Beavers Draw Evening Session, Will Start on Bye
April 9, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -
Oregon State, the No. 9 seed, will compete in the evening session of the 2012 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships semifinals the NCAA announced Monday. The championships, hosted by the Gwinnett Center and Georgia Institute of Technology, will be held at the Arena Gwinnett Center, April 20-22.
Joining the Beavers in the evening session of the team preliminary competition is Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Ohio State. Washington’s Aliza Vaccher, who qualified as an individual all-around competitor at the Seattle Regional, will rotate with the Beavers. In addition, Joanna Sampson from Michigan, who qualified on the vault from the Auburn Regional will compete OSU’s vault rotation.
For the second meet in a row, Oregon State will begin the meet on the bye before the floor exercise. OSU will then rotate to the floor, vault, bye, uneven bars and will finish the meet on the balance beam.
The women’s gymnastics championships consist of 12 teams and 12 all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and individual event specialists. The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors from each of the six regionals have advanced to the national championships.
In addition, the event winners at each regional also advance to the national championships (in their specific event) if they were not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers.
The process for determining rotation pairings for day one of the team competition at the site of the finals is based on a National Qualifying Score (NQS) calculated by adding the Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) to the score achieved at regional competition.
Once the NQS is calculated, teams are ranked based on the NQS from 1 to 12. Teams 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 12 were placed in Group A; and teams 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11 placed in Group B. The host team and its corresponding group will compete in the second semifinal. If there is not a host institution competing, a random draw will be used to determine which group is placed in semifinal one or two.
Team and individual qualifiers for the 2012 women’s gymnastics championships are as follows:
TEAM COMPETITION:
Team Regional Regional Score National Qualifying Score
Florida Raleigh 197.325 394.770
UCLA Fayetteville 197.225 394.495
Oklahoma Champaign 197.025 394.385
Alabama Seattle 197.025 394.270
Georgia Auburn 197.100 394.095
Nebraska Salt Lake City 196.525 393.555
Utah Salt Lake City 196.825 393.530
Arkansas Fayetteville 196.825 393.370
Oregon State Auburn 196.450 393.210
Stanford Champaign 196.675 393.085
LSU Seattle 196.075 392.645
Ohio State Raleigh 196.225 392.470
ALL-AROUND INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS:
Qualifiers Regional Regional Score
Amy Glass, Boise State Fayetteville 39.450
Alina Weinstein, Illinois Champaign 39.450
Sharaya Musser, Penn State Raleigh 39.450
Katie Zurales, Michigan Auburn 39.375
Bri Guy, Auburn Auburn 39.350
Rachel Updike, Missouri Fayetteville 39.350
Morgan Evans, North Carolina Raleigh 39.275
Aubree Cristello, Arizona Seattle 39.250
Aliza Vaccher, Washington Norman 39.225
Moriah Martin, Denver Champaign 39.200
Dusti Russell, Minnesota Salt Lake 39.125
Kayla Slechta, Minnesota Salt Lake 39.025
INDIVIDUAL EVENT QUALIFIERS:
Floor: Regional Regional Score
Kylie Shields, Auburn Auburn 9.925
Joanna Sampson, Michigan Auburn 9.925
Bars: Regional Regional Score
Rachel Fincham, NC State Raleigh 9.900
Beam: Regional Regional Score
Taylor Westrick, SE Missouri St. Champaign 9.900
Katie Matusik, Arizona Seattle 9.900
In the 2011 championships, Alabama won its fifth championship title with an overall score of 197.650. UCLA finished second with a score of 197.375, followed by Oklahoma in third (197.250), Nebraska in fourth (196.725), Utah in fifth (196.500) and Michigan in sixth (196.425).
Team semifinal and all-around competition will be conducted in two sessions Friday, April 20 at noon and 6 p.m. ET. The top three teams from each semifinal will advance to the Super Six competition Saturday, April 21 at 4 p.m. The top four individuals from each session in each event (plus ties) from the preliminary team and all-around competition will compete in the individual-event competition Sunday, April 22 at 1 p.m.
