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Ute Gymnasts Picked Fourth in Preseason Poll
12/15/2015 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
Dec. 15, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY-
The Utah gymnastics team was picked fourth in the preseason coaches' poll released today. Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama captured the most votes, while Utah, LSU and UCLA rounded out the top six. The 2015 NCAA runner-up Utes collected the third-most first-place votes with 14 and their 2,171 total votes was just three shy of third place.
"We feel good about our preseason national ranking," said first-year co-head coach Tom Farden. "We lost possibly the best senior class in the nation, so this ranking shows that the coaches respect not only our returners, but also our freshman class of recruits."
Highlighting the returners are All-Americans Kari Lee, who competed in the NCAA individual finals on vault and floor last year as a freshman, Kailah Delaney, Breanna Hughes, Kassandra Lopez and Samantha Partyka. Freshmen who could make an early impact nationally are Sabrina Schwab and MaKenna Merrell.
The Utes will face eight preseason top-25 teams in the regular season: No. 6 UCLA, No. 7 Michigan, No. 8 Stanford, No. 9 Georgia, No. 12 Oregon State, No. 14 California, No. 18 Arizona and No. 24 Southern Utah.
Utah opens its 2016 season at home against BYU on Jan. 8. The NCAA Regional Championship returns to the Huntsman Center for the first time in four years on Apr. 2.
Gymnastics Preseason Top-25
No. Team (1st place votes) Points1 Oklahoma (29) 2266 2 Florida (15) 2234 3 Alabama (4) 2174 4 Utah (14) 2171 5 LSU (3) 2119 6 UCLA 1922 7 Michigan 1912 8 Stanford 1863 9 Georgia 1839 10 Auburn 1811 11 Nebraska 1801 12 Oregon State 1491 13 Arkansas 1457 14 California 1411 15 Illinois 1369 16 Denver 1368 17 Penn State 1246 18 Arizona 1178 19 Boise State (1) 1154 20 Minnesota 1024 21 Kentucky 876 22 Ohio State 869 23 Missouri 852 24 Southern Utah 829 25 Central Michigan 821
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