Kendall Sanders
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- Height:
- 5-1
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- Hometown:
- Spring Branch, Texas
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- Previous School:
- Smithson Valley HS
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- Gym Club/Center:
- VIP Gymnastics
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- Event:
- AA
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- Career high - AA:
- 38.525
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- Career high - Vault:
- 9.6
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- Career high - Bars:
- 9.7
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- Career high - Beam:
- 9.725
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- Career high - Floor:
- 9.8
Bio
2021 Junior Season: Named a First-Team All-American by USA Gymnastics on both the floor and in the all-around ... Also named an All-American by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association as she earned her honors on beam (9.681), floor (9.700), and all-around (38.519) ... Earned all-conference honors following an impressive performance at the annual MIC Championships on March 19 as she placed fourth in the all-around with a score of 38.650 to earn all-around second team honors and also earned second-team recognition on floor with a 9.700 ... She earned a new career-high 9.825 on floor at the USAG Championships on April 10 ... Competed in the all-around in all eight of the Ladies' meets during the season ... Had a phenomenal meet on March 12 versus TWU, the Ladies' final home meet of the season, as she earned new career-high scores on both bars (9.675) and vault (9.800) ... Nearly matched her career-high score of 9.725 on beam in that same meet as she recorded an impressive 9.700 en route to a career-high score in the all-around (38.825) ... NQS for the season were 38.5188 in the all-around, 9.7000 on floor, 9.6813 on both beam and vault, and 9.6375 on bars ...Named a MIC Scholar-Athlete with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
2020 Sophomore Season: Named to the 2020 Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association DIII regular season All-America Team in the All Around, ranking first with an NQS of 38.090 … Named a 2020 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate Nationals second team All-American in the all-around … Named a USA Gymnastics Scholar Athlete and a Midwest Independent Conference scholar-athlete … WCGA Academic All-American for 2019-2020 ... Competed in all 10 of the Ladies’ meets during the season in all four events (bars, beam, floor, and vault) ... High scores for the year were 9.6 on vault, 9.725 on beam, 9.75 on floor, and 38.525 in the all-around.
2019 Freshman Season: Capped her impressive rookie season by earning Second Team All-American honors after she finished in a tie for sixth on floor with a career high of 9.800 at the USA Gymnastics Championships in April in Bridgeport, Conn. … Named WCGA Academic All-American … Finished second in the all-around four times during the season … Had three top-four finishes in a home meet versus Eau Claire on Jan. 19 including a second-place finish on floor with a score of 9.600 … On Feb. 3 versus Gustavus Adolphus, she placed fifth on vault with a score of 9.400; third on beam with a score of 9.525; fourth on floor with a score of 9.600. Placed second in the all-around with a score of 37.525 … On March 1 versus Air Force, she placed third on vault (9.425), fifth on bars (9.600), and second in the all-around (37.950).
Prior to Centenary: Top 5% of graduating High School Class National Honor Society Level 10 State and Regional Qualifier Level 9 Western Qualifier.
Personal: Birthday is May 2 ... Daughter of Dewayne and Brandi Sanders and has two siblings, Corey and Kyle ... Majoring in biology.
Hobbies: Loves to do anything in the water from wakeboarding, surfing, fishing, and jet skiing.
News mentions
Centenary senior All-American gymnast Kendall Sanders participated in the 2021 NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Training (SALT), which was held virtually last month.
Division III Regular Season All America Award winners for the 2021 season were announced today by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association and three Centenary gymnasts were recognized for their outstanding seasons.
Hey Centenary Ladies Gymnastics Fans! It’s your Senior Class of 2021 - Jerrica Harris, Jenny Jackson, and Si~Si Ponder - here for our last and final gym talk!
Hey Ladies fans its 2/3 Juniors here, Knaps & Xi, for this weeks Gym Talk.
Hey Ladies Gymnastics fans! It’s sophomore Kennedy Stephens back again with this week’s Gym Talk.
The Centenary gymnastics team placed fifth at the 2021 Midwest Independent Conference Championship on Friday at Redbird Arena.
Hey all you Ladies fans, it’s your sophomore Lani back at it again with another gym talk!
Hello Ladies fans! Sophomore Kendall Huff, aka K3, here, to catch everyone up on our busy weekend!
Hey Ladies fans, Its sophomore Rose Deshler here with this week’s gym talk!
Hello Ladies’ fans, it’s your girl Xi pie back at it to catch you up on the last two week’s of gym talk.
The Centenary Ladies gymnastics team opened its 2021 regular season with a third-place finish in a tri-meet against the Air Force Falcons and the Texas Woman's University Pioneers on Sunday afternoon at the Gold Dome.
February 7, 2021 could not come soon enough for the Centenary Ladies gymnastics team. Good news is that the day has finally arrived. The Ladies will finally open their 2021 season at home on Sunday.
Hey Ladies’ fans this is Junior, Kendall Knaps back with this week’s gym talk! The Ladies had a great week of practice in preparation for meet week. We are so excited about finally getting to compete in the Dome for what is now our first meet of the season!
Hey Ladies Fans, this is Junior Kendall Sanders, aka K1 with this week’s Gym Talk ... The Ladies have been hard at work preparing for the season both in and out of the gym.
Hey Ladies’ Fans, it’s freshman Courtney Tripp here with my first ever gym talk! We had a jam-packed few weeks that started with us getting back to campus Monday evening from our Thanksgiving break.
Hey Centenary Gymnastics Fans! It's Freshman Izzie Plaza here with this week's Gym Talk. The Ladies did amazing this last week despite the upcoming pressures of finals, but I know our Ladies will rock them.
Hey Ladies Gymnastics fans! It’s sophomore Kennedy Stephens here with this week’s Gym Talk. It was a long, but great, week for the Ladies.
Hey Ladies Gymnastics Fans, It is sophomore Madison McCary here with this week’s gym talk! We had a very eventful week with lots of team activity and hard work in the gym.
Hello Ladies fans! Sophomore Kendall Huff, aka K3, here, out of quarantine and ready to get back to work!
Hey Ladies Fans! This is junior Kendall Sanders, aka K1, with this week’s gym talk!
Nine Centenary gymnasts were named 2019-20 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Scholastic All-America Award recipients, the WCGA announced on Tuesday. These nine Ladies earned a 3.5 grade point average or better and over half of the team received this honor.