State of Missouri Meet
at #21 Missouri with Lindenwood
Meet Information
Date: Friday, March 16, 2018
Time: 7 p.m., CT
Location: Columbia, Mo.
Venue: Hearnes Center
Series: Missouri leads All-Time Series 32-8;
Lindenwood leads All-Time Series 8-4, 1-0 in 2018
Coaches: Brittney Emmons (Second Season, First as HC);
Shannon Welker (Fifth Season at Missouri)
Jen Llewellyn (Sixth Season, Fifth as HC at Lindenwood)
Media Coverage
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Meet Notes:
Southeast Missouri
State of Missouri Meet
Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics (5-12, 3-4 MIC) concludes its regular season on Friday when the team heads to Columbia, Missouri, for the annual State of Missouri Meet against #21 Missouri of the Southeastern Conference and Midwest Independent Conference rival, Lindenwood, at 7 p.m., CT.
Southeast finished third at the State of Missouri Meet in 2017 at Lindenwood in St. Charles, Missouri, with a team score of 190.650. Missouri posted a 196.225 and Lindenwood tallied a 193.400.
Alexis Brawner won the all-around crown with a 38.975 when SEMO hosted the 2016 State of Missouri Meet in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The Redhawks finished third with a team score of 192.600.
Alyssa Tucker won beam in 2015 with a 9.825 at the tri meet held at Houck Field House. Southeast recorded a season-high team score of 193.600 to finish third at the meet.
Looking at the Opponents
Missouri
The no. 21-ranked Tigers enter the tri meet after earning a second place finish (196.050) against Iowa State and Iowa on Friday in Ames, Iowa. ISU won the tri meet with a total of 196.700 while the Hawkeyes took third with a 195.600. Madeleine Huber won bars for Missouri with a personal-best-tying score of 9.925 and Britney Ward took beam with a 9.875.
Missouri is 21st in the nation with an RQS of 196.280. The Tigers are 18th on floor (49.240), 20th on vault (49.055), 23rd on beam (49.075) and 25th on bars (49.110).
Lindenwood
The Lions head to Columbia, Missouri, for the State of Missouri Meet after claiming first at a quad meet at Temple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Eastern Michigan, and Rutgers on Sunday. Lindenwood recorded a program-record team score of 196.400 and added school-best scores on bars (49.100), and beam (49.425).
Kierstin Sokolowski won the vault (9.875) and beam (9.950) event titles at the quad meet. Ryan Henry placed second on floor (9.875) and beam (9.900) and finished third on bars with a score of 9.850.
Lindenwood ranks 49th in the country with an RQS of 194.765. The Lions are 41st on beam (48.735), 47th on bars (48.710) and vault (48.735) and 53rd on floor (48.800).
Senior Night Versus Centenary Recap
Southeast sent off
Alexis Brawner,
McKenna Stanley and
McKinzie Jones with a 191.950-189.125 victory over Centenary Friday on Senior Night at Houck Field House. Brawner won three events in her final meet at Houck Field House and now has accumulated 53 career event titles (17 titles in 2018). She won vault with a 9.775, bars with a career-best score of 9.875 and matched her career-high on floor with a 9.900.
Jones finished second at the meet to Brawner on floor with a 9.800. She also tied for fourth on both bars (9.700) and beam (9.600). Stanley tied for second overall on bars with a season-best score of 9.750. She also added a 9.350 on vault and a 9.250 on floor in the final rotation.
SEMO totaled a season-high team score of 48.775 on bars in the second rotation.
Alana Fischer matched a career-best bars score of 9.750 and tied with Stanley for second on the team.
Megan Dennis led the Redhawks with her third personal-best beam score of 9.725 this season for second overall at the meet.
Michael Sanders (9.700) and
Kenna Skepnek (9.650) both notched career-best floor scores.
Lindenwood Redhawks Connection
Lindenwood assistant coach Ashley Lawson (formerly Godwin) faces her former team for the second time in 2018. Lawson competed for the Redhawks gymnastics program from 2001 to 2004. She holds program records in uneven bars (9.925), balance beam (9.975), floor exercise (10.000) and all-around (39.550). Lawson also won the MIC uneven bars title in 2002 and balance beam, floor exercise and all-around MIC Championships in 2013. She represented SEMO at the NCAA Regionals in the all-around competition in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Lawson also finished second on floor in 2003.
MIC Top 10
Alexis Brawner leads the conference on floor with a RQS of 9.885. She is also third on vault (9.795) and bars (9.815).
McKinzie Jones is fifth in the MIC on floor with a 9.815 and eighth on beam (9.750). As a team, the Redhawks are fourth overall in the conference with a RQS of 192.520.
50 Career Event Titles for Brawner
Alexis Brawner won the vault title with a score of 9.775 and then claimed the bars title with a 9.800 on Friday, Feb. 23 at Centenary to eclipse 50 event titles (14 in 2018) in her Redhawks career.
Adams and Brawner Earn MIC Honors
Freshman
Gabrielle Adams and
Alexis Brawner both nabbed MIC Weekly honors on Wednesday, Feb. 21. Adams was named MIC Newcomer of the Week and Brawner earned MIC Performance of the Week. This is the first time SEMO gymnastics has earned two MIC weekly awards in the same week since
Ashley Thomas (Gymnast of the Week) and
McKinzie Jones (Specialist of the Week) recorded the feat on Jan. 13, 2016.
Adams earned MIC Newcomer of the Week after she won her first-career event title on Feb. 18 against UIC at Houck Field House. Adams posted a personal-best score of 9.800 on vault in the opening rotation to claim the event title. She also added a 9.700 floor routine in the final rotation for Southeast.
Brawner garnered MIC Performance of the Week laurels after she posted a score of 9.875 on floor to win the title on Feb. 18. She received a 9.85 from the first judge and a 9.90 from the second judge to secure the title. The event title was Brawner's 48th in her career and 12th amassed in 2018. She also added a 9.700 on vault in the dual with the Flames and competed on bars.
Brawner Named MIC Gymnast of the Week
Alexis Brawner earned MIC Gymnast of the Week honors on Wednesday, Jan. 31 after she won individual titles in five of six events in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Brawner won floor (9.900), vault (9.825) and bars (9.800) at Penn and then took first in vault (9.800) and floor (9.875) and finished third on bars (9.75) in a quad meet at Temple with Ithaca and Cornell. The award marks the sixth career MIC honor for Brawner and her first in 2018. She is also the second Redhawk to win a MIC Weekly honor this season.
Bates Wins MIC Newcomer of the Week
Freshman
Lindsey Bates was named the MIC Newcomer of the Week on Wednesday, Jan. 17 after she won her first two career all-around titles against Illinois State (38.950 on 1/12/18) and Lindenwood (38.250 on 1/15/18).
First Win of 2018
The Redhawks earned their first win in 2018 when the team edged fellow MIC school, Illinois State, 193.300-191.175, on Jan. 12 in their home opener at Houck Field House. Acting head coach
Brittney Emmons recorded her first career victory as head coach at the dual.
Alexis Brawner won vault with a score of 9.775 and took the floor title with a 9.825. Brawner also tied with
Lindsey Bates for the title on bars with Illinois State's Alyssa Wiggle with scores of 9.725. Bates also tied for first on beam with ISU's Gabrielle Cooke with a 9.700 and won her first career all-around crown with a personal-best 38.950.
Roster Breakdown
The Redhawks are relatively young with seven freshmen and five sophomores. Top returners for Southeast include 2017 MIC All-Around and Vault Champion,
Alexis Brawner,
McKenna Stanley along with juniors
Allyson Bell and
McKinzie Jones. Brawner also earned MIC Gymnast of the Year in 2016 and represented SEMO at the NCAA Regionals in the all-around competition the past two seasons.
2017 in Review
SEMO placed fifth at the MIC Championship in 2017 behind Lindenwood, Texas Woman's, Illinois State and Illinois-Chicago. The Redhawks will look to improve on their 8-16 overall record. Southeast had a team regional qualifying score of 192.330.
Looking Ahead
The Redhawks travel to St. Charles, Missouri, for the MIC Championships held at Lindenwood on Friday, March 23 at 6 p.m.
