NATIONAL COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK 2016 Championship 2 History 4 Brackets 17 2016 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Oklahoma Wins Second NCAA Title: The motto for the Oklahoma women’s gymnastics squad this year was to make it count. On Saturday night, the Sooners did just that. With a 197.6750, the No. 1-seeded Sooners secured the 2016 NCAA Championship inside Fort Worth Convention Center. The title was their second all-time, with the first coming in 2014. The Super Six appearance was OU’s sixth in the last seven seasons and in each of those, OU has now finished within the top three nationally. The victory made history in the gymnastics world as Oklahoma became the first school in history to win both the women’s and men’s national titles in the same season. Earlier on Saturday night, the men’s team rolled to the 2016 crown in Columbus, Ohio. “What do you say? One of girls this morning, when she woke up, tweeted, ‘It felt like Christmas Eve last night—I couldn’t go to bed anticipating today,’ It turns out that’s exactly what it was,” 10th-year Oklahoma head coach K.J. Kindler said. “Christmas Day is always a wonderful day when you’re a kid. Today was just an amazing and wonderful day for these ladies and our entire team. They had to fight for it. We learned a lot last year, I think, and they applied it today.” No. 3 seed LSU came in second place with a 197.4500, No. 4 Alabama (197.4375) finished third and No. 2 Florida (197.3500), who shared the 2014 title with the Sooners, placed fourth. No. 8 UCLA (196.8250) and No. 10 Georgia (196.8125) rounded out the standings. With the meet close entering the final rotation, Oklahoma rose to the occasion, using a little bit of Sooner Magic to turn in a 49.5750 on floor. The clinching routine came from sophomore AJ Jackson in the No. 5 spot, whose 9.9125 pushed the Sooners to the top of the leaderboard. In the anchor position, senior Haley Scaman stepped in and closed out her decorated OU career with a 9.95, the best floor score of the night. Sophomore Natalie Brown set the tone for the rotation with a 9.9, and junior Chayse Capps followed her performance with a 9.9125. Junior Charity Jones and senior Keeley Kmieciak recorded marks of 9.9 and 9.8625, respectively. On vault, the Sooners started the meet with 49.225, their second-lowest score of the season on the event, but they still held the early advantage after the first rotation. Jackson paced the Sooners, anchoring with a 9.9, and Scaman contributed a strong 9.85 right before her. Senior Hunter Price scored a 9.8375 in the No. 2 slot. Jones led off on the apparatus with a 9.825, and Capps contributed a 9.8125 to the team score. “Vault was not what we’re capable of, but instead of letting it break ‘em down, they came back stronger and fought on bars, beam and floor all the way to the very end,” Kindler shared. “It was a fight. That meet was super close. I don’t know if they knew or felt how close it was. We certainly knew as coaches, and we tried to stay loose, of course, and give them the best opportunity to just go free and do what they could do.” The Sooners came out of their bye looking sharp to post a big 49.4500 on bars, counting three scores of at least 9.9 from freshman Nicole Lehrmann, Capps and Scaman. Jackson opened the rotation with a 9.85, and Lehrmann followed it with a 9.9. In the No. 3 spot, Capps scored a team-best 9.925, while Scaman added a 9.9. Kmieciak scored a 9.825, and junior McKenzie Wofford anchored with a strong 9.8755. Through three rotations with each team having competed on two events, Alabama sat atop the standings with a 98.7000, just ahead of OU’s 98.6750. Florida was in third place with a 98.5750, and Georgia held fourth at 98.5500. LSU (98.4625) and UCLA (98.2875) completed the standings. The Sooners carried their momentum to beam, tallying a 49.4250. Capps anchored with a stuck dismount to put an exclamation point on the rotation and earn a 9.9375. Brown added a 9.925 following a beautiful routine. For the third straight meet, Lehrmann scored a 9.9, matching her career-best total. Jones scored a 9.85, and Kmieciak opened on the event with a 9.8125. The meet capped a season in which the Sooners posted a 38-1-0 overall record, with their lone loss coming in their season opener. Nine Sooners earned a program-record 15 All-America honors following Friday’s semifinals. Additionally, OU won an unprecedented fifth straight Big 12 title and seventh consecutive regional crown. “[I’m] just so proud of them. This is something, obviously, that they’ve wanted, that they’ve worked so hard for. Everyone in that room has worked hard, but this group in particular has a little extra something when it comes to their chemistry that I can’t really describe,” Kindler said. “I’ve always believed that chemistry wins championships. They certainly are technically good. They certainly executed well. But, I really feel like that heart and that chemistry is what put them over the top at the end.” 2016 RESULTS Team Semifinal (Note: Top three teams from each semifinal advanced to the Super Six team final.) Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final Session 1 1. Oklahoma 49.2250 49.4500 49.4250 49.5750 197.6750 Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final 2. LSU 49.5250 49.1250 49.3375 49.4625 197.4500 1. Florida 49.3500 49.4750 49.3500 49.3000 197.4750 3. Alabama 49.3250 49.2875 49.4500 49.3750 197.4375 2. LSU 49.3375 49.3250 49.3000 49.3750 197.3375 4. Florida 49.3250 49.4500 49.2125 49.3625 197.3500 3. Georgia 49.2750 49.3750 49.1125 48.9625 196.7250 5. UCLA 49.0875 49.1000 49.4375 49.2000 196.8250 4. Stanford 49.1500 49.0250 48.4750 48.9250 195.5750 6. Georgia 49.2125 49.1875 49.3625 49.0500 196.8125 5. Auburn 48.9625 49.0875 48.1500 48.9000 195.1000 6. Minnesota 49.0375 47.6625 49.2500 49.0375 194.9875 Session 2 Pl. Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Final 1. Oklahoma 49.4000 49.4625 49.4750 49.4500 197.7875 2. Alabama 49.4875 49.3125 49.3000 49.2875 197.3875 3. UCLA 48.9875 49.2375 49.3625 49.1125 196.7000 4. California 49.0000 49.0000 49.0750 48.8750 195.9500 5. Nebraska 49.0500 48.7875 48.9750 48.9625 195.7750 6. Utah 49.1000 49.2875 48.1375 49.2375 195.7625 2016 Championship 2 2016 Individual Results Balance Beam (Note: All results taken from team semifinal competition day) Pl. Name, Team Score 1. Bridget Sloan, Florida 9.9500 All-around Danusia Francis, UCLA 9.9500 Pl. Name, Team Vault Bars Beam Floor Score 3. Natalie Brown, Oklahoma 9.9250 1. Bridget Sloan, Florida 9.9000 9.9500 9.9500 9.9000 39.7000 4. Mollie Drenth, Iowa 9.9125 2. Chayse Capps, Oklahoma 9.9000 9.9000 9.9125 9.9000 39.6125 Hanna Nordquist, Minnesota 9.9125 3. Myia Hambrick, LSU 9.8750 9.8875 9.8750 9.9250 39.5625 Chayse Capps, Oklahoma 9.9125 4. Elizabeth Price, Stanford 9.9000 9.9000 9.8875 9.8625 39.5500 7. Kiana Winston, Alabama 9.9000 5. Lindsay Mable, Minnesota 9.8750 9.9000 9.8750 9.8875 39.5375 Ashleigh Gnat, LSU 9.9000 6. Alex McMurtry, Florida 9.9000 9.8750 9.8875 9.8625 39.5250 Nicole Lehrmann, Oklahoma 9.9000 7. Mackenzie Brennan, Alabama 9.9125 9.8875 9.8500 9.8500 39.5000 Charity Jones, Oklahoma 9.9000 Ashleigh Gnat, LSU 9.9250 9.8000 9.9000 9.8750 39.5000 Baely Rowe, Utah 9.9000 Keeley Kmieciak, Oklahoma 9.9125 9.8500 9.8375 9.9000 39.5000 12. Sidney Dukes, Kentucky 9.8875 10. Nina McGee, Denver 9.8500 9.8875 9.8000 9.9500 39.4875 Aja Sims, Alabama 9.8875 Kennedy Baker, Florida 9.9000 9.8875 9.8000 9.9000 39.4875 Sofie Seilnacht, California 9.8875 12. Hollie Blanske, Nebraska 9.9250 9.7875 9.8500 9.8750 39.4375 Alicia Boren, Florida 9.8875 13. Brittany Rogers, Georgia 9.9000 9.9500 9.8000 9.7625 39.4125 Alex McMurtry, Florida 9.8875 14. Baely Rowe, Utah 9.7875 9.8625 9.9000 9.8375 39.3875 Ivana Hong, Stanford 9.8875 15. Nicole Artz, Michigan 9.7875 9.8125 9.8500 9.8750 39.3250 Elizabeth Price, Stanford 9.8875 16. Amanda Wellick, Arkansas 9.7750 9.8375 9.8750 9.8125 39.3000 19. Amanda Wellick, Arkansas 9.8750 Brandie Jay, Georgia 9.9500 9.8750 9.7625 9.7125 39.3000 Nickie Guerrero, Alabama 9.8750 Ivana Hong, Stanford 9.8125 9.8125 9.8875 9.7875 39.3000 Myia Hambrick, LSU 9.8750 19. Alicia Boren, Florida 9.6875 9.8625 9.8875 9.8500 39.2875 Erin Macadaeg, LSU 9.8750 20.