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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Spears Named Event Specialist of the Week
January 17, 2012 | Women's Gymnastics
Jan. 17, 2012
NORMAN, Okla. – University of Oklahoma women's gymnast Taylor Spears was named Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week for Jan. 17, announced by the conference Tuesday.
The award is Spears' fourth career Big 12 weekly award. Spears was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week three times in the 2011 season.
Spears won the award after taking home the vault title at Oregon State with a career-high score of 9.875 on the apparatus. The sophomore also won the beam title with a season-high 9.875 on the event and scored a season-high 9.825 on bars against the Beavers.
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This is the second consecutive week that an OU gymnast was named Event Specialist of the Week. Junior Brie Olson took home the honors last week after winning the individual event titles on vault, bars and beam in the Sooners' home opener at the Kentucky Classic.
Other conference honorees this week were Missouri's Mary Burke (Gymnast of the Week) and Rachel Updike (Newcomer of the Week).
OU heads to Denton, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 21 for a quad meet at TWU with Centenary and Utah State at 7 p.m., at Kitty Magee Arena.
Friday's meet is OU's last road meet before its home opener on Friday, Jan. 27 against N.C. State. The Sooner gymnasts will share the floor with the OU wrestling team for OU's fifth annual "Beauty and the Beast" competition beginning at 7 p.m., at the Lloyd Noble Center.
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