No. 4 Red Rocks to face West Virginia and # 2 Florida on Sunday – Athletics in Utah

Salt Lake City – The fourth ranked Gymnastics team in Utah is on the road this week, traveling to Morgantown, WV, for the first time to take the Big 12 Foe West Virginia and # 2 Florida. The Red Rocks moved to one place in the ranking this week after a busy and victorious week, which included a win on Monday night at the Best of Utah Summit at West Valley City and Friday’s BIG 12 victory at BIU. Utah won the Quad Meet on Monday with 197.950, which tied the best result of the nation at the time. Since then, this result has been headed by Florida, who scored 198.125 on Friday night win over the 13th ranked Georgia.

The battle on Sunday with the mountaineers and Gators will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

Fucking sticks

• The Red Rocks were constantly progressing in the first month of the season, raising their score in each of their first four meetings, reaching the top with 197.950 at the Best of Utah Quad meeting on Monday, January 20, which tied to the best result in the nation on the nation time.
• Utah returned four days later to mark 196.975 in a road victory in BYU (1/24) and placed consistent performances throughout the board to complete a grueling section, which included four meetings in a 14-day period. A few injuries and health problems have provided the Red Rocks opportunities to show their huge depth and chief coach Carly Dockerf He experimented with several different compositions of each event.
• In four weeks, Utah ranks among the top 10 of the nation in every event, including the second in bars and a third of Beam:
  Vt: t6th | UB: 2 BB: 3 FX: 11 | Aa: 4th
• Utah has four gymnasts ranked in the top 25 in an event after the first four weeks of a race:

  • Grace McCalum ranks second in bars, tied for the 22nd beam and 13th in many times;
  • Avery Nef is tied to the 9th on the beam and tied to the 25th to Vault;
  • Smith Ranked 19th in the vault and 16th place in the numerous;
  • Kami wing is ranked 16th on the beam and 11 all the way;

• In the team rankings, the Red Rocks moved to one place at # 4 after four weeks of race.
• The Red Rocks have hit 24-from-24-24 routines in three matches this season: Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad (1/11), Best of Utah Quad Meet (1/20) and BYU (1/24).
• McCallum, a silver medalist from Team USA Tokyo, leads the red rocks with 11 events of events, including all five bars events in which Utah competes this season. She has won a large 12 gymnast of the Week Honor (1/22) and has the highest individual result of the year in Utah, twice raising 9.975 of the bars.
• Smith has nine events of the season, including three. Its 39,725 at the Best of UTAH Quad meeting is fed by VAULT events (9.95), Beam (9.95) and floor (9.925) ,. Smith’s supreme result has been tied to the second highest so far of the season.
• Winger competed for the first time in his career in the best of Utah and published an impressive 39.475 to finish third. Her performance included the highest career 9.925 on the floor to share the event victory with McCallum and Smith.
• 197.950 on Utah, in the best case of Utah, coincided with the winning result of Oklahoma from January 11th on the market of Sprouts Farmers Collegiate Quad farmers for the highest in the country to this point of the young season.
• Utah faces a strict test for an early season on January 11 on the farmer’s farmer’s farmer market against No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 LSU and No. 6 Cal, finishing fourth among this Quartet of the Top 6 with a 196.800 quartet. Grace McCalum Shared the win of the bars (9.975) and the NEF made the second of VAULT (9.925) and recorded 9.90 on the floor and beam.
• Utah entered the season ranked fifth in the pre -season poll of WCGA. He noted the eighth consecutive season that the Red Rocks were ranked in the top five in the pre -season poll.
• The Red Rocks had five gymnasts indicated by the Big 12 of 2025, announced on December 20, including Grace McCalum (all -encompassing), Ella Zyrbes (vault) and Jaylene Gilstrap (floor) winning unanimous selections. Smith (all -encompassing) and Amelie Morgan (Bars) Round the pre -season selections for UTES.
• Utah returns 16 combinations from last year’s NCAA Championship team, including three honors of the NCAA All-America.
• The Red Rocks collected 42 wins a year ago earned by Grace McCalum (19), Smith (7), Jaedyn Rucker (4), Amelie Morgan (3), Jaylene Gilstrap (3), Ashley Glin (2), Kami wing (2) and Ella Zyrbes (2).

Cry

• Chief coach Carly Dockerf It is in its second season, leading the Red Rocks program and its eighth with Utah gymnastics.
• In 2024, Dockerdorf became the first chief coach in the history of NCAA to lead a team to the final four in his first year in the position, winning the highest final (3rd place) from each chief coach of the first year.
• Utah returns 16-from-24 Rutini from last year’s team, which finished third at the NCAA Championship.
• Utah’s composition contains five Americans: Grace McCalum (8x), Smith (4x), Ella Zyrbes (2x) and Jaylene GilstrapS
• Smith He strives to build her breakthrough season, who saw her hit all 61 routine. The Albukerke born won the NCAA All-America honors in the multilateral and a vault and a second bars team in 2024.
• Utah closed her 13-year membership in the PAC-12 conference in 2024, winning her fourth consecutive PAC-12 Championship meeting.
• Utah added two new faces to the coaching staff in the extra season, starting with the addition of an assistant coach Mike HungerWho has been brought for more than 50 years of experience to lead a vault squad and assist the floor.
• Utah Gymnastics Legend Maile O’Kefe He returned to the program as a student’s assistant coach, leaving one of the most decorated career career at college gymnastics. She won four individual NCAA titles (bars, floor-2021; universal, ray-2023). O’Kefe assembled 19 All-American Awards (7 regular season, 12 NCAA) while competing for the Red Rocks.
• Utah has accumulated 110 perfect 10.0 results of all time, with 80 of these performances going home in the center of John M. Huntsman.

The last time outside

• The Red Rocks # 5 presented another strong performance last Friday, as they competed for the third time in an eight -day period, marking 196.975 to prevail over byu in the center of Marriott in the BIG 12 meeting. Byu ended with 195.325.
• Senior Grace McCalum and junior Smith He led the road again, sharing the title of multiple title (39.425) and combining to ask for every event, with McCalum winning bars (9.925), a beam (9.925) and a floor (9.90), and Smith prevailed on the vault (9.90).
• They also received strong support from a number of teammates, as the Red Rocks showed their incredible depth at all four events.
• Utes and Cougars got out for the second time in a five-day period after the best Utah meeting on Monday night in downtown Maverik, ending a demanding section of competitions that began at home on January 17 against Iowa.
• Utah won in all three meetings in the eight -day inch, taking a strong step forward while moving by the second month of the season.

Forward

The Red Rocks return home to continue the Big 12 Action on Friday, February 7, hosted No. 20 Arizona in downtown John M. Huntsman at 19:00 MT. The meeting will be broadcast on ESPN+ with Jim Watson and Alice Mow on call. Tickets can be purchased online at utahtickets.com or at 801-581-8849.