NCAA Championships on CBS Saturday

NORMAN, Okla. CBS (Cox Channel 10 in Oklahoma City) will air the 2007 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Team and Individual Finals on Saturday, May 12 at 3 p.m. (CT).

As a team, Oklahoma finished fourth in the first preliminary session, just 0.375 points shy of third-place Nebraska and the program's first visit to the team finals or “Super Six.” The Sooners finished eighth overall, marking the best finish in OU history, but did not qualify for the team finals.

Two Sooners, senior Brittney Koncak-Schumann and junior Kiara Redmond, represented OU in the event championships.

Koncak-Schumann closed out her outstanding collegiate career scoring a 9.85 to tie for third in the nation on vault with Nebraska's Emily Parsons. She also earned first team All-America honors on the apparatus.

All-Americans

Redmond turned in perhaps the best performance of her career at the NCAA Championships. The Los Angeles, Calif., native tied for fourth nationally on the floor exercise with a 9.9 and tied for eighth place on vault with a 9.7875. Redmond also finished eighth in the nation in the all-around and earned first team All-America distinction on all three events. Her three first team honors in 2007 were the most for an Oklahoma women's gymnast since Olympian Kelly Garrison earned five honors in 1988.

To qualify for the event finals, gymnasts had to finish in the top four (plus ties) on the apparatus in their session in the preliminary round.

Alabama's Terin Humphrey claimed the national title on bars with a 9.95, while Ashley Postell of Utah took the beam championship with a 9.9375. 2007 all-around winner Courtney Kupets of Georgia also won the vault crown with a score of 9.9188 and Alabama's Morgan Dennis took the floor title with a 9.9625.

Georgia took home its third consecutive team title with a 197.850, besting championship host Utah by 0.6 points.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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