Bowling Green State University Athletics
Oestreng Qualifies For World Championships
January 04, 2000 | Gymnastics
June 9, 1999
Bowling Green State University sophomore Marny Oestreng has qualified for the World Gymnastics Championships to be held in October in China by virtue of capturing the all-around title at the recent Norwegian Championships held in Oslo.
The Trogstad, Norway native won her fourth successive Norwegian all-around title to earn a spot in the upcoming World Championships. She captured four Norwegian junior all-around titles earlier in her career.
Oestreng, who captured the NCAA floor exercise title in mid-April while becoming the first BGSU gymnast to qualify for the national meet, also captured the uneven bars individual title at the meet in Oslo.
By competing in the World Championships, Oestreng will have the opportunity to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics with a strong performance. She competed in the 1987 World Championships as a member of the Norwegian National Team.
Oestreng will return to BGSU in August when classes resume then leave for a couple weeks to compete in China.
Oestreng won the floor exercise at the NCAA regional meet at LSU and won the vault, beam, bars, and all-around at the Mid-American Conference Championships. In her first season in the Falcon program, she set all four individual school records and the school record in the all-around.
She was named the MAC Gymnast of the Year as well as Freshman of the Year.
She joins a pair of track athletes, Olympic champion Dave Wottle and Sid Sink, a track relay team which included both Wottle and Sink, and the 1984 hockey team as the only BGSU individuals or teams which have captured NCAA titles in school history.
