NORMAN – The full field and information on the 2023 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships, scheduled for April 13-15 inside Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, were announced by the NCAA on Monday afternoon.
The No. 1 overall seed Oklahoma Sooners will compete in Semifinal II on Thursday, April 13 at 8 p.m. CT, along with No. 4 UCLA, No. 5 Utah and No. 9 Kentucky. The meet will be televised on ESPN2 with Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson Clarke and Samantha Peszek announcing.
All rotations were predetermined by random draw. As the top finisher from the regional with the No. 1 seed, the Sooners will compete in the following order: bars, beam, floor and vault. Rotating with the team as an individual all-around competitor will be Michigan's Abby Heiskell.
Competing on the opposite side of the bracket will be No. 2 Florida, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 California and No. 14 Denver. The first semifinal will begin at 2 p.m. CT on Thursday and air on ESPN2 with Conner, Johnson Clark and Peszek on the call.
The top two teams from each NCAA Semifinal will advance to the Four on the Floor, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at 3 p.m. CT (will air on ABC). The Sooners have advanced to the NCAA finals 11 times in program history, including each of the last nine years. Oklahoma has placed in the top three every year since 2013 and has won five national championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022).
Individual event and all-around national champions will also be determined during the semifinals competitions. Six Sooners have combined for a total of 17 individual national titles in program history. The last individual national champion for the Sooners was Anastasia Webb in 2021, who won titles in the all-around and on vault and floor.
Oklahoma won its 13th consecutive regional title and 15th overall on Saturday night, battling back to take first place at the NCAA Norman Regional.
OU captured three individual regional titles in Thursday's second round, as sophomore
Jordan Bowers and senior
Ragan Smith scored perfect 10s to win the bars and beam championships, respectively, and super senior
Olivia Trautman earned the vault crown with a 9.950.
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