KITCHEN, MAES AND WHITE ADVANCE TO PRELIMINARY ROUND OF NCAA MEN'S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Temple University gymnasts Travis Kitchen, Theo Maes and Nyika White have advanced to the preliminary round of the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, Friday, April 5, 2002, from 7-9:30 p.m. in Norman, Oklahoma. The trio advance based upon their event performances in the qualifying competition on Thursday. Individual event finals are scheduled to take place Saturday, April 6, from 7-8:30 p.m.

Kitchen, a sophomore from St. Louis, Mo. (Berkeley H.S.), advanced to event preliminaries with a 8.600 score on parallel bars. Maes, a junior from Evanston, Ill. (Evanston Township H.S.) moved forward to Friday with a 9.200 effort on vault. White, a freshman from Williamstown, N.C. (Williamstown H.S.) qualified for preliminaries with a 8.850 score on rings.

In team competition, the Owls placed sixth in Thursday's afternoon session, failing to advance as a team to the championships. Temple was hindered by injuries, as Eastern College Athletic Conference all-around champion Richie Maguire was held out of both the pommel horse and parallel bars with a sprained wrist. Fellow junior Alex Weber was also bitten by the injury bug but performed in all events despite a sprained thumb. Maguire and Weber both advanced to the championship round in 2001.

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KITCHEN, MAES AND WHITE ADVANCE TO PRELIMINARY ROUND OF NCAA MEN'S GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

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