Michigan
Winter Cup Prelims
Wolverine Quartet to Trek to Winter Cup
2/12/2019 3:32:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics
» Current Wolverines Emyre Cole, Jacob Moore, Cameron Bock, and Kevin Penev will join former Wolverines Sam Mikulak and Adrian de los Angeles to compete in the USA Gymnastics sanctioned Winter Cup Challenge.
» The meet features all eight members of the United States World team and all 12 members of the current U.S. National Team, including Bock and Mikulak.
» Performances at the meet will help determine the 12 men who will comprise the U.S. Men's Senior National Team through the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 8-11.
THIS WEEK
Fri-Sun., Feb. 15-17 -- Winter Cup (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Friday, Feb. 15 -- Prelim Session II, 6:30 p.m. PST
Sunday, Feb. 17 -- Finals Session III, 7:15 p.m. PST
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Four current members of the University of Michigan men's gymnastics team in senior Emyre Cole, sophomores Jacob Moore and Cameron Bock, and freshman Kevin Penev will participate in the USA Gymnastics-sanctioned Winter Cup Challenge Friday and Sunday (Feb. 17-19) at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Additionally, former Wolverines Sam Mikulak (2011-14) and Adrian de los Angeles (2012-15) will be in action. All six competitors will compete in the all-around. The contingent of current Wolverines will begin the meet on parallel bars, while Mikulak and de los Angeles will begin on pommel horse.
The first day of competition will consist of one session for the senior division. The finals session will feature the top 28 senior athletes out of 48. The senior athletes will advance to the second day according to the Men's Program Committee's points-ranking system. For the senior division, all-around ranking will be determined on the first day of competition, and individual event champions will be determined via a combined two-day score.
Wolverine Bites
• Bock and Mikulak enter the meet with the distinction of being current members of the U.S. Senior National team. Bock, one of three collegiate gymnasts on the team, earned his spot following his performance at the 2018 U.S. Championships, where he placed seventh in the all-around. Based on his World Championships results, Mikulak will automatically retain his spot on the national team if he qualifies to the finals at the Winter Cup.
• Bock will be competing in his second meet as a member of the senior national team, coming off taking third in the all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse and parallel bars at the Senior Pan-Am Championships last summer. In this season's NCAA competition, he owns nine event titles this season in three meets, highlighted by his Windy City all-around win on Jan. 19. Bock will be competing in his third Winter Cup at the senior level.
• Cole, a Las Vegas native and 2015 Las Vegas Academy graduate, will be competing in his second Winter Cup as a senior-level competitor. His top finish came in 2017, when he took third place on vault, and will look to make noise in his hometown after missing out on the event last season. He is coming off a meet against Ohio State (Feb. 2) where he captured all-around, floor and vault titles. Cole also captured a vault win against Minnesota on Jan. 26.
• Moore, the 2018 NCAA runner-up on floor exercise, owns a season-high 14.55 on the event. He has competed once in the all-around this season at the Windy City Invitational (Jan. 19), where he scored a 78.750. Cole has competed in the Winter Cup twice prior, once as a junior-level gymnast in 2016 and in 2017 at the senior level.
• Penev will compete in his first meet at the senior national level after excelling at last year's meet as a junior competitor where he won pommel horse and vault en route to taking third in the all-around. He is coming off his best meet of his young career against Ohio State (Feb. 2), where he scored a 14.30 on floor exercise to place second. His brother, Eddie, also will be part of the meet as a member of the U.S. National team, and is a former Nissen-Emery Award winner and standout gymnast at Stanford (2012-15).
• Mikulak, the two-time Olympian and five-time U.S. all-around champion, also is the two-time defending all-around champion in the event. At the 2018 FIG World Championships, he took home his first world or Olympic medal, as he placed third on high bar. He was a six-time individual NCAA Champion at Michigan and 15-time All-American, and won the Nissen-Emery Award in 2015. De los Angeles, a two-time All-American at U-M, took third on vault at last year's Winter Cup, and will compete in his fourth Winter Cup at the senior level. Both were members of U-M's 2013 and 2014 NCAA and Big Ten Championship teams.
• Performances at the meet will help determine the 12 men who will comprise the U.S. Men's Senior National Team through the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 8-11. The top-six ranked all-around athletes will automatically qualify for the 2019 senior national team. The Men's Program Committee will select six additional gymnasts from the participants at the Winter Cup Challenge or from petitions to the team.
Next Event
Saturday, Feb. 23 -- at No. 1 Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.), 2 p.m. CST
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