North Carolina State University Athletics
Gymnastics to Compete at NCAA Regionals
4/3/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
Raleigh, N.C. - For the 15th time in the past 16 years, the NC State gymnastics team will compete at the NCAA Regional Championships. The 22nd-ranked Wolfpack travels to Morgantown, W.Va., to take part in the 2007 NCAA Southeast Regionals on Saturday, April 14, at 6:00 p.m. NC State, seeded fourth, will face No. 5 and top-seeded LSU, No. 8 and second-seeded UCLA, as well as No. 17 and third-seeded Auburn. Other teams competing at West Virginia will be EAGL conference foes, No. 5 seed West Virginia and No. 6 seed North Carolina.
Six teams, five all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and one individual event specialist per event [who has a minimum Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) of 9.4] were named to each of the six regions. The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors (who are not on an advancing team) from each regional will receive an automatic berth to the national championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 26-28, hosted by the University of Utah.
In addition, the event winners at the regional championships will advance to the national championships (in that event only) if they are not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers.
NC State is fresh off a win at the EAGL Championships over the weekend with a score of 195.475. The Pack claimed its first conference title since 2000, and has now finished in the top-three in nine of the 12 league meets.
Junior Leigha Hancock became the first gymnast in NC State history to win a second event title at the conference meet. She followed up last years win on vault, with a 9.9 on beam this year to take home the event title. Coach Mark Stevenson was also named the EAGL Coach of the Year for the second straight year, and the third time overall.
The Pack will begin NCAA Regionals on the beam, just like it did at the EAGL Championships.
Six teams, five all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and one individual event specialist per event [who has a minimum Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) of 9.4] were named to each of the six regions. The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors (who are not on an advancing team) from each regional will receive an automatic berth to the national championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 26-28, hosted by the University of Utah.
In addition, the event winners at the regional championships will advance to the national championships (in that event only) if they are not part of a qualifying team or the all-around qualifiers.
NC State is fresh off a win at the EAGL Championships over the weekend with a score of 195.475. The Pack claimed its first conference title since 2000, and has now finished in the top-three in nine of the 12 league meets.
Junior Leigha Hancock became the first gymnast in NC State history to win a second event title at the conference meet. She followed up last years win on vault, with a 9.9 on beam this year to take home the event title. Coach Mark Stevenson was also named the EAGL Coach of the Year for the second straight year, and the third time overall.
The Pack will begin NCAA Regionals on the beam, just like it did at the EAGL Championships.
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