Eight Gymnastics Meets to be Televised Nationally in 2026

NORMAN – The 2025 National Champion Oklahoma women's gymnastics team will be featured an impressive eight times on the ESPN family of networks during the 2026 regular season, the SEC and ESPN announced Monday. The slate includes seven conference matchups on the networks, including all four home conference meets.

The season kicks off with the Sprouts Farmer's Market Collegiate Quad airing on ABC on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 3 p.m. CT. The meet will pit the defending national champions against 2025 NCAA Championship finalists UCLA and Utah and the 2024 national champion LSU Tigers.

OU will be featured on ESPN2 twice during the regular season in back-to-back weeks. The Sooners will travel to Gainesville, Fla., to face Florida on Friday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m.

In one of the most anticipated meets of the year, the two most recent national champions will go head-to-head inside Lloyd Noble Center on Friday, Feb. 20. OU and LSU will battle it out beginning at 8 p.m.

Five of the regular season conference matchups will air on SEC Network. First up is a road test with 2025 NCAA third-place finisher Missouri on Friday, Jan. 16 at 7:45 p.m.

The following week, the Sooners welcome Georgia to Norman for a 6 p.m. battle on Friday, Jan. 23. Leading into the meet, SEC Network will air SEC Now: Oklahoma Gymnastics 2025 National Championship Celebration from 5:30-6 p.m.

OU will go back on the road to face Kentucky on Friday, Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. CT, followed by a 7:45 p.m. home meet with Alabama in Norman on Friday, Feb. 6.

The final SEC Network meet of the regular season will take place on Friday, Feb. 27, at 7:45 p.m. as the Sooners host Auburn inside Lloyd Noble Center.

The 2026 SEC Championship will air on SEC Network live from the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., with Session 1 beginning at 2 p.m. and Session 2 at 7 p.m.

ESPN networks will once again blanket the postseason, starting with NCAA Women's Regional action streaming live on ESPN+ from Wednesday, April 1 to Sunday, April 5. Championship weekend coverage includes both the Men's and Women's Semifinals, with men's action on ESPN+ and women's semifinal rounds on ESPN2.

ABC is the home of the 2026 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships for the sixth consecutive season, with the Championship Final live on Saturday, April 18, at 3 p.m. Prior to Saturday's championship, the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship Preview will be live on ABC at 2:30 p.m.

Coming off a season that saw the Sooners bring home their seventh national championship, the 2026 squad returns the No. 1 all-arounder in the nation in Faith Torrez, alongside All-Americans Addison Fatta, Elle Mueller and Lily Pederson. The Sooners brought in the No. 1 signing class in the nation in Nicole Desmond, Mackenzie Estep, Ella Murphy, Kamila Pawlak and Blakely Roten.

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