Tennessee Collegiate Classic
vs. Northern Illinois
vs. Lindenwood
 
Meet Information
Date: Friday, Jan. 21, 2022
Time: 6 p.m., CT
Location: Lebanon, Tenn.
Venue: Farm Bureau Exposition Center
Series: SEMO leads Northern Illinois, 23-20, 0-1 in 2022;
Lindenwood leads SEMO, 19-8, 4-3 in 2021

Coaches: Ashley Lawson (Fourth Season at SEMO);
Sam Morreale (10th Season at NIU);
Catelyn Orel (First Season at Lindenwood)
  
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Redhawks Set to Face Northern Illinois and Lindenwood Friday at Tennessee Collegiate Classic
Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics heads to Lebanon, Tennessee, Friday to face Northern Illinois and Lindenwood in the Tennessee Collegiate Classic held at the Farm Bureau Exposition Center. The meet will begin at 6 p.m., CT and is hosted by Meet Authority Productions and USAInvitationalGymnastics.com.
 
Friday will be SEMO's third-straight season competing at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic.
 
Looking at the Opponents 
Northern Illinois
The Huskies most recently finished second overall at Kent State's Tri Meet Jan. 16 with SEMO. NIU posted its second consecutive score of 194+ to start the 2022 season with event scores ranging from 48.775 on floor exercise to 48.300 on uneven parallel bars.  The Huskies tallied a 48.700 on balance beam and a 48.375 on vault.
 
Tara Kofmehl earned the top score of the day for the Huskies as she scored a 9.850 on floor exercise to tie for first. Kofmehl was second in the all-around with a total of 38.450 and was one of a trio of Huskies to tie for second place on vault as she, Morgan Hooper and Isabella Sissi all earned a score of 9.775 to lead NIU.
 
Lindenwood
Lindenwood beat Wisconsin- La Crosse in a head to head matchup on Jan. 15 in Hyland Arena, 191.325- 188.7500. Trinity Caffey won vault with a 9.675 while Riley Daniels took bars with a score of 9.650. Hadley Roberts hit a 9.850 on beam to capture the event title. Gayla Griswold won the all-around competition and floor title with 38.075 and 9.7500, respectively.
 
Head coach Catelyn Orel is in her first season at the helm of Lindenwood.
 
Know Thy Foe
SEMO will face Lindenwood in each of the next five competitions including Friday's Tennessee Collegiate Classic. The Redhawks will also compete against the Lions at the 2022 MIC Championships March 18 in Denton, Texas.
 
Friday marks the second of three meetings between SEMO and Northern Illinois in 2022. 
 
Tennessee Collegiate Classic History
SEMO has competed at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic each of the past two seasons.
 
The Redhawks finished first overall at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic tri meet Jan. 22, 2021 at the Farm Bureau Exposition Center with a season-best 193.950. Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso captured the all-around crown with a 39.050. Solorzano-Caruso matched career-bests on vault (9.850, second) and floor (9.825, second). Anna Kaziska won the individual beam title at her second-straight competition with a 9.825.
 
SEMO posted its second-highest team score in school history Feb. 28, 2020 to overcome Northern Illinois, 195.800-194.775, in the Tennessee Collegiate Classic held at the Wilson County Expo Center.
 
Jolie Miller won her first career individual event title with her second career score of 9.700 or higher. In the opening bars rotation, Miller posted a career-best 9.875 in the second position. Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso captured the all-around title with a personal-best score of 39.350. She tallied a pair of personal-best 9.850s on vault and bars before concluding the meet with 9.825s on beam and floor. Anna Kaziska was second in the all-around competition with 39.100.
 
Kaziska Awarded MIC Performance of the Week
Senior Anna Kaziska was awarded the Midwest Independent Conference Performance of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.
 
Kaziska, the reigning 2021 USA Gymnastics Beam Champion, won the event with a 9.875 in the final routine on beam Sunday (Jan. 16) at Kent State's Tri Meet. The title was her 38th in her career at SEMO. Kaziska also competed on floor (9.775) and vault (9.525) at SEMO's season-opening tri meet.
 
For Kaziska, a Louisville, Kentucky, native, the MIC weekly honor is her first of the season and 12th in her career.
 
2022 Season Opener Recap
SEMO opened its 2022 season with a team score of 191.500 Jan. 16 at Kent State's tri meet held at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. Host Kent State won the tri with a team score of 195.300. Northern Illinois was second with 194.150. SEMO was third at the tri with a mark of 191.500.

The Redhawks best event at the tri was 48.050 on bars. SEMO also had a 47.850 on floor, a 47.825 on beam and 47.775 on vault. 
 
Jolie Miller and Lindsay Ockler led SEMO with consecutive 9.800s in the final two bars lineup slots, which tied for fifth overall.
 
Jordan Jones was the second highest Redhawk on beam, notching a 9.725 to take seventh overall at the meet.
 
Our All-Arounders
Lydia Webb finished third in the all-around competition Jan. 16 at Kent State's tri meet with 38.150 and Molly Maxwell took fourth with a total of 37.175.
 
Webb, a sophomore from Wylie, Texas, competed in the all-around for the first time in her career Jan. 16 after serving as a floor specialist in 2021. She notched a 9.650 on bars, a 9.550 on beam, a 9.500 on floor and a 9.450 on vault.
 
Maxwell notched a 9.600 on vault to accompany 9.550 on beam and 9.500 on floor.
 
SEMO Debuts
Madison Greene, Lindsay Ockler and Nyah Reader all made their Redhawk debuts at Kent State's tri meet Jan. 16.
 
Madison Greene was second on SEMO with a 9.625 on floor in her collegiate debut behind her former club teammate from Champion Gymnastics in Kentucky, Anna Kaziska.
 
Lindsay Ockler registered her first two career scores of 9.700 or higher the tri. She paced the Redhawks on vault and bars. Ockler posted a 9.750 on vault in the second rotation for sixth overall at the tri. She then added a 9.800 on bars for fifth overall at the meet. Ockler opened the meet with a 9.450 on vault.
 
Nyah Reader competed on vault, beam (8.250) and floor (8.850) in her Redhawks debut at Kent State's tri meet. Her best event was a 9.450 on vault.
 
Janelle Lopez competed as an exhibitionist on bars.
 
Welcome Back, RED!!!
Ashley Albrecht returned to the Redhawks vault and bars lineups at Kent State's tri meet Jan. 16 after suffering an injury during the 2021 season. She posted a 9.675 on bars and a 9.100 on vault in her first meet back from injury since Feb. 22, 2021 against Lindenwood.
 
SEMO Receives Votes in 2022 Preseason Poll
The Redhawks received four points in the 2022 Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association preseason poll, announced Dec. 17, 2021.
 
Roster Breakdown
SEMO returns 12 student-athletes from the 2021 USA Gymnastics National Championship Team. Anna Kaziska, who represented SEMO at the 2021 NCAA Regionals, returns for her senior season. She captured 11 event titles (37 in her career entering 2022) including the 2021 USAG Beam title this past season. Ashley Albrecht and Makenzie Marciniak complete the senior class.
 
Juniors Jordan Jones, Molly Maxwell, Jolie Miller (the 2021 USAG and MIC Bars Bronze Medalist), Mallory Desch and Taylor Fishkin, along with sophomores Anna Speller (the 2021 MIC Championships Bronze Medalist), Lydia Test, Lydia Webb and Sophia Studdard round out the returners.
 
The Redhawks also added four newcomers in freshmen Lindsay Ockler, Nyah Reader, Janelle Lopez and Madison Greene. Both Ockler and Reader competed at SEMO's Red & Black Intrasquad in December. Ockler trains all four events and has the potential to compete as an all-arounder in her freshman campaign in 2022.
 
2021 Signees
SEMO head coach Ashley Lawson announced Nov. 10 the team had inked two student-athletes during the early signing period. Taylor Ingle and Sydney Crouch will join the team next fall for the 2023 season.
 
Ingle, a Coppell, Texas native, will graduate from Coppell High School in 2022. She was a state, regional and National qualifier in her junior year. Ingle most recently won the 2021 state championship with Texas Dream Gymnastics.
 
Crouch, who comes to Cape Girardeau by way of Coral Springs, Florida, will graduate from Coral Springs Charter School in 2022. She was a State, Regional and National Qualifier in 2021 during her junior year.
 
2022 Schedule
The Redhawks will compete in 12 meets while hosting two home competitions with fellow Midwest Independent Conference institutions Illinois State and Lindenwood.
 
The Redhawks head to Centenary in Shreveport, Louisiana, March 4 before a marquee quad meet against host, Texas Woman's, perennial powerhouse, Oklahoma, and Air Force, March 6 in Denton, Texas. SEMO concludes the regular-season at Illinois State March 12 in Normal, Illinois.
 
The Redhawks will then travel back to Denton, Texas, for the 2022 MIC Championship, which will be contested on Friday, March 18 at Texas Women's University.
 
To wrap up the season, SEMO will travel to the Empire State to defend its 2021 crown at the 2022 USA Gymnastics National Championship April 7-10 in Ithaca, New York. The competition will be held on the campus of Cornell.
 
2021 USA Gymnastics National Champions
The Redhawks captured the 2021 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championship April 10 at the Show Me Center with a team score of 195.025. Trailing Lindenwood 145.725-145.650 entering the final rotation, SEMO tied a program-best 49.375 on beam to secure the Championship.
 
SEMO's beam score of 49.375 matched the program-record set at the 2003 MIC Championships (March 29, 2003) where head coach Ashley Lawson (then Godwin) led SEMO on the event with a 9.975. SEMO also recorded a 48.900 on vault at the 2021 USAG Championship, which tied for the seventh-highest score in SEMO program history.
 
Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso won the 2021 USA Gymnastics All-Around crown with 39.225. Makenzie Marciniak was awarded the Mari Rae Sopper Spirit Award at the conclusion of the 2021 USA Gymnastics Championships. Head coach Ashley Lawson was named the Ken Anderson USAG Coach of the Year for the second-straight season at the conclusion of the 2021 USA Gymnastics Championships. Assistant coach Andavea Alexander was selected as the 2021 USAG Assistant Coach of the Year
 
SEMO earned 18 USA Gymnastics All-American selections. Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso was named a First Team All-American for all-around, bars, beam and floor. Anna Kaziska garnered First Team laurels for vault, beam and floor. Jolie Miller was named a First Team All-American for bars and beam. Molly Maxwell was named to the First Team for all-around and beam and the Second Team for floor. Michael Sanders (vault), Gabrielle Adams (vault), Lindsey Bates (bars), Anna Speller (beam), Alana Fischer (beam) and Jordan Jones (floor) were also awarded First Team honors.
 
2021 in Review
SEMO registered a team score of 194.825 to take third at the 2021 Midwest Independent Conference Championships March 19 at Redbird Arena on the campus of Illinois State. Eight Redhawks earned All-MIC honors for their performances at the Championships and head coach Ashley Lawson was named the 2021 MIC Coach of the Year at the conclusion of the meet. For Lawson, it was her second-straight season earning the honor.
 
SEMO averaged a team score of 193.498 in 2021 including six-straight marks of 194 or higher to conclude the season. The Redhawks season-high of 195.150 achieved against Illinois State and Lindenwood on Senior Day (March 12) ranks 10th all-time in SEMO program history. The Redhawks averaged a 48.000 plus on every event this season including a 48.555 on beam, 48.527 on floor, 48.236 on vault and 48.180 on bars. The SEMO season-best floor score of 49.225 posted on March 12 ranks ninth in the school's record books.
 
Redhawks Crushing it in the Classroom 
Southeast Missouri ranked 13th among the nation's top Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) academic teams for the 2020-21 season. SEMO posted a 3.78 GPA with 18 of its student-athletes named Academic All-Americans. Over 94 percent of the 2021 Redhawks roster registered a 3.5 or higher GPA.

Ashley Albrecht, Lindsey Bates, Mallory Desch, Alana Fischer, Taylor Fishkin, Jordan Jones, Anna Kaziska, Makenzie Marciniak, Molly Maxwell, Jolie Miller, Lindsey Moffitt, Michael Sanders, Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso, Anna Speller, Sophia Studdard, Lydia Test, Heidi Vanderboom and Lydia Webb were all named WCGA Academic All-Americans. Each of these student-athletes either had a 3.5 overall GPA or carried a 3.5 GPA during the 2020-21 academic year.

Looking Ahead
SEMO next heads to St. Charles, Missouri, Saturday, Jan. 29 to take on MIC rival, Lindenwood. First rotation is set for 1 p.m., CT.
 
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