Beavers Set to Host BYU Monday Night

Photo by: Dave Nishitani/Oregon State Athletics

March 01, 2018 | Women's Gymnastics

Tickets Live Stats Pac-12 Network Meet Notes

By: Athletic Communications

THE MEET
Oregon State returns to Gill Coliseum, Monday, March 5, to host BYU for Family Night presented by Paventy & Brown Orthodontics. The meet is slated for a 7 p.m. start.

TICKETS AND PROMOTIONS
• Single meet tickets can be purchased by visiting BeaverTickets.com or by calling 1-800-GO-BEAVS.
• On Family Night presented by Paventy & Brown Orthodontics, fans can purchase four tickets for $20 at BeaverTickets.com.
• Jr. Beavs members receive a free general admission ticket to the meet.
• The team will host a short dance party on the competition floor with children in the crowd following the meet.
• The entire squad will sign autographs following the meet in the lobby of Gill Coliseum.

TV/LIVE VIDEO
• The meet is slated to air live on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Oregon. Jim Watson will be on the call with Amanda Borden 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 AT UCLA
The Beavers, who have increased their scores away from home each time they go on the road this year, continued the trend with a season-high road score of 196.525 in a loss at UCLA on Sunday afternoon.
• The Beavers remain ranked No. 8 in the nation for the second straight week - although rankings will be released again on Monday, March 5 prior to OSU competing.
• OSU registered scores of 49.000 or better on all four events for the fifth time this season against the Bruins.

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' 161 out of 168 (95.8%) routines in 2018 ... in comparison, the Beavers 'hit' 300 out of 312 (96.2%) routines last year.
• The Beavers have hit 24-for-24 only once this season. It was their fourth meet of the season, at home against Arizona State.
• Through seven meets, OSU's youthful squad, which includes 13 out of 19 underclassmen, the production breakdown looks like this: Sophomores have performed 63 of 168 routines in 2018 (37.5%), juniors have produced 54 of 168 (32.1%), freshmen 29 of 168 (17.3%) and seniors 22 of 168 (13.1%).
• Of particular note is that OSU sophomores only performed 40 routines (out of 312) for the Beavers as freshmen last year.
• Seven out of OSU's 11 opponents on the 2018 schedule are currently ranked in the Top 36; No. 2 UCLA, No. 4 Utah, No. 11 Washington, No. 13 Arizona State, No. 24 BYU, No. 26 Stanford and No. 36 Arizona.
• 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 (26-26), Mary Jacobsen (21-21), Dani Dessaints (11-11), Shireen Khamedoost (11-11), Isis Lowery (9-9), Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (7-7), Maela Lazaro (5-5), Lena Greene (3-3) 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 every meet so far this season and Mack has performed in the floor lineup twice. Yamaoka has been a bars exhibition five times and Dagen has exhibitioned on beam twice.
• 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 six meets. Lazaro entered the beam lineup against Stanford and Greene joined the vault lineup at Washington and Briscoe made her first bars exhibition performance of the season at UCLA and also 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.