AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State gymnastics team will make its 2015 home debut Sunday when the Cyclones host a home tri-meet with Oregon State and Southeast Missouri at 2 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum. The tri-meet is part of Iowa State's Beauty and the Beast, a simultaneous gymnastics and wrestling meet. The ISU wrestlers will be taking on Virginia Tech.
Tickets are available now online at
cyclones.com, or can be purchased the day of the meet at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office, located at the lower southwest corner of Hilton. Sections 109-112 and 132-135 will be reserved for wrestling season ticket holders, while the rest of Hilton Coliseum will be general admission seating.
Sunday's meet will be broadcasted on Cyclones.TV Powered by Mediacom and on the Cyclones.TV web player. Due to time constraints, routines across apparatuses will be going on simultaneously, meaning the Cyclones.TV coverage will primarily focus on Iowa State. For more information about Cyclones.TV, click
here.
Live stats will be provided by cyclones.com, click
here. Iowa State Athletics Communications student assistant Cassidy Mace will be providing a live blog throughout the meet
here. Results will also be posted throughout the meet on the Iowa State Gymnastics Twitter page
@CycloneGYM.
Cyclone Headlines
- The Iowa State gymnastics team makes its home debut Sunday when the Cyclones host Oregon State and Southeast Missouri as part of Iowa State's Beauty and the Beast, a simultaneous gymnastics and wrestling meet at Hilton Coliseum.
- This marks the fifth time Iowa State has hosted the event. The event has helped the Cyclones draw its three largest crowds in program history, including a school-record 7,732 the last time ISU hosted the event in 2013. Iowa State has averaged 6,017 fans during Beauty and the Beast's four previous incarnations.
- The Cyclones opened the season last Saturday at then-No. 17 Minnesota, putting up a score of 193.475. It took the Cyclones until their third road meet in 2014 (at Oregon State) to record that high of an away score.
- Senior Caitlin Brown led the Cyclones on vault, bars and beam, recording 9.775s on each event and recording the squad's best all-around score of 39.050. An Apple Valley, Minn. native, Brown was a qualifier for the 2015 NCAA Gymnastics Championship in the All-Around, marking the fourth time in the last five seasons a Cyclone qualified for the NCAA Championships. Brown qualified at the NCAA Regional with a career-best 39.400 in the All-Around.
- While Iowa State is returning an NCAA qualifier, the Cyclones have many talented gymnasts to replace, losing six seniors who were all in the lineup in multiple events last season in 2014 All-Big 12 honorees Henrietta Green and Milan Ivory, 2013 All-American on balance beam Michelle Shealy, 2014 All-American on uneven bars Camille Santerre-Gervais and Hailey Johnson.
- At Minnesota, Iowa State had five student-athletes make their collegiate or Cyclone debuts. Freshmen Kelsey Paz and Haylee Young each competed in the all-around, with Paz scoring at least 9.625 on all four apparatuses and Young posting ISU's top score of the evening with a 9.825 on floor. Hilary Green and Brianna Ledesma each competed in two events, with Green posting a pair of 9.750s on bars and floor, with Ledesma competing on vault and bars. Sophomore and Missouri transfer Lark Pokladnik made her ISU debut on beam and floor.
- After only competing in a limited number of meets in 2014, sophomore Allie Hansen had a big workload at Minnesota, competing on vault and floor while making her ISU debut on balance beam.
- Joining Brown for the team lead on the beam is Alex Marasco, who also recorded a 9.775 at Minnesota. The junior also competes on vault for the Cyclones.
- Junior Sammie Pearsall competed on bars for the Cyclones at Minnesota, the first time she took part in the event during her time in Ames.