AUBURN, Ala. – 4 members of the Kent State gymnastics group are set to journey to Auburn College to participate within the 2022 NCAA Ladies’s Gymnastics Regional, competing on Thursday at 2 p.m. The 4 gymnasts representing the Golden Flashes at Regionals are junior Rachel DeCavitch, junior Karlie Franz, freshman Alyssa Guns, and sophomore Sarah Haxton. Haxton will compete on the uneven bars, Weapons and Franz on ground, and DeCavitch on all-around.
Kent State completed the season ranked forty first within the nation, narrowly lacking an NCAA Regionals look as a group. The Flashes completed the season because the third-highest ranked Mid-American Convention group and completed in fifth place on the 2022 MAC Championships.
DeCavitch completed with an all-around NQS of 39.245 for the season, together with 9.850 on ground, 9.820 on bars, 9.810 on vault, and 9.790 on beam. DeCavitch, the Champion, Ohio native, was named MAC Gymnast of the Week following a weekend during which she posted all-around scores of 39.325 and 39.350. The latter rating, in a house tri-meet towards Ohio State and Jap Michigan, was ok for first within the meet and her second-highest profession all-around rating.
Franz and Weapons, the 2 Flashes who will each be competing on ground, ended the season with near-identical NQS on the occasion. Franz’s 9.905 is only a hair larger than Weapons’ 9.900, however every gymnast made an enduring influence with their performances this season. Franz, the Marysville, Michigan native, scored a season-high rating of 9.925 twice this yr, first within the All-Ohio Meet on March 4, after which once more within the season finale towards Western Michigan on March 13. Weapons alternatively, a local of Royal Oaks, Michigan, posted one of many highest ground scores in program historical past in her first time ever competing on ground at Kent State, registering a blinding 9.975.
And eventually Haxton, initially of Fortville, Indiana, will compete on bars in Regionals, an occasion on which she possesses a season NQS of 9.870. Her greatest mark of the season got here in that All-Ohio Meet on March 4 towards Ohio State and Bowling Inexperienced, when the sophomore posted a brand new private document on bars with a rating of 9.900. She additionally posted bars scores of 9.875 in 4 meets this season.
The nationwide championships will happen April 14-16 in Fort Price, Texas at Dickies Enviornment. The championship occasion is hosted by Texas Girl’s College.
For tickets and knowledge concerning the Nationwide Collegiate Ladies’s Gymnastics Championships, go online to www.NCAA.com/wgymnastics. The whole 2022 Nationwide Collegiate Ladies’s Gymnastics Championships bracket is obtainable on-line at https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/gymnastics-women/nc/2022-ncaa-womens-gymnastics-championship-selection-show-time-date-how-watch. The meet will likely be broadcast on ESPN+.
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