No. 13 Gymnasts Will Compete In NCAA West Regional At UCLA
March 26, 2001
The No. 13 Oregon State gymnastics team is among the six teams in the field at the NCAA West Regional Women's Gymnastics Championship at UCLA, the NCAA announced Monday.
Joining the Beavers for the Saturday, April 7 competition will be defending national champions and current No. 1 UCLA, No. 11 BYU, California, Boise State and Cal State Fullerton. The meet is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion.
In addition, five at-large individual all-around competitors and four at-large individual event specialists will compete. The all-around qualifiers are Dani Albright, Shirla Choy and Kimmy Cianci of San Jose State and Flora Bare and Ericka Ruelas of UC Davis. Event specialists are Alison Siegel of Seattle Pacific (vault), Toni Peterson of Sacramento State (uneven bars), Cassie Althauser of Seattle Pacific (balance beam) and Jami Scoville of Sacramento State (floor exercise).
The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors not from an advancing team from the regional will receive a berth in the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Athens, Ga., April 19-21. In addition, individual event winners not from a qualifying team or all-arounder will advance if their score is 9.8 or higher.
The Beavers will begin the competition with a bye before bars and will finish on vault. Reserved seat tickets for the regional championships are $9 for adults and $7 for youth (16 and under). General admission tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for youth.
A limited number of reserved tickets are available through the OSU ticket office (1-800-GO-BEAVS). Reserved seats and general admission tickets can be purchased at UCLA's Central Ticket Office, (310) UCLA-WIN, and general admission tickets can also be purchased online at www.tickets.ucla.edu.
Rotation Order Rot. Vault Bye Bars Beam Bye Floor I Cal OSU BYU CSUF BSU UCLA II UCLA Cal OSU BYU CSUF BSU III BSU UCLA Cal OSU BYU CSUF IV CSUF BSU UCLA Cal OSU BYU V BYU CSUF BSU UCLA Cal OSU VI OSU BYU CSUF BSU UCLA Cal
Regional Fields: West Region (at UCLA): UCLA, BYU, Oregon State, California, Boise State, Cal State Fullerton.
Southeast Region (at Florida): Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, George Washington, North Carolina State
South Central Region (at Nebraska): Nebraska, Penn State, Washington, Oklahoma, Arizona, Illinois State
Central Region (at Alabama): Alabama, Arizona State, Minnesota, Kent State, Ohio State, Kentucky
North Central Region (at Utah): Utah, Iowa State, West Virginia, Denver, Utah State, Air Force
Northeast Region (at Michigan): Stanford, Michigan, Louisiana State, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
