UCLA Gymnastics Team To Compete At NCAA South Central Regional In ArkansasUCLA Gymnastics Team To Compete At NCAA South Central Regional In Arkansas

UCLA Gymnastics Team To Compete At NCAA South Central Regional In Arkansas

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The ninth-ranked UCLA Gymnastics team will travel to Fayetteville, Ark. for the NCAA South Central Regional Gymnastics Championships on Saturday, Apr. 8. Joining the Bruins in the Regional will be thi

March 27, 2006

The ninth-ranked UCLA Gymnastics team will travel to Fayetteville, Ark. for the NCAA South Central Regional Gymnastics Championships on Saturday, Apr. 8. Joining the Bruins in the Regional will be third-ranked Florida, 18th-ranked and host Arkansas, Illinois, Illinois-Chicago, and Southeast Missouri State. The meet will take place at Barnhill Arena at 6:00 pm Central Time.

The top two teams, as well as the top two all-around competitors not from an advancing team, at each regional will receive a berth in the NCAA Championships, which will be at Corvallis, Ore. on Apr. 20-22. In addition, individual event winners who did not already qualify with their team or as an all-arounder will advance.

Also competing at the meet will be five at-large individual all-around competitors and four at-large individual event specialists.

UCLA has the favored Olympic rotation and will begin the regional meet on vault and then will have a bye, followed by bars, beam, a bye, and ending on floor. Southeast Missouri State begins on a bye before bars, Illinois begins on bars, Illinois-Chicago starts on beam, Arkansas starts on a bye before floor, and Florida begins on floor.

Last season, the Bruins won the 2005 NCAA West Regional Championship at Washington and have won a total of 16 regional titles, including seven in a row.

The six regional fields and sites are as follows:

West Region (Stanford, CA, host Stanford) - No. 5 Alabama, No. 8 Stanford, No. 16 Oregon State, Boise State, Sacramento State, San Jose State.

North Central Region (Ames, IA, host Iowa State) - No. 4 Iowa State, No. 11 Arizona State, No. 15 Arizona, Denver, Minnesota, BYU.

South Central Region (Fayetteville, AR, host Arkansas) - No. 3 Florida, No. 9 UCLA, No. 18 Arkansas, Illinois, Illinois-Chicago, Southeast Missouri State.

Central Region (Baton Rouge, LA, host LSU, held on Apr. 7) - No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 7 LSU, No. 16 Penn State, Kentucky, Michigan State, Ohio State.

Northeast Region (Ann Arbor, MI, host Michigan) - No. 2 Utah, No. 9 Michigan, No. 14 Auburn, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Rutgers.

Southeast Region (Athens, GA, host Georgia) - No. 1 Georgia, No. 12 Nebraska, No. 13 Missouri, West Virginia, North Carolina, North Carolina State.