University of Minnesota Athletics
Gopher Men's Gymnasts Finish Sixth At NCAA Championships
4/14/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Gymnastics
The University of Minnesota men’s gymnastics team placed sixth overall with a season-best score of 217.150 in the finals of the team competition of the NCAA Championships tonight at Rec Hall on the campus of Penn State University.
Penn State won the team title with a score of 221.000. Oklahoma took second with a score of 220.200, followed by Stanford in third (218.450), Michigan in fourth (218.400), Illinois in fifth (217.300) and the Gophers in sixth.
Senior Jake Lee and freshman Andre Berry earned All-America honors in the all-around, marking the first time in the history of Minnesota gymnastics that two Gophers have been named All-Americans in the all-around in the same season. Lee finished sixth in the all-around finals with a score of 53.200, while Berry had a mark of 51.850. The top eight places in the all-around receive All-America citations.
“It is an amazing honor to be able to close out my last NCAA Championships as an All-American,” said Lee. “I have so many great memories from my time at Minnesota and this is just one more to add to the list.”
Lee also qualified for tomorrow’s individual event finals by placing second on parallel bars with a score of 9.600. Sophomore Kit Beikmann, junior Sergei Dmitriev, and freshmen Adam Reichow and Cole Storer also qualified for tomorrow’s event finals.
Reichow qualified for the finals in two events, finishing first on floor exercise with a 9.700 and fourth on vault with a 9.150. Beikmann will get a chance to compete for the pommel horse title tomorrow after qualifying for finals and finishing third with a 9.200 in that event. Storer will compete on floor exercise in the finals after placing second with a mark of 9.65. Dmitriev qualified for finals on two events by placing third on parallel bars with a 9.50. and taking 10th on high bar with a 9.30.
Gopher head coach Mike Burns was pleased with his team’s performance in the team finals and believes that individually, Minnesota will have something to prove tomorrow in the event finals.
“We really dug down deep tonight despite a couple of missteps early on,” said Burns. “It is hard to come from behind in a meet of this nature, but our guys performed well down the stretch and I think our guys that qualified for the event finals tomorrow will be hungry to close this met on a good note.
“Jake and Andre did an outstanding job tonight and it is quite an accomplishment to have both of them earn All-America honors. Sergei did a fine job on parallel bars and Adam gave us his best tonight as well. Hopefully tomorrow night we will bring home some more hardware.”
Individual event finals will take place tomorrow, April 14 at 6 p.m. at Rec Hall.
Penn State won the team title with a score of 221.000. Oklahoma took second with a score of 220.200, followed by Stanford in third (218.450), Michigan in fourth (218.400), Illinois in fifth (217.300) and the Gophers in sixth.
Senior Jake Lee and freshman Andre Berry earned All-America honors in the all-around, marking the first time in the history of Minnesota gymnastics that two Gophers have been named All-Americans in the all-around in the same season. Lee finished sixth in the all-around finals with a score of 53.200, while Berry had a mark of 51.850. The top eight places in the all-around receive All-America citations.
“It is an amazing honor to be able to close out my last NCAA Championships as an All-American,” said Lee. “I have so many great memories from my time at Minnesota and this is just one more to add to the list.”
Lee also qualified for tomorrow’s individual event finals by placing second on parallel bars with a score of 9.600. Sophomore Kit Beikmann, junior Sergei Dmitriev, and freshmen Adam Reichow and Cole Storer also qualified for tomorrow’s event finals.
Reichow qualified for the finals in two events, finishing first on floor exercise with a 9.700 and fourth on vault with a 9.150. Beikmann will get a chance to compete for the pommel horse title tomorrow after qualifying for finals and finishing third with a 9.200 in that event. Storer will compete on floor exercise in the finals after placing second with a mark of 9.65. Dmitriev qualified for finals on two events by placing third on parallel bars with a 9.50. and taking 10th on high bar with a 9.30.
Gopher head coach Mike Burns was pleased with his team’s performance in the team finals and believes that individually, Minnesota will have something to prove tomorrow in the event finals.
“We really dug down deep tonight despite a couple of missteps early on,” said Burns. “It is hard to come from behind in a meet of this nature, but our guys performed well down the stretch and I think our guys that qualified for the event finals tomorrow will be hungry to close this met on a good note.
“Jake and Andre did an outstanding job tonight and it is quite an accomplishment to have both of them earn All-America honors. Sergei did a fine job on parallel bars and Adam gave us his best tonight as well. Hopefully tomorrow night we will bring home some more hardware.”
Individual event finals will take place tomorrow, April 14 at 6 p.m. at Rec Hall.
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