Michigan
NCAA Finals
Juda Captures All-Around and Vault NCAA Titles, Leads Michigan to Third Place
4/16/2022 11:09:00 PM | Men's Gymnastics
» Paul Juda won the all-around and vault individual titles and earned six All-America honors.
» Michigan placed third in the team competition with a season-best 414.490 behind Stanford (423.628) and Oklahoma (414.555).
» Six Wolverines earned a total of 11 All-America citations.
Site: Norman, Okla. (Lloyd Noble Center)
Event: NCAA Championships (Finals)
U-M Finish: 3rd place of 6 teams (414.490)
Next U-M Event: Season completed
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NORMAN, Okla. -- Junior Paul Juda of the University of Michigan men's gymnastics team took home a pair of NCAA titles, winning both the all-around competition as well as vault as the Wolverines placed third as a team at the NCAA Championships Saturday (April 16) at Oklahoma's Lloyd Noble Center.
Juda took the all-around win with an 85.298 and scored 15.000 on vault on the way to tying Sam Mikulak's modern-era school record of six All-America honors. He also placed in the top eight on high bar (second, 14.566) and parallel bars (fourth, 14.366) in addition to finishing eighth on both floor exercise and still rings.
The win for Juda was U-M's first all-around title since the 2014 season (Sam Mikulak) and first title overall since Anthony McCallum in 2019 (vault). The all-around win is the sixth in team history, while the vault title is the sixth.
Michigan had three additional top-three finishes. Senior Jacob Moore scored a 14.633 on floor exercise for a runner-up finish, sophomore Javier Alfonso took third on still rings with a 14.366, and sophomore Evgeny Siminiuc placed third on parallel bars with a mark of 14.400.
Other All-America citations were awarded to junior Adam Wooten on high bar (seventh, 14.000) and freshman David Wolma on vault (eighth, 14.566).
The All-America haul of 11 gives the Wolverines 244 in program history and double digits in each of the last two seasons (13 in 2021).
U-M (24-3) sat in second for most of the meet, holding narrow leads over host institution Oklahoma until the fifth rotation on still rings, when the Sooners passed the Wolverines and took a lead of just over one-tenth of a point (.133) into the final rotation. The Wolverine vault group compiled a 71.299 to a 71.231 for the Oklahoma floor group, but U-M could not make up the difference, finishing in third by a narrow .065 margin with a season-best 414.490.
Stanford ran away with the meet, leading wire-to-wire with a 423.638 to win the team title by more than nine points over runner-up Oklahoma (414.555).
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The meet wraps up Michigan's 2022 campaign, highlighted by a Big Ten championship and conference regular-season title as well as Juda being named Big Ten Gymnast of the Year. Interim head coach Yuan Xiao was named Big Ten Coach of the Year, and the 11 All-America citations are the fourth-most in school history.
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