Gymnast of the Week awards are given by conference offices.
Gymnast of the Week
Syniya Thomas – NC State
* Helped lead NC State to a win over No. 12 North Carolina with two first-place finishes.
* Vault: 9.825; Beam: 9.875 (Tied for First Place); Floor: 9.975 (First Place)
Co-Specialists of the Week
Sage Melkonian – California
* Scored a career-best 9.925 on bars against Pitt to earn her first collegiate individual event title.
* Tied for first in the ACC with a 9.950 high on bars.
* Tied for second in the ACC with a 9.875 average.
JoJo Valahovic – North Carolina
* Scored a career-best 9.925 on vault against NC State for a first-place finish.
* Tied for first in the ACC with a 9.925 high on vault.
* Second in the ACC with a 9.880 average.
Newcomer of the Week
Levi Jung-Ruivivar – Stanford
* Recorded two scores of 9.950 for two first-place finishes and a second-place finish in the all around to help Stanford defeat Pitt.
* Vault: 9.700; Bars: 9.950 (First Place); Beam: 9.650; Floor: 9.950 (First Place); All-Around: 39.250 (Second Place)
Gymnast of the Week
Jordan Chiles – UCLA
* Won the all-around for the fourth consecutive week behind a 39.625
* Recorded a perfect 10 for the third-straight time on floor exercise
* Ranks third on the Bruins’ all-time Perfect 10 list with 15 for her career
* Placed second on uneven bars (9.900) and third on vault (9.875)
* Garners her 12th career Big Ten Gymnast of the Week recognition
Co-Event Specialists of the Week
Carly Bauman – Michigan
* Posted a 9.950 on balance beam for a share of the title
* Had a 9.900 on floor exercise to pace the Wolverines and tie for first
* Added a 9.850 on uneven bars
* Claims her fifth Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week accolade
Nya Kraus, – Nebraska
* Scored a career-high 9.925 on uneven bars to share the victory
* Earned another career mark and title with a 9.925 on balance beam
* Notched a season-high 9.850 on floor exercise
* Collects the first Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week honor of her career
Freshman of the Week
Ashlee Sullivan – UCLA
* Placed first on uneven bars with a career-best score of 9.925
* Tied her career high on floor exercise (9.950) to come in second
* Shared third place on vault with a 9.875
* Earns her second Big Ten Freshman of the Week laurel
Gymnast of the Week
Avery Neff – Utah
Neff scored the second-best all-around score of her career, 39.625, and won the all-around competition during the Big 12 dual at Arizona. Additionally, she captured wins in bars (9.90), beam (9.95) and floor (9.90). She tied her season-high totals on bars and floors, while she tied a career-high on beam. The Red Rocks captured a 197.125-195.975 road win.
Specialist of the Week
Camie Winger – Utah
Winger, in the anchor position of Utah’s beam rotation and the team’s last routine of the night, matched her career-best 9.95 to tie with Neff for the event win. Her score helped the Utes post a season-best score of 49.550 on the apparatus. Winger has a 9.887 average on beam and is ranked 18th nationally.
Newcomer of the Week
Megan Aamold – Denver
Aamold’s 9.925 on the balance beam continued her streak of improving her score on the apparatus for the third consecutive meet. She claimed another event win, tying for first place as DU recorded a season-high team score on 49.450 on beam. The Pioneers beat Arizona State 196.950-195.875 in the league matchup.
Gymnast of the Week
Lola Montevago – George Washington
Montevago won the all around for the second week in a row, this time with a personal best score of 39.125. The sophomore had a season high on beam (9.850), matching her career-high and also matched her personal best on vault (9.825), earning second overall and leading the team on both events.
Specialist of the Week
Adriana Hoffman – Towson
Hoffman recorded her first victory on floor this season with a 9.875. This was the highest individual score of the meet and also tied her season high set the previous week
Co-Rookies of the Week
Aspen Tucker – George Washington
Tucker recorded a personal best score in the all-around, finishing second overall. The freshman also recorded her second best bars score of the season (9.700).
Ella Beck – Temple
Beck finished in the top ten in all three events she competed. She posted a new career-high on floor (9.750) that helped Temple achieve a season-high score of 48.975 on the event.
Co-Rookie Specialists of the Week
Jade Harden – Temple
Harden posted a new personal best 9.825 on vault. This led Temple on the event and tied her for second place.
Eden Stippick – LIU
Stippick led the team on vault for the fifth week in a row, placing second overall with a 9.775. The freshman also matched her career high on floor (9.700) for the second week in a row.
Gymnast of the Week
Manama Fofana – Penn
Sophomore Manama Fofana (Atlanta, Ga.) earned her second consecutive GEC Gymnast of the Week honor after another spectacular performance for the Quakers on Friday night. The highlight of her meet came on beam, where she posted a career-high, event winning 9.925, a score that ranks second all-time at Penn and stands as the highest individual beam score at a home meet in program history. Fofana’s beam score helped propel Penn to a 49.375 team total, the second-highest beam score in program history, and led the way as the Quakers posted a 196.000 team score. She also added strong performances on vault (9.825) and floor (9.825) to round out her standout night.
Specialist of the Week
Cami Whitaker – Cornell
Senior Cami Whitaker (Addison, Ill.) continued her steady impact for Cornell with strong performances on vault and floor this week. Whitaker debuted a new vault this season, a Yurchenko tuck 1½, and has shown improvement each week, delivering a stick on Friday to place fourth with a 9.800. On floor exercise, she remained a reliable presence in the lineup, posting Cornell’s second-highest score of the meet with a 9.750. Whitaker’s consistency continues to be a key factor for the Big Red week in and week out.
Newcomer of the Week
Annie Bilbe – Yale
First-year Annie Bilbe (Covington, La.) earned her second GEC Newcomer of the Week honor of the season after a strong performance for Yale against Southern Connecticut. Bilbe claimed first place on vault with a 9.825, debuting her layout Kazamatsu in the anchor position. She also anchored the floor lineup for the Bulldogs and scored a 9.800, tying for third place. Bilbe has opened her Yale career with confidence and consistency, quickly establishing herself as a reliable presence in the Bulldogs’ lineups.
Gymnast of the Week
Charlie Behner – Kent State
Charlie Behner delivered a dominant three-event performance for the Kent State Golden Flashes at the February 8, 2026, tri-meet held at Worthen Arena in Muncie, Indiana, leading her team to a second-place finish with a score of 194.650. Behner tied for first place overall on vault with an outstanding 9.850, sharing the top spot with Illinois State’s Savannah Ray. She continued her exceptional day on uneven bars with a 9.875, which tied her for second place overall. Behner capped off her stellar performance by tying for first place on floor exercise with a 9.875, sharing the top honors with Ball State’s Ava Molina and teammate Heidi Schultz. Her remarkable ability to score 9.850 or higher on all three events she competed, including two event titles and a runner-up finish, proved instrumental in Kent State’s competitive showing against Ball State and Illinois State.
Specialist of the Week
Lia Kmieciak – Central Michigan
Graduate student Lia Kmieciak took home both the uneven bars (9.950) and vault title (9.825) against Eastern Michigan; her eighth career bars title and ninth career vault title. Kmieciak’s mark on bars was a new career high and moved her into third in the CMU record book. Her scores were key to a top ten bars team score in CMU history and a win over Eastern on Sunday.
Gymnast of the Week
Taylor Ingle – Southeast Missouri State
Ingle had a dominating performance last Friday night at the SEMO Quad-Meet as she competed in her 20th-straight all-around competition dating back to 2025. Ingle, a Coppell, Texas-native, finished the meet with an event title in the all-around with a season-high 39.150. She recorded a trio of event title victories on vault with a 9.775, bars (9.825), and floor (9.875) to lead the Gymhawks. Her 9.875 on floor matched her season-high from this season as she has hit back-to-back 9.875s on the floor in two-straight meets. For Ingle, the award marks her third of the season in just five weeks of the 2026 regular season competition.
Performance of the Week
Savannah Ray – Illinois State
Ray continued her strong season with a solid outing on Sunday at Ball State as well. Ray picked up an event win with a tie for first on vault with a career-high score of 9.850 and then followed that up with a strong score on vault to finish 12th overall. She also competed on beam as well, to round out a strong effort for the Redbirds. Her score of 9.850 is the highest for a Redbird gymnast this season on vault and ties for the highest score of the season on any event.
Newcomer of the Week
Mia LeBlanc – Illinois State
LeBlanc had another strong outing for the Redbirds, competing in three events in their tri-meet at Ball State. LeBlanc posted her best score of the night on bars of 9.725, as the Redbirds set a team season high on the event. She also added scores of 9.575 on vault and 9.650 on floor to round out another solid meet for ISU.
Co-Coaches’ Choice Award
Jordan Napolitano – Southeast Missouri State
Junior Jordan Napolitano returned to the beam lineup for the first time this season after competing as an exhibitionist a week ago in Cape Girardeau. Napolitano, who battled injuries most of 2025, competed on the beam and recorded a 9.700 to finish tied for fifth place last Friday night.
Anna Ichiba – Centenary
Ichiba finished third on vault with a career high 9.625, fourth on beam with a 9.70, and was seventh on floor with a career-best 9.575 in the Ladies’ home victory last Friday over the Greenville University Panthers. The Ladies posted a season-high team score of 190.100, their best since a 192.175 on Senior Night last season against Fisk University.
Gymnast of the Week
Niya Randolph – Southern Utah
Randolph dominated the all-around with a score of 39.300. She posted 9.825 on vault and bars, a team-leading 9.875 on beam, and 9.775 on floor, also earning podium finishes on bars and beam. Randolph’s veteran leadership and consistency anchored the T-Birds in a tightly contested meet.
Specialist of the Week
Kayla Pardue – Southern Utah
Pardue earned Specialist of the Week thanks to a clutch 9.925 on vault, winning the event and providing critical momentum against a nationally ranked opponent. Her powerful, clean vault energized the lineup and helped push the Flippin’ Birds to their best team total of the season.
Freshman of the Week
Berlin Hall – Southern Utah
Hall helped set the tone early with a strong 9.700 on vault before finishing the night with an impressive 9.825 on floor. Her poise in key lineup spots propelled Southern Utah to a season-high team score of 196.000.
All-Arounder of the Week
Maggie Slife – Air Force
* Scored a league-best 39.375 in the all-around to secure one of four titles in a tri-meet against Alaska and Mountain West-foe Utah State.
* Scored a Mountain West record and league-best 9.975 on bars for her fifth-straight Bars Specialist of the Week honor.
* Scored a league-best 9.900 on beam for her third individual title at the meet.
* Scored a league-best-tying 9.900 on floor for her fourth individual title at the meet.
* Rounded out her all-around total with a 9.600 on vault.
* Slife has tallied 18 weekly awards this season.
Freshman of the Week
Mara Gruber – Utah State
* Named the MW Floor Co-Specialist of the Week for the first time in her career.
* Earned her first-career honor as she won the floor title at the USU Quad Meet with a career-high 9.900, helping USU score 49.175 on the event. It was her first-career title.
* Earned her first MW Freshman of the Week honor with her 9.990 on floor at the USU Quad Meet.
* Ranks 47th in the North Central Region with an average floor score of 9.735.
Vault – Kaviana Jurries, San Jose State; Sophie Patterson, San Jose State
Uneven Bars – Maggie Slife, Air Force
Balance Beam – Maggie Slife, Air Force
Floor Exercise – Maggie Slife, Air Force; Mara Gruber, Utah State; Isabella Vater, Utah State
All-Around Gymnast of the Week
Erin Row – Ursinus
Roe led the Bears to a season-high team score and a 189.800-187.275 victory over Utica on Sunday. She registered a career-best 9.700 to finish second on the uneven bars while earning victories on the vault, beam and in the all-around. On the vault, Roe posted a 9.775 to set a new season high. She also won the beam with a score of 9.725, tying her career best. She finished with a 9.050 on the floor to earn a final tally of 38.250 in the all-around.
Specialist of the Week
Grace Murray – Ithaca
In a tri-meet with Brockport and Cortland on Super Bowl Sunday, which was also Senior Day and the Harriett Marranca Invitational, Murray won the vault and floor. She introduced an upgraded vault, scoring 9.750 and continued her solid season on floor with a 9.825.
Gymnast of the Week
Addison Fatta – Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Addison Fatta, a sophomore from Wrightsville, Pa., won two all-around titles as she helped the Sooners earn wins over No. 4 Alabama and at the Metroplex Challenge over No. 10 Arkansas, Arizona and Texas Woman’s. On Friday against the Crimson Tide, Fatta won the event title with a 39.725, her second mark of 39.700 or better this season and the highest score in the SEC this past weekend. She also won the vault title with a career-high 9.975 as the anchor in the vault lineup and the floor title with a 9.950. On Sunday, Fatta recorded a 39.675 to win the all-around title and a career-high 9.975 on floor to claim her first floor title of the season and help the Sooners to a season-high 39.750, the highest score in the nation this season on any event.
Specialist of the Week
Addison Lawrence – Missouri
Missouri’s Addison Lawrence, a senior from Olathe, Kan., took home a share of the beam title with a 9.95 in the win over No. 2 Florida. Lawrence earned her fourth event title of the season after recording her fifth score of 9.95 in six meets on the apparatus. She is one of just three gymnasts in the nation this season with five marks of 9.950 or higher on the balance beam.
Freshman of the Week
Mackenzie Estep – Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Mackenzie Estep, a freshman from Auburn, Wash., collected five podium finishes in the wins over No. 4 Alabama and at the Metroplex Challenge over No. 10 Arkansas, Arizona and Texas Woman’s. On Sunday in Fort Worth, Estep earned her first career perfect 10 on vault, becoming just the third person in the nation to capture a perfect score on the event. She is the first OU freshman since Jordan Bowers in 2022 to earn a perfect score and only the third to do so on vault joining Bowers and Maggie Nichols. Estep rounded out the quad meet with a 9.95 on floor to tie for second place and a 9.875 on bars. On Friday, she made her debut in the all-around and took third place with a final score of 39.300. Versus the Crimson Tide, Estep tied for first place on bars with a 9.925 and tied for second on vault with a 9.95.
Multi-Event
Kaelyn Tally – Simpson
At the Southeast Missouri State Quadrangular on Feb. 6, Tally tied for second place on vault with a 9.725 and led Simpson on the floor exercise with a 9.775. Her performances helped propel the Storm to a program-best team score of 190.625 and a school record floor exercise total (48.625).
Specialist
Evalyn Resnick – Simpson
Resnick delivered a historic performance at the Southeast Missouri State Quadrangular on Feb. 6, breaking Simpson’s uneven bars record with a 9.800 and helping the Storm post an all-time high team score of 190.625. Her routine capped a program-record 47.300 on uneven bars and tied for second place overall.
