Season Wrap-Up

SEASON WRAP-UP
Oregon State (12-12) finished the 2018 season after finishing sixth at the NCAA Raleigh Regional Championships. The Beavers, who hadn't counted a fall all year, counted two falls on the balance beam in the final rotation in Raleigh dropping from third to sixth place.

RETURNING FOR 2019
The Beavers are slated to return 15 letterwinners in 2019 including 22 out of 24 routines that were performed at the Raleigh regional.
• OSU had two gymnasts perform as all-arounders at various times in 2018 and both, Sabrina Gill and McKenna Singley, will return.
• In addition, to 13 contributors returning next season, two - Lacy Dagen and Colette Yamaoka - performed a total of 11 exhibitions for the Beavers as well and will be back on the squad as well.
• Freshman Kaitlyn Yanish earned Pac-12 second team honors on the floor exercise and was named an NACGC/W Regular Season All-American on floor in her first season at OSU.
• There were several notable improvements by previously unsung gymnasts in 2018 ... Destinee Davis contributed one routine as a freshman in 2017 worked her way into three lineups by season's end converting 21 out of 22 routines as a sophomore ... Alyssa Minyard, who didn't perform a single exhibition as a freshman in 2017, was a regular in the bars and beam lineups this season hitting 18-19 routines ... Maela Lazaro, who earned one exhibition at the end of the '17 season, jumped into the beam lineup in the season's third meet with a 9.90 and became a fixture in the lineup ... Lena Greene, who missed 2017 due to injury returned to make her debut at Washington with a 9.90 on the vault and became a mainstay in the back end of the vault lineup the rest of the way this year ... Halli Briscoe returned from her own injury late in the 2018 season to make her college debut on the bars where she too became a key to the lineup.

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
• The Beavers wrapped up the regular season ranked at No. 27. See page 3 for complete rankings.
• All four of OSU's lineups are ranked among the top 25 in the nation. The floor lineup was the highest ranked for the Beavers at No. 7 (49.380 regional qualifying score), vault was 18th (49.135), beam was also ranked 18th (49.165) and bars finished at No. 21 (49.200).
• Entering 2019, OSU's roster includes one returning All-Americans ... Kaitlyn Yanish was named as a Regular Season All-American second teamer on the floor.
• Dani Dessaints was named as one of 10 finalists for the AAI Award, annually given to the top senior gymnast in the nation.
• Oregon State was a model of consistency in 2018 heading into regionals. While the Beavers' RQS had them ranked at No. 14, they posted the eighth-highest average score in the nation. The teams ranked ahead of OSU would have been the same teams ranked 1-7 (in the same order) by RQS.
• Oregon State 'hit' 274 out of 288 (95.1%) routines in 2018 ... in comparison, the Beavers 'hit' 300 out of 312 (96.2%) routines last year.
• Entering the regionals, the Beavers had not counted a fall in 2018 ... they counted two falls in 2017 - both in a road meet at Seattle Pacific.
• The Beavers hit 24-for-24 three times in 2018. The first came in their fourth meet of the season, at home against Arizona State; while the others came late in the regular season - at Sacramento State and at Pac-12 Championships.
• OSU's youthful squad, which included 13 out of 19 underclassmen, the production breakdown looked like this: Sophomores performed 116 of 288 routines in 2018 (40.3%), juniors produced 95 of 288 (33.0%), freshmen 46 of 288 (16.0%) and seniors 31 of 288 (10.7%).
• The Beavers received strong contributions from a quartet of of walk-ons in 2018. Alyssa Minyard was a regular in the bars and beam lineups, Maela Lazaro was a consistent bright spot in the beam lineup, Lena Greene was a key component in the back half of the vault lineup and Niya Mack filled in several times on the floor. As a group, the foursome hit 38 out of41 routines.
• The Beavers returned just nine out of 24 routines from the 2017 NCAA Championships lineup ... In 2018, OSU received significant contributions from a group of five sophomores - Halli Briscoe, Destinee Davis, Lena Greene, Maela Lazaro and Alyssa Minyard - who combined to hit 61 of 64 routines after combining to provide only one routine as freshmen in 2017. The group combined for 14 event titles in 2018.
• Oregon State went an undefeated 5-0 at Gill Coliseum in 2018 including four wins over Top 25 teams - No. 23 Stanford, No. 12 Arizona State, No. 24 Arizona and No. 21 BYU.
• OSU had five gymnasts that 'hit' all of their routines in 2018 including: Shireen Khamedoost (17-17), Dani Dessaints (14-14), Isis Lowery (14-14), Lena Greene (8-8) and Halli Briscoe (5-5).

AWARDS SEASON
Here is a list of awards the Beavers have earned this postseason:
• AAI Award finalist - Dani Dessaints
• NACGC/W Regular Season All-Americans - Kaitlyn Yanish (second team, FX)
• Pac-12 All-Academic First Team - Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Shireen Khamedoost
Second Team - Dani Dessaints, Lena Greene, McKenna Singley
Honorable Mention - Halli Briscoe, Mary Jacobsen, Maela Lazaro, Isis Lowery, Alyssa Minyard

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 and the OSU coaching staff struck again in April with an additional athlete for this fall. Leah Bivrell (Louisville, Colo.), Jade Carey (Phoenix, Ariz.) Madi Dagen (Pleasanton, Calif.) and now Kristina Peterson (Tukwila, Wash.) 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.

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