Beavs Geared Up For Top 10 Meet at UCLA

Sunday, February 25

Los Angeles, Calif.

3:00 PM

Oregon State

UCLA

Photo by: Karl Maasdam/Oregon State Athletics

February 21, 2018 | Women's Gymnastics

Pac-12 Network Meet Notes

By: Athletic Communications

THE MEET
Oregon State (4-2), ranked No. 8 in the nation travels to Southern California to takes on No. 3 UCLA (9-2) at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday. The meet is scheduled for a 3 p.m. start.

TV/LIVE VIDEO
• The meet is slated to air live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Los Angeles. Jim Watson will be on the call with Samantha Peszek providing analysis.
• Fans with subscriptions to the Network can also watch the matches on Pac-12 .com, or via the Pac-12 Now app.

LIVE RESULTS
• Live results will be available for the meet and can be found by visiting the gymnastics schedule page on osubeavers.com.
• To access live stats, via your computer, smartphone, or tablet, visit osubeavers.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA
• Fans are encouraged to follow the Oregon State gymnastics program via social media. There are several platforms to follow the team including :
• Twitter: @BeaverGym
• Instagram: @BeaverGym
• Facebook: /BeaverGym
• SnapChat: @OregonStateGym

QUICKLY
• Oregon State opened the season with back-to-back road meets for the second year in a row. OSU kicked off the season with a win at Pittsburgh before traveling to face Utah, where the Beavers upped their previous score by 1.5 points.
• Six out of OSU's 12 opponents on the 2018 schedule are ranked in this week's Top 36.
• The Beavers are coming off a 19-win season the ended with an 11th-place finish at NCAA Championships
• Oregon State returns one All-American, Dani Dessaints, who was an NACGC/W Regular Season All-American on the vault in 2017.
• Dessaints tied for the Pac-12 title on the vault (9.95) in 2017.
• In 2017, OSU advanced to the postseason for the 43rd straight year ... the last time the Beavers failed to reach the postseason was 1974, when they were still competing in the AIAW.
• OSU finished second at the 2017 NCAA Champaign Regional earning a berth at NCAA Championships. The Beavers finished 11th at the championships in St. Louis.

LAST WEEK VS ARIZONA
Oregon State registered its highest score of the season Saturday against then-No. 24 Arizona eclipsing the 197-point mark for the first time in 2018, 197.300-145.375.
• The Beavers moved up three spots in the rankings to No. 8, their highest rank of the year.
• OSU recorded season-bests on bars (49.400) and beam (49.300) against the Wildcats.
• Beaver gymnasts swept the event titles on Saturday - Mary Jacobsen secured vault (9.875) and bars (9.950) titles, Destinee Davis and McKenna Singley tied for top honors on beam (9.900), Kaitlyn Yanish won on the floor (9.950), and Singley won the all-around (38.525).

OREGON STATE NOTES
• The Beavers have yet to count a fall in 2018 ... OSU counted just two missed routines in 2017, with both coming in a win at Seattle Pacific.
• Oregon State has 'hit' 138 out of 144 (95.8%) routines in 2018 ... in comparison, the Beavers 'hit' 300 out of 312 (96.2%) routines last year.
• The Beavers went 24-for-24 for the first time this season in their fourth meet of the season, at home against Arizona State.
• Despite having a squad made up largely of underclassmen (14 out of 19 gymnasts are freshmen or sophomores), through four meets the production has been equally shared between upper and lower classmen: the seniors (21 routines) and juniors (46 routines) have combined to perform 67 of OSU's 144 routines (46.5%). The underclassmen have contributed 77 out of 144 routines (53.5%) - sophomores 52 of 144 (36.1%); freshmen 25 of 144 (17.4%).
• Six out of OSU's 11 opponents on the 2018 schedule are currently ranked in the Top 36; No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Utah, No. 10 Washington, No. 17 Arizona State, No. 18 BYU and No. 22 Stanford.
• Fifteen of the Beavers' 19 gymnasts earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher during fall term ... as a team, the Beavers earned a 3.4778 GPA in the fall.

SEEKING PERFECTION
OSU has nine gymnasts that have 'hit' all of their routines in 2018 including: Sabrina Gill (22-22), Mary Jacobsen (18-18), Dani Dessaints (11-11), Shireen Khamedoost (10-10), Isis Lowery (8-8), Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (6-6), Maela Lazaro (4-4), Lena Greene (2-2) and Niya Mack (2-2).

LOADING UP FOR 2019
In November, three gymnasts signed the National Letters of Intent to join the Oregon State gymnastics program for the 2018-19 academic year. Leah Bivrell (Louisville, Colo.), Jade Carey (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Madi Dagen (Pleasanton, Calif.) are scheduled to enroll at Oregon State this coming summer ... Carey earned a pair of silver medals for Team USA at the 2017 World Championships ... Dagen's sister, Lacy, transferred from Florida to Oregon State during the offseason.

THE ROSTER
Here are some quick hitters about the Oregon State gymnastics roster in 2018:
• There are only two seniors on the squad (Dani Dessaints and Shireen Khamedoost) who had combined to perform 74 career routines entering the season
• There are six newcomers to the team this year (Savanna Force, Lexie Gonzales, Niya Mack, Colette Yamaoka and Kaitlyn Yanish are freshmen, and Lacy Dagen transferred to OSU in the offseason) ... of the newcomers, Force and Yanish have been in the competition lineup in the Beavers' first four meets and Mack joined the fray against Stanford. Yamaoka has exhibitioned three times and Dagen once.
• Less than half of the roster competed in a meet for Oregon State last season (nine out of 19). Halli Briscoe, Lena Greene, Jaime Law, Maela Lazaro, and Alyssa Minyard all entered the season seeking their first competition routines in addition to the five freshmen ... Minyard has performed in the bars and beam lineups in five meets. Lazaro entered the beam lineup against Stanford and Greene joined the vault lineup at Washington and Briscoe exhibitioned several times in 2017.
• Two of OSU's gymnasts hail from the Beaver State - Lena Greene (Tigard) and Jaime Law (Corvallis).
• Three OSU gymnasts are from outside of the United States - Mariana Colussi-Pelaez and Sabrina Gill are all from Canada, while Isis Lowery is from Australia.
• The Beavers returned just nine out of 24 routines from the 2017 NCAA Championships lineup.

WHICH WAY DO WE GO?
The Beavers, like every other team in the country, are seeking to qualify to the NCAA Championships and the Super Six. But to reach that goal teams must get through NCAA Regionals. In 2017, regionals will be held at Alabama, Minnesota, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Penn State and Utah. The top two finishers at each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo.