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Athletics of the University of Utah

Salt Lake City – The fourth team in Utah Gymnastics drives to Fort Worth, Texas to take part in the 49th National Championship in a row after winning her 35th regional end win in the program history with a score of 197.825 to advance.

The first meeting of the NCAA semi -finals will take place on Thursday, April 17, at 2:30 p.m. MT and shows No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 3 Florida, No. 7 Missouri and No. 11 Alabama.

The Red Rocks will compete in the later semi -finals on April 17 at 7 p.m. MT against No. 1 LSU, No. 5 UCLA and No. 8 Michigan State.

Both NCAA semi -final rounds can be observed on ESPN2.

The two best teams of each semi -finals will rise to the NCAA final
On Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Mt. This meeting is broadcast on ABC National.

Event -Annager: John Roethlisberger, Samantha Peszek, Aly Raisman
Event Reporter & Preshow Host: Taylor Davis
Stream team: Kennedy Baker, Bridget Sloan, Trinity Thomas, Anastasia Webb

All NCAA Gymstics National Championship meetings will take place in the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fans who want to travel to Texas for the campaign can buy Meet tickets here.

In the ranking

  • In 14 weeks Utah is one of the top 10 of the nation at all four events:

Vt: 6th | UB: 4th | BB: 3. | FX: 6th | AA: 4.

  • Grace McCallum is tied in second place on bars, fourth place on beam and ninth place in all -round.
  • Makenna Smith is fourth in the nation on the safe, 14th on the ground and is number 10 in all -round.
  • Avery Neff And Camie winger are 15. In the country on the ray.
  • Utah’s all-round nqs score is 197.780, while its season average is 197,390.

Award season

  • McCallum received the WCGA North Central Region Gymnast of the Year, during the sports manager Cathy Badger was recognized as administrator of the year.
  • McCallum was crowned with the regional bar champion, while Neff received the title of the vault and the all-around (4/3).
  • McCallum, Smith, Wing players and Neff were for their ideas of 2025 for their regular all-America ceremonies of the WCGA.
  • The Red Rocks had eight gymnasts who earn the All-Big 12 team honors at the end of the regular 2025 season:

All-Big 12 Vault Team: Smith, Ella ZirbesPresent Ashley GlynnMcCallum
All-Big 12 Bars Team: McCallum, Amelie MorganStone
All-Big 12 Beam Team: McCallum, Wing player, Smith, Morgan
All-Big 12-Floor team: Smith, McCallum, Jaylene Gilstrap

All-Big 12 Allround Team: McCallum, Smith
Big 12 All-Freshman team: Neff

  • McCallum was voted BIG 12 -Gymnast of the year and is a finalist for the AAI Prize.
  • Neff was appointed Big 12 newcomers of the year.
  • Utah gymnastics won both the Big 12 title of the regular season Big 12 (21.021) and the Big 12 championship (22.02.) In their first season.

Quick sticks

  • Utah travels to his 49th NCAA National Championship.
  • The Red Rocks are the only program that has qualified for every national championship.
  • Utah has won 35 regional titles (32 NCAA) and the other 14 years second.
  • Utah has reached the 198 mark twice this season. 198.075 against Denver on February 21st. and 198.100 against UCLA on March 15th.
  • The Red Rocks cleaned up 12 Weekly Awards in the 2025 season during the 2025 season, with six different gymnasts being recognized 13 times.
  • In 2025, McCallum has most of the event victories for Utah at 30, while Smith is hot on the heels at 24.
  • Utah gymnasium has won the first two Big 12 titles from Utah Athletics in the league since the beginning of the autumn season 2024. The Red Rocks won the regular BIG 12 season championship on 21.20. In 2014, Utah Gymnastics was responsible for the first PAC-12 title from Utah Athletics, four years after the Utes made the Mountain West Conference to the league.

Chalk conversation

  • Head coach Carly Dockendorf is the Red Rocks program and her eighth overall in her second season at Utah Gymnastics.
  • In 2024, Dockendorf was the first head coach in NCAA history, which a team led to the final Four in their first year and achieved the highest finish (3rd place) from each head coach in the first year.
  • Utah returned 16 out of 24 routines from last year’s team, which took third place at the NCAA championships.
  • Utah’s squad contains five all-Americans: Grace McCallum (8x), Makenna Smith (4x), Ella Zirbes (2x) and Jaylene Gilstrap.
  • Makenna Smith Try to build up her second season from Breakout, where she met all 61 routines. Born in Albuquerque, the NCAA received all-America trials in the all-round and in the vault as well as in the second team in bars in 2024.
  • Utah closed his 13-year membership in the PAC-12 conference in 2024 with a fourth PAC 12 championship meeting in a row.
  • Utah added two new faces to the coaching team in the low season, starting with adding co -trainers Mike hungerwho brings more than 50 years of experience to lead the carrier troop and help on the floor.
  • Utah gymnasium legend Maile O’keefe Return to the program as a student coach and has one of the most decorated college gymnastics careers. She won four NCAA single titles (bars, Boden-2021; Allround, Beam-2023). O’keefe collected 19 All-America Awards (7 regular season, 12 NCAA) while fighting for the Red Rocks.
  • Utah has accumulated 112 Perfect 10.0 results of all time, with 81 of these performances in the Jon M. Huntsman Center at home.

Last time

  • The No. 4 Red Rocks took first place in their regional finale (197.825) to come to their 49th NCAA National Championship in a row.
  • McCallum won the all-round in the final (39.725) after a dominant performance that deserved a 10.0-AN bar, 9.95 on the beam and 9.975 on the floor (4/5).
  • Newcomer Zoe Johnson Received her first career victory against Vault in the final to seal the deal for the 49th trip of the Red Rocks to the Nationals and to publish a 9.95 (4/5).
  • McCallum was crowned with the regional bars champion after releasing a 10.0 (4/3) in the semifinals. Neff received the safe title, which was a 9.95 and the all-round title with a 39,650 (4/3). That was Neff’s first all-round victory of her career.

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