Tang, Gardiner Earn All-Pac-12 Accolades
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Chelsea Tang and Madeline Gardiner were named to the Pac-12 All-Conference team when the honors were announced Wednesday by Commissioner Larry Scott. Tang earned first team honors and Gardiner was named to the second team.
The All-Pac-12 team is determined by a combination of 50 percent regional qualifying score (entire season composite) and 50 percent Conference Championships score. The All-Conference first team consists of the top six all-around competitors, plus the top three competitors in each individual event not among the all-around honorees. The Pac-12 second team is a ten member team that consists of the top two all-arounders who were not named to the first team (as all-arounders or in an event), after such the top gymnasts from each event who were not yet named to the first team or the second team would be selected to the second team.
Tang, a junior from Eugene, Ore., earned first team All-Pac-12 in the all-around. It is the second time she’s been named to the first team after earning honors on balance beam in 2013. Tang scored 39.325 to tie for fourth in the all-around at last week’s Pac-12 Championships.
Gardiner, a freshman from Cambridge, Ontario, is a second team all-conference selection on the beam. She scored 9.875 in the final rotation of the Pac-12 Championships last Saturday. Gardiner is one of three freshmen to earn all-conference honors.
The Beavers travel to the NCAA University Park Regional Championships hosted by Penn State next Saturday, April 5 at 1 p.m. PT.
