Beavers in Evening Session, Begin on Bye
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Oregon State, ranked 12th in the nation, will compete in the evening session of the 2015 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships semifinals the NCAA announced Monday. The championships, hosted by Texas Women’s University and Knight Eady Sports Group, will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena, April 17-19.
Joining the Beavers in the evening session of team preliminary competition is LSU, Auburn, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Alabama. Boise State’s Kelsey Morris, who qualified as an individual all-around competitor at the Berkeley Regional, will rotate with OSU. In addition, Ana Jaworski from Southern Utah, and qualified on the balance beam from the Norman Regional, will compete in the Beavers’ beam rotation.
For the second meet in a row, Oregon State will begin the meet on the bye before the uneven bars. OSU will then rotate to the bars, beam, bye, floor exercise and will finish the meet on the vault.
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 advance to the national championships.
In addition, the event winners at each regional also advanced to the championships (in their specific event) if they were not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers.
The top two teams from the three regionals on the left side of the bracket will compete in one of the semifinals, and the top two teams from the three regionals on the right side of the bracket will compete in the other semifinal.
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 paced in semifinal one or two.
Team and individual qualifiers for the 2015 women’s gymnastics championships are as follows:
TEAM COMPETITION:
Team Regional Regional Score
Oklahoma Norman 197.625
Alabama Auburn 197.525
UCLA Columbus 197.500
Florida Morgantown 197.475
LSU Ames 197.175
Georgia Berkeley 197.025
Michigan Columbus 197.000
Stanford Morgantown 197.000
Nebraska Ames 196.950
Auburn Auburn 196.900
Oregon State Norman 196.750
Utah Berkeley 196.575
All-Around Individual Qualifiers:
Qualifiers Regional Regional Score
Lindsay Mable, Minnesota Auburn 39.575
Giana O’Connor, Illinois Morgantown 39.475
Nina McGee, Denver Ames 39.425
Mary Jane Horth, Illinois Morgantown 39.350
Caitlin Brown, Iowa State Ames 39.350
Toni Ann Williams, California Berkeley 39.275
Kelsey Morris, Boise State Berkeley 39.275
Taylor Harrison, Ohio State Columbus 39.250
Brittni Watkins, NC State Norman 39.250
Michaela Woodford, NC State Norman 39.225
Cami Drouin-Allaire, GW Auburn 39.175
Sydney Waltz, Kentucky Columbus 39.125
Individual Event Qualifiers:
Vault Regional Regional Score
No qualifier
Bars Regional Regional Score
Sunny Kato, Illinois Morgantown 9.950
Jamie Armijo, Southern Utah Norman 9.900
Beam Regional Regional Score
Ana Jaworski, Southern Utah Norman 9.900
Floor Regional Regional Score
No qualifier
In the 2014 championships, the defending champion Florida and first-time winner Oklahoma became the first co-champions in NCAA women’s gymnastics with an overall score of 198.175, the highest total for a champion in history. Kim Jacob of Alabama (39.625) captured the all-around title. Arkansas’s Katherine Grable and Florida’s Alaina Johnson tied for second place (39.600). Claiming the individual event titles were Florida’s Bridget Sloan (bars), Oklahoma’s Taylor Spears (beam), Grable and LSU’s Rheagan Courville (vault-tie) and Grable (floor).
Team semifinal and all-around competition will be conducted in two sessions Friday, April 17 at 1 and 7 p.m. The top three teams from each semifinal will advance to the Super Six competition on Saturday, April 18 at 6 p.m. The top four individuals in each event (plus ties) from Friday’s semifinals will compete in the individual event competition Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. All times are local.
