April 11, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY
Complete Release in PDF Format 
NCAA Championships Live Scoring
Live Video Semifinals 1 & 2 (Friday)
Live Video Super Six (Saturday)
Live Video Individual Event Finals (Sunday)
THE MEET
Utah makes a record-setting 36th-consecutive appearance at the national championships, competing in the 2011 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships in the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, from April 15-17. Utah is also the only gymnastics team to qualify for all 30 NCAA Championships after making the AIAW nationals the six previous years. The Utes open NCAA competition on Friday, Apr. 15 in the evening semifinal, which begins at 6 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. MDT). Live scoring and video will be available at NCAA.com. There is no live TV coverage. CBS will broadcast delayed coverage of the meet on May 14 at 3 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. MDT).
THE EVENT
The NCAA Gymnastics Championships have been pushed back a day from their usual schedule and will be held on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the first time. It is also Cleveland's first time to host the event. Two semifinal sessions, each with six teams, will be held on Friday, Apr. 15 to determine qualifiers into the team finals on Saturday. The top three teams from each session will advance into the Super Six on Saturday, Apr. 16 starting at 4:00 p.m. EDT. The all-around champion will be determined on Friday, while the individual event championships will be held on Sunday, Apr. 17 starting at 1 p.m. EDT.
UTES WIN ATTENDANCE TITLE
For the second-straight year, the Utah gymnastics team is the women's attendance champion for all sports. The Utes, who averaged 13,503 to their home meets this season, edged Tennessee women's basketball (13,078) for the second year in a row. Last year, Utah won the attendance title by averaging an NCAA gymnastics-record 14,213 fans per meet in the Huntsman Center. Utah is the only team other than basketball to win a women's attendance championship. One of the best attended women's sports in history, Utah gymnastics has averaged over 11,000 fans per home meet for the past 21 years. Utah owns every gymnastics attendance record and has won 27 of the last 30 gymnastics attendance titles, including the last seven. Utah also owns the NCAA gymnastics single-meet attendance record of 15,558, set against Florida on Mar. 4, 2011. It was the ninth 15,000-plus crowd in school history.
SUPER SEMI
Utah faces some stiff competition in its attempt to qualify for the 17th Super Six in its history (see sidebar on page 4 for Utah's Super Six finishes). The Utes, who have advanced to the Super Six for the last 11 years and 16 times in the format's 18-year history, are considered underdogs to advance since their semifinal session includes the top three teams from the final regular season rankings: No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Oregon State. Others in Utah's session are No. 10 Nebraska and No. 24 Kent State. Utah was No. 7 in the final poll.
CHAMPION OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The only team to qualify for all 30 NCAA Championships, Utah has won nine NCAA Championships and has seven runner-up finishes. Utah is the only team to qualify for the Super Six every year since 2000, during which time the Utes have placed second four times (2000, 2006, 2007 and 2008) and third twice (2005 and 2009). The Utes have won 10 total national championships, including the 1981 AIAW title. Utah's national championship years were in 1981 (AIAW), 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995.
QUICK STICKS
Utah's overall 12-4 record includes an 8-3 mark in dual meet competition and a 4-1 mark at the NCAA Norman Regional ... Utah's record this season against the 2011 NCAA Championships' field is 4-3. Wins came against UCLA, Georgia, Nebraska and Michigan, while losses were to Florida, Oregon State and Oklahoma ... Utah goes into nationals as the eighth seed, based on its national qualifying score ... Utah's competition order for the semifinals on Friday is bars, beam, bye, floor, vault, bye ... Utah's season high score is a 196.975.
CHALK TALK
The Utes will likely compete three all-arounders at nationals: freshman
Corrie Lothrop (39.50 high), junior
Stephanie McAllister (39.475 high) and senior
Jacquelyn Johnson (39.225 high) ... Senior two-time All-American
Kyndal Robarts (knee) and sophomore
Fumina Kobayashi (foot) will miss the championships due to injuries. Robarts, who was ranked No. 1 in the nation on vault at the time of the injury, has missed all but the first two meets of the season and plans to apply for a medical redshirt year. Kobayashi was Utah's beam leadoff prior to the injury, which occurred the week of regionals ... Utah has two Olympians on its squad, both from Canada:
Gael Mackie (2004) and
Nansy Damianova (2008).
Corrie Lothrop was a 2008 U.S. Olympic alternate.
GOOD BALANCE
The Utes have not counted a fall yet this season and have hit 274-288 routines for a 95% success rate ... The freshman class performed half (12-24) of Utah's routines at regionals ... For the season, the six-member freshman class has performed 49% (142-288) of the team's total routines with just three falls (139-142) ... Individuals without a fall this season (all freshmen) are:
Mary Beth Lofgren (36-36),
Lia Del Priore (21-21),
Victoria Shanley (6-6) and
Hailee Hansen (4-4) ... Junior All-American
Stephanie McAllister saw her school-record for consecutive routines without a fall (72) end at regionals on Apr. 2 when she fell off the balance beam. Prior to the fall, McAllister had hit 44 straight routines this season and 72 straight routines dating back to Feb. 26, 2010. The previous school record for routines without a fall was 64 straight.
UTE LEADERBOARD
Junior
Stephanie McAllister finished the regular season tied for eighth in the nation in the all-around with a 39.385 regional qualifying score. The 2010 uneven bars' All-American enters nationals with a No. 6 ranking on bars (9.910 RQS). Senior
Gael Mackie is tied for seventh nationally on bars (9.905 RQS) ... McAllister leads Utah with 14 wins. Other Ute winners are Mackie (7),
Nansy Damianova (7),
Corrie Lothrop (6),
Mary Beth Lofgren (5),
Kyndal Robarts (2),
Cortni Beers (2),
Fumina Kobayashi (2),
Lia Del Priore (1) and
Victoria Shanley (1) ... Utah's all-around season highs: Lothrop (39.500), McAllister (39.475, twice),
Jacquelyn Johnson (39.225), Lofgren (39.225) and Mackie (39.150).