DU Gymnastics Maintains No. 23 Rating Forward of NCAA Regionals

DENVER – The University of Denver gymnastics crew is ranked No. 23 within the Week 12 Road to Nationals rankings, which have been launched on Monday.
 
Denver tied its fifth highest rating of the season with a 196.575 to grow to be the Big 12 Conference runner-up on March 21 on the Big 12 Gymnastics Championship in what was the crew’s last meet forward of NCAA Regionals.
 
This is the sixth and last week that rankings are decided solely by National Qualifying Score (NQS), which has a brand new components starting this season. Teams drop their season excessive and low scores, then common their remaining scores, to find out their nationwide rankings. Individual rankings are additionally decided by NQS however will nonetheless use the earlier components.
 
All crew occasion and particular person rankings at the moment are last for the yr. Overall crew standings will embrace a mixture of NQS and particular person meet scores from spherical to spherical of the NCAA event.
 
Continue studying for an in depth rationalization of the brand new NQS components.
 
DENVER’S NQS
197.075 – Home vs Air Force
196.950 – Away at Arizona State
196.725 – Away at Air Force Tri
196.600 – Home vs. Arizona
196.575 – Away at Big 12 Championship
196.575 – Home vs. Stanford
196.525 – Home vs. Iowa State
196.100 – Home vs Utah
196.000 – Away at West Virginia
195.925 – Away at BYU
195.850 – Away at Texas Woman’s Tri
195.175 – Away at Oregon State
NQS: 196.383
 
TEAM NATIONAL RANKINGS
Overall: No. 23 (196.383 NQS)
Vault: No. 20 (49.068)
Bars: No. 20 (49.073)
Floor: No. 12 (49.365)
 
With its 196.575 on the Big 12 Championship, Denver improved its NQS and moved simply .010 away from bettering its nationwide rating. DU did achieve two spots within the bars rankings with its 49.100 on the Big 12 Championship, the best rating by any of the six groups throughout both session of the meet on the occasion.
 
Denver elevated its NQS on flooring however held regular at No. 12 for what might be its highest last nationwide flooring rating since 2021 when the crew ended the yr ranked No. 9.
 
On beam, DU additionally noticed an enchancment in its NQS however narrowly missed a spot within the prime 25, sitting at No. 26 by simply .015.

INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RANKINGS

Senior Cecilia Cooley

Beam: tie-No. 23 (9.910)

Floor: tie-No. 18 (9.930)

 

Cooley will finish the 2026 season with two particular person nationwide rankings after returning to the beam prime 25 following her career-high-tying 9.925 on the Big 12 Championship to earn her runner-up honors on the occasion. Her last beam NQS of 9.910 is simply exterior the highest 10 in DU’s report e-book by the smallest potential margin of .005.

 

On flooring, an occasion on which she has spent the complete season ranked, she’s going to end with a tie for No. 18, lacking out on All-America honors by the narrowest of margins, .005. Her NQS of 9.930 on flooring is tied for the ten^th highest in program historical past.

 

With her two rankings to complete the yr, Cooley turns into the primary DU gymnast to carry no less than one spot within the prime 25 on the finish of a season since Jessica Hutchinson in 2024.

 

NEW NQS DEBUTS IN 2026

The 2026 season marks the start of newly-adopted modifications to NQS, which determines eligibility for the NCAA Regionals discipline. National rankings might be decided by the brand new NQS components for the rest of the season, relatively than a straight season common as was the case for the primary six weeks.

 

The new NQS components components in the next proportion of every crew’s meets compared to the earlier components. Beginning in 2026, NQS calculations will now embrace all of a crew’s meets – with a most of 5 residence meets factored in. A crew’s highest rating of the yr and lowest rating of the yr are dropped, and the remaining scores are averaged.

 

Any crew with greater than 5 residence meets will solely be capable to use their lowest 5 residence scores of the yr as a part of their preliminary NQS calculation – earlier than dropping the excessive and low scores. Denver solely has 5 residence meets in 2026 and can thus embrace all of its meets towards its NQS because the season continues on.

 

The new NQS components solely impacts crew rankings and crew postseason picks. Individual rankings and particular person qualification to NCAA Regionals will nonetheless be decided utilizing the earlier NQS components: taking the highest six scores with a minimal of three at away meets, dropping the excessive rating and averaging the remaining 5 scores.

 

To be eligible for NCAA Regional qualification, groups should embrace a minimal of 9 whole meets, a minimal of 5 away meets and a most of 5 residence meets towards their NQS calculation. The meet minimums will not be required when figuring out nationwide rankings.

 

UP NEXT

No. 23 Denver has mathematically clinched a spot in NCAA Regionals for a 27^th consecutive time and can be taught to which of the 4 campus websites it has been chosen in the course of the NCAA Selection Show on Monday, March 23, at 10 a.m. MT, televised stay on ESPNU.