Dalton, Moldauer Selected for CGA Hall of Fame

NORMAN – A pair of Olympians and two of the most accomplished athletes in collegiate gymnastics history, University of Oklahoma alumni Jake Dalton and Yul Moldauer were named to the College Gymnastics Association's 2026 Hall of Fame class, the CGA announced Friday.

Dalton and Moldauer are Oklahoma's third and fourth gymnasts selected for the CGA Hall of Fame, which was established in 2024. Jonathan Horton was inducted as a member of the inaugural class in 2024, and Steven Legendre was inducted last year.

Jake Dalton 2010-12

Dalton made the most of his three seasons of collegiate gymnastics, winning four individual national titles and earning 13 All-America honors with the Sooners from 2010-12. He helped OU win two conference championships and won eight individual conference titles over his three seasons.

A testament to his all-around versatility, Dalton won individual national titles on four different events. He won floor exercise and vault as a sophomore in 2011 and won parallel bars and the all-around title as a junior in 2012. As a freshman, Dalton earned All-America honors in the all-around, on floor exercise and on vault, then claimed four All-America honors (floor, vault, parallel bars and high bar) as a sophomore and capped his collegiate career with six All-America honors in 2012 (all-around, floor, still rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar).

Dalton was a member of two U.S. Olympic teams, competing at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio games, reaching the floor exercise final in Rio. A member of four U.S. World Championships teams in 2009, '11, '13 and '14, he won a silver medal on floor exercise at the 2013 World Championships and a bronze on vault at the 2014 World Championships, while also helping the team to bronze medals in 2011 and '14.

A Sparks, Nev., product, Dalton is also a seven-time national champion at U.S. Championships, including a four-time champion on vault and three-time champion on floor exercise. He won the vault national title in 2009, and won both floor exercise and vault in 2011, '12 and '14. He was also a silver medalist at U.S. Championships on floor exercise in 2010, a bronze medalist in the all-around and on floor in 2013 and won bronze medals in the all-around and on still rings in 2014. He is also a two-time Winter Cup all-around and floor exercise champion (2011 and '13) and won the Winter Cup vault (2011) and still rings (2013) titles.

Yul Moldauer 2016-19

One of the most decorated athletes in NCAA men's gymnastics history, Moldauer won the 2019 Nissen-Emery Award, was a member of three national championship teams with Oklahoma from 2016-18, a seven-time individual national champion and an 18-time All-American. He owns the most individual national titles, the most individual conference titles (13) and is tied with Horton for the most All-America honors in program history. His seven national titles are tied for the most in NCAA history.

Part of OU's 121-meet winning streak that ran from 2015-19, Moldauer made an immediate impact on the program. Moldauer won the all-around national title as a freshman in 2016, won the floor exercise and still rings titles in 2017 and dominated the 2018 NCAA Championships, winning four more individual national championships in the all-around and on floor exercise, vault and parallel bars. A four-time All-American in the all-around and three-time All-American on floor, still rings and parallel bars, he earned three All-America accolades in 2016 and six each in 2017 and '18 before adding three more as a senior in 2019.

As a member of the 2020 U.S. Olympic team, which competed in Tokyo in 2021, Moldauer advanced to the floor exercise final. He was also an alternate for the 2024 Olympic team. He has been a member of five U.S. World Championships teams, winning a bronze medal on floor exercise in 2017 and a team bronze medal in 2023. The team bronze in 2023 was just the fourth medal for the U.S. men at World Championships and first since 2014.

A product of Arvada, Colo., Moldauer is a five-time national champion at U.S. Championships. He won the all-around and floor exercise titles in 2017 and won parallel bars gold in 2021, '23 and '24. A four-time Winter Cup champion in the all-around (2017, '19, '23 and '24), he won Winter Cup event titles on floor exercise (2024), still rings (2017), vault (2020) and parallel bars (2017, '21). Moldauer is also a three-time American Cup champion (2017-19).

The 2026 CGA Hall of Fame class will be officially inducted in April during the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships in Champaign, Ill.

Statement from OU Head Coach Mark Williams:

"Jake is a two-time Olympian and a World medalist. He had a tremendous career at OU, as well as competing internationally at the highest level of the sport. He only competed in college for three years because he made the 2012 Olympic team, but had almost as many All-Americans in those three years as anybody. He was a national champion on floor exercise, vault, parallel bars and in the all-around. He was a phenomenal athlete, super talented on almost every event and made the most of his abilities.

"Yul came in and immediately helped lead our program to national championships three times in a row. He's tied for the most national championships of anybody in the NCAA. He was a 2020 Olympian, and a U.S. national champion, my first as a coach. He's continuing to train to try to make the 2028 Olympic team. Yul had tremendous charisma with the crowd, had a way of pumping up his teammates and had great enthusiasm for gymnastics, and was one of the more artistic and technical-looking gymnasts of all time.

"Both Jake and Yul have always bled crimson and cream and been huge supporters of our program, whether that was as part of our team or as alumni."

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