SEMO at #13 Arkansas
 
Meet Information
Date: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
Time: 2 p.m., CT
Location: Fayetteville, Ark.
Venue: Barnhill Arena
Series: Arkansas leads SEMO, 3-0

Coaches: Ashley Lawson (Fourth Season at SEMO);
Jordyn Wieber (Third Season at Arkansas)

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Redhawks Trek to #13 Arkansas For Sunday Afternoon Dual Meet 
Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics heads to Fayetteville, Arkansas, Sunday to compete against #13 Arkansas at the Barnhill Arena in a dual meet. First rotation is set for 2 p.m., CT. Watch the meet live on SEC Network+.
 
Both SEMO and Arkansas had their Friday meets cancelled due to inclement weather. The Redhawks were slated to go to DeKalb, Illinois, for a quad meet at Northern Illinois while the Razorbacks were scheduled to host West Virginia. 

The Redhawks last competed at Arkansas during the 2019 season, totaling a 188.250 at the quad meet. Anna Kaziska registered her second career 9.900 on floor and was fourth in the all-around competition with 38.900.
 
Looking at Arkansas
The Razorbacks best event so far this season is balance beam, in which the team is currently ranked No. 9 with a 49.275 average score. Arkansas scored a program-high 49.475 on beam at Florida last week, which helped them to keep climbing the top 10.
 
The Razorbacks took to Gainesville, Florida, for the team's first road meet of the season last week. The last two rotations were huge for the visiting team, and Arkansas posted a 49.200, its second-best floor score of the season, to help make a push late. Arkansas then took balance beam for the final rotation, and posted four scores of 9.9 or above, including three 9.925s from Bailey Lovett, Kennedy Hambrick and Amanda Elswick en route to a program-high 49.475. The Hogs ultimately fell to the Gators 196.485-198.250.
 
Kaziska Earns MIC Performance of the Week for Floor Routine
Senior Anna Kaziska was awarded the Midwest Independent Conference Performance of the Week, the league announced Wednesday. Kaziska won the beam and floor titles in a dual with Lindenwood Saturday, Jan. 29 at the Robert F. Hyland Arena.
 
The Louisville, Kentucky, native, won the floor title with a season-high 9.900. Kaziska registered her seventh career 9.900 floor routine in the dual at Lindenwood. She also captured the beam title with a 9.7750 and notched an 8.975 on vault.
 
For Kaziska, the MIC weekly honor is her second of the season and 13th in her career.
 
Lindenwood Recap 
SEMO totaled a team score of 191.150 in a dual with Lindenwood Jan. 29 at the Robert F. Hyland Arena in St. Charles, Missouri.
 
SEMO registered a season-high floor score of 48.875. The Redhawks also had a 47.225 on vault, 47.675 on bars and a 47.375 on beam.
 
Jordan Jones compiled a 9.725 on beam and a season-high 9.700 on floor. For Jones the 9.725 was her second on beam in 2022.
 
First Career Event Title for Our All-Arounder
Molly Maxwell won the all-around competition at Lindenwood's dual Jan. 29 in St. Charles, Missouri, for her first career title with 37.775. Her best event of the dual was a 9.700 on floor.
 
Maxwell has competed in the all-around competition in all three meets in 2022. She was third in the all-around competition with a season-high total of 38.450 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic on Jan. 21 with a 9.800 on beam and a 9.725 on floor.
 
Yeah Linds!!
Freshman Lindsay Ockler finished as the runner-up on vault and bars in a dual with Lindenwood Saturday, Jan. 29 at the Robert F. Hyland Arena.
 
Ockler paced the Redhawks with a 9.800 on bars, good for second overall at the meet. For Ockler, it was her third-straight bars mark of 9.800 or higher in as many meets and second career 9.800. Ockler then led the Redhawks once again, this time on vault with a 9.725 for second overall at the dual. She also compiled a 9.700 on floor.
 
In three career collegiate meets, Ockler has notched a 9.700 or higher in eight of her nine events.
 
She previously notched a trio of career bests at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic on Jan. 21. Ockler paced SEMO with a career-high 9.825 on vault for second overall at the Classic.
 
She also finished as the runner-up on bars, tallying a personal-best 9.825 behind teammate Jolie Miller (9.875). Ockler was then second on the Redhawks with a personal-best 9.775 on floor to conclude the evening.
 
Ockler didn't have a score lower then 9.775 Jan. 21, competing in three of the four events in her second career collegiate meet.
 
The freshman from Huson, Montana, registered her first two career scores of 9.700 or higher in her Redhawks debut at Kent State's quad meet on Jan. 16. 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.

Our Favorite Color Besides Red is Madison Greene
Freshman Madison Greene led SEMO with a career-best 9.850 for fourth at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic Jan. 21. The mark was her first score of 9.700 or higher as a Redhawk.
 
She most recently hit a floor mark of 9.825 for third at Lindenwood's dual on Jan. 29. The mark was Greene's second-straight 9.800 plus floor score.
 
Greene, a freshman from Crestwood, Kentucky, competed at Champion Gymnastics with current SEMO teammate Anna Kaziska.  

Tennessee Collegiate Classic Recap
Southeast Missouri tallied a team score of 193.375 for third overall at the 2022 Tennessee Collegiate Classic Jan. 21 at the Farm Bureau Exposition Center.
 
Jolie Miller won the bars title with a career-best tying 9.875. Molly Maxwell was third in the all-around competition with a season-high total of 38.450.
 
SEMO opened the tri with a 47.700, followed by a 48.675 on bars, 48.750 on beam and 48.250 on floor.
 
Jordan Jones paced the Redhawks with a 9.825 for second overall on beam. Jolie Miller and Molly Maxwell added 9.800s in the first and fourth slots, respectively. Maxwell also posted a 9.725 on floor in the final rotation.
 
Nyah Reader registered career-highs on vault (9.550) and beam (9.675) at the tri.
 
Ashley Albrecht added a 9.325 on vault and 9.575 on bars in her second meet back from injury.
 
Jolie, Jolie, Jolie!!
Jolie Miller won the bars title with a career-best tying 9.875 at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic on Friday, Jan. 21. Miller matched a career-best in the anchor position to pace SEMO on the event. 
 
The junior from Aurora, Colorado, tied her PR set at the 2020 installment of the Tennessee Collegiate Classic. Miller won her first career event title with the score as a freshman in 2020 in Tennessee and grabbed her fourth career title with the same score Jan. 21, 2022. Miller also added a 9.500 on vault in her first time competing on the event as a Redhawk and a 9.800 on beam.
  
WEBBY!!
Lydia Webb notched a career-high 9.750 on bars for fifth overall at the 2022 Tennessee Collegiate Classic. It was her first mark of 9.700 or higher of the campaign. She also compiled a 9.300 on floor.
 
She most recently had a 9.725 on bars and a 9.750 on floor at Lindenwood at Jan. 29.
 
Webb finished third in the all-around competition Jan. 16 at Kent State's tri meet with 38.150. The Wylie, Texas, sophomore, 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.
 
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 and 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.
  
SEMO Debuts
Madison Greene, Lindsay Ockler and Nyah Reader all made their Redhawk debuts at Kent State's tri meet Jan. 16. 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.
  
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 Beam 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 returns home to host Lindenwood in the Redhawks home opener Friday, Feb. 11 at Houck Field House. The opening rotation will begin at 6:30 p.m.
 
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