Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Championship Final on April 19, 2025 , , 4th of 4 (197.2375)
Final Score
Gymnastics
4th of 4 (197.2375)
vs NCAA Championship Final
2000 Season Filled With Surprises and Thrills
6/9/2000 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
June 9, 2000
2000 Utah Gymnastics Review
Regular Season Record: 10-4
NCAA Regionals: 1st
NCAA Championships: 2nd
Team Highlights
1) Runner-up at the NCAA Championships
2) Won NCAA Region 2 Championship
3) 196.875 in Super Six Finals set new school NCAA Championships scoring record
4) In NCAA Super Six, tied for first on beam (49.125), second on vault (49.400)
5) Became the only team to qualify for all 19 NCAA Championships to date. Twenty-five straight national championships appearances is also a record.
6) Four first-team All-Americans combined for seven first-team All-America performances.
7) Five second-team All-Americans combined for six second-team All-America performances.
8) 13 total All-America performances
9) At the NCAA Region 2 meet, Utah won the team title, three event titles and four of the five individual event championships.
10) Undefeated at home for national record 21st year in a row. Have now won 157 straight regular season home meets and haven't lost in non-NCAA competition since 1979.
11) Led the nation in attendance for the 18th time in the last 19 years (averaged 9,808 spectators per meet in six home meets).
12) Ranked No. 1 in the January 25 poll
13) Ranked No. 4 in final regular season ranking
14) Final regular season event rankings: No. 2 on bars (49.380 RQS) and beam (49.200 RQS), No. 4 on floor (49.385 RQS) and No. 6 on vault (49.065 RQS)
Individual NCAA Highlights
NCAA All-Americans
Denise Jones (5): All-Around (6th-tie, 39.400), Beam (4th, 9.850), Floor (2nd, 9.9125), Vault* (8th-tie, 9.850), Bars* (7th-tie, 9.825)
Deidra Graham (3): All-Around (10th-tie, 39.275), Beam (11th, 9.075^), Floor* (5th-tie, 9.875)
Angelika Schatton (2): Beam (7th, 9.80), All-Around* (18th-tie, 39.075) Jenny Schmidt (1): Bars (5th, 9.875)
Kim Allan (1): Beam* (7th-tie, 9.800)
Ashley Kever (1): Floor* (7th-tie, 9.850)
*Denotes second team, place is from session I
^Fell on finals night, tied for first in qualifying session with 9.850
NCAA Region 2
Four Utes finished in the top-10 all-arounders, led by Region 2 all-around champion Deidra Graham (39.475). Angelika Schatton was second (39.250), Denise Jones fourth (39.125) and Theresa Wolf ninth (38.900). Graham also won vault (9.875) and tied for first on beam with Ashley Kever (9.875). Jenny Schmidt won bars (9.975).
Other Notes of Interest
1) Utah finished second in the nation despite losing its two top gymnasts early in the season: All-America junior Shannon Bowles was lost in the preseason after fracturing a neck vertebrae in the preseason on a practice vault. Defending NCAA all-around champion Theresa Kulikowski, a sophomore, tore her ACL in the third meet of the season and had season-ending knee surgery. Kulikowski was also the defending beam champion and finished second on vault and floor at the 1999 NCAA Championships. Utah also won regionals and finished runner-up at nationals without star three-event performer Kylee Wagner, who missed the last quarter of the season with mononucleosis. Top freshman recruit Erin Prewitt missed the entire season due to shoulder and ankle surgery.
2) Utah's coaching staff was also hit by injuries. Assistant coach Aki Hummel could not coach at either regionals or nationals after a bad ski accident left him with a shattered femur. Head Coach Greg Marsden tore his hamstring spotting warmups before the NCAA team finals and Utah had to enlist the services of an assistant coach from Denver to spot its athletes during their three-minute touch.
3) Four upperclassmen contributed heavily to Utah's runner-up finish at the 2000 NCAA Championships after not even making the NCAA Championships lineup in 1999: seniors Jenny Schmidt and Angelika Schatton, junior Theresa Wolf and sophomore Lindsay Tanner. Schmidt and Schatton were both first team All-Americans, and Wolf and Tanner both tied their career highs in team finals (Wolf in the all-around and Tanner on the floor).
Ute Winners
Deidra Graham was Utah's 2000 "win champion." Graham had 16 victories in either the all-around or on individual events. Second was Denise Jones with 11 victories. Theresa Kulikowski had nine wins in just two and a half meets, tying her for third with Ashley Kever. All five of Jenny Schmidt's victories came on the uneven bars. Theresa Wolf came on strong late to win four events, Angelika Schatton won on beam twice and Kylee Wagner picked up her first collegiate victory on vault.
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