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Men's Gymnastics Ready For Red-White Scrimmage

Men's Gymnastics Ready For Red-White Scrimmage

December 05, 2003 | Men's Gymnastics

By: Athletics Communications

NORMAN, Okla.   In preparation for its upcoming season, the University of Oklahoma men's gymnastics will kick off  the 2004 season with the annual Red-White intrasquad scrimmage.  The meet will be held Saturday, December 6, at 1 p.m., at Sam Viersen Gymnastics Center on the Oklahoma campus and is free to the public.

“The Red-White Intrasquad opens the season for my team and we are excited to kick things off,” said Oklahoma head coach Mark Williams.  “We'll have official judges here so it will be the first time the guys are getting scores to their routines.” 

OU was voted No. 2 in the GymInfo Coaches' preseason top-15 poll this season. The Sooners got three first-place votes and trailed only Ohio State, which received nine first-place votes. OU has ranked in the top five of the preseason poll over each of the last seven seasons and were No. 1 in 2003 and 2002.

Last season, Oklahoma took first at the NCAA Championships for the second straight season to go along with its fifth straight Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship.  Williams was named NCAA Coach of the Year and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year as well.

Some of those slated to compete on Saturday include a list of five All-Americans from the past two seasons. Senior Jock Stevens (All-American on vault), senior co-captain Heath Mueller (All-American on parallel bars) and sophomore Jamie Henderson (All-American on still rings) return from stellar seasons in 2003. From the 2002 season, senior co-captain Quinn Rowell (All-American on high bar) and junior David Henderson (All-American on still rings) conclude the list of top returners for OU in the 2004 season.

The No. 2 Sooners will open up the 2004 season with the Rocky Mountain Open in Colorado Springs, Colo., on January 16-17.

Williams added, “The intrasquad is a nice way to kick things off for the start of the year and there is always a spirited competition between teams. The meet will be somewhat informal but important for our lineup for the beginning of the season.”

 

 

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