One week removed from its highest score of the season, the MSU gymnastics team is prepared to keep its momentum going when it welcomes Ball State to Jenison Field House on Friday night. The Spartans (3-2-1 overall) are riding a three-meet home winning streak, and last Friday’s mark of 195.175 kicked the season average up to 193.118.
For a moment on Friday night, the MSU gymnastics team had upset the No. 18 Illinois Fighting Illini in Champaign, Ill. However, after a brief inquiry, the official score gave the Fighting Illini an extra .025 points; thus, the teams tied at 195.175, and neither team left Huff Hall with the Victory Plank.
As the MSU gymnastics team prepares to hit the road for the first time in three weeks, the Spartans have some added motivation as they compete for the Victory Plank against No. 18 Illinois.
It wasn’t pretty, but thanks to a late swing in MSU’s favor, the Spartan gymnastics team pulled out its third straight win, 193.875-193.475 over Pittsburgh.
The MSU gymnastics team won its third straight meet at Jenison Field House, 193.875-193.475, over Pittsburgh Saturday night.
As the MSU gymnastics team heads into its final home meet of a three-meet stretch, the Spartans know how important it is to notch a third win over Pittsburgh before they hit the road. To do so, the Spartans have tried to simulate the atmosphere of a meet in their practices this week, which included the team being split into two squads and competing against each other. “When we do our practice routines, we try to get more scoring in to try and create the pressure of being judged and the meet experience,” sophomore Alex Pace said.
The MSU gymnastics team welcomed back former gymnasts Saturday at its annual alumni meet at Jenison Field House.
It wasn’t a perfect night for the MSU gymnastics team, but the Spartans topped Southeast Missouri State 193.450-188.350 Saturday night.
The MSU gymnastics team built on the momentum of its first win of the season last weekend and saw improvements on the event that has troubled the Spartans the most in their 193.450-188.350 win over Southeastern Missouri State tonight at Jenison Field House.
As they look to build on last week’s 194.400-193.625 victory over Illinois State, MSU gymnasts know they still have a long way to go. For the fourth straight week, the Spartans’ struggles on the balance beam were highlighted, and the event continues to see most of the focus in practice.
This time last year, Shanthi Teike had the world in front of her. Then a sophomore on the MSU gymnastics team, Teike was a rising star in the Spartan ranks coming off a freshman season, which made people take notice. As a sophomore, Teike competed as an all-around gymnast in seven of the team’s 12 matches and finished with three first-place, five second-place and three third-place honors leading into the NCAA Corvallis Regional.
The MSU gymnastic team got its first win of the season Friday night over Illinois State at the sixth annual Jan Howard Memorial Flip for a Cure meet, 194.400-193.625. The mark is the Spartans’ highest of the season and helped them to improve to 1-3 overall.
The MSU gymnastic team’s return to Jenison Field House hopes to be a successful one as the Spartans (0-3 overall) prepare to welcome Illinois State for the sixth annual Jan Howard Memorial Flip for a Cure Meet.
In a quad-dual that pitted the MSU gymnastics team against two top-10 teams, the Spartans placed third behind No. 5 Alabama and No. 9 Penn State and posted a season-high team score of 192.875.
If there’s one thing MSU gymnastics head coach Kathie Klages can say about her team, it’s that she will put them up against any school in the nation.
For the second consecutive week, the MSU gymnastics team went toe-to-toe with a top 25 team and fell short of their mark.
In its second meet of the season, the MSU gymnastics team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa on Friday for an 8 p.m.
In its first meet of the season, the MSU gymnastics team fell short of upsetting No.
The renovations — about $500,000 worth of improvements — were funded by a donation by Bob Skandalaris, who is an alumnus and frequent donor to MSU. The renovations include new paint jobs, new bleacher and chair-back seating, scoreboards and a video board, Deputy Athletics Director Greg Ianni said.
The MSU gymnastics team’s season ended Saturday in Corvallis, Ore., with the Spartans finishing third in the NCAA Corvallis Regional.