Mizzou gymnast qualifies for NCAA Championship

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Mizzou gymnastics senior Mara Titarsolej individually qualified for the NCAA Championship on Monday. The Tiger standout will be compete on the bars, after her MU team fell just short of a semifinal berth on Sunday.

As a team, her Tigers finished third overall in their fourth-consecutive NCAA Regional Final on Sunday evening.

As for the Netherlands native, she will end a tremendous first year in Columbia with a trip to Fort Worth, as she makes her first-ever appearance in an NCAA Championship. In her career at Long Island University, she qualified for the NCAA Regionals on bars twice, but never made it past that point.

Titarsolej posted the top score on the bars for Mizzou in the Gainesville Regional over the weekend. In the anchor position in the Gainesville Second Round, she recorded a 9.950 to help Mizzou to the best bars score of the session, a 49.475.

The senior made some history in her debut season in the black and gold. Titarsolej finished the year as a WCGA Regular Season Second-Team All-American, won a share of the SEC bars title at the conference championship and secured the program's first-ever perfect 10 on the bars in February.

She will compete inside of Dickies Arena in Forth Worth, Texas on April 18-20.