“UNC gymnastics team earns NCAA bid (The Daily Tar Heel)” plus 3 more |
- UNC gymnastics team earns NCAA bid (The Daily Tar Heel)
- Gymnastics: LSU earns No. 2 seed in regionals (The Daily Reveille)
- W. Gymnastics. No. 23 GymDawgs Selected For NCAA Regionals In Salt Lake (GoHuskies.com)
- Sports briefs (The Laker)
| UNC gymnastics team earns NCAA bid (The Daily Tar Heel) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:14 PM PDT Coming off a victory at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championship, the gymnastics team is taking its preparation for NCAA Regionals one tumbling pass at a time. Before heading to the University of Missouri to compete in the program's ninth consecutive regionals showing, coach Derek Galvin said the team will be focusing on the details in practice. "Our goal is to improve our execution and continue to keep the energy level and enthusiasm high," Galvin said. Despite adding more difficulty to their routines at the start of the season, seniors Kara Wright and Christine Nguyen will likely not be competing their double Arabian tumbling passes in Missouri. Galvin said Wright and Nguyen will be competing double pikes, which is in keeping with the team's goal of having precise execution in competition. "Ultimately it was best for the team," Wright said. "It's not an easy routine or a bad routine, it's just cleaner. It was a good decision." Nguyen, who bruised her knee at the team's home meet against West Virginia on March 13, agreed that the decision to remove the more difficult pass was the right one. "I know that with a clean backup routine I can still score high," Nguyen said. The balance beam, which proved to be the most challenging event for the team in the beginning of the season, didn't hold the Tar Heels back from winning its first EAGL title since 2006. Even with top scores on the beam at EAGLs, the team is continuing to make beam routines a top priority in practice. "Beam is a very mental event, and we had to get our confidence up," Wright said. "We're doing a lot of pressure sets, where you pretend you're competing, to keep our confidence up for regionals." Three UNC gymnasts took the top spots in three events, with Nguyen placing first on balance beam with a score of 9.875. Sophomores Zoya Johnson and Morgan Evans took home titles on vault and uneven bars, respectively, each with a score of 9.9. Even with impressive individual performances, Wright said her teammates' scores wouldn't have been possible without the efforts of the entire team. North Carolina will face some tough competition in the NCAAs, including No. 1 seed Georgia and No. 2 Oregon State. The Tar Heels will enter the Columbia Regional as the No. 6 seed. Even with two of the top teams in the nation competing against UNC, Galvin said the team will maintain its focus in practice. "When we focus on keeping our objectives, we don't have time to think about the other teams," he said. "We weren't focused on the other teams going into EAGLs, and it will be the same going into regionals." Galvin attributed the team's EAGL victory to hard work and enthusiasm, and they plan to bring the same energy to the NCAAs. "Right now the team is certainly at a point where we're physically and mentally the best we've been all season," Galvin said. "We're peaking at the right time." Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Gymnastics: LSU earns No. 2 seed in regionals (The Daily Reveille) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:24 PM PDT The LSU gymnastics team will head to State College, Pa., for the Penn State Regional on April 10, the NCAA announced Monday. LSU (11-7-1) will carry a No. 2 seed into the postseason meet. Oklahoma will be the No. 1 seed for the meet, and host Penn State will be the No. 3 seed. Maryland, Ohio State and New Hampshire are the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 seeds, respectively, in the Penn State Regional. LSU has now earned a postseason berth for the 26th straight season and has been to the Super Six the last two seasons. The top two teams and top two all-around competitors not on a top-two team at each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships in Gainesville, Fla., on April 22-24. Seven Southeastern Conference schools, including LSU, earned regional bids for the 2010 postseason. The other six SEC schools in the postseason are Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn and Kentucky. Florida, Georgia and Alabama earned No. 1 seeds, Arkansas was given a No. 2 seed, Auburn pulled a No. 3 seed and Kentucky pulled in a No. 4 seed.
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| W. Gymnastics. No. 23 GymDawgs Selected For NCAA Regionals In Salt Lake (GoHuskies.com) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:59 PM PDT March 29, 2010
SEATTLE - The No. 23 Washington gymnastics squad was one of 36 teams selected Monday to compete in the 2010 NCAA Gymnastics Regionals, with the Huskies heading to the Salt Lake City regional hosted by the University of Utah, Saturday, April 10 at 5 p.m. PT. The Huskies are coming off a fifth-place finish in the Pac-10 Championships, one of the toughest conferences in the country. The conference will send six of the seven schools with gymnastics teams to the NCAAs, with UCLA and Stanford each earning No. 1 seeds. UCLA will host a regional while Stanford heads to West Virginia. Oregon State, meanwhile, earned a No. 2 seed and will travel to Columbia, Mo., while Arizona and Arizona State will head to the UCLA regional. The Huskies join host Utah and No. 1 seed Florida in Salt Lake City, along with Auburn, Boise State and Denver. Florida is ranked No. 4 nationally, Utah is No. 10 and Auburn is No. 16. Boise State and Denver are also ranked in the top-25, coming in at No. 19 and No. 22, respectively. The Huskies have already faced Utah this season, falling 195.850-194.650 in late January in Seattle. UW, Utah and Boise State were all at the same site last year as well when the Huskies hosted regionals. Utah won the meet while the Huskies finished fifth and Boise State took third. The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors (who are not on an advancing team) from each regional will receive an automatic berth to the national championships in Gainesville, Florida, April 22-24, hosted by the University of Florida. In addition, the event winners at the regional championships will advance to the national championships (in that event only) if they are not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers. For more information regarding the National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships, log on to www.NCAA.com. Below is the complete field for the 2010 NCAA Gymnastics Regionals: Salt Lake City Regional - Utah (University of Utah, host) Los Angeles Regional - California (University of California, Los Angeles, host) 1. UCLA 2. Arkansas 3. Iowa State 4. Arizona 5. Brigham Young 6. Arizona State Columbia Regional - Missouri (University of Missouri, Columbia, host) Lexington Regional - Kentucky (University of Kentucky, host) University Park Regional - Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University, host) Morgantown Regional - West Virginia (West Virginia University, host) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
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