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Gymnastics to compete in WAC Championships
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The Boise State gymnastics team travels to Logan, Utah, this week for the 2006 Western Athletic Conference Championship.
The Broncos will compete against host Utah State, Southern Utah, Sacramento State, San Jose State, and Cal State Fullerton.
The first tournament in WAC history in gymnastics is expected to be a very close contest.
All six teams are within 24 places of one another in the national rankings. Southern Utah is ranked 25th nationally with a Regional Qualifying score (RQS) of 194.325.
The Eagles’ season average is 193.757. Boise State is ranked 28th with a RQS of 193.995 and has a season average of 192.569. Sacramento State is ranked 30th with an RQS of 193.880 and a season average of 192.702. San Jose State is ranked 33rd with an RQS of 193.305 and a season average of 192.317.
Utah State is ranked 37th with a RQS of 192.970 and a season average of 192.329. Cal State Fullerton is ranked 49th with a RQS of 191.950 and a season average of 191.257.
For all six teams, team and individual qualifications for NCAA Regional competition are up for grabs, as this is the final meet of the season which counts toward a team’s RQS.
The top six schools in each region qualify to NCAA Regionals, with some movement of the top 18 teams nationally to level the regional competitions.
Regionally, Boise State, Sacramento State, San Jose State and Cal State Fullerton are all in the NCAA’s West Region.
Utah State and Southern Utah are in the North Central Region.
The WAC sponsored gymnastics in 1991, 1992 and 1993, and then dropped it until this year. Coincidentally, the Bronco gymnastics team was a member of the WAC in those three years and had one WAC champion – Julie Wagner on vault in 1993.
For the last four years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005), Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Cal State Fullerton had formed and competed in the Western Gymnastics Conference.
The WAC then invited Southern Utah, Cal State Fullerton and Sacramento State to join the WAC schools (Utah State, Boise State and San Jose State) in bringing back gymnastics as a conference sport this season.
In the 2005 Western Gymnastics Conference Championship, Bronco Lindsay Ward won the league title on vault, bars, beam and the all-around and was named WGC Gymnast of the Year.
Courtesy BroncoSports