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2021 Women's Gymnastics Roster

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Temple Owls gymnastics team
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Faith Leary
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Faith Leary
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Faith Leary
Faith Leary
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Temple Gymnastics
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Temple Gymnastics EAGL Champions
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Temple Gymnastics
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Faith Leary

Faith Leary

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Height:
    5-3
  • Hometown:
    Cincinnati, Ohio
  • High School:
    Glen Este
  • Club:
    Cincinnati Gymnastics

CAREER HIGHS
VT UB BB FX AA
9.900 -- 9.675 9.900 --

PERSONAL RECORDS
Vault: 9.9 - vs. BYU (3/2/18)
Beam: 9.675 - at Bowling Green w/ Illinois State
Floor: 9.9 - vs. Denver w/Bowling Green, Michigan (2/23/18), Ken Anderson Invitational (1/16/21), EAGL Championships (3/20/21), NCAA Regionals (4/3/21)
Italics - with Utah State

2022: Second Team All-EAGL (floor). . . Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholarship Award First Team. . . Competed in 12 of the 13 meets, all on the floor. . . Scored 9.725 or better in all 12 meets as she had an NQS of 9.850 and averaged 9.810 during the year. . . Scored eight 9.800 or better, including four straight meets to end the season. . .Helped team tie the school record two times including with a 49.375  at Towson on Feb. 4 with Eastern Michigan and LIU as she tallied a season-high 9.875. . . She scored 9.875 again at No. 26 UNC as she tied for first-place . . . Helped the team tie the floor record a pair of times with a 49.375. . . Also helped achieve the best team score in school history at NC State on Feb. 25 as scored 196.675.

2021: WCGA Scholastic All-American . . . NCAA Regional Qualifier (floor). . . Named to the First Team All-EAGL (Tournament) and First Team All-EAGL First Team All-Tournament (Floor). . . Competed in all 12 meets, two events (vault, floor). . . Scored a season-high 9.775 on the vault versus UNC (2/21). . .Averaged a 9.850 on the floor exercise, and had a NQS of 9.888. . .Had four wins on the floor, including an EAGL Tournament Championship. . .  Notched her career-high 9.9 three times during the season including ending her season at the NCAA Regionals (4/3) in the floor individual event finals, finishing third overall.. . Helped the Owls to a program record on the floor twice during the season - 49.300 versus UNC (2/21/21) and 49.375 at the EAGL Championships (3/20).

2020: Competed in four meets for the Owls in her first season in Cherry and White…Recorded season-bests of 9.85 on vault, 9.675 on beam and 9.875 on floor…Won two event titles (1- VT, 1- FX)…Earned ECAC Coaches Choice honors on Feb. 5… Helped the Owls score their sixth (195.000) highest overall team score in program history on Jan. 31…Named to ECAC All-Academic team…Team named ECAC Champions for second-straight year...Season cut short due to COVID-19.

2019 (Utah State): Competed as a floor specialist in seven meets…Tied for 16th on floor with a season-high 9.750 at the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference Championships (3/22)…Also had a 9.750 on floor at Southern Utah (2/1)…Averaged 9.682 on floor.

2018 (Utah State): Qualified as an alternate on both vault and floor for the NCAA Regional Championships (4/7) with personal-best scores of 9.900 on each event…Tied for 14th in the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference and tied for 30th in the North Central Region with a vault Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) of 9.790…Averaged 9.623 on vault and 9.844 on floor, which is tied for seventh all-time in school history on the event…Tied for eighth in the MRGC, tied for 16th regionally and tied for 95th nationally with a floor RQS of 9.865...Tied for 16th on vault (9.750) and tied for 10th on floor (9.850) at the MRGC Championships (3/24)…Tied for the eighth-best vault score in school history with a career-best 9.900 against BYU (3/2), winning the event title in the process and earning MRGC Vault Specialist of the Week accolades…Won the first event title of her career with a 9.850 on floor in a home tri meet against San José State and Sacramento State (1/19)…Recorded career-high score of 9.900 on floor at Elevate The Stage (2/23) in Toledo, Ohio… Earned academic all-MRGC and USU Joe E. and Elma Whitesides Scholar-Athlete Award accolades.

High School: Competed in the all-around for Cincinnati Gymnastics under coach Whitney Snowden…Placed 13th in the all-around at nationals in 2015, including a fourth-place finish on vault and a fifth-place finish on floor…Was the beam and floor state champion in 2017, while her club team took the state championship the same year…Graduated from Glen Este High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a 3.7 GPA and earned National Honor Society for Dance Arts accolades.

Personal: Daughter of Rob Ferguson and Amy Leary…Has six brothers and sisters…Majoring in exercise science.
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