Check out the previous depth charts from the SEC, Pac-12, and Big Ten.
[wptb id=95684]| LOST | GAINED |
| Carly Woodard – BB, FX | Faith Torrez |
| Karrie Thomas – UB (BB) | Ava Siegfeldt |
| Vanessa Deniz – (UB, BB, FX) | Caitlin Smith (JAN) |
| Emma LaPinta – (FX) | |
| Moorea Linker – (VT, UB, FX) |
Oklahoma returns 22 of the 24 lineup routines that won the national championship last April, with just the beam and floor routines from Carly Woodard departing, which sets the Sooners up very well for the 2023 season. Elites Faith Torrez and Ava Siegfeldt are both realistic 4-eventers (they may not make all four, but they’ll be in the mix), which should serve to increase Oklahoma’s depth of competition-level routines on each event.
[wptb id=95703]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Emily Glynn – VT, UB, FX | Mila Brusch |
| Mia Sundstrom – VT, UB (BB, FX) | Ava Mabanta |
| Emma Brown – (BB, FX) | Kylie Rorich |
| Cecilia Cooley | |
The most important development for Denver is, of course, having Lynnzee Brown back for a 6th season. She provides the best opportunity to upgrade the final lineups from last season on every event—and since Brown, Glynn, and Sundstrom were all injured by the end of the season, Denver does return every routine that competed in the regional final so will look to go only up from there. Expect several first years to crack lineups as well, and just generally bolster the depth across the apparatuses (with more gymnasts coming in than leaving this year).
[wptb id=95723]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Andrea Maldonado – FX | Lauren Thomas |
| Sophia Steinmeyer – VT, BB (FX) | Madison Matassa |
| Meixi Semple – BB | Madelyn Manternach |
| Ariana Orrego – VT, UB, FX (BB) | Reagan Loftis |
| Ana Palacios – UB (BB) | Morgan Engels |
| Jade Vella-Wright – (UB) | Samantha Rose |
| Phoebe Turner – (VT, BB, FX) | |
| Adnerys De Jesus – (VT, UB, BB, FX) | |
| Maddie Crosse |
It’s going to be a project this season for Iowa State because the team has graduated 7 of the 24 routines from regionals last year (along with a number of other athletes who would have been in lineups in an ideal world in 2022) without big stars coming in to replace those lost numbers. This is, however, a large roster made up predominantly of specialist contributors who have mixed and matched to fill gaps in the past, and Iowa State will also rely on some injury returns from 5th years who were not available last season but would surely have been in the lineup.
[wptb id=95731]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Rachel Hornung – VT, UB, BB, FX | Miranda Smith |
| Esperanza Abarca – UB (BB) | Emma Wehry |
| Lauren Soltis | Carlee Nelson |
| Nicole Norris | Brooke Irwin |
| Kaia Bochow | |
| Olivia Pitzer | |
| Ellie Sigman |
West Virginia has lost a critical athlete in Rachel Hornung, who was vital in the all-around last season (as well as bars specialist Abarca), though the team does not face an unearthly number of routines to replace. Kendra Combs returns for an extra year, and we should get to know several of the faces in this large first-year class of reinforcements. Before missing 2022, Miranda Smith won floor at L10 Nationals in 2021, also finishing 3rd on vault which should provide an opportunity to upgrade WVU’s weak event from last year.
[wptb id=95720]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Rebecca Wells – VT, UB, BB, FX | Marley Peterson |
| Brie Clark – VT, BB, FX | Avery Bibbey |
| Eve Jackson – VT, UB, FX | Chelsea Southam |
| Trinity Brown – VT, FX | Jenna Eagles |
| Molly Arnold – VT, FX (UB) | Payton Gatzlaff |
| Kielyn McCright – BB | |
| Anique Grenier |
It’s going to be a project (and a multi-year process) for Utah State given just how many athletes elected to go with Amy Smith to Clemson, amounting to 15 of the 24 routines from 2022 regionals no longer with the team. With a small group of incoming athletes, along with a couple transfers, putting together complete lineups will hinge on getting routines from returning athletes on events they have not competed in a while, or where they were not making lineups in the past.
[wptb id=95721]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Sadie Miner Van Tassell – VT, UB, BB, FX | Kylie Eaquinto |
| Haley Pitou – VT, UB (BB) | Madison Raesly-Patton |
| Brittney Vitkauskas – FX | Kauri Hunsaker |
| Abby Beeston – UB, FX (BB) | Jayda Lealaogata |
| Sophia McClelland – BB | Emily Wisehart |
| Lexi Griffith – VT | Elaina Greco |
| Adeline Rieder – FX | Morgan Trevor |
| Rachel Bain Heaton – (VT, FX) |
BYU is also entering a season of major transition (though not quite as extreme as Utah State), with exactly half of the routines from last year’s regionals lineup no longer on the team. There’s a lot of work to do to replace last year’s results, especially since BYU won’t have been completely content with that 24th-place finish anyway, their lowest since 2017. BYU should, however, have a hearty bunch of real-life routines coming in from the first-year class, where Kylie Eaquinto is expected to be a headliner-level new performer.
[wptb id=95725]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Hope Masiado – VT, BB, FX (UB) | Kylee Hamby |
| Emily Muhlenhaupt – UB (BB) | Sydney Kho |
| Maddi Nilson – VT, UB | Brantley Lucas |
| Samantha Smith – VT (FX) | Riley Shaffer |
| Alexis Stokes – UB, BB | Sarah Coghlan |
| Tessa Otuafi | Sydney Leitch |
| Anna Ferguson | |
Boise State typically manages with a small roster, so it’s noteworthy to see such a large first-year class here. That’s going to be essential since only 9 gymnasts who competed last year return to the team, including just 3 gymnasts who have ever done bars before and 4 who have ever done vault. So while the loss of 9 routines from the regionals lineup last year is not the same girth of loss as Utah State or BYU have, the significance is similar, as will be the expectations placed on the new athletes.
[wptb id=95726]
| LOST | GAINED |
| Hannah Nipp – UB, BB, FX | Trista Goodman |
| Stephanie Tervort – VT (UB) | Olivia Orlando |
| Morgan Alfaro – VT | Kayla Pardue |
| Kayla Horton – FX (VT) | Megan Locke |
| Emma Wissman – (BB) | Kennadi McClain |
| Madeline Tyau – (BB) | Ellie Thomson |
| Brianna Alcantar – (VT) | Camry Miller |
| Katie Ours | Amelia Rieder |
| Madeline Amundson | |
| Summer Horsley |
While there are quite a few individuals missing from Southern Utah’s roster this season, SUU largely avoided the roster explosion befalling the other teams in the Mountain Rim conference by getting 5th seasons from five gymnasts, including perennial stars McClain and Murakami. Without those returns, we would be having a very different conversation right now. As it stands, Southern Utah will have to do without Hannah Nipp’s scores in 2023 but will largely view the routine-replacement project as manageable with this typically sizeable first-year class.
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Sievers, Stern, and Sullivan have been training beam on Oklahoma’s instagram stories, and Bell Johnson is training bars. Sievers is featured pretty frequently.