of Oregon State Away . .OSU trails, 4-14 first time since the week of March 30, 1992 that the 2009 season . UCLA, 0-3 Athletics, for all of your gymnastics needs. A full roster, Beavers have been ranked as high as No. 3. Streak . .UCLA, 3 wins statistics, schedule and weekly updates are available at UNDERSTANDING THE RANKINGS ... Unlike many Last Oregon State win . .3/29/08 the home of the Beavers. Last UCLA win . .4/16/09 other collegiate athletic rankings, gymnastics rank- ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS ings are not based on wins and losses or votes. Teams are ranked purely on their scores. At the beginning ninth in the all-around (39.308) and Stambaugh is Assistant AD / Communications . Steve Fenk of the season, teams are ranked by their season av- seventh (39.254). Asstistant Director / GYM . .Jason Amberg erage. Beginning the week of Feb. 22, teams and WHAT’S COMING UP ... Next week, Oregon State phone . (541) 737-7469 individual gymnasts will be ranked by a Regional remains on the road to travel to Tempe, Ariz. to face cell . (541) 230-0706 Qualifying Score (RQS). An RQS is a formula based Arizona State at Wells Fargo Arena next Friday, Feb. email . [email protected] on a team’s top six regular season scores (three of 26. fax . .(541) 737-3072/4171 which are required to be from away meets). To cal- Assistant Directors . .Michael Collins, culate the RQS, the highest score is dropped and the UPDATES FROM THE PRACTICE GYM ... Fresh- Hank Hager, Melody Stockwell remaining five scores are averaged. man Kelsi Blalock, who sprained her ankle during Communications Assistant. Ryan McCall warm-ups two weeks ago at California, has resumed Student Assistants . Mariah Ellis, Ethan Erickson, MORE RANKINGS ... All four of Oregon State’s line- light practice in the gym. She is performing basic Ryan Gunderson, Erin Jankoski, ups are ranked in this week’s Top 10. The Beavers skills on the uneven bars and is working on condi- Kyli Millender, Emily Morris, Andrew Shawcroft, are tied for fourth on vault, tied for fifth on the un- tioning this week. She is not expected to travel with Abbie Silva, Natalie Smith even bars, are ranked eighth on the balance beam the team to UCLA this week ... Sophomore Leslie and third on the floor exercise ... in addition, several Mak, who sprained her elbow during warm-ups at FOLLOWING THE BEAVERS OSU gymnasts are ranked among the top 15 in the Ohio State last month, returned to the beam lineup nation: Mandi Rodriguez (9.888 average) is tied Follow the meet this week through Live Stats when the a week later. Mak has begun tumbling on the floor for fifth and Becky Colvin (9.879) is eighth on vault; Beavers travel to UCLA. Live Stats will be provided at uc- exercise and could be ready to perform this Sunday. Leslie Mak (9.925) is ranked first and Laura-Ann labruins.com and an audio and video web feed will be However, due to a deep lineup there is no guarantee Chong (9.867) is 10th on bars; Melanie Jones and available for free as well. of a floor performance this week. Mak has also be- Rodriguez (9.90) are tied for third and Stambaugh gun to swing on the bars, but her return to the event (9.896) is seventh on the floor; Rodriguez is tied for is not considered imminent. February 21, 2010 • Oregon State at UCLA • Los Angeles, California • Pauley Pavilion COVERING THE BEAVERS Tanya Chaplin enters her 13th year leading the Oregon State gymnastics program on a course that MEDIA PASSES AND SPORTS INFORMATION ensures the Beavers remain among the top gymnas- Media credentials for writers, radio, television and photographers may tics programs in the nation for years to come. In 2009, be requested by contacting Jason Amberg in the Oregon State Athletic Com- Chaplin led OSU to its seventh trip to the NCAA Cham- munications office. pionships overall and fourth straight, under her direc- tion. INTERVIEWS With her supervision, 12 OSU gymnasts have earned Gymnasts and coaches are available for interviews prior to practice. 22 All-America honors and 11 gymnasts have com- Please notify Jason Amberg with any interview requests. Interview requests bined for 16 Pac-10 titles. In addition, OSU gymnasts for athletes and coaches for times other than pre-practice may be scheduled have earned 63 scholastic All-America honors. if made at least 24 hours in advance. However, any time other than pre- Again in 2009, the squad was considered the most talented of Chaplin’s ten- practice is subject to availability due to class, practice and travel schedules. ure and the prognosticators were correct. OSU gymnasts brought home six All- All interviews should be approved through Jason Amberg in the Athletic America honors including two first team honors for Mandi Rodriguez (vault and Communications office. No home or cell phone numbers of student-athletes floor). will given out. In addition, Rodriguez won RECORD AT OREGON STATE: Pac-10 titles on vault and floor POST-MEET INTERVIEWS 2010 9-0 9-0 en route to being named Pac- 2009 16-8 21-13 Gymnasts and coaches will be made available in Room 15 of Gill Coli- 10 Gymnast of the Year and Jen 2008 17-4 22-8 seum. Please notify Jason Amberg prior to the end of the meet with any Kesler and Leslie Mak tied for the 2007 18-7 22-13 interview requests. title on the bars. 2006 20-9 25-14 The Beavers were ranked as 2005 17-8 20-10 ON THE WEB high as No. 8, finished second at 2004 13-11 16-13 Check osubeavers.com for all information regarding the Oregon State 2003 14-9 17-11 the Pac-10 Championships, sec- 2002 10-10-1 14-16-1 gymnastics team. Meet notes, post-game recaps, roster information, sched- ond at the NCAA Central Region 2001 8-12 12-18 ules and photos are available at the home of Beaver Athletics. Championships and 11th at the 2000 15-7 20-12 NCAA Championships. 1999 13-6 16-8 1998 16-5 18-9 Total 186-96-1 232-145-1 OREGON STATE ROSTER GYMNAST EVENTS HT. CLASS HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL / CLUB) Leilani Alferos AA 4’11 Fr. Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (Trabuco Hills HS / OlympicaGymnastics Academy) Kelsi Blalock AA 5’4 Fr. Puyallup, Wash. (Rogers HS / Gymnastics East) Laura-Ann Chong AA 5’2 Sr. Coquitlam, B.C., Canada (Dr. Charles Best Secondary / Phoenix Gymnastics Club) Becky Colvin V, FX 5’3 Jr. Eugene, Ore. (Springfield HS / National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics) Melanie Jones AA 4’11 Fr. Mordialloc, Australia (Kilbreda College / Gymnastics Australia) Jen Kesler AA 5’3 Jr. Kenmore, Wash. (Inglemoor HS / Gymnastics East) Leslie Mak AA 5’4 So. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Stamford HS (CT) / Arena Gymnastics / Sport Seneca) Stephanie McGregor V, UB, FX 5’1 So. Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Bishop Carroll HS / Gymtastics Gym Club) Mandi Rodriguez AA 5’7 Sr. Baldwin Park, Calif. (Alverno HS / SCATS) Makayla Stambaugh AA 5’4 Fr. Antelope, Calif. (Horizon Charter / Byers Gymnastics) Olivia Vivian AA 5’6 So. Perth, Australia (Churchlands Senior HS / Gymnastics Australia) Whitney Watson V, UB, BB 5’2 Sr. Tustin, Calif. (Villa Park HS / Wildfire Gymnastics) * indicates athlete has used her redshirt season. HEAD COACH Tanya Chaplin ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH Michael Chaplin ASSISTANT COACH John Carney VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT Kera Bolen CARE-uh BO-lin DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Bea Whisenhunt BAY-uh DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Dick Foxal STUDENT ASSISTANTS Jereme Bigelow JAIR-em-ee Adonica Glatt Glot TEAM MANAGERS Ali Lavin Cassandra Rowell PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Leilani Alferos all-FAIR-ohs Kelsi Blalock BLAY-lock Makayla Stambaugh STAM-baa February 21, 2010 • Oregon State at UCLA • Los Angeles, California • Pauley Pavilion TICKETS ..