Gymnastics: WVU Looks for 6th EAGL Title
March 29, 2007 01:14 PM | General
March 29, 2007
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| Janáe Cox |
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The West Virginia University gymnastics team will attempt to win its sixth title at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) Championships hosted by Maryland at the Comcast Center on Friday, March 30, at 6 p.m.
The Mountaineers (22-8, 11-1) have won the EAGL Championships five times in 11 years, the most of any conference school. WVU last won the EAGL Championships in 2004 and is coming off a third place finish in 2006.
The 27th-ranked Mountaineers bring a 194.670 regional qualifying score (RQS) into this weekend’s meet, trailing only NC State (194.880 RQS) in the conference standings. West Virginia ranks atop the league in both vault (48.995 RQS) and bars (48.720 RQS), while ranking second in floor (48.995 RQS).
Senior Janáe Cox, WVU’s all-time leading scorer, currently ranks in the conference top 5 of each event and leads in the all-around (39.225 RQS). Cox remains on pace to become West Virginia’s first 2,000-point scorer in school history.
Junior Jaime Gold is the league’s high vaulter entering the meet. Gold, a first team all-EAGL vaulter in 2006, has a 9.87 RQS and boasts a season high of 9.9 set at a home meet back on Feb. 3.
Sophomore Mehgan Morris enters this weekend ranked No. 1 in the EAGL on bars with a 9.88 RQS. Morris has won the uneven bars title in six of her last seven competitions. She also has seen competitive action in all 11 meets for WVU on bars and has posted 10 scores of 9.8 or better, including four 9.9s.
Two-time EAGL specialist of the week senior Tynisha Dennis ranks second in the league on floor with a 9.85 RQS and has posted 9.925s on that event twice this year.
West Virginia has had at least one event champion in 10 of the 11 years of the EAGL championship and WVU has never gone more than three years without a team title. The Mountaineers have an all-time average of 195.46 at the conference meet to go with a 52-18-1 record.
West Virginia will start with a bye before going to the uneven bars for its first competitive event.
The 2007 EAGL Championships will be available to watch for the first time ever with live and on-demand online video streams exclusively on ACCSelect.com.
