It was a double feature on Jan. 20 in Jenison Field House, where MSU Gymnastics and Wrestling went head to head with their respective opponents for Tumbles and Takedowns.
It’s the beginning of a new semester here at MSU, which means a whole new semester's’ worth of different sports.
MSU women’s gymnastics senior Lisa Burt advanced at the NCAA Regionals on Saturday at the University of Georgia. Burt advanced on the strength of her all-around score, a 39.275, good for fourth-best at the Athens Regional.
MSU women’s gymnastics hosted Big Ten opponent University of Illinois at Jenison Field House Friday. The meet was the team’s senior night and although the Spartans were edged by the Fighting Illini 196.300 to 195.575, the night was still special.
The Spartans would drop their home opener against Iowa by a final score of 192.575-194.900. Iowa went on to sweep all four events on the floor as the all-around winner Mollie Drenth led the Hawkeyes.
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time around the athletic staff at MSU knows they are a tight-knit group, always eager to support one another. With the men’s basketball team making their seventh Final Four appearance under head coach Tom Izzo , a few of the other head coaches at MSU weighed in on the man Izzo is, the basketball team’s success and Izzo’s ability to keep producing quality teams that make long post-season runs.
n the last meet of the regular season, the gymnastics team fell short of its goals in the inaugural Big Five Meet with Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska and Ohio State. The team earned a score 195.250 , good enough for a third place tie with the Buckeyes.
The women's gymnastics team is preparing for the end of the season and the upcoming meet this Friday will be senior night for the Spartans.
The women's gymnastics team have earned some much needed rest after competing in four meets in a span of just 10 days.
In the annual annual Jan Howard Memorial Breast Cancer Awareness Meet the MSU women's gymnastics team the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Saturday evening. The Spartans began the night on the vault with junior Nicola Deans coming in first in the competition, while MSU was on the vault, Minnesota had a quality team performance on the bars.
The gymnastics team achieved three top-10 individual placements in the NCAA Regional Championships on April 5.
As three MSU gymnasts head to compete at the NCAA Regionals on April 5 in Baton Rouge, La., they go in with the support of their team.Junior Alina Cartwright, sophomore Lisa Burt and freshman Elena Lagoski qualified for the meet with dual meet scores throughout their season, as well as their high performances in the Big Ten Championships. Cartwright and Burt are making the trip for the second year in a row and will compete in the all-around competition.
msu recap - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/recaps/031...msu roster - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/msu-w-...msu schedule - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/sched/msu-...rankings - http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/gymnastics-women/ncnebraska roster - http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=77&S...nebraska coaching staff - http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID...***the packet of notes is on my desk with the quotes attached to the back of them! If you need anything call me or text me! (:
After three recent meets, the gymnastics team achieved many season-high scores, but were not satisfied with their overall performance.
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The last two weekends were full of high scores for the MSU gymnastics team.
msu roster - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/msu-w-...msu schedule - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/sched/msu-...meet recap - http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/w-gym/recaps/022...head coach kathie klages - we're just focusing on the little things now, like eliminating landing deducting, which we improved on at this meet. we're working on keeping our legs together on bars, landing deductions, having straight arms. we want to make practice more like competition setting. we were pleased with the score being higher, but were disappointed on floor when we didn't do as well as we wanted. we competed floor third and we were tied going into that event so the coaches were confident, but we lost with two kids' falls on floor - lagoski and levy. they finished strong on balance beam and they fought through the meet and the mistakes. they'll build confidence from finishing strong. western improved massively since december until last week, i don't know what date it was exactly. that night they were on point and deserved to win. it was a situation that we counted a fall and they didn't. holmes stepped up at the last second, we had a fall on warmup and she went in at the last second. it was the first time she competed all-around.junior ashley noll - our mindset is a bit more confident to have a good victory next time. we kept the energy going and when we made the mistakes our confidence dropped so that was what go us. western gymnasts were probably nervous going in, knowing that they lost the first time we competed. they wanted to redeem themselves. we're focusing on competing like we practice. we're building to move forward and to do better this week.sophomore lisa burt - going into the meet i wanted to do my best for the team and bring the score up, and after i had won i was really happy. i'm happy to know i'm back to where i was last year. we're going in being more confident and energetic this week. we knew what we had to do. our warmup wasn't great, so we had to work even harder. we have to work on the little details like having straight legs, pointing out feet, sticking our landings, hitting everything. it's not just hitting our routines, we have to know we have it all together.sophomore brittany holmes - i was excited to know i was competing all-round. it was the first time i placed and my first 9.825 ever. i was just excited, like 'finally, i did it.' it's always either i'm off or the judges are not scoring high enough. we've been doing different assignments, like competing with pressure. and that's going to help transferring better to the competition floor. now i think we're going to focus a little more on the individual assignments. the big picture is fine, we just need to fix the little details.if you need anything, my number is (248) 464-2993
Although the gymnastics team posted its highest score of the season, the Spartans fell short to Western Michigan by 0.225, losing 195.00-194.775 on Friday in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The gymnastics team suffered a 196.025-193.700 loss to No. 15 Minnesota on Saturday and despite the team’s growth in confidence since the season began, there is more to work on. Coming off a win against Iowa on Feb.