Horton Earns Weekly MPSF Honor

NORMAN, Okla. Junior Jonathan Horton has been named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week for Jan. 29, the conference announced Tuesday. The honor is Horton's first of the 2007 season for the 2006 MPSF Gymnast of the Year.

The Houston, Texas, native won the all-around title against No. 1 Michigan on Jan. 27 with a 54.700, and also took the floor (9.8), vault (9.1) and parallel bars (9.65) crowns. His score on the p-bars established a career high.

Horton is currently among the nation's top 10 in five categories according to the Jan. 29 GymInfo rankings, including No. 1 in the all-around and on the floor exercise.

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The meet with Michigan was Horton's first all-around competition of the season. He missed OU's season opener at the Rocky Mountain Open while in Japan with the U.S. Senior National Team, and was limited in the Sooners' home-opening win over Air Force and Nebraska while adjusting to the time change.

No. 3 Oklahoma faces No. 11 Nebraska in a double dual with the women's teams on Friday, Feb. 2 in Lincoln, Neb. The Sooners' next home meet is Feb. 16 at the Howard McCasland Field house against club teams from the University of Washington and the University of Texas.

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