MEET NOTES: Utah State Gymnastics Heads to MRGC Championship
Utah State gymnastics travels to Denver, Colo., for the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference Championship Saturday, March 21. (photo from Athletics website)
Meet Notes
Mountain Rim Gymnastics Championship
Magness Arena (6,028)
Denver, Colo.
Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 6 p.m. (MT)
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND — Utah State [University] gymnastics is set to wrap-up the 2015 regular season at the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Championships (MRGC) Saturday, March 21. The meet between USU, Boise State, BYU, Denver and Southern Utah will be hosted by Denver. Action from Magness Arena will get underway at 6 p.m. (MT).
TUNING IN — Saturday’s championship meet will be available to watch on Altitude (Comcast Ch. 61, Dish Network Ch. 413, DirecTV Ch. 681). Additionally, the meet will be streamed on Denver’s athletics website behind a pay wall. Live stats will be available as well, and the link will be provided on UtahStateAggies.com prior to the start of the meet.
AGGIES IN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS — Utah State has finished first in its conference championships just five times in program history. The Aggies were Big West Champions in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2001, while taking the Western Gymnastics Conference title in 2005. In the MRGC Championships last season, Utah State finished fifth with a 196.075
TELL ME ABOUT RQS — At this point in the collegiate gymnastics season, all rankings and qualification scores are based on the team’s Regional Qualifying Score (RQS). Each week, the RQS will be recalculated as it eliminates the season-best score while averaging the next five top scores, including the top three road scores, and the next two highest scores.
The teams with the 36 best RQS numbers will qualify as a team for the NCAA Regional meets which will be held at six different locations. Additionally, five all-around competitors and one specialist from each event who are members of non-qualifying teams will be selected to compete at each Regional meet.
This week, Utah State is inside the top-36, with an RQS of 195.555 to place 29th. With back-to-back 196.325+ results, Utah State has clinched its spot in a regional qualifier. Utah State will compete at regionals for the second-consecutive season, a feat the Aggies have not accomplished since the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
(Read much more in the full meet notes on the Athletics website)
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