MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University gymnastics team was selected to compete in the 2025 National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships, as regional selections were announced on Monday by the NCAA. The Mountaineers were selected to the Pennsylvania Regional, hosted by Penn State inside Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania, from April 2-6.
 
The Mountaineers will compete against Maryland in the First Round on April 2 at 2 p.m. ET. Also joining the Mountaineers in University Park are No. 1 LSU, No. 8 Michigan State, No. 9 Kentucky, No. 16 Arkansas, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State.
 
All-session tickets are now available for purchase through the Penn State Ticket Office. Ticket prices are $32 for adults and $20 for children 12-and-under. Single-session tickets will go on sale at a later date. All tickets are general admission.
 
Under the current NCAA regional format, four meets will be held across four days. West Virginia and Maryland will compete in the First Round dual meet on April 2, with the winner of the dual advancing to the Second Round on April 3, to compete in a quad against LSU, Arkansas and Michigan.
 
Monday's bid marks the 44th regional championships berth for the Mountaineers, their 39th in NCAA competition, and the team's ninth qualification in the last 10 years. West Virginia has advanced to the NCAA National Championships three times (1995, 1999, 2000) since 1983.
 
The Mountaineers were selected to the 2025 NCAA Regional Gymnastics Championships based on their National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 195.855. West Virginia enters regional competition with a season high­ of 196.275. WVU currently ranks No. 36 nationally, as well as No. 35 on vault, No. 47 on bars, No. 34 on beam and No. 33 floor.
 
The top 36 teams based on NQS were selected for regional competition. The committee named the top 16 teams and seeded them in the bracket. Seeding determined at the time of selections will be maintained through the championship. Teams 17-36 were placed geographically at one of the four regional sites. Nine teams will compete at each of the four regional sites.
 
The committee also selected the top 12 all-around competitors and the top 16 event specialists based on NQS and placed them geographically into one of the four regional sites, keeping individuals from the same team together. The list of all-arounders and event specialists included individual qualifying scores from the teams competing in the first round to ensure those individuals will compete in the individual competition, regardless of whether their teams advance from the first round.
 
Senior Anna Leigh and freshmen Karleigh DiCello and Sophia Rice were selected as individual event specialists. Leigh qualified on floor exercise, Rice was selected on vault, and DiCello qualified on vault and beam.
 
The top two teams and the top all-around competitor (who is not on an advancing team) from each regional will receive an automatic berth to the national championships. In addition, the top event specialist at each regional site who is not part of an advancing team or all-around competitor will advance to the national championships in that event only.
 
The national championships will take place April 17-19, in Fort Worth, Texas, at Dickies Arena.
 
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