Wolverines to Host Springfield, Arizona State in Tri-Meet at Keen Arena

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The No. 4-ranked University of Michigan men's gymnastics team (8-1) hosts its final tri-meet of the 2024 season, welcoming No. 12 Springfield (1-1) and Arizona State to Cliff Keen Arena on Saturday (Feb. 17) at 1 p.m. Admission to the meets is free of charge.

Notes

• Michigan is ranked No. 4 in the latest Road to Nationals rankings (410.183). The Wolverines are second on still rings (68.650) and parallel bars (69.033), third on high bar (67.767) and fourth on vault (71.983) and pommel horse (67.133).

• Graduate student Paul Juda is coming off winning his second Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honor after his performance against Nebraska (Feb. 10). His score of 86.200 in the all-around tops the nation and is a career best, while he won five individual titles, highlighted by a NCAA-best 15.10 on vault. He previously took the honor on Jan. 22.

• Senior Javier Alfonso leads the NCAA on still rings with a 14.767 three-score average, along with junior Logan McKeown, who ranks third on parallel bars (14.217). Junior David Wolma is second on vault (14.833), while graduate student Crew Bold is fifth on high bar (14.050) and No. 10 on parallel bars (13.917). Senior Evgeny Siminiuc debuts in the rankings at No. 3 on parallel bars (14.133).

• Sophomore Fred Richard owns the fourth-highest score in the NCAA on pommel horse (15.00), while Alfonso boasts the second-highest mark on still rings (15.10). Juda's 15.10 on vault leads the country, while Richard and Bold are both tied for fourth in the land with a 14.40 on high bar. Juda's all-around high of 86.200 tops the country in the discipline as well.

• Seven current and former Wolverines will participate in the USA Gymnastics sanctioned Winter Cup Feb. 23-25 in Louisville, Ky. Alfonso, sophomore Landen Blixt, graduate assistant coach Cameron Bock, Bold, Juda, junior Rithik Puri, and Richard will don the maize and blue in the USA Gymnastics sanctioned event.

• U-M tallied a 407.700 team score en route to its victory over Nebraska, sweeping the individual event titles with six from Juda and one from Alfonso on still rings with a 13.80.

• Springfield's top event is pommel horse, where the unit ranks No. 9 (63.633) and owns a team-score average of 384.083 to rank No. 12 in the country. Peyton Cramer leads the way with a 13.840 average on horse to rank No. 6. Arizona State, a club program, ranks second in GYMAct with a 307.383 average.