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?<?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Nebraska Head Coach: Dan Kendig (14th Year) <?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>
?Current Record: 19-4
?2007 High Score: 197.125 (vs. Kentucky, 3/23/07)
?Last Meet: 1st/4, 196.475 (at Big 12 Championships, 4/9/07)
?2006 NCAA Finish: 5th (196.125)
The sixth-ranked Nebraska women’s gymnastics team travels to the NCAA West Regional in Berkeley, Calif., this Saturday, April 14. Competition is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., Central time (6 p.m. PST) at the University of California’s Haas Pavilion. Nebraska, along with No. 7 Utah, No. 18 Missouri, Washington, SacramentoState and California, will battle for the top two spots to earn an automatic berth to the NCAA Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 26-28.
The Huskers captured their eighth Big 12 Conference team title and 20th overall conference trophy at the Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo., on March 31. Junior Emily Parsons, the 2007 Big 12 Co-Gymnast of the Year, claimed four event titles, winning the all-around with a career-high 39.65 while also finishing first on vault (9.95), beam (9.95) and floor (9.90). Senior Michele Zabawa also won her second career Big 12 bars title with a 9.90. Seven Huskers earned All-Big 12 honors: Parsons (AA, V, UB, BB, FX), seniors Zabawa (UB) and Stephanie Carter (UB), juniors Desire’ Sniatynski (UB) and Brittney Williams (UB), sophomore Kylie Stone (V) and freshman Kathryn Howard (BB).
Rotation Order for NCAA West Regional
The rotation order for the six teams and selected individuals competing in the NCAA West Regional in Berkeley, Calif., will feature Nebraska opening on vault, followed by beam, bye, floor, vault and bye.
Rotation Vault Bye 1 Bars Beam Bye 2 Floor
1 Utah California Nebraska Washington Missouri Sac State
A. Blackwell V. Porte D. Todd D. Huss S. Sullivan
2 Sac State Utah California Nebraska WashingtonMissouri
S. Sullivan A. Blackwell Y. Leizorek V. Porte D. Todd D. Huss
3 Missouri Sac State Utah California Nebraska Washington
D. Huss S. Sullivan A. Blackwell K. Aldrich V. Porte D. Todd
4 Washington Missouri Sac State Utah California Nebraska
D. Todd D. Huss S. Sullivan A. Blackwell V. Porte
5 Nebraska Washington Missouri Sac State Utah California
V. Porte D. Todd D. Huss S. Sullivan A. BlackwellA. Dolinsky
6 California Nebraska Washington Missouri Sac State Utah
T. Ho V. Porte D. Todd D. Huss S. Sullivan A. Blackwell
Taking It to TV: Fox Sports Net Televises Big 12 Meet
The 2007 Big 12 Championships were aired by Fox Sports Network on a tape-delayed basis for two weeks following the annual conference meet.
Network Day Time (Time Zone)
Comcast Chicago Thurs., April 12 8:30 p.m. (Central)
Comcast Philadelphia Sun., April 8 12:30 p.m. (Eastern)
FSN West Sun., April 8 Noon (Pacific)
FSN Southwest Sat., April 7 12:30 p.m. (Central)
FSN South Sat., April 7 3:30 a.m. (Eastern)
FSN Rocky Mountain Sat., April 7 12:30 p.m. (Mountain)
FSN Rocky Mountain Thurs., April 5 Noon (Mountain)
FSN Pittsburgh Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
FSN Ohio Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
FSN Northwest Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Pacific)
FSN North (Wisconsin) Sat., April 7 3 a.m. (Central)
FSN North (Minnesota) Sat., April 7 3 a.m. (Central)
FSN New York Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
FSN New England Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
FSN Midwest Sat., April 7 Noon (Central)
FSN Midwest Thurs., April 5 12:30 p.m. (Central)
FSN Bay Area Thurs., April 5 11 a.m. (Pacific)
FSN Arizona Mon., April 9 2 a.m. (Mountain-Arizona)
FSN Arizona Thurs., April 5 1:30 p.m. (Mountain-Arizona)
Scouting the Competition: No. 7 Utah Utes
?Head Coach: Greg Marsden (32nd Year)
?2007 Record: 13-3
?2007 High Score: 196.725 (3 times, vs. BYU, 3/30/07)
?Last Meet: Win, 196.725-194.60 (vs. BYU, 3/30/07)
?2006 NCAA Finish: 2nd (196.80)
A Glance at the Utes...
?Greg Marsden is the only coach to achieve 800 wins in NCAA gymnastics history with a career record of 859-151-5 at Utah. His teams have won a total of 10 national team championships and have qualified for all 25 NCAA Championships.
?Utah’s top returning gymnast is junior Ashley Postell, a 10-time All-American who was NCAA runner-up in the all-around at the 2006 NCAA Championships.
?Nebraska and Utah last met in a dual in Lincoln on March 4, when Nebraska defeated the Utes, 196.675-196.10.
?Sophomore Kristina Baskett won a share of the NCAA bars crown as a freshman last season and was also a second-team All-American on vault. Baskett achieved Utah’s highest all-around mark of 2007 with a 39.70 against UtahState on Feb. 9.
?Utah boasts five returning All-Americans who have combined for 19 All-America awards.
?Utah claims a 35-7-2 all-time series lead over the Huskers.
Scouting the Competition: No. 18 Missouri Tigers
?Head Coach: Rob Drass (Eighth Year)
?2007 Record: 14-9
?2007 High Score: 196.675 (at Michigan, 3/16/07)
?Last Meet: Big 12 Championships, 3/31/07 (3rd/4, 194.45)
?2006 NCAA Finish: Did Not Qualify
A Glance at the Tigers...
?MU’s top returning gymnast is sophomore Adrianne Perry, who was named the 2006 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year at last season’s conference championships. Perry qualified to the NCAA Championships as an all-around competitor and barely missed All-America honors on beam with a ninth-place 9.80 in the preliminary session.
?Perry is a two-time Big 12 Gymnast of the Week in 2007, and she earned All-Big 12 honors on vault, bars and the all-around.
?Missouri is a familiar face to Nebraska in NCAA Regional competition, as the Tigers have been in the same regional as NU in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
?Missouri head coach Rob Drass has strong ties to the Nebraska women’s gymnastics program, as he served as a graduate assistant in 1992 and 1993 and was an assistant coach under Dan Kendig from 1994 to 1999.
?Nebraska and Missouri last met at the Big 12 Championships on March 31, when Nebraska finished first (196.475) to Missouri’s third-place 195.45.
?Nebraska boasts an all-time series record of 61-5 over the Tigers.
Scouting the Competition: No. 31 Washington Huskies
?Head Coach: Joanne Bowers (First Year)
?2007 Record: 7-13
?2007 High Score: 195.80 (vs. OregonState and Seattle Pacific, 2/23/07)
?Last Meet: at Pac-10 Championships, 3/31/07 (5th/7, 194.775)
?2006 NCAA Finish: Did Not Qualify
A Glance at the Huskies...
?UW’s top returning gymnast is sophomore Ashley Houghting, who won a share of the Pac-10 vault title (9.90) with UCLA’s Tasha Schwikert. Houghting graduated from Northview Heights Secondary and trained at Sport Seneca, the same high school and club as Husker Vanessa Meloche.
?Washington head coach Joanne Bowers is in her first year with the UW program, as she previously served as an assistant at Michigan for five seasons. Bowers was named 2007 Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year with Krysten Smith.
?Nebraska boasts an all-time series record of 9-5 over Washington, as the two programs last met in 2003 at the NCAA West Regional. NU won the regional title with a 196.65 to UW’s third-place 195.675.
?Nebraska associate head coach Danna Durante has close ties to Washington gymnastics, as she was an assistant at UW from 1998 to 2002.
Scouting the Competition: No. 35 SacramentoState Hornets
?Head Coach: Kim Hughes (27th Year)
?2007 Record: 17-4
?2007 High Score: 195.275 (at WAC Championships, 3/31/07)
?Last Meet: at WAC Championships, 3/31/07 (1st/6, 195.275)
?2006 NCAA Finish: Did Not Qualify
A Glance at the Hornets...
?SacramentoState’s top returning gymnast is sophomore Marina Borisnova, who captured the floor title (9.85) at the WAC Championships and finished second in the all-around (39.225).
?SacramentoState won its second consecutive WAC team title with a season-high 195.275 on March 31.
?Nebraska and SacramentoState have never met in competition in 32 years of Nebraska gymnastics history.
Scouting the Competition: No. 37 California Golden Bears
?Head Coach: Cari Dubois (Fifth Year)
?2007 Record: 7-15
?2007 High Score: 196.50 (at UC-Davis Quad, 3/23/07)
?Last Meet: at Pac-10 Championships (7th/7, 193.65)
?2006 NCAA Finish: Did Not Qualify
A Glance at the Golden Bears...
?California scored the second-highest team total in school history with a 196.50 on March 23 at UC-Davis.
?Cal’s top returning gymnast is sophomore Jessica Kelley, who scored a career-high 39.45 on March 23 to win the all-around title.
?Sophomore Tiffany Tam was a teammate of Husker Tricia Woo at West Valley Gymnastics in Campbell, Calif.
?Nebraska has a 6-0 all-time series mark against California, as the two teams last met at the 1999 Masters Classic.
Woo Returns to the GoldenState for NCAA Regionals
Sophomore Tricia Woo returns to her home state of California for this weekend’s NCAA West Regional in Berkeley, Calif. A native of Milpitas, Calif., she chose Nebraska in 2005 over offers from the University of California, as well as Florida. Woo’s hometown of Milpitas is less than an hour away from Berkeley’s campus, and she will have the opportunity to compete against Cal sophomore Tiffany Tam, who was her club teammate at West Valley Gymnastics.
Top-Ranked Parsons Takes Four Conference Titles
Junior Emily Parsons won four Big 12 event titles for a total of seven career conference crowns at the 2007 Big 12 Championships, finishing first in the all-around (39.65), vault (9.95), beam (9.95) and floor (9.90). Parsons, who was named the Big 12 Co-Gymnast of the Year with IowaState’s Janet Anson, set or tied career highs on bars and the all-around. She also earned All-Big 12 accolades on every event, becoming just the second Husker to accomplish the feat. Richelle Simpson is the only other NU gymnast to take five all-conference awards in one year, accomplishing the feat at the 2005 Big 12 Championships.
Parsons was named Big 12 Gymnast of the Week for the fourth time this season on March 13, earning the 13th weekly conference honor of her career. The St. Charles, Mo., native has also garnered Event-Specialist-of-the-Week nods three times in her junior campaign. Parsons, who is the nation’s top-ranked beam performer and is ranked No. 2 on vault and No. 3 on floor, was recognized after finishing first in the all-around (39.575), vault (9.925), beam (9.90) and floor (9.925) in Nebraska’s win over Iowa State at the Devaney Center on March 11.
Parsons earned her 10th weekly conference honor on Feb. 20 after achieving the first perfect 10.0 score of her career on vault at NC State’s Hearts Invitational on Feb. 17. She has claimed 83 event crowns in three seasons at Nebraska.
Parsons has earned seven All-America awards in the last two seasons and finished fourth on vault and sixth on floor in the individual event finals at the 2006 NCAA Championships. Parsons was also named the South Central Regional Gymnast of the Year and snagged Big 12 Conference crowns on vault and beam in 2006. In a sophomore season that saw her earn four All-Big 12 nods (vault, beam, floor and all-around), Parsons went on to claim NCAA regional titles on vault, floor and all-around for the second straight year.
Zabawa Takes Second Big 12 Bars Title
Senior Michele Zabawa was Nebraska’s top performer on bars at the Big 12 Championships on March 31, when she notched a season-high 9.90 to take a share of her second career Big 12 bars crown with IowaState’s Janet Anson. Zabawa added a 9.85 on vault to finish fifth with fellow Husker Stephanie Carter.
A three-time All-American, Zabawa was also the 2005 Big 12 uneven bars champion and is a three-time all-conference honoree on bars.
Kendig Named Big 12 Coach of the Year
Head coach Dan Kendig was honored by his conference peers as 2007 Big 12 Coach of the Year at the conference championships on March 31. The award was Kendig’s seventh of his career after guiding No. 6 Nebraska to its eighth Big 12 team championship and 20th overall conference crown in program history. Kendig is also a two-time NCAA Regional Coach of the Year and a two-time NCAA Coach of the Year.
All-Big 12 Carter Takes Second Weekly Conference Honor
Senior Stephanie Carter earned her second career all-conference award after tying for fourth on bars (9.85) at the Big 12 Championships. A second-team All-American on floor in 2006, Carter took All-Big 12 accolades on vault in her junior year.
Carter was also honored as Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week for the second time in her career on March 26. The Bryn Athyn, Pa., native was recognized after scoring a season-high-tying 9.90 to finish second on vault against Kentucky, while also placing third on floor (9.875) and adding a 9.60 in just her second bars appearance of the year.
Carter was previously named Event Specialist of the Week on March 13, joining teammate Emily Parsons, the Big 12 Gymnast of the Week, in a sweep of the weekly conference awards.
Parsons Moves Up to No. 1 on Nebraska’s All-Time Titles Chart
After earning four individual event titles at the Big 12 Championships on March 31, junior Emily Parsons owns a total of 83 event crowns in three years at NU, placing her first on Nebraska’s all-time career individual titles chart. Parsons passed Richelle Simpson, who garnered 77 individual crowns at Nebraska. With 72 titles following the Utah meet, Parsons passed former Husker Heather Brink, who earned a total of 70 in her career. Two of Nebraska’s most decorated gymnasts, Simpson and Brink were both two-time NCAA champions in their four-year Husker careers.
Gymnast Years at NU Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Total Career Titles
Emily Parsons 2005-present 16 34 33 --- 83
Richelle Simpson 2002-05 9 39 6 23 77
Heather Brink 1997-2000 7 19 10 34 70
Three Huskers Named Academic All-Big 12
The Big 12 Conference named 21 student-athletes to the 2007 Academic All-Big 12 Gymnastics Team, including Nebraska seniors Stephanie Carter and Michele Zabawa and sophomore Vanessa Meloche, the league office announced March 27.
Carter, who was a first-team honoree the last two seasons, is a business administration major at Nebraska. She will graduate with her bachelor’s degree in May 2007. Zabawa, an Omaha native and elementary education major, earned a spot on the All-Big 12 first team for the second time in her career. She is scheduled to earn her bachelor’s degree in December 2007. Meloche, who majors in nutritional science and dietetics, was included on the second team for the first time.
The league academic all-conference first team consists of student-athletes with a 3.20 grade-point average or higher, while the second team is those who have earned a 3.00-3.19 GPA.
Kendig Builds One of Nation’s Top Programs at Nebraska
Head Coach Dan Kendig is the all-time winningest coach in the 30 years of Nebraska women's gymnastics history. In 14 seasons at Nebraska, Kendig is 330-119-4 overall and 231-45-2 in regular-season meets. Kendig is in his 24th year of coaching and owns a career record of 443-232-4.
A seven-time Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year, Kendig has guided the Huskers to eight conference championships and three straight regional championships from 2000 to 2002.
He has also led Nebraska to 10 NCAA Championships appearances in the past 12 seasons, including NCAA Super Six Finals appearances in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. Kendig was honored as the NCAA Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2003, a year in which the Huskers finished fourth nationally.
Under Kendig's guidance in 2006, Nebraska finished with a 26-11-1 overall record. The Huskers placed second (196.275) in the NCAA Southeast Regional behind Georgia and also placed fifth (196.175) in their eighth consecutive NCAA Championships appearance. Seven of Kendig's gymnasts -- Emily Parsons (AA, V, FX), Tricia Woo (BB, FX), Vanessa Meloche (UB), Michele Zabawa (UB), Desire’ Sniatynski (UB), Stephanie Carter (FX) and Kylie Stone (V) -- earned a total of 10 All-America honors.
Kendig is assisted by associate head coach Danna Durante, who is in her fifth season with Nebraska, and assistant coach Tim Garrison, who is in his first year on the Husker staff.
Sniatynski Emerges as All-Arounder in Husker Lineup
Junior Desir? Sniatynski has emerged as one of Nebraska’s top all-around competitors in 2007. She is ranked 24th nationally on bars with a 9.88 RQS. After her career-high 39.375 performance at Missouri, Sniatynski was recognized with her first career Big 12 Gymnast-of-the-Week award on Jan. 31.
The Kenosha, Wis., native followed with a 39.25 score to place second against Oklahoma on Feb. 2, when she also took a share of the floor title with teammates Emily Parsons and Kylie Stone with a 9.85. In addition, Sniatynski finished second on bars (9.85), third on vault (9.80) and seventh on beam (9.75). She took second in the all-around with a 39.225 against Utah, while also finishing second on bars (9.875). Against IowaState the following week, Sniatynski placed fourth on vault with a career-high-tying 9.825, as well as sixth on beam (9.80) and fifth on floor (9.825). She most recently took all-conference honors on bars after placing fourth (9.85) at the Big 12 Championships.
A two-time All-American on bars, Sniatynski was the 2006 Co-Big 12 bars champion. She has earned a total of 12 individual event crowns in three seasons of competition for the Huskers.
Rock-Solid Stone Notches Career High All-Around at NC State
Sophomore Kylie Stone has had a breakout season as a sophomore, as she scored a career-high all-around score at NC State’s Hearts Invitational on Feb. 17 with a 39.425 to pass her previous record of 39.40 set at the 2006 NCAA Super Six Finals. Against Kentucky on March 23, Stone won her sixth individual event title of the season with a 9.90 on floor and finished second in the all-around (39.375). She most recently finished fourth on vault (9.875) at the Big 12 Championships, earning all-conference honors on the event.
After a superb showing at Michigan on Feb. 9, Stone was named Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week for the first time in her career. She was recognized after garnering the floor title against the Wolverines with a 9.925, while tallying an outstanding career-high 9.90 on vault.
A second-team All-American on vault, Stone headlined the steady 2006 freshman class and was an All-Big 12 honoree in the all-around with a 39.25 performance at the Big 12 Championships in Lincoln. She came to Nebraska with an impressive list of accomplishments, having been a 2004 Canadian Olympian and a four-time Canadian senior national champion.
A Bright Future: The New Husker Class Contributes to NU Lineup
Nebraska welcomed three true freshmen to its roster this season, as Maria Scaffidi, Kathryn Howard and Molly Ohnoutka joined the Huskers for 2007. A native of Sussex, Wis., and a former junior international elite gymnast, Scaffidi led the U.S. team to a first-place finish at the 2000 Junior Pan American Championships, while also taking the all-around and beam crowns.
Scaffidi finished fifth on floor (9.825) in a strong meet against Utah on March 4, while also competing on vault (9.675) and beam (9.625). Against Kentucky on March 23, Scaffidi shined for NU, scoring a season-high 9.875 on floor to tie for third-place honors with teammate Stephanie Carter, and adding a fifth-place 9.80 on vault. At the Big 12 Championships, Scaffidi placed seventh on floor (9.825) and 10th on vault (9.80).
Howard joined NU after the fall semester, having graduated early from KeystoneNationalHigh School. The Huntsville, Texas, native has made an immediate impact on the beam lineup, as she finished second on the event at Missouri on Jan. 26 with a career-high score of 9.875. Howard also finished fourth on beam against IowaState, scoring a 9.825 and tying fellow Husker Michele Zabawa. She most recently finished third on beam with a 9.875 at the Big 12 Championships, earning her first career All-Big 12 honors on the event.
Ohnoutka, who hails from Omaha, Neb., will redshirt in 2007 while she rehabilitates an injury suffered during her senior year of high school.
Sophomore All-Americans Become Seasoned Veterans
Nebraska’s sophomore class includes a trio of returning All-Americans in Tricia Woo, Kylie Stone and Vanessa Meloche. Woo took first-team honors on floor at the NCAA Championships by finishing 10th, and second-team honors on beam. She has been as solid in her second year, as she tied with teammate Emily Parsons for first on beam with a 9.90 against Oklahoma. At the Masters Classic, Woo won her second beam title of the year by tying with Parsons (9.875), and just one week later against Utah, Woo set a career best on beam with a 9.925 to finish second. The Milpitas, Calif., native took second-place honors on beam at LSU, posting a 9.875, while adding a 9.775 on floor and a 9.625 in her first vault appearance of the season. Against Kentucky on March 23, Woo placed third on beam (9.85) and added a 9.825 on floor. In competing at the Big 12 Championships, Woo scored a 9.70 on beam, but was scratched from the floor lineup in a last-minute decision from Coach Dan Kendig when it was determined Woo had suffered a minor knee injury.
The class also boasts a pair of former Canadian National Team members in Meloche and Stone. Meloche, a first-team All-American and the reigning Big 12 champion on bars, came out strong in her inaugural season as a Husker to win six individual bars titles. A seven-year member of the national team, she was the 2002 Canadian National bars champion. Meloche has claimed three bars titles in 2007, but suffered an injury on her landing on bars at Michigan five weeks ago. After determining that she sustained the third ACL tear of her gymnastics career, Meloche underwent her 11th overall surgery and will be out for the remainder of the season.
A second-team All-American on vault in 2006, Stone grabbed an all-around crown and a floor title at PennState in 2006 to break into the NU lineup full-time. Before beginning her career at Nebraska, Stone competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, and finished 14th in the all-around at the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim, Calif., making her the highest-finishing Canadian female all-arounder in World Championships history.
Six Huskers Named to Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
Six current or former Nebraska women’s gymnasts were placed on the Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Honor Roll, the conference office announced Feb. 5. The honor roll recognizes student-athletes with a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher during the previous semester, and within Nebraska’s 270 selections, 33 earned perfect 4.0 GPAs.
Former Husker Jamie Saas led the impressive contingent of women’s gymnasts on the list. Seniors Stephanie Carter and Michele Zabawa were honored for the seventh and sixth time, respectively. Sophomores Vanessa Meloche and Tricia Woo, as well as freshman Molly Ohnoutka, also achieved the conference academic honor. Meloche has been selected three times, while Woo and Ohnoutka both earned the honor for the first time in their careers.