April 14, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS--The University of Oklahoma women's gymnastics team is among the 12 teams that qualified to compete for the 2008 National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships.

The championships, hosted by the University of Georgia, will be held in Athens, Georgia, at Stegeman Coliseum, April 24-26.

Oklahoma advanced with a second-place finish at the NCAA South Central Regional. Top-seeded Alabama took home the regional title at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla. Missouri closed their season by placing fourth in the NCAA Central Regional.

Adrianne Perry (MU) scored a 39.300 in the all-around, earning her a third consecutive berth to the NCAA National Championships as an all-arounder. Iowa State concluded its season finishing sixth at the NCAA Northeast Regional. Nebraska just missed qualifying for the NCAA Championships by finishing third behind No. 2 Florida and No. 9 UCLA. However, three Huskers did qualify as individuals for the NCAA Championships as Emily Parsons and Desire' Sniatynski will compete as all-arounders and Tricia Woo will perform as a beam and floor specialist.

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 regional received automatic berths to the national championships.

In addition, the event winners at the regional championships advance to the national championships (in their specific event) if they were not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers.

Beginning with the 2008 championships, the process for determining rotation pairings for day one of the team competition at the site of the finals is based on a National Qualifying Score (NQS) calculated by adding the Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) to the score achieved at regional competition.

TEAM COMPETITION:
Team                           Region              Regional Score      National Qualifying Score
1. Georgia                Northeast        197.775                395.175
2. Florida                 Southeast        197.525                394.750
3. LSU                     Central           197.625                 394.355
4. Stanford              Central            197.525                394.295
5. Utah                    North Central   196.950                394.205
6. Alabama               South Central   197.300                394.170
7. Oregon State        West               197.100                393.750
8. Michigan              West               196.375                393.200
9. UCLA                  Southeast         196.625                393.135
10. Oklahoma           South Central    195.875                392.325
11. Arkansas            North Central    196.125                 392.290
12. Denver               Northeast        195.775                 391.730

ALL-AROUND INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS:
Julie Dwyer, Auburn, Northeast-39.450
Emily Parsons, Nebraska, Southeast-39.450
Brandi Personett, Penn State, Northeast-39.400
Adrianne Perry, Missouri, Central-39.300
Carmelina Carabajal, Minnesota, North Central-39.275
Elise Wheeler, Southern Utah, North Central-39.225
Desiré Sniatynski, Nebraska, Southeast-39.225
Kaylan Clevinger, Ohio State, Central-39.150
Allison Buckley, Illinois, South Central-39.100
Nicole Cowart, Illinois, South Central-39.100
Haley Bogart, Washington, West-39.050
Rochelle Robinson, Michigan State, West-39.025

INDIVIDUAL EVENT QUALIFIERS:
Beam: Region-Regional Score
Tricia Woo, Nebraska, Southeast-9.875
Leigha Hancock, North Carolina State, Southeast-9.875

Floor: Region-Regional Score
Tricia Woo, Nebraska, Southeast-.900

In the 2007 championships, the Georgia Bulldogs captured their third consecutive championship title with a final overall score of 197.850. The Bulldogs have won the title eight times in 24 championship appearances. Utah followed the Bulldogs with an outstanding performance of its own, scoring a 197.250. Rounding out the scoring was Florida in third (197.225), UCLA in fourth (196.925), Stanford in fifth (196.825) and Nebraska in sixth (195.975).

Preliminary team and all-around competition will be conducted in two sessions Thursday, April 24 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The top three teams from each session will advance to the Super Six competition Friday, April 25 at 6 p.m. The top four individuals from each session in each event (plus ties) from the preliminary team and all-around competition will compete in the individual-event competition Saturday, April 26 at 6 p.m. For more information about the women's gymnastics championships, log on to www.NCAA.com.