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PAC-10 CONFERENCE PAC-12 CONFERENCE 360 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107 // PAC-12.COM // 415.580.4200 For Immediate Release // Tuesday, January, 27, 2015 Contact // Liz Beadle ([email protected]) THIS WEEK IN PAC-12 GYMNASTICS For the second week in a row, seven of eight Pac-12 2015 PAC-12 CONFERENCE gymnastics squads are ranked in the Top 25 nationally. GYMNASTICS STANDINGS # 5 UTAH and #23 CALIFORNIA remain undefeated in 2015. The Golden Bears’ 10-0 start is their best in Conference Overall program history. UTAH’s Georgia Dabritz and UCLA’s W L PCT W L PCT Samantha Peszek are tied as the No. 1 all-arounders in California 2 0 1.000 10 0 1.000 Utah 1 0 1.000 5 0 1.000 the nation, each with an all-around average of 39.588. UCLA 2 1 .666 2 1 .666 Dabritz is ranked in the top 10 nationally in three Arizona 1 1 .500 4 2 .666 events. Peszek and STANFORD’s Elizabeth Price are Stanford 1 1 .500 3 3 .500 both ranked in the top 10 nationally in two events. Washington 0 1 .000 1 2 .333 Arizona State 0 1 .000 1 5 .166 Oregon State 0 2 .000 2 2 .500 UPCOMING SCHEDULE NATIONAL TOP 25 RANKINGS (RANKINGS REPORTED BY GYMINFO) Fri., Jan. 30 RANKINGS AS OF JAN. 26 #17 WASHINGTON at #10 OREGON STATE 7 p.m. PT with Hamline, Sacramento State RANK TEAM TEAM AVERAGE 1 Oklahoma 197.325 Sat., Jan. 31 2 L.S.U. 197.025 #5 UTAH at #18 ARIZONA 4 p.m. MT 3 Florida 196.975 #19 STANFORD at ARIZONA STATE 7 p.m. MT 4 Michigan 196.808 5 Utah 196.767 Sun., Feb. 1 #23 CALIFORNIA at #15 UCLA P12N 10 a.m. PT 6 Alabama 196.600 7 Nebraska 196.225 8 Arkansas 195.825 RECENT RESULTS 9 Penn State 195.750 10 Oregon State 195.713 Fri., Jan. 23 11 Georgia 195.669 #15 UCLA at #5 UTAH UTAH, 196.725-194.725 12 Auburn 195.625 12 Boise State 195.625 Sat., Jan. 24 14 Illinois-Champaign 195.608 #18 ARIZONA at #`17 WASHINGTON ARIZ, 196.050-195.950 15 UCLA 195.567 16 Ohio State 195.300 Sun., Jan. 25 17 Washington 195.275 ARIZONA STATE at #23 CALIFORNIA CAL 1st, 195.900 18 Arizona 195.244 with San Jose State and #20 Denver 19 Stanford 195.225 Mon., Jan. 26 20 Denver 195.219 #10 OREGON STATE at #19 STANFORD STAN, 197.000-196.450 21 Michigan State 195.150 22 Southern Utah 195.058 23 California 194.975 24 New Hampshire 194.933 24 Kentucky 194.933 PAC-12 VS. PAC-12 COACHES OTHER CONFERENCES ARIZ .................................. BILL RYDEN UCLA ...............VALORIE KONDOS FIELD Big Ten ............................................... 0-0-0 ............................................17th season ................................................25th Season Big 12 ................................................. 1-0-0 .................................NCAA Appearances: 2 ...............................NCAA Appearances: 22 East Atlantic Gymnastics League ......... 1-0-0 Eastern College Athetlic ....................... 1-0-0 ASU ..................................... RENE LYST UTAH ...........................GREG MARSDEN Mid-American ..................................... 0-0-0 .............................................. 1st season ................................................ 40th season Midwest Independent .......................... 2-0-0 .................................NCAA Appearances: 0 ...............................NCAA Appearances: 33 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation ..... 9-3-1 Mountain Rim ..................................... 5-1-0 CAL ..............................JUSTIN HOWELL UTAH ........................ MEGAN MARSDEN Southeastern ....................................... 0-4-0 ..................................................3rd season .................................................. 6th season Western Athletic .................................. 0-0-0 .................................NCAA Appearances: 1 .................................NCAA Appearances: 5 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic ......... 2-0-0 Independent ....................................... 0-0-0 OSU ............................. TANYA CHAPLIN WASH ......................... JOANNE BOWERS Total-All ....................................... 21-8-1 ................................................18th Season ..................................................9th Season ...............................NCAA Appearances: 10 .................................NCAA Appearances: 1 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS SIDS STAN........................... KRISTEN SMYTH ................................................ 14th season *NCAA Appearances denotes NCAA appear- ARIZ ...........................www.arizonawildcats.com ...............................NCAA Appearances: 11 ances made as coach of current school ............................................. Danielle Bracamonte [email protected] WEEKLY PAC-12 GYMNASTICS HONORS ...................................................... 520-227-8238 UCLA’s Samantha Peszek named Gymnast of the Week UTAH’s Corrie Lothrop named Specialist of the Week ASU ................................www.thesundevils.com CALIFORNIA’s Toni-Ann Williams named Freshman/Newcomer of the Week ....................................................Maggie Emmons [email protected] ...................................................... 480-584-9591 San Francisco – The Pac-12 Conference office announced today the Pac-12 women’s gym- nastics weekly honors for the week of Jan. 19-26. UCLA’s Samantha Peszek was named CAL ..........................................www.calbears.com the Gymnast of the Week, UTAH’s Corrie Lothrop was voted Specialist of the Week, and ....................................................... Mara Rudolph CALIFORNIA’s Toni-Ann Williams was selected as the Freshman/Newcomer of the Week. [email protected] ...................................................... 510-643-5846 UCLA senior Samantha Peszek earned Gymnast of the Week honors for her performance in the Bruins’ meet against Arizona on Jan. 19 and their meet at Utah on Jan. 23. In the OSU .................................... www.osubeavers.com two meets, Peszek totaled six first-place showings including a first place in the all-around ....................................................... Jason Amberg against No. 5 Utah. Peszek scored a 9.875 or higher on every routine in the past week, [email protected] including a 9.975 on bars and a pair of 9.95s on beam. She is now No. 1 in the nation in ...................................................... 541-230-0706 all-around individual score. This is the first Gymnast of the Week honor for Peszek in 2015 STAN .................................... www.gostanford.com after winning the award in the final week of the 2014 season. ........................................................... Greg Marsh ......................................... [email protected] Utah senior Corrie Lothrop earned Specialist of the Week honors for her performance in ...................................................... 650-736-7635 the Utes’ meet against UCLA on Jan. 23. Lothrop tied for first on bars, came in second on floor, and helped put the meet away for the No. 5 Utes with a clutch beam routine. Lothrop UCLA .................................... www.uclabruins.com scored season-highs on all three events in which she competed. ............................................................. Liza David ...................................... [email protected] California freshman Toni-Ann Williams earned Freshman/Newcomer of the Week honors for ...................................................... 310-621-8398 the second week in a row this week. Williams helped the No. 23 Golden Bears improve to 10-0 in a quad meet against No. 20 Denver, San Jose State, and Arizona State on Jan. 25. UTAH ............................... www.utahutes.cstv.com .................................................................Liz Abel Williams came in first in four events: the vault, bars, floor, and all-around. Her 39.475 all- [email protected] around score is the fifth-highest all-around score in California history. Williams’ career-high ...................................................... 801-209-6346 and program-record 9.95 on floor was just the fifth 9.95 on the event in program history, and was last posted by a Golden Bear in 2004. Williams now has ten event titles through WASH .................................... www.gohuskies.com just four meets this season. ..........................................................Justin Green ....................................................jgreen8@uw.edu A gymnast of the week has been selected every week of the season since 2001. The Spe- ...................................................... 801-473-7376 cialist of the Week award was added in 2008. It is the third year for Freshman/Newcomer of the Week. PAC-12 ..................................... www.pac-12.com ............................................................. Liz Beadle Also Nominated: .............................................. [email protected] ...................................................... 415-549-2858 Gymnast of the Week: Georgia Dabritz, UTAH; Allison Northey, WASH; Toni-Ann Williams, CAL; Allison Flores, ARIZ Special Performance of the Week: Faith Morrison, WASH; Danusia Francis, UCLA; Jessie Sisler, ARIZ Freshman/Newcomer of the Week: Madison Cindric, ARIZ; LaNiesha-Jopre’ Irvin, UCLA; Zoey Schaefer, WASH PAC-12 GYMNASTICS WEEKLY RELEASE // January 27, 2015 2 WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS ON