This Week:
Fri., Feb. 8 Sacramento State
The Nest, Sacramento, Calif.
7:00 p.m. PT
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The San José State women's gymnastics team competes Sacramento State each of the next two weeks. The team travels to the state capital Friday night for the first of two meets. The Spartans have already competed at The Nest once this year when Sacramento State hosted the NorCal Classic on January 8. The Spartans scored a 193.300, while Sacramento State had a 190.000.
The teams have three more times to compete against each other. The teams will compete with New Hampshire next Friday, February 15, at The Event Center beginning at 7 p.m. They are two of the four teams at a California quad meet (Cal and Illinois) on Sunday, March 17, at 2 p.m. The Spartans and Hornets are two of six teams that will compete for the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship on March 24, hosted by Seattle Pacific.
LAST WEEK
On Alumni Night (Feb. 1), the San José State women's gymnastics team made the alums proud as the Spartans had their best meet of the season with a 194.175 team score in a meet with UC Davis and Boise State at The Event Center.
The Spartans started the meet with a season-best 48.475 on vault, led by Chelsey Andrada tying her career best with a 9.875. The bars team scored a 48.625 with only five gymnasts competing. Stephanie Relova had team's top score at 9.800.
The beam team had another solid night with a 48.450 as Taylor Chan had a team high at 9.800. The floor team finished the meet with a 48.625, led again by Chan with a team-high 9.850. Chan scored a 39.125 in the all-around to finish third.
SPARTAN COACHING STAFF
Head coach Joanne Bowers begins her first season at the helm of the San José State program. She is the sixth head coach in the program's now 50-year history in August of 2018. From 2007 to 2016, Bowers was the head women's gymnastics coach at the University of Washington.
James Williams and Jeffrey Langenstein are in their first season as assistant coaches for the Spartans after joining the program in September of 2018. Chelsea Spomer is in her second year with the program, serving as the director of operations for the 2019 season.
MPSF WEEKLY HONORS
For four of the past five weeks, a Spartan gymnast has won an MPSF honor. This week, Carli Orcutt was named the MPSF Freshman of the Week for the second time this season. She, competed on vault, bars and floor in a home meet with UC Davis and Boise State last Friday night. Starting the night on vault, she recorded a season-best 9.725 and also helped the vault team score a season-best 48.475. Moving to bars, she recorded a 9.725, her second-highest score of the season. On floor, Orcutt scored a 9.650 for the Spartans.
Her other Freshman of the Week honor came on January 22. She helped the team to a 193.225-189.800 win at Southeast Missouri. Orcutt started the night with a season-best 9.750 on bars and followed that up with a 9.700 on vault. She then made her debut on floor in the third rotation with a 9.725. For the meet, she was third on bars, tied for fourth on vault and tied for sixth on floor.
Taylor Chan has received the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week honors twice this year. At Boise State on January 13, Chan tied her career-best score in the all-around with a 39.175. Chan led the team on the bars with a 9.800, the beam with a 9.825 and the floor with a 9.800. She tied for second in the all-around, tied for third on floor and tied for fourth on beam.
At the NorCal Classic on January 6, Chan finished second in the all-around at the NorCal Classic with a 39.025 Sunday afternoon. She was second to Stanford's Kyla Bryant who won every event and the all-around. Chan tied for first on floor with Bryant with a 9.900, and added a 9.800 on beam, 9.700 on vault and 9.625 on bars. Her 39.025 in the all-around was her fifth 39.000+ score in the all-around during her Spartan career.
VAULT TEAM RISES TO TOP ON ALUMNI NIGHT
The Spartan vault team recorded a season-best 48.475 in a home meet with UC Davis and Boise State. Chelsey Andrada led the team as she tied her career high with a 9.875. The reigning MPSF Vault Champion, her score tied the third-highest score in school history.
SPARTANS WITH FLOOR BEST AT SEMO
The Spartan floor team recorded a season-best 48.825 in the win at Southeast Missouri on January 18. Taylor Chan led the team as she tied first with a 9.90. Freshman Jasmine Henley had a season-best 9.8000, while fellow freshman Carli Orcutt recorded a 9.725 in her first collegiate floor routine. Josalyn Ray and Stephanie Relova each had a 9.700, and Chelsey Andrada had a 9.675.
CHAN TIES FOR FLOOR TITLE AT NORCAL CLASSIC
Taylor Chan started the 2019 season by tying for first on the floor with a 9.900 at the NorCal Classic. She tied with Kyla Bryant of Stanford for the first event title of the season.
FUTURE PROMOTIONS
February 15 - vs. Sacramento State & New Hampshire, 7 p.m.
-Pink Meet & Military Appreciation Meet
March 8 - vs. California, 7 p.m.
-Senior Night
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ABOUT THE SPARTANS
CHELSEY ANDRADA
•Competes on vault, beam and floor
•Tied her career high on vault with a 9.875 in a home meet with UC Davis and Boise State
•Her 9.875 on vault ties for the third-best score in school history.
•Started the season with a 9.825 on beam at the NorCal Classic.
•Scored a 9.800 or better on floor twice - 9.825 in Quad meet at home and 9.800 against UC Davis and Boise State.
•Reigning MPSF Vault Champion
TAYLOR CHAN
•Only all-around performer for the Spartans
•Has scored a 39.025 or better in the all-around in all five meets
•Career-best 39.175 at a meet at Boise State with Air Force
•MPSF Gymnast of the Week for January 8 & 15
•Has the team's top score on bars (9.825), beam (9.850) and floor (9.900)
•Seven event titles this season - bars, beam, floor (3) and all-around (2)
•Scored a 9.900 on floor three times
GABRIELLE DE LEON
•Beam specialist
•A walk-on who has earned a spot on the beam team
•Has competed on beam the past three meets
•Season-best 9.625 at Southeast Missouri
NIKKI DUGGAN
•Competed on bars in all five meets
•Recorded her best score of 9.725 in a meet at Boise State with Air Force
•Added a 9.675 last week against UC Davis and Boise State
TIA GIN
•Competed on bars at Southeast Missouri
JASMINE HENLEY
•Competes on beam and floor
•Season-best 9.600 on beam at the Quad meet.
•Had a 9.800 on floor at Southeast Missouri and added a 9.725 in a home meet with UC Davis and Boise State
ANTONIA MARQUEZ
•Competed on floor in the home Quad meet
KAPRECE NADONZA
•Competed on bars in the past two meets
•Scored a 9.725 against UC Davis and Boise State
CARLI ORCUTT
•Competes on vault, bars and floor
•Been in the vault and bars lineup for all five meets and the floor lineup the past three meets.
•Two-time MPSF Freshman of the Week (Jan. 22 and Feb. 5)
•Season-best 9.725 on vault against UC Davis and Boise State
•Scored a 9.750 on bars at Southeast Missouri
•Received a 9.725 on floor at Southeast Missouri and the home Quad meet
ELLIE PASCOE-LONG
•Competed in the first two meets of the year before suffering an Achilles injury in the second meet of the year
•Out for the season
•Scored a 9.825 and a 9.800 on beam in the first team meets
•Was competing in the all-around this season, adding beam this year after competing vault, bars and floor last season
MADILYN PROBST
•Competed on vault and bars in the first four meets of the season
•Season-best 9.550 on vault at the NorCal Classic
•Had a 9.550 on bars at Southeast Missouri
TRISHA RAQUEL
•Been in the vault lineup the past four meets
•Career-best 9.500 at Boise State with Air Force
•Added a 9.425 on vault against UC Davis and Boise State
JOSALYN RAY
•Competes on vault, beam and floor
•Been in the vault and beam lineups in all five meets and four meets on the floor
•Season-best 9.725 on vault at Southeast Missouri State
•Had a 9.700 on beam at Boise State with Air Force
•Scored a 9.700 or better on floor twice - 9.725 at NorCal Classic and 9.700 at Southeast Missouri
STEPHANIE RELOVA
•Competes on bars, beam and floor
•Added floor this season
•Scored a 9.800 on bars twice - at Southeast Missouri and last week against UC Davis and Boise State
•Season-high 9.800 in the home Quad meet on beam and floor