2018 NCAA Gymnastics Regional Championships

Regional Instant Updates

Regional Instant Updates

We recapped the major action as it happened during the 2018 NCAA regional competitions.

Apr 7, 2018 by Sarah Lorish
Regional Instant Updates

We did our best to follow the streams from regionals and cover the big moments and highlights from the day. Below are the live updates from each regional.

Updates format:

While we won't be covering every routine during every meet (because Sarah isn't a robot), we're going to do our best to highlight general updates and big moments of the day. The regionals are in descending order based on time. 

NATIONAL ALERT

ADVANCING TEAMS:

Florida - 197.725

Washington 196.275

LSU - 197.675

Nebraska - 197.525

Alabama - 197.225

Georgia - 196.5

UCLA - 197.65

Arkansas - 196.775

Oklahoma - 198.000

Kentucky - 197.050

Utah - 197.475

California - 196.725

4 p.m. ET

RALEIGH, North Carolina State University

ROTATION 1

Maryland VT

Barber 9.825

SCORE: 48.9

NC State UB

Tamburro: Stuck double lay gets a cheer 9.8

Kent: Nice Jaeger to bail, stuck double lay

Breen: nice one arm hand to layout stepout, stuck 1.5 dism

Hige jaeger from Towson

SCORE: 48.9

Nebraska BB

Megan Scheihofer: stuck handspring pike, wobble stuck roundoff double full

Williams: nails triple series, balance check on leap, stuck side aerial to full

SCORE: 49.375

LSU FX

Kirby: Stumble on last front pass

Desiderio: Double lay, front through to double tuck, little foot form in leap series, knee buckle on last double pike. Solid overall

Priessman: little low on 3rd pass double pike

Edney: stuck 1.5 front to lay, back knee on leap, SUPER low double tuck ouch.

Finnegan: solid, clean

Hambrick: High double lay as always, perfect 2/1 punch front tuck, big step back out of double pike

SCORE: 49.225


UNIVERSITY PARK. Penn State University

ROTATION 1

UNH VT

Diggan: stuck Y 1/1

SCORE: 48.625

Penn State UB: 48.225

Washington BB

Still stuck in 9.7 range

Florida FX

Hundley: 9.825

Gowey: Nice double pike, little step double back, solid 3rd pass back 2.5 punch lay

McMurtry: OKAY perfect triple, duh, stuck front lay to front 1/1, slightly short leap, stuck double back 9.875

Slocum: 9.9

SCORE: 49.325

RALEIGH

ROTATION 2

LSU VT

Finnegan nice Y full 9.85

Cannamela: Huge stuck Y Full

Hambrick: Roaring crowd for huge Y1.5 9.95

Edney: Woah. massive Y1.5 stuck

SCORE: 49.45

GW UB

Winstanley: Big form break on HS, stuck full out

McLaughlin: Catches release close, stuck full out

SCORE: 48.625

NC State BB

Beucler: pretty standing lay stepout, hop on gainer full 9.725

Nelson: nice routine, major leg separation dism

Wild: nice r.o. layout stepout, stuck dism 9.825

Knight: small wobble handspring lay-stepout, major wobble, stuck dism

SCORE: 48.8

Oregon State FX

Davis: 9.85

Gill: 9.8

Jacobsen: 9.825

Lowery: nice rudy, stuck front lay-front full. Super clean routine

Yanish: Huge double lay from, slight step double tuck 9.9

SCORE 49.225

LSU: 98.8
GW: 48.625
NCSU: 97.725
ORST: 49.225 

UNIVERSITY PARK

ROTATION 2

Florida VT

Baumann 9.7

Boren 9.9

Foberg 9.85

Slocum 9.95

McMurtry: 9.925

SCORE: 49.4

West Virginia UB

Bernard: 9.65

Gillette: 9.625

Kaufman: 9.275

Tun: 9.75

Cluchey: nice jaeger, pac, short HS on high bar, stuck double lay 9.7

Penn State BB

SCORE: 48.65

Arizona State FX

Kuhn and Leonard-Baker both hit 9.825

 

RALEIGH

ROTATION 3

Oregon State VT

Jacobson: solid tsuk laout full

SCORE 49.1

Maryland UB

Score: 49.075

GW BB

Drouin-Allaire: Solid routine, stuck double full

Cohen: Hand, hand, layout stepout, fall on front aerial

Filer: wobble but nice handspring layout stepout, switch leap gainer layout stepout, stuck dism

Bray: standing layout stepout - balance check, balance check on flight series

SCORE 48.775

Nebraska FX

Roby: back 1.5 punch front lay, low double tuck

Williams: slides foot on double pike, nice front lay to rudy, solid double tuck

SCORE 49.4

UNIVERSITY PARK

ROTATION 3

Arizona State VT

48.675

UNH UB

Diggan 9.8

Kerouac 9.8

Mulligan 9.8

SCORE 48.575

WVU BB

Muhammad and Gillette fall (9.0, 9.2)

SCORE 48.2

Washington FX

SCORE 49.35

5 p.m. ET
TUSCALOOSA, University of Alabama

ROTATION 1

Central Mich VT

48.850

Illinois UB

49.125

Michigan BB

48.975

Alabama FX

49.150

MINNEAPOLIS, University of Minnesota

ROTATION 1

Iowa VT

48.925

Iowa State UB

Big tkatchev to bail, pike-ish double lay, solid overall

Pike jaeger to bail, solid with steps in dism

SCORE 48.275

Kentucky BB

Duke 9.9

SCORE 48.9

Oklahoma FX

Showers: Nice double pike, front full punch front lay, really clean routine

Dowell: nice double front, 1.5 to front lay, stuck front lay to front 1/1

Jackson: massive half in half out, beautiful whip half front full, nice routine 9.925

Nichols: super clean routine

SCORE 49.6

RALEIGH

ROTATION 4

Nebraska VT

Krause: Stuck Y 1.5

SCORE 49.375

LSU UB

Priessman sticks dism on a great routine

Finnegan: huge clean routine, Breaux fist pumps it so, LSU is feeling it 9.95

SCORE 49.35

Maryland BB

LeBlanc: nice routine, stuck dism

Barber 9.8

NC State FX

Fillard: nice double pike, 1.5 to front pike, solid routine

Knight: nice double pike

SCORE 49.025

UNIVERSITY PARK

ROTATION 4

Washington VT

48.75

Florida UB

49.5

UNH BB

48.775

Penn State FX

48.775

TUSCALOOSA

ROTATION 2

Alabama VT

49.35

Missouri UB

SCORE 49.075

Illinois BB

SCORE 49.200

Georgia FX

Vega: sick routine 9.9

SCORE 48.950

MINNEAPOLIS

ROTATION 2

Oklahoma VT

Dowell: Y 1.5 small hop

Leerman? 1/2 on, pike off

Nichols: near stick Y 1.5

SCORE 49.4

Minnesota UB

Rambler: gorgeous first combo, little leg bend in giants before dism

Lu: nice routine, gorgeous double lay dism

SCORE 48.825

Iowa State BB

Steinmeyer: stuck handspring layout flight, nice switch leap to straddle 1/4

Russ: Near miss on flight, waist bobble on switch 1/2 

SCORE 48.6

Denver FX

Karr: 1.5 to front full -clean, front 1.5, clean routine

SCORE 49.35

RALEIGH

ROTATION 5

NC State VT

Grantham: huge Y Full

Knight 9.85

Oregon State UB

Dessaints: low landing dism

LSU BB

Edney solid flight, front pike toss, stuck 1.5 dism, really big routine

Desiderio: beautiful routine

Campbell: nice front aerial series, stuck back pike, stuck leaps, stuck 2/1 twist, but pike-ish 

Finnegan: great routine 9.95

GW FX

Winstanley: Fall on last pass

Karpova: nice double pike, stuck 2nd pass, solid whip 1.5:    9.775

Crasa: nice double pike, 1.5 twist to front, low double tuck to finish

UNIVERSITY PARK

ROTATION 5

Penn State VT

SCORE 49.1

Arizona State UB

SCORE 49.15

Florida BB

SCORE 49.5

WVU FX

49.0

TUSCALOOSA

ROTATION 3

Georgia VT

SCORE 49.025

Central Mich UB

SCORE 49.075

Missouri BB

SCORE 49.050

Michigan FX

Counting Zaziski's 9.625

SCORE 48.850

MINNEAPOLIS

ROTATION 5

Denver VT

49.125

Iowa UB

48.275

Minnesota BB

48.85

Kentucky FX

49.4

6 PM E.T.
COLUMBUS, Ohio State

ROTATION 1

Kent State VT

SCORE 48.575

Pitt UB

Conrad 9.8

Jones 9.85

Laymon 9.85

SCORE 49.125

Arkansas BB

Garner: fall 8.975

Yamzon 9.825

Wellick 9.9

SCORE 49.175

UCLA FX

Kocian 9.85

Kramer 9.9

Dennis 9.775

Tratz: high full-in but low landing, 1.5 to front full clean, chest down in double tuck (9.8)

Hano: Straight double lay, front full to front 1/2 running thing (so cool ugh) step back double pike

Ohashi: super high double lay, little knee buckle, solid 2nd pass, (can I go back and have this choreo?) perfect front full to font 1/2 to switch split bounce 9.925

SCORE 49.375


SALT LAKE CITY, University of Utah

ROTATION 1

Southern Utah VT

Burnside: fall 8.85

Loomis: 9.275 (counts)

SCORE 48.25

Stanford UB

Price 9.9

Flam 9.1

Navarro 9.575

Rogers 8.95

SCORE 48.05

California BB

49.125

Utah FX

Lee 9.9

Reinstadtler: 9.9

Skinner: 9.95

Soloski: 9.9 

SCORE 49.6

RALEIGH

ROTATION 6

GW VT

Nebraska UB

Oregon State BB

Maryland FX

UNIVERSITY PARK

ROTATION 5

WVU VT

Washington UB

Arizona State BB

UNH FX

TUSCALOOSA

ROTATION 4

Michigan VT

SCORE 49.050

Alabama UB

SCORE 49.400

Central Mich BB

SCORE 48.975

Illinois FX

SCORE 49.05

MINNEAPOLIS

ROTATION 4

Kentucky VT

Oklahoma UB

Nichols 9.9

Jackson 9.9

Catour 9.9 

Lehrmann 9.95

Iowa BB

Chow: Big wobble flight, stuck front full dism 9.85

SCORE 48.425

Iowa State FX

Young Nice tucked full in, little low front full to front lay, solid double pike 9.9

SCORE 49.225

COLUMBUS, Ohio State

ROTATION 2

UCLA VT

Dennis 9.875

Glenn 9.9

Ross 9.9

Hall: Y 1.5 small step

SCORE 49.4

Ohio State UB

SCORE 49.2

Pitt BB

Counting a 9.2

48.075

Boise State FX

Fall

East: 9.85

Nice front 2.1, solid double pike

SCORE 48.885

SALT LAKE CITY, University of Utah

ROTATION 2

Utah VT

Skinner 9.9

Tessen 9.9

SCORE 49.35

BYU UB

SCORE 49.075

Stanford BB

SCORE 49.125

Auburn FX

Millet 9.9

SCORE 49.325

TUSCALOOSA

ROTATION 5

Illinois VT

SCORE 49.050

Georgia UB

Georgia has some form issues here and there but really solid routines otherwise

SCORE 49.350

Alabama BB

49.275

Missouri FX

49.0

MINNEAPOLIS

ROTATION 5

Iowa State VT

Steinmeyer 9.85

Sievers 9.925

Martin 9.825

SCORE 49.25

Denver UB

Karr: stuck dism 9.875

Brown 9.9

SCORE 49.325

Oklahoma BB

Showers: clean handspring layout stepout, little wobble front toss connection, stuck cartwheel full dism

Nichols: perfect front aerial to split, stuck handspring layout stepout, awesome leap, stuck 1.5 dism, crowd is losing it

NICHOLS GOT A 10

SCORE 49.525 

Minnesota FX

Hitchcock: super clean double pike, clean routine

Ramler: very clean double pike, 1.5 to front lay clean, hop back on double tuck

Williams: nice front handspring 2/1, 1.5 to front lay - clean, front hand to front 1.5. That was a nearly perfect routine

COLUMBUS

ROTATION 3

Boise State VT

49.075

Kent State UB

48.575

Ohio State BB

48.85

Arkansas FX

Bargiacchi 9.8

Wellick Front 1.5 solid, front full to front lay - slight leg bend 9.85

SCORE 49.25

SALT LAKE CITY

ROTATION 3

Auburn VT

Southern Utah UB

BYU BB

California FX

TUSCALOOSA

ROTATION 6

Missouri VT

SCORE 48.975


Michigan UB

SCORE 49.375

Georgia BB

SCORE 48.975

Central Mich FX

SCORE 47.975

MINNEAPOLIS 

ROTATION 6

Minnesota VT

Hitch: Nice stuck YFull

Demuse: little step back Y full

Kentucky UB

Carlisle Nice jaeger, good HS work, gorgeous stuck double lay

Denver BB

Iowa FX

COLUMBUS 

ROTATION 4

Arkansas VT

Speed 9.9

Wellick and Yazmon 9.85

SCORE 49.175

UCLA UB

Dennis 9.9

Glenn

Peng's bars is literally perfect aside from some steps on the dism 9.875

Ohashi: 9.925 with the most beautiful bar set

Kocian 9.85

Kent State BB

9.8 for Chapman and Fletcher

Pitt FX

48.975

SALT LAKE CITY

ROTATION 4

California VT

49.175

Utah UB

Lee 9.8

Lewis 9.875

Merrell-Giles 9.85

Skinner 9.9

SCORE 49.2

Southern Utah BB

Yee 9.2

Ladieu 9.25

Packham 9.775

Stanford FX

Price 9.95

SCORE 49.45

COLUMBUS 

ROTATION 5

Pitt VT

48.95

Boise State UB

49.2

UCLA BB

Glenn: solid flight, awesome leaps, clean handspring gainer full 9.9

Kocian: little leg bend on front aerial, balance check layout stepout, sheep bobble, stuck double full dism 9.825

Nguyen: Solid all through

Ohashi: tiny bobble on flight, solid dism, super clean routine 9.9

Peng: so flighty, so crisp, big wobble on turn series yikes. The rest is lovely though 9.875

SCORE 49.475

Ohio State FX

Aepli: 9.825

McClelland: 9.875

Mattern: big double lay, so much diva. nice front lay to front full, solid double pike

49.3


SALT LAKE CITY

ROTATION 5

Stanford VT

48.975

Auburn UB

49.325

Utah BB

Stover: Nice front aerial to handspring, stuck front toss 9.875

Merrell-Giles: gorgeous all the way through, stuck dism 9.9

Soloski 9.725

Lee: Fall 9.2

Reinstadtler solid flight, stuck cartwheel full 9.925

Skinner: solid flight, little bobble on back tuck, the TINIEST foot slide on double back. Such a nice routine 9.9

SCORE 49.325

BYU FX

49.075

COLUMBUS

ROTATION 6

Ohio State VT

49.15

Arkansas UB

Laird 9.825

Shaffer: 9.825

Wellick 9.825

Yazmon 9.775

SCORE 49.075

Boise State BB

49.075

UCLA FX

49.375

SALT LAKE CITY

ROTATION 6

BYU VT

48.85

California UB

Williams 9.8

FALL

George 9.8

Schank 9.85

SCORE 49.025

Auburn BB

Riddle 9.775

Watson 9.8

Sylvia 9.85

Slappey: huge wobble, near fall on flight, solid leaps, stuck cartwheel full 9.75

Milliet: Gorgeous routine...solid all though, stick dism 9.925

Krippner: major hip bobble on leap, big bobble on flight 9.05

looks like the 49.1 will stick

Southern Utah FX

Gonzalez 9.65

Jorgesen 9.825

Jozwiakowski 9.825

McBride 9.85

Nipp 9.85