DENVER – The University of Denver gymnastics team is ranked No. 9 in the Week 5 Road to Nationals rankings, which were released on Monday.
 
Denver posted the second-highest score in program history (198.000) on Sunday, just the second 198+ score in DU history. The team now owns a 197.215 season average score, its highest-ever average in pre-NQS rankings.
 
TEAM NATIONAL RANKINGS
Overall: No. 9 (197.215 average)
Vault: tie-No. 10 (49.275)
Bars: No. 5 (49.445)
Beam: tie-No. 10 (49.180)
Floor: No. 19 (49.315)
 
In addition to moving up one spot in the overall team rankings, DU improved by one on bars following a program-record 49.750 performance against Towson. Denver's tie for No. 5 nationally on the event is its highest on bars since the final 2021 rankings when DU was No. 2.
 
INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RANKINGS
Senior Jessica Hutchinson
All-Around: No. 6 (39.610 average)
Vault: tie-No. 17 (9.880)
Bars: tie-No. 19 (9.900)
Beam: tie-No. 7 (9.905)
Floor: tie-No. 9 (9.925)
 
Senior Rylie Mundell
All-Around: tie-No. 20 (39.425)
Bars: tie-No. 13 (9.910)
 
Senior Rosie Casali
Vault: tie-No. 17 (9.880)
 
Freshman Madison Ulrich
All-Around: No. 25 (39.395)
 
This is just the third time that three Denver gymnasts have been nationally-ranked in the all-around in the same week and the first time since the 2003 season when Emily Bankhead, Michelle Kasuga and Ashley Shible did it twice (Weeks 1 and 3).
 
For the first time in her career, Hutchinson holds a top-25 ranking on all four events and in the all-around at the same time after entering the bars rankings with week. The senior also improved her all-around ranking to a career-high No. 6 following her 39.700 on Sunday, just .025 off her personal best set during Week 4.
 
Mundell maintained her tie for No. 13 on bars with her fourth 9.9+ score in five meets on the event while jumping into the top 20 in the all-around after narrowly missing her personal best (39.625) by a quarter tenth on Sunday.
 
Ulrich held onto a top-25 ranking in the all-around for the second week in a row while Casali again set a new career high for national vault ranking.
 
No. 9 Denver hosts its penultimate home meet of the season, welcoming Big 12 Conference opponent No. 22 Iowa State and SE Missouri State on Sunday, February 11, at 1:45 p.m. MT in Magness Arena.
 
TICKETS:
Tickets for the 2024 University of Denver gymnastics season are now on sale and can be purchased online, by calling 303-871-4625 or by visiting the Ritchie Center Box Office.
 
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