CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics announced today their schedule for the upcoming 2018 season. The Redhawks are set to host five meets and travel to seven away meets in the regular season.
 
"Our schedule this season provides us with a great opportunity to qualify into post-season competition," head coach Kristi Ewasko said. "We have a great balance of teams both home and away that will push us to be our best week in and week out."
 
The gymnastics team will start their 43rd campaign in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday, Jan. 5 with a meet against George Washington, Ball State and host school, Kentucky, of the SEC.
 
"Starting the season at Kentucky will challenge our training to be prepared right away," Ewasko said. "We won't have the luxury of struggling and knowing that we can drop the first score of the season; the focus is on setting our expectations high at Kentucky and then be able to continue to grow and improve as the season progresses."
 
Southeast then opens its Midwest Independent Conference (MIC) slate the next week with home meets against Illinois State and Lindenwood at Houck Field House. SEMO faces the Redbirds on Friday, Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. and then takes on three-time defending MIC Champion, Lindenwood, on Monday, Jan. 15 at 4 p.m.
 
The Redhawks travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a weekend non-conference set against Pennsylvania on Friday, Jan. 26 and a four-team meet on Sunday, Jan. 28 against Ithaca, Cornell and host, Temple.
 
SEMO returns home for back-to-back duals against Western Michigan on Friday, Feb. 2 followed by Illinois-Chicago on Sunday, Feb. 18.  
 
Southeast finishes the regular season with three conference meets sandwiched around a dual at Iowa on Friday, March 2 and then the State of Missouri Meet.
 
The Redhawks travel to Shreveport, Louisiana on Friday, Feb. 23 for the first of three meetings with Centenary. SEMO then ventures to Texas Women's two days later on Sunday, Feb. 25 for a quad meet against Centenary, Bridgeport and TWU in Denton, Texas.
 
The Redhawks hold their home finale on Friday, March 9 versus Centenary after visiting Iowa on March 2.
 
Southeast closes the regular season with a tri meet against Lindenwood and host school, Missouri, at the State of Missouri Meet on Friday, March 16 in Columbia, Missouri.
 
Lindenwood will then host the 2018 MIC Championships in St. Charles, Missouri on Friday, March 23.
 
The NCAA Regional Championships will take place on Saturday, April 7 and the USAG Collegiate National Championship caps the season Thursday, April 12 through Sunday, April 15.