ST. LOUIS—The Utah gymnastics team will compete for the NCAA Championship tonight, joining Oklahoma, UCLA, LSU, Florida and Alabama in the Super Six at 7 p.m. MT on ESPNU. It is Utah's 20th all-time Super Six appearance. The meet will also be streamed live on ESPN3. Click on the tabs in the red box for live video links, live scoring and live Utah updates.
Utah's 10 national titles (nine NCAA) leads this year's Super Six field, but the Utes have not won an NCAA Championship since 1995. The Utes have finished second five times since then, most recently in 2015, when they finished five hundredths of a point behind champion Florida.
Utah's lineup from yesterday's semifinal will stay unchanged unless sophomore
Kari Lee is unable to compete on the bars, which will be determined in warmups. Lee, who was competing in the all-around until spraining her ankle the week prior to regionals, tweaked the sore ankle on her dismount yesterday and is questionable on even that event tonight.
Utah hit 24 of 24 routines yesterday in advancing out of the afternoon semifinal with its best performances coming in the second half on beam and floor. The Utes will open competition tonight on floor and sophomore transfer
Macey Roberts will lead off the set. Utah will rotate to vault, bye, bars, beam and finish on a bye.
Freshman
MyKayla Skinner, who became Utah's first NCAA floor champion since 1992, placed second overall in the all-around, fifth on vault and eighth on beam. Skinner placed first in the all-around, vault and floor in the afternoon semi to improve her season win total to 43, which ranks second in school history. Her semifinal all-around title also gave her the school record for all-around wins in a season with 12.
In head-to-head competition, a Ute has won every all-around duel this season. Along with Skinner's 12 victories is one win from Lee (at Georgia).
Making the final appearance of her career tonight is senior
Baely Rowe, who increased her All-America portfolio to six after earning first-team honors on floor and second-team recognition in the all-around in yesterday's semifinal competition. Rowe, who has started since her freshman season, has participated for three Pac-12 Championship teams (2014, 2015, 2017) and four NCAA Championship qualifers.