Washington Earns Four Event Titles In Home Opener

Saturday, January 26

Seattle, WA

7:30 PM

University of Washington

Oregon State

Photo by: Red Box Pictures

January 26, 2019 | Gymnastics

Results

SEATTLE – Helped along by an impressive performance from Evanni Roberson, the #11 Washington Huskies put up a 195.900 in their first home meet of the season, narrowly missing a dual meet win over Oregon State. Roberson came away with three event titles, including her first career all-around title thanks to a career-best score of 39.475.

"We competed tentatively and made too many mistakes," said Elise Ray-Statz. "We're too prepared to compete like that. With that being said, the performances from our sophomore and junior classes were stellar and a testament to what this is team is capable of."

It was the second week in a row that Washington has won at least three event titles. After wins on vault, bars, and beam at Arizona, it was Roberson and Geneva Thompson who earned titles this week. Thompson won her second straight vault title, while Roberson won event titles on bars, floor, and all-around. Roberson also earned three scores of 9.900 for the first time in her career.

And @geneva_lynn3 with a new career high of 9.850 to end the rotation!!#GymDawgs // #NoPressureNoDiamonds??

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— Washington Gymnastics (@UWGymnastics) January 27, 2019

		VAULT
Thompson won her first solo event title this week after tying for the vault title at Arizona. The sophomore put up a career-best score of 9.850 on vault, the highest score on vault this year by a GymDawg.

		BARS
Roberson matched her career high on bars with a score of 9.900. The event title for Roberson was the first event title on bars of her career. Madison Copiak had a score of 9.850 on bars after putting up a score of 9.900 last week. Maya Washington earned a score of 9.800.

		BEAM
Roberson earned another score of 9.900 on beam, her second week in a row reaching 9.900 or higher. Copiak had the second-best score for the GymDawgs on beam with a score of 9.825. Brenna Brooks had a score of 9.800.

		FLOOR
Roberson earned her second career floor title with a score of 9.900. Maya Washington had a score of 9.875 on floor, her highest this year. Kristyn Hoffa also earned a score of 9.875. Thompson had a score of 9.800 on floor.

		UP NEXT
The GymDawgs hit the road for their third consecutive road meet next week, taking on the Stanford Cardinal on Friday, February 1 at 7:00 pm. After that it's back home for a Sunday, February 10 meet against 2018 national champion UCLA on Power of Sport Youth Day at Alaska Airlines Arena. Make sure to follow the GymDawgs on Twitter with the username @UWGymnastics and on Instagram at uwgymnastics.