| 2024 ROSTER | ||
| 5th Years | ||
| Soraya Haw- thorne | VT BB FX | –Transfer from Georgia –NQS of 9.945 FX, 9.865 VT, 9.800 BB in 2023 |
| Ragan Smith | VT UB BB FX | –#1 returner on BB (9.975) –#3 returner on UB (9.925) –#4 returner on FX (9.905) |
| Seniors | ||
| Audrey Davis | VT UB BB FX | –#1 returner on UB (9.960) –#3 returner on BB (9.925) –#4 returner on VT (9.885) –#6 returner on FX (9.895) |
| Bell Johnson | FX | –#7 returner on FX (9.885) |
| Katherine LeVasseur | VT UB BB | –#1 returner on VT (9.945) –Competed 3 BBs (avg 9.858), 2 UBs (avg 9.888) in 2023 |
| Sheridan Ramsey | VT | –Did not compete in 2023 –NQS of 9.815 on VT in 2022 |
| Meilin Sullivan | VT BB | –Did not compete in 2023 –Competed 2 VTs, 1 BB in 2022 |
| Juniors | ||
| Jordan Bowers | VT UB BB FX | –#1 returner on FX (9.950) –#2 returner on UB (9.950), BB (9.950) –#3 returner on VT (9.920) |
| Danae Fletcher | VT UB FX | –#5 returner on FX (9.900) –#6 returner on UB (9.870) –Competed 3 VTs in 2023, avg 9.850 |
| Caitin Kirk- patrick | Did not compete in first 2 seasons | |
| Danielle Sievers | VT UB FX | –#2 returner on VT (9.925) –#3 returner on UB (9.925), FX (9.920) |
| Madison Snook | Did not compete in first 2 seasons | |
| Amy Wier | Did not compete in first 2 seasons | |
| Sophomores | ||
| Ava Siegfeldt | VT UB BB FX | –Competed 3 BBs in 2023, avg 9.633 |
| Faith Torrez | VT UB BB FX | –#1 returner on FX (9.950) –#3 returner on BB (9.920) –#5 returner on UB (9.880) –Competed 6 VTs in 2023, avg 9.863 |
| First Years | ||
| Aspen Lenczner | –Salto –7th BB, 2023 L10 Specialist Nationals | |
| Hannah Scheible | VT UB BB FX | –All American Flames –1st AA, 2023 L10 Nationals |
| Caitlin Smith | –Redshirt –Did not compete in 2023 | |
| Keira Wells | VT BB FX | –316 –6th AA, 2023 L10 Nationals |
Oklahoma Postseason History
2023 – 1st – National Champion
2022 – 1st – National Champion
2021 – 2nd – National Finalist
2020 – 1st – COVID
2019 – 1st – National Champion
2018 – 2nd – National Finalist
2017 – 1st – National Champion
2016 – 1st – National Champion
2015 – 3rd – National Finalist
2014 – 1st – National Champion
Oklahoma
Team Total
1. 198.575 (February 24, 2023)
2. 198.500 (March 6, 2015)
3. 198.475 (March 4, 2022)
3. 198.475 (April 6, 2019)
5. 198.450 (February 29, 2020)
Team Vault — 49.775 (February 14, 2020)
Team Bars — 49.825 (March 4, 2022)
Team Beam — 49.800 (March 18, 2023)
Team Floor — 49.825 (February 1, 2019)
All-Around
1. Maggie Nichols, 39.925 (February 17, 2017)
2. Maggie Nichols, 39.900 (January 20, 2020)
2. Maggie Nichols, 39.900 (March 3, 2018)
2. Maggie Nichols, 39.900 (February 4, 2018)
5. Maggie Nichols, 39.875 (January 21, 2017)
Individual Vault — 10.000
–Kat Levasseur x4
–Olivia Trautman x4
–Jordan Bowers
–Allie Stern
–Evy Schoepfer
–Anastasia Webb x2
–Maggie Nichols x9
–Brenna Dowell x2
–Haley Scaman x2
–Sara Stone
–Kiara Redmond x2
–Leah Mueller
–Amber McCracken
Individual Bars — 10.000
–Jordan Bowers
–Anastasia Webb
–Maggie Nichols x4
–Nicole Lehrmann x2
–McKenzie Wofford
–Keeley Kmieciak
–Brenna Dowell
–Erin LaBarr
–Allison Landis
Individual Beam — 10.000
–Ragan Smith x5
–Carly Woodard
–Anastasia Webb x2
–Maggie Nichols x7
–Chayse Capps x2
–Erica Brewer
–Kassie Tamayo
–Kelly Garrison
Individual Floor — 10.000
–Jordan Bowers
–Olivia Trautman
–Maggie Nichols x2
–Haley Scaman x3
–Patricia Aoki
When Last We Met
Has it been going well? Oklahoma won its 6th national championship in 2023, tying Alabama for 4th on the all-time list and making it 6 wins in the last 9. The title meet proved yet another close-fought battle with Florida, but yet another instance when Oklahoma emerged victorious.
Oklahoma became the 2nd-fastest team to reach 6 titles after winning its first, eclipsed only by Utah’s six straight championships from 1981-1986.
Roster Transitions
| OUT | IN |
| Jenna Dunn BB | Soraya Hawthorne |
| Audrey Lynn | Aspen Lenczner |
| Allie Stern VT | Hannah Scheible |
| Olivia Trautman VT, UB, BB | Keira Wells |
Oklahoma retains the heavy majority of its championship routines from 2023 but does lose five critical sets and will certainly feel the absence of a Deus Ex Trautman sweeping in on the first of March to stick every single Yurchenko 1.5.
Soraya Hawthorne is a 5th-year transfer from Georgia who typically led Georgia’s vault and floor lineups and, under ideal circumstances, was also competing beam. Oklahoma will hope to get a Yurchenko 1.5 option from Hawthorne as well as a lineup-ready routine on floor (where she owns 2 career 9.975s and six other 9.950s).
Aspen Lenczner qualified to Dev Nationals in each of her three seasons as a L10, showing her best results in 2022 with an 8th-place finish on beam and 10th-place on floor.
Hannah Scheible won the AA in her division at Dev Nationals in both 2021 and 2023 (sandwiching a lowly 2nd place in 2022), taking the title on beam each of the three years and never placing lower than 5th on vault, beam, or floor. She’s one of the top L10s in this year’s class and on a normal team would be a lock for the all-around. As it stands, she’ll present four compelling Oklahoma-ready options, and we’ll see how many lineups she ends up making.
Keira Wells placed 6th all-around in her division at Dev Nationals this year, with her highlight score nearly always coming from an impressive Yurchenko 1.5 on vault—where she’ll be a serious lineup contender—but she should also be in the mix on floor and beam.
Gymnast to Watch
Faith Torrez (SO)
Oklahoma is not lacking for depth in 2024. It’s very easy to come up with quality lineups from this roster, but in terms of ideal lineups, Oklahoma will need someone who can be the Trautman now, that kind of reliable stick machine who’s so valuable in the postseason.
Faith Torrez can be that person. A floor star pretty much from the start, Torrez also found the beam scores came last season once she switched to the “time to win now” dismount, but Oklahoma will be looking to Torrez as someone who can take the next step in 2024 and develop into a four-event lock-down gymnast who unmistakably nails the all-around with anchor-level routines.
Vault
2023 Event Ranking: 1
| Lineup Locks | Lineup Options |
| Kat Levasseur Jordan Bowers Faith Torrez | Keira Wells Hannah Scheible Soraya Hawthorne Audrey Davis Danielle Sievers Danae Fletcher Ragan Smith Ava Siegfeldt |
Oklahoma will certainly return to a “10.0 or get out of my sight” principle in 2024 with a double-digit supply of Yurchenko 1.5s along with one handspring pike 1/2 from Hannah Scheible. It’s such a competitive group that it feels as though Kat Levasseur and Jordan Bowers are the only two returners who can truly be considered locks, but I’m putting Faith Torrez in there too, even though she was in and out of the lineup in 2023, because she anchored with a stick at the preseason intrasquad.
Three new, realistic options join the roster this year in Scheible, Keira Wells, and Soraya Hawthorne. All will make cases, and all could make the final lineup. It will be interesting to watch the development of Hawthorne on vault this year because her Y1.5 at Georgia was sort of touch-and-go, but if Oklahoma has shown one thing, it’s that you will be sticking a 1.5 four seconds after arriving no matter what.
These newcomers will make a returner like Audrey Davis fight for her spot in the lineup, a lineup one would typically assume also includes Dani Sievers again, though she was out for this year’s intrasquad, so bear that in mind. Meanwhile, Danae Fletcher has performed an important Y1.5 before but competed vault only three times last season, and what’s that? Ragan Smith with a Yurchenko 1.5 trying to get into the all-around in her 5th year? Cool.
Bars
2023 Event Ranking: 1
| Lineup Locks | Lineup Options |
| Audrey Davis Jordan Bowers Ragan Smith | Danae Fletcher Kat Levasseur Faith Torrez Danielle Sievers Hannah Scheible Bell Johnson Ava Siegfeldt |
Oklahoma returns everyone except Trautman from its championship bars lineup so should be set up well to continue that #1 event ranking in 2024. Audrey Davis and Jordan Bowers will once again be counted on at the end of the lineup for weekly 9.950s, and Ragan Smith looks sure to make her return as well. Sievers has been a go-to 9.925, and the last thing we saw from Danae Fletcher was a season-high 9.9125 in the championship, which is a solid way to make her case for a returning spot.
Among those who weren’t in the final bars lineup last season but own a career high of 9.975 (just that), Oklahoma has Kat Levasseur, who was a mainstay of the lineup in 2021 and 2022 but competed just twice last season, and Faith Torrez, who competed bars in the first 8 meets of last season but didn’t make the final group. Either or both could very believably come into any necessary lineup openings this year, as could Scheible, who tended to get bigger scores on the other events as a L10 but has the necessary tools to Oklahoma up a bars routine.
Beam
2023 Event Ranking: 2
| Lineup Locks | Lineup Options |
| Ragan Smith Jordan Bowers Audrey Davis Faith Torrez | Kat Levasseur Hannah Scheible Ava Siegfeldt Soraya Hawthorne Keira Wells Meilin Sullivan |
Oklahoma has a little bit more replacement work to do on beam because both of the two traditional sturdy leadoff options in Olivia Trautman and Jenna Dunn are gone now. There remain plenty of top-execution routines here because it’s Oklahoma on beam, but the team will be on the lookout for two new routines that can pair the pretty with the staying-on.
In terms of sure-thing returners, Ragan Smith remains the team’s top beamer, but now that Jordan Bowers has her hitting feet, she’s right up there to challenge. Also Faith Torrez got three 9.975s down the stretch last season, and Audrey Davis has competed and hit beam in 36 straight meets. So seems solid.
As for form-forward options for the remaining spots, Oklahoma would most like to have Kat Levasseur back in the lineup every week after being one of the team’s top beamers in 2022, and Hannah Scheible projects to have a long career of being exceptional on beam. Ava Siegfeldt, meanwhile, appeared on beam in only the first three meets of last season but started strong with a 9.925 and could grow into a Trautman type.
Floor
2023 Event Ranking: 3
| Lineup Locks | Lineup Options |
| Faith Torrez Jordan Bowers Ragan Smith Danae Fletcher | Danielle Sievers Hannah Scheible Soraya Hawthorne Audrey Davis Bell Johnson Kat Levasseur Keira Wells |
Floor is the only event on which Oklahoma returns its entire lineup from the 2023 championship team, but that won’t necessary mean it is immune to change. For a third-straight season in 2023, floor was Oklahoma’s lowest-ranked event. Third. It’s so low I can barely see it.
Oklahoma’s best avenue to seeing that third transform into a second or a first would be the introduction of new floors from Hannah Scheible and Soraya Hawthorne, both presenting the big tumbling and performance quality that could supplant some returners. It’s not a given that they jump into this lineup since gymnasts like Dani Sievers and Danae Fletcher and Audrey Davis have proven themselves 9.9able enough to reject being easily shifted from the six—and Bowers, Torrez, and Smith can comfortably be treated as back-of-the-lineup locks in 9.950 land—but there should be a fight for those spots, which will help the lineup progress.
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Wonder what is going on with Siegfeldt? She made Olympic Trials in 2021 and looked poised to be dominate at Oklahoma. It has not translated into success for her. Hopefully this year.
Was coming back from injury last year and appears to be on the mend, but now there’s the issue of depth.