2025 Gymnastics Roster
Helen Hu
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Chicago, Ill.
- High School:
- Latin School of Chicago
| Year |
Vault
|
Bars
|
Beam
|
Floor
|
All-Around
|
| 2020 | 9.875 at No. 19 Nebraska (03/07/20) |
9.950 during Mardi Gras Invitational (02/14/20) |
9.975 (2x), most recently vs. No. 6 LSU (02/21/20) | 9.875 (2x), most recently during Mardi Gras Invitational (02/14/20) | 39.525 at No. 19 Nebraska (03/07/20) |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | - | 9.900 during NCAA Regional Final (04/02/22) | 9.950 (3x), most recently during NCAA Regional Second Round (03/31/22) | - | - |
| 2023 | - | 9.950 during SEC Championship (03/19/23) | 9.975 during home quad meet (03/12/23) | - | - |
| 2025 | - | - |
10.000, 3x (Last: NCAA Second Rd., 04/04/25) |
- | - |
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Career Highs
|
9.875 at No. 19 Nebraska (03/07/20) | 9.950, 2x (Last at SEC Championship, 03/19/23) |
10.000, 3x (Last: NCAA Second Rd., 04/04/25) |
9.875, 2x (Last at Mardi Gras Inv., 02/14/20) |
39.525 at No. 19 Nebraska (03/07/20) |
Accolades
- 2025 NCAA Gymnastics Balance Beam National Champion
- 2022, 2025 WCGA Balance Beam First Team All-American
- 2020, 2025 WCGA Regular Season Balance Beam First Team All-American
- 2023 WCGA Regular Season Balance Beam Second Team All-American
- 2020 WCGA Regular Season Balance Uneven Bars Second Team All-American
- 2020, 2025 SEC Event Specialist of the Year
- 2025 NCAA Seattle Regional Beam Champion
- 2025 SEC Beam Champion
- Five-time SEC Event Specialist of the Week (Jan. 21, 2020, Feb. 25, 2020, Jan. 21, 2025, Jan. 28, 2025, Feb. 4, 2025), the most of any gymnast in a single season in conference history
- All-SEC Team (2020, 2022, 2025)
- SEC All-Freshman Team (2020)
- Four-time SEC Freshman of the Week (Jan. 7, 2020, Feb. 25, 2020, March 3, 2020, March 10, 2020)
- 2019-20 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2021-22, 2022-23 Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll
9.900 Watch
Bars: 12
Beam: 37
Total: 49
REDSHIRT SENIOR (2025)
- Ranked No. 2 nationally in beam NQS (9.970), holds highest NQS on beam in program history
- Notched her first career perfect 10 on the balance beam during the team’s meet at No. 1 Oklahoma, the first 10.000 of the NCAA Division I collegiate gymnastics season
- Closed regular season with another perfect score on beam at Arkansas
- One of five gymnasts with a 10 during the NCAA Championship First and Second Round meets
- Only gymnast with three 10s on beam this season and one of two gymnasts in the nation to score a 9.975 or better on beam in six meets this season
- Clinched the team’s spot in the NCAA Championship Semifinal and Final
REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2023)
- Made appearances on the balance beam and bars in all 13 meets of the season
- Posted a 9.900 or better on beam in 10 of her 13 meets, meeting her career high of 9.975 at the Ball State, UNC and SEMO Quad Meet (March 10)
- Added another near-perfect performance of 9.950 on the bars at the SEC Conference (March 18), tallying three different appearances with that score in her career
- Tied for the highest team bars score of the 2023 season of 9.950, along with tying the highest team balance beam score of the season with a 9.975
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2022)
- Competed in 12 meets, appearing in both beam and bars
- Scored a 9.9 or better on beam in seven of 12 events on the season, posting a season-high 9.95 four times to claim the second-high event score on the team
- Earned a 9.9 on bars (April 2) to help the Tigers post an NCAA Regional program-high score of 197.425, ultimately punching their ticket to the NCAA Championship
- Ended the season tied for third in the SEC and fourth nationally on beam
- Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll
SOPHOMORE (2021)
- Spent the the 2021 season rehabbing from a preseason injury
FRESHMAN (2020)
- Was in the bars and beam lineup in every meet, the vault lineup eight times and the floor lineup six times
- Competed as an all-arounder in six meets, including the final four meets of the season
- Finished the season ranked fifth nationally on beam (9.955 NQS) and tied for 12th on bars (9.910 NQS)
- Tallied 14 scores of 9.9 or better, the highest individual total for a Tiger since 2010
- Went 9.9 on beam in nine of 10 meets, with six scores of 9.95 or better
- Her nine 9.9s on the apparatus tied Mizzou's individual single-season record for most 9.9s on one event in a season
- Won 15 event titles, the most for a Mizzou gymnast since 2014, in only 10 meets during the year, with six on beam, four on bars and two in the all-around
- Overall, tallied career-best scores of 9.975 on beam (twice), 9.95 on bars (twice), 9.875 on both vault and floor, and 39.525 in the all-around
- Her two 9.95s on bars tie her atop Mizzou's record book in the event, while her two 9.975s on beam tie for third all-time
- Additionally, her all-around total of 39.525 ranks third among Tiger freshmen
PREP
- Competed at IK Gymnastics for coach Irina Kudina
- Four-time J.O. National beam champion
- Also claimed the 2018 and 2019 J.O. National bars titles
- Earned runner-up honors in the all-around at 2019 J.O. Nationals
- Finished second in the all-around and on floor at 2018 J.O. Nationals
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