@MizzouGym's Morgan Porter Set for NCAA Championships Friday
4/14/2016 2:25:00 PM | Gymnastics
Porter will compete at NCAAs as an individual all-around competitor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - Freshman Morgan Porter will represent the No. 19 Mizzou gymnastics team at the 2016 NCAA Championships on Friday, April 15 in Fort Worth, Texas. Porter, who qualified for the meet as an individual all-arounder, will compete in the 1 p.m. semifinal at the Fort Worth Convention Center. The meet will be aired live on ESPNU with Bart Connor, Kathy Johnson Clarke and Laura Rutledge calling the action. Additionally, live streams for all individual events, plus an all-around stream with a quad stream, are all available on WatchESPN.
Porter will rotate with Minnesota in the first session and start the meet on floor. She will then move to vault in the second rotation before a bye. Porter will move to bars in the fourth rotation, then head to beam before ending the meet on a bye.
TIGER TIDBITS
- Porter finished third in the all-around at the NCAA Minneapolis Regional to earn her individiual berth to the Championships in her first season of collegiate gymnastics.
- She is the first Mizzou gymnast to qualify for NCAAs since Rachel Updike in 2012. Overall, she is Mizzou's ninth individual qualifier in program history.
- Porter was named the SEC Freshman of the Year in a vote by the league's head coaches, the SEC announced on March 24, to mark the first time a Mizzou gymnast claimed the honor.
- She concluded the season ranked 20th in the all-around with an RQS of 39.355.
- Over her last six meets, Porter has averaged a 39.417 in the all-around, including a high of 39.675.
- Against Arkansas on March 4, Porter won four titles and tied the second-highest all-around total in Mizzou history with a career-best 39.675 in the meet against the
- Razorbacks. The score is also tied as the seventh-highest all-around total in the nation this season and second-best among SEC gymnasts. She notched individual event scores of 9.950 on beam and floor, 9.925 on bars and 9.850 on vault for the 39.675.
- Porter also led the Tigers with 39 scores of 9.8 or higher.
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