Sooners Stay on Top for Fifth Week in a Row

NORMAN — After posting its fourth straight score of 198-plus and fifth this season, the Oklahoma women's gymnastics team remained the No. 1 team in the nation for the fifth week in a row with its 197.938 National Qualifying Score (NQS).

For 2026, an updated NQS proposal was submitted to the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). Beginning with week seven, NQS will be calculated as an average of meets, dropping the high and low scores. After conference championships, NQS will be calculated by ordering all scores from highest to lowest, confirming at least five away meets and no more than five home meets, dropping the highest and lowest scores and averaging the remaining scores. All away meets will be included in the calculation prior to dropping the highest and lowest scores.

The Sooners are joined in the top five by three other SEC opponents: No. 2 LSU (197.735), No. 3 Alabama (197.570), and No. 4 Florida (197.480). UCLA is No. 5 with a 197.450 NQS.

As a team, OU is No. 1 on vault (49.546) and beam (49.525), and No. 4 on bars (49.404) and floor (49.463).

The Individual NQS formula will not change with this adjustment to the team NQS formula. Individual NQS will continue to be calculated by using the three highest away scores and three highest home scores, dropping the highest score, and averaging the remaining five. A total of nine gymnasts hold 17 individual rankings on the events and in the all-around, including eight spots in the top 10.

Sophomore Addison Fatta owns the No. 3 spot in the all-around (39.620). She also holds the No. 2 spot on vault (9.950), No. 10 on beam (9.950), and No. 11 on bars (9.910).

Freshman Mackenzie Estep holds a trio of rankings inside the top 20, including No. 4 on vault (9.930), No. 13 on bars (9.90), and No. 19 on floor (9.90). Fellow freshmen Ella Murphy and Kamila Pawlak hold three rankings as Murphy is No. 8 on beam (9.915), and the two share No. 22 on floor (9.895).

Junior Keira Wells is ranked on a pair of events, holding the No. 9 spot on beam (9.905) and No. 10 spot on vault (9.895). Sophomore Elle Mueller also holds two spots in the top 20, including No. 11 on floor (9.910) and No. 17 on vault (9.875).

Senior Faith Torrez holds the No. 2 spot on beam (9.955), while sophomore Elizabeth Blessey sits at No. 23 on vault (9.865) after posting her career high 9.975 against LSU Friday night. Rounding out the rankings is sophomore Lily Pederson at No. 25 on beam (9.875).

The Sooners return to action at home to host Auburn on Friday, Feb. 27, at 6:30 p.m. CT, before heading to Arkansas for the final SEC regular season meet of the year on Friday, March 6.

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