Gymnastics: Women ready for Nebraska, too
The University of Oklahoma women’s gymnastics squad hosts Nebraska in the team’s 2008 home opener at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Lloyd Noble Center in a dual meet with both school’s men’s squads.
No. 6 OU enters the meet with a 8-0 record, fresh off a season-high team score of 196.550 in last Sunday’s competition at West Virginia.
The Sooners are led by senior All-American Kiara Redmond-Sturms who earned her second-consecutive Big 12 Gymnast of the Week honor for her efforts in the win, as the Los Angeles, Calif., native won her fourth-straight all-around, vault, bars and floor title.
Redmond-Sturms enters the meet ranked No. 1 in the nation on the floor exercise, with a season-average score of 9.931.
Twelfth-ranked Nebraska travels to Norman with a 3-1 overall record, 2-0 in Big 12 matches. The reigning Big 12 Champions, Nebraska’s only loss on the year is to second-ranked Utah.
The Cornhuskers are led by senior Emily Parsons, who shared Big 12 Gymnast of the Week honors with Redmond-Sturms, after her efforts in the NU win against conference-rival Missouri.
Billed as “Youth Gymnastics Night,” children in attendance will receive free OU gymnastics bracelets and can register to win an OU bicycle which will be given away following the meet. In addition to OU men’s and women’s gymnastics posters, the first 500 fans into the Lloyd Noble Center will be given free OU gymnastics T-shirts and 50-cent hot dogs will be sold while supplies last. Following the meet, both Sooner squads will sign autographs on the upper concourse.
Tickets will be available Friday night in the East lobby of the LNC of by calling the OU Ticket Office at 325-2424, or toll free at (800) 456-GoOU. General admission tickets are $7 and $5 for youth. Admission to the event is free to OU students with a student ID.
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