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Friday, April 12
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USAG Semifinals (Individual Qualifiers)
Seven Gymnasts Head To Centenary College To Participate At USAG National Championships
4.11.13 | Women's Gymnastics
USAG National Championships Central
SHREVEPORT, La. – ECAC Coach of the Year Aaron Murphy leads seven members of the Temple women's gymnastics squad to the 2013 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate Championships, which will get underway Friday at Gold Dome on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana.
Temple's qualifying gymnasts will compete in both sessions on Friday. In the opening session, which begins at 2:00 p.m. sophomore Lauren Capone (vault) and Heather Zaniewski (uneven bars and beam) will represent the Owls, as they will go up against participants from Air Force, Texas Woman's, Brown and Cornell.
Later on when the competition picks up at 7:00 p.m., senior Jean Alban will take part in the all-around, while junior Brittanie DeMeno will perform on beam and on vault for the injured Alexis Arena. Junior Sylvie Borschel and sopohmore Taylor Rakus will also compete on beam. Fourth-year gymnast Margaret Walch, who takes sophomore Stephanie Verry's (injured) sport in the floor exercise, will round out opening day competition for TU. The six Owls that will compete in the night cap will go up against members from Seattle Pacific, Penn, Centenary and Bridgeport.
The individual event finals will take place Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Temple's entire beam lineup will compete in nationals over the course of the two sessions on Friday. The Owls' beam team registered its season-high score at Ursinus back on Feb, 10 when it totaled a 48.65.
Alban, who will be competing on all four events is a two-time ECAC Gymnast of the Week. She set her career-high all-around score (38.650) at West Virginia this season and had her best mark of the season on the beam, scoring a 9.775 at Penn State.
Capone is coming off her 9.8 score in the floor exercise at ECAC's. Her career-high score in the event came in the Ken Anderson Invitational when she was tabbed with a 9.7.
At ECAC's, Zaniewski matched her season-best score on uneven bars when she was given a 9.750. Her season-high beam value is identical, as she was tabbed with a 9.750 in back-to-back meets (Towson and West Virginia).
DeMeno, who consistently put up all-around scored in the 38-point range at the end of the season, put up her best beam score of her career in a meet at Pittsburgh, while her top vault score was given to her in the Owls' home meet at the Ken Anderson Invitational.
Borschel is averaging a beam score of 9.590 this season with her highest mark coming at New Hampshire when she score a 9.750 to earn herself a new career-high.
Rakus, an ECAC Rookie of the Week selection earlier this season, has anchored the beam lineup with her 9.512 average on the apparatus since being inserted in the lineup this season. Rakus posted her best score of the season in her team's dual meet at Ursinus.
Walch, who was named an ECAC Specialist of the Week this season, will take the floor on the national stage. At Towson, she was awarded her highest score of the season when she was given a 9.750 for her performance, boosting her season average to 9.550.
SHREVEPORT, La. – ECAC Coach of the Year Aaron Murphy leads seven members of the Temple women's gymnastics squad to the 2013 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate Championships, which will get underway Friday at Gold Dome on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana.
Temple's qualifying gymnasts will compete in both sessions on Friday. In the opening session, which begins at 2:00 p.m. sophomore Lauren Capone (vault) and Heather Zaniewski (uneven bars and beam) will represent the Owls, as they will go up against participants from Air Force, Texas Woman's, Brown and Cornell.
Later on when the competition picks up at 7:00 p.m., senior Jean Alban will take part in the all-around, while junior Brittanie DeMeno will perform on beam and on vault for the injured Alexis Arena. Junior Sylvie Borschel and sopohmore Taylor Rakus will also compete on beam. Fourth-year gymnast Margaret Walch, who takes sophomore Stephanie Verry's (injured) sport in the floor exercise, will round out opening day competition for TU. The six Owls that will compete in the night cap will go up against members from Seattle Pacific, Penn, Centenary and Bridgeport.
The individual event finals will take place Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Temple's entire beam lineup will compete in nationals over the course of the two sessions on Friday. The Owls' beam team registered its season-high score at Ursinus back on Feb, 10 when it totaled a 48.65.
Alban, who will be competing on all four events is a two-time ECAC Gymnast of the Week. She set her career-high all-around score (38.650) at West Virginia this season and had her best mark of the season on the beam, scoring a 9.775 at Penn State.
Capone is coming off her 9.8 score in the floor exercise at ECAC's. Her career-high score in the event came in the Ken Anderson Invitational when she was tabbed with a 9.7.
At ECAC's, Zaniewski matched her season-best score on uneven bars when she was given a 9.750. Her season-high beam value is identical, as she was tabbed with a 9.750 in back-to-back meets (Towson and West Virginia).
DeMeno, who consistently put up all-around scored in the 38-point range at the end of the season, put up her best beam score of her career in a meet at Pittsburgh, while her top vault score was given to her in the Owls' home meet at the Ken Anderson Invitational.
Borschel is averaging a beam score of 9.590 this season with her highest mark coming at New Hampshire when she score a 9.750 to earn herself a new career-high.
Rakus, an ECAC Rookie of the Week selection earlier this season, has anchored the beam lineup with her 9.512 average on the apparatus since being inserted in the lineup this season. Rakus posted her best score of the season in her team's dual meet at Ursinus.
Walch, who was named an ECAC Specialist of the Week this season, will take the floor on the national stage. At Towson, she was awarded her highest score of the season when she was given a 9.750 for her performance, boosting her season average to 9.550.
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