ITHACA, N.Y. – Anna Kaziska,
Lindsay Ockler and
Jolie Miller combined for four Gold medals as Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics competed at the 2022 USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championships Individual Event Finals Sunday afternoon at the Newman Arena at Bartels Hall.
Kaziska, the 2022 Midwest Independent Conference Senior Athlete of the Year, won the beam and floor titles with career best scores of 9.950.
The Louisville, Kentucky, native, successfully defended her Beam crown with a career-best matching 9.950. Kaziska previously registered the mark on Friday in the first 2022 USAG National Championships Semifinal.
She ranks second all-time at SEMO on the event behind head coach
Ashley Lawson's (formerly Godwin) 9.975 (3/29/2003).
She then closed out her career with a 9.950 on floor for the 2022 USAG National Championship with Texas Woman's Isabel Goyco. For Kaziska, it was her third career-best 9.950 (all achieved in 2022).
She ranks fifth all-time in SEMO program history for floor with Alexis Traylor (2004) and Kate Farrington (1995).
Kaziska previously had finished as the runner-up on floor at the 2019 and 2021 installments of the USAG Championships.
Ockler and Miller, the 2022 MIC Bars Champions, secured the 2022 USAG Bars National Championship with identical scores of 9.925.
For Ockler, a freshman from Huson, Montana, the mark was a personal-best after improving on former high of 9.900 set at the 2022 MIC Championship. She ranks tied for second all-time in SEMO program history for bars.
For Miller, a junior from Aurora, Colorado, it was her third career bars routine of 9.900 or higher. She competed in her second career USAG Individual Event Finals Sunday and previously had finished third in 2021 on bars when the Championships were held in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Miller also tallied a 9.700 on beam for ninth overall Sunday.
Lydia Webb, a sophomore from Wylie, Texas, finished fourth on beam with a 9.825. She also registered a bars mark of 9.775 to tie for eighth in the Finals.
Madison Greene, a freshman of Crestwood, Kentucky, finished her floor exercise routine with 8.500 (11th).
Yale's Raegan Walker won the vault title with 9.875.
Cornell gymnast Sydney Beers earned the USAG national all-around title, after notching a 39.125 on Friday.
USA Gymnastics announced Sunday its 2022 All Americans based on Friday's combined Team Semifinals. SEMO earned 13 All American selections including 11 First Team nods.
Webb and
Molly Maxwell paced the Redhawks with three selections. Webb was named a First Team All-American for bars, beam and in the all-around. Maxwell was selected to the First Team for beam and Second Team for floor and the all-around competition.
Webb finished the all-around competition with 38.475 for seventh overall over Friday's pair of sessions and Maxwell totaled 37.525 (10th).
Miller (bars and beam) and Kaziska (beam and floor) were both named to a pair of First Team All-American teams. The duo combined for three Individual Event Championships Sunday.
Kaziska is now an 11-time USA Gymnastics All-American and 11-time MIC All-Conference gymnast.
Ockler, the 2022 USA Gymnastics Individual Bars Champion,
Nyah Reader (beam) and
Madison Greene (floor) were also each tabbed First Team All-Americans.
2022 USA Gymnastics Awards
Assistant Coach of the Year: Kristen Harold (Texas Woman's) and Stephanie Plaugher (West Chester)
Coach of the Year: Andrew Leis (Yale)
Marie Rae Soper Award: (gymnast who shows unparalleled passion, dedication and devotion to the sport of gymnastics as well as tremendous and inspiring perseverance): Jessica Meakim (West Chester)
Special Awards: Jackie Fain (retiring Centenary College head coach) and Paul Beckwith (retired Cornell head coach)
