Photo by: Karl Maasdam/Oregon State Athletics
No. 17 Beavers Ready to Battle No. 8 Bruins
January 24, 2017 | Women's Gymnastics
THE MEET
The No. 17 Oregon State (4-0) gymnastics team hosts No. 8 UCLA in a dual at Gill Coliseum this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The meet will air live on Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Los Angeles with Daron Sutton on the call and Samantha Peszek with the analysis.
LIVE STATS: There will be live stats at this link.
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SOCIAL MEDIA: Live updates will be available on Twitter.
FAMILY DAY
The first 250 fans through the Gill Coliseum doors will receive a custom gymnastics family window cling. In addition, in the Gill Coliseum lobby fans are encouraged to take family photos in front of a Beaver backdrop. Children are invited to join the gymnasts on the floor following the meet for a short dance party while results are made official and the OSU gymnasts will sign autographs in the lobby at the conclusion of the meet.
QUICKLY
Saturday, Oregon State will seek to move to 5-0 to begin the season for the first time since 2012 when the Beavers opened the year 6-0 ... The Beavers are ranked 17th in the nation this week ... All four events are ranked among the top teams in the country: vault is tied for 11th (49.075 average); uneven bars is 26th (48.717); balance beam is 19th (48.875); and floor exercise is ranked 15th (49.000) ... Tanya Chaplin is in her 20th season as the Beavers' head coach and won the 300th regular season win of her career earlier this month at Seattle Pacific ... Two freshmen, Sabrina Gill and Isis Lowery, made their collegiate debuts in the season-opener ... Fellow freshmen, Halli Briscoe and Destinee Davis have also performed in exhibition ... With two straight on the road in the rearview mirror, the Beavers are now in the midst of a two-week homestand having faced NIU and SPU last week and meeting UCLA this week in Corvallis ... Seven out of OSU's 10 opponents on the 2017 schedule were ranked in the preseason Top 36 ... Erika Aufiero, who missed the entire 2016 campaign, and Dani Dessaints, who suffered a season-ending injury prior to the season's second meet, made their return to competition last week with both hitting two routines, Aufiero on vault and uneven bars, Dessaints on vault anf balance beam ... Eighteen of Oregon State's 20 gymnasts earned 3.0 or higher GPA's during fall term.
VS. UCLA
Oregon State and UCLA meet in the regular season for the 73rd time on Saturday with the Bruins holding the series advantage at 51-20-1. However, the Beavers are 13-18-1 overall inside Gill Coliseum and are 3-3-1 in the last seven meetings in Corvallis.
UCLA enters this week's meet with a record of 1-1 after defeating Arkansas in the season-opener at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins increased their score in a road loss at Oklahoma in the season's second meet before taking a bye week. UCLA is led by a pair of freshman Olympians. Madison Kocian (Rio 2016) and Kyla Ross (London 2012) became the first to Olympic gold medalists to ever compete in an NCAA women's gymnastics meet.
LAST WEEK VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS & SEATTLE PACIFIC
The Beavers entered last week's meet with a 2-0 record, but were coming off a disappointing performance in Seattle where they scored just 194.525 and counted a pair of falls. OSU rebounded from that effort on Saturday going 24-for-24 and scoring 196.900 en route to a first place finish in the tri-meet. Kaytianna McMillan won her third straight all-around competition with a career-best 39.575 and snatched at least a share of event titles on vault (9.900), bars (9.900) and floor (9.925). Dani Dessaints scored 9.900 on the beam win her second straight beam title and Erika Aufiero added a 9.900 on the bars to grab a share of that event win. The meet marked the first time this season the Beavers have hit the 49-point plateau on all four events and the score of 196.900 is the highest score through three meets in OSU history. Madeline Gardiner participated in the all-around for the first time in 2017 scoring 39.325.
WHICH WAY DO WE GO?
The Beavers, like every other team in the country, are seeking to qualify to the NCAA Championships and the Super Six. But to reach that goal teams must get through NCAA Regionals. In 2017, regionals will be held at Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Nebraska, Washington and West Virginia. The top two finishers at each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo.
CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
In the preseason coaches poll, the Pac-12 Conference had seven of its eight teams ranked in the Top 36, which is the number of teams that qualify to NCAA Regionals. Currently, Utah is ranked No. 4, followed by No. 8 UCLA, No. 15 California, Oregon State at No. 17 and Washington is No. 19.
THREE MORE FOR 2018
In November, two gymnasts signed the National Letters of Intent to join the Oregon State gymnastics program for the 2017-18 academic year. Savanna Force (Reno, Nev.) and Kaitlyn Yanish (Chandler, Ariz.) are scheduled to enroll at Oregon State this coming summer. In addition, Alexis Gonzales (Newport Beach, Calif.) signed an intent to enroll and will also join the OSU gymnastics program in July.
The No. 17 Oregon State (4-0) gymnastics team hosts No. 8 UCLA in a dual at Gill Coliseum this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The meet will air live on Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Los Angeles with Daron Sutton on the call and Samantha Peszek with the analysis.
LIVE STATS: There will be live stats at this link.
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SOCIAL MEDIA: Live updates will be available on Twitter.
FAMILY DAY
The first 250 fans through the Gill Coliseum doors will receive a custom gymnastics family window cling. In addition, in the Gill Coliseum lobby fans are encouraged to take family photos in front of a Beaver backdrop. Children are invited to join the gymnasts on the floor following the meet for a short dance party while results are made official and the OSU gymnasts will sign autographs in the lobby at the conclusion of the meet.
QUICKLY
Saturday, Oregon State will seek to move to 5-0 to begin the season for the first time since 2012 when the Beavers opened the year 6-0 ... The Beavers are ranked 17th in the nation this week ... All four events are ranked among the top teams in the country: vault is tied for 11th (49.075 average); uneven bars is 26th (48.717); balance beam is 19th (48.875); and floor exercise is ranked 15th (49.000) ... Tanya Chaplin is in her 20th season as the Beavers' head coach and won the 300th regular season win of her career earlier this month at Seattle Pacific ... Two freshmen, Sabrina Gill and Isis Lowery, made their collegiate debuts in the season-opener ... Fellow freshmen, Halli Briscoe and Destinee Davis have also performed in exhibition ... With two straight on the road in the rearview mirror, the Beavers are now in the midst of a two-week homestand having faced NIU and SPU last week and meeting UCLA this week in Corvallis ... Seven out of OSU's 10 opponents on the 2017 schedule were ranked in the preseason Top 36 ... Erika Aufiero, who missed the entire 2016 campaign, and Dani Dessaints, who suffered a season-ending injury prior to the season's second meet, made their return to competition last week with both hitting two routines, Aufiero on vault and uneven bars, Dessaints on vault anf balance beam ... Eighteen of Oregon State's 20 gymnasts earned 3.0 or higher GPA's during fall term.
VS. UCLA
Oregon State and UCLA meet in the regular season for the 73rd time on Saturday with the Bruins holding the series advantage at 51-20-1. However, the Beavers are 13-18-1 overall inside Gill Coliseum and are 3-3-1 in the last seven meetings in Corvallis.
UCLA enters this week's meet with a record of 1-1 after defeating Arkansas in the season-opener at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins increased their score in a road loss at Oklahoma in the season's second meet before taking a bye week. UCLA is led by a pair of freshman Olympians. Madison Kocian (Rio 2016) and Kyla Ross (London 2012) became the first to Olympic gold medalists to ever compete in an NCAA women's gymnastics meet.
LAST WEEK VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS & SEATTLE PACIFIC
The Beavers entered last week's meet with a 2-0 record, but were coming off a disappointing performance in Seattle where they scored just 194.525 and counted a pair of falls. OSU rebounded from that effort on Saturday going 24-for-24 and scoring 196.900 en route to a first place finish in the tri-meet. Kaytianna McMillan won her third straight all-around competition with a career-best 39.575 and snatched at least a share of event titles on vault (9.900), bars (9.900) and floor (9.925). Dani Dessaints scored 9.900 on the beam win her second straight beam title and Erika Aufiero added a 9.900 on the bars to grab a share of that event win. The meet marked the first time this season the Beavers have hit the 49-point plateau on all four events and the score of 196.900 is the highest score through three meets in OSU history. Madeline Gardiner participated in the all-around for the first time in 2017 scoring 39.325.
WHICH WAY DO WE GO?
The Beavers, like every other team in the country, are seeking to qualify to the NCAA Championships and the Super Six. But to reach that goal teams must get through NCAA Regionals. In 2017, regionals will be held at Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Nebraska, Washington and West Virginia. The top two finishers at each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo.
CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
In the preseason coaches poll, the Pac-12 Conference had seven of its eight teams ranked in the Top 36, which is the number of teams that qualify to NCAA Regionals. Currently, Utah is ranked No. 4, followed by No. 8 UCLA, No. 15 California, Oregon State at No. 17 and Washington is No. 19.
THREE MORE FOR 2018
In November, two gymnasts signed the National Letters of Intent to join the Oregon State gymnastics program for the 2017-18 academic year. Savanna Force (Reno, Nev.) and Kaitlyn Yanish (Chandler, Ariz.) are scheduled to enroll at Oregon State this coming summer. In addition, Alexis Gonzales (Newport Beach, Calif.) signed an intent to enroll and will also join the OSU gymnastics program in July.
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