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Gymnasts Set for Orange & Black Exhibition Thursday
November 13, 2018 | Women's Gymnastics
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State gymnastics team will provide the first glimpse of the 2018-19 inside Gill Coliseum for the annual Orange and Black Exhibition this Thursday at 7 p.m. Admission is free and the team will sign autographs following the event.
"We are looking forward to performing in Gill Coliseum," head coach Tanya Chaplin said. "It is always a fun evening for the athletes to get their first opportunity to exhibition in front of fans in their home venue. We still have two months before our first competition in January but this is an important step in our process each year.
"We don't have many opportunities to compete in a large venue before the start of the season, so the opportunity to be in Gill gives us this important experience we cannot replicate at any other time."
The format, as in years past, will feature two squad – Team Orange and Team Black – with gymnasts competing head-to-head on each event. After each pairing, guest judges will determine the winner and points will be awarded accordingly. Three to four pairings are expected on each event.
The panel of guest judges at each event will include media members that regularly cover Oregon State Athletics, OSU coaches and administrators and Oregon State student-athletes. The exhibition will be emceed by Oregon State public address announcer Brian Brooks and will include interaction with the judges between exhibitions.
The gymnastics team officially opens its season Sunday, Jan. 13, when the Beavers travel to Illinois to face Kentucky, Lindenwood and the host Illini. OSU hosts its home opener the following Saturday, Jan. 19, when Utah visits Corvallis.
Oregon State, which will seek its 45th straight postseason berth in 2019, also hosts duals against UCLA on Saturday, Feb. 2 and California on Sunday, Feb. 17. OSU will welcome Bowling Green and Alaska-Anchorage for a tri-meet on Friday, March 1 and will conclude the regular season at home in a quad meet on Senior Night, Friday, March 15 against Iowa, North Carolina and Seattle Pacific. To view the entire 2019 schedule, click here.
OSU will also host the NCAA Corvallis Regional Championships April 4-6.
All-American Kaitlyn Yanish along with seniors Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Mary Jacobsen and McKenna Singley are expected to lead a team that includes 15 letterwinners and returns 22 out of 24 routines from last year's lineup. In addition, four freshmen – Leah Bivrell, Madi Dagen, Alex McClung and Kristina Peterson – joined the program in the fall and will compete their own spots in the lineup.
Season and single-meet tickets for the 2019 Oregon State gymnastics season are available for purchase via BeaverTickets.com/Gymnastics and 1-800-GO-BEAVS.
Oregon State gymnastics fans are encouraged to join the 10.0 Club, the program's donor club. Click here for more information or call Skylar Erhardt in Our Beaver Nation at 541-737-3361.
As a ticketed event, Oregon State gymnastics meets will now adhere to the Athletic Department's Clear Bag Policy, which was implemented in the spring as an additional security measure and to provide fans a more consistent and efficient entry process. For more information on the policy, click here. Season ticket holders will be provided one complimentary clear bag per account.
For more information on the Oregon State volleyball team, follow the club's official Twitter account at Twitter.com/BeaverGym, by Facebook at Facebook.com/BeaverGym or on Instagram at Instagram.com/BeaverGym.
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Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
"We are looking forward to performing in Gill Coliseum," head coach Tanya Chaplin said. "It is always a fun evening for the athletes to get their first opportunity to exhibition in front of fans in their home venue. We still have two months before our first competition in January but this is an important step in our process each year.
"We don't have many opportunities to compete in a large venue before the start of the season, so the opportunity to be in Gill gives us this important experience we cannot replicate at any other time."
The format, as in years past, will feature two squad – Team Orange and Team Black – with gymnasts competing head-to-head on each event. After each pairing, guest judges will determine the winner and points will be awarded accordingly. Three to four pairings are expected on each event.
The panel of guest judges at each event will include media members that regularly cover Oregon State Athletics, OSU coaches and administrators and Oregon State student-athletes. The exhibition will be emceed by Oregon State public address announcer Brian Brooks and will include interaction with the judges between exhibitions.
The gymnastics team officially opens its season Sunday, Jan. 13, when the Beavers travel to Illinois to face Kentucky, Lindenwood and the host Illini. OSU hosts its home opener the following Saturday, Jan. 19, when Utah visits Corvallis.
Oregon State, which will seek its 45th straight postseason berth in 2019, also hosts duals against UCLA on Saturday, Feb. 2 and California on Sunday, Feb. 17. OSU will welcome Bowling Green and Alaska-Anchorage for a tri-meet on Friday, March 1 and will conclude the regular season at home in a quad meet on Senior Night, Friday, March 15 against Iowa, North Carolina and Seattle Pacific. To view the entire 2019 schedule, click here.
OSU will also host the NCAA Corvallis Regional Championships April 4-6.
All-American Kaitlyn Yanish along with seniors Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Mary Jacobsen and McKenna Singley are expected to lead a team that includes 15 letterwinners and returns 22 out of 24 routines from last year's lineup. In addition, four freshmen – Leah Bivrell, Madi Dagen, Alex McClung and Kristina Peterson – joined the program in the fall and will compete their own spots in the lineup.
Season and single-meet tickets for the 2019 Oregon State gymnastics season are available for purchase via BeaverTickets.com/Gymnastics and 1-800-GO-BEAVS.
Oregon State gymnastics fans are encouraged to join the 10.0 Club, the program's donor club. Click here for more information or call Skylar Erhardt in Our Beaver Nation at 541-737-3361.
As a ticketed event, Oregon State gymnastics meets will now adhere to the Athletic Department's Clear Bag Policy, which was implemented in the spring as an additional security measure and to provide fans a more consistent and efficient entry process. For more information on the policy, click here. Season ticket holders will be provided one complimentary clear bag per account.
For more information on the Oregon State volleyball team, follow the club's official Twitter account at Twitter.com/BeaverGym, by Facebook at Facebook.com/BeaverGym or on Instagram at Instagram.com/BeaverGym.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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