Temple Gymnastics to Journey to #8 Georgia Friday Evening

ATHENS, Ga. – The Owls will hit the highway this week and journey to Athens, Ga. for the Georgia Quad Meet on Friday, Jan. 30. The University of Georgia Bulldogs will host Temple, Fisk, and Central Michigan for a 7:00 pm meet. The meet shall be streamed on SEC Network Plus.

Temple head coach Hilary Steele shall be returning to her Alma Mater on the Georgia Quad Meet. Steele helped the GymDogs win two NCAA Championships the primary being in 2008 and the second in 2009. As a freshman, Steele earned second staff All-America honors on the beam with a 9.850 rating. Her senior yr Steele gained the SEC Vault Individual Championship.

Fans tuning into SEC Network Plus for the meet will hear a well-recognized voice. The voice of the Temple Owls, Kevin Copp, shall be on the decision for the Georgia Quad Meet. Copp can be a graduate of the University of Georgia.

LAST TIME OUT

Temple University Gymnastics completed with a 193.875 within the Temple Quad Meet in Philadelphia.

FINAL RESULTS

1st Place – Penn (195.075)

2nd Place – George Washington (194.350)

third Place – Temple (193.875)

4th Place – Texas Woman’s (193.300)

 

ROTATION ONE (VAULT: 48.300)

The Owls got here out with constant scores all through the opening rotation with everybody scoring above not less than a 9.500. The fifth and sixth spots of Nikki Rengifo and Amelia Budd posted the very best scores on the occasion for Temple. Rengifo notched a 9.725 and Budd scored a prime end of 9.750.

ROTATION TWO (BARS: 48.425)

Temple moved into the second rotation seeking to once more publish constant scores on bars. Senior Reese DeHaan led off within the lineup and posted the staff’s highest rating on the occasion, a 9.775. The rating was sufficient to tie her for third place total within the meet. Tonight’s anchor, NazstaziaSimone Henry-Jubitana, was in a position to finish the rotation sturdy for the Cherry & White as she put up a 9.700.

ROTATION THREE (BEAM: 48.250)

Hailey Best began off the third rotation with a bang. The junior notched a brand new career-high on the beam with a 9.850. Not to be neglected, Megan White additionally posted a career-high on beam. The New Hampshire native put up a 9.850 on beam to assist the Owls. Robyn Dunne put up her second-highest rating of the season on beam tonight with a 9.750. Both Best and White tied for second place total within the meet with their scores of 9.850.

ROTATION FOUR (FLOOR: 48.900)

Much just like the beam, the Owls started ground with a excessive rating because of Mariella Brueck. The junior matched a career-high with a 9.800. In the fifth spot Nikki Rengifo posted a team-high on the ground with a 9.825. This was a season-high for the sophomore. Rounding out the lineup was Brooklyn Thomas and she or he didn’t disappoint. The freshman tied her career-high of 9.800 on the ground to get the Owls an total ground rating of a 48.900, the very best of the season.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION

The Georgia Bulldogs would be the second SEC top-10 staff that Temple has confronted this season. The GymDogs come into the meet because the eighth ranked program within the nation. Georgia is ranked within the top-10 in two occasions by way of week 4 of the season, seventh on bars and first on ground. Week one of many season was a powerful win over #21 ranked Ohio State on the highway by which the GymDogs put up a rating of 197.000. In the staff’s solely house meet of the season in opposition to #2 LSU, Georgia posted a season-high rating of 197.200 to prime the Tigers. Last week in opposition to one other #2 ranked opponent in Oklahoma, Georgia suffered its first misplaced of the season in a 198.425-196.875 defeat by the Sooners. On the ground, Lily Smith and CaMarah Williams are two names to look at for Georgia. They every have posted a 9.950 this season on the occasion.

Fisk comes into Friday’s meet with a 3-8 total file. In a tri-meet with Kent State and West Virginia the Bulldogs completed with a season-high rating of 188.975, regardless of the third place end within the meet. Fisk has discovered some success on the beam this season because of senior Aliyah Reed-Hammon. Reed-Hammon put up a 9.775 on beam a number of weeks in the past, a season-high for the Bulldogs. She has but to dip under a 9.525 on the equipment.

The Central Michican Chippewas come into the season with a 4-0 undefeated file. In the three weeks the Chips have competed they’ve put up excessive scores as a staff, with the very best coming in opposition to in-state rival Western Michigan (195.000). Last day out, CMU took on Illinois State and got here out on prime by a remaining rating of 194.900-193.625. CMU has shined on the bars this season, rating twentieth total within the nation. Senior Luciana Alvarado-Reid has led the Chips on the bars as she put up a team-high rating of 9.925 within the Chip’s opening meet of the season. Graduate pupil Lia Kmieciak is one other key identify to look at this weekend for CMU. Kmieciak has scored a 9.900 on the bars this season whereas additionally posting a team-high 9.825 on vault.

UP NEXT

The Owls will stay on the highway for his or her subsequent meet of the season because the staff will journey as much as Durham, N.H. to face the University of New Hampshire. This EAGL competitors shall be on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 2:00 pm from Lundholm Gymnasium.