DENVER – Three University of Denver gymnasts were named to the 2025 All-Big 12 Conference Team, the conference announced on Wednesday.
 
Graduate students Bella Mabanta and Rylie Mundell earned recognition on vault and bars, respectively, while sophomore Madison Ulrich did so in the all-around.
 
Mabanta currently owns an NQS of 9.850 on vault, tied for the fifth highest in the conference. She has competed on the event in all but one meet this season and set a new career high with a near-perfect 9.925 for her Yurchenko full at a Big 12 Conference meet at Iowa State on February 28. Prior to 2025, she had not won a vault title during her collegiate career but has collected three such titles this season – all with outright wins. Of the six All-Big 12 Team members on vault, Mabanta is one of only two who compete with a 9.950 start value.
 
Mundell broke into the 9.9+ range for bars NQS for the fourth year in a row and is one of only two Big 12 gymnasts to do so on the event this year. In the regular-season finale at Stanford on March 14, she set a season high of 9.950 – only .025 from her career high – marking her sixth score of 9.9+ on bars in 2025 thus far and third in a row. In total, she has won four bars titles this season, bringing her career haul on the event to 19 and moving her into fourth place in Denver's all-time record book and only one away from a tie for third.
 
Ulrich ranks third in the Big 12 Conference in the all-around with an NQS of 39.410, the highest by an underclassmen in the conference this year. As she did last season, she has competed in the all-around in every meet so far in 2025 and matched her career high of 39.550 in a Big 12 meet at Utah on February 21. She has won the all-around title four times in 2025 including three times in Big 12 Conference competition (against BYU on February 8, at Iowa State on February 28 and against Arizona State on March 9).
 
This is the second time that Mundell has earned All-Big 12 Conference Team honors on bars, also doing so in 2023. These are the first career All-Big 12 Team nods for Mabanta and Ulrich.
 
Denver's three All-Big 12 honorees match the most in a single season since DU became an affiliate member of the Big 12 Conference in 2016. DU also placed three gymnasts on the team in 2019 (Lynnzee Brown, Maddie Karr and Alexis Vasquez).
 
With Ulrich's award, DU has now had a gymnast collect All-Big 12 Team recognition in the all-around in seven of the last eight years and in all but two since joining the conference. Mabanta became just the second Denver gymnast to land on the All-Big 12 Team on only vault in a year, joining Karr in 2017. Mundell remains the only DU gymnast to be a bars-only honoree.
 
The All-Big 12 Conference Team recognizes the top six gymnasts on each of the four events and the all-around based on NQS, including ties, ahead of the conference championship meet.
 
Ulrich also missed a spot on the All-Big 12 Team on bars by .010. On vault, sophomore Maddison Reidenbach was outside the top six by the smallest possible margin of .005 while fifth-year senior Rosie Casali was only .010 away as well.
 
No. 18-ranked Denver is the No. 2 seed for the 2025 Big 12 Gymnastics Championship and will compete in the evening session on Saturday, March 22, at 5 p.m. MT at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. Also competing in the evening session will be No. 4-ranked Utah, No. 21-ranked Arizona and No. 24-ranked Arizona State.
 
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