Mizzou heads to Florida for NCAA Gymnastics Championships
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Mizzou gymnastics team learned that it will be making the trip to Gainesville, Florida for NCAA Regional action during Monday morning's NCAA Women's Gymnastics Selection Show. The Tigers will carry the No. 13 seed into the championships.
Head coach Shannon Welker and company's regional will include the host team No. 4-seeded Florida, as well as Georgia, either Clemson or Iowa State, No. 5-seeded Utah, No. 12-seeded Michigan State, Towson and Maryland. The event will run April 4-7.
The regional bid comes on the heels of a fifth place finish at the SEC Championships over the weekend. Mizzou ended the afternoon session with a program-record conference championship score of 197.275 on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers led the afternoon session the entire way to beat out No. 12 Arkansas, No. 14 Auburn and No. 18 Georgia for the second time in three years.
Senior Mara Titarsolej earned her first individual SEC title at the championships, as well. Her 9.950 on the bars earned her a share of the SEC bars title alongside an LSU gymnast. She is the first Missouri Tiger to ever win an SEC title on the bars.
MU also owned the best scores of the session on the floor and vault, dominating the back half of the SEC Championships meet.
It's been a season full of success for Welker and his squad, as the team consistently found themselves in the Top-15 of the Road to Nationals rankings. The Tigers went 13-6 overall through the regular season, but never scored below a 197 through the entire year.
Mizzou will start competition in the second round in Gainesville on April 4. The Tigers will look to advance to the Regional Final on April 6-7.
If Welker and company make it through the regional, the national semifinals will be on April 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, followed by the national championship on April 20.
