DENVER – Twelve student-athletes on the University of Denver gymnastics team collected Scholastic All-America Awards, the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association announced on Wednesday.
As a team, Denver posted a 3.7079 GPA, placing it No. 13 in the country and matching the team's final national ranking for the 2022 season.
Denver's 2022 WCGA Scholastic All-America Award winners are:
Junior
Emma Brown (communication studies and psychology double major)
Graduate student
Lynnzee Brown (communication management master's)
Junior
Victoria Fitts (biochemistry and chemistry double major)
Graduate student
Emily Glynn (organizational leadership master's)
Freshman
Mia Hebinck (biological sciences major)
Sophomore
Jessica Hutchinson (physiology in health & diseases major)
Freshman
Momoko Iwai (undeclared major)
Sophomore
Rylie Mundell (physics major)
Senior
Alexandria Ruiz (biological sciences major)
Junior
Callie Schlottman (biological sciences major)
Graduate student
Mia Sundstrom (public policy master's)
Sophomore
Abbie Thompson (marketing major)
Sundstrom finishes her career with Scholastic All-America awards in each of her five seasons. Ruiz has done so in all four of her years thus far (and will return for a fifth season in 2023). Five DU gymnasts have now earned three career honors:
Emma Brown,
Lynnzee Brown, Fitts, Glynn and Schlottman. Hutchinson, Mundell and Thompson are two-time honorees while Hebinck and Iwai collected their first awards.
DU's team GPA of 3.7079 ranks fourth in program history, and nearly 86 percent of the team's roster picked up Scholastic All-America status, which is the third highest percentage in school history.
For the third year in a row, Denver led the Big 12 Conference in team GPA. West Virginia was second (3.6394), Oklahoma was third (3.5354), and Iowa State was fourth (3.0290).
To be eligible for WCGA Scholastic All-America Awards, student-athletes must achieve a GPA of 3.500 or higher for the 2021-22 academic year or cumulative for their collegiate career.
Denver will return nine of its 2022 WCGA Scholastic All-Americans to the 2023 roster including graduate students
Lynnzee Brown (medical redshirt) and Ruiz (COVID-19 year).
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