Gabbie Gallentine Season 2023

CAREER HIGHS:
Bars: 9.95 (with Florida) at NCAA Regionals (4/2/21)
Beam: 9.825 at Southern Utah (3/8/24)

2024 – SENIOR SEASON
 
Awards: Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Competed on bars in 13 meets for the Nittany Lions, scoring a 9.8-or-better on the apparatus in 11 of them…Posted three 9.9 bars totals, including in the NCAA Regional final.
 
Meet-by-meet: at Rutgers (1/25): Scored a 9.825 on bars, her first 9.8+ of the season. Minnesota (2/3): Earned a season-best 9.9 on bars. at Ohio State (2.9): Posted another 9.825 on bars, her third 9.825+ in a row. Ball St., Towson, WVU (3/1): On senior night, she recorded a 9.875 bars tally, beginning a stretch of four straight 9.875+ scores on the apparatus. at Southern Utah (3/8): Competed balance beam for the first time in her career, scored a season-best 9.825 on the apparatus in addition to her 9.875 on bars. At NC State w/Penn, Texas Woman’s (3/10): Stuck a 9.9 on bars, adding to the team’s third-highest true road score in school history. at George Washington w/ Rutgers, Towson (3/17): Went 9.875 on bars. Big Ten Championships (3/23): Scored a 9.8 on bars, her sixth-straight 9.8+ on the apparatus. Regional Second Round (4/4): Tallied a 9.85 on bars, helping the Nittany Lions advance to the Regional Final for the first time ever. Regional Final (4/6): Tied her season-best bars score with a 9.9 in the regional final, helping Penn State set its sixth-best team score ever.

2023 – JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Earned a season-best 9.9 on bars at Denver…Competed 10 bars routines for Penn State, finishing with five scores of 9.85+ on the year.
 
Meet-by-meet: at Denver Tri (1/8): Scored a season-best 9.9 on bars in her second meet as a Nittany Lion. at Minnesota (1/21): Went 9.825 in her first Big Ten meet of the season. William & Mary (3/3): Posted a 9.85 on bars on senior night in a victory over William & Mary. at Auburn (3/10): Posted a 9.875 at Auburn, helping the Nittany Lions achieve the sixth-highest team total in Penn State history, a 197.025 effort. Big Ten Championships (3/18): Posted a 9.875 at the conference meet. Pittsburgh Regional II (3/31): Earned a 9.85 in the second round of the Pittsburgh Regional, helping the squad to the best regional total in school history, a 196.825.
 
PRIOR TO PENN STATE
Competed for the University of Florida in the Southeastern Conference in 2021 and 2022...As a freshman in 2021, scored a collegiate best 9.95 in both competition days at Athens NCAA Regionals and placed second in both regional competitions...Named SEC Freshmen of the Week (Feb. 2, 2021) after uneven bars mark of 9.925 to share second versus Missouri...Named 2021 WCGA Scholastic All-American…Two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree.

GYMNASTICS BACKGROUND
Competed for Everest Gymnastics and coaches Qi Han and Yiwen Chen for 11 years...Placed 10th in 2018 GK U.S Classic Junior Division on bars..Finished fifth in 2018 American Classic Junior Division on bars...Competed in 2018 International Gymnix in Montreal, Canada...Was a 2017 Junior International elite competitor...Qualified for 2017 and 2018 American Classic and Secret Classic...Placed Third in 2017 Junior Olympic National Championships in Junior B all-around...Member of the 2017 Junior Olympic National Team...2017 Region 8 all around- uneven bars and floor champion...2017 state all-around, vault and bars champion...Placed fourth at 2017 Nastia Liukin Cup Junior Division All Around, third on bars, fourth on vault. 

PERSONAL
Parents are Keyara and Kenneth Gallentine...Has one sister: Kennedy...Graduated from Penn State with an undergraduate degree in Rehabilitation and Human Services…Returning to Penn State for a fifth season of collegiate gymnastics and plans to pursue a Master’s Degree...Born in Ohio.