DENVER – The No. 18-ranked University of Denver women's gymnastics team tallied its second highest home score of the season to earn a Big 12 Conference win over No. 25-ranked Arizona State in Magness Arena on Sunday.
 
Denver scored a 196.700 to finish ahead of ASU (195.575) for DU's fourth Big 12 Conference victory in the first year that the Big 12 sponsored a regular-season gymnastics schedule.
 
DU celebrated its two true seniors Mia Hebinck and Momoko Iwai, as well as fifth-year seniors Rosie Casali, Bella Mabanta, Rylie Mundell and Abbie Thompson for Senior Day in the team's final home meet of the year.
 
SIGNIFICANT STATS

• For the second time in 2025, Denver posted two event scores of at least 49.400 in a meet, hitting such a score on both bars and floor with the latter becoming a new season high on the event.
• Four different DU gymnasts won at least a share of an event title – including wins for Casali (vault), Hebinck (bars) and Mabanta (floor) in their final time competing in Magness Arena.
• Sophomore Madison Ulrich tied her career high of 9.925 on floor, setting a new season high for any Denver gymnast on the event so far.
• Sunday's attendance of 5,095 became the sixth largest in program history and its second highest of the 2025 season.
  • Entering the meet, Denver had already set a program record for total attendance in a single season. With Sunday's attendance, that record is now extended to 28,684.
  • DU will also now finish with a season average attendance of 4,781, also a new program record.
• Denver overcame falls early on both bars and beam to not count either mistake toward the team total.

VAULT RECAP
Denver began the competition with a 49.175 on vault off five counted scores at or above 9.800, starting with junior Mila Brusch 's leadoff 9.800 with a relatively small hop on her Yurchenko full. Ulrich would equal her score in the No. 3 spot with DU's first 10.0 start-value vault before scores began to build. Sophomore Maddison Reidenbach again delivered a clean Yurchenko 1.5 for a 9.850, and Casali followed with a 9.875 for her own Y1.5. Sophomore Amanda Hargraves again slotted into the anchor spot and tied her season high with a 9.850 for her stuck Yurchenko full.
 
BARS RECAP
For the fourth time this season, Denver delivered a 49.400+ on bars, doing so with three scores of at least 9.900. Ulrich was just off her best score of the year with a 9.925 in the No. 2 spot, which senior Hebinck would match in the No. 5 slot, hers becoming a new season high to join Ulrich atop the final event podium. Mundell finished just off their pace with a 9.900, equaling her season's best in the anchor spot and with the added pressure of needing a hit to ensure DU could drop a fall from earlier in the rotation. Casali was only .025 from her season high with a 9.875 in her normal position as the leadoff, and junior Cecilia Cooley scored a 9.775 to get the lineup back on track immediately following the fall.
 
BEAM RECAP
DU dug deep on beam, overcoming a fall in the leadoff position to hit five consecutive routines. Iwai settled the lineup with a 9.750 in the second spot for DU before Mabanta returned to the event for the first time in a month and fought for a hit routine. In her final routine at home, Thompson came through with her seventh 9.800 or better on beam and her fifth in a row. Mundell, too, fought for her routine and was able to give Denver another hit, setting up Ulrich in the anchor position for the team's top score of the rotation with a 9.825.
 
FLOOR RECAP
Denver locked back in the end the meet with its strongest floor rotation of the year thus far with a 49.400, improving by more than a tenth over its previous season high. Junior Kiley Rorich kicked things off in a big way, tying her career high with a 9.900. As a mid-meet substitution, Reidenbach slotted into the No. 3 spot and contributed a 9.825, only a quarter tenth from her previous season high. Iwai, too, scored a season high-tying 9.825 in what would be her final performance in Magness Arena. Mabanta, too, came through in her final routine at home, scoring a 9.925 that was only .025 from her career high. In the anchor spot, Ulrich finally broke through the 9.900 barrier on floor, equaling her personal best with another 9.925 for DU.
 
EXHIBITION NOTES
Denver scratched its vault exhibition at the last minute but still competed with one on the remaining three events. Iwai stepped back into the bars exhibition slot and hit her routine, though she incurred a deduction for a precautionary spot on her bail to handstand. Fellow senior Hebinck took the exhibition spot on beam and hit her set for a 9.850. Sophomore Ashley Gallen went on floor for the second meet in a row and earned a 9.825 this time around, an improvement of more than a tenth from the last meet.
 
PODIUM FINISHES
Vault
Casali: First Place – 9.875
Hargraves: Second Place (tie) – 9.850
Reidenbach: Second Place (tie) – 9.850
 
Bars
Hebinck: First Place (tie) – 9.925
Ulrich: First Place (tie) – 9.925
 
Beam
Ulrich: Second Place – 9.825
Thompson: Third Place – 9.800
 
Floor
B. Mabanta: First Place (tie) – 9.925
Ulrich: First Place (tie) – 9.925
Rorich: Third Place (tie) – 9.900
 
All-Around
Ulrich: First Place – 39.475
 
NEXT UP:
Denver finishes the 2025 regular with a trip to Stanford on Friday, March 14, before beginning the postseason at the 2025 Big 12 Gymnastics Championship in West Valley City, Utah, on Saturday, March 22.

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