UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — No. 24 Penn State women's gymnastics will travel to East Lansing, Mich. to compete in the Big Ten Championships on Saturday, March 23. Penn State will compete in session I beginning at noon ET.
The Nittany Lions are coming off a quad meet sweep as they defeated George Washington, Rutgers and Towson with a score of 196.875 on Sunday in their regular season finale. Penn State's strong two-week road stretch bodes well for its appearance in the 2024 Big Ten Championships.
This season, the Nittany Lions achieved the highest regular season NQS in program history, entering postseason competition with a 196.825 total, which ranks 24th in the nation.
SESSION I SCHEDULE
Penn State will compete against Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, and Rutgers in session I of the championships on Saturday at noon ET.
The Nittany Lions will rotate as follows:
- Rotation 1: BYE
- Rotation 2: Bars
- Rotation 3: Beam
- Rotation 4: BYE
- Rotation 5: Floor
- Rotation 6: Vault
TUNE IN LIVE: Live Results
This year's Big Ten Women's Gymnastics Championships will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.
REGULAR SEASON RESULT
Penn State put together a solid regular season, with two of their event groups ranking inside the top 25 in the nation and all four inside the top 35.
VAULT — No. 21
Led by First Team All-Big Ten star Ava Piedrahita, Penn State's vault group slots in as the squad's strongest unit at 21st in the country. The Nittany Lions closed out the regular season strong on the apparatus and hope to finish strong at the Big Ten Championships on it in the sixth and final rotation.
BARS — No. 34
Penn State's bars group has received contributions from different athletes all year, and a career-best 9.825 from senior Maggie Mace in the team's season finale shows that any Nittany Lion can show up and perform on the apparatus at any given meet.
BEAM — No. 22
The Nittany Lions' second-highest ranked event has, like bars, received contributions from quite a few members of the team. Five different Penn State gymnasts have earned 9.9-plus scores on the apparatus throughout the course of the year and 9.95 totals from Amani Herring and Isabella Salcedo show the potential star power of this Nittany Lion group.
FLOOR — No. 28
Herring has performed exceptionally well as the leader of Penn State's floor group. The sophomore has accumulated three 9.95 scores on the apparatus this season, becoming the first Penn State gymnast to accomplish that feat since 2010. Like beam, five different Nittany Lions have recorded 9.9-plus scores on floor, and have helped Penn State record its sixth-best floor total in school history this year, a 49.450 effort at NC State.
WHAT'S NEXT
Penn State will compete in the 2024 Big Ten Championships on Saturday, March 23, hosted by Michigan State. The Nittany Lion will go in session I in Jenison Field House.
FOLLOW THE NITTANY LIONS
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