Home Opener
vs. San José State
Meet Information
Date: Friday, Jan. 18, 2019
Time: 6:30 p.m., CT
Location: Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Venue: Houck Field House
Series: Southeast leads the All-Time Series 1-0
Coaches: Ashley Lawson (First Season at SEMO);
Joanne Bowers (First Season at SJSU)
Media Coverage
Live Stats:
StatBroadcast
Video:
OVC Digital Network
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@SEMOGymnastics for in-meet updates.
Meet Notes:
Southeast Missouri (PDF)
San José State (PDF)
Redhawks Host San José State in Home Opener Friday
Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics welcomes San José State (2-3, 2-1 MPSF) to Cape Girardeau Friday for the Redhawks home opener at Houck Field House at 6:30 p.m., CT.
Promotions
• The first 500 fans to enter Houck Field House will receive a Redhawks pull banner.
• The 2019 Southeast Missouri gymnastics team will sign autographs at the conclusion of the dual meet.
Iowa Dual Recap
Southeast Missouri totaled 180.925 on Friday, Jan. 11 in its dual meet at Iowa.
Anna Kaziska led the Redhawks and captured the beam and all-around titles in her second career collegiate meet.
Kaziska posted personal bests in each event and the all-around competition. She utilized back-to-back scores of 9.800 or higher in the final two rotations to claim the all-around title with 38.825. In the third rotation, she tallied a floor routine of 9.825 good for second at the dual. Kaziska concluded the meet with a mark of 9.850 on beam. She now has four scores of 9.700 or higher in 2019 including a 9.750 on vault (third at the meet) in the second rotation Friday.
The Redhawks strongest event at the dual was beam in the final rotation. SEMO posted a 47.475.
Michael Sanders had a 9.700 on the event for the second highest Southeast score in the rotation.
Gabrielle Adams was second on the team in the vault with a mark of 9.650.
Mackenzie Slee added a 9.600 in the second rotation. Slee also had a score of 9.675 in the floor exercise.
Kaziska Named MIC Newcomer of the Week
Freshman
Anna Kaziska was named MIC Newcomer of the Week on Wednesday. Kaziska recorded personal bests in all four events on Friday, Jan. 11 at Iowa en route to being crowned beam and all-around champion.
Looking at the Opponent
San José State
Taylor Chan led the Spartans on three of the four events on Sunday, Jan. 13 as the Spartans scored a 193.050 for second at their tri-meet at Boise State.
Chan earned her second straight Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Gymnast of the Week honor after she tied for second in the all-around with a career-best 39.175. She had a career-high 9.800 on bars, a 9.825 on beam and a 9.800 on floor to lead the team on those events. Chan rounded out her score with a 9.750 on vault.
Chelsey Andrada led the team on vault with a 9.775 and added a 9.750 on beam and a 9.775 on floor.
Redhawks and Spartans Connection
Southeast Head Coach
Ashley Lawson and San José State Assistant Coach Jeffrey Langenstein were both assistants at Lindenwood in 2018. Lawson served as the Lions beam coach while Langenstein coached vault and floor.
New Coach, New Era
Ashley Lawson returns to Southeast after competing for the Redhawks from 2001-2004 and holds the school record in four (bars, beam, floor, all-around) of the five individual event titles. Lawson coaches beam as well as co-coaches the vault and floor teams with assistant coach
Chris Licameli.
Lawson was previously an assistant coach at Lindenwood University in 2018. There, she was the balance beam coach, helping lead the Lions to their fourth-straight Midwest Independent Conference title. Lindenwood also finished second in the team finals of the 2018 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championships.
Lawson also served as a member of the Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics coaching staff for one year in 2009-10. As an assistant coach at SEMO, Lawson was the head balance beam coach that helped coach three gymnasts to qualify for the 2010 NCAA Regionals. Also, while acting as the head balance beam coach, Lawson turned Southeast's weakest event into its second-best event in just six months.
From 2001-2004, Lawson competed on the Redhawks gymnastics squad at Southeast Missouri. She holds the school record in four of the five individual event titles. She holds the bars (9.925), beam (9.975), floor (10.000), and all-around (39.550) records. She is one of just three gymnasts in school history to record a perfect ten in an individual event.
2018 Signees
Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso, Jordan Jones and Mallory Desch signed to compete at Southeast for the 2020 season in November during the early signing period.
Roster Breakdown
Southeast returns 10 athletes from 2018 but is relatively young with eight underclassmen.
Allyson Bell is the lone senior. Juniors
Megan Dennis,
Kenna Skepnek,
Mackenzie Slee and
Kendra Benak round out the upperclassmen.
Sophomores
Gabrielle Adams,
Lindsey Bates,
Alana Fischer,
Samantha Gallet and
Michael Sanders were regular contributors to the 2018 lineup and had to grow up quickly in their inaugural collegiate season. Bates competed as an all-arounder in four meets and led the freshman class with five event titles in 2018. Adams captured one event title last season. Both Adams and Bates earned MIC Newcomer of the Week laurels.
Freshmen
Anna Kaziska,
Makenzie Marciniak and
Maya Tran complete the 13-member 2019 team. Kaziska will make an impact on all four events as an all-arounder.
2018 in Review
Southeast finished fourth at the MIC Championships in 2018 with a team score of 193.875.
Gabrielle Adams tied for third on vault at the MIC Championships to earn First-Team All-MIC honors. SEMO posted a 7-17 overall record in 2018.
Adams,
Megan Dennis,
Alana Fischer and
Samantha Gallet each qualified for the USA Gymnastics National Championships in 2018.
Looking Ahead
Southeast next travels to Normal, Illinois, for a dual meet with Midwest Independent Conference foe, Illinois State, on Friday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. The Redhawks then face Northern Illinois in their second home meet of 2019 on Friday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Houck Field House.
