Cougs finish season with a 196.500 at NCAA Regionals

The BYU women’s gymnastics team concluded its 2024 season with a third-place finish and final score of 196.500 at the Fayetteville NCAA Regionals Thursday evening.

Author Brenna Seeman
back of BYU gymnasts, showing off their Brigham Young jacketsback of BYU gymnasts, showing off their Brigham Young jackets
Sydney Benson floor regionals
Heidi Schooley posing during her floor routine
Madison Raesly-Patton split leap on beam
Anyssa Alvarado getting ready to mount the uneven bars
Mina Margraf posing on beam

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The BYU women’s gymnastics team concluded its 2024 season with a third-place finish and final score of 196.500 at the Fayetteville NCAA Regionals Thursday evening.

No. 2 LSU and No. 15 Minnesota will move on and compete in Saturday’s final round of regionals, earning scores of 197.800 and 196.950, respectively. Oregon State rounded out the competition with a final score of 196.450.

BYU fifth-year senior Lindsey Hunter-Kempler tied for the third-highest uneven bars score of the evening with a 9.900 on the apparatus.

 

Brogan and Sophie high-five after Sophie's vault
Avery Templin taking videos of the gymnasts during a meet
Brynlee salutes judges after beam routine

The Cougars opened their evening on the uneven bars. BYU opened its rotation with three 9.775’s from Allix Mason, Ava Jorgensen and Kylie Eaquinto. Hunter-Kempler followed with a season-high score of 9.900. Senior Anna Bramblett anchored for the Cougars with a 9.825 for a team bars score of 49.050.

Standings after rotation one: Minnesota (49.500), LSU (49.375), BYU (49.050) and Oregon State (48.625).

BYU counted five scores above a 9.800 on the balance beam in the second rotation. Mason opened the rotation with a score of 9.800. She was followed by a 9.850 from Mina Margraf and a 9.875 from Eliza Millar-Crossman. Fifth-year senior and 2022 beam All-American Elease Rollins scored a 9.850, followed by a 9.825 from freshman anchor Brynlee Andersen. The Cougars earned a team beam score of 49.200.

Standings after rotation two: LSU (98.750), Minnesota (98.725), BYU (98.250) and Oregon State (98.075).

The Cougars brought the energy with their floor routines in rotation three. Olivia Matern tied her career-high with a 9.850. Heidi Schooley and Kylie Eaquinto also added a pair of 9.850’s. Millar-Crossman and Sophie Dudley added a pair of 9.825’s, while Sydney Benson scored a 9.800 as the Cougars closed out the floor rotation with a team score of 49.200. 

Standings after rotation three: LSU (148.100), Minnesota (147.750), BYU (147.450) and Oregon State (147.150).

Dudley tied her career high on vault with a 9.850 in the final rotation for BYU. Benson and Eaquinto added a pair of 9.850’s of their own as the Cougars finished with a team vault score of 49.050.