Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

2020 (Shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic): Competed in all 11 meets as an all-arounder…Led the Redhawks with 28 scores of 9.700 or higher during the campaign…Had 11 scores of 9.800 or higher…Second on the team (led the freshmen class) with nine individual event titles (A-A three times, Beam two times, Bars two times, Vault two times) captured in 2020…Led Southeast and paced the MIC with four selections to 2020 MIC All-Conference Teams…Named to the First Team All-MIC for the all-around with the second highest National Qualifying Score (38.935) in the conference…Earned three Second Team All-MIC laurels for vault (9.740 NQS), bars (9.795 NQS) and beam (9.755 NQS)…Nabbed First-Team USA Gymnastics All-American laurels for the all-around and bars…Recognized as the MIC Newcomer of the Week twice in 2020 (1/15, 3/4)…Made Redhawks debut at #16-ranked Missouri's tri meet with Illinois (1/4), posting a 9.650 on vault and 9.750 on bars, 9.550 on beam, 9.725 on floor and 38.675 in the all-around…Opened collegiate career with five consecutive scores of 9.725 on floor at Missouri tri meet, at Alaska Anchorage tri meet (1/10) with Wisconsin-Eau Claire, at Alaska Anchorage (1/12), at Illinois State (1/17) and at Ball State quad meet (1/26) with Bowling Green and Wisconsin-La Crosse…Etched her named in the SEMO record books when she hit a personal-best 9.900 on beam at Alaska Anchorage (1/12), ranks fifth all-time in Redhawks history for the event…Set three personal-records at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (2/28) against Northern Illinois where SEMO posted its second-highest team score in school history of 195.800…Posted a 9.850 on vault, a 9.850 on bars, a 9.825 on floor and an all-around total of 39.350…The all-around total earned her the crown and tied head coach Ashley Lawson for fifth all-time in Southeast program history…Compiled back-to-back personal-high scores of 9.850 on bars at the Tennessee Collegiate Classic (2/28) and at Centenary (3/1)…Finished the all-around competition at Centenary (3/1) with a mark of 39.100…Named a Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Academic All-American, a Midwest Independent Conference Scholar-Athlete and selected to the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

Club: Was the Level 10 National Beam Champion the past two seasons and earned silver and bronze in the all-around competition at Level 10 Nationals during the 2016 and 2017 seasons… Was also the Provincial Level 10 All-Around Champion in 2018 and earned silver on bars during the first day and gold in the Level 10 bars finals on the second day…Placed 18th at the 2017 Elite Canada meet with an all-around score of 45.950…Was a silver medalist on floor and earned bronze on vault at the Level 10 Nationals during her sophomore campaign…Also garnered bronze on both vault and floor that season at Level 10 Provincials…Won the Level 10 Provincial Floor Championship and grabbed silver in vault and floor at the Level 10 National Meet…Received silver on vault at the Level 10 Provincial competition…Competed for Team Ontario and earned gold at the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Nationals and at the Eastern Canadian Championships in 2014 and 2015…Trains at Galaxy Gymnastics and is coached by Abbey Morgan, Jan Prosser and Rod Hounsell.
 
Personal: Born on July 29, 2001…Daughter of Vito Caruso and Tara Solorzano…Started doing gymnastics when she was two years old...Majoring in Interior Design at Southeast.