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Ute Gymnasts Finish Regular Season At BYU
3/24/2003 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
March 24, 2003
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The No. 9 ranked Utah gymnasts (6-5) wrap up their regular season this Friday in Provo, Utah, where they'll meet No. 24 ranked Brigham Young (6-8 prior to a Mar. 24 meet with Southern Utah) ... The meet will start at 7 p.m. MST in the Marriott Center and will be televised live on KBYU ... Utah is 3-2 on the road this year ... Utah beat BYU in the first meeting between the two rivals this year, 196.800-194.700 on Jan. 17.READYING FOR REGIONALS
Still ahead for the Utes is the NCAA North Central Region Championships, which will be held in Salt Lake City on April 12, starting at 6 p.m. in the Huntsman Center. Tickets are available at the Ute ticket office (581-UTIX) and over the Internet (www.UtahUtes.com).PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday starting at 1:30 p.m. in the Dumke Gymnastics Center. All practices are open to the public. Media interested in interviews should plan to be in the Dumke Gymnastics Center 30 minutes before practice begins. Interviews must be completed by the start of practice. Call sports information director Liz Abel at 801-581-3511 to arrange interviews.THE RANKINGS
Utah dropped three places to No. 9 in the latest national rankings, which are based on regional qualifying score (RQS)*. The new top 25 follows: 1. UCLA 197.980, 2. Nebraska 197.510, 3. Arizona State 197.455, 4. Georgia 197.300, 5. Alabama 197.265, 6. Oklahoma 197.165, 7. Stanford 197.110, 8. Florida 197.010, 9. Utah 196.980, 10. Michigan 196.780, 11. Oregon State 196.500, 12. LSU 196.485, 13. Iowa State 196.460, 14. (tie) Ohio State and Washington 196.355, 16. Auburn 196.350, 17. Iowa 196.210, 18. California 196.055, 19. Denver 196.035, 20. Arizona 195.965, 21. Minnesota 195.960, 22. Kent State 195.795, 23. North Carolina State 195.780, 24. Brigham Young 195.740, 25. Missouri 195.590.*The RQS is reached by taking a team's six best scores, of which at least three must be road meets, dropping the high score and averaging the remaining five.
LAST WEEK
Falls and other mistakes on floor and beam turned a close meet into a 197.125-196.150 loss for the Utes against Florida in Gainesville. Great all-around outings by Annabeth Eberle (39.675) and Melissa Vituj (39.500) and individual efforts by Theresa Kulikowski, Kim Allan, Dominque D'Oliveira and Natalie Nicoloff were negated by falls from Utah's remaining four competitors. Eberle, whose score was a career-best, and Vituj, finished 2-3 in the all-around. Eberle tied for first on vault (9.975) and beam (9.95), Vituj tied for first on floor (9.925) and Kulikowski tied for first on beam (9.95).UTE INDIVIDUALS ARE RANKED
Utah has four individuals ranked in the top 10, led by all-arounders Annabeth Eberle and Melissa Vituj in the all-around. Eberle is No. 7 with a 39.540 regional qualifying score (RQS), while Vituj is 10th (39.505). Eberle is also ninth on vault (9.930) and 10th on floor (9.940); Vituj is tied for fourth on beam (9.945) and is No. 7 on floor (9.945); Theresa Kulikowski is tied for second on bars (9.935) and is No. 7 on beam (9.935) and Kim Allan is sixth on bars (9.920).UTE NOTES
Utah needs to win this week's meet at BYU to avoid its first five-loss season since the 1979 season. The Utes won regionals that year and placed fourth at nationals ... Kim Allan competed only on bars last week to rest a sore Achilles. She hopes to return to the vault and beam lineup for regionals ... Theresa Kulikowski is back in the beam lineup despite a broken finger. Her goal is to return on bars and floor by regionals ... Kulikowski has won all six of her bar competitions this year and 10 of 16 total events ... Utah's victory leader is Melissa Vituj (19), followed by Annabeth Eberle (15) ... The two best all-around scores of the year are by Vituj and Eberle. Both have scored a 39.675; Vituj twice.SERIES SHORTS
Utah leads 69-2 in a series that dates back to 1976. Utah's two losses, which were in 1994 and 1998, were both in Provo. Utah has won the last 10. The Utes hold a 14-2 series lead in Provo and are 47-2 in regular season competition. Utah won the last match-up on Jan. 17 in Salt Lake City, 196.800-194.700. It was Utah's first win of the season.UTAH COACH GREG MARSDEN
Greg Marsden, the most successful coach in collegiate gymnastics history, is in his 28th year at the U. He is college gymnastics' only 700 win coach (770-124-5). In regular season competition, Marsden is 384-56-2. He has spent his entire career at Utah and has won 10 national championships, double that of any other coach. Four of those titles came in the '90s (1990, '92, '94, '95). Fifteen of his teams have placed in the top-three at the national championships, most recently in 2000 (second). Marsden is a seven-time National Coach of the Year recipient.BYU REVIEW
Ranked No. 24 ... 6-8 going into a meet with Southern Utah on Monday ... season-high 196.800 on Feb. 18 in win over Kentucky ... biggest win came against No. 11 Oregon State on Mar. 15 (196.775-195.325) ... top all-arounder is senior Lindsay Butterfield (39.40 best) ... head coach Brad Cattermole is 159-119 in his 15th season.MARSDEN SAYS
"We've demonstrated that when we don't beat ourselves, we're a good team, but our frustration has certainly been that just when we think we have things worked out, we have another meet like we did at Florida. It's really difficult for me to understand, much less, explain. "We discussed over the long weekend what needed to be done to move forward in a positive direction. We intend to adjust workouts and make them a little more meet-like and see if we can become a little more consistent in training. I think the way you compete reflects the way you train and at times we've been inconsistent in our training. "BYU has gotten better throughout the season and it seems like with (Jamie) Mabray back in the lineup they're coming together at the right time of the year. I know they're working hard to get their ranking up and must have a good meet this weekend."
Gymnastics Media Availability | Pre-NCAA Championships
Wednesday, April 15
Utah: 197.500 | Ala.: 197.225 | OSU: 196.375 | DU: 195.950 | Gymnastics Post-Meet Press Conference
Saturday, April 04
Utah: 197.400 vs. UCLA: 197.850 | Gymnastics Post-Meet Press Conference
Sunday, March 15
Utah: 197.650 vs. BYU: 196.550, West Virginia: 195.300 | Gymnastics Post-Meet Press Conference
Sunday, March 08