The Record Setters of Week 4

Nikki Smith became the first Michigan State gymnast ever to record a perfect score on floor with her 10.000 on Sunday, breaking the school record of 9.975 that had been previously co-held by eight different people (most recently Smith, Skyla Schulte, and Gabi Stephen all last season).

This is the second 10.000 of Smith’s career—to go with her 10 on vault from last March—making her the first MSU gymnast ever to score multiple 10s.

Wilson scored a 10.000 on vault on Friday, becoming the first non-Jenny-Hansen human to score a 10 for Kentucky, beating her teammate Raena Worley to the feat by about 70 minutes.

Now Wilson just needs to do that a casual 20 more times to match Hansen’s record for the most 10s on vault.

Raena Worley also scored her first career 10.000 over the weekend on floor, also the first non-Jenny-Hansen floor 10 scored for Kentucky. This now makes two Kentucky event records that Worley has matched this season to go along with her 9.975s on bars.

McClain scored the second 10.000 of her young college career on Friday, going perfect on beam to match her perfect bars score from two weeks before. McClain’s beam 10 makes her the seventh LSU gymnast to have accomplished that feat, though the most 10s ever scored by an LSU gymnast on beam is still just two, which has been done by Kiya Johnson, Sarah Finnegan, and April Burkholder.

Hudson’s 10.000 on vault for Alabama on Friday was the second 10 of her career, pairing nicely with a perfect score on beam last February. It’s also the first 10.000 on vault for Alabama in eight years, going back to Lauren Beers’ perfect score in February 2016.

Now, Alabama’s longest 10 drought shifts to floor, where the team has not seen a 10 since Kiana Winston seven years ago.

Missouri’s freshman Griffin joined an increasing club with her 9.975 on floor over the weekend, becoming the seventh Missouri gymnast to have tied that school record. Most recently, Jocelyn Moore scored 9.975 on floor on the first weekend of the season, though the record was originally set by both Alisha Robinson and Lauren Schwartzman at the same meet in 2004.

Sargent tied the Brockport program bars record on Saturday with her 9.800, becoming the second Brockport gymnast to have reached that mark after teammate Taylor Bushey first did so two years ago.

Abraham of UC Davis tied her own program vault record once again on Sunday, scoring 9.925 there for the third time after also vaulting for 9.925 twice last season—which teammate Megan Ray did on one occasion as well. Abraham also own the program floor record on 9.975 and co-owns the beam record on 9.925.

In her second-ever meet, Maggie Slife put herself into the Air Force records with a 39.300 all-around, tying for the fourth-best in team history. All of the top three were recorded by Jessa Liegl in 2004, with the program record sitting at 39.475.

Mya Lauzon and eMjae Frazier twinned again for Cal over the weekend, both scoring 39.700 in the all-around and putting them into a further tie with themselves for 5th on Cal’s all-time AA list. Of the ten all-around scores of 39.700+ scored at Cal, Lauzon and Frazier have eight of them.

At Rhode Island, Olivia Keyes scored 38.275 in the all-around this week, which sits fourth in program history, behind only herself in the top three positions. At the same competition, Emma Tucker tied her own vault record with her second career 9.700, which she first scored in 2022.

Sara Kenefick jumped onto Penn’s all-around list with a 39.175, which ranks fifth all-time for the team and is the top Penn AA score since 2013.

Kentucky was the big winner this week in the team records department, scoring a best-ever 197.950 team total to dethrone the 197.875 from last February. The 49.550 on vault also tied a record from March 2023, and the 49.650 on floor tied a record from February 2014.

Arizona scored 49.475 on bars this week, tying a team record that was first set back in March 2001, making it one of the true old broads of team records. Bars is the only event on which Arizona has never scored 49.5.

Penn put up the #3 team score in program history with a 195.550, unseating the previous #3 of 195.375 from two weeks ago.

San Jose State scored 196.500 on Sunday, the #5 score in team history but also just .125 short of the 196.625 program record set last season. All of the top five scores in San Jose’s history have come in the last three seasons.

Rhode Island went 188.425 this week, the team’s #2 score in history, coming about a half point shy of last season’s program record on 188.950. This week’s performance also featured a vault record of 47.625, comfortably beating the old mark of 47.350 from 2023 and 2019.

Winona State put together its #4 score in team history on Friday with a 189.025, which is also the team’s best score since 2017.

Clemson set a bunch of new marks this week with a new best team score of 196.550 and a new best beam score of 49.200, the first time the team has broken 49 on beam, which has now happened at least once on every event. Individually, Rebecca Wells set a new all-around benchmark on 39.225, Lauren Rutherford went 9.925 on vault to pass Trinity Brown’s 9.900, Brie Clark got her second 9.925 on floor, and Clark and Kielyn McCright both went 9.900 on beam to tie the standard McCright had already set.

Talladega also exploded almost all of its first-meet numbers with its second meet, this time going 190.175 as a team (compared to 187.750 in the first meet), and setting new event marks on every apparatus with 47.875 on vault, 46.200 on bars, 47.350 on beam, and 48.750 on floor.

Individually, Krystin Johnson set a new all-around mark of 38.025 and new vault mark of 9.825. Landyn Williams tied Alondra Maldonado’s floor score from week one on 9.825, and Jamilia Duffus and Kiora Peart-Williams both scored 9.625 on bars to set the new record there. The only surviving record from meet one is Maldonado’s 9.775 on beam.

Meanwhile, at Simpson, Emma Charles tied her third event record of the season by going 9.750 on vault to match Kaelyn Tally’s record mark from last year, while Greenville put up its 5th-best team mark on 184.750.


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