2017 Gymnastics Roster
Roster
Madison Preston
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- K-12 International Academy
- Hometown:
- Loveland, Ohio
Career Highlights
Earned a perfect 9.95 score on vault 2/11/17
2016 NCAA Regional Vault co-champion
Pac-12 Freshman of the Week 2/2/16
2014 Level 10 National vault champion
Best Marks
V - 9.950, 2/11/17
BB - 9.775, last 2/6/16
FX - 9.925, 2/6/16
2017
Recorded four individual victories on the season, three on vault and one on floor … Earned a perfect score on vault Feb. 11 vs. Stanford, scoring 9.95 for her 9.95-start valued Yurchenko layout full … Tied for second on vault at NCAA Regionals with a 9.85 … Won vault vs. UNC with a 9.9 and added a season-best 9.9 on floor … Stuck her vault at the Feb. 20 tri-meet and tied for second with a 9.875 … Missed three meets with an ankle injury and returned on Feb. 11 to hit a perfect 9.95 on vault, a new career-high and a meet-winning score … Won both events that she competed vs. Arkansas, taking first on vault with a 9.9 on a stuck Yurchenko layout full, and tying for first on floor with a 9.875.
2016
NCAA Regional vault co-champion with a career-high-tying 9.9 … Competed on vault in every meet and placed first three times … Competed on vault at the NCAA Championships and stuck her vault in the Super Six, scoring 9.825 … Scored 9.85 on floor at Pac-12 Championships, her first time competing on floor in over a month … Tied for second on vault vs. Oklahoma with a 9.875 … Tied her career-high with a 9.9 on a stuck Yurchenko layout full on Mar. 6 … Tied for first on vault with a 9.85 vs. ASU … Hit a career-high 9.9 to tie for first place vs. Oregon State … Pac-12 Freshman of the Week Feb. 2 after scoring career-highs on all three events she competed, with a 9.85 on vault to place second, a 9.775 on beam in her collegiate debut on the event, and 9.925 on floor to kick-start UCLA’s comeback win … Made her floor exercise debut at Arizona and scored 9.875 … Earned a career-high 9.825 on vault at Florida and also made her debut on floor in an exhibition, scoring 9.825 … Anchored vault for UCLA in the season opener, scoring 9.775 to tie for fifth vs. Alabama.
Club
Won the 2014 Level 10 National vault championship with a score of 9.9 … Fifth in the all-around and first on vault at the 2014 Region 5 Championships … Won the all-around and vault and placed second on beam and floor at the 2014 Level 10 State Championships … Won a total of three all-around Level 10 State titles from 2012-14.
Personal
Favorite apparatus is vault … Describes her biggest athletic thrill as hitting one of her best vaults ever and scoring 9.9 to win vault at the 2014 JO Nationals … Admires Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson … Interested in art … Full name is Madison Ann Preston … Parents: Paul and Shari Preston … Has two older brothers, Taylor and Parker … Born in Cincinnati, Ohio … Undeclared major.
