Gymnastics Travels To NC State For Saturday Meet

CHAPEL HILL – The Carolina gymnastics team hits the road for a rivalry meet this weekend, traveling to NC State for a Saturday dual meet. The meet will get underway at 4 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum.

Follow Along:
The meet will be streamed live on ACCNX with Rachel Garland (play by play) and Christina Chauvenet (analyst) on the call

Carolina Lately:
Carolina is coming off an 195.600-195.425 dual meet conference victory over the Temple Owls on Saturday night in Carmichael Arena. In the win, freshman Lali Dekanoidze earned her third career all-around title, setting a new career-best of 39.550.

The Tar Heels also took home or shared all four individual event titles. Cory Shinohara, Julia Knower and Dekanoidze each shared the vault title, Dekanoidze took bars with a career-best 9.95, Knower won beam and Elizabeth Culton took a share of floor.

Dekanoidze and Knower also each earned weekly honors for their performances, with Dekanoidze earning her fourth EAGL Gymnast of the Week, while Knower was named Rookie of the Week for the second time.

EAGL Rankings
Team:

No. 1 in the all-around (avg. 195.554)
No. 1 on bars (avg. 48.821)
No. 2 on beam (avg. 49.005)

Individuals:
Lali Dekanoidze

No. 1 in the all-around (39.204 avg.)
No. 1 on bars (9.871 avg.)
No. 3 on vault (9.842 avg.)
No. 9 on floor (9.808 avg.)

Julia Knower

No. 5 in the all-around (38.967 avg.)
No. 6 on beam (9.842 avg.)

Elizabeth Culton:

No. 7 on beam 9.833

Isabelle Schaefer:

t-No. 8 on bars (9.785 avg)

Road to Nationals Rankings – Week 6:

Carolina – No. 28 (highest ranked team in the EAGL)
NC State – No. 30

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Players Mentioned

Elizabeth Culton

Lali Dekanoidze

Julia Knower

Isabelle Schaefer

Cory Shinohara

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