ACCNX • Live Scoring • Meet Notes
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The No. 19 Penn State Nittany Lions are set to travel to Chapel Hill, N.C. to take part in the UNC Tri Meet on Friday, March 8th at 6:45 p.m. Friday’s meet will be hosted by No. 18 North Carolina at Carmichael Arena and Penn State will compete alongside the Tar Heels and Nebraska.
LAST TIME OUT
The Nittany Lions placed third in the Ohio State Quad with the team’s 14th consecutive 196.000 team score or higher on Sunday afternoon in the Covelli Center. Ohio State took first with a 197.150 followed by NC State with a 196.625. Penn State was behind the Wolfpack with a 196.550 and Eastern Michigan fell in last with a 194.725.
Sophomore Dani Latronica showed off her dominance as a gymnast yet again with another pair of 9.900s on bars and beam. Freshman Ava Cash also put up a 9.900 on her bars routine, the freshman’s fourth of the 2026 campaign. Senior AAI nominee Ava Piedrahita put on a show on vault, securing a 9.900 on her specialty.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
Penn State enter the weekend as the 19th-ranked team in the country as a team. The Blue & White have the 11th-ranked rotation nationally on bars and 17th on beam, the second best NQS for bars in the Big Ten, tied with Iowa, and sixth on beam. The Nittany Lions are 24th nationally on vault and 26th on the floor exercise.
Latronica leads Penn State’s bars routine with the 41st best score nationally. The Lake Worth native also found herself in the beam national rankings at 16th in the NCAA and sixth and fourth in the Big Ten on bars and beam, respectively. Latronica leads the team with 10 event titles between bars and beam and has 10 scores of a 9.900 or higher and has done so in eight straight meets. On the beam apparatus, she has recorded a 9.900 or higher on her last six routines. Cash joins Latronica in the uneven bars rankings at 32nd nationally and sixth in the Big Ten while Piedrahita is 14th in the conference on vault.
Penn State currently has a team NQS of 196.478 while checking in with a vault NQS of 49.016, the team’s bars NQS being 49.241, the beam rotation at 49.122 and floor exercise at 49.147.
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