Beavers Headed North for Showdown with Huskies

Saturday, February 10

Seattle, Wash.

1:30 PM

Oregon State

Washington

Photo by: Bonnie Vick/Oregon State Athletics

February 06, 2018 | Women's Gymnastics

Pac-12 Network Live Stats Oregon State Meet Notes

By: Athletic Communications

THE MEET
• The Beavers travel to No. 16 Washington for a Pac-12 dual this Saturday. The meet is set for a 1:30 p.m. start.
• Oregon State moved up two more spots to No. 11 in this week's rankings according to RoadToNationals.
• OSU has a 3-1 overall record and is 2-1 in Pac-12 competition.
• The Huskies enter the week with a record of 4-5 and 1-1 in conference.

TV/LIVE VIDEO
• The meet is slated to air live on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Washington. Brian Webber will be on the call with Tim Daggett 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
• Eight 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 AGAINST ARIZONA STATE
Oregon State knocked off then-No. 12 Arizona State 196.725-195.050 on Saturday helping the Beavers to jump in the rankings two spots from No. 13 to No. 11.
• For the third straight week, all four of OSU's lineups eclipsed the 49-point mark: 49.150 on vault, 49.125 on bars, 49.050 on beam and 49.400 on floor ... vault was a season-bests.
• OSU gymnasts won or tied for meet-high scores on all four events - Destinee Davis (9.875 on vault), Alyssa Minyard (9.875 on bars), Dani Dessaints (9.900 on beam) and Isis Lowery (9.925 on floor) with Sabrina Gill winning the all-around with a career-best 39.375.
• Junior all-arounder McKenna Singley returned to the all-around, after being limited due to illness the previous week, scoring a career-best 39.275.

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' 92 out of 96 (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, last week 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 (15 routines) and juniors (30 routines) have combined to perform 45 of OSU's 96 routines (46.9%). The underclassmen have contributed 51 out of 96 routines (53.1%) - sophomores 35 of 96 (36.5%); freshmen 16 of 96 (16.7%).
• Eight out of OSU's 11 opponents on the 2018 schedule are currently ranked in the Top 36; No. 2 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 16 Washington, No. 17 Arizona State, No. 20 Stanford, No. 21 BYU, No. 25 Arizona and No. 29 California.
• 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 (16-16), McKenna Singley (14-14), Mary Jacobsen (12-12), Dani Dessaints (8-8), Shireen Khamedoost (7-7), Isis Lowery (5-5), Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (4-4), Maela Lazaro (2-2) and Niya Mack (1-1).

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 all four meets and Lazaro entered the beam lineup two weeks ago against Stanford. Greene has exhibitioned in all four meets and Briscoe exhibitioned several times in 2017.
• Two of OSU's gymnast 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.

CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
The Pac-12 Conference had all eight of its teams ranked in the Top 36, which is the number of teams that qualify to NCAA Regionals, in the preseason coaches poll. Utah was ranked No. 5, No. 6 UCLA, No. 11 California, Oregon State was 12th, Washington was 15th, Stanford 18th, Arizona 26th and Arizona State ranked 31st.