They say the best is saved for last. That couldn’t be more true with this final day of competition bringing together the highest-caliber athletes on each event for a showcase of exquisite technique and outstanding skill.
Taylor Ingle of SEMO truly lived up to her MIC Athlete of the Year accolades and qualified on all four events. Ingle also is set to compete at the Lexington regionals next weekend on vault. It wouldn’t be far fetched to say she could walk away today with a title or two. Also in the regionals pool and competing today is SEMO’s Abby Royer (floor), Bridgeport’s Nova Staruk (vault), and Texas Woman’s Sophie Isbell (vault) and Sophia Hernandez (floor). Each has proven their capability on their respective events and should be geared up to make a splash today at event finals. Deserving a special shoutout also are the athletes who qualified as individuals from Fisk, Centenary, Greenville, and Wilberforce. It’s tough to face such an energetic competition without a team behind you, but these athletes rose to the challenge and proved their abilities.
Some of these gymnasts have competed every day this weekend, but the sheer energy of all teams converging to support their individuals will be plenty to carry them through any hints of fatigue. There’s a good deal of excellent gymnastics in store for us this afternoon, and these stellar individuals are geared up to end this weekend with a title of their own.
Below is a table of all the qualified individuals:
| Vault | Bars | Beam | Floor |
| Taylor Ingle (SEMO) | Emily Hernandez (UBP) | Amara Nelson (Greenv.) | Taylor Ingle (SEMO) |
| Maribelle Albert (UAA) | Gracie Jones (SEMO) | Taylor Ingle (SEMO) | Reagan Sams (SEMO) |
| Jamilia Duffus (UAA) | Taylor Ingle (SEMO) | Jordan Grindol (UAA) | Leah Parton (SEMO) |
| Lena Coxon (UBP) | Abigail Kenney (UBP) | Rian Thompkins (UBP) | Diamond Cook (Wilb.) |
| Nova Staruk (UBP) | Kailyn Hamilton (SEMO) | Skyla Cruz (Cent.) | Ellery Gilmer (Greenv.) |
| Alaina Reid (TWU) | Claudia Lessig (UAA) | Amy Foret (Cent.) | Sophia Isbell (TWU) |
| Alyson Sobczak (WCU) | Jada Niles (UAA) | Alaina Reid (TWU) | Abby Royer (SCSU) |
| Jaslyn McComesky (WCU) | Jamilia Duffus (UAA) | Lydia Stoner (WCU) | Bailey Bourgeois (TWU) |
| Sarah Eskew (WCU) | Nicole Pujals (UBP) | Aliyah Reed-Hammon (Fisk) | Kylie Minard (TWU) |
| Allie Berkley (Fisk) | Caroline Bowns (TWU) | Ciniah Rosby (Fisk) | Cat Keener (WCU) |
| Maddy Murphy (TWU) | Brooke Ferrari (TWU) | Gabriela Dinisoe (SCSU) | |
| Sophia Isbell (TWU) | Jordan Loock (TWU) | ||
| Maddie McCullough (WCU) | |||
| Grace McNamara (WCU) |
The meet will be streamed on Virtius, and scores can be found here.
The meet will alternate events, so each athlete gets the spotlight! There are six judges per event, and the score will drop the highest and lowest, taking an average of the remaining four.
Rotation 1: VT-Squad A, BB-Squad A
Vault Squad A
Eskew (WCU): Yurchenko full on, tuck off, low landing and a big hop forward. A looong wait for her score. 9.425
Duffus (Alaska): Yurchenko layout full, patient on the twist, not too much distance and a small hop back. 9.6625
Berkley (Fisk): Yurchenko layout full, great dymanics and extension, nice landing with a small hop back! 9.775
Murphy (TWU): FHS pike half, some leg separation on the table and slight bent knees. Chest up and a step back on the landing. 9.5625
Sobczak (WCU): Yurchenko tucked full, gets a good amount of distance. Early leg bend, chest dip on the landing, steps back. 9.525
Ingle (TWU): Powerful extended Yurchenko layout full, great landing, couldn’t fully see but a stick or close to it. 9.8625
Beam Squad A
Cruz (Centenary): Fast bhs bhs loso, good form but just off and falls. Solid split jump, split 3/4, tight in the gainer full and a stick! 8.975
Nelson (Greenville): Great form and a solid lunge on the bhs loso. Side aerial, foot adjustment into the spilt jump. Good on the full turn, switch is 180 to a 3/4 split, RO 1.5, medium hop forward. 9.800
Rosby (Fisk): The Fisk leos are gleaming! Control on the wolf turn. Floaty front aerial, a little hesitation in to the bhs but keeps moving. 180 switch to switch half, slight dip. Bhs 1.5, hop back. 9.650
Foret (Centenary): Solid split to split 3/4, nails the bhs bhs loso! Switch to gainer full and a small step. 9.775
Reid (TWU): Flighty bhs loso, a bit of bounce in the lunge, good extension on the switch to split, confident through the side aerial split. Small hop forward out of the RO 1.5.
Reed-Hammon (Fisk): Bhs to side aerial flows and finishes with a solid lunge. 180 in the split to split 3/4, standing gainer full, a lean and a small step forward.
AFTER 1: Taylor Ingle (SEMO) leads vault, earning a 9.8625 for her stuck Yurchenko full. Amara Nelson leads beam at this point with a 9.800 for her confident routine.
Rotation 2: VT-Squad B, BB-Squad B
Vault Squad B
Reid (TWU): Yurchenko layout full, slight pike down and a small hop forward. 9.700
Coxon (Bridgeport): Yurchenko tucked full, bit of early tuck, great distance, step back. 9.600
Albert (Alaska): Yurchenko layout full, lots of momentum and a big hop back. 9.6625
Isbell (TWU): Yurchenko full, great block and nice height, hops back. 9.7625
McComeskey (WCU): FHS pike, early leg bend before the landing and a step backward. 9.5375
Staruk (Bridgeport): Tsuk layout full, excellent extension, steps back. 9.775
Beam Squad B
Stoner (WCU): Steady in the front toss to bhs, patient choreo, short in the split 3/4. Solid on the front toss to beat, almost in pike position! Step forward on the gainer full dismount. 9.700
Dinisoe (SCSU): 180 switch to split 3/4, good extension there. Dynamic bhs loso, legs straight. Front aerial to scale, a little check and brings the scale around the side a bit. Hop on the RO 1.5 tucked. 9.7625
Grindol (Alaska): Check on her full turn, but a really good open turning position. bhs loso is crunchy and comes off on that. Switch is 180 to switch 3/4, comes off again. Sticks the RO 1.5 tucked to finish. 8.1875
Ingle (SEMO): Bhs bhs loso right to the end of the beam, solid hit. Switch a tad under 180, split 1/4. Small check on the turn, aaand a stuck RO double full! 9.850
Thompkins (Bridgeport): Bhs loso, way off and touches the beam with leg up, though she stays on. Solid on the full turn, 180 in the switch and switch half. Good rotation on the RO 1.5, step forward. 9.475
AFTER 2: Vault and beam are now complete and the “unofficial” result has Taylor Ingle in the lead after both vault rotations with her 9.8625. The vault runner-up tied with Allie Berkley (Fisk) and Nova Staruk (Bridgeport). On beam, Ingle also leads after both rotations with a 9.850. The runner-up is Amara Nelson (Greenville), and rounding out the podium is Gabriella Dinisoe (SCSU).
Rotation 3: UB-Squad A, FX-Squad A
Bars Squad A
Kenney (Bridgeport): Nice hs, pretty Maloney, bail right to handstand.. and is over on the bail but stays on with a pirouette, step on the toe pike half. 9.600
Niles (Alaska): Good first handstand, form through the Maloney, pretty blind full and a great landing on the double tuck. 9.5625
Bowns (TWU): Gorgeous Maloney and bail right to hs, snaps hs on high, blind full to a pretty double tuck, steps back. 9.775
Ferrari (TWU): Straddle Jaeger is close ish, perfectly to handstand in the straddle back–obsessed with that transition. DLO and a step. 9.7375
Hernandez (Bridgeport): Good hs and clear hip, Maloney with toes, Pak is good, nice DLO with some leg separation and a step. 9.675
Jones (SEMO): Good piked jaeger, bail is just short of hs, clean blind full into a double tuck, small step back. 9.750
McCullough (WCU): Nice Ray to bail with a bit of leg sep, blind full is slightly late and STICKS the double tuck! 9.750
Floor Squad A
Royer (SCSU): FHS full to layout, a bit short, switch side to straddle 1/2 is nice, bhs loso, SCSU is standing right next to me and giving so much positive energy. Clean FHS Rudi split jump to end! 9.800
Keener (WCU): Good height on the FHS 2/1, precise in the switch half to wolf full 2x. Clean RO 1.5 to front pike. FHS Rudi right on! 9.7375
Cook (Wilberforce): Solo athlete and has the whole gym cheering! RO 1.5 to front lay, good but a bit of underrotation, front lay to front full has great dynamics, gorgeous switch ring to 180 switch full to finish! SCSU doing the bulldog bark. 9.725
Gilmer (Greenville): Powerful double tuck and a great lunge out, 180 switch to switch ring, really nice. Tight thorugh the front through to back 1.5 front lay, and STICKS IT! Clean form in the front lay front full. 9.850
Ingle (SEMO): A big RO 2.5, some distance in the front tuck. Clean front lay to Rudi, low chest on the landing. Precise and 180 switch half to Popa. 9.8625
AFTER 3: Ingle appears to be unbeatable so far as she slots into the lead on floor after the first squad. Bars sees Caroline Bowns (TWU) in the lead currently with a 9.775.
Rotation 4: UB-Squad B, FX-Squad B
Bars Squad B
Loock (TWU): Shaposh with some form, bail hs, taps the low bar before her dismount but still gets good height in the FTDT, small hop. 9.625
Hamilton (SEMO): Toe hand to a HUGE Gienger to bail, some leg bend in her swings past the low bar, cold stick on the FTDT. 9.7125
McNamara (WCU): Slightly short on the first handstand, tall gienger to bail, a little crunchy, small hop fwd out of the fast FTDT. 9.6875
Duffus (Alaska): HUGE piked jaeger to bail, clean blind full, small step on the double tuck. 9.6375
Ingle (SEMO): Good straddle Jaeger but catches slightly close, bail right to hs, snaps to hs on high, blind and rises in the double tuck, tiny hop. 9.775
Lessig (Alaska): Pretty Tkatchev, bail hs a little loose on the catch, right to hs on high, step fwd on the FTDT. 9.7125
Pujals (Bridgeport): Floaty Maloney to Pak, some toes. Smooth blind, and a small step on the double tuck. 9.775
Floor Squad B
Parton (SEMO): High double tuck and a solid landing. FHS full to lay, layout doesn’t rise. 180 switch to switch ring half. FHS Rudi is clean. 9.8125
Isbell (TWU): Nice height in the double, nails the lunge out. Switch half to wolf 1.5, a little off center. Great facial expressions throughout. Clean RO 1.5 to full and a big double stag to end! 9.8750
Sams (SEMO): FHS 2/1 is a bit short on the twist. Great leap positions in the switch half Popa x2, FHS Rudi and a patient step out on the loso. 9.850
Bourgeois (TWU): Big open double pike, slide in the lunge, RO high 1.5 to lay, extended leaps. Double tuck, slight underrotation and lunges forward. 9.7875
Minard (TWU): Front lay Rudi is good, full extension in the 180 switch half to Popa 2x. Solid lunge out of the double tuck. Excellently choreographed and performed for the horror theme. The crowd loves it. One judge gives her a 10 and Minard is lifted by her team!!! 9.950!
AFTER 4: Bowns, Ingle, and Nicole Pujals (Bridgeport) get a three-way tie for first on bars with a 9.775 each. Kylie Minard closed the meet on floor and scored a massive 9.950 with her crowd-pleasing (and terror-inducing) routine.
FINAL RESULTS
VT: Taylor Ingle (SEMO) – 9.8625
UB: Nicole Pujals (Bridgeport), Taylor Ingle (SEMO), Caroline Bowns (TWU) – 9.775
BB: Taylor Ingle (SEMO) – 9.850
FX: Kylie Minard (TWU) – 9.950
AA: Taylor Ingle (SEMO) – 39.275
Head Coach of the Year – Lisa Bowerman (TWU)
Assistant Coach(es) of the Year – Lydia Test and Keira Boetel (SEMO)
Outstanding Senior Athlete – Taylor Ingle (SEMO)
Spirit Award – Rian Thompkins (Bridgeport)
What a weekend! A competition like the WCGNIC goes to show just how many hidden gems there are outside of the top performing NCAA teams. Each participating school brought endless positive energy and pride in their gymnastics, supporting each other the whole way through. While the weekend is full of exciting and happy moments, it also brings to a close many of these athletes’ gymnastics careers. A national meet like this one is the perfect way to cap off anyone’s career with an emotional rollercoaster three-day competition. And as the sport of college gymnastics grows, the WCGNIC’s only promise to be bigger, better, and more bombastic year after year.
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