Tigers Garner Six WCGA Regular Season All-American Honors
3/31/2025 5:00:00 PM | Gymnastics
Mizzou’s six total accolades mark a new program best.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri gymnastics saw a program-record six Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association All-Americans, headlined by first-team selections Helen Hu (Chicago, Ill.) and Mara Titarsolej (Zutphen, Netherlands) on beam and bars, respectively, the association announced on Monday.
The two are joined as All-Americans by Amari Celestine (Wildomar, Calif.), who was named to the second team on floor and the all-around, with Kennedy Griffin (Strongsville, Ohio) and Jocelyn Moore (Hillsborough, N.J.) also earning second team honors on floor.
The Tigers' six All-Americans doubles the program's previous record of three set in 2024. Mizzou is one of just four schools with at least five gymnasts recognized.
Celestine has delivered standout performances in her first season competing in the all-around, setting a personal best of 39.650 against Auburn on March 9 – the sixth-best in program history. She ranks 15th nationally in the all-around with a 39.515 NQS and holds the 17th-highest score at 39.650. On bars, she became the only Missouri gymnast since 1999 to post five-consecutive scores of at least 9.900. She has also scored 9.900 or better on floor in the team's last seven meets.
Griffin earned her first career 10 on floor, becoming the second gymnast in program history to do so. Her score was the highlight of the team's record-breaking Zou to the Lou meet, where the Tigers achieved a program-best 49.725 floor score. The sophomore earned SEC Specialist of the Week honors following the achievement, capping off the year with a floor NQS of 9.930. She has scored at least 9.925 in the event in five of the last six meets.
Hu earned her first career perfect 10 on balance beam at Oklahoma on Jan. 17 – the first perfect score of the NCAA season – before achieving another against Arkansas (March 14) , leading Missouri to its highest beam score in program history (49.575). She is the only gymnast in the country with multiple 10s on beam this season and the second in program history to do so in the same year. An All-SEC selection and co-SEC beam champion, Hu also became the first gymnast in conference history to win SEC Specialist of the Week five times in a season. She is ranked second nationally in beam NQS (9.965) and first in the SEC.
Moore has scored 9.950 on floor four times this season, including a standout performance on senior day against Auburn, clinching the team's first-ever 198. The senior ranks No. 10 in floor NQS at 9.940. Moore has earned 9.900 or better in eight of 11 meets this season, including seven of her last eight floor routines. She has anchored the floor lineup in every meet she's competed in the event.
Titarsolej claimed her second-consecutive SEC bars title with her third career 10 at the conference championship meet on March 22. The graduate student is the lone Mizzou gymnast to achieve a perfect score on the apparatus, also doing so at the 2024 rendition of the Zou to the Lou Quad. She is currently riding a four-meet streak of reaching the 9.950 threshold on bars and has scored 9.900 or higher in nine meets this season, the most of any Tiger in a single event. Titarsolej's NQS of 9.940 ranks fourth nationally and she has anchored the bars lineup in every meet since coming to Mizzou in 2024.
Missouri gymnastics travel to Seattle as the second seed for its NCAA Regional meet, competing against No. 10 Georgia (third seed), No. 21 Arizona and No. 26 Arizona State on Friday, April 4 at 3 p.m. CT at Alaska Airlines Arena. The second quad consists of No. 2 Oklahoma (one seed), No. 15 Auburn (four seed), No. 20 Nebraska and the winner of the dual meet between No. 29 Illinois and No. 35 UC Davis. All NCAA Regional meets are live streamed on ESPN+.
The top two teams from each quad meet advance to the NCAA Seattle Regional Final on Sunday, April 6 at 7 p.m. From there, the top two finishers receive an automatic berth to the national championship in Fort Worth, Texas.
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