Ladies Post Score Of 190.400 On Friday As Emma Lavelle Advances To Sunday's Individual Finals
The Centenary gymnastics team scored a 190.400, its second-highest score of the season, on Friday night as the Ladies served as host for the 2025 Women's Collegiate Gymnastics National Invitational Championships inside the Gold Dome.
The Ladies earned one of the eight spots and will be joined by the University of Alaska, the University of Bridgeport, Greenville University, Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), Southern Connecticut State University, Texas Woman's University, and West Chester University. Eight individuals will also be competing – Diamond Cook of Wilberforce University and seven Fisk University gymnasts.
Day one of competition began with an afternoon session which featured Bridgeport, Greenville, (SEMO), and Southern Connecticut State and the evening session was headlined by the Ladies along with Alaska, TWU, and West Chester.
TWU won the evening session (195.700) followed by West Chester (192.850) and in the afternoon session, SEMO (193.875) and Bridgeport (193.325) finished first and second as all four of those teams will advance to the team finals on Saturday at 7 p.m. The top two teams from session one and the top two teams from session two advance to Saturday's team finals and for the individual competitors, the top five individual scores from each event advance to the individual finals on Sunday at 1 p.m. The individual all-around results will be based off of Friday's sessions.
Senior Emma Lavelle (Mandeville, La.) will represent the Ladies in Sunday's individual finals following her team-high score of 9.775 on floor and Lavelle has earned First-Team All-American status based on her appearance in the individual finals.
FULL REMAINING MEET SCHEDULE:
Saturday, April 12:
6:52 PM: March-In for Team Finals
7:00 PM: Competition Begins
Sunday, April 13:
1:00 PM: Competition Begins for Individual Event Finals
POST MEET: Grand March-In and Awards Ceremony
LIVE RESULTS AND VIDEO FOR SATURDAY'S TEAM FINALS: https://virti.us/session?s=aXmeqjuUVY
LIVE RESULTS AND VIDEO FOR SUNDAY'S FINALS: https://virti.us/session?s=a2jlERgdpn
See the Ladies' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/gymnastics/2024-25/schedule
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