Michigan
NCAA Regional Second Round
Michigan to Travel to Baton Rouge for NCAA Regionals
3/31/2026 9:57:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 10-ranked University of Michigan women's gymnastics team travels to Baton Rouge, La., for the NCAA Regional Second Round on Thursday (April 2) at 1 p.m. CT inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on the campus of LSU. The meet is set to be streamed live on ESPN+.
Michigan will compete against No. 7 Stanford, No. 22 North Carolina and Utah State.
Should the Wolverines finish in the top two of their second-round session, they will advance to the NCAA Regional Final set for Saturday (April 4) at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN+.
U-M will start on balance beam and move to floor exercise for the second rotation. Michigan will compete on vault in the third rotation and finish the meet on uneven bars. Stanford will start on vault, North Carolina on uneven bars, and Utah State on floor.
Notes
• Entering regional competition, Michigan holds a National Qualifying Score of 197.111 and ranks among the nation's top 15 on all four events -- No. 5 on beam, No. 9 on floor, No. 13 on vault and No. 15 on uneven bars. Carly Bauman ranks 11th on floor and Kayli Boozer ranks 13th on beam.
• Michigan's appearance will mark its 34th consecutive trip to the NCAA Regionals. Over that span, the Wolverines have advanced to the NCAA Championships 25 times. Michigan has had at least one individual event winner in 14 of the last 15 regionals, as Bauman won the uneven bars title in 2025. The Wolverines have competed in the NCAA Regionals two times in Baton Rouge and will return for the first time since 1996, when they placed second overall. Michigan also competed in an NCAA Regional in Baton Rouge in 1993, finishing in fourth place.
• Bauman and Boozer earned Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association regular-season All-America honors. Bauman earned second team on floor and Boozer notched second team honors on the beam. The honor is the first for both. Bauman competed on three events and took home 10 individual event titles, including two on uneven bars, two on beam and six on floor. Heading into regionals, Bauman ranks 11th on the floor with an NQS of 9.935. Boozer competed in the anchor spot on beam all season and also competed in the vault lineup for eight meets. She kicked off the season with six straight beam scores of 9.900 or better and five straight titles. The junior specialist has recorded eight scores of 9.900 or better on beam this season and four 9.950s, which tie for a career high. Heading into the postseason, Boozer ranks 13th nationally on the beam.
• Bauman was named the 2026 Big Ten Specialist of the Year on March 21. In just its second year as a conference award, Bauman joins Sage Kellerman of Michigan State as the only two recipients of the honor. Bauman notched Big Ten Specialist of the Week honors twice this season to bring her career total to five, while she recorded 15 scores of 9.900 or better -- including eight of her last nine routines on floor.
• Five Wolverines were also named to 2026 Big Ten All-Conference teams. Bauman earned first-team honors for the third time in her career, while Jahzara Ranger earned first-team honors for the first time in her career. Boozer and sophomore Sophia Diaz notched second-team honors for the second straight season. Freshman Quincy Walters was named a second-team honoree, an All-Freshman Team honoree and is Michigan's Sportsmanship Award winner.
• Bauman has been named one of seven finalists for the AAI Award, considered to be the Heisman Trophy of gymnastics and honors the nation's top senior women's gymnast. In the 35-year history of the award, four Michigan gymnasts have earned the honor: Sierra Brooks (2023), Natalie Wojcik (2022), Kylee Botterman (2011) and Beth Wymer (1995). Michigan's last finalist was Gabby Wilson in 2024.
• The Wolverines scored a season-best 49.600 on floor against Oklahoma and Eastern Michigan, counting five scores of 9.900 or better -- Bauman (9.950), Diaz (9.925), Ranger (9.925), Peyton Davis (9.900) and Walters (9.900). The Wolverines also posted a season-best 49.475 on the vault. Guggino closed out her home career with a 9.950 and a stuck landing in the second spot, while Audrey Sanger made her vault debut with a 9.850. Sanger also scored a team-best and career-high 9.875 on the uneven bars in the anchor spot.
• In week one, Michigan broke the program beam record with a 49.650 at the Sprouts Farmers Collegiate Quad. The score broke the previous program best (49.625) set in 2023. U-M put up back-to-back 9.950s behind collegiate debuts from Walters and Jordan. Boozer recorded Michigan's third 9.950 of the rotation before Bauman anchored with a 9.925.
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