Postgame Notes: Women's Gymnastics Captures Big Ten Title
3/27/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
March 27, 2010
TEAM NOTES
• Michigan has won the last four Big Ten Championship titles and added the program's 17th trophy in the last 19 years and 18th Big Ten trophy overall.
• Michigan's 18 Big Ten titles are the most for any Big Ten women's program in any sport.
• Michigan's entire senior class wraps up their final season of college gymnastics with four Big Ten rings apiece. They become the eighth full U-M class to earn a Big Ten title all four years of their collegiate careers.
• Despite winning the last four Big Ten titles, Michigan has only had one athlete named Gymnast or Freshman of the Year. Lindsey Bruck was the last Wolverine to be voted Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, earning the honor in 2008. Big Ten Gymnast, Freshman and Coach of the Year Awards are voted on by the head coaches of each Big Ten gymnastics program.
• Michigan's 49.200 score on vault was the team's fourth-best in 12 meets this season.
• Michigan's 49.450 beam score tied for the fifth-best in the history of the program and the best since the 2005 State of Michigan Classic. It tied for Michigan's second-best beam score in a Big Ten Championships meet.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES• Freshman Natalie Beilstein won the Big Ten vault title with a 9.900, becoming the 15th Big Ten vault champion in program history and the first since Katie Lieberman in 2006. Michigan has won 74 Big Ten individual titles in program history.
• Head coach Bev Plocki earned the 10th Big Ten Coach of the Year honor of her career, sharing the 2010 honor with Illinois head coach Bob Starkell.
• Senior Sarah Curtis tied a career best on beam with a 9.900, setting a new high at Big Tens by 0.050.
• Senior Sarah Curtis equaled her season high on floor with a 9.900, matching the 9.900 she put up at Big Tens in 2009.
• Senior Sarah Curtis set a new season high on the all-around with a 39.525.
• Senior Jordan Sexton equaled a career high on bars with a 9.850 in her first bars performance at Big Tens.
• Senior Kelsey Knutson had the best beam performance of her four Big Tens appearances, scoring 9.900.
• Senior Maureen Moody tied a season high on bars with a 9.850.
• Freshman Natalie Beilstein tied her career high on floor with a 9.900 in her first Big Ten Championships.
• Freshman Natalie Besiltein went 9.900 on vault in her first Big Ten Championships - the best score on the event through the first four rotations. Beilstein has only two vault scores lower than 9.850 in 12 meets this season.
• Junior Kylee Botterman earned her third-straight score of 9.900 or better on the floor exercise at the Big Ten Championships. Botterman won the 2008 (9.900) and 2009 (9.950) floor exercise titles.
• Junior Kylee Botterman had her best showing on beam in two Big Tens appearances, scoring 9.900.
