Meet #10 & #11
SEMO Gymnastics at Arizona
SEMO Gymnastics at Arizona State
 
Meet Information: 
Dates: Friday, March 13 & Sunday, March 15
Times: 8 p.m., CT. & 4 p.m., CT. 
Location: Tucson, Ariz. | Tempe, Ariz. 
Venues: McKale Center | Desert Financial Arena
Participants: Fri: Arizona, Texas Woman's, Ohio State | Sun: Arizona State & Utah State
 
Head Coaches: 
SEMO: Ashley Lawson (Eighth Season)
TWU: Lisa Bowerman (13^th Season)
Arizona: John Court (Seventh Season)
Ohio State: Meredith Paulicivic (Seventh Season)
Arizona State: Jay Santos (Ninth Season)
Utah State: Kristin White (Fourth Season)
 
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Gymhawks Set for Desert Tour Friday and Sunday 
Southeast Missouri Gymnastics will wrap-up the 2026 regular season this weekend with a pair of competitions in the Grand Canyon State. The Gymhawks will take part in the Arizona Quad-Meet on Friday, March 13, before heading to the Arizona State Tri-Meet on Sunday, March 15. The competition(s) are slated to begin at 8 p.m., and 4 p.m., CT., respectively. 
 
A Plethora of Teams
The Gymhawks will face off with teams they have not seen so far this season this weekend beginning with Friday night. SEMO will face off with host Arizona (29^th), Ohio State (17^th), and MIC-member Texas Woman's (44^th) in Tucson. On Sunday, the Gymhawks will meet Arizona State (32^nd) and Utah State (27^th) in Tempe to conclude the regular season. 
 
Conference Foe
SEMO Gymnastics will face Texas Woman's for the first time this season on Friday night. The two teams sit atop the Midwest Independent Conference heading into the final weekend of the regular season. TWU ranks 44^th while SEMO sits at 49^th in the country, according to Road to Nationals. The two met just one time in the regular season in 2025 resulting in a 194.875-193.325 TWU victory in Denton, Texas on January 17. 
 
Iowa Recap
Southeast Missouri Gymnastics secured a third-place finish at the Iowa Quad Meet last Friday night, turning in a 194.600 team score edging out Northern Illinois (193.300) who finished in fourth. The Iowa Hawkeyes won the meet with a 196.500 followed by Central Michigan with a 196.025 in second place. 
 
Senior Taylor Ingle competed in the all-around as she scored a 39.125 with a 9.825 on vault (T-5), 9.750 on bars (T-11), 9.725 on beam (T-10), and a 9.825 on floor (T-8) to round out her 24th straight all-around competition. 
  
Gymnast of the Week 
Southeast Missouri gymnast Taylor Ingle picked up her fifth-straight Midwest Independent Conference 'Gymnast of the Week' honor, the league announced on Wednesday morning. 
Ingle, a native of Coppell, Texas, has now received the award for the seventh time this season after competing in her 24th-straight all-around dating back to the 2025 season. Taylor recorded a 39.125 in the all-around competing against gymnasts from Iowa, Central Michigan, and Northern Illinois last Friday night. Ingle scored a 9.825 on vault (T-5), 9.750 on bars (T-11), 9.725 on beam (T-9th), and a 9.825 on floor (T-8th) in the meet as she placed fourth in the all-around. Heading into the final week of the regular season, Taylor has an National Qualifying Score (NQS) of 39.050 in the all-around as she looks to make her second-straight NCAA Regional after competing in the Tuscaloosa Regional in 2025 in the all-around.
 
Where We Rank
The Gymhawks enter the final week of the regular season ranked 49^th in the country. SEMO ranks 56^th on floor, 52^nd on vault, 51^st on bars, and 41^st on beam. This season, SEMO scored their highest team score with a 194.850 on February 6 and have five scores of 194.000 or higher. 
 
Over 200
The 2026 Gymhawks have four gymnasts who have contributed north of 200 points this season in the lineup(s). Senior Taylor ingle leads the way having scored 350.550 points this year through nine meets followed by junior Jaidan Kossuth (252.4), graduate Nyah Reader (239.300), and senior Kailyn Hamilton (220.975). Reader has scored the most points on the beam lineup for the Gymhawks having scored 87.825 points on the apparatus. 
 
Freshman Debut
Freshman Kennedy Fisher was inserted into the beam lineup this past Friday night at Iowa for the first time this season. Fisher, a native of Pine Bush, N.Y., turned in a 9.750 on the beam in what marks her first recorded score of her DI gymnastics career. She finished in eighth place on the apparatus just edging teammate Nyah Reader in ninth (9.725). 
 
The Pilot
Junior Amelia May returned to the bars lineup after a week off as she returned to her form. The bars specialist turned in a 9.650 narrowly missing her season-high 9.675 she set earlier this season. May has competed in nine meets this season as a bars specialist and has five scores north of 9.600 this year. She is currently studying to become a professional pilot at Southeast. 
 
Syd the Kid
Senior Sydney Crouch scored a season-high on the floor this past weekend at Iowa after returning to a lineup for the first time since February 27. In just her third-floor lineup of the season, Crouch soared to a 9.750 for the Gymhawks and finished tied for 18^th with Haley Tyson of Iowa. Crouch shattered her previous two scores this season as Friday's score marks her first score of 9.000 or higher on the floor. 
 
Floor Score
Junior Leah Parton enjoyed competing in her home state last Friday night. The West Des Moines, Iowa-native turned in a season-high 9.825 on the floor for the Gymhawks at Iowa in just her fourth routine this season. Parton has scored three-of-four routines north of 9.725 and has been on the floor in four-straight meets. She finished tied with her teammate Taylor Ingle in eighth place. The score marked her second highest SEMO career score as she has a 9.875 from 2025 under her belt. 
 
Keen Kuehn
Senior Ailey Kuehn has put together back-to-back performances on the vault for the Gymhawks. Last Friday, Kuehn scored her second-highest vault score of the season with a 9.750 just missing her season-high of 9.775 set two weeks ago in Cape Girardeau. Kuehn has scored 9.700 or higher four times this season including the last four-of-five weeks north of 9.700. 
 
Steady
Graduate Nyah Reader has been one of the steadiest gymnasts on the beam this season as she has scored a 9.700 or higher in three-straight weeks. At Iowa, Reader scored her second-straight 9.725 on the beam after scoring the same in Cape Girardeau on February 27. In nine routines, she has just one score south of 9.700 and has four scores of 9.800 or higher on the beam in 2026. 
 
New Places, Same Faces
Sophomore Reagan Sams will face off against her former teammates from Ohio State on Friday night. Sams, a native of Bentonville, Arkansas, was a member of the 2025 Ohio State Buckeyes gymnastics team before transferring to SEMO this season. Sams has been exceptional on the floor, turning in a 9.775 last Friday night. She has scores of 9.700 or higher in six meets this year, including a career-high 9.825 which she has recorded twice.