MSU Takes on Minnesota Gophers on Saturday
1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
| Michigan State at Minnesota | |
| Date | Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minn. |
| Live Results | |
| Pre-Meet Notes | Michigan State | Minnesota |
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MEET NOTES
• The Spartans have their second Big Ten matchup of the season against the Minnesota Gophers on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis, Minn.
• The last time the two schools met in the regular season was in East Lansing, Mich. on Jan. 24, 2015. The Spartans fell to the Gophers 196.875-195.750.
TEAM NOTES
• Elena Lagoski placed first overall on floor against Iowa, earning a 9.850. She also competed in just her second collegiate career bar routine, earning a 9.65. This opened the door for her to compete in just her second collegiate all-around competition, where she placed third overall with a 38.000, just shy of her score against Arizona (38.400). Lagoski is now tied for eigth in the Big Ten conference for her floor routine.
• Freshman Drew Hendershot impressed on floor in her second collegiate meet, scoring a 9.800 and placing second overall. Her score was a season-best as well as a career-best.
• Lisa Burt placed second overall on beam (9.750) and bars (9.825) and placed third overall on vault, earning a 9.725. Burt is now ranked 6th in the Big Ten conference for her bar routine.
• The Spartans best event was floor, where junior Elena Lagoski took the crown with a 9.850 and freshman Drew Hendershot took a close second, earning a 9.800. Brittany Holmes followed close behind with a 9.775, ranking fourth overall.
• The Spartans had a career debut on vault, where freshman Roya Shirley competed for the first time in the Green and White, earning a 9.700 and placing fifth overall on the apparatus.
• Brittany Holmes (9.725), Lisa Burt (9.75) and Kira Frederick (9.65) all scored season-bests on beam vs. Iowa.
• Holly Ryan impressed in her exhibition floor routine, earning a 9.800. That was the first time she competed on floor this season vs. Iowa.
• The Spartans finished last season with a 12-10 overall record and went 4-5 in Big Ten competition. MSU ranked seventh in the Big Ten and No. 26 in the nation in 2015, which was 11 places higher than they were ranked at the end of the 2014 season. MSU's RQS of 195.117 was it's best since 2010 (195.350).
• The Spartans concluded the 2015 season in the NCAA Iowa State Regional, placing fourth as a No. 5 seed with a 195.375. It marked MSU's first time traveling to NCAA Regionals as a team since the 2012 season when the Spartans competed in Auburn, Alabama and scored a 194.050.
• Lisa Burt and Elena Lagoski were both named First Team All-Big Ten in 2015. It was the first All-Big Ten honors for both athletes, following in the footsteps of Alina Cartwright, who was an All-Big Ten pick in the 2014 season. It marked the first time MSU had two gymnasts named to the First Team since Rhiannon Banda-Scott and now-assistant coach Nicole Curler in 2007-08.
• Lagoski earned a spot in the Spartan record book when she set a career best 9.950, the second-highest score in school history, on floor at Iowa (Jan. 18, 2015). She went on to match that mark two other times during the season (Feb. 15 and Feb. 27). A native of Kingston, PA, Lagoski holds nine floor crowns and placed among the top three in 10 regular season competitions a year ago.
• MSU returns five of it's six Academic All-Big Ten honorees from 2015: Lisa Burt, Nicola Deans, Brittany Holmes, Ashley Noll, and Holly Ryan. In addition, Deans and Ryan were named National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC/W) Scholar All-Americans for maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher during the 2014-15 academic year.
•The Spartans welcome seven newcomers to the roster in 2016: five freshmen, one transfer student, and one graduate student. Sophomore Lindsey Lemke (Holt, Mich.) has recently been added to the Michigan State roster. Lemke is eligible to compete immediately, and joins the Spartans after competing at the University of North Carolina in the 2015 season. Haley Sedgewick (Flint, Mich.) is a graduate student that has also been added to the roster. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently pursuing her Masters in Communications and Media Technology at MSU.
• Michigan State will be back home in East Lansing, Mich. at Jenison Field House on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. to host a quad-meet with Rutgers, Towson and Pittsburg. The meet is also being recognized as the Autism Awareness meet, as well as the Alumni Meet.
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