Ute Gymnasts are No. 1 Seed at SLC Regional

INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA office announced the regional gymnastics fields today and Utah has received the No. 1 seed into the Salt Lake City Regional on Saturday, Apr. 7. The meet will start at 4 p.m. MDT in the Huntsman Center. The field for the Salt Lake City Regional (with national ranking where applicable) is No. 4 Utah, No. 9 California, No. 16 Auburn, No. 21 BYU, Stanford and Southern Utah.

The Salt Lake City (West) Regional is one of six NCAA regionals (all on Apr. 7). The other regional sites are Columbus (Central), Minneapolis (North Central), Raleigh (Southeast), Tuscaloosa (South Central) and University Park (Northeast). The top two teams from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo., Apr. 20-21. Utah is attempting to run its record string of consecutive national championship appearances to 43. Utah finished fifth at the 2017 NCAA Championships in its 20th Super Six appearance.

Tickets for the Salt Lake City Regional range from $6 to $16 for the general public and are free for the first 250 University of Utah students. Students will need to show their Ucard at Huntsman Center door 3. All seating is lower bowl (the upper bowl will be draped) and ticket prices are $8 for adults/$6 for kids in rows 21-31 and $16 for seats in rows 1-20. Tickets can be purchased at www.UtahTickets.com and 801-581-UTIX (8849).

Four at-large all-around competitors and eight at-large event specialists will also participate in each regional. A complete list of at-large competitors in the SLC Regional can be found below.

The NCAA Women's Gymnastics Committee conducted a random draw to choose the rotation order across all six regionals. As a No. 1 seed, Utah will start on floor, then rotate to vault, bye before bars, bars and beam before ending on a bye.

Utah is coming off a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships. MyKayla Skinner was the all-around and floor co-champion and MaKenna Merrell-Giles won the vault.

SLC All-Around Competitors
1. Kelley Hebert, UC Davis
2. Alexis Brown, UC Davis
3. Annie Juarez, Sacramento State
4. Caitlin Soliwoda, Sacramento State

SLC Event Specialists
Vault – Ellie Pascoe-Long, San Jose State
Vault – Taylor Chan, San Jose State
Uneven Bars – Kaitlin Won, San Jose State
Uneven Bars – Gabby Landess, UC Davis
Balance Beam – Courtney Soliwoda, Sacramento State
Balance Beam – Stephanie Relova, San Jose State
Floor Exercise – Taylor Chan, San Jose State
Floor Exercise – Ellie Pascoe-Long, San Jose State

2018 NCAA Regional Fields (by seed)

Columbus Regional
1. UCLA
2. Arkansas
3. Boise State
4. Ohio State
5. Pittsburgh
6. Kent State

Minneapolis Regional
1. Oklahoma
2. Kentucky
3. Denver
4. Minnesota
5. Iowa State
6. Iowa

Raleigh Regional
1. LSU
2. Nebraska
3. Oregon State
4. George Washington
5. NC State
6. Maryland

Salt Lake City Regional
1. Utah
2. California
3. Auburn
4. BYU
5. Stanford
6. Southern Utah

Tuscaloosa Regional
1. Alabama
2. Michigan
3. Georgia
4. Missouri
5. Illinois
6. Central Michigan

University Park Regional
1. Florida
2. Washington
3. Arizona State
4. West Virginia
5. Penn State
6. New Hampshire

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Players Mentioned

MaKenna Merrell-Giles

MyKayla Skinner

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Championships on April 16, 2026 ,

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Regional Final on April 5, 2026 , , 197.500 (3rd of 4)

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Regional Second Round on April 3, 2026 , , 197.500 (1st of 4)

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus Big 12 Championship on March 21, 2026 , , 1st of 6 (197.675)

Completed Event: Gymnastics at #4 UCLA on March 14, 2026 , Loss , 197.400, to, 197.850

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus BYU on March 7, 2026 , Win , 197.650, to, 196.550

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus West Virginia on March 7, 2026 , Win , 197.650, to, 195.300

Completed Event: Gymnastics at #16 Denver on March 1, 2026 , Win , 197.200, to, 196.100

Completed Event: Gymnastics versus Southern Utah on February 20, 2026 , Win , 197.425, to, 195.825

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