2018 NCGA Championships Website
2018 NCGA Championships Results
Springfield, Mass. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse gymnastics team placed second at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Championships Friday night in Blake Arena at Springfield College (Mass.). The Eagles finished with a team score of 192.550 while UW-Whitewater captured the national title with a score of 193.700. The College at Brockport-State University of New York was third at 191.350.
Hamline University (Minn.) placed fourth with a score of 190.000 while State University of New York-Cortland was fifth at 189.000 and Ithaca College (N.Y.) sixth at 188.175.
UWL scored 47.825 on the vault, 48.250 on the uneven parallel bars, 47.800 on the balance beam and 48.675 on the floor exercise. The Eagles' score of 48.675 on the floor exercise was a season-high.
Samantha Wiekamp earned NCGA All-America honors for UWL with a fifth-place finish (38.075) in the all-around Friday night. It is her sixth career All-America award, including third in the all-around. Wiekamp tied for second in the all-around in 2016 and eighth in in 2017. She tied for the NCGA title on the uneven parallel bars in 2015 and on the vault in 2016. Enright also tied for fifth on the uneven parallel bars in 2016.
With its second-place finish Friday, it marked UWL's 25th top-two finish in 35 NCGA Championships. The Eagles have won the team title an NCGA record 17 times (1986, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, and 2016).
UWL student-athletes have now earned 229 All-America honors throughout the history of the NCGA.
UWL returns to action at the NCGA Individual Championships (vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise) Saturday, March 24 at 3 p.m. (Central). Ten student-athletes have qualified for Saturday's individual championships. The Eagles'
Jessica Ahrens (vault, balance beam),
Amy Enright (uneven parallel bars, floor exercise),
Sam Weyker (balance beam, floor exercise) and
Lauren Wilson (uneven parallel bars, floor exercise) qualified in two individual events. The Eagles'
Dani Barmore (vault),
Ally Blixt (balance beam),
Brooke Kachinsky (uneven parallel bars),
Breghan Kiloran (uneven parallel bars),
Leah Spankowski (balance beam) and Wiekamp (vault) will also compete in the individual championships.
The top-eight individuals in the all-around and vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam and floor exercise earn NCGA All-America honors.
