Gymnastics Earns a Pair of Event Victories and a 9.9 score on Sunday at GW Lindsay Ferris Invitational

Sunday, January 14

Washington, D.C

1:00 PM

Temple University

194.100

195.375

Penn

Brooke Donabedian Keystone Classic 1.5.24

Gymnastics Earns a Pair of Event Victories and a 9.9 score on Sunday at GW Lindsay Ferris Invitational

1.14.24 | Women's Gymnastics

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Temple Owls gymnastics team earned a pair of event wins from juniors Sarah Stallings and Madison Dorunda and a 9.900 from senior Brooke Donabedian on Sunday afternoon at the George Washington Lindsey Ferris Invitational. The Owls scored a season-high 194.100, but Penn won the five-team meet with a score of 195.375, followed by the host Colonials with a 195.025. In fourth place was Yale a 193.325 and Cornell with a 192.850 in fifth.

HOW IT HAPPENEND

The Cherry and White scored 13 9.7s or better during Sunday's meet, including all six gymnasts on the floor exercise.
The Owls floor squad gave the team its first 49-plus score this season.
Temple was leading through three rotations, but after a bye in rotation four, the Quakers and George Washington overtook the first and second positions.

ROTATION 1 (BARS – 48.450)

Stallings continued her mastery of the bars as she added her eighth career championship as she scored a 9.800.
The Raleigh N.C. junior's event-winning score was her 18th career 9.8 or better in her career..
Sophomore Emily Johnson made her career debut on bars, adding 9.750, good for fifth place.
Fellow sophomore Reese DeHaan tied her career-high of 9.700, a mark she tied on Jan. 5 at the Keystone Classic.

ROTATION 2 (BEAM – 48.175)

Dorunda earned her second career win on the beam with a 9.850.
Senior Renee Schugman finished in fourth place with a season-best 9.825.
The Owls' Donabedian (9.750) and junior Summer Ruskey (9.700) scored each scored 9.7 or better.

ROTATION 3 (FLOOR - 49.175)

Donabedian's 9.900 was good for third place in the event and also marked the ninth of her career.
Three other gymnasts scored at least a 9.8 in rotation three including Summer Ruskey (9.800), Renee Schugman (9.825), and Payton Monk (9.850).
In her third time out, Monk has now set a new career-high score along with scoring two 9.8-plus scores to begin her career.

ROTATION 5 (VAULT – 48.300)

Schugman was Temple's highest scorer with a 9.700.
Three freshman gymnasts were featured on the vault including, Hailey Best making her collegiate debut with 9.650.

UP NEXT

Up next for Temple will be Alumni Day at home in McGonigle Hall against Towson on Jan. 21 at 5 p.m. ET.

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