Michigan State Wins 2024 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Championship
Spartans earned their first conference championship in program history
FINAL RESULTS (PDF) | 2024 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS CENTRAL
EAST LANSING, Mich. – With an overall score of 197.600, Michigan State captured the Big Ten women’s gymnastics title in front of its home crowd on Saturday night at Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Mich. It is the first conference championship in school history and the Spartans also claimed the 2024 regular season title.
Minnesota placed second at this year’s competition with 197.500 points and Michigan earned a spot on the podium behind 197.225 points, both coming out of the afternoon session. Ohio State finished fourth (197.050), Maryland took fifth (196.775) and Illinois captured sixth place with a score of 196.700. Nebraska was seventh (196.250) and Penn State came in eighth (195.825), while Rutgers (195.400) and Iowa (193.975) rounded out the field at ninth and 10th, respectively.
Michigan State’s Skyla Schulte took home the 2024 Big Ten all-around title with a 39.600, the program’s first all-around champion. Schulte added an 9.950 on floor exercise to tie for first place with Minnesota’s Mya Hooten and the Michigan duo of Sierra Brooks and Gabby Wilson.
It was a three-way tie for first on balance beam between Minnesota’s Sarah Moraw, Ohio State’s Tory Vetter and Michigan State’s Baleigh Garcia – who all scored a 9.925.
Brooks and Hooten shared a first-place finish on vault with a score of 9.975. The duo repeated by claiming the top spot on uneven bars with a total of 9.925, before winning floor exercise with a 9.950. The pair were joined by Wilson and Schulte in first place on floor exercise.
By finishing atop the podium three times, Brooks and Hooten marked the 18th and 19th times, respectively, in Big Ten Championship history an individual has won three event titles in a single meet.
A total of 39 gymnasts earned a place on the Big Ten All-Championships Team by virtue of their performances at Saturday’s meet.
All-Championship Team
Sierra Brooks, MICH
Mya Hooten, MINN
Sage Kellerman, MSU
Csenge Bácskay, NEB
Arielle Ward, ILL
Gianna Gerdes, MINN
Gabby Wilson, MICH
Carly Bauman, MICH
Skyla Schulte, MICH
Olivia Zsarmani, MSU
Nikki Smith, MSU
Payton Harris, OSU
Nicole Riccardi, OSU
Emma Spence, NEB
Alexa Rothenbuescher, MD
Rhea LeBlanc, MD
Tory Vetter, OSU
Sarah Moraw, MINN
Baleigh Garcia, MSU
Lauren Pearl, MINN
Katie Horak, MINN
Ella Sirjord, MINN
Jenna Mulligan, MICH
Carly Bauman, MICH
Madeline Komoroski, MD
Mia Takekawa, ILL
Elle Beaufait, MSU
MaKayla Tucker, MSU
Gabrielle Stephen, MSU
Savannah Gonzalez, OSU
Ella Hodges, OSU
Bailey Libby, IOWA
Kadyn Fitzgibbon, ILL
Mia Townes, ILL
Gabrielle Dildy, RUT
Amani Herring, PSU
Isabella Salcedo, PSU
Martina Comin, NEB
Sophia McClelland, NEB