No. 13 Minnesota Set for Senior Day Meet

MINNEAPOLIS -- The No. 13 University of Minnesota women's gymnastics team (9-4, 7-2 B1G) is getting set to host its annual senior day meet. It will be a quad meet against No. 20 Iowa (12-5, 6-3 B1G), Illinois (4-12, 1-8 B1G) and Northern Illinois (3-12, 0-6 MAC). The meet is set for 2 p.m. CT and B1G+ will stream.

At the conclusion of the meet, Minnesota will honor its six seniors, two managers and student assistant coach in a ceremony on the floor.

MEET INFORMATION
No. 13 Minnesota vs. No. 20 Iowa, Illinois and Northern Illinois
Sunday, March 15
2 p.m. CT
Maturi Pavilion
Minneapolis, Minn.
TV/Stream: B1G+
Commentators: Lexy Bergeland (Play-By-Play) and Halle Remlinger (Analyst)
Live Stats: GopherSports.com

EVENT ROTATION
Minnesota: Vault-Bars-Beam-Floor
Illinois: Bars-Beam-Floor-Vault
Iowa: Beam-Floor-Vault-Bars
Northern Illinois: Floor-Vault-Bars-Beam

WEATHER UPDATE
Campus will be announcing later today that the University will go into reduced operations beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday night. Surface parking lots will be closed and the only parking that will be available is in ramps (University Ave., 4th Street, etc). We encourage fans to purchasing parking in advance here.

2026 SO FAR

The Minnesota gymnastics team enters Sunday's meet with a 9-4 (7-2 B1G) record. They've competed against a difficult schedule so far, but have posted a 5-2 record against top-25 ranked teams.
After going 1-1 in their first meet at No. 5 Utah and vs. Iowa, Minnesota took down consecutive top-10 ranked opponents in No. 10 Arkansas and No. 5 Michigan at home. They also won Feb. 14 at No. 16 PSU for their first road win.
Following a setback at Nebraska on Jan. 24, Minnesota reeled off consecutive 197+ performances with a 197.050 win over Iowa and a season-best 197.275 in a defeat to No. 5 UCLA.
The Gophers defeated Washington in their meet on Feb. 20, winning 196.950-196.300 to earn their second straight road win.
Minnesota had its best performance of the season March 1 at the Big 4, scoring a Big Ten-best 197.700. Bars, beam and floor had their best scores of the season and Arianna Ostrum won the all-around, bars and floor titles.
The 'U' fell at North Carolina on March 6, 197.200-196.925. Ostrum won the all-around title while Lyden won on beam. Minnesota struggled on vault and floor during the meet but had a great beam performance (49.475).
The 'U' holds 32 event titles this year across 10 meets, led by freshman Arianna Ostrum with nine and junior Jordyn Lyden with eight.
Minnesota ranks 13th overall in the Road to Nationals rankings, placing 16th on vault, 17th on bars, 6th on beam and 14th on the floor.
The 'U' is 6-1 at home this year, 2-3 on the road and 1-0 at neutral sites. In Big Ten competitions, they're 2-1 at home and 1-1 on the road thus far.
Picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten Preseason Poll, Minnesota finished second in the Big Ten standings (7-2) behind only UCLA (9-0).
Jordyn Lyden and Gianna Gerdes were picked as Big Ten Gymnasts to Watch for Minnesota. Lyden is set to earn All-B1G postseason honors as well.

UNC MEET RECAP

The No. 13 Minnesota gymnastics fell to No. 18 North Carolina on Friday night at Carmichael Arena, 197.200-196.925. With the loss, the Gophers fell to 9-4 (7-2 B1G) on the season. Minnesota will wrap up its regular season next Sunday in a quad meet at Maturi Pavilion.
"It was not our best meet tonight but there were definitely some highlights," said head coach Jenny Hansen. "Beam was excellent - that's the kind of performance we expected there. We had an unfortunate fall on bars with Lacie [Saltzmann], but we're happy that she's okay. Vault and floor we had some tough moments as well. I thought we had some really good moments on bars."
Minnesota scored 49.025 on vault, 49.300 on bars, 49.475 on beam and 49.125 on the floor. UNC went 49.250 on vault, 49.150 on bars, 49.450 on beam and 49.375 on the floor.
Arianna Ostrum won the all-around title for the second straight meet with a 39.450. Jordyn Lyden won on bars with a 9.900.
"We just need a little bit of a refocus going into our final regular season meet and figure out what helps us really perform at our best," Hansen said. "There were a few things we had to overcome in this meet, including late lineup changes and judges conferences. But any time you deal with those types of challenges, it prepares you for other times when those things can happen. We just have to keep battling when there's adversity."

MORAW NAMED AAI AWARD NOMINEE

Gophers senior Sarah Moraw was named a nominee for the AAI Award in 2026, which is presented to the nation's top senior gymnast. In her Gophers career, Moraw is a three-time WCGA Scholastic All-American, two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, a 2024 Big Ten All-Championships Team honoree and a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. She's also Minnesota's leader with Team Impact, a program pairing kids with disabilities with collegiate teams.
Moraw's best event of the year in 2026 has been the balance beam, where she's gone 9.875-or-higher seven times in 10 meets, including five 9.900s. Moraw tallied a season-best 9.925 on March 1 on beam at the Big 4 meet.
Moraw currently ranks 24th nationally and sixth in the Big Ten on beam.

WCGA AND ROAD TO NATIONALS RANKINGS

After week 10, Minnesota stayed at No. 13 (196.834 avg.) in the Road to Nationals rankings. The Gophers rank 16th on vault (49.106 avg.), 17th on bars (49.153 avg.), 6th on beam (49.303 avg.), and 14th on floor (49.281 avg.).
As it stands today as the 13-seed, Minnesota is projected to be in a regional with No. 4 Alabama, No. 5 UCLA and No. 12 Utah.
Minnesota began 2026 ranked No. 15 in the WCGA Preseason poll. They ranked behind only No. 4 UCLA, No. 6 Michigan St. and No. 14 Michigan in the Big Ten. Currently, UCLA is 5th, Michigan is 8th and Michigan State is 11th.

'U' SET TO HONOR SIX SENIORS ON SUNDAY

Gianna Gerdes (Delaware, Ohio), Seria Johnson (Woodstock, Ga.), Sarah Moraw (Holland, Mich.), Lauren Pearl (Millford, Mass.), Brooklyn Rowray (Des Moines, Iowa) and Megan Steensland (Chaska, Minn.) have been instrumental in the success of Gopher Gymnastics.
This senior class has helped rewrite the history books at Minnesota. Two members of this class helped the Golden Gophers to their highest ever finish at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships, taking sixth in 2022.
All six have been part of teams that have been to NCAA Regionals in each season, including a second place finish at Big Ten's in 2024 and a third place finish in 2025.
They've combined for 20 Academic All-Big Ten nods, four All-Big Ten selections, four Big Ten All-Championships team honors, four Big Ten weekly awards, two AAI nominations, a Big Ten Medal of Honor and a Big Ten Balance Beam Championship.

TOP SCORES PER EVENT

Minnesota's top vault performance of the year came on Feb. 7 vs. UCLA, as the Gophers totaled 49.250.
For the bars, beam and floor teams, March 1 took the cake for all three. Minnesota went 49.425 on the uneven bars. Arianna Ostrum's career day started with a 9.925, a collegiate-best on the event. Gianna Gerdes, Jordyn Lyden, Lacie Saltzmann and Teryn Crump all earned 9.875's.
On beam, Minnesota finished with a 49.525 beam score, another season-best. Lyden anchored the team with a 9.950 while Arianna Ostrum, Sarah Moraw and Brooklyn Rowray all tallied 9.925s.
On the floor, The 'U' tallied a season-best 49.525 floor score to start off the meet. For the first time this year, four Gophers had 9.900-or-higher scores, led by Arianna Ostrum, Sophie Swartzmiller and Jordyn Lyden with 9.925's. Leah Gonsiorowski went 9.900.
Minnesota's team score of 197.700 on March 1 in the Big 4. It topped their previous best of 197.275 against UCLA on Feb. 7. The score was the program's eighth best in program history.

OSTRUM MAKING B1G IMPACT AS A ROOKIE

Named one of College Gym News' Freshmen to Watch, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., native Arianna Ostrum has stood out early for the Maroon and Gold. Competing in all eight meets, she's done all-around seven times and leads Minnesota with nine event titles (3 vault, 2 floor, 1 bars, 2 AA).
Ostrum was named Big Ten Freshman and Co-Gymnast of the Week on March 3 after the performance of her career in the Big 4 meet. She went 39.625, the Gophers best all-around performance since Lexy Ramler in 2022. She totaled career-bests of 9.925 on bars, 9.925 on beam and 9.925 on the floor, taking home three event titles.
On Feb. 7 vs. UCLA she totaled a 39.475 all-around score against UCLA, trailing only Jordan Chiles. She won the vault title outright with a career-best 9.950. She also earned a career-best on the floor with a 9.925.
March 6 at UNC Ostrum tied for an all-around title with a 39.450. It was her second straight all-around title.

SENIOR DAY SUCCESS

During the last 11 years of the coach Hansen era, Minnesota has gone 18-1 overall against teams in their Senior Day meets (no meet in 2020).
Minnesota went 197.150 in 2025, 197.725 in 2024, 197.600 in 2023, 197.850 in 2022, 197.400 in 2021, 197.500 in 2019, 196.675 in 2018, 196.050 in 2017, 196.200 in 2016 and 194.725 in 2015. The only loss came against Iowa in the 2015 meet.

UP NEXT
The 'U' competes in the Big Ten Championships on Saturday, March 21 at 5 p.m. in Champaign, Ill. BTN will televise.

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