Regional Gymnastics Competition Field Announced
March 20, 2000
CORVALLIS, Ore. - No. 2 UCLA and No. 11 Oklahoma are among the five teams that will join 21st-ranked Oregon State at the NCAA Region 1 Women's Gymnastics Championships next month.
No. 15 Stanford, No. 19 Washington and Boise State round out the six-team field for the competition, which is set for 6 p.m., Saturday, April 1 in Gill Coliseum.
Two Top 12 teams are sent to each of the six regional sites, and the remaining four spots are filled with teams from within that region.
The top two teams at each regional site will advance to the NCAA Championships, set for April 13-15 at Boise State.
Oregon State will start the regional meet on vault, followed by a bye before bars. The Beavers then move to beam and will have another bye before finishing the meet on floor. The rotation order was selected by a random draw.
In addition, there will be five all-arounders and four event specialists whose teams did not qualify for the competition. Three California gymnasts - Leila Khoury, Pari Olver and Carrie Kreifels - will join Cal State Fullerton's Kelly Mathiasen and Joanna Hughes as the individual all-arounders.
CSF also has three of the four event specialists - Katie Antolin on bars, Natalie Acosta on floor and Kellie Francia on vault. Sacramento State's Wendy Baisdon is the event specialist on beam.
Tickets for the meet can be purchased by calling the Oregon State ticket office at 1-800-GO-BEAVS. Reserved seats are 15 dollars, while general admission tickets are available for eight dollars.
NCAA REGION 1 MEET ROTATION ORDER
Vault Bye Bars Beam Bye Floor Rot. 1 OSU Stan. Wash. Okla. UCLA BSU Rot. 2 BSU OSU Stan. Wash. Okla. UCLA Rot. 3 UCLA BSU OSU Stan. Wash. Okla. Rot. 4 Okla. UCLA BSU OSU Stan. Wash. Rot. 5 Wash. Okla. UCLA BSU OSU Stan. Rot. 6 Stan. Wash. Okla. UCLA BSU OSU
Individual All-Arounders
Leila Khoury, California (Will compete with UCLA) Pari Olver, California (Will compete with Oklahoma) Kelly Mathiasen, CS-Fullerton (Will compete with Stanford) Joanna Hughes, CS-Fullerton (Will compete with Washington) Carrie Kreifels, California (Will compete with Oregon State)
Event Specialists (All gymnasts will compete with Boise State)
Vault - Kellie Francia, CS-Fullerton Bars - Katie Antolin, CS-Fullerton Beam - Wendy Baisdon, Sacramento State Floor - Natalia Acosta, CS-Fullerton
