Burt Heads to Texas for NCAA Championships
4/14/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
| Lisa | |
| Date | Friday, April 15, 2016 |
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas; Fort Worth Convention Center |
| Live Webstream | Session I Friday | Session II Friday Apparatus Live Feeds: Session II: Bars | Floor | Vault | Beam | "All-Around" (quad box view) |
| Live Results | Session I Friday | Session II Friday |
| Championship Website | National Collegiate Gymnastics Championship |
| Meet Notes | Download MSU Notes |
| Social Media | @MSUgymnastics  | Facebook  |
NOTES AND NOTABLES
• Michigan State senior Lisa Burt has advanced to the 2016 National Collegiate Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas.
• Burt will rotate with Nebraska, one of the 12 team qualifiers and one of two from the Big Ten (Minnesota). Burt and the Huskers will compete in Friday's evening session (Session II), which begins at 8 pm ET.
• Michigan State's team was selected to the 36-team NCAA regional field for the second consecutive season and 23rd time in program history. The Spartans finished sixth in the Athens regional, and just missed having a second competitor (Elena Lagoski on floor, 9.925 at regionals) advance to nationals. Burt finished fourth All-Around in Athens, which sent her on to Fort Worth.
• Burt, a four-year All-Around competitor for the Spartans, makes MSU's first NCAA Championship appearance since 2010. Current assistant coach Nicole Curler advanced as an individual in 2010, also as an All-Arounder. Burt is the 15th individual to compete at Nationals for MSU.
• Burt is a three-time NCAA competitor, making the regional field as an individual in 2013 (freshman) and 2014 (sophomore). In 2015, the Spartans qualified as a team, but Burt missed the competition with injury. She was seventh in the All-Around with a 39.200 in 2014 at the Baton Rouge (La.) regional.
• Burt has 26 top-three finishes in 2016 and 85 in her career. She has finished in the top three All-Around seven times this season, and eight times on bars.
• Burt maintained the team's highest RQS in four events, led by her 39.265 All-Around (fifth in the Central region.) She also boasted a 9.865 on bars to tie for 10th in the region and eighth in the B1G, and a 9.825 on beam to rank 22nd in the region and 25th in the Conference. Her 9.775 vault RQS tied junior Elena Lagoski for the team best, while her floor RQS, a 9.850, was tied for 16th in the Big Ten.
• Burt has finished in the top three All-Around seven times this season, and eight times on bars. She is tied with Elena Lagoski's eight top-three finishes on floor for the most on the team in a single discipline this season.
• ESPN has added individual apparatus streams and a new scoring interface to its first live television production of the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships airing April 15 and 16. Both days of competition are set to air on ESPNU and stream on the ESPN app through smart phones, tablets and connected devices. Alongside its live broadcast, ESPN is expanding coverage of the meet by providing live streams of each individual apparatus and a quad-box view called "All-Around". The "All-Around" channel allows a viewer to stream every apparatus live, at the same time, on one screen. All five streaming options, as well as the simulcast of the television coverage, are available through the ESPN app and WatchESPN on ESPN3. Links to all feeds are above.
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