DENVER – The No. 23-ranked University of Denver women's gymnastics team finished its regular season with a second-place finish at No. 25 Oregon State on Saturday afternoon.
 
DU started with three strong events, registering some of its highest road scores of the year, but had untimely falls on beam to finish with a 195.175, placing behind host Oregon State's 196.925.
 
SIGNIFICANT STATS

• Denver's 49.200 on bars was its second highest score on the event this season and its highest on the road.
• DU also scored a 49.200 on vault for its third highest mark of the year and its second highest at an away meet.
• On floor, Denver added a 49.375 that was its second highest road score of the season.
• The counted falls on beam ended a streak of 19 meets without DU doing so, which finishes tied as the third longest streak in program history.
  • It also ended what finishes as the fourth longest streak in program history without counting a fall on beam.
  • Denver has not counted a fall on vault in 125 consecutive meets, its second longest streak all-time and only one off the program record.
  • DU extended its program-record streak of meets without counting a bars fall to 110.
  • On floor, DU is up to 20 consecutive meets without counting a fall, the seventh longest streak in program history.

BARS RECAP
Denver opened the meet on bars and counted only scores at or above 9.800. In her normal lead-off spot, freshman Kaitlynd Kastl overcame an arch on an aggressive handstand to continue her routine as planned, earning a 9.725. Junior Maddison Reidenbach followed it up with the strongest bars performance of her career, scoring a personal-best 9.850 – including a 9.900 from the chief judge.
 
Senior Kiley Rorich continued the consistent performances for DU, contributing a 9.825 and setting up freshman Shyla Bhatia for a 9.850 that was only a quarter tenth from her career high. In the No. 5 spot, senior Mila Brusch added a 9.800 before classmate Cecilia Cooley posted the team's highest score of the rotation with a 9.875.
 
VAULT RECAP
DU continued to settle into its vault lineup with another one of its top scores of the year this far and equaling its 49.200 from bars. As was the case in the first rotation, Denver rebounded after a lower score in the first spot before rattling off five scores of at least 9.800. Following an under-rotation from junior Amanda Hargraves in the lead off, freshman Sevana Kasparian got back on track after her own lower score in the team's last meet and earned a 9.825, just .025 shy of her personal best.
 
For the second time in the last three meets, Reidenbach delivered a stuck Yurchenko full for a 9.875 for a new season's best, a score that Bhatia would later equal after a solid Yurchenko one-and-a-half with a controlled step forward. In between the two 9.875s were a 9.800 from Brusch in her fourth vault back after an injury and a 9.825 from sophomore Addie Hewitt, only a quarter tenth from her career best.
 
FLOOR RECAP
As has been the case for the majority of the season, Denver's floor squad collected its highest score of the meet, going 49.375 with five counted scores at or above 9.850 for a third consecutive meet. Juniors Ashley Gallen and Hargraves started off the rotation with matching 9.850s before Rorich added a 9.825 in the No. 3 spot.
 
Bhatia and Reidenbach hit strong routines in the next two routines to each score a 9.875 – their third meet in a row earning matching scores after both went 9.900 on March 9 and 9.875 on March 6. For the eighth time in 2026, Cooley scored in the 9.900+ range, anchoring the lineup with a 9.925.
 
BEAM RECAP
For the first time this season, DU was unable to overcome a fall early in the lineup and ultimately was forced to count its first falls of the season. After an uncharacteristic fall from freshman Megan Aamold in the lead-off position, fellow freshman Abby Steeley started to settle the team, returning to the lineup after two meets away and delivering a 9.825 that would be DU's top beam score of the day.
 
The normally-steady Gallen fell for the first time in her career, attempting to add a new acro connection to save a 10.0 start value but coming off on the side aerial. Reidenbach followed and fought heavily to save her routine for a 9.600 before Hargraves again came through with a solid set and her ninth score of at least 9.800 through her last 11 routines. In the anchor spot, Cooley also felt the pressure with her first fall on the event of the season.
 
EXHIBITION NOTES
In the final meet that exhibitions will be allowed this season, DU competed with five total, and all five were hit routines. On bars, Kasparian and Steeley claimed the spots once more, going 9.750 and 9.625, respectively. Cooley opted to compete in the vault exhibition slot for the second meet in a row and scored a 9.675. Denver again chose not to have anyone go in exhibition on floor, leaving Bhatia and sophomore Sophia Hampp to do finish it out on beam for a 9.725 and 9.750, respectively.
 
PODIUM FINISHES
Vault
Bhatia: Second Place (tie) – 9.875
Reidenbach: Second Place (tie) – 9.875
 
Bars
Cooley: Second Place (tie) – 9.875
 
Beam
Steeley: Third Place (tie) – 9.825
 
Floor
Cooley: Second Place – 9.925
Bhatia: Third Place (tie) - 9.875
Reidenbach: Third Place (tie) – 9.875
 
All-Around
Reidenbach: Second Place – 39.200
 
NEXT UP:
The University of Denver gymnastics team begins its 2026 postseason at the Big 12 Gymnastics Championship in West Valley City, Utah, on Saturday, March 21. Official session assignments will be made on Monday, March 16, with the conference's Nos. 1-4 teams – based on NQS – assigned to the evening session while teams Nos. 5-6 will be assigned to the afternoon session.