Postmeet Notes: NCAA Championships - Semifinal Session I
4/18/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
April 18, 2014
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• Shelby Gies, Nicole Artz and Sachi Sugiyama each earned their first career NCAA All-America honors. U-M now has 43 gymnasts in program history receive NCAA All-America honors. Additionally, U-M has had at least one gymnast receive NCAA All-America honors in 23 consecutive seasons.
• Over the last six meets, U-M is averaging 49.537 on floor exercise.
• Joanna Sampson has scored 39.550 or better in the all-around in each of her last five meets. Her score on Friday (39.550) was one quarter-of-a-tenth better than her all-around score at last year's NCAA Championships when she tied for third (39.525). She has scored 39.000 in 31 career meets, eighth on the school's all-time list.
• Joanna Sampson has scored 9.950 or higher six times this season. Additionally, half her uneven bars routines have been received at least 9.900 scores.
• Joanna Sampson scored her highest balance beam routine since March 15 at the Big Ten Quad (9.900).
• Friday's semifinal was only the second time all season that Sachi Sugiyama scored 9.900 on vault (other: Feb. 7 at Illinois).
• Michigan scored half-a-tenth higher on uneven bars on Friday (49.325) than it did at the NCAA Athens Regional on April 5 (49.275).
• Natalie Beilstein scored 9.900 or better in six of her nine routines this postseason (across vault, uneven bars and floor exercise).
• Talia Chiarelli has scored 9.850 on floor exercise in back-to-back meets, tying her career high.
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