Bowling Green State University Athletics
Saturday, January 7
Lexington, Ky.
6 p.m.
Bowling Green State University
at
Kentucky
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Gymnastics Opens Season With Trip to Kentucky
January 02, 2012 | Gymnastics
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The Bowling Green State University gymnastics team will travel to Lexington, Ky., to compete in a four-team meet to open the new year on Saturday, Jan. 7. The Falcons will be competing with Kentucky (host), along with Oklahoma and Wisconsin-Oshkosh. The meet, which is called “Excite Night at the Kentucky Classic” is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Memorial Coliseum.
The Falcons are coming off a 1-12 campaign in 2011, but have much to look forward to as they begin 2012. BGSU returns 10 letter-winners from last season, including Dawn Christman, Monica Eaton, Megan Harrington, Sunny Marchand, Megan Valentini and Danielle Wishart. All six of these returners competed in a majority of last year's meets, with Christman advancing to Regionals and Wishart competing at the British National Championships this past summer.
Jamilah Ali, Chelsea Anderson, Dana Herr, Amanda Lievendag, Gina Locigno, Rachel Perry, Alexander Porter and Maria Salvia are all newcomers this season, but are expected to compete for playing time.
Those eight new additions are not the only new faces to the BGSU gymnastics team in 2012. Head coach Kerrie Beach has a pair of new assistants this season in Ed Nyman and Chad Wiest. Nyman and Beach served as assistant coaches together for Ursinus College in 2000. Wiest joins the Falcons' staff after spending the past five seasons (2006-11) competing with the Illinois gymnastics program, earning All-American status twice.
Beach is in her fifth-year as the head coach of the BGSU gymnastics program. She is 23-34 in her career and has coached eight Regional qualifiers and one MAC Champion.
Oklahoma and Kentucky will enter Saturday's meet, ranked No. 4 and No. 23 in the country. Wisconsin-Oshkosh is not nationally ranked.
Gymnastics parking is available in the following surface lots and parking structures:
• Joe Craft Center North E-Lot - large lot located north of the Joe Craft Center, and accessible via Lexington Avenue or Rose St.
• Memorial Coliseum E-Lot – located between Lexington Ave and MLK Blvd. and south (towards Euclid) of the center drive lane. Note: The residential (R1) lot in the northern portion of the MLK lot will also be available for Excite Night at the Kentucky Classic because of the Holiday Break
• Student Center Lot - off Euclid Ave
• Handicapped Parking (first come-first served until full) is located in the Northeast corner of the MLK South Lot, must have valid state-issued hang tag.
• Good Samaritan surface Lot - accessible off MLK Blvd
• Parking Structure #5 - entrances off Limestone and S. Upper
Tickets to the event are available by calling the UK Ticket Office at (859) 257-1818 or toll free at 1-800-928-2287. Reserved tickets for gymnastics events are $5 each, regardless of age, while general admission tickets are $5 for adults, $2 for seniors and youth.
Thanks to Danny Sierra for putting this video together
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