DENVER – The University of Denver gymnastics team is ranked No. 9 in the Week 10 Road to Nationals rankings, which were released on Monday.
 
Denver posted the third-highest road score in program history (197.625) in its first-place finish at a Missouri quad meet on Sunday, the first of three-straight road meets for DU to end the 2024 regular season.
 
Rankings are now determined by National Qualifying Score (NQS), which is calculated using the six highest scores of the season, at least three of which must be from away meets. The highest of the six scores is dropped, and the remaining five scores are averaged.
 
DENVER'S NQS
198.025 – Home
198.000 – Home
197.775 – Home
197.625 - Away
197.350 – Away
197.150 – Away
NQS: 197.580
 
Denver's current NQS of 197.580 became the new program record for highest NQS, topping the previous record of 197.545 in 2019. It is just the second time DU has held an NQS of 197.5+.
 
For the second week in a row, Denver improved its NQS by more than a tenth, nearly increasing it by a tenth and a half following the Missouri meet.
 
TEAM NATIONAL RANKINGS
Overall: No. 9 (197.580 NQS)
Vault: No. 10 (49.330)
Bars: No. 5 (49.485)
Beam: No. 13 (49.315)
Floor: No. 15 (49.465)
 
DU increased its team event NQSs on vault, bars and beam, and saw a three-spot jump in the vault rankings back into the top 10. The team maintained its No. 5 bars rankings while staying within one spot of last week's beam and floor rankings.
 
Three of DU's event NQSs are now ranked in the program's top three with bars moving up to the No. 2 spot and vault jumping to No. 3. The team's floor NQS remains as the second-highest in school history.
 
INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RANKINGS
Senior Jessica Hutchinson
All-Around: No. 6 (39.690 NQS)
Vault: tie-No. 18 (9.905)
Bars: tie-No. 14 (9.930)
Beam: tie-No. 10 (9.940)
Floor: tie-No. 18 (9.940)
 
Freshman Madison Ulrich
All-Around: No. 22 (39.475)
 
Senior Rylie Mundell
Bars: No. 24 (9.915)
 
After two weeks away, Hutchinson returned to holding top-25 rankings on all four events plus the all-around, marking her first time doing so in NQS rankings. She improved her rankings by multiple spots in the all-around (up four), on bars (up three) and on beam (up five), and most significantly returned to the vault rankings after jumping more than 20 spots after being tied for No. 39 last week.
 
Hutchinson's all-around NQS is now the second-highest in program history, behind only Lynnzee Brown's 39.756 in 2021. She also holds top-five NQSs on bars, beam and floor.
 
Ulrich increased her all-around NQS by .015 for the second week in a row to continue to hold a top-25 ranking.
 
Mundell also returned to the bars rankings after a brief week away and has now been ranked on the event in nine of 10 weeks this season.
 
No. 9 Denver concludes its regular-season slate with a top-10 showdown at No. 10 Michigan on Friday, March 15.
 
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