Hu Shatters Records at Mizzou’s Oklahoma Showdown as 2025 Season Kicks Off

NORMAN, Okla. — Helen Hu (Chicago, Illinois) of the University of Missouri gymnastics squad achieved the sport’s inaugural perfect 10 of the 2025 season during her balance beam performance at the Tigers’ Southeastern Conference commencement against top-rated Oklahoma on Friday night at Lloyd Noble Center.

No. 10 Mizzou (5-2, 0-1 SEC) ultimately lost to the No. 1 Sooners (7-0, 1-0 SEC) by a score of 197.775-196.750. 

Hu’s accomplishment marks the fourth instance of a Mizzou gymnast achieving a score of 10 on beam, the most recent being Sienna Schreiber on March 3, 2024, against Arkansas. Prior to last season, this achievement had not happened by a Tiger since Lauren Schwartzman accomplished it twice during the 2004 season. Notably, five of the seven perfect 10s in Mizzou gymnastics history have occurred since 2023.

SHOW STOPPERS

Senior Jocelyn Moore (Hillsborough, New Jersey) took home the meet’s top score on vault with a 9.975, in addition to Hu’s perfect score and event title on beam. On bars, Mara Titarsolej (Zutphen, Netherlands) led the team’s rotation and achieved a score of 9.900 for the second consecutive meet. Freshman Railey Jackson (Forest Park, Illinois) had the finest evening of her budding collegiate journey, attaining two personal records on beam and floor, both with scores of 9.875.

RECAP

Uneven Bars

-Titarsolej’s score of 9.900 is the 31st occasion in her career that she has reached or exceeded that mark on bars.

–Kyra Burns (Blue Springs, Missouri) finished with a season-best 9.875 from the leadoff position.

Vault

-Mizzou’s 49.300 in its second rotation on vault represented the team’s highest score in this event for the season. 

-Moore recorded a score of 9.975 or better for the fourth time throughout her career. She holds the program’s only perfect 10 on vault and two additional scores of 9.975.

–Hannah Horton’s (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) 9.875 signified her best result of the season on this apparatus. 

-Moore and Horton’s results on vault are the first and second-best scores in 2025 for the event, respectively.

-Freshman Kaia Tanskanen (Howell, Michigan) enhanced her vault score for the third consecutive week, setting her collegiate high at 9.825. 

-Moore has now surpassed the 9.900 benchmark on vault 20 times.

Floor

-The top two performances for the Tigers on floor came from Jackson and Horton, each achieving a score of 9.875.

-Jackson had previously set a score of 9.825 in her earlier two meets competing on floor.

–Elise Tisler (Fairfax Station, Virginia) initiated the Tigers’ rotation for the second-straight meet and earned a score of 9.825.

Beam

-Hu had earlier achieved scores of 9.975 on six different occasions before her first perfect 10 on Friday night.

-The only other instance of a Mizzou gymnast scoring a 10 on beam away from home was by Schwartzman on March 12, 2004, during the Texas Women’s University Invitational.

–Addison Lawrence (Olathe, Kansas) and Amy Wier (St. Louis, Missouri) performed first and second in the rotation, both achieving a score of 9.825.

UP NEXT

Mizzou will return to Columbia for its first competition this season at Hearnes Center, facing No. 8 Kentucky in its conference home opener. The Tigers hold a 16-21 record all-time against the Wildcats. UK recently defeated No. 3 Alabama on Friday night, scoring 197.300-196.100.

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