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NCAA Title Hunt Begins Thursday in Fort Worth
April 16, 2024 | Women's Gymnastics
NORMAN – When the No. 1 Oklahoma women's gymnastics team takes the competition floor this weekend at the NCAA Championships inside Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, it will begin its quest for a third-straight national title and seventh overall. The No. 1 overall seed Oklahoma Sooners will compete in Semifinal II on Thursday, April 18, at 8 p.m. CT, along with No. 4 Florida, No. 5 Utah and No. 8 Alabama. Competing on the opposite side of the bracket in the 3:30 p.m. CT session will be No. 2 LSU, No. 3 California, No. 12 Arkansas and Stanford. Both meets will air on ESPN2.
The top two teams from each NCAA Semifinal will advance to the Four on the Floor, set for Saturday, April 20, at 3 p.m. CT on ABC. The Sooners have advanced to the NCAA Finals 12 times in program history, including each of the last 10 years. Oklahoma has placed in the top three every year since 2013 and has won six national championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023).
All rotations were predetermined by random draw. As the No. 1 overall seed with the highest NQS ranking, the Sooners will rotate in Olympic order beginning on vault and ending on floor in the semifinals. If the Sooners are the top advancing team out of the semifinal, they will once again rotate in Olympic order for finals. If they are the No. 2 team out of the second semifinal, they will begin on bars and end on vault.
Other teams in the semifinal will rotate as follows: Florida will begin on floor and end on beam, Utah will begin on beam and end on bars and Alabama will begin on bars and end on vault. Rotating with the Sooners as an individual all-around competitor will be Gabby Wilson from Michigan.
THE ROAD TO FORT WORTH
Though the road to Fort Worth is a quick trip down I-35 for Oklahoma, the journey to the national championship is much more difficult. The top two finishing teams from each of the four regional sites advanced to one of the two semifinals at Dickies Arena.
OU will have the tougher of the two semifinals with four top-eight teams competing. The Sooners are familiar with two of their three opponents as they defeated No. 5 Utah at the Sprouts Collegiate Challenge in January in West Valley City, Utah. Oklahoma topped Alabama in the at home in March and in the regional final.
There are no strangers on the other side of the bracket as the Sooners faced every team from Semifinal I at least once this season. OU bested LSU in the Sprouts Collegiate Challenge before defeating California twice in February – once in a tri-meet at Arizona State and at Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth. The Sooners were victorious over Stanford in a quad meet at Denver in January and topped Arkansas in Fayetteville, in the last road meet of the regular season.
Though the Sooners did not face Florida this season, they have topped the Gators in each of the last three NCAA Championship Finals.
POSTSEASON PROWESS
Postseason has become a strength of the Sooners under head coach K.J. Kindler. Since 2010, Oklahoma owns 12 seasons in which it has captured both a conference and regional championship in the same season, accomplishing the feat in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2010. The Sooners claimed the 2024 Big 12 Championship with the highest score in NCAA history (198.950), before winning their 14th straight regional crown in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Oklahoma has advanced to the NCAA Championship 23 times in program history, including every season dating back to 2004. OU has never missed NCAA postseason competition under Kindler's leadership. Since 2016, the Sooners have placed in the top two every year with national titles in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The Sooners are the only team in the nation who have advanced to the finals every year since 2013.
WON AND ADVANCED
Oklahoma secured its spot at nationals in dominating fashion, winning a 14th-straight regional title with a first-place finish at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional. The Sooners posted a nation-best 198.400 in the regional final to advance alongside Alabama (197.575).
The Sooners swept the regional individual podium. Jordan Bowers won three titles, taking home bars with a 9.975, floor with a 9.95 and the all-around with a 39.675. Katherine LeVasseur earned a share of the vault title with a 9.95 and Ragan Smith won the beam title with her second-straight perfect 10.
IN GOOD COMPANY
The Sooners are one of only two teams in the nation to advance to the NCAA Championship every season since 2004, joining Utah. For the fourth year in a row, the Sooners will face the Red Rocks in semifinal action.
TOP OF THE PODIUM
In addition to determining the teams competing in Saturday's final, Thursday's semifinals will serve to crown individual national champions. Scores will be combined from both sessions to determine the winners. OU has had seven athletes combine for 18 individual NCAA titles with the most recent one coming in 2023 when current student assistant coach Olivia Trautman claimed the vault title as a senior. Trautman's title was Oklahoma's fourth national title on vault and first since 2021.
Kelly Garrison (1987, 1988) won all-around honors twice and claimed bars and beam titles as OU's first ever individual national champion. Taylor Spears broke a 26-year drought to claim the balance beam title in 2014, while Nicole Lehrmann earned her first and only championship on bars in 2017. Brenna Dowell earned a pair of titles during her career, winning vault in 2018 and floor in 2019. Maggie Nichols ended her career as the all-time program leader with six titles. She was a back-to-back all-around champion (2018, 2019), back-to-back uneven bars champion (2017, 2018) and earned titles on floor (2018) and vault (2019). Anastasia Webb earned three titles in 2021, bringing home the all-around, vault and floor titles in her senior season.
TO 198 AND BEYOND
Oklahoma has totaled 75 scores of 198 or better in program history, including 67 since 2016. Of those 73 scores, only 29 have been earned at home, with 46 coming at road or neutral site competitions. Of the road scores, 22 have come in regional or national competitions, including a 198.3875 at the 2023 NCAA Championship, which tied for the highest NCAA Finals score in history. In 2024, the Sooners earned a program and NCAA best 198.950 at the Big 12 Championships.
The Sooners have tallied 12 scores of 198-plus this season, setting the national record for most scores of 198 in a season. OU held the previous record of 10, achieving the feat in 2018, 2022 and 2023. OU has posted 11-straight marks of 198-plus this season, becoming the first program to ever do so. No school has ever posted more than four straight in history. Oklahoma's streak also included nine-straight scores of 198.300+. No other school in NCAA history has posted more than two consecutive scores that high.
CLOUD 9.9
In 15 meets this season, the Sooners have posted 236 scores of 9.9 or higher – an average of 15.73 per meet and 66% of all routines. Eight times this season, Oklahoma has earned a 9.9 or higher on at least 15 of 24 routines. The Sooners have tallied 19 marks of 9.9 or higher on four occasions. At the Big 12 Championship, the Sooners notched 23 scores of 9.9 or higher – the lone routine under a 9.9 was a 9.85. Oklahoma leads the nation with 236 scores of 9.9 or higher and only OU has tallied double-digit marks of 9.9 or better in every meet this season.
CLUB 197
The Sooners have posted a score of at least 197 or higher in 58 of their last 59 meets, including a program-record streak of 45 consecutive meets with a 197-plus. Of those 45 meets, 32 scores have been a 198 or higher. The Sooners are the only team this year to score at least a 197 in every single meet.
S-E-C YOU SOON
The 2024 season will be bittersweet as it marks the final year in the Big 12 for the Sooners who will move to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) beginning with the 2025 season. Kindler has been a member of both the Big 8 and Big 12 conferences, beginning her career as a gymnast and coach at Iowa State before coming to Oklahoma in 2007.
The Sooners will take on a new challenge in the SEC in 2025, which boasted all eight teams ranked in the top 20 of the preseason poll, with four in the top 10. Oklahoma has faced three SEC teams so far this season, defeating Arkansas, Kentucky and LSU.
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN
OU head coach K.J. Kindler is in a league of her own as the only coach in NCAA history to take two different programs to the NCAA Finals. In 2006, Kindler's Iowa State team advanced to the Super Six. Kindler has guided 12 OU teams to the finals in her 18 years in Norman.
Kindler is one of just two active head coaches to win an NCAA team title. The other being Michigan's Bev Plocki, who led her team to the title in 2021. Kindler is the only coach in the field of eight at the NCAA Championships in 2024 to have won a national title as head coach.
The top two teams from each NCAA Semifinal will advance to the Four on the Floor, set for Saturday, April 20, at 3 p.m. CT on ABC. The Sooners have advanced to the NCAA Finals 12 times in program history, including each of the last 10 years. Oklahoma has placed in the top three every year since 2013 and has won six national championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023).
THE MORE YOU KNOW
ROTATION ORDERAll rotations were predetermined by random draw. As the No. 1 overall seed with the highest NQS ranking, the Sooners will rotate in Olympic order beginning on vault and ending on floor in the semifinals. If the Sooners are the top advancing team out of the semifinal, they will once again rotate in Olympic order for finals. If they are the No. 2 team out of the second semifinal, they will begin on bars and end on vault.
Other teams in the semifinal will rotate as follows: Florida will begin on floor and end on beam, Utah will begin on beam and end on bars and Alabama will begin on bars and end on vault. Rotating with the Sooners as an individual all-around competitor will be Gabby Wilson from Michigan.
THE ROAD TO FORT WORTH
Though the road to Fort Worth is a quick trip down I-35 for Oklahoma, the journey to the national championship is much more difficult. The top two finishing teams from each of the four regional sites advanced to one of the two semifinals at Dickies Arena.
OU will have the tougher of the two semifinals with four top-eight teams competing. The Sooners are familiar with two of their three opponents as they defeated No. 5 Utah at the Sprouts Collegiate Challenge in January in West Valley City, Utah. Oklahoma topped Alabama in the at home in March and in the regional final.
There are no strangers on the other side of the bracket as the Sooners faced every team from Semifinal I at least once this season. OU bested LSU in the Sprouts Collegiate Challenge before defeating California twice in February – once in a tri-meet at Arizona State and at Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth. The Sooners were victorious over Stanford in a quad meet at Denver in January and topped Arkansas in Fayetteville, in the last road meet of the regular season.
Though the Sooners did not face Florida this season, they have topped the Gators in each of the last three NCAA Championship Finals.
POSTSEASON PROWESS
Postseason has become a strength of the Sooners under head coach K.J. Kindler. Since 2010, Oklahoma owns 12 seasons in which it has captured both a conference and regional championship in the same season, accomplishing the feat in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2010. The Sooners claimed the 2024 Big 12 Championship with the highest score in NCAA history (198.950), before winning their 14th straight regional crown in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Oklahoma has advanced to the NCAA Championship 23 times in program history, including every season dating back to 2004. OU has never missed NCAA postseason competition under Kindler's leadership. Since 2016, the Sooners have placed in the top two every year with national titles in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The Sooners are the only team in the nation who have advanced to the finals every year since 2013.
WON AND ADVANCED
Oklahoma secured its spot at nationals in dominating fashion, winning a 14th-straight regional title with a first-place finish at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional. The Sooners posted a nation-best 198.400 in the regional final to advance alongside Alabama (197.575).
The Sooners swept the regional individual podium. Jordan Bowers won three titles, taking home bars with a 9.975, floor with a 9.95 and the all-around with a 39.675. Katherine LeVasseur earned a share of the vault title with a 9.95 and Ragan Smith won the beam title with her second-straight perfect 10.
IN GOOD COMPANY
The Sooners are one of only two teams in the nation to advance to the NCAA Championship every season since 2004, joining Utah. For the fourth year in a row, the Sooners will face the Red Rocks in semifinal action.
TOP OF THE PODIUM
In addition to determining the teams competing in Saturday's final, Thursday's semifinals will serve to crown individual national champions. Scores will be combined from both sessions to determine the winners. OU has had seven athletes combine for 18 individual NCAA titles with the most recent one coming in 2023 when current student assistant coach Olivia Trautman claimed the vault title as a senior. Trautman's title was Oklahoma's fourth national title on vault and first since 2021.
Kelly Garrison (1987, 1988) won all-around honors twice and claimed bars and beam titles as OU's first ever individual national champion. Taylor Spears broke a 26-year drought to claim the balance beam title in 2014, while Nicole Lehrmann earned her first and only championship on bars in 2017. Brenna Dowell earned a pair of titles during her career, winning vault in 2018 and floor in 2019. Maggie Nichols ended her career as the all-time program leader with six titles. She was a back-to-back all-around champion (2018, 2019), back-to-back uneven bars champion (2017, 2018) and earned titles on floor (2018) and vault (2019). Anastasia Webb earned three titles in 2021, bringing home the all-around, vault and floor titles in her senior season.
TO 198 AND BEYOND
Oklahoma has totaled 75 scores of 198 or better in program history, including 67 since 2016. Of those 73 scores, only 29 have been earned at home, with 46 coming at road or neutral site competitions. Of the road scores, 22 have come in regional or national competitions, including a 198.3875 at the 2023 NCAA Championship, which tied for the highest NCAA Finals score in history. In 2024, the Sooners earned a program and NCAA best 198.950 at the Big 12 Championships.
The Sooners have tallied 12 scores of 198-plus this season, setting the national record for most scores of 198 in a season. OU held the previous record of 10, achieving the feat in 2018, 2022 and 2023. OU has posted 11-straight marks of 198-plus this season, becoming the first program to ever do so. No school has ever posted more than four straight in history. Oklahoma's streak also included nine-straight scores of 198.300+. No other school in NCAA history has posted more than two consecutive scores that high.
CLOUD 9.9
In 15 meets this season, the Sooners have posted 236 scores of 9.9 or higher – an average of 15.73 per meet and 66% of all routines. Eight times this season, Oklahoma has earned a 9.9 or higher on at least 15 of 24 routines. The Sooners have tallied 19 marks of 9.9 or higher on four occasions. At the Big 12 Championship, the Sooners notched 23 scores of 9.9 or higher – the lone routine under a 9.9 was a 9.85. Oklahoma leads the nation with 236 scores of 9.9 or higher and only OU has tallied double-digit marks of 9.9 or better in every meet this season.
CLUB 197
The Sooners have posted a score of at least 197 or higher in 58 of their last 59 meets, including a program-record streak of 45 consecutive meets with a 197-plus. Of those 45 meets, 32 scores have been a 198 or higher. The Sooners are the only team this year to score at least a 197 in every single meet.
S-E-C YOU SOON
The 2024 season will be bittersweet as it marks the final year in the Big 12 for the Sooners who will move to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) beginning with the 2025 season. Kindler has been a member of both the Big 8 and Big 12 conferences, beginning her career as a gymnast and coach at Iowa State before coming to Oklahoma in 2007.
The Sooners will take on a new challenge in the SEC in 2025, which boasted all eight teams ranked in the top 20 of the preseason poll, with four in the top 10. Oklahoma has faced three SEC teams so far this season, defeating Arkansas, Kentucky and LSU.
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN
OU head coach K.J. Kindler is in a league of her own as the only coach in NCAA history to take two different programs to the NCAA Finals. In 2006, Kindler's Iowa State team advanced to the Super Six. Kindler has guided 12 OU teams to the finals in her 18 years in Norman.
Kindler is one of just two active head coaches to win an NCAA team title. The other being Michigan's Bev Plocki, who led her team to the title in 2021. Kindler is the only coach in the field of eight at the NCAA Championships in 2024 to have won a national title as head coach.
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