2015 NCAA Gymnastics Championships Start Apr. 17

April 10, 2015

SALT LAKE CITY -

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS NEXT FOR UTES

The Utah gymnasts have qualified for a record 40th-consecutive national championship and will begin competition at the 2015 NCAA Championships on Friday, Apr. 17 in the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The Pac-12 Champion Utes will compete in the afternoon semifinal at 1 p.m. CT (noon MT) along with Florida, UCLA, Georgia, Michigan and Stanford. The top three finishers from the two semifinals (the second starts at 7 p.m. CT) will advance to the Super Six on Saturday, Apr. 18 at 6 p.m. CT (5 p.m. MT). Individual event finals are scheduled for Sunday, Apr. 19 at 2 p.m. CT (1 p.m. MT).

WATCH IT LIVE

Friday's semifinal sessions will be streamed live on www.ncaa.com. The Super Six on Saturday and the event finals on Sunday will be broadcast live online on ESPN3. For live Utah updates, follow twitter.com/utahathletics.

40-FOR-40

Utah has qualified for every national championship since the 1975-76 season under head coach Greg Marsden and is making a record 40th appearance this year. The Utes are also the only program to qualify for all 34 NCAA Championships to date and have won a record-tying 10 national championships.

SUPER SEMI

In Utah's semifinal on Apr. 17 are four of the six teams ever to win an NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship: Georgia (10), Utah (9 NCAA, 10 total), Florida (2*) and UCLA (6). The remaining member of the early session is Stanford. The evening semifinal contains Oklahoma (1* NCAA title), Alabama (6), LSU, Auburn, Nebraska and Oregon State. *Tied for the 2014 NCAA Championship. For information on all of the teams, see the sidebars on page 5.

DABRITZ' GREATEST HITS

Utah sensational senior Georgia Dabritz, the 2015 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and a 13-time All-American, has the second-best all-around score in the country this year (39.775 at the Pac-12 Championship) and is No. 1 in the nation on bars with a 9.975 RQS. Dabritz won bars in 10 of 12 meets this season, including the NCAA Berkeley Regional Championship. Dabritz won every event and the all-around at regionals, scoring a 9.95 on vault, bars and floor, a 9.90 on beam and a 39.75 in the all-around. She has four 10.0s this season (3 on bars and 1 on vault) and seven perfect scores in her career. Dabritz has 31 victories this season and 83 career wins.

UTES IN A MINUTE

Utah enters the NCAA Championships as the No. 3 ranked team in the country. See page 2 for complete national rankings ... Utah's season high was a 198.250 against Michigan on Mar. 6. Its season low of 196.575 came at the NCAA Regional on Apr. 4 ... Freshman Maddy Stover will be Utah's first competitor at the NCAA Championships. Utah will open the meet on the balance beam, before rotating to a bye, floor, vault, bye and bars ... Freshman Samantha Partyka (Katy, Texas) is Utah's lone gymnast from the Lone Star state ... The Utes will depart for nationals on Wednesday morning, Apr. 15, and will participate in a public practice session from 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena on Thursday, Apr. 16 ... Utah will be without senior All-America all-arounder Tory Wilson, who ruptured her right Achilles and broke her left foot at the Pac-12 Championships on Mar. 21. See Utes Lose Wilson for more ... Rotating with the Utes will be at-large all-arounder Giana O'Connor of Illinois.

FOR THE RECORD

The Utes have faced four of the teams in the afternoon semifinal this season and are 5-2 against them: UCLA (2-0), Stanford (2-0), Michigan (1-0) and Georgia (0-2) ... Utah has won back-to-back Pac-12 Championships ... Utah's 22-2 overall record includes an 11-1 regular season mark, a 7-0 slate at the Pac-12 Championship and a 4-1 finish at the NCAA Berkeley Regional ... Utah broke its own NCAA gymnastics attendance record this season, averaging 14,950 to its home meets and winning its fifth all-women's sports attendance title. Utah's other all-sports women's attendance titles were in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014. See Nation's Attendance Leader for more.

QUICK STICKS

No. 3 Utah is the nation's top-ranked team on both vault (49.560 RQS) and bars (49.500 RQS) ... Georgia Dabritz, who finished second on bars at the 2013 NCAA Championships, is ranked No. 1 in the nation on the event (9.975 RQS), a position she held for the last five weeks of the rankings ... A Ute has won every bar competition this year, with Dabritz claiming 10 victories and Corrie Lothrop winning twice ... The Utes have four vaulters ranked in the top 25, although No. 8 Tory Wilson is out for the season with an injury (see Utes Lose Wilson). Complete national rankings can be found on page 2 ... Becky Tutka holds the school record for consecutive routines without a fall (79). She is 79-of-79 in her career.

CHALK TALK

Georgia Dabritz, Tory Wilson, Kailah Delaney, Corrie Lothrop and Kari Lee were named NACGC/W Regular Season All-Americans. See sidebar on page 3 for a complete Utah All-America list ... Ute winners this season: Dabritz (31), Wilson (10), Lee (5), Baely Rowe (4), Delaney (3), Lothrop (3), Maddy Stover (1), Becky Tutka (1) ... The Utes have completed 97% (278-288) of their routines without a fall. Gymnasts who have hit every routine are Tiffani Lewis (15-15), Kassandra Lopez (12-12), Stover (12-12), Breanna Hughes (11-11), Tutka (9-9) and Samantha Partyka (7-7).

UTES LOSE WILSON

Utah lost senior co-captain Tory Wilson, its highest-ranked all-arounder, a seven-time All-American (including two regular season All-America awards this year) and the 2014 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year for the season at the Pac-12 Championship on Mar. 21. Wilson won the vault with a 10.0 and scored a 9.90 on bars and 9.875 on beam before rupturing her right Achilles tendon and breaking her left foot during the first pass of her floor routine. She finished her season ranked No. 9 in the nation in the all-around (39.485 RQS) and No. 8 on vault (9.940 RQS). Wilson is a three-time first-team All-Pac-12 selection and the 2014 Pac-12 all-around champion. Utah's two-time co-MVP was the 2013 NCAA North Central Region Gymnast of the Year and the 2013 regional vault champion. She finished her career with three perfect 10.0s on vault.

NCAA ARCHIVES

Including a tie last year for the NCAA Championship between Florida and Oklahoma, six teams have combined to win every NCAA Championship to date: Georgia (10), Utah (9*), UCLA (6), Alabama (6), Florida (2) and Oklahoma (1). *Including the 1981 AIAW title, Utah is tied with Georgia for most total national championships with 10 total ... There have been nine different runners-up at the NCAA Championship since its debut in 1982: Utah (7), Alabama (7), Arizona State (4), Georgia (4), UCLA (4), Michigan (2), Florida (2), Oklahoma (2), LSU (1) and Cal State-Fullerton (1) ... The highest score ever at nationals came last year when Florida and Oklahoma both scored a 198.175 ... The NCAA champion has won its qualifying session 19 times in 22 years under the present Super Six format: Georgia in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Alabama in 1996, 2002, 2011 and 2012; UCLA in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2010; Florida in 2013 and 2014 (tied for first) and Oklahoma (2014) ... Utah won the NCAA title in 1994 and 1995, after finishing second and third, respectively, in the qualifying round. UCLA took first place in 1997 after placing second in the semifinals.

LEADERS OF THE PAC

Their four seasons of Pac-12 membership have been golden for the Utes, who have won back-to-back team titles (2014-15), three all-around championships (Corrie Lothrop in 2012, Tory Wilson in 2014 and Georgia Dabritz in 2015), two Gymnast of the Year awards (Wilson 2014, Dabritz 2015), two Scholar-Athlete awards (Stephanie McAllister 2012, Dabritz 2015), and one Freshman of the Year (Dabritz 2012) and Specialist of the Year (Dabritz 2014) citation. In addition, Greg Marsden and Megan Marsden have been voted Coach of the Year for the past two seasons. Seven Utes earned all-conference honors this season, led by first-team all-arounders Wilson and Dabritz. Also making the first-team were Lothrop on bars and floor, Kailah Delaney on vault and Kari Lee on floor. Named to the second team were Lee on vault and beam, Kassandra Lopez on bars and Baely Rowe on beam. For Utah's complete 2015 Pac-12 honors, please see sidebars on page 3.

UTAH CO-COACHES

Co-head coaches Greg Marsden and Megan Marsden have won back-to-back Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards and also shared the 2015 North Central Region Coach of the Year award. Greg is in his 40th year overall as the head coach and Megan is in sixth year as co-head coach and her 31st year overall on the staff. Greg is the winningest coach in NCAA gymnastics history (1,040-207-7) and his 10 national championships is tied for the most in the country. He has taken his teams to the national championships every year since his first season back in 1976. He has a regular season record of 485-82-3. Megan has a 124-46-1 career record (57-15-1 regular season).

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