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Gymnastics Travels To Rutgers For Saturday Quad Meet
January 14, 2022 | Women's Gymnastics
CHAPEL HILL – The Carolina gymnastics team is hitting the road for the first time this season, heading north for a quad-meet at Rutgers with NC State and New Hampshire on Saturday afternoon.
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Follow the Action:
Meet coverage gets underway live at 1 p.m. ET from Jersey Mike's Arena in New Brunswick, N.J.:
Carolina opened the 2022 season on Jan. 7 with a 195.70 team score, its highest season-opening score in program history, in front of a program-record 4,125 fans in Carmichael Arena.Â
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Freshman Lali Dekanoidze took home her first career all-around title with a 39.325, the second-best season-opening all-around total in program history. All three of Carolina's freshmen in the lineup earned individual event titles: Dekanodize and Isabelle Schaefer each took a share of the uneven bars title (9.875), while Julia Knower won on beam (9.925).
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The meet was also head coach Danna Durante's first at the helm of the Tar Heels.
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Award Winner:
Lali Dekanoidze earned the first honor of her collegiate career on Wednesday when she was named the East Atlantic Gymnast League (EAGL) Gymnast of the Week.
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Road to Nationals Week One Team Rankings:
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Follow the Action:
Meet coverage gets underway live at 1 p.m. ET from Jersey Mike's Arena in New Brunswick, N.J.:
- Big Ten Network + with Dom Savino and Chrystal Chollet-Norton on the call
- Live Scores
Carolina opened the 2022 season on Jan. 7 with a 195.70 team score, its highest season-opening score in program history, in front of a program-record 4,125 fans in Carmichael Arena.Â
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Freshman Lali Dekanoidze took home her first career all-around title with a 39.325, the second-best season-opening all-around total in program history. All three of Carolina's freshmen in the lineup earned individual event titles: Dekanodize and Isabelle Schaefer each took a share of the uneven bars title (9.875), while Julia Knower won on beam (9.925).
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The meet was also head coach Danna Durante's first at the helm of the Tar Heels.
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Award Winner:
Lali Dekanoidze earned the first honor of her collegiate career on Wednesday when she was named the East Atlantic Gymnast League (EAGL) Gymnast of the Week.
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Road to Nationals Week One Team Rankings:
- North Carolina – No. 14
- New Hampshire – No. 34
- Rutgers – No. 35
- NC State – did not compete week one
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