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April 05, 2005
Gymnastics sends five athletes to nationals, fails to qualify as a team
After strong showings all season long, Hamline’s gymnastics team faltered on the night that it mattered most.
Hamline scored a 178.725 to place fifth at the NCGA West Regional Meet and failed to qualify for the NCGA National Championships.
Hamline started the meet well, when three of six routines scored an average of 9.0 or above, but things slowed down quickly as the team competed in the second event, the uneven bars. The Pipers scored their lowest team score of the year, 42.350.
The Pipers struggles’ continued with the beam, where falls essentially took Hamline out of contention for a
third-place finish, the final spot to qualify for nationals.
Sophomore Brittany Ehlis and senior Melanie Axvig contributed to Hamline’s event total of 44.850, scoring averages of 9.375 and 9.200 respectively.
Caitlin Goodin (9.450), Kristin Driscoll (9.400), and Ashley Calhoon (9.325) all scored well in the floor exercise as well.
Only the top three teams at regionals qualify for the NCGA National Championships, thus ending
Hamline’s season. However, five Hamline gymnasts qualified for the national competition as individuals.
They include senior Ashley Calhoon (vault, bars, floor), junior Emily Wind (bars), senior Melanie Axvig (beam, floor), senior Kristin Driscoll (floor), and sophomore Caitlin Goodin (floor). A calculated score (40 percent season average, 60 percent regional score) is used to rank individual gymnasts and determine who qualifies for nationals.
Hamline’s head coach Doug Byrnes also earned honors when he was named the 2005 WIAC Co-Coach of the Year. Byrnes shares this honor with UW-Oshkosh head coach Nadalie Walsh.
Posted by msveum at April 5, 2005 09:26 PM
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