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4/13/2005 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
April 13, 2005
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The 10-time national champion Utah gymnastics team has qualified for a record 30th-consecutive national championship (24th-straight NCAA Championship) ... The 2005 NCAA Championships will be held in Auburn, Ala., April 21-23 ... Utah earned an automatic berth by winning the North Central Regional Championship--its 23rd regional title and its sixth straight ... The NCAA Championships begin on Thursday, April 21 with two qualifying sessions. Utah drew the afternoon session (starting at 1 p.m. CDT), along with LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Penn State. In the evening session are UCLA, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Brigham Young and Iowa State ... The top three teams from each session will advance to the Super Six on Friday, April 22. Individual event championships are held on Saturday, April 23.TONS OF ONES
Three of the four teams that earned a No. 1 national ranking during the regular season are in Utah's session. They are: Utah (eight weeks), LSU (two weeks) and Nebraska (once). UCLA, in the evening session, was the top-ranked team in two polls. Utah finished the regular season atop the rankings for the first time since 1993.DID YOU KNOW?
Utah's two losses (at Nebraska and at Georgia) were by an average of less than a tenth of a point (.088) ... Utah has a World Champion on its roster: Freshman Ashley Postell, the 2002 World Balance Beam Champion, finished the 2005 regular season ranked No. 1 in the NCAA on the beam ... As a team, Utah also finished the regular season ranked No. 1 on the beam, but ironically, that is the only apparatus where the Utes have counted a fall this year (at Minnesota and at regionals) ... Utah is opening NCAA Championships competition on the bars, marking the fourth-straight time it has drawn that rotation dating back to the 2003 Super Six ... The Utes won the 2005 women's gymnastics attendance title, averaging 11,300 spectators to their six regular season home meets, including the biggest crowd in the nation to watch a college gymnastics meet this season (14,100 vs. BYU). Utah has won 21 of the last 24 gymnastics attendance titles. The Utes had the largest crowd to attend a regional meet this year: 6,313.ON A ROLL
Utah enters NCAA Championships competition on a roll. The Utes have won 11 straight, including five wins at the NCAA North Central Regional. Utah's last loss was at Georgia on Feb. 25 (197.275-197.150). Utah's two losses, both nail-biters, came within five days of each other. On Feb. 20, the Utes lost at Nebraska, 196.650-196.600.NEVER BETTER
Utah's top-ranked gymnastics team has had to share the limelight in Salt Lake City this year. In fact, the University of Utah is enjoying an athletic year unmatched in NCAA history. Utah is the only school ever to win a BCS bowl game, reach the men's basketball Sweet 16 and have its women's basketball team win an NCAA first-round game in a single season. Only one school other than Utah (UCLA in 1967-68) has ever had a football and men's basketball player win National Player of the Year honors. Utah did so this year with quarterback Alex Smith and center Andrew Bogut. If Smith and Bogut are the No. 1 picks in the upcoming NFL and NBA drafts, as some experts are predicting, it would mark the first time in NCAA history that one school has produced two No. 1 picks in the same year. The Utah football team went 12-0 and finished with a No. 4 national ranking while, the men's basketball team went 29-6 and ranked No. 14. The Ute soccer and volleyball teams both participated in the NCAA Tournament, the women's basketball team made the NCAA second round and the ski team finished third at the 2005 NCAA Championships.
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