MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University gymnastics team returns to the WVU Coliseum Sunday, Feb. 17, for a quad meet against Pitt, Utah State and Cornell at 1 p.m.
 
Sunday is a Heart Healthy Meet, and free Zumba lessons will be offered on the Coliseum concourse prior to the start of competition. Additionally, heart-shaped stress balls will be given to the first 500 fans.
 
Tickets for Sunday's meet are on sale now at WVUGAME.com. When purchasing tickets in advance online, tickets are $5 each and $3 for groups of 10 or more. All tickets are general admission. Tickets purchased at the Mountaineer Ticket Office inside the WVU Coliseum Gold Gate on the day of competition will be $7 for adults, $5 for youth and seniors and $3 for groups.
 
WVU students are admitted for free with a valid WVU Student I.D.
 
To provide a safer environment for Mountaineer fans and to expedite entry into all ticketed WVU athletic events, the West Virginia Department of Intercollegiate Athletics enforces the NFL's Clear Bag Policy. The athletic department invites and encourages fans to visit WVUsports.com/clearbag for more information, to view pictures of permissible and non-permissible items and to obtain answers to frequently asked questions about the clear bag policy.
 
Links for a free video stream and live stats are available at WVUsports.com.
 
Sunday is the Mountaineers' (11-4, 0-3) fourth quad meet of the season and first at the WVU Coliseum. WVU is 7-2 in quad meets this year.
 
"Any time you have Pittsburgh coming into the WVU Coliseum, there's going to be a ton of energy," Mountaineer coach Jason Butts said. "We definitely want to earn three more wins; we've been talking about it a lot this week. The performances in practice are what I've focused on, and they've been great."
 
Sunday afternoon is the Mountaineers' second meeting this year with the Panthers (5-5, 1-3 EAGL) and the Aggies (1-6, 0-4 MRGC). The three teams competed at Pitt on Jan. 12, with WVU finishing first (195.5), Pitt second (194.75) and USU third (194.6). All three squads defeated Eastern Michigan (192.7).
 
WVU is 62-14-2 all-time against Pitt, 2-2 against USU and 5-0 against Cornell (9-6, 5-1 ECAC). Sunday is the first-ever meeting between the Mountaineers and the Aggies in Morgantown.
 
WVU continues to sit just outside the top 25 of the Road to Nationals Rankings and ranks No. 27 for the third consecutive week with an improved season average of 195.117. WVU ranks No. 10 nationally on floor exercise (49.167 avg.) and No. 22 on vault (48.854 avg.).
 
A pair of Mountaineer seniors own three combined national rankings, as Kirah Koshinski ranks No. 15 on vault (9.867 avg.) and floor exercise (9.869 avg.), and Jaquie Tun ranks No. 29 on floor (9.875 avg.).
 
Last week, the Mountaineers pushed their win total to double digits with a sweep of the Penn quad meet on Feb. 10, finishing first overall with a 195.25 total. Achieved in just the sixth meet of the year, this year's squad is the fastest team to earn 10 or more wins under Butts.
 
Tun won floor outright at Penn with a career-high 9.925. Sophomore McKenna Linnen tied for the balance beam victory with a career-best 9.85, while junior Abby Kaufman earned a share of the vault win with a 9.75 mark. Junior Julia Merwin paced the team on uneven bars and finished fourth overall with a career-best 9.825.
 
"I felt we lacked a little bit of energy on the competition floor," Butts said of the team's performance at Penn. "In gymnastics, we need that energy. We're asking so much out of them. We came in this week and tried to make practice fun. We have to come out Sunday with a lot of energy if we want to hit the scores we're aiming to hit."
 
The Panthers enter Sunday's meet coming off a 196.4-194.825 loss at NC State on Feb. 9. Pitt tallied a season-high floor score of 48.95, paced by senior Charli Spivey's second place, career-best 9.875 performance.
 
The Aggies earned a season high in a 196.075-194.975 loss to Boise State on Feb. 8, in Logan, Utah. Sophomore Autumn DeHarde won floor outright with a 9.9 mark and tied for first on balance beam, also with a 9.9.
 
The Big Red tallied a season-high 194.0 in wins over Ithaca and SUNY Brockport on Feb. 9, in Ithaca, New York. Cornell entered the meet boasting a season high of 192.15.