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Beavers Ready for NCAA Championships
April 10, 2017 | Women's Gymnastics
THE MEET
The No. 8 Oregon State gymnastics team (19-4) has advanced to compete at NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo. ... The meet will be held at Chaifetz Arena ... Competition begins Friday with the semifinal rounds of team competition; Oregon State is in the afternoon session beginning at 12 p.m. CT. The top three finishers in each session advance to Super Six on Saturday at 8 p.m. CT ... The rest of the afternoon session includes No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 9 Denver and No. 13 Washington ... The evening session consists of No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Florida, No. 6 Alabama, No. 7 Michigan, No. 10 Georgia and No. 14 Nebraska ... This marks the 25th trip to the NCAA Championships for Oregon State and is the 28th national championships appearance (including AIAW) ... The Beavers' trip to St. Louis is the first appearance at NCAA Championships since 2015 and the ninth time in the last 12 years ... Oregon State is vying for its third-ever Super Six appearance and the first since 1996.
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MEDIA
The entirety of the 2017 NCAA Championships will be televised. Friday's semifinal Session I, in which the Beavers will compete, will air on ESPN2, while Session II and Super Six on Saturday will air on ESPNU. Bart Conner be on play-by-play with Kathy Johnson Clarke providing analysis and Laura Rutledge will report from the competition floor ... Live stats will be available at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=173377 ... Fans are also encouraged to follow the Beavers via Twitter - @BeaverGym.
FOLLOWING THE BEAVS
Fans can follow the Beavers through several social media options including Facebook (BeaverGym), Twitter (@BeaverGym), Instagram (@BeaverGym) and SnapChat (@OregonStateGym).
ROTATION ORDER
For the second time in the last three meets, Oregon State begins the meet on the floor exercise. OSU will follow Utah throughout the afternoon, while Oklahoma will follow the Beavers. This rotation means the Beavers will finish the meet on a bye along with Washington, while UCLA will finish on vault, Denver on uneven bars, Oklahoma on balance beam and Utah on the floor. See the table below for more details.
LAST YEAR AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
In 2016, two OSU gymnasts qualified to nationals with Madeline Gardiner as a individual qualifier in the all-around, and Risa Perez on the balance beam. Gardiner scored 39.200 in the all-around to finish ninth. Perez scored 9.8625 on the beam to tie for 13th.
LAST TIME ON THE COMPETITION FLOOR
The Beavers entered the NCAA Champaign Regional as the second-seeded team and advanced despite a tough meet. Illinois, which was seeded fourth and was the home team, performed well and were in second place for most of the meet. OSU and Illinois sat tied entering the final rotation when the Beavers produced a strong floor set to pull ahead. However, it was an unexpected push from third-seeded Iowa on the beam that put a scare in the Orange & Black. The Hawkeyes scored 49.600 in the final rotation coming up just one-tenth short of the Beavers. Kaytianna McMillan won the all-around (39.400) and delivered a meet-high tying 9.875 on the floor to send the team on to NCAA Championships. Dani Dessaints delivered a 9.925 on the vault in the opening rotation that held up throughout the afternoon to win the regional title.
OSU AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Here are some quick hitters about Oregon State's history at NCAA Championships:
• Oregon State has qualified as a team to NCAA Championships 25 times and has 28 total appearances in total (including AIAW).
• The Beavers are chasing their third-ever Super Six appearance and first since 1996.
• Five OSU gymnasts have combined to win seven individual national titles. The last OSU gymnast to win a national title was in 1993 when Amy Durham won the title on the floor exercise - Laurie Carter won on the beam in 1981; Mary Ayotte-Law, and mother of OSU freshman Jaime Law, won on floor in 1982; Heidi Anderson won on beam in 1984; and Joy Selig won on beam in 1989 and 1990 and on the floor in 1990.
RETURNING TO NATIONALS
Oregon State is back at NCAA Championships for the 25th time in program history. However, after missing out in 2016, the Beavers have eight gymnasts that have performed on the season's final night. This will be Madeline Gardiner's fourth time performing at nationals Kaytianna McMillan has been to nationals twice but only competed once due to injury and Silvia Colussi-Pelaez has been once with OSU and once with Florida (she not compete as a freshman on Florida). Erika Aufiero, Dani Dessaints, Megan Jimenez, Shireen Khamedoost and Taylor Ricci were also on the 2015 team that qualified to NCAA Championships.
RETURNING NCAA ALL-AMERICANS
Two NCAA All-Americans are on the Beavers' roster - Madeline Gardiner and Erika Aufiero. Gardiner tied for third on the balance beam in Individual Event Finals as a freshman in 2014 and followed that up in 2015 taking sole possession of third on the beam. In addition, Gardiner earned first team All-America in the all-around in 2014. Aufiero earned first team All-America honors on the bars as well in 2015.
QUICKLY
The Beavers concluded the regular season ranked No. 8 ... all four of OSU's lineups are ranked among the top 12 in the nation. The beam lineup is the highest ranked for the Beavers at No. 8 (49.305 regional qualifying score), while the bars (49.265) and floor (49.320) are ranked at No. 10, and the vault lineup is 12th (49.195) ... Kaytianna McMillan was named as the Pac-12 Gymnast of the year following Pac-12 Championships March 18 ... At Pac-12 Championships, Aufiero scored 9.950 on the bars to win the conference title for the first time in her career and Dessaints scored 9.950 to walk away as the Pac-12 co-champion on the vault ... Tanya Chaplin is in her 20th season as the Beavers' head coach and won the 300th regular season win of her career earlier this season at Seattle Pacific.
OREGON STATE NOTES
Here are some quick hitters about the Oregon State gymnastics team in 2017:
• OSU eclipsed the 197-point mark at Pac-12 Championships for the fourth meet in a row for the first time in program history. Previously, the Beavers had hit the 197-point mark in three straight meets twice, in 2004 and 2013. Â
• The Beavers have counted only two falls in 2017, one on bars and one on beam ... both came in a win at Seattle Pacific ... OSU counted just one missed routine in 2016.
• Oregon State has 'hit' 277 out of 288 (96.2%) routines in 2017 ... in comparison, the Beavers 'hit' 276 out of 290 (95.2%) routines last year.
• The Beavers have gone 24-for-24 five times in 2017. The team accomplished the feat the first time this season in the third meet of the season, against Northern Illinois & Seattle Pacific, and repeated that performance the very next week against UCLA. In 2016, it took until the season's seventh meet to 'hit' all 24 routines.
• Through 12 meets, OSU's senior-laden squad is doing some heavy lifting performing more than half of the team's routines - 165 of 288 (57.3%). The rest of the squad is contributing as follows: juniors 33 of 288 (11.5%); sophomores 50 of 288 (17.4%); freshmen 40 of 288 (13.9%).
• Eighteen of Oregon State's 20 gymnasts earned 3.0 or higher GPA's during fall and winter terms.
• In the spirit of the DAM Cancer earlier this season, OSU gymnasts Halli Briscoe, Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Jaime Law and McKenna Singley, along with OSU women's basketball star, Sydney Wiese, participated in a Haircuts for Cancer event. Colussi-Pelaez and Law were scheduled for the event, while Briscoe and Singley jumped in spur of the moment.
• Three of OSU's freshmen have made their collegiate debuts in 2017 - Destinee Davis, Sabrina Gill and Isis Lowery.
• 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 for the season-opener and each earned NACGC/W Regular Season All-America honors.
• Only half of the roster competed in a meet for Oregon State last season (Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Dani Dessaints, Madeline Gardiner, Mary Jacobsen, Megan Jimenez, Shireen Khamedoost, Kaytianna McMillan, Taylor Ricci and McKenna Singley).
• There are six seniors on the squad (Erika Aufiero, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Madeline Gardiner, Megan Jimenez, Kaytianna McMillan and Taylor Ricci) who combined to contribute 13 out of 24 routines at last year's regional meet.
• Four of the Beavers' are from the state of Oregon - Kaitlin Campbell (West Linn), Lena Greene (Tigard), Jaime Law (Corvallis) and Kaytianna McMillan (Coburg).
• Six OSU gymnasts are from outside of the United States - Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Madeline Gardiner, Sabrina Gill and Taylor Ricci are all from Canada, while Isis Lowery is from Australia.
REGULAR SEASON ALL-AMERICANS
Four OSU gymnasts were named as 2017 Regular Season All-Americans by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC/W).
Madeline Gardiner earned first team honors on the balance beam while Kaytianna McMillan received second team honors in the all-around and on floor exercise. Erika Aufiero (uneven bars) and Dani Dessaints (vault) each earned second team honors.
AAI AWARD FINALISTS
Seniors Madeline Gardiner and Kaytianna McMillan are finalists for the AAI Award. The award annually recognizes the most outstanding senior female gymnast in the nation and is determined by a vote of the sports' head coaches. The field has been reduced to seven finalists.
PAC-12 GYMNAST OF THE YEAR
In a vote of the conferences coaches, senior Kaytianna McMillan was chosen as the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, it was announced following the Pac-12 Championships meet. McMillan has enjoyed one of the greatest seasons in Oregon State history amassing 26 event titles in 2017, tying for fifth in program history in a single season. She garnered her first 10.0 in the final home meet of her career on the uneven bars. It was the first perfect routine by an OSU gymnast since 2008 and the first on the bars since Elizabeth Jillson in 2003. This season, McMillan has set or tied career-highs on bars (10.0), floor exercise (9.950) and in the all-around (39.650), the third-highest mark in OSU history.
PAC-12 SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
OSU senior Madeline Gardiner was selected as the Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Scholar Athlete of the Year last month. The award honors the top student-athlete both academically and in their sport. Gardiner, a five-time All-American, is an exercise and sport science major. She is a three-time Pac-12 All-Academic First Team member and a three-time scholastic All-American by the NACGC/W. Gardiner plans to finish her degree in 2018 and will apply to medical school in the fall.
ALL-PAC-12 TEAM
Five Oregon State gymnasts were part of the Pac-12's All-Conference teams when the awards were announced last month. Kaytianna McMillan was recognized in three categories as a first teamer in the all-around and on floor exercise as well as second team on the vault. In addition, Madeline Gardiner garnered first team honors on the balance beam and second team in the all-around. Erika Aufiero, who won the Pac-12 title on the uneven bars, and Dani Dessaints, who was a Pac-12 co-champion on the vault, each received first team honors on those events respectively. Mary Jacobsen completes OSU's honorees earning second team on the vault.
ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS
Oregon State placed 11 gymnasts on the Pac-12 All-Academic teams. With one of the requirements of the all-academic team being that the student-athlete must have a full year at their institution, it means that all 11 of OSU's non-freshmen met the grade-point standard and were honored. In all, 18 of 20 OSU gymnasts posted GPA's of 3.0 or better during the winter for the second term in a row. Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (biology), Silvia Colussi-Pelaez (chemical engineering AND environmental engineering), Madeline Gardiner (exercise and sport science), Shireen Khamedoost (exercise and sport science), Kaytianna McMillan (human devleopment and family sciences) and Taylor Ricci (exercise and sport science) were all named to the first team. Dani Dessaints (sociology) and McKenna Singley (sociology) each received second team honors while Erika Aufiero (finance AND accountancy), Mary Jacobsen (computer science) and Megan Jimenez (digitial communication arts) were honorable mention.
SEEKING PERFECTION
OSU has five gymnasts that have 'hit' all of their routines in 2017 include: Madeline Gardiner (44-44), Silvia Colussi-Pelaez (18-18), Taylor Ricci (15-15), Megan Jimenez (14-14) and Destinee Davis (1-1).
CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
In the preseason coaches poll, the Pac-12 Conference had seven of its eight teams ranked in the Top 36 and all seven qualified to NCAA Regionals. Four of those teams advanced to NCAA Championships and will meet meet in Session I of semifinals including No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 8 Oregon State and No. 13 Washington.
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. 8 Oregon State gymnastics team (19-4) has advanced to compete at NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo. ... The meet will be held at Chaifetz Arena ... Competition begins Friday with the semifinal rounds of team competition; Oregon State is in the afternoon session beginning at 12 p.m. CT. The top three finishers in each session advance to Super Six on Saturday at 8 p.m. CT ... The rest of the afternoon session includes No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 9 Denver and No. 13 Washington ... The evening session consists of No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Florida, No. 6 Alabama, No. 7 Michigan, No. 10 Georgia and No. 14 Nebraska ... This marks the 25th trip to the NCAA Championships for Oregon State and is the 28th national championships appearance (including AIAW) ... The Beavers' trip to St. Louis is the first appearance at NCAA Championships since 2015 and the ninth time in the last 12 years ... Oregon State is vying for its third-ever Super Six appearance and the first since 1996.
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MEDIA
The entirety of the 2017 NCAA Championships will be televised. Friday's semifinal Session I, in which the Beavers will compete, will air on ESPN2, while Session II and Super Six on Saturday will air on ESPNU. Bart Conner be on play-by-play with Kathy Johnson Clarke providing analysis and Laura Rutledge will report from the competition floor ... Live stats will be available at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=173377 ... Fans are also encouraged to follow the Beavers via Twitter - @BeaverGym.
FOLLOWING THE BEAVS
Fans can follow the Beavers through several social media options including Facebook (BeaverGym), Twitter (@BeaverGym), Instagram (@BeaverGym) and SnapChat (@OregonStateGym).
ROTATION ORDER
For the second time in the last three meets, Oregon State begins the meet on the floor exercise. OSU will follow Utah throughout the afternoon, while Oklahoma will follow the Beavers. This rotation means the Beavers will finish the meet on a bye along with Washington, while UCLA will finish on vault, Denver on uneven bars, Oklahoma on balance beam and Utah on the floor. See the table below for more details.
LAST YEAR AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
In 2016, two OSU gymnasts qualified to nationals with Madeline Gardiner as a individual qualifier in the all-around, and Risa Perez on the balance beam. Gardiner scored 39.200 in the all-around to finish ninth. Perez scored 9.8625 on the beam to tie for 13th.
LAST TIME ON THE COMPETITION FLOOR
The Beavers entered the NCAA Champaign Regional as the second-seeded team and advanced despite a tough meet. Illinois, which was seeded fourth and was the home team, performed well and were in second place for most of the meet. OSU and Illinois sat tied entering the final rotation when the Beavers produced a strong floor set to pull ahead. However, it was an unexpected push from third-seeded Iowa on the beam that put a scare in the Orange & Black. The Hawkeyes scored 49.600 in the final rotation coming up just one-tenth short of the Beavers. Kaytianna McMillan won the all-around (39.400) and delivered a meet-high tying 9.875 on the floor to send the team on to NCAA Championships. Dani Dessaints delivered a 9.925 on the vault in the opening rotation that held up throughout the afternoon to win the regional title.
OSU AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Here are some quick hitters about Oregon State's history at NCAA Championships:
• Oregon State has qualified as a team to NCAA Championships 25 times and has 28 total appearances in total (including AIAW).
• The Beavers are chasing their third-ever Super Six appearance and first since 1996.
• Five OSU gymnasts have combined to win seven individual national titles. The last OSU gymnast to win a national title was in 1993 when Amy Durham won the title on the floor exercise - Laurie Carter won on the beam in 1981; Mary Ayotte-Law, and mother of OSU freshman Jaime Law, won on floor in 1982; Heidi Anderson won on beam in 1984; and Joy Selig won on beam in 1989 and 1990 and on the floor in 1990.
RETURNING TO NATIONALS
Oregon State is back at NCAA Championships for the 25th time in program history. However, after missing out in 2016, the Beavers have eight gymnasts that have performed on the season's final night. This will be Madeline Gardiner's fourth time performing at nationals Kaytianna McMillan has been to nationals twice but only competed once due to injury and Silvia Colussi-Pelaez has been once with OSU and once with Florida (she not compete as a freshman on Florida). Erika Aufiero, Dani Dessaints, Megan Jimenez, Shireen Khamedoost and Taylor Ricci were also on the 2015 team that qualified to NCAA Championships.
RETURNING NCAA ALL-AMERICANS
Two NCAA All-Americans are on the Beavers' roster - Madeline Gardiner and Erika Aufiero. Gardiner tied for third on the balance beam in Individual Event Finals as a freshman in 2014 and followed that up in 2015 taking sole possession of third on the beam. In addition, Gardiner earned first team All-America in the all-around in 2014. Aufiero earned first team All-America honors on the bars as well in 2015.
QUICKLY
The Beavers concluded the regular season ranked No. 8 ... all four of OSU's lineups are ranked among the top 12 in the nation. The beam lineup is the highest ranked for the Beavers at No. 8 (49.305 regional qualifying score), while the bars (49.265) and floor (49.320) are ranked at No. 10, and the vault lineup is 12th (49.195) ... Kaytianna McMillan was named as the Pac-12 Gymnast of the year following Pac-12 Championships March 18 ... At Pac-12 Championships, Aufiero scored 9.950 on the bars to win the conference title for the first time in her career and Dessaints scored 9.950 to walk away as the Pac-12 co-champion on the vault ... Tanya Chaplin is in her 20th season as the Beavers' head coach and won the 300th regular season win of her career earlier this season at Seattle Pacific.
OREGON STATE NOTES
Here are some quick hitters about the Oregon State gymnastics team in 2017:
• OSU eclipsed the 197-point mark at Pac-12 Championships for the fourth meet in a row for the first time in program history. Previously, the Beavers had hit the 197-point mark in three straight meets twice, in 2004 and 2013. Â
• The Beavers have counted only two falls in 2017, one on bars and one on beam ... both came in a win at Seattle Pacific ... OSU counted just one missed routine in 2016.
• Oregon State has 'hit' 277 out of 288 (96.2%) routines in 2017 ... in comparison, the Beavers 'hit' 276 out of 290 (95.2%) routines last year.
• The Beavers have gone 24-for-24 five times in 2017. The team accomplished the feat the first time this season in the third meet of the season, against Northern Illinois & Seattle Pacific, and repeated that performance the very next week against UCLA. In 2016, it took until the season's seventh meet to 'hit' all 24 routines.
• Through 12 meets, OSU's senior-laden squad is doing some heavy lifting performing more than half of the team's routines - 165 of 288 (57.3%). The rest of the squad is contributing as follows: juniors 33 of 288 (11.5%); sophomores 50 of 288 (17.4%); freshmen 40 of 288 (13.9%).
• Eighteen of Oregon State's 20 gymnasts earned 3.0 or higher GPA's during fall and winter terms.
• In the spirit of the DAM Cancer earlier this season, OSU gymnasts Halli Briscoe, Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Jaime Law and McKenna Singley, along with OSU women's basketball star, Sydney Wiese, participated in a Haircuts for Cancer event. Colussi-Pelaez and Law were scheduled for the event, while Briscoe and Singley jumped in spur of the moment.
• Three of OSU's freshmen have made their collegiate debuts in 2017 - Destinee Davis, Sabrina Gill and Isis Lowery.
• 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 for the season-opener and each earned NACGC/W Regular Season All-America honors.
• Only half of the roster competed in a meet for Oregon State last season (Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Dani Dessaints, Madeline Gardiner, Mary Jacobsen, Megan Jimenez, Shireen Khamedoost, Kaytianna McMillan, Taylor Ricci and McKenna Singley).
• There are six seniors on the squad (Erika Aufiero, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Madeline Gardiner, Megan Jimenez, Kaytianna McMillan and Taylor Ricci) who combined to contribute 13 out of 24 routines at last year's regional meet.
• Four of the Beavers' are from the state of Oregon - Kaitlin Campbell (West Linn), Lena Greene (Tigard), Jaime Law (Corvallis) and Kaytianna McMillan (Coburg).
• Six OSU gymnasts are from outside of the United States - Mariana Colussi-Pelaez, Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Madeline Gardiner, Sabrina Gill and Taylor Ricci are all from Canada, while Isis Lowery is from Australia.
REGULAR SEASON ALL-AMERICANS
Four OSU gymnasts were named as 2017 Regular Season All-Americans by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC/W).
Madeline Gardiner earned first team honors on the balance beam while Kaytianna McMillan received second team honors in the all-around and on floor exercise. Erika Aufiero (uneven bars) and Dani Dessaints (vault) each earned second team honors.
AAI AWARD FINALISTS
Seniors Madeline Gardiner and Kaytianna McMillan are finalists for the AAI Award. The award annually recognizes the most outstanding senior female gymnast in the nation and is determined by a vote of the sports' head coaches. The field has been reduced to seven finalists.
PAC-12 GYMNAST OF THE YEAR
In a vote of the conferences coaches, senior Kaytianna McMillan was chosen as the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, it was announced following the Pac-12 Championships meet. McMillan has enjoyed one of the greatest seasons in Oregon State history amassing 26 event titles in 2017, tying for fifth in program history in a single season. She garnered her first 10.0 in the final home meet of her career on the uneven bars. It was the first perfect routine by an OSU gymnast since 2008 and the first on the bars since Elizabeth Jillson in 2003. This season, McMillan has set or tied career-highs on bars (10.0), floor exercise (9.950) and in the all-around (39.650), the third-highest mark in OSU history.
PAC-12 SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
OSU senior Madeline Gardiner was selected as the Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Scholar Athlete of the Year last month. The award honors the top student-athlete both academically and in their sport. Gardiner, a five-time All-American, is an exercise and sport science major. She is a three-time Pac-12 All-Academic First Team member and a three-time scholastic All-American by the NACGC/W. Gardiner plans to finish her degree in 2018 and will apply to medical school in the fall.
ALL-PAC-12 TEAM
Five Oregon State gymnasts were part of the Pac-12's All-Conference teams when the awards were announced last month. Kaytianna McMillan was recognized in three categories as a first teamer in the all-around and on floor exercise as well as second team on the vault. In addition, Madeline Gardiner garnered first team honors on the balance beam and second team in the all-around. Erika Aufiero, who won the Pac-12 title on the uneven bars, and Dani Dessaints, who was a Pac-12 co-champion on the vault, each received first team honors on those events respectively. Mary Jacobsen completes OSU's honorees earning second team on the vault.
ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS
Oregon State placed 11 gymnasts on the Pac-12 All-Academic teams. With one of the requirements of the all-academic team being that the student-athlete must have a full year at their institution, it means that all 11 of OSU's non-freshmen met the grade-point standard and were honored. In all, 18 of 20 OSU gymnasts posted GPA's of 3.0 or better during the winter for the second term in a row. Mariana Colussi-Pelaez (biology), Silvia Colussi-Pelaez (chemical engineering AND environmental engineering), Madeline Gardiner (exercise and sport science), Shireen Khamedoost (exercise and sport science), Kaytianna McMillan (human devleopment and family sciences) and Taylor Ricci (exercise and sport science) were all named to the first team. Dani Dessaints (sociology) and McKenna Singley (sociology) each received second team honors while Erika Aufiero (finance AND accountancy), Mary Jacobsen (computer science) and Megan Jimenez (digitial communication arts) were honorable mention.
SEEKING PERFECTION
OSU has five gymnasts that have 'hit' all of their routines in 2017 include: Madeline Gardiner (44-44), Silvia Colussi-Pelaez (18-18), Taylor Ricci (15-15), Megan Jimenez (14-14) and Destinee Davis (1-1).
CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS
In the preseason coaches poll, the Pac-12 Conference had seven of its eight teams ranked in the Top 36 and all seven qualified to NCAA Regionals. Four of those teams advanced to NCAA Championships and will meet meet in Session I of semifinals including No. 4 Utah, No. 5 UCLA, No. 8 Oregon State and No. 13 Washington.
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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