UW-Whitewater 187.175; UW-Stout 181.45; UW-Eau Claire 181.20
WHITEWATER (February 12, 2012) - Several personal bests scores pushed UW-Stout to a second place finish at the UW-Whitewater Triangular Sunday.
For the second consecutive meet,
Heather Harmeyer (Sr, Milwaukee) improved on her uneven bar score, leading Stout on the event with a fourth place finish and a score of 9.30. On Friday, Harmeyer had set a new personal best of 9.20.
Genna Boeckmann (Jr, St. Cloud, Minn) also set a personal mark on the uneven bars, finishing sixth with a mark of 9.25.
Katherine Prouty (Fr, Tigard, Ore) finished second in the all-around with a personal best mark of 37.125, marking the first time she cracked the 37-point mark as a collegiate performer. Prouty tied for second individually on the vault (9.40). The freshman finished seventh on the uneven bars (9.025), sixth on the balance beam (9.225) and eighth on the floor exercise (9.30).
Chloe Hustad (Fr, Wellington, Fla) finished sixth on the vault with a personal best score of 9.30. Hustad also notched a personal best on the floor exercise (9.425), placing 10th.
The Blue Devils also got personal best finishes from
Ashley Nelson (So, Itasca, Ill) on the vault (9.15),
Natasha Hansen (Fr, Bloomington, Minn) on the vault (9.20),
Tara Zimmerman (Fr, Forest Lake, Minn) on the uneven bars (8.65) and
Cora Bagoli (So, Nashville, Tenn) on the floor exercise (9.425).
UW-Whitewater won the meet by either taking or tying for the top two individual spots on each event. The Warhawks tallied 187.175 points. Stout edged UW-Eau Claire for the second time in two weeks, scoring 181.45 points to 181.20 for the Blugolds.
Stout returns to the southeastern part of the state next week when they participate in Harley Davidson Invitational at the Frontier Airline Center in Milwaukee, Friday, Feb. 17. UW-Whitewater is the collegiate host of the meet sponsored by the Midwest Twisters Gymnastics Club.
