The No. 15 University of Denver gymnastics squad will take part in the Tuscaloosa Regional at 5 p.m. MDT April 6 at Coleman Coliseum against host No. 3 Alabama, No.9 Utah, No. 23 Kent State, No. 30 BYU and No. 35 Iowa State, the NCAA announced Monday.
?It?s always exciting to compete at the NCAA Regionals,? says head coach Melissa Kutcher-Rinehart. ?We?re looking forward to competing in a very strong region. Alabama is a great place to go and a great place to compete, and I?m confident that it?s going to be a great competition.?
DU?s rotation order for the Regional will be: bye, floor, vault, bye, bars, beam.
The Pioneers have qualified for the NCAA Regionals all 15 seasons of Kutcher-Rinehart?s tenure. Denver will look for its fourth trip to the NCAA Championships since turning Division I in 1984. A year ago, the Pioneers finished fourth at the Champaign Regional.
Denver finished second at Saturday?s Western Athletic Conference Championship, falling to Boise State by a tenth of a point. The Pioneers will head to the NCAA Regionals with a 22-3 record. DU won the WAC regular season title with a 4-0 mark. Denver will be the 15th-ranked team in the country heading into the Regional.
Alabama and Utah are two of the four programs to win a NCAA Championship in the sport?s history. The Crimson Tide have won back-to-back national titles and Utah is the only program in history to qualify for every NCAA Championship meet.
?It?s without a doubt going to be a challenging competition,? Kutcher-Rinehart says. ?There are only four teams in the country to ever win an NCAA Championship and two of the four are in our region. With that said, I have confidence that this team can compete in that type of atmosphere, and we?re looking forward to the meet.?
DU, BSU and Southern Utah made the WAC a three-bid league this year.
The top-two teams at each of the six regionals will advance to the NCAA Championships April 19-21 in Los Angeles, Calif. Event winners and the top-two all-arounders from non-advancing teams will also qualify for the nation?s final meet of the season.
Read more at denverpioneers.com
Source: http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/gymnastics-squad-headed-to-tuscaloosa-regional
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