Gymnastics Scores Third Highest Team Score of Season To Close Out EAGL Championships

Saturday, March 23

Towson, Md.

4:00 PM

Temple University

195.600

197.300

Towson

Gymnastics Scores Third Highest Team Score of Season To Close Out EAGL Championships

3.23.24 | Women's Gymnastics

Meet Results (PDF)

Temple scores its eighth 49 of the season on floor

TOWSON, Md. – The Temple gymnastics team finished in fourth place at the 2024 EAGL Championships on Saturday at the Towson Arena, scoring a 195.600, their third-high mark of the season, while picking up 14 All-EAGL Tournament Team selections.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Owls scored their eighth 49 of the season on the floor, leading to four all-tournament team selections.
The Cherry and White vault and beam teams had matching scores on Saturday with a 48.900.
In total Temple had 11 scores of 9.8 or better
Following the meet, eight Owls' gymnasts walked away with 13 2024 All-EAGL Tournament Team selections. (Summer Ruskey (3), Brooke Donabedian (2), Sarah Stallings, Mackenzie Aresta, Cyrena Whalen, Hannah Weklar, Renee Schugman, Madison Dorunda, Reese DeHaan, Payton Monk)
The Owls had a bye during the first rotation.

Rotation 2 (Bars – 48.750)

Cyrena Whalen and Sarah Stallings picked up Second Team All-EAGL honors after finishing in the top 10 with back-to-back 9.825s
Stallings ended the EAGLs with her eighth straight 9.8 or better, while Whalen earned her fifth overall 9.8 or better in 2024
Also picking up a second-team plaudit was sophomore Reese DeHaan after scoring a career-high 9.775.

Rotation 3 (Beam – 48.900)

Senior Brooke Donabedian, and juniors Madison Dorunda and Summer Ruskey led the Owls on the beam in rotation three, leading to second-team selections.
Dorunda led the squad with a 9.825, finishing in 10th place, while Donabedian and Ruskey added 9.800s for a tie of 14th place overall.
Donabedian picked up her seventh 9.8 or better in 13 meets this season, while Dorunda adds her sixth, and Ruskey adds her third of the year.

Rotation 4 (Floor – 49.050)

Temple's floor score was the third highest of the meet behind Towson and New Hampshire.
Led by First Team All-EAGL Tournament selections, Brooke Donabedian and Renee Schugman and second-teamers Ruskey and freshman Payton Monk, all four gymnasts scored a 9.8 or better.
Donabedian and Schugman matched the other with 9.850s, while Monk and Ruskey scored 9.800s.

Rotation 5 (Vault – 48.900)

All six of the Owls' vaulters scored 9.7 or higher in the final rotation.
Senior Mackenzie Aresta closed out her final vault routine of her career with a 9.850, tying her career high, good enough for a EAGL All-Tournament Team First-Team plaudit.
Freshman Hannah Weklar recorded a 9.800 score, earning a second-team selection with a 12th place finish. Ruskey also added her third tournament award, also with a second-team selection as she tied for 15th place with a 9.775

ALL-EAGL TOURNAMENT TEAM
First Team All-Tournament (Vault)
Mackenzie Aresta, 9.850

Second Team All-Tournament (Vault)
Hannah Weklar, 9.800
Summer Ruskey, 9.775

Second Team All-Tournament (Bars)
Cyrena Whalen, 9.825
Sarah Stallings, 9.825
Reese DeHaan, 9.775

Second Team All-Tournament (Beam)
Madison Dorunda, 9.825
Brooke Donabedian, 9.800
Summer Ruskey, 9.800

First Team All-Tournament (Floor)
Renee Schugman, 9.850
Brooke Donabedian, 9.850

Second Team All-Tournament (Floor)
Payton Monk, 9.800
Summer Ruskey, 9.800

2024 EAGL CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL SCORE RANKINGS
Towson (197.300)
UNH (196.175)
GW (195.500)
Temple (195.600)
LIU (194.525)

UP NEXT
The Temple gymnasts team will look forward to Monday, March 25 at noon as the NCAA Selection Show will take place. Both teams and individuals will be announced to various campus sites around the country.